The long-term costs of war - the price of life, economics of casualties and Russia's war
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How arrogance destroys armies - overconfidence and the road to military failure
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
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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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The story behind this perfectly normal photo. Today we dive into yet another surprisingly convoluted online rabbit hole; the case of the Cooper Family Falling Body Photo and its elusive creator.
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How Christianity took over pagan Scandinavia
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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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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In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered
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Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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Chai Tea: fight me about it
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Mass psychosis - how an entire population becomes mentally ill
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The Charlie Rose paradox
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How To Do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy | Jenny Odell
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Lux Radio Theater - Tonight Or Never (1937)
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The great big pseudoarcheology debunk
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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How a simple tractor conquered the South Pole
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Sebastian Wernicke - 1000 TEDTalks, six words
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Europe's undeciphered prehistoric tablets
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The hidden history of hand talk
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The engineering marvel built to defend against Americans - The grisly history of the Rideau Canal
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The forgotten story of the largest stadium ever constructed
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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on 'soft' fascism, AI and the effects of shamelessness in public life
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How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939)
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The six villains of language learning
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Rozum-Razum — a Slavistic youtube channel
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David Ingram and the Lost Cities of Native North America
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Advice for time traveling to Medieval Europe
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How long? Not long! - Martin Luther King
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Uncharted territory: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
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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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Disney's Animatronics: A living history
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Why the Soviet Union was obsessed with corn
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The history of slipping on banana peels | Pretty Good, episode 14
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Dowding: Man behind 'The Few' | Great British Battle Commanders
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Conversational English in 1586
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Nationalism, explained
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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Babel Lecture 2022 with Stephen Fry: 'What we have here is a failure to communicate' (17/06/22)
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Where does punctuation come from?!
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Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings
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A brief history of the end of the world
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9/11 attacks in realtime (dashboard) 7:46am-12:00pm
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Did Rome know about Scandinavia and the Vikings?
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