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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US John F. Kennedy files expose family secrets: Their relatives were CIA assets
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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A science fiction workshop lexicon
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A Man of Parts and Learning - The story behind a portrait of a black intellectual from the 1700s
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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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A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform
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As the Taliban starts restricting Afghanistan men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner
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That collective feeling - The rise and fall of New York clubbing
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AI and the American smile
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Britain’s embrace of the bomb
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When the US CIA messes up
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The most misunderstood philosopher in the world | Philosophy Tube
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MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process
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Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling
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Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues.
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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
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The endangered languages of New York
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California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
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Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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More Americans are nonreligious. Who are they and what do they believe?
39 votes -
The misguided war on the SAT
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When the New York Times lost its way
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A man plagiarized my work: Women, money, and the nation
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The New Jersey Hindu temple covered with 10,000 sculptures, marble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built
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The bizarre story behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination
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In Kenya, a group of conservation scientists confront the cultural tradition of an indigenous tribe
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Why people believe their own lies - The George Santos syndrome
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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds
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The villa where doctors experimented on children
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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Ancient Amazonians created mysterious ‘dark earth’ on purpose
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Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
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The earthquakes in Turkey killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability
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A miracle in Missouri? The nun who put her abbey on the map
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An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust
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War against the children
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Searching for Maura
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How the richest country in the world has allowed its poor to remain poor
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Iran is about to make its hijab laws even stricter
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Newly published transcripts show the work of early radio broadcaster Walter Benjamin and the details he observed about his time
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Teaching myself calculus at sixty-five
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What were those mysterious craft? (1979)
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The erasure of Islam from the poetry of Rumi
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Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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Learn a foreign language before it’s too late
25 votes