In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it
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Denmark's National Museum unveils gaming piece which is believed to be the first portrait of a Viking – figurine depicts man with imperial moustache, braided beard and a neatly-groomed hairstyle
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The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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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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Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps)
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How arrogance destroys armies - overconfidence and the road to military failure
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The man who ran a carnival attraction that saved thousands of premature babies wasn’t a doctor at all
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First fall: Boundaries of the existential self, part 1
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On weird America
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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Mr. X - Carl Sagan on cannabis
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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My classroom will be AI-free this fall
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From printing presses to Facebook feeds: What yesterday’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis
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A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
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Christian missionaries are using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil’s isolated peoples
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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League
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Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing
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The mysteries of Roman inscriptions are being solved with a new AI tool
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Vatican sent Italian children born out of wedlock to America as orphans; new book uncovers program
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Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
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The last SS guard
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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Thailand’s Buddhist clergy blackmailed for millions in sex scandal
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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The cure for scurvy, forgotten
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ITA was a 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of UK children unable to spell
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The American civil-military relationship
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James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
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Mexico's butterfly warriors: Day of the Dead?
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Why forty-two languages have the same word for "pineapple"
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AI’s ability to read and summarize is making it a useful tool for scholarship
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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The story behind this perfectly normal photo. Today we dive into yet another surprisingly convoluted online rabbit hole; the case of the Cooper Family Falling Body Photo and its elusive creator.
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Throwing in the towel: The case for surrender
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Designer as author (1996)
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Visiting Kitsault: Canada’s $50 million 1980s ghost town
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How Christianity took over pagan Scandinavia
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing the country's past in extraordinary detail.
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Why handwriting matters
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Juneteenth: A 99-year-old celebrates Underground Railroad quilts
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Juneteenth: A visual history
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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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10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark
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First intact Roman pot found in Ireland reveals ancient trade relations
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