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
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The market for “noble” titles is booming
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The women of the West are making political history — and have been for 130 years
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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
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What sort of pets did medieval people keep?
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Recreating dog food from the last 2,000 years
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Operation Match: The dating service that changed our love lives
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The glass door of Wikipedia’s notable people
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Try Guys try firefighting
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Meet Chicago's Rat Queen (w/ Rob Scallon) | Rats pt. 1
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Danecdotes: Reminiscences and Reflections Concerning a Largely Wasted Life
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The rise of the ‘union curious’ - support for unionization among America’s frontline workers
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The Day Iceland Stood Still | Trailer
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The state as blunt force - impressions of the Columbia campus clearance
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The world's oldest hat shop that fitted James Bond
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Everybody's obsessed with the retro corporate aesthetic
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Children predict the year 2000 (1966, video)
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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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The women who broke the silence about the terrifying organization that trapped and abused them during Spain’s dictatorship
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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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How a child's accidental call to a top-secret phone line launched NORAD's Santa Tracker
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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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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 curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas
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The botched hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer
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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 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 day women shut down Iceland
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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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A brief history of the Magic Wand
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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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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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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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Former New Jersey librarian told students in DC to reenact Holocaust scenes, report says
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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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