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Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
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Why joining a club is good for democracy
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Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries
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The women who broke the silence about the terrifying organization that trapped and abused them during Spain’s dictatorship
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The three-decade saga that led to the Crown Heights tunnels
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How a child's accidental call to a top-secret phone line launched NORAD's Santa Tracker
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Life begins at forty: The biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis
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What would Sandra Day O’Connor have thought about affirmative action for men?
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Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
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The most expensive fabric on Earth is totally illegal to own
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Sweden halts adoptions from South Korea after claims of falsified papers on origins of children
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For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?
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Making a Victorian-inspired cape for ultimate witchy vibes
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Mushrooms, snails and plant roots: The surprising story of how your clothes got their color
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The extreme ambitions of West Bank settlers
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The botched hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer
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The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas
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The US tried permanent daylight saving time in the ’70s. People hated it.
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From Skinny Jeans to Doc Martens: a (short) history of America’s culture wars in fashion
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Medieval pet names
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The number of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low
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To mark the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, activist Crystal Eastman described the path to full freedom for American women
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The day women shut down Iceland
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The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King's Guard
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The last campfire in Swedish society – Sommar i P1, the radio show that unifies a nation
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Why do so many Scots cling to a false affinity with Norway?
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New Florida standards in schools
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Welcome to America’s most elite girls boarding school. Let the hazing begin.
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What is a fun or interesting fact about where you live?
Partly posting this because I love those little nuggets of local lore, and partly so I can share this local fact that I just discovered. My city's cathedral has this amazing double-bowl copper...
Partly posting this because I love those little nuggets of local lore, and partly so I can share this local fact that I just discovered.
My city's cathedral has this amazing double-bowl copper font (different angle here) which I had assumed was ancient - the cathedral is almost 1000 years old - but it turns out that until 1994 these bowls were being used at a local chocolate factory to make caramel to go inside Rolos and was gifted to the church when the factory closed.
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Party patellas: The knee makeup fad of the '20s and '60s
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Why did men stop wearing hats?
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A lecturer showed a painting of the prophet Muhammad. She lost her job.
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A brief history of the Magic Wand
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Australia had a mass-shooting problem. Here’s how it stopped
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Denmark opens Flugt refugee museum, recognizing the contribution refugees have made to the Nordic country
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Six people who were part of a failed 1950s social experiment have won compensation from Denmark's government and will receive a face-to-face apology from the prime minister
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In 1965, Teté-Michel Kpomassie left his Togo homeland for a new life in Greenland; the first African man to set foot there
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While millions of children all over the world wait eagerly for Father Christmas or Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, youngsters in Iceland start receiving their presents on Dec. 11th
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Six indigenous Greenlanders taken as children to Denmark in a failed social experiment in 1951 are demanding compensation from the Danish state
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Witness History spoke to photographer Mark Edwards, who was given unique access to document a famously photo shy community of Christiania in Denmark
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Despite recent advances, disabled people cannot yet participate in society ‘on an equal basis’ with others – and the pandemic has led to many protections being cruelly eroded
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Human computer: The forgotten women's profession
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Denmark's hippie, psychedelic oasis Christiania turns fifty – celebration over four days includes parades, speeches, exhibitions, workshops, shows and concerts
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The Roe baby
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How did you find niche stuff before the Internet?
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear...
Over in the topic on the perceptions of teenage boys, it was asked, “How did you find niche stuff before the internet?” I thought this was an interesting question and wanted to open it up to hear others’ memories about this.
Edit: Somewhat related, I saw this post today: The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones
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Do you know any books, articles, videos, etc. about how relationships (friendships, dating, etc) worked in the past? If so, then why do they rarely appear when people talk about them?
Occasionally people here get into discussions about social relationships, namely dating, and what quickly comes up is how both of those seem to be less common and harder to 'get'. This more...
Occasionally people here get into discussions about social relationships, namely dating, and what quickly comes up is how both of those seem to be less common and harder to 'get'. This more frequently happens in overtly dating and relationship subreddits and similar dedicated spaces, albeit, of course, this also pops up in more general communities, alongside any community where social relationships are an important topic, like communities about social ideologies like feminism or the manosphere or about genders because heterosexuality.
One thing I often find is missing is some historical context. A lot of talk about loneliness and lack of platonic or romantic relationships is basically limited to the recent past, if it even talks about the past at all. It seems like it would be helpful to look at what relationships and dating were like 10, 20, 30 years ago when it comes to talking about the problems or just general state of both today. So do you know of good sources of information concerning relationships in the past? If so, then why do you think they don't pop up in discussions about dating?
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The ‘Men’s Liberation’ movement time forgot: Nowadays, the Men’s Rights movement runs the gamut from incels to red pillers, but in the 1970s, men's libbers looked something like… feminists?
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King of the Hill, again | Men of the Hill
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Nearly a decade after becoming an advice animal, "10 guy" Connor Sinclair reveals his identity and gives full account of his image
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