Witness History: Witness Archive 2017
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History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2017.
| Episode | Date |
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"Spend, Spend, Spend" - The Miner's Wife Who Won Big
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Dec 31, 2017 |
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Voyager: Around The World On One Tank of Fuel
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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The Climbers of Leningrad
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Dec 28, 2017 |
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The First Kwanzaa
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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Trivial Pursuit
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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BR Ambedkar
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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The Exam That Changed China
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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The Development of WiFi
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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Somalia's Islamic Courts Union
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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The Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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Otis Redding
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Great London Smog
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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The Unsung Hero of Heart Surgery
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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Hypnotising Saddam's Son
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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Art in Revolutionary Russia
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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The Discovery of Whale Song
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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Finland Wins Independence From Russia
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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Britain's withdrawal from South Yemen
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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Mount Rushmore
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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Science City in Siberia
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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The Poisoning of Litvinenko
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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The Prestige Oil Disaster in Spain
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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The Audacious Plot to Kill a Colonel
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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The Case of Alger Hiss
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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The Exile of Wolf Biermann
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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Toy Story - The First Digitally-Animated Feature Film
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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The Man Who Prosecuted Charles Manson
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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The Siege of Mecca
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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Botswana's Diamonds
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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The 'Disappeared' of Lebanon
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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The Windmill Theatre
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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The British Love Affair with Curry
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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The Exploding Whale
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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World War One: Ordinary Lives
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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Laika the Space Dog
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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The Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks Take Control
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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Osama Bin Laden's Last Interview
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Nov 06, 2017 |
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The Naked Ape
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Nov 03, 2017 |
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The Case That Saved Sex on the Internet
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Oscar Niemeyer's Forgotten Masterpiece
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Martin Luther's 95 Theses
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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The Murder of Brazil's Leading Journalist
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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A Literary Love Affair
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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The Death of Dele Giwa
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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Private Eye
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Romania's Abortion Ban
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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The 43 Group: Battling British Fascism
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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The Mysterious Death of Samora Machel
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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Moscow Theatre Siege
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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The Death of JG Farrell
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis: the Governments
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Oct 16, 2017 |
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Testifying Against OJ Simpson
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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Saving Italy's Art During WW2
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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Lluis Companys - Martyr of Catalan Nationalism
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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The Death of Che Guevara
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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Matthew Shepard: A killing that changed American law
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Oct 06, 2017 |
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The first black American at Ole Miss
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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Israel Withdraws From Gaza
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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The Raising of the Mary Rose
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
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Oct 02, 2017 |
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The Sudden Death of Pope John Paul I
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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A Bitter Divorce: When Guinea said "No" to France
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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Walking the Great Wall of China
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Britain's Land Girls
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Steve Biko: Black Consciousness Leader
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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The Cross Border Horse Race
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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Roselle - The 9/11 Guide Dog
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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Australia's Rabbit Plague
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Shark Attack Survivor
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Sep 18, 2017 |
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The Transatlantic Locust Plague
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Sep 18, 2017 |
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Sabra and Shatila - A Massacre in Lebanon
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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The German Schoolboy Arrested for Writing a Letter
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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The Hippydilly Squat
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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The Collapse of Northern Rock
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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Nok Terracottas: Nigeria's Ancient Treasure
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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France's Last Guillotine
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Sep 08, 2017 |
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BBC Proms: Audience Member Rescues Concert
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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Biosphere 2: Building A New World
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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The Fairy Photos
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Jamaica's Worst Train Accident
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Sep 04, 2017 |
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The Funeral of Princess Diana
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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The Birth of eBay
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Aug 30, 2017 |
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George Orwell and Animal Farm
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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The Revolutionary Head Scan
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Aug 28, 2017 |
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Notting Hill Race Riot
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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The Rostock-Lichtenhagen Riots
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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Medicine In World War One
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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The Discovery of Botox
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
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Aug 21, 2017 |
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Aug 18, 2017 |
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The Division of Cyprus
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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The Buenos Aires Herald
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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Nike and the Sweatshop Problem
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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Germany's Nudists
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Aug 14, 2017 |
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Reagan's Bombing Joke
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Aug 11, 2017 |
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Florence Nightingale
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Aug 10, 2017 |
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The Calcutta Killings of 1946
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Aug 09, 2017 |
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The Murder of Naji al-Ali
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Discovering The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Aug 07, 2017 |
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The Camp David Summit
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Aug 04, 2017 |
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China's Crackdown on Falun Gong
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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The Birth of the Water Baby
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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Surviving the "Auschwitz of the Balkans"
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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The Death of Evita
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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Pioneer North Sea Divers
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Jul 28, 2017 |
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Chiang Kai Shek: The Man Who Lost China
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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When homosexuality was a crime
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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Khrushchev's Soviet Housing Programme
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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The Welsh Language Act
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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US Psychological Warfare in Vietnam
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Jul 21, 2017 |
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The Bonus Army
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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The Killing of Gianni Versace
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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Nintendo's Family Computer
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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The Mont Blanc Tunnel
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Jul 17, 2017 |
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The Oka Crisis
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Jul 14, 2017 |
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Castlemorton Common: Britain's Biggest Illegal Rave
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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The Rudolf Nureyev Phenomenon
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Jul 12, 2017 |
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The Imprisonment of Irina Ratushinskaya
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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The birth of UKIP
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Jul 10, 2017 |
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The First Tamil Suicide Bombing
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Jul 07, 2017 |
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The Staffordshire Hoard
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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No Sex in the USSR
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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Around the World in a Balloon
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Jul 04, 2017 |
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The Roswell Incident
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Jul 03, 2017 |
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Euro Disney
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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The Disputed Resort of Taba
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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Lonely Planet
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Jun 28, 2017 |
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The Hippie Trail
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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The First Budget Flights Across the Atlantic
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Jun 26, 2017 |
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Italy's Shame: The Massacre in Ethiopia
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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The Killing of Vincent Chin
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Persecution of Christians In the Korean War
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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Body Worlds Exhibition
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Italy's 'State-within-a-State'
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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The Sinking of the Lancastria
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Jun 16, 2017 |
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Algeria's Berbers
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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The Woman Who Stopped Equal Rights in America
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Jun 14, 2017 |
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The Montserrat Volcano
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Jun 12, 2017 |
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The Six Day War: A Jordanian view
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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The Six Day War: An Israeli view
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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The Killing of Robert Kennedy
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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Escape From Slavery
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Jun 05, 2017 |
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America's First Female Rabbi
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Jun 02, 2017 |
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Rock Concert for Chernobyl
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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India's "Mr Sanitation"
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May 30, 2017 |
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Operation Lifeline: Canada's Refugee Revolution
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May 29, 2017 |
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Pakistan's First Nuclear Test
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May 26, 2017 |
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The Killing of Poet Roque Dalton
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May 25, 2017 |
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When Irish Pubs Saved the Economy
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May 24, 2017 |
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The Roma Victims of the Holocaust
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May 23, 2017 |
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Teresa Teng
|
May 22, 2017 |
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The Death of Neda Agha Soltan
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May 19, 2017 |
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Alexander Hamilton
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May 18, 2017 |
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Brown vs The Board of Education
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May 17, 2017 |
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Weight Watchers
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May 16, 2017 |
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The George Wallace Assassination Attempt
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May 15, 2017 |
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The Trial of Maurice Papon
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May 12, 2017 |
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Wine Shock: 'The Judgement of Paris'
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May 11, 2017 |
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Americans told 'Eat Less' to Live Longer
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May 10, 2017 |
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The Soviet James Bond
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May 09, 2017 |
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Shenzhen - Special Economic Zone
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May 08, 2017 |
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The Invention of Liposuction
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May 05, 2017 |
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Ulrike Meinhof
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May 05, 2017 |
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The French Army Mutiny of 1917
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May 05, 2017 |
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Civil War in Tajikistan
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May 04, 2017 |
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Magnum Photos
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May 03, 2017 |
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Searching For Argentina's Disappeared
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Apr 28, 2017 |
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Bosnia: Rape as a Weapon of War
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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When the Syrian Army Withdrew from Lebanon
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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Revolutionary Psychiatrist RD Laing
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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Bulgaria's "Revival Process"
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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The Suzuki Violin Method
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Apr 21, 2017 |
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The Hubble Space Telescope
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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Charlie Chaplin Returns to America from Exile
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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The World Festival of Black Arts
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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How Peru Mistook Missionaries For Drug Traffickers
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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The Takeover of NTV in Russia
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Apr 14, 2017 |
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America's 504 Disability Rights Protests
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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UK Sikhs Fight For Religious Rights
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Apr 12, 2017 |
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The Katyn Massacre
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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Ethiopia's Red Terror
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Apr 10, 2017 |
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Egypt's Facebook Girl
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Apr 07, 2017 |
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The USA Enters World War One
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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Princess Diana's Handshake with Aids Patient
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Apr 05, 2017 |
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The Nagorno-Karabakh war
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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The Jane Fonda Workout
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Apr 03, 2017 |
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The Collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf
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Mar 31, 2017 |
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Teletubbies
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Anthrax Leak in the Soviet Union
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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The Flavr Savr Tomato - The World's First Genetically Engineered Food
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Mar 28, 2017 |
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The Murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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The Death of King Faisal
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Mar 24, 2017 |
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Ayn Rand
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mass Deportations From Soviet Estonia
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Mar 22, 2017 |
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Submarine Warfare in WW1
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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An Assassination in Colombia
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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Kolkata Sex Workers.
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Mar 17, 2017 |
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The Germans Occupy Prague
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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The Russian Empire in Colour
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Mar 15, 2017 |
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The First Russian Revolution of 1917
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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The Aids Patient Zero Myth
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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The Hanafi Hostage Siege in Washington DC
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Mar 10, 2017 |
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Mexico Slashes Car Use
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Mar 08, 2017 |
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Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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WW1: The Two Women of Pervyse
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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The Decapitation of the Little Mermaid
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint
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Mar 01, 2017 |
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Obesity
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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The Origin of Nollywood
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Feb 27, 2017 |
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Bulgarian Nurses on Trial in Libya
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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The German American Bund
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Feb 22, 2017 |
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The Lost Manuscript of Huckleberry Finn
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
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Feb 18, 2017 |
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The Silver Ring Thing
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Feb 17, 2017 |
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Uganda's war on homosexuality
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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Italy votes for divorce
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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The Birth of Speed Dating
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Feb 14, 2017 |
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The Conman Who Married His Victims
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Feb 13, 2017 |
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Sanctuary Cities in the USA
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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The True Story of Whisky Galore
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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Kenya's Hit Record: Jambo Bwana
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Feb 08, 2017 |
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The Killer Whale that Killed
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Rosalind Franklin DNA Pioneer
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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1995 Peru-Ecuador Border War
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Feb 03, 2017 |
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The End of Apartheid
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Battle of Mogadishu: Black Hawk Down
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Crossing Antarctica Alone
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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Sexual Harassment in India
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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Desert Island Discs at 75
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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The 'Aboriginal Tent Embassy'
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Roald Dahl's Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
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Jan 25, 2017 |
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The Atocha Lawyers Massacre in Spain
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Microwave Ovens
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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Dungeons and Dragons
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Jan 20, 2017 |
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Roots - The TV Series
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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Dadaab: The World's Largest Refugee Camp
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Jan 18, 2017 |
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The Murder of Journalist Hrant Dink
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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The End of El Salvador's Civil War
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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US Presidential Transitions
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Jan 13, 2017 |
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Princess Diana's Minefield Walk
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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Death in the Amazon
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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Chicago's Police Torture
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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The Zimmermann Telegram
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Turkey's Headscarf Row
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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Albania's Economic Chaos
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Charter 77
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Jan 04, 2017 |
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Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels
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Jan 03, 2017 |