Thunderplump: Ten weird and wonderful words with Susie Dent
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What's inside this crater in Madagascar?
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The mysterious case of the "lost positive"
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Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway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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Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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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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How languages steal words from each other
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Haitian scholar was early path-breaking anthropologist
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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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Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s
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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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Why Oppenheimer deserves his own movie
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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Manmade horrors beyond our comprehension
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A brief overview of Shibboleths, including their use during WW2
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Some historians say that the last US Revolutionary War battle was fought in India
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a WW2 bomber
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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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How well suited is Sweden's Saab JAS 39 Gripen and their dispersal operations in NATO's air forces?
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Is a highlander shield bulletproof? Targe vs flintlock musket and pistol - Historical myth busting
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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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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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The long history of the figurative 'literally'—and eight great writers who used it
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Why did Denmark gain land after WW1 despite being neutral?
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Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Military operations in East Ukraine (1919-1942)
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This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
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Jerry cans: The true secret weapon of WWII
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The true history of the Knights Templar with Dan Jones
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What happened to flying wings?
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Logistics: How did they do it? Part III, on the move
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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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