Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there
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When a newspaper started a town: The story of Lake Michigan Beach
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A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway
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CGP Grey: The Race to Win Staten Island
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How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
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Pet dogs in Ancient Rome | How They Did It
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Denmark honours Bernhard Arp Sindberg who rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937
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Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
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Icelandic government is interested in reclaiming Old Icelandic manuscripts from Denmark
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A history of Hong Kong's contentious politics
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The dreams of an inventor in 1420
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Denying your history | Armenian Genocide
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Was Sweden headed toward socialism in the 1970s?
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The witchhunt that founded Liechtenstein
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Remembering the forgotten Chinese railroad workers
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The US bought three Virgin Islands from Denmark – the deal took fifty years
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1968 Democratic National Convention Chicago police riots
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On this day in 1791, the only successful slave uprising in history began
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Caesar as King? (45 to 44 B.C.E.)
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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Ottoman Wars - Siege of Buda 1541 and Eger 1552
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Nikkei secrets unearthed on the Seymour: Digging up a forgotten Japanese outpost
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The metastasizing cancer of the Southern Strategy in the US
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Inside Robert Ballard's search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane
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Agora
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The family that shrank France | Map Men
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Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the cutting room floor
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Sweden to return remains of twenty-five Sámi people after more than half a century – historic event aimed at mending ties with the community
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Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents
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Camp Century – Secret Cold War base shifts through Greenland ice
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Third Crusade - The Beginning
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We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
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China orders halt to history tests for students seeking credits for US university courses
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Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland
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Getting dressed in the 18th Century
Getting dressed in the 18th Century - Women Getting dressed in the 18th Century - Men
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History of Hong Kong (Pre-History to Colonial Period)
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These circular ruins at Smeerenburg are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost
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The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain
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Forgotten History: Musée des Plans-Reliefs
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Andrey Fedorov – Yeltsin considered selling ceded Karelia territory to Finland in 1991
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An archaeological fairytale – medieval ships found in the heart of Oslo
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A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.
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Carrhae 53 BC - Roman–Parthian War
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The movable tent cities of the Ottoman Empire
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic
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Can animals commit crimes?
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Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years
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Ancient indigenous aquaculture site Budj Bim added to UNESCO World Heritage list
8 votes