Today he is a high school football player. Soon he'll be a Buddhist lama in the Himalayas.
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St Andrews researchers discover ‘King Arthur’s Hall’ is five times older than thought
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National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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Archaeology student unearths seven spectacular Viking-era curled silver arm rings north of Denmark's second-largest city Aarhus
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
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Pittsburgh smokers more inclined to say jagoff than yinz
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Swiss police probe hotel ski rental ban for Jewish guests
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Why does the letter 'S' look like an 'F' in old manuscripts?
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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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Always bet on text
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Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds
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Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden
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Denmark's parliament to introduce interpreters – Aki-Matilda Hoegh-Dam spoke and answered questions in Greenlandic, causing protests from some lawmakers
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Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia
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Iraq tells Sweden it will cut ties if Quran burned again
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Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation
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Greenlandic MP refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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This guy shares cool maps of the world every day on Facebook
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Church of England considers gender neutral pronouns for God
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Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century
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Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall
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Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin
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There’s a trick to it
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Transparency is surveillance
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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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40% of Americans believe in creationism
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A homework task prompts kids to reflect deeply on learning, and its limits
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Protesters denouncing the intention of a far-right group to burn a Quran in Örebro in central Sweden attacked police on Friday, injuring at least nine
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Denmark says it will take measures to protect teachers' freedom of expression and prevent the risks of self-censorship
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The Eighteenth Elephant
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French Catholics agree to sell property to compensate abuse victims
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Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored
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Repeatedly clicking the first link on Wikipedia ends up at "Philosophy" 97% of the time
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At least 216,000 children were victims of sexual assault by the French Catholic Church
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Was Wilhelm Wundt a "Nazi"?: Volkerpsychologie, Racism and Anti-Semitism by Adrian Brock
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Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the first mobile phone call
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Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop
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Roads into Norway will get new signs with the country name also written in the indigenous Sámi language depending on the region
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World
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Sarah Moss wins the American Philosophical Association's 2020 Sanders Book Prize for her book, 'Probabilistic Knowledge'
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Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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How to deal with a racist past: A Bristol pub leads the way
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
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