I joined a ‘sacrifice’ ritual outside Stockholm – and found that the revival of Norse paganism reflects broader battles over identity and climate anxiety
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The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games
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Designer as author (1996)
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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Dreadlocks and downward dogs, Oslo's new bishop takes unorthodox approach – Sunniva Gylver is keen to show a new side to Norway's Protestant Church
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Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered using new tech - high altitude communities challenge previous consensus about life in Central Asia
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Rebuilding The Village - The Radical Act of Depending on Each Other
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A trail gone cold
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Edinburgh's Beltane Fire Festival, rooted in ancient Gaelic traditions, heralds the beginning of summer and celebrates the cycles of nature. The vibrant event now draws over 8,000 attendees each year.
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What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
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Northern Sámi, a language spoken in the Arctic, has more than 300 words for snow and a special word for "frightened reindeer" – can it survive in a warmer world?
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Welcome to Sealand, the world's smallest state
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A secret tunnel in a New York City synagogue leads to a brawl between police and worshippers
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What's inside this crater in Madagascar?
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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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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Boatlift - The spontaneous evacuation of lower Manhatten on 9 11 2001 - narrated by Tom Hanks
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University of Eastern Finland has received more funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland to continue the Karelian language revitalization project
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Quran burning and requests to approve the destruction of more holy books have left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect for religious minorities
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A new Ex-Mormon community
In the worst case scenario that Reddit dies; I'm going to miss the /r/exmormon community the most. It's a religion that is not easy to leave (many societal repercussions); and many ex-members...
In the worst case scenario that Reddit dies; I'm going to miss the /r/exmormon community the most. It's a religion that is not easy to leave (many societal repercussions); and many ex-members experiencing a "faith transition" rely on the discussions in that sub (275K+ subscribers).
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A shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic, undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night
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Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Vladimir Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed
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The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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The Amish keep to themselves. And they’re hiding a horrifying secret: "A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse."
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Samfundssind – A word buried in the history books helped Danes mobilise during the pandemic, flattening the curve and lifting community spirit
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The Christian withdrawal experiment
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When a newspaper started a town: The story of Lake Michigan Beach
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How Hollow Knight's community crafted gibberish into a real language
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Community size matters when people create a new language
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Sweden to return remains of twenty-five Sámi people after more than half a century – historic event aimed at mending ties with the community
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A fundamentalist community forges a new identity: Hildale and Colorado City, born of fundamentalist LDS doctrine, are rebuilding themselves—but not without holding on to their core beliefs
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Wikipedia editors have been fighting over corn for at least a decade
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There’s a vanishing resource we’re not talking about - humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we’re destroying the planet
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Language and identity: Lessons from a unique Afrikaans community in Patagonia
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