How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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How Rockefeller and his partners built Standard Oil
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The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week – what to know about the prestigious awards
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The eloquent vindicator in the electric room
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Was this English queen a 'predatory' collector of beautiful things?
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The most cutting-edge science of 1845
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The prolific Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen died 150 years ago, yet fairy tales like ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’ still move readers to this day
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James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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This 200-year-old lighter ignites without a spark
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On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way at the Hardanger Maritime Centre museum
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Moritz Moszkowski - Ballade in G-Minor for Violin and Orchestra Op. 16 No. 1 (1878)
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The engineering marvel built to defend against Americans - The grisly history of the Rideau Canal
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The United States of pizza, mapsplained
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Carl Bloch's lost masterpiece finds fame again in Athens – work that made its Danish creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more
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Rediscovered Edvard Munch painting will be unveiled at London's National Portrait Gallery in March, as part of a major exhibition of the Norwegian master's portraits
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The US "Ice Cream Truck Song" is rooted in racism
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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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1891 New Orleans lynchings
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Railway travel in 19th century France
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How China is like the 19th century US
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Long-lost Bram Stoker story discovered in Dublin
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A trail gone cold
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Recreating dog food from the last 2,000 years
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Following Norway’s national painter through a landscape of mountains and fjords – Harald Sohlberg is celebrated within his native country and almost unknown outside it
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Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings had a recurring mysterious woman with her back turned – here, through letters and photos, her sadness-tinged story is revealed
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The Circassian genocide, Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 95–97% of the Circassians, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths during the Russo-Circassian War
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Meet Chicago's Rat Queen (w/ Rob Scallon) | Rats pt. 1
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The truly disturbing story of Kellogg's Corn Flakes
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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The case against Charles Darwin: How the investigation into a grisly murder shocked 19th-century France and framed the scientist as an accomplice
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The hidden, magnificent history of chop suey
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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge in the South Pacific before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? | Map Men
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The story of The Oregon Trail
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We made and distilled the 1886 Pemberton Coca Cola recipe from 'Glen And Friends' then taste tested the results with Glen
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Explore Edvard Munch's masterpiece “The Scream,” and find out why this artwork became one of the world's most famous paintings | Noah Charney
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Surprising detail in New York bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants
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How Jim Heimann got crazy for California architecture
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Researchers reveal lost library of Charles Darwin for the first time
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The parliament of Imperial Austria
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No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
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The divorce colony
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How did Denmark defeat Prussia in 1848?
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Rise of Napoleon's Old Guard (1789-1803) (part 1) | Units of History
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