Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
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Weird Weapons: Caged Buckler - Sword trapper
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Was early modern writing paper expensive?
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The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world
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Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II)
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Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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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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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1914
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Free Companies: The age of mercenary companies
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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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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: 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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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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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval 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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