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Playgrounds Made of Junk

Post-war Britain saw a rise in "adventure playgrounds" born out of bomb-sites

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Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'

Ex-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on why she argued for Nato action in Kosovo

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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Published in 1958 the Nigerian writer's first novel revolutionised African fiction.

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Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test

How India secretly developed and exploded its first atomic device in 1974

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The Spiegel Affair

How a magazine article about West Germany's defence strategy led to a government crisis.

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Italy's 'Ghost Shipwreck'

How journalists located the wreck of a boat that capsized killing nearly 300 migrants

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The Killing of the Russian Tsar

The Russian Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918

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The Virgin Lands Campaign

To fight food shortages in the 1950s the USSR embarked on a major agricultural project

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The Bombing of the King David Hotel

The attack by an armed Jewish group on British HQ in Palestine that left 91 dead.

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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in July 1968

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A Vet Remembers The Hyde Park Bombing

Two IRA bombs in London parks killed 11 military personnel and 7 horses on 20th July 1982

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South Korea's Summer Of Terror

How thousands of suspected communist sympathisers were killed in South Korea in 1950.

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The Kitchen Debate

When two Cold War leaders argued about living standards in their countries.

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The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History

The contentious history of the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe - finally revealed.

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Winston Churchill's Election Defeat

In July l945 Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill was ousted in a general election

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Women At West Point

In July 1976, female cadets were admitted to the US Military Academy for the first time.

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WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors

Thousands went to prison for refusing to join Britain's war effort.

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Shambo The Sacred Bull

How a bull's health led to a stand-off between monks and the Welsh government in 2007.

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The Retirement Home For Dancing Bears

The Bulgarian sanctuary that cares for bears once forced to dance.

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The Search for Iran's Nuclear Programme

In 2003 Iran agreed to let the IAEA into the country to inspect its nuclear facilities.

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The First CIA Coup in Latin America

Guatemala's president was ousted from power by army officers backed by the CIA in 1954.

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The Azeri-Armenian Village Swap

How two villages, Armenian and Azeri, managed to avoid ethnic violence by swapping homes

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When Buckingham Palace Opened Its Doors

Queen Elizabeth II first opened her home to the paying public on August 7th 1993.

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The Battle of the Potato Beetles

Communist East Germany claimed US planes were dropping beetles on their crops

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Israel's Secret Peace Envoy

In August 1994 Yitzhak Rabin became the first Israeli leader to visit Jordan

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The Burma Uprising of 1988

On August 8th 1988 the Burmese military cracked down on anti-government demonstrators.

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Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner

During WW2 the feminist and writer Vera Brittain spoke out against the bombing of Germany

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Photographing Martin Luther King and His Family

Moneta Sleet, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.

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The Omagh Bombing

In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

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When TV Came To South Africa

Apartheid South Africa finally launched the country's first TV service in 1976.

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