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- Surviving the Rwandan genocide(Fri, Mar 29, 2024)
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- The founding of Nato(Thu, Mar 28, 2024)
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- Britain's first beach for nudists(Wed, Mar 27, 2024)
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- The Heimlich Manoeuvre(Tue, Mar 26, 2024)
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- Britain's Mirpuri migration(Mon, Mar 25, 2024)
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- Wham! in China(Fri, Mar 22, 2024)
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- Discovering the Terracotta Army(Thu, Mar 21, 2024)
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- The 'comfort women' of World War Two(Wed, Mar 20, 2024)
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- Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution(Tue, Mar 19, 2024)
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- Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write(Mon, Mar 18, 2024)
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- The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius(Fri, Mar 15, 2024)
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- Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero(Thu, Mar 14, 2024)
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- Paraguay adopts its second language(Wed, Mar 13, 2024)
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- Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate(Tue, Mar 12, 2024)
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- 11M: The day Madrid was bombed(Mon, Mar 11, 2024)
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- MH370: The plane that vanished(Fri, Mar 08, 2024)
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- Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda(Thu, Mar 07, 2024)
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- The Carnation Revolution in Portugal(Wed, Mar 06, 2024)
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- French child evacuees of World War Two(Tue, Mar 05, 2024)
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- Uruguay v the tobacco giant(Mon, Mar 04, 2024)
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- The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada(Fri, Mar 01, 2024)
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- The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru(Thu, Feb 29, 2024)
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- The lost Czech scrolls(Wed, Feb 28, 2024)
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- Crimea's Soviet holiday camp(Tue, Feb 27, 2024)
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- Russia annexes Crimea(Mon, Feb 26, 2024)
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- Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts(Fri, Feb 23, 2024)
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- Columbus Lighthouse(Thu, Feb 22, 2024)
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- Trans murder in Honduras(Wed, Feb 21, 2024)
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- Icelandic women's strike(Tue, Feb 20, 2024)
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- The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs(Mon, Feb 19, 2024)
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- Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war(Fri, Feb 16, 2024)
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- The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’(Thu, Feb 15, 2024)
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- The Juliet letters(Wed, Feb 14, 2024)
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- Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress(Tue, Feb 13, 2024)
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- The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis(Mon, Feb 12, 2024)
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- The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion(Fri, Feb 09, 2024)
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- How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism(Thu, Feb 08, 2024)
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- Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star(Wed, Feb 07, 2024)
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- How a young mother was saved from death by stoning(Tue, Feb 06, 2024)
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- Queen of the 'fro(Mon, Feb 05, 2024)
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- First internet cafe(Thu, Feb 01, 2024)
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- The Arctic’s doomsday seed vault(Wed, Jan 31, 2024)
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- Brazil's Landless Workers Movement(Tue, , )( Jan 30, 2024)
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- Silenced by the Vatican(Mon, Jan 29, 2024)
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- Jack Strong aka Ryszard Kukliński: Cold War traitor or hero?(Fri, Jan 26, 2024)
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- The Hungarian footballer executed for love(Thu, Jan 25, 2024)
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- Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?(Wed, Jan 24, 2024)
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- Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis(Tue, Jan 23, 2024)
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- Vidkun Quisling: Norway’s traitor(Mon, Jan 22, 2024)
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- Jamuna Tudu: The real life 'Lady Tarzan'(Fri, Jan 19, 2024)
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- Ibadan Zoo(Thu, Jan 18, 2024)
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- Tortured in Iran's Evin Prison(Wed, Jan 17, 2024)
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- The Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara(Tue, Jan 16, 2024)
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- The hunger-striking Bolivian president(Mon, Jan 15, 2024)
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- Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate(Fri, Jan 12, 2024)
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- The first World Laughter Day(Thu, Jan 11, 2024)
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- Russian ballerina defects to the West(We , )(d, Jan 10, 2024)
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- The mystery of France's lost king(Tue, Jan 09, 2024)
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- The world’s first lesbian couple to get married(Mon, Jan 08, 2024)
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- What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec(Fri, Jan 05, 2024)
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- The Hindenburg airship disaster(Thu, Jan 04, 2024)
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- The invention of the wingsuit(Wed, Jan 03, 2024)
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- Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone(Tue, Jan 02, 2024)
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- Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe(Mon, Jan 01, 2024)
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- Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'(Fri, Dec 29, 2023)
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- The disputed history of pad Thai(Thu, Dec 28, 2023)
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- Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food(Wed, Dec 27, 2023)
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- Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit(Tue, Dec 26, 2023)
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- Inventing Nutella(Mon, Dec 25, 2023)
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- 'The bad boy of Welsh politics'(Fri, Dec 22, 2023)
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- Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt(Thu, Dec 21, 2023)
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- The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda(Wed, Dec 20, 2023)
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- The assassination of King Faisal(Tue, Dec 19, 2023)
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- Tsunami devastates Samoa(Mon, Dec 18, 2023)
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- The funeral of Nelson Mandela(Fri, Dec 15, 2023)
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- Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears(Thu, Dec 14, 2023)
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- Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime(W , )(ed, Dec 13, 2023)
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- Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs(Tue, Dec 12, 2023)
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- Murder of the Romanovs(Mon, Dec 11, 2023)
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- The release of DOOM(Fri, Dec 08, 2023)
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- ‘The disappeared’ of Argentina(Thu, Dec 07, 2023)
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- A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power(Wed, Dec 06, 2023)
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- Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets(Tue, Dec 05, 2023)
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- La Haine: The film that shocked France(Mon, Dec 04, 2023)
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- World's first solar-heated home(Fri, Dec 01, 2023)
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- Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country(Thu, Nov 30, 2023)
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- Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths(Wed, Nov 29, 2023)
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- The bird that defied extinction(Tue, Nov 28, 2023)
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- Cabbage Patch Kids(Mon, Nov 27, 2023)
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- The Mumbai attacks(Fri, Nov 24, 2023)
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- The Paris heatwave(Thu, Nov 23, 2023)
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- Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory(Wed, Nov 22, 2023)
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- The invention of bubble tea(Tue, Nov 21, 2023)
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- The independence of Zambia(Mon, Nov 20, 2023)
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- Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion(Fri, Nov 17, 2023)
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- The Bolivian Water War(Thu, Nov 16, 2023)
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- Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer(Wed, Nov 15, 2023)
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- Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent(Tue, Nov 14, 2023)
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- The invention of the EpiPen(Mon, Nov 13, 2023)
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- The hippo and the tortoise(Fri, Nov 10, 2023)
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- Destruction of Mostar Bridge(Thu, Nov 09, 2023)
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- The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars(Wed, Nov 08, 2023)
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- Debbie McGee in Iran(Tue, Nov 07, 2023)
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- Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire(Mon, Nov 06, 2023)
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- Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour(Fri, Nov 03, 2023)
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- Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola(Thu, Nov 02, 2023)
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- Inventing the black box(Wed, Nov 01, 2023)
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- The discovery of the HIV virus(Tue, Oct 31, 2023)
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- The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon(Mon, Oct 30, 2023)
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- Turkey: Gezi Park protests(Fri, Oct 27, 2023)
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- 'The streets of Harare were littered with money'(Thu, Oct 26, 2023)
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- The 1993 MAD hijack(Wed, Oct 25, 2023)
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- The 1980 Turkey coup(Tue, Oct 24, 2023)
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- The first Bosphorus Bridge(Mon, Oct 23, 2023)
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- Osmondmania(Fri, Oct 20, 2023)
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- Launching Lagos Fashion Week(Thu, Oct 19, 2023)
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- Mexico’s murdered women(Wed, Oct 18, 2023)
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- Rana Plaza building collapse(Tue, Oct 17, 2023)
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- Cambodian peace walk(Mon, Oct 16, 2023)
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- Surviving an acid attack and changing the law(Fri, Oct 13, 2023)
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- Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power(Thu, Oct 12, 2023)
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- Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag(Wed, Oct 11, 2023)
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- The 84-year-old primary school pupil(Tue, Oct 10, 2023)
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- Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle(Mon, Oct 09, 2023)
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- Protectors of the Amazon(Fri, Oct 06, 2023)
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- The Amoco Cadiz oil spill(Thu, Oct 05, 2023)
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- Nigeria strikes oil(Wed, Oct 04, 2023)
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- The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan(Tue, Oct 03, 2023)
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- The oil crisis of 1973(Mon, Oct 02, 2023)
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- The first cat cafe(Fri, Sep 29, 2023)
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- The Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy(Thu, Sep 28, 2023)
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- Kassandra: The peacekeeping telenovela in Bosnia(Wed, Sep 27, 2023)
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- Concorde's first flight(Tue, Sep 26, 2023)
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- Vietnam War: Stopping nuclear disaster(Mon, Sep 25, 2023)
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- The year of the vuvuzela(Fri, Sep 22, 2023)
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- Kenya: Nairobi shopping mall attack(Thu, Sep 21, 2023)
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- The first person inside the 'Gates of Hell'(Wed, Sep 20, 2023)
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- Fighting for legal abortion in Italy(Tue, Sep 19, 2023)
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- Nazi eugenics(Mon, Sep 18, 2023)
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- The Ramallah concert(Fri, Sep 15, 2023)
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- The siege at the Church of the Nativity(Thu, Sep 14, 2023)
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- Ariel Sharon visits al-Aqsa(Wed, Sep 13, 2023)
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- Camp David Summit: How Middle East peace talks failed(Tue, Sep 12, 2023)
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- Oslo Peace Accords: The secret talks behind Middle East deal(Mon, Sep 11, 2023)( +0000 09:00:00, )
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- Victor Jara: killed in Chile's coup(Fri, Sep 08, 2023)
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- Organising Chile's 1973 military coup(T , )(hu, Sep 07, 2023)
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- Murder of Swedish politician Anna Lindh(Wed, Sep 06, 2023)
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- Bi Kidude: Zanzibar's 'golden grandmother of music'(Tue, Sep 05, 2023)
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- Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners(Mon, Sep 04, 2023)
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- Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution(Fri, Sep 01, 2023)
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- Saving Guadalupe from goats(Thu, Aug 31, 2023)
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- Egypt's Rabaa massacre(Wed, Aug 30, 2023)
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- North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades(Tue, Aug 29, 2023)
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- The Bristol bus boycott(Mon, Aug 28, 2023)
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- Women invade Dublin's male-only swimming spot(Fri, Aug 25, 2023)
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- Celtic Tiger: Ireland's 'ghost estates'(Thu, Aug 24, 2023)
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- The first Rose of Tralee(Wed, Aug 23, 2023)
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- How electricity came to rural Ireland(Tue, Aug 22, 2023)
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- Easter Rising in Ireland(Mon, Aug 21, 2023)
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- The Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers(Fri, Aug 18, 2023)
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- Judy Garland: The final shows(Thu, Aug 17, 2023)
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- Returning Benin Bronzes(Wed, Aug 16, 2023)
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- Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953(Tue, Aug 15, 2023)
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- The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor(Mon, Aug 14, 2023)
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- Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene(Fri, Aug 11, 2023)
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- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal(Thu, Aug 10, 2023)
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- Sarajevo’s haven of peace(Wed, Aug 09, 2023)
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- The Great Train Robbery(Tue, Aug 08, 2023)
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- Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties(Mon, Aug 07, 2023)
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- Dinosaur in court(Fri, Aug 04, 2023)
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- Treehouse on the Berlin Wall(Thu, Aug 03, 2023)
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- Birth of a new language(Wed, Aug 02, 2023)
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- First dinosaur eggs identified in India(Tue, Aug 01, 2023)
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- José Mujica: Prison break to president(Mon, Jul 31, 2023)
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- Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway(Fri, Jul 28, 2023)
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- The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie(Thu, Jul 27, 2023)
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- The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit(Wed, Jul 26, 2023)
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- Brain: The first personal computer virus(Tue, Jul 25, 2023)
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- Escaping the Nazis in Greece(Mon, Jul 24, 2023)
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- The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis(Fri, Jul 21, 2023)
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- The birth of Barbie(Thu, Jul 20, 2023)
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- Japan surrenders in China(Wed, Jul 19, 2023)
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- The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia(Tue, Jul 18, 2023)
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- Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’(Mon, Jul 17, 2023)
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- Creating the first emoji(Fri, Jul 14, 2023)
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- When disposable nappies were invented(Thu, Jul 13, 2023)
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- Inventing Rubik’s Cube(Tue, Jul 11, 2023)
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- Invention of the ballpoint pen(Mon, Jul 10, 2023)
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- A right royal night out(Fri, Jul 07, 2023)
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- When tourism came to the Maldives(Thu, Jul 06, 2023)
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- The National Health Service begins(Wed, Jul 05, 2023)
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- Longest-serving democratically elected communist government(Tue, Jul 04, 2023)
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- The trial of John Demjanjuk(Mon, Jul 03, 2023)
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- I made Lady Gaga's meat dress(Fri, Jun 30, 2023)
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- The 'graveyard' for communist statues(Thu, Jun 29, 2023)
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- Sampoong department store disaster(Wed, Jun 28, 2023)
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- First reports of Ebola(Tue, Jun 27, 2023)
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- JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech(Mon, Jun 26, 2023)
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- My dad played golf on the moon(Fri, Jun 23, 2023)
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- The Empire Windrush arrives(Thu, Jun 22, 2023)
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- Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub(Wed, Jun 21, 2023)
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- The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country(Tue, Jun 20, 2023)
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- Uprising in East Germany(Mon, Jun 19, 2023)
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- Ming Smith makes history at MoMA(Fri, Jun 16, 2023)
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- Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine(Thu, Jun 15, 2023)
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- Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer(Wed, Jun 14, 2023)
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- A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo(Tue, Jun 13, 2023)
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- Lee Miller in Hitler's bath(Mon, Jun 12, 2023)
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- 1955 Le Mans disaster(Fri, Jun 09, 2023)
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- Last communist march before Hitler(Thu, Jun 08, 2023)
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- Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder(Tue, Jun 06, 2023)
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- Inuit children taken from families(Mon, Jun 05, 2023)
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- The first Indian woman to conquer Everest(Fri, Jun 02, 2023)
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- Tragedy on Everest(Thu, Jun 01, 2023)
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- Mallory’s body discovered on Everest(Wed, May 31, 2023)
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- Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest(Tue, May 30, 2023)
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- Edmund Hillary conquers Everest(Mon, May 29, 2023)
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- The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world(Fri, May 26, 2023)
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- Trying to unite Africa(Thu, May 25, 2023)
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- Chasing the world’s biggest tornado(Wed, May 24, 2023)
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- Fikret Alić(Tue, May 23, 2023)
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- The sergeants' coup in Suriname(Mon, May 22, 2023)
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- Pippi Longstocking(Fri, May 19, 2023)
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- Creating New Zealand's national walking trail(Thu, May 18, 2023)
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- The Dambusters(Wed, May 17, 2023)
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- German child evacuees of World War Two(Tue, May 16, 2023)
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- Singapore executes Filipina maid(Mon, May 15, 2023)
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- World War II victory in North Africa(Fri, May 12, 2023)
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- Warsaw Ghetto uprising(Thu, May 11, 2023)
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- The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak(Wed, May 10, 2023)
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- The sinking of the SS Tilawa: the ‘Indian Titanic’(Tue, May 09, 2023)
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- United States bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade(Mon, May 08, 2023)
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- The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny(Fri, May 05, 2023)
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- Last King of Bulgaria(Thu, May 04, 2023)
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- The 'execution' of Oliver Cromwell(Wed, May 03, 2023)
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- Jean-Bédel Bokassa's coronation(Tue, May 02, 2023)
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- The king under the car park(Mon, May 01, 2023)
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- The fight to televise the Queen's Coronation(Fri, Apr 28, 2023)
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- The Met Gala goes global(Thu, Apr 27, 2023)
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- Guatemala's outspoken bishop(Wed, Apr 26, 2023)
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- Discovering the secrets of DNA(Tue, Apr 25, 2023)
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- Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen'(Mon, Apr 24, 2023)
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- The Russian man who pretended to be a dog(Fri, Apr 21, 2023)
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- Smoky the World War II dog hero(Thu, Apr 20, 2023)
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- Roselle the 9/11 guide dog(Wed, Apr 19, 2023)
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- The world's first labradoodle(Tue, Apr 18, 2023)
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- The first dog in space(Mon, Apr 17, 2023)
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- Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen(Fri, Apr 14, 2023)
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- I led the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers(Thu, Apr 13, 2023)
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- Mass grave at Sernyky(Wed, Apr 12, 2023)
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- The universal recycling symbol(Tue, Apr 11, 2023)
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- Emperor Tewodros II(Mon, Apr 10, 2023)
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- The Good Friday Agreement referendum(Fri, Apr 07, 2023)
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- Beto Perez: 'I created Zumba by accident'(Thu, Apr 06, 2023)
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- Awaji Kannon: One of the world's tallest statues(Wed, Apr 05, 2023)
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- Pan-European picnic(Tue, Apr 04, 2023)
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- Escaping national service in Eritrea(Mon, Apr 03, 2023)
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- A Brief History of Time(Fri, Mar 31, 2023)
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- The first photo sent from a phone(Thu, Mar 30, 2023)
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- Godfather of manicures(Wed, Mar 29, 2023)
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- How Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley(Tue, Mar 28, 2023)
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- The windmill that revolutionised wind power(Mon, Mar 27, 2023)
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- Keiko: Freeing 'Free Willy'(Fri, Mar 24, 2023)
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- The man who lived in an airport(Thu, Mar 23, 2023)
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- DDLJ: India’s longest running movie(Wed, Mar 22, 2023)
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- Alcatraz: The strangest escape(Tue, Mar 21, 2023)
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- Kieu Chinh: A real Hollywood story(Mon, Mar 20, 2023)
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- Iraq War: US security guards killed my son(Fri, Mar 17, 2023)
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- Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein(Thu, Mar 16, 2023)
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- Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards(Wed, Mar 15, 2023)
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- Iraq War: Refugees escaping(Tue, Mar 14, 2023)
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- Iraq War: The beginning(Mon, Mar 13, 2023)
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- From girl to goddess to financial analyst(Fri, Mar 10, 2023)
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- Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process(Thu, Mar 09, 2023)
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- First all-women peacekeeping unit(Wed, Mar 08, 2023)
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- Mexico's first female presidential hopeful(Tue, Mar 07, 2023)
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- Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer(Mon, Mar 06, 2023)
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- Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister(Fri, Mar 03, 2023)
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- The museum at the end of the world(Thu, Mar 02, 2023)
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- Grenada's underwater sculpture park(Wed, Mar 01, 2023)
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- Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps(Tue, Feb 28, 2023)
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- Wounded Knee siege(Mon, Feb 27, 2023)
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- When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'(Fri, Feb 24, 2023)
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- Families interned in WW2 China(Thu, Feb 23, 2023)
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- The invention of Semtex(Wed, Feb 22, 2023)
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- Seggae riots in Mauritius(Tue, Feb 21, 2023)
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- Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin(Mon, Feb 20, 2023)
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- First winter ascent of Everest(Fri, Feb 17, 2023)
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- Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb(Thu, Feb 16, 2023)
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- 'I developed Pokémon'(Wed, Feb 15, 2023)
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- First Danish queen for 600 years(Tue, Feb 14, 2023)
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- 'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted(Mon, Feb 13, 2023)
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- 'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'(Fri, Feb 10, 2023)
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- The Pope and Jews(Thu, Feb 09, 2023)
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- Pope John Paul I’s sudden death(Wed, Feb 08, 2023)
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- Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II(Tue, Feb 07, 2023)
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- How a Pope is chosen(Mon, Feb 06, 2023)
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- The first black music station in Europe(Fri, Feb 03, 2023)
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- The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye(Thu, Feb 02, 2023)
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- Columbia space shuttle disaster(Wed, Feb 01, 2023)
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