Illustrations of madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
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Hold the line - The short history of women switchboard operators
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The misunderstood Roman empress who willed her way to the top
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The most famous NYT crossword: 1996 presidential election day
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking
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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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Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway
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Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a WW2 bomber
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The troubling history of tipping in American restaurants
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Ancient Roman temple complex, with ruins of building where Caesar was stabbed, opens to tourists
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The advent of sunglasses
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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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The Barbegal Aqueduct included a watermill complex with water cascading through a total of sixteen wheels. It may have been "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world"
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90th birthday interview, with transcript, of Daniel Ellsberg: recently deceased leaker and whistleblower re the Vietnam War
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The medieval food that killed an English king, and could be used to pay your rent
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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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The spy whose tapes rocked Spanish society
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Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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Ancient Chinese historian describes the Roman Empire
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Ancient China and Rome: 1000 years of contact
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What was it like celebrating a birthday in the middle ages?
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Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation
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Oppenheimer: Vacated but not vindicated
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Is a highlander shield bulletproof? Targe vs flintlock musket and pistol - Historical myth busting
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Birth of a nation
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On progress and historical change
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Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust
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The death of Antony & Cleopatra (30 BCE)
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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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France’s baby bust
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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The city that fell off a cliff
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The false evolution of execution methods
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A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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Black conservatism isn’t what you think
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Why did Denmark gain land after WW1 despite being neutral?
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How to self-study history
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Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' thirty-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid
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This guy shares cool maps of the world every day on Facebook
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In the oppression olympics, don’t go for the gold
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The blast furnace - 800 years of technology improvement
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Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists
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Hail to the Chief: One great article about every US President
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