A history of Somalia and local piracy: How do pirates exist in the 21st century?
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Animated history: 1943 - 1945 Invasion of Italy (Video collage)
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Animated history: Life in East Germany
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Tracing the roots of pop culture transphobia
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The making of a state: Why did Czechoslovakia become one nation instead of two?
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The first video game
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A map of the age of all the buildings in the Netherlands
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The lost history of socialism’s DIY computer
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Why sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks - Short history of the laff box
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The rise and fall of white bread
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Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found
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A brief overview of popular slang of the 1920s in the US
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How was the Colossus of Rhodes built? From siege tower to ancient wonder
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Remembering "All Your Base" twenty years later
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The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants
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Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online
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What will the world look like in 250 million years?
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Matthew Syed looks at how the behaviour of hostages at a 1973 bank robbery gave rise to a concept known as Stockholm syndrome
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How Covid brought the future back
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Why is the shape (❤) called a heart? And why is biological heart called a heart as well?
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What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do?
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We broke phosphorus: Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements
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How to be an atheist in Medieval Europe
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The Super Bowl through the years – in pictures
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The real novelty of the ARPANET
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The paradox of progress
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Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
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Environmental change may have played a role at the dawn of Egyptian history
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Genghis Khan may have been killed by a pandemic
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The Bowed Strings Iconography Project catalogues as many images of bowed string instruments as possible throughout all periods of history through to the present day
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A Capital Plan - National Film Board documentary from 1949 on Ottawa, Canada
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Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years
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How to eat like a pirate: Hardtack & grog
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The history of the ski chairlift
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A picture of what dating looked like in the 1950s
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How did the Blow Job shot happen?
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Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate
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Lessons from a pandemic anniversary
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Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?
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Power-Up Baseball - Baseball’s lost “NBA Jam” revealed
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The lost treasure of Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes
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An art revolution, made with scissors and glue
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WorkBoy: Lost Game Boy add-on found after twenty-eight years
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“Dig Us”: 60 Years of Louis Armstrong at the Sphinx
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Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
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How the Wolf of Wall Street created the internet
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The creation, history, post-WW2 socialist economy and break-up of Yugoslavia explained
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African decolonization explained
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A visualization of how the Arab Spring engulfed the Middle East, and changed the world
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