Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday
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As the war in Ukraine rages on, many Finns are getting reacquainted with the country's remarkable network of väestönsuoja, or civil defense shelters
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Russians confront wartime internet cuts with public shrug, private fury
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The Florentine Diamond resurfaces after 100 years in hiding. Legendary jewel of the Habsburgs not seen since 1919 and thought lost, has actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades. (gifted link)
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Denmark's drive to conscript teenage girls – as the threat from Russia increases, it is no longer only young men who are being called to serve
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How nuclear power ambitions aim to wean Finland off Russian energy – nuclear share in electricity production went from 28% in 2022 to 39% in 2025
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Hermann and Albert Göring: Two very different brothers
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The almost forgotten Japanese-American truce at Aka
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Holocaust history shows LGBTQ+ people have always been their own heroes
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The democratic creation of the field jacket
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Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund set to undergo review as heightened geopolitical tensions lay bare the challenges of weighing national interest and ethics in steering the massive investor
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This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
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How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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Upcoming match between Norway and Israel overshadowed by politics, with Norwegian football authorities using the game to make a stance over the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza
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What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
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How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
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"Game changers" in Ukraine (2025) - evaluating effective, disappointing and weird systems
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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Radioactive hulk of aircraft carrier USS Independence located off San Francisco coast (2015)
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Ground launched cruise missiles and Ukraine's "Flamingo" - the new missile and global return of GLCMs
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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The long-term costs of war - the price of life, economics of casualties and Russia's war
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A Ukrainian startup develops long-range drones and missiles to take the battle to Russia
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How arrogance destroys armies - overconfidence and the road to military failure
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The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] (1965)
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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The attack helicopter under threat? - Vulnerabilities and trends featuring @TheChieftainsHatch
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Frontline report: Russia’s oil smugglers are running out of ocean as UK freezes 100+ shadow fleet tankers
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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League
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The history of SPAM
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Russia's widespread chemical weapon attacks a sinister battlefield strategy
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Interceptor drones and the war in Ukraine - affordable air defence and Russian strategic bombing
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Houthi rebels launch deadly attack on Red Sea cargo ship
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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In war zones, a race to save key seeds needed to feed the world
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How not to lose your air force (on the ground) - hardening, modern threats and air base defences
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Ukraine stages major attack on Russian aircraft with drones
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Ukraine strikes Russia's bombers - the operation, damage and lessons of Ukraine's "bear" hunt
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Food in the trenches of World War One
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Ukraine destroys more than forty military aircraft in a drone attack deep inside Russia
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Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to Russia with underwater explosives
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Ukraine scrambles to overcome Russia’s edge in fiber-optic drones
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Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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Ukrainians declare victory in battle of Pokrovsk
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