This road goes straight through a major prehistoric cave
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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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Weird Weapons - The Mangual, or two handed chain flail. Used extensively in Spain and Portugal from around 1400 -1650.
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Hermann and Albert Göring: Two very different brothers
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The almost forgotten Japanese-American truce at Aka
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This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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On weird America
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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From printing presses to Facebook feeds: What yesterday’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis
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A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
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Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing
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Vatican sent Italian children born out of wedlock to America as orphans; new book uncovers program
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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The cure for scurvy, forgotten
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ITA was a 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of UK children unable to spell
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The American civil-military relationship
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Why forty-two languages have the same word for "pineapple"
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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How the US built 5,000 ships in World War II
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Re-enacting the 1492 papal conclave for college credit
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English is not normal. No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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How the 'Shetland Bus' helped Norway resist Nazi Germany – innocent-looking fishing boats delivered valuable cargo and special agents
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In April 1945 the Swedish Red Cross launched the largest rescue operation of World War II – the mission, involving the now-iconic “White Buses”, ultimately saved 15,000 prisoners
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Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in World War II? (No)
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On the Resistance in Belgium platform, anyone can research resistance activities in Belgium during World War II
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Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park and Pentagon code breaker
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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Book review of Robert Ferguson's fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation
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Europe's undeciphered prehistoric tablets
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US President John F. Kennedy files expose family secrets: their relatives were CIA assets
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The hidden history of hand talk
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Popping the bag: What happens when a group, once powerful, is suppressed or disbanded? Where do its members go?
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Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
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Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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Restitution project genealogists track down rightful heirs of Nazi-looted books
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How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939)
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Archaeologists discover stash of 1,500-year-old weapons – includes the only known Roman helmet ever found in Denmark
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How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris
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The lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars
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How elite backlash to the populist reforms of the Gracchi brothers presaged the violent collapse of the Roman Republic
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Building the worst World War II air force - terrible aircraft and how to sell them (feat. @AnimarchyHistory)
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