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Everything Else
Inside the Vietnam War: An Honest Look at the Long American Decade
The American war in Vietnam ran for ten years and three months and killed somewhere between 1.3 and 3.4 million…
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Churchill’s German Army: Operation Unthinkable and the WWIII That Almost Was
By the spring of 1945 the war in Europe was effectively over. Berlin was about to fall. The German army…
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Treasure on the Thames: The Lucky Mudlarkers Who Read London’s River
The River Thames runs 346 kilometres from a Cotswold spring to the Greater London estuary, and for most of the…
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UAE
Emirates Be There: Long-Haul Travel That Actually Earns the Word ‘Adventure’
Long-haul flying is one of those things the marketing makes sound transcendent and the lived experience makes feel like a…
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Egypt
Ultimate Tutankhamun: The Boy King’s Real Story Decoded
Tutankhamun has been dead for 3,344 years and people still cannot agree on what killed him. The boy king of…
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Australia
Australia’s Best Family 4WD Adventure Drives: Gibb River to Cape York
Australia is one of the more remarkable countries on Earth for self-drive family adventure. A continent the size of mainland…
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The Human Family Tree: Our Shared DNA Across Continents
If you trace the genetic ancestry of every human alive today, every single line converges in eastern Africa, somewhere between…
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Megastructures: Burj Khalifa, Three Gorges Dam and More
Modern infrastructure has reached a scale that genuinely surpasses anything earlier civilisations attempted. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze…
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Megafactories: Inside the World’s Biggest Production Plants
Some of the most impressive feats of contemporary engineering happen inside the buildings nobody visits. The factory that produces every…
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Everything Else
Twin Biology and Genetics Explained: What Twin Studies Tell Us
Twin biology is one of the more counter-intuitive corners of human genetics. Identical twins share 100% of their DNA but…
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