The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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Two exhibitions in Norway and the UK bring together neglected treasures of printmaking from the Nordic region, including works by Edvard Munch
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The history of Cuphead world records
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Why cassette tapes are coming back
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2025 Physics Nobel awarded to three scientists for work on quantum computing (in the 1980s)
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Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
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Cecilia Brækhus is the first woman to unify all four belts, first to headline a professional show in Norway, and a fighter whose influence helped scrap a ban on the sport in her homeland
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The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week – what to know about the prestigious awards
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Not every NHL legend was drafted to be a star – Henrik Zetterberg almost wasn't drafted at all
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Do Red Dead Redemption 2's power lines connect to anything?
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Every summer, Spain's iconic Camino bakes under extreme heat – Norway's St Olav Ways offer pilgrims a quieter, cooler path to redemption
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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The unknown genre in video games
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David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane artwork could fetch record sum at auction
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1988 - Welcome to the wild world of computer animation
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Where the power is - book review of "White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus – in Our Cells, in Our Food and in Our World"
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Technicolor's last frame: the collapse and liquidation of a Hollywood legend
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One of the most iconic performances in table tennis history – Jan-Ove Waldner at the 1997 World Championships in Manchester
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IRC - The Serial Port's love letter to Internet Relay Chat
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The making of Mondo – how Armand Duplantis is reaching new heights in pole vault
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Known as 'the trip chocolate', Kvikk Lunsj has fuelled outdoor Norwegian adventures for generations
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The genius plan to make Amsterdam car centric
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The color of the future - A history of blue
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Tim Curry says Rocky Horror was originally a 'failure' in rare interview
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How to build a 13th-century castle in rural France
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Radioactive hulk of aircraft carrier USS Independence located off San Francisco coast (2015)
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The day return became enter
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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Museum of Color - from ancient ochre to blacker than Vanta Black
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Ben-Hur on a computer screen
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The sinking of the Sleipner A offshore platform in 1991
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Thomas Frank almost quit football as a youth coach, then left Brøndby IF when his chairman criticised him online under a pseudonym. Now he's a Champions League manager.
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The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space
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Brat
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Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called "systematic discrimination" during a contraceptive campaign
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The most cutting-edge science of 1845
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My ordinary life: Improvements since the 1990s
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Review: Cuisine and Empire, by Rachel Laudan
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The food timeline
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The Doom novels were crazy
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Entire church to be transported across Kiruna in Sweden – landmark 113-year-old wooden building is at risk from subsidence and will be moved 5km on giant rolling platforms
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Turn any webpage into a 1990s GeoCities blink fest
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Public domain technical books published before 1964
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The story of Art Attack
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The PC and Internet revolution in rural America (2022)
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The crash of Partnair flight 394 (1989)
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The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] (1965)
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