Polish forces triumphed over a larger Russian force at the Battle of Stoczek, February 1831.
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Waning support from Poland’s allies meant the war descended to an attritional struggle, giving Russia the advantage it needed to win.
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Publishers are starting to develop guidelines around the use of generative AI in photos.
Vixen Tor on Dartmoor in Devon is one of many access islands where right to roam laws prevent people reaching an area without trespassing or arriving by helicopter.
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Right to roam campaigners are protesting about thousands of ‘access islands’ of wilderness in England that are surrounded by private land. Outdated countryside access laws need an overhaul.
Baron Cobham and family around the dinner table, 1567.
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During the Tudor period, religious beliefs shaped people’s attitudes towards food and food waste.
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Affirmative consent involves a ‘yes’ rather than the absence of a ‘no’.
Swedish old-growth forest.
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Research suggests these forests could disappear by the 2070s.
Cosy games exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
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Cosy, personal games, as I discovered, can change the lives of the people who make them and those who play them.
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Putting Finland’s precipitous drop in suicides in context.
Male anglerfish are tiny compared to females.
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Does size matter? In the animal kingdom, yes.
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A new study suggests that talking speed is a more important indicator of brain health than difficulty finding words.
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Robo-advisers and AI are making investing accessible to everyone, but there are also risks to consider.
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Their incredible resilience means they are becoming part of the UK landscape.
Heavy industry and dense urban populations both contribute to high levels of effluent containing toxic forever chemicals that don’t biodegrade.
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Huge amounts of PFAS come from wastewater treatment plants, new study finds.
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Everything you need to know about income tax, national insurance and more.
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No one seems to be taught about the function of periods. It’s time to take menstrual literacy seriously.
Forks are among the items that have been medically removed from a human’s urethra.
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Inserting objects into the urethra might sound like torture but for some it’s a sexually pleasurable act. Here’s what you need to know about urethral sounding.
Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope.
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Astronomers have spotted a surprisingly diverse set of planet-forming disks.
Many people use tongue scrapers to remove the ‘biofilm’ from their tongue.
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‘Tongue scraping’ has long been a part of daily hygiene routines in parts of Europe, India, South America and Africa.
Appeasement: Adolph Hitler meeting Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio to Germany, in 1935.
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Between 1939 and 1945, Pope Pius XII put the interests of the Catholic Church in Germany before the fate of European Jews.
Sea lions killed by bird flu in Chile, April 2023.
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Bird flu is decimating species already threatened by climate change and habitat loss.