The history of lipstick
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Swedes searching for their Colombian mothers forty years after their adoptions – government acknowledges processes were plagued with irregularities, from theft of babies to falsified documents
10 votes -
We bought an old house in the Japanese countryside
27 votes -
A brief history of men's underwear
25 votes -
How sustainable Copenhagen became fashion's fifth city – in twenty years the Danish capital's fashion week has pushed for greener standards and catapulted homegrown talent
6 votes -
The hidden history of women game designers
22 votes -
More than 100 traditional Moravian folk shawls preserved in new digital collection
12 votes -
Christmas tree at Trafalgar Square shines with Norwegian roots – tree symbolizes the friendship between London and Oslo in an annual ceremony that highlights the history of the countries' alliance
7 votes -
The Icelandic women's strike fifty years on – despite closing the gender pay gap by 90%, the nation is ‘still no paradise’ for women, say campaigners
12 votes -
The Harvard student who killed her roomate
16 votes -
The mystery of a North Sea message in a bottle found on a Swedish island after forty-seven years has been solved
11 votes -
Icelandic sheepdog is a pedigree at last – UK's Kennel Club finally recognises breed believed to be more than 1,000 years old that featured in Icelandic Sagas
12 votes -
The market for “noble” titles is booming
10 votes -
The women of the West are making political history — and have been for 130 years
4 votes -
LIFE with Horace the housebroken hare
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The world's most feminist city – how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
7 votes -
What sort of pets did medieval people keep?
21 votes -
Recreating dog food from the last 2,000 years
7 votes -
Operation Match: The dating service that changed our love lives
4 votes -
The glass door of Wikipedia’s notable people
10 votes -
Try Guys try firefighting
6 votes -
Meet Chicago's Rat Queen (w/ Rob Scallon) | Rats pt. 1
4 votes -
Danecdotes: Reminiscences and Reflections Concerning a Largely Wasted Life
9 votes -
The rise of the ‘union curious’ - support for unionization among America’s frontline workers
28 votes -
The Day Iceland Stood Still | Trailer
8 votes -
The state as blunt force - impressions of the Columbia campus clearance
11 votes -
The world's oldest hat shop that fitted James Bond
4 votes -
Everybody's obsessed with the retro corporate aesthetic
6 votes -
Children predict the year 2000 (1966, video)
25 votes -
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”
12 votes -
The women who broke the silence about the terrifying organization that trapped and abused them during Spain’s dictatorship
8 votes -
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?
35 votes -
How a child's accidental call to a top-secret phone line launched NORAD's Santa Tracker
36 votes -
The most expensive fabric on Earth is totally illegal to own
18 votes -
Mushrooms, snails and plant roots: The surprising story of how your clothes got their color
13 votes -
The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas
17 votes -
The botched hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer
12 votes -
The US tried permanent daylight saving time in the ’70s. People hated it.
33 votes -
From Skinny Jeans to Doc Martens: a (short) history of America’s culture wars in fashion
7 votes -
PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir will take part in Iceland's first full-day womens strike in forty-eight years – calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence
12 votes -
Medieval pet names
43 votes -
The number of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low
14 votes -
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
15 votes -
The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King's Guard
41 votes -
The day women shut down Iceland
8 votes -
The last campfire in Swedish society – Sommar i P1, the radio show that unifies a nation
11 votes -
Why do so many Scots cling to a false affinity with Norway?
10 votes -
New Florida standards in schools
48 votes -
A brief history of the Magic Wand
9 votes -
Welcome to America’s most elite girls boarding school. Let the hazing begin.
11 votes