How the 18th-century ‘probability revolution’ fueled the casino gambling craze
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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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Queen Margrethe II is the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years – but it is just a sign of the times
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How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, fifty years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
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The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
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Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants
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Environmental change may have played a role at the dawn of Egyptian history
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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Explorer, navigator, coloniser: Revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse
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Big gods came after the rise of civilisations, not before, finds study using huge historical database
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Found: The earliest European image of Aboriginal Australians
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‘You don’t belong to my country either.’ How two Noongar boys spoke up, a world away from home.
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