Interesting histories: Female — Male — Woman — Man
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Mike the headless chicken
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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What happened to giant hovercraft?
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Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
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Weird Weapons - 'Bike' chain flail
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Why are there no bridges in East London? | Unfinished London
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Deep dive into the history of Kennywood's Old Mill ride, the cancelled Garfield theme park, and the infamous Garfield's Nightmare dark ride
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Letters from the loneliest post office in the world
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Who made these circles in the Sahara?
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When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
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Where Roe went wrong: A sweeping new abortion right built on a shaky legal foundation
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He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he ‘disappeared.’
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The Druzhina - Knights of the Kievan Rus | Units of History
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How men found love in 1800s America was so awful it’s funny
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Poland and the Jews. It’s complicated.
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Did medieval peasants travel?
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Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools
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How polyester bounced back
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What happened to the debts of conquered countries?
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Neoslavery: The part of US history you've always skipped
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
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The mechanical transmission of power: Stangenkunst
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London pirate radio adverts 1984-1993, vol. 1
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Why Belgium (still) exists
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How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
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Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi
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Naval gladiator battles - What were they like?
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
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Chernobyl's death toll (or, how I learned to live with Chernobyl's legacy)
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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The militant passion of Emma Tenayuca
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When hundreds of vampire-hunting children invaded a Scottish cemetery — and helped spur a comic book ban
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How did English medieval peasants see themselves?
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What happened to Old London Bridge? | Unfinished London
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Roman Cataphracts (1st-5th Century) | Units of History
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
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What was watchtower duty like on the Roman frontier?
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UN's culture agency adds Nordic “clinker boats” to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
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Maps Are Fun! (1946)
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A child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas Eve was never the same.
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Top Canadian museum to be imminently gutted in the name of 'decolonization'
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The most powerful computers you've never heard of
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The Gävle goat
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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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