Battling infectious diseases in the 20th century: The impact of vaccines
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The Swedish photographer capturing the vanishing glaciers – Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer
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They ran for US President. What did they learn? (original from 2004)
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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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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Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
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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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Tapedeck.org is a digital archive that features hundreds of cassette tape designs
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How the rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age Americans’ privacy
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The history of coloring margarine
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Evaluating the significance of San Lorenzo Village, a mid-20th century suburban community
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Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history
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Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection
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Greek poet who inspired EM Forster, David Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows
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Explore Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton's famous Antarctic ship with new "Digital Twin"
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The victims of US nuclear testing deserve more than this
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Josh Gibson becomes MLB career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues statistics incorporated
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Vast coin collection of Danish butter magnate L.E. Bruun is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million
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Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the River Thames
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There used to be a people’s bank at the US Post Office
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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How the Berlin Wall worked
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Rongelap Atoll: America’s nuclear mistake
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A retrospective on the Baltic road to NATO
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US nuclear missile program set the launch code to "00000000" during the cold war
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How Jim Heimann got crazy for California architecture
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The Firehouse Five and the Cinderella surprise
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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How nuclear power saved Armenia
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The Hawthorne effect in human resource management is based on unreliable studies
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The women who broke the silence about the terrifying organization that trapped and abused them during Spain’s dictatorship
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No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
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Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein
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The Republican Revolution and how the party switch actually happened
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‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’
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Fajitas, a Mexican dish that was really born in Texas
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An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust
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Newly published transcripts show the work of early radio broadcaster Walter Benjamin and the details he observed about his time
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Charles Henry Turner’s insights into animal behavior were a century ahead of their time
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The post-WWI migrations that built Yugoslavia and Turkey have left a painful legacy
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‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
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A brief history of the Magic Wand
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Tango may be most closely associated with Argentina, but it also has a long tradition in Finland
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Hold the line - The short history of women switchboard operators
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What the hell happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?
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How one American mother’s love for her gay son started a revolution
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Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor
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Why Lego won – the competition looked identical, so how did they pull it off?
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