B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage”
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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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Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent
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On the nature of ancient evidence
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Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
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The Silk Road - Into far lands
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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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DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers
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G36
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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The first US Army Christmas: George Washington and the Hessians
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WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
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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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Mysteries of Neolithic Europe
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Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway
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Ordering off a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian menu
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Bowling in the 1700’s? - Full "Skittles" gameplay | Engineering America
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
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The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network
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How to debase the coinage in order to pay for wars
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Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
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Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
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Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship
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Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
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Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world
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Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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Prefatory remarks on 'Oppenheimer'
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Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history.
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Mediocre Samurai describes real life in historical Japan
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True size of a Spartan army - The real source of its strength
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The Marian reforms weren't a thing
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Why Oppenheimer deserves his own movie
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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Some historians say that the last US Revolutionary War battle was fought in India
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering.
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Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a WW2 bomber
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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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How well suited is Sweden's Saab JAS 39 Gripen and their dispersal operations in NATO's air forces?
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Is a highlander shield bulletproof? Targe vs flintlock musket and pistol - Historical myth busting
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Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum
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