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The last days of a 350-year-old family farm

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After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on

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Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, CA

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The strange case of Britain’s demise

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The Wyoming corner crossing case

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Magpies – Smart, witty birds

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Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land

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You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord

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In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything

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A wild turkey is attacking people in D.C.

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Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech

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Barbed wire fences were an early DIY telephone network

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Amish Hackers (2009)

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How to Save a Ski Town

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The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018)

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'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy

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Microsoft and an army of tiny telecoms are part of a plan to wire rural America

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How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America?

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Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009)

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Jaipur’s Last Stand

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'Most homes' in Lytton destroyed by catastrophic fire, B.C. minister says

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Coober Pedy, the Australian mining town where residents live underground (2020)

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The UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football

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Dog ejected from car during Sunday crash found on sheep farm, herding sheep

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Italian seaside residents hit with bygone feudal tax

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They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions

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Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money

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The Lakota: A Human Story

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France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside

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Montreal is taxing churches (2017)

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Dust in the Light

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Removing old, obsolete dams restores life to creeks and streams

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Turf war: Detroit Mower Gang competes in 12-hour playground cleanup

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Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (2016)

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Don't Mess with Texas

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Amish Hackers (2009)

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How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)

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A One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S

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A fake town on Reddit where everybody knows your name

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The Internet Loves a Rest Stop in Breezewood, Pennsylvania

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The British Virgin Islands’ Struggle to Protect Its Dark Offshore Economy

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Hillbillies Need No Elegy

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Florida couple wins the right to plant veggies in front yard

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On Ocracoke Island, the only American dialect that is not identified as American

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Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (2016)

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Ghost Villages for Sale in Spain

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German town votes ‘No’ to street names

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A remote UK community living off-grid

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Drzymała's wagon

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The Cartel Next Door

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Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm

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Why Do Americans Stay When Their Town Has No Future?

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Private landowners blocking access to public lands in the American West

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The Peterloo Massacre of 1819

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Suicide by Culture

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Renewed demand for the metal cobalt is breathing new life into Cobalt, the town

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Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia

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After the check is gone: The underground economy of rural America

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Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

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Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will

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Did Airbnb Kill the Mountain Town?

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California's beaches belong to the public

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The US South’s manufacturing renaissance comes with a heavy price

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The farmer who built her own broadband

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Ex-WWII tanks still used as paddock bashers on Australian farms

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Inside the world of Australian opal miners who live underground

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London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211

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Cheran: A town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters

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What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears

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The fall of Jersey: how a tax haven goes bust

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America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

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“Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979”

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For Sale in Spain: Entire Villages, Cheap

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The town that banned Wi-Fi

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Billionaire must let public access Martins Beach, judge rules

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German villagers build own broadband network

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Making It in America

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Did somebody just try to buy the British government?

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Amish Hackers: How the Amish actually use and build their own tech

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Abandoned villages of Hong Kong

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A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry

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A helicopter and boats to perform a rare ceremony at the Tower of London

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The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside

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The Moral Economy of the Shire

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Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of most MLB stadiums (2017)

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