Stories

Discover inspiring people, remarkable places and ground-breaking ideas through cultural heritage stories from Europe and beyond
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The history of the Cyrillic alphabet
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Three women translators who bridged cultures
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How did alcoholic drinks get their names?
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‘The apple of my eye’ and other famous apple sayings
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Timotei Cipariu, a Transylvanian Erasmus
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How Esperanto started and developed
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For a multilingual Europe! Learning new languages
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Mother tongues: four languages of the African diaspora
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How's the weather? Words across Europe to describe weather
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Sign languages - giving voice to the voiceless
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Jonas Jablonskis, Lithuanian linguist on a mission
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In the Footsteps of the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission
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Voices from the past still echo today: archives of French spoken word