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Claudette Colvin: teenage activist who paved the way for Rosa Parks
In The Spotlight Inspired by the example of 19th century abolitionists, 15-year-old Colvin refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus
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What is the Donroe Doctrine?
The Explainer Donald Trump has taken a 19th century US foreign policy and turbocharged it
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Why Greenland has been a US military stronghold since the Second World War
In Depth American interest in acquiring Greenland is rooted in decades of military and economic strategy
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Why don’t humans hibernate?
The Explainer The prospect of deep space travel is reigniting interest in the possibility of human hibernation
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Decking the halls
Feature Americans’ love of holiday decorations has turned Christmas from a humble affair to a sparkly spectacle.
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The Illuminati: what is it, how did it develop and who are its members?
In Depth Belief that a ‘corrupt elite is secretly running the world’ is one of the longest-running and most widespread conspiracy theories of our time
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The curious history of hanging coffins
Under The Radar Ancient societies in southern China pegged coffins into high cliffsides in burial ritual linked to good fortune
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How the War Department became the Department of Defense – and back again
In Depth In 1947 President Harry Truman restructured the US military establishment, breaking with naming tradition
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Homo Floresiensis: Earth’s real life ‘hobbits’
Under the Radar New research suggests that ‘early human pioneers’ in Australia interbred with archaic species of hobbits at least 60,000 years ago
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Has Putin launched the second nuclear arms race?
In Depth Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured destruction
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Mendik Tepe: the ancient site rewriting human history
Under The Radar Excavations of Neolithic site in Turkey suggest human settlements more than 12,000 years ago
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Hitler: what can we learn from his DNA?
Talking Point Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator is the latest documentary to posthumously diagnose the dictator
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Revisionism and division: Franco’s legacy five decades on
In The Spotlight Events to mark 50 years since Franco’s death designed to break young people’s growing fascination with the Spanish dictator
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The return to the stone age in house building
Under the Radar With brick building becoming ‘increasingly unsustainable’, could a reversion to stone be the future?
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