In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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"Sword breakers" were rare and we don't know much about them. How were they used and what were they really for? Two experienced rapier fencers experiment with one to discover more about them.
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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge in the South Pacific before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? | Map Men
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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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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
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Is a highlander shield bulletproof? Targe vs flintlock musket and pistol - Historical myth busting
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These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war
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Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi
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This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first US Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.
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The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
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The trial of Charles I (1649)
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa
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1600s Native American fort is one of the most important Northeast finds
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