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Stunning photos show the ancient tradition of honey hunting in Nepal
Twice each year, the Gurung tribespeople of Central Nepal risk their lives collecting wild honey from the world's largest hives high up on Himalayan cliffs. Travel photographer Andrew Newey recently spent two weeks capturing this ancient but dying art.
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Tutankhamun’s Blood
Why everyone from the Mormons to the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for a piece of the Pharaoh
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Vladimir Danchev: The broadcaster who defied Moscow
Broadcasters at a Russian television station protested this week about the country's actions in Crimea, echoing what a Soviet radio announcer did 30 years ago. Two US-based presenters on Russia's English-language TV station Russia Today (RT) caused a stir recently by denouncing Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine.
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The First US City Was Full of Immigrants
A sprawling city in the heartland of the United States was a cultural melting pot hundreds of years before Europeans ever set foot on the continent.
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Personal treasures of World War One uncovered
The World War One centenary means personal war diaries, letters and photos are emerging from dusty attics and drawers across the UK and beyond to offer a different perspective of the conflict. The National Archives has begun the mammoth task of digitising 1.5 million WW1 diary pages, mainly taken from official war diaries, describing the lives of British soldiers on the front line.
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The weird, weird world of North Korean elections
If you’re a North Korean citizen trying to make an (underground) living in China, there’s one event that will certainly bring you back home: election day in the DRPK, when many flood back into the country to have their votes counted whenever they are called. Why? According to defector Mina Yoon, who left North Korea in 2011, elections function mainly as a means for the state to keep track of its population’s whereabouts and to keep track of defectors.
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The case for not leaving education to the teachers
We should not expect education to be simply left to teachers, or the state, argues the philosopher Roger Scruton.
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The Other Rosa Parks: Now 73, Claudette Colvin Was First to Refuse Giving Up Seat on Montgomery Bus
At a ceremony unveiling a statue in her honor last month, President Obama called Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus a "singular act of disobedience." But nine months before Parks’ historic action, a 15-year-old teenager named Claudette Colvin did the very same thing.
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George Takei’s Recollections of The US Concentration Camps For The Japanese
It's a part of US history that's not talked about much.…
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A 25-Year Timeline Of The World Wide Web
While some concepts of the Internet date back to the 1950s, the public-facing World Wide Web traces its history back 25 years.
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What today’s console makers can learn from the ’90s Sega vs. Nintendo battle
Author Blake Harris still remembers the first time he started to see video games as a battle between multinational conglomerates. At the age of six or seven, he asked his dad to purchase the newly released Super NES as an upgrade to his much-loved NES. His dad refused, on the theory that "after the Super Nintendo, they'll come out with a Super Duper Nintendo, then a Super, Super Duper Nintendo," and so on.
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Surprising solutions from early 1900 (for small space living)
Surprising solutions from early 1900 (for small space living)
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You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi
The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the country during the Communist regime. But their spycraft — while incredibly invasive — was also technologically primitive by today's standards.
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King Tiger - best of the beasts
Artice on the King Tiger tank, short info and some photos.
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Is Afghanistan really impossible to conquer?
It's 25 years since the Soviet Union pulled its troops out of Afghanistan. The US is due to remove most of its forces at the end of the year. So what have these and other Afghan campaigns taught us?
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game
"There was a time when computer games didn't have graphics. Or at least they couldn't have graphics and sound at the same time. They certainly couldn't have graphics, sound and enough content to keep even a human being amused for more than a few minutes. So they had text.
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Prehistoric grave-site could challenge our assumptions about the history of Bronze Age
Some 4,000 years ago people carried a young woman’s cremated bones – charred scraps of her shroud and the wood from her funeral pyre still clinging to them – carefully wrapped in a fur, along with her most valuable possessions packed into a basket, up to one of the highest and most exposed spots on Dartmoor, and buried them in a small stone box covered by a mound of peat.
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Panzer VIII Maus Photos and info
Short info on the mighty MAUS with photos
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The Jews Who Fought for Hitler: ‘We Did Not Help the Germans. We Had a Common Enemy’
They fought alongside them, healed them, and often befriended them. But how do Finland’s Jews feel today about their uneasy—and little mentioned—alliance with the Nazis?
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Kevin Bacon Explains the '80s to Millennials
Kevin Bacon would like a word with you about '80s awareness.
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