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The Lake Nyos Disaster

The mysterious death of villagers and livestock in north-western Cameroon

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The Mine Disaster That Devastated Post-War Italy

How an accident at Marcinelle in Belgium killed more than 100 Italian migrant workers.

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Surviving the "Death Railway"

A prisoner of war describes the deadly conditions building the bridge over the River Kwai

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The First MRI Scan

Dr Raymond Damadian attempted the first magnetic resonance scan of a human body.

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The Battle for Brick Lane

In 1978 the racist murder of a young Bengali galvanised an immigrant community in London.

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Living Under Gaddafi

A military coup in Libya in September 1969 brought Muammar Gaddafi to power.

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From Leningrad to St Petersburg

In a hugely symbolic act Leningrad returned to its historic name of St Petersburg in 1991

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WWI: The Hundred Days Offensive

First-hand accounts of the Allied offensive that finally brought the bloody war to an end

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The Ship that Dumped America's Waste

How campaigners fought to stop the 'Khian Sea' from off-loading tons of US waste abroad

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Appeasement

In September 1938 Neville Chamberlain tried to negotiate with Hitler over Czechoslovakia.

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The Killing of Steve Biko

The brutal death in custody of the anti-Apartheid activist in September 1977.

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How I Survived a Fire on a Plane

One young man was the only passenger to survive a fire on a plane - find out how.

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The Truth About Crop Circles

Thought to be left by UFOs the phenomena was resolved when two men came forward in 1991.

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The Fifteen Guinea Special

The train signaled the end of the steam age on Britain's main-line rail network in 1968

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The Cuban Five

The case of five Cuban spies arrested in Miami in September 1998

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The Arnhem Parachute Drop

In 'Operation Market Garden' thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-held Holland

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The Battle of Algiers

The film that tells the true story of the Algerians' fight for their capital Algiers

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Brazil's Nuclear Accident

Hundreds of people were contaminated when a disused radiotherapy machine was scrapped.

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The South African Army In Lesotho

South Africa sent 600 soldiers into Lesotho to quell political unrest in September 1998

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Isadora Duncan - Dance Pioneer

Sometimes called the 'Mother of Modern Dance'

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The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine

The scientific breakthrough that saved the lives of thousands of women

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Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War

The war lasted for 8 years and is thought to have left over a million people dead.

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The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark

The bridge which connected neighbours across the water and inspired a TV hit worldwide.

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Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine

The former West Indies cricketer took a London hotel to court in 1943

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The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil

A clash between students in 1968 paved the way for a hardening of military rule.

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The Invention of Artificial Skin

How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal.

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The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary

Slava Zaitsev created the first high fashion collections in the USSR.

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Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing

How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".

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Reform of the House of Lords

How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament

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Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden

In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden

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