Witness History: Archive 2013
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The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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Edith Piaf
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Dec 31, 2013 |
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Anti-Shah Demonstrations in Iran
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Dec 30, 2013 |
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Prison Camp in WW2 Manila, Philippines
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Dec 27, 2013 |
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The Murder of Dian Fossey
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Dec 26, 2013 |
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Grand Theft Auto
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Dec 25, 2013 |
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The MP Who Faked His Own Death
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Dec 24, 2013 |
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Murder in the Amazon
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Dec 23, 2013 |
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Lockerbie Bombing
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Dec 20, 2013 |
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The Assassination of Spain's Prime Minister
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Dec 19, 2013 |
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Indonesia Invades East Timor
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Dec 18, 2013 |
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The Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr
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Dec 17, 2013 |
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International Space Station
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Dec 16, 2013 |
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South Africa Wins the Rugby World Cup
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Dec 13, 2013 |
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The Soweto Uprising
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Dec 12, 2013 |
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The ANC's Armed Struggle
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Dec 11, 2013 |
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Apartheid in the 1950s
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Dec 09, 2013 |
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The Destruction of the Mosque at Ayodhya
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Dec 06, 2013 |
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Prohibition in the USA
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Dec 05, 2013 |
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Psychiatry and Homosexuality in the USA
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Dec 04, 2013 |
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Vietnamese Boat People
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Dec 03, 2013 |
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Murder of Churchwomen in El Salvador
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Dec 02, 2013 |
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Portugal Attacks Guinea
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Nov 29, 2013 |
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The Tehran Conference of World War Two
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Nov 28, 2013 |
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How Child Road Deaths Changed the Netherlands
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Nov 27, 2013 |
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The First Panda in America
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Nov 26, 2013 |
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The Trojan Room Coffee Pot
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Nov 25, 2013 |
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Making Doctor Who
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Nov 22, 2013 |
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Birmingham Pub Bombings
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Nov 21, 2013 |
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The Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa
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Nov 20, 2013 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR
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Nov 19, 2013 |
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The Jonestown Massacre
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Nov 18, 2013 |
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Yemen Civil War
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Nov 15, 2013 |
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Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant
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Nov 14, 2013 |
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Death in the Boxing Ring
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Nov 13, 2013 |
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Dustbowl Storms in the US
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Nov 12, 2013 |
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Armistice Day 1918
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Nov 11, 2013 |
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Canada's Biggest Peacetime Evacuation
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Nov 08, 2013 |
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The Death of Dylan Thomas
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Nov 07, 2013 |
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The Green March in the Sahara
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Nov 06, 2013 |
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Waterford Kamhlaba multi-racial school
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Nov 05, 2013 |
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Degenerate Art and the Nazis
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Nov 04, 2013 |
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The Samaritans Helpline
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Nov 01, 2013 |
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The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
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Oct 31, 2013 |
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Hurricane Mitch
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Oct 30, 2013 |
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Tokyo Rose - The Most Hated Woman in America
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Oct 29, 2013 |
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The Wall Street Crash of 1987
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Oct 28, 2013 |
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The BBC's First Man in Moscow
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Oct 25, 2013 |
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A Heroine of Burundi's Civil War
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Oct 24, 2013 |
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Beirut Barracks Bombing
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Oct 23, 2013 |
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Spying for the Stasi
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Oct 22, 2013 |
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The Opening of Sydney Opera House
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Oct 21, 2013 |
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Death of Grenada's Revolution
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Oct 18, 2013 |
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The Scottsboro Boys: A Miscarriage of Justice in the US
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Oct 17, 2013 |
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Walter Sisulu is Released
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Oct 16, 2013 |
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The Brighton Hotel Bombing
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Oct 15, 2013 |
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Escape from Sobibor Death Camp
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Oct 14, 2013 |
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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
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Oct 11, 2013 |
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Thomas Sankara African Revolutionary
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Oct 11, 2013 |
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Josephine Baker - Black American Superstar
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Oct 10, 2013 |
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Tunnel Under the Berlin Wall
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Oct 09, 2013 |
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The Children's Crusade
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Oct 09, 2013 |
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Danish Jews Escape the Holocaust
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Oct 08, 2013 |
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The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya
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Oct 07, 2013 |
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Albert Luthuli Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
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Oct 05, 2013 |
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The Betty Ford Center
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Oct 04, 2013 |
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Israel's Nuclear Secrets
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Oct 03, 2013 |
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Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl
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Oct 02, 2013 |
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Black Golfer at the US Masters
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Oct 02, 2013 |
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Australia's Asylum Stand-off
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Oct 02, 2013 |
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Haile Selassie in Jamaica
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Oct 01, 2013 |
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Bristol Bus Boycott
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Oct 01, 2013 |
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Mao's American Comrade
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Oct 01, 2013 |
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Appeasement
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Sep 30, 2013 |
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The Kinsey Report into Female Sexuality
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Sep 27, 2013 |
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Siege of Vukovar
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Sep 26, 2013 |
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The Death of Paquirri
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Sep 25, 2013 |
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Baywatch
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Sep 24, 2013 |
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Re-education in Communist China
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Sep 23, 2013 |
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Duke Ellington Plays Afghanistan
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Sep 19, 2013 |
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Anthrax Attacks
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Sep 18, 2013 |
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The Oslo Peace Accords
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Sep 17, 2013 |
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Evita's Odyssey
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Sep 16, 2013 |
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Saving the Tiger
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Sep 12, 2013 |
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Military Coup in Chile
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Sep 11, 2013 |
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US Airman Shot Down by Syria
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Sep 10, 2013 |
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The Attica Prison Riot
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Sep 09, 2013 |
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HMS Trinidad
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Sep 06, 2013 |
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Special Operations Executive
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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Fleeing from Laos
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Sep 03, 2013 |
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Jack The Ripper
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Sep 03, 2013 |
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Eritrea's Long War
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Sep 02, 2013 |
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Women Murdered in Mexico
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Aug 30, 2013 |
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Aboriginal Strike
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Aug 29, 2013 |
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I Have a Dream
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Aug 28, 2013 |
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The Sherri Finkbine Abortion Case
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Aug 27, 2013 |
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Krakatoa
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Aug 26, 2013 |
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Brazil Protests: Caras Pintadas
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Aug 23, 2013 |
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Legionnaires' Disease
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Aug 22, 2013 |
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The Assassination of Benigno Aquino
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Aug 21, 2013 |
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Prague Spring
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Aug 20, 2013 |
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Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'
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Aug 19, 2013 |
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Stanley Kubrick
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Aug 16, 2013 |
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The Omagh Bombing
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Aug 15, 2013 |
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The Battle of the Potato Beetle
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Aug 14, 2013 |
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Scientists Flee Nazi Germany
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Aug 13, 2013 |
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Conflict in Congo
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Aug 12, 2013 |
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Aug 09, 2013 |
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Burma's 1988 Protests
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Aug 08, 2013 |
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Aug 07, 2013 |
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Malaysian Hostage Crisis
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Aug 05, 2013 |
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Gorkhaland
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Aug 02, 2013 |
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Ramayan - India's TV Epic
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Aug 01, 2013 |
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The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
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Jul 31, 2013 |
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The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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Jul 30, 2013 |
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IRA Decommissioning
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Jul 29, 2013 |
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The End of the Korean War
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Jul 26, 2013 |
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Abducted by Joseph Kony
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Jul 25, 2013 |
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Alcoholics Anonymous
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Jul 24, 2013 |
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Black July
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Jul 23, 2013 |
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The Lillehammer Hit
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Jul 22, 2013 |
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Escape from the KGB
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Jul 19, 2013 |
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The Birth of Second Life
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Jul 18, 2013 |
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Freeze
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Jul 17, 2013 |
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The Hong Kong Handover
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Jul 16, 2013 |
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Women's Baseball in WWII
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Jul 15, 2013 |
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Disco Demolition Night
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Jul 12, 2013 |
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Skylab Falls to Earth
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Jul 11, 2013 |
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The Death of Thich Quang Duc
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Jul 10, 2013 |
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Iran Student Protest
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Jul 09, 2013 |
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The Death of Jean Moulin
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Jul 08, 2013 |
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Yasser Arafat Arrives in Gaza
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Jul 05, 2013 |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Jul 04, 2013 |
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Penguin Rescue
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Jul 03, 2013 |
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Chilean Students Set on Fire
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Jul 02, 2013 |
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The Battle of Gettysburg
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Jul 01, 2013 |
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Iraq's Sectarian Violence
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Jun 28, 2013 |
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JFK in Ireland
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Jun 27, 2013 |
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Smoking and Lung Cancer
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Jun 26, 2013 |
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War Requiem by Benjamin Britten
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Jun 25, 2013 |
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Ultrasound
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Jun 24, 2013 |
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The first woman in space
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Jun 21, 2013 |
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Murder in Managua
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Jun 20, 2013 |
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Rocky Horror Show
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Jun 19, 2013 |
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The Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Jun 18, 2013 |
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Gay Marriage
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Jun 17, 2013 |
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The Pentagon Papers
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Jun 14, 2013 |
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Post-war Berlin
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Jun 13, 2013 |
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Nigeria's Lost Election
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Jun 12, 2013 |
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Escape from Alcatraz
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Jun 11, 2013 |
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Robert Kennedy's Funeral Train
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Jun 07, 2013 |
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Stalin's Gulag
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Jun 06, 2013 |
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The Oklahoma Bomber
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Jun 05, 2013 |
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The Nepali Royal Massacre
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Jun 03, 2013 |
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The Queen's Coronation
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May 31, 2013 |
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The New Deal
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May 30, 2013 |
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The Ascent of Everest
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May 29, 2013 |
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The Rite of Spring
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May 28, 2013 |
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Liberace
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May 27, 2013 |
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Israel withdraws from Lebanon
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May 24, 2013 |
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Africa United
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May 23, 2013 |
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The Watergate Hearings
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May 22, 2013 |
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The Murder of Aldo Moro
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May 21, 2013 |
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Protect and Survive
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May 20, 2013 |
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Dambusters
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May 17, 2013 |
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The Death of Marlene Dietrich
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May 16, 2013 |
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Announcing an Ethiopian Coup
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May 15, 2013 |
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Polish Protests in 1968
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May 14, 2013 |
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The Great Gatsby
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May 13, 2013 |
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The Arctic Convoys
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May 10, 2013 |
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FA Cup - The Matthews Final
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May 09, 2013 |
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The Secret US Bombing of Cambodia
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May 08, 2013 |
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IRA Hunger Strike
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May 06, 2013 |
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The White Collar Art Collectors
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May 03, 2013 |
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Pavarotti's UK Debut
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May 03, 2013 |
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Australia's Aboriginal Referendum
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May 01, 2013 |
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The death of Hitler
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Apr 30, 2013 |
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The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke
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Apr 29, 2013 |
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The Ballerina and the Coup
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Apr 26, 2013 |
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Muhammad Ali and the Draft
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Apr 25, 2013 |
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The Hitler Diaries Hoax
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Apr 24, 2013 |
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Pau Casals
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Apr 23, 2013 |
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Apr 19, 2013 |
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The Khmer Rouge take power
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Apr 18, 2013 |
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The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill
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Apr 17, 2013 |
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The discovery of LSD
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Apr 16, 2013 |
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The First War in the Air
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Apr 15, 2013 |
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The Guinea Pig Club
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Apr 10, 2013 |
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The Great Famine in China
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Apr 09, 2013 |
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Matabeleland Massacres
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Apr 08, 2013 |
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James Brown Concert at the Boston Garden
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Apr 05, 2013 |
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Howard Hughes
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Apr 04, 2013 |
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Operation Babylift
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Apr 03, 2013 |
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The real Peter Pan
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Apr 02, 2013 |
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Women and the law in Britain
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Apr 01, 2013 |
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The killing of Archbishop Romero
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Mar 29, 2013 |
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American prisoners in Vietnam
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Mar 28, 2013 |
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Unearthing the Terracotta Army
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Mar 27, 2013 |
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Living in Ceausescu's Romania
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Mar 26, 2013 |
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The Profumo Affair
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Mar 25, 2013 |
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Iraq: Ten years on - The capture of Saddam Hussein
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Mar 22, 2013 |
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Iraq: Ten years on - Working for the Americans
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Mar 21, 2013 |
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Iraq: Ten years on - Looting in Baghdad
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Mar 20, 2013 |
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Iraq: Ten years on - The invasion of Iraq
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Mar 19, 2013 |
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Iraq: Ten years on - The bombardment of Baghdad
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Mar 18, 2013 |
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Syrian uprising
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Mar 15, 2013 |
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Giandomenico Picco - Hostage negotiator
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Mar 14, 2013 |
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Marie Stopes, Birth Control Pioneer
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Mar 13, 2013 |
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The Theft of Charlie Chaplin's Body
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Mar 12, 2013 |
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The Tibetan uprising
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Mar 11, 2013 |
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Gay in the US military
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Mar 08, 2013 |
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Viagra
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Mar 07, 2013 |
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Skiing in the Swat Valley
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Mar 06, 2013 |
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Armenia and Azerbaijan
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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The Bethnal Green tube disaster
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Mar 01, 2013 |
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Choosing a Pope
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Feb 28, 2013 |
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The standoff at Wounded Knee
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Feb 27, 2013 |
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The first World Trade Center attack
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Feb 26, 2013 |
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The Theft of the Scream
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Feb 25, 2013 |
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The White Rose
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Feb 22, 2013 |
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Welsh Dam Attack
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Feb 21, 2013 |
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People Power in the Philippines
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Feb 20, 2013 |
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The Feminine Mystique
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Feb 19, 2013 |
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The Lost Egyptian Tomb
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Feb 18, 2013 |
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Human Shields in Iraq
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Feb 15, 2013 |
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The fall of Singapore
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Feb 14, 2013 |
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The Algerian Massacres
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Feb 13, 2013 |
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The Murder of James Bulger
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Feb 12, 2013 |
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
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Feb 11, 2013 |
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Shergar - the kidnapping
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Feb 08, 2013 |
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Marcel Proust
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Feb 07, 2013 |
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"Ghana Must Go"
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Feb 05, 2013 |
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Hugo Chavez and the failed coup
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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The battle of Stalingrad
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Feb 01, 2013 |
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The funeral of Gandhi
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Jan 31, 2013 |
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Peter the Great in London
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Jan 30, 2013 |
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The building of the Eiffel tower
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Jan 29, 2013 |
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Lagos Armoury Explosion
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Jan 28, 2013 |
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Jimi Hendrix
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Jan 25, 2013 |
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Hitler's will
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Jan 24, 2013 |
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The Capture of USS Pueblo
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Jan 23, 2013 |
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The Hunger Winter
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Jan 22, 2013 |
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The death of Bassel al Assad
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Jan 21, 2013 |
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The Arrest of Klaus Barbie
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Jan 18, 2013 |
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Black Stars of Ghana
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Jan 17, 2013 |
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Roe v Wade
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Jan 16, 2013 |
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Chaim Soutine
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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Jan 14, 2013 |
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The Boxing Day tsunami and Aceh
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Jan 11, 2013 |
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Festival in the Desert
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Jan 10, 2013 |
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Tito on Vis
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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Johnny Cash plays Folsom Prison
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Jan 08, 2013 |
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Operation No Living Thing
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Jan 07, 2013 |
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Donald Campbell's Fatal Crash
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Jan 04, 2013 |
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Waiting for Godot
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Jan 03, 2013 |
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The Keeling Curve
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Jan 02, 2013 |
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Donald Woods flees South Africa
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Jan 01, 2013 |