Witness History: Witness Archive 2016
By BBC World Service
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History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2016.
| Episode | Date |
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Chairman Mao's Little Red Book
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Russia's 'Dog Man'
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Dec 30, 2016 |
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The Launch of Vogue Russia
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Nuclear Legacy
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Dec 28, 2016 |
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Georgia In Crisis
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Dec 27, 2016 |
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The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
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Dec 26, 2016 |
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Apollo 8
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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Samuel Beckett
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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Turkey-Greece Island Dispute
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Dec 21, 2016 |
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Derek Jarman
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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Death of an Anarchist
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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The First Latin American 'Telenovela'
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Dec 16, 2016 |
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Cot Death
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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The Hindu 'Milk Miracle'
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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Yoyes - Woman leader of ETA
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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Fighting for Rural Women in South Africa
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Dec 09, 2016 |
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Recreating Down Syndrome in Mice
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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Wangari Maathai Wins Nobel Prize
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Dec 07, 2016 |
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Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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Colombia's 'Lost City'
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Dec 05, 2016 |
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Digging up the Truth
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Dec 05, 2016 |
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Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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India's City of the Future: Chandigarh
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Nov 30, 2016 |
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Car Safety and Ralph Nader
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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The Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters
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Nov 28, 2016 |
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The 1948 French Miners' Strike
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Nov 25, 2016 |
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The Silk Letters Movement
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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Saving Orphaned African Elephants
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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Plane spotters arrested in Greece
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Nov 22, 2016 |
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The Musical Cabaret
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Nov 21, 2016 |
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Smuggling Endangered Birds
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Nov 18, 2016 |
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The Madagascar Palace Fire
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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East Timor Massacre
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Nov 16, 2016 |
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The Burning of the Satanic Verses
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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The James Bond Theme Tune
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Nov 14, 2016 |
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Kurdish Singer Ahmet Kaya
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Nov 11, 2016 |
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Rolling Stone Magazine
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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The First Loebner Prize
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Nov 07, 2016 |
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The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
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Nov 07, 2016 |
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War Photographer, Dickey Chapelle
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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Octavio Paz
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution
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Nov 02, 2016 |
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A Black GI in China
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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Harry Houdini
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Oct 31, 2016 |
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The Abduction of Mehdi Ben Barka
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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The Big Bang
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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The Hungarian Uprising
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Oct 26, 2016 |
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Shell Shock
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Oct 25, 2016 |
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Marvel Comics and 'The Fantastic Four'
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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The Aberfan Disaster
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Oct 21, 2016 |
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Marcel Duchamp and His Fountain
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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The Mau Mau Rebellion
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Oct 19, 2016 |
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Father Charles Coughlin - America's First Radio Priest
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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Bugging the US Embassy in Moscow
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Oct 17, 2016 |
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The Hoover Free Flights Promotion
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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The Last Day of Lebanon's Civil War
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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Chile Votes Against Pinochet
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Oct 12, 2016 |
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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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Irina Ratushinskaya
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Oct 10, 2016 |
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Good Vibrations
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Oct 07, 2016 |
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Exposing Child Abuse in the Catholic Church
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Oct 05, 2016 |
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Thai University Massacre
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Oct 05, 2016 |
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The Poisoned Painkiller
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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The Founding of Mensa
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Oct 03, 2016 |
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Sir Stanley Spencer
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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The Mayak Nuclear Disaster
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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The Attica Prison Rebellion
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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South Africa's 1985 State of Emergency
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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Outback Internment
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Sep 26, 2016 |
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The Curious Story of Mary Toft
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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The First Legal 'Physician-Assisted Suicide'
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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Domestic Violence in Brazil
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Sep 21, 2016 |
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Voting Against the War on Terror
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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The West Australian Gold Rush
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Sep 19, 2016 |
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The Capture of Abimael Guzman
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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The First Tanks
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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Anthrax Attacks
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Sep 14, 2016 |
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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The Lascaux Caves
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Sep 12, 2016 |
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Estonia's Bootleg Vodka Poisoning
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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How Europe won over the British left
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Star Trek - The Early Years
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Sep 07, 2016 |
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Remembering Chairman Mao
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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Italy's Partisan Fighters
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Sep 05, 2016 |
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The Day Sweden Turned Right
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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The Mexican American War
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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The Last Case of Smallpox in the UK
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Aug 31, 2016 |
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The Fall of Bukhara
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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Burning Man
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Aug 29, 2016 |
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Fania All Stars - Legends of Salsa
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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Helmand Convoy
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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The "Don't Die of Ignorance" Aids Campaign
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Aug 24, 2016 |
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The Dance Theatre of Harlem
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Aug 24, 2016 |
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The Stockholm Syndrome
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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The Kray Gang
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Aug 19, 2016 |
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John Muir and America's Wild Places
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Aug 19, 2016 |
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Conflict over a Tree in the DMZ
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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Studio Ghibli - Japanese Animation
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Aug 17, 2016 |
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Bibles in US Schools
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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The murder of Federico Garcia Lorca
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Aug 15, 2016 |
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Fleeing Deportation to the USSR
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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The Nairobi Embassy Bombing
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Aug 10, 2016 |
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The Excavation of Masada
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Aug 08, 2016 |
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The Twin Towers High-Wire Walk
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Aug 08, 2016 |
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American Air Traffic Controllers' Strike
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Aug 05, 2016 |
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Lebanon's Baalbek Festival
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Aug 05, 2016 |
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The Reclusive JD Salinger
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Aug 03, 2016 |
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Jacqueline Du Pre
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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The University of Texas Shooting
|
Aug 01, 2016 |
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Spying for America in Russia
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Jul 29, 2016 |
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The Tangshan Earthquake
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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Meeting Picasso
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Jul 27, 2016 |
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The First CIA Coup in Latin America
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Jul 26, 2016 |
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Race Riots in Liverpool
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Jul 25, 2016 |
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The Beilis Case: an Anti-Jewish Trial
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Jul 22, 2016 |
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The Death of Bruce Lee
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Jul 20, 2016 |
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Medicare
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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Dutch Elm Disease
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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1916: Central Asia Rebels Against the Russian Empire
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Jul 14, 2016 |
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Child refugees from the Spanish Civil War
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Jul 13, 2016 |
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The Nestle Boycott
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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The Mumbai Train Bombings
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Jul 11, 2016 |
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War in Slovenia
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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Executions in Cuba
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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The Sale of London Bridge
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Jul 06, 2016 |
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Denmark's second EU Referendum
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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Born on the Fourth of July
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Jul 04, 2016 |
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Ukraine's Wartime Ultra-Nationalists
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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The Great Plague
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Jun 29, 2016 |
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The Khobar Towers Bombing - Saudi Arabia
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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The Cuyahoga River Fire
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Forced Sterilisation in Peru
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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The Bobbitt Story
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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Space Crash
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Jun 22, 2016 |
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Black in the USSR
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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The Fall of Paris
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Jun 17, 2016 |
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Smoking and Lung Cancer
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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The Eruption of Mount Pinatubo
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Moral Majority
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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When TV Came to Bhutan
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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The Battle for Mixed Race Marriage in the US
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Jun 10, 2016 |
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Iraq's Secret Nuclear Programme
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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Karakoram Highway
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Jun 08, 2016 |
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Restoring 'The Last Supper'
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Jun 08, 2016 |
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Ritalin
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Jun 07, 2016 |
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The Arrest of James Earl Ray
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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Date Rape
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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Tanzania's Ujamaa policy
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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Concordski Plane Crash
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Jun 01, 2016 |
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The Assassination of Trujillo
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May 30, 2016 |
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The Thalidomide Trial
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May 27, 2016 |
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Yeltsin And The Chechen Rebels
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May 26, 2016 |
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The Israeli Airlift of Ethiopian Jews
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May 25, 2016 |
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Hands Across America
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May 24, 2016 |
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The Execution of Anne Boleyn
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May 23, 2016 |
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Kia Ora: Maori Rights Breakthrough in New Zealand
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May 20, 2016 |
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Dien Bien Phu
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May 19, 2016 |
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Marcus Garvey
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May 17, 2016 |
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Citizen Kane
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May 16, 2016 |
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Kim Philby: The Third Man
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May 13, 2016 |
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The Pope in Syria - 2001
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May 12, 2016 |
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Escape from the South Atlantic
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May 10, 2016 |
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The Imaginary War Heroes
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May 09, 2016 |
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Hitler's Nuclear Programme
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May 06, 2016 |
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The Belfast Blitz
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May 05, 2016 |
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Ernest Hemingway in Cuba
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May 04, 2016 |
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U2 Spy Plane
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May 03, 2016 |
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The Salem Witches
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May 02, 2016 |
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The Creation of the Mini
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Apr 29, 2016 |
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The McCarthy Era
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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The Funeral of Charles Darwin
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Apr 27, 2016 |
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Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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Yves Saint Laurent and Morocco
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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Shakespeare's Jubilee
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Apr 22, 2016 |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
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Apr 20, 2016 |
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The Harrier in the Falklands War
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Haile Selassie In Jamaica
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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The First Starbucks
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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The Spanish Republic
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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Executed for Being Too Capitalist
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Apr 14, 2016 |
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The Amritsar Massacre of 1919
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Apr 13, 2016 |
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Angela Merkel
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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A Japanese Royal Wedding
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Apr 08, 2016 |
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The Ogaden War
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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Mallory on Everest
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Apr 06, 2016 |
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Romania's Orphans
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Apr 05, 2016 |
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The Execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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Apr 04, 2016 |
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The Yodogo Hijacking
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Apr 01, 2016 |
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Pakistan Ban on Alcohol
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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The Attempt on Ronald Reagan's Life
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Mar 30, 2016 |
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The Harold Wilson Plot
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Mar 29, 2016 |
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Virginia Woolf
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Mar 28, 2016 |
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The Easter Rising
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Mar 25, 2016 |
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Iraqi Shia Uprising - 1991
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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The Fall of Emperor Tewodros II
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Mar 23, 2016 |
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Viagra
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Mar 22, 2016 |
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Namibian Independence
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Mar 21, 2016 |
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The Tunnellers of WW1
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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Vietnam-China Border War 1979
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Mar 17, 2016 |
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Mad Cow Disease and CJD
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Mar 16, 2016 |
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Tenerife Air Disaster
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Mar 15, 2016 |
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The Kasztner Affair
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Mar 15, 2016 |
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Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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The Original Revolutionary Feminist
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Mar 11, 2016 |
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The Release of the Birmingham Six
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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Spinsters' Rights
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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Poisoned in Kosovo
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Mar 07, 2016 |
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Condemned as a Spy in the USSR
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Mar 04, 2016 |
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Marie Stopes: Birth Control Pioneer
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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The Polaroid Instant Camera
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Mar 01, 2016 |
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The Siege of Sarajevo
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Feb 29, 2016 |
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The Foxcatcher Story
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Feb 26, 2016 |
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The Caracazo Protests
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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Philippines People Power Revolution
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Feb 24, 2016 |
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The Back to Africa Movement
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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The Death of Jonas Savimbi
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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The UK’s Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic
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Feb 19, 2016 |
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The Battle of Verdun
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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Seven Years In Tibet
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Feb 17, 2016 |
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Christian Dior's New Look
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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The Attempt to Kill Khaled Meshaal
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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Black Sabbath
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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Britain's Secret Code-Breakers
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Feb 10, 2016 |
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Pakistan's Women Only Police Station
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Feb 10, 2016 |
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The Arab Spring and Syria
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Feb 09, 2016 |
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The Last of the Red Hot Mamas
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Feb 08, 2016 |
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Prozac
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Feb 05, 2016 |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Feb 03, 2016 |
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The ‘Abscam’ Corruption Investigation
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Feb 02, 2016 |
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Spanish Embassy Killings
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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The First Batman TV Series
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Jan 29, 2016 |
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Sharia Returns to Nigeria
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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The Challenger Disaster
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Jan 27, 2016 |
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The First Fleet Lands in Australia
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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The Wapping Dispute
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Jan 25, 2016 |
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The Funeral of Jan Palach
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Jan 22, 2016 |
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The Poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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The Soldier Who Never Surrendered
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Jan 20, 2016 |
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Mexico's Tequila Crisis
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Jan 19, 2016 |
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The Adventures of Tintin
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Jan 18, 2016 |
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Nigeria's First Coup
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Jan 15, 2016 |
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The Freedom Tower in Tehran
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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The First Alzheimer's Patient
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Jan 13, 2016 |
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Russia's Forbidden Art
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Jan 12, 2016 |
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A Mass Shooting in America
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Jan 11, 2016 |
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Fidel Castro Takes Havana
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Jan 06, 2016 |
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The Eames Chair
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Jan 05, 2016 |
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The start of the Open University
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Jan 04, 2016 |
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Vietnamese Boat People Arrive in Britain
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Jan 01, 2016 |