大象传媒

Hitler's stolen children

During WW2 the Nazis abducted blonde blue-eyed children to build an Aryan master race

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Walking the Great Wall of China

Three friends set off on an epic trek along the Great Wall of China in May 1984

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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

The Chicxulub impact crater was discovered in 1978.

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Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

When MPs tried to toughen the laws against homosexuality, LGBT activists took a stand.

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How environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed

The story of how environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed

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The Acid Survivors Foundation

The Bangladesh charity dedicated to treating the survivors of acid attacks.

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The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who led India to independence died on May 27th 1964

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Bokassa's massacre of the children

How protests by young people led to Jean-B茅del Bokassa's fall from power in C.A.R

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Tiananmen Square escape

Dan Wang was the most wanted student leader after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

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Behind the scenes on Sesame Street

The inside story of one of the most popular children's TV shows ever made

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Six Degrees - the first online social network

Andrew Weinreich founded the first online social network in 1997.

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Vikings in York

Archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved domestic Viking life in York in the 1970s

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D-Day

Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.

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The Little Prince

The mystery surrounding the death of the author of the world famous children's tale

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Broadcasting D-Day

How the 大象传媒 reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944

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The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality

A Nepalese regiment of the British army won the right to settle in Britain in 2009.

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The end of the war in Kosovo

Hundreds of thousands of Kosovans fled when NATO began bombing former Yugoslavia in 1999

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The first anti-psychotic drug

How a 1950s drug helped revolutionise the treatment of mental illness

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag

How a huge public art project entranced post-Cold War Berlin

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How America 'lost' China

How an American war hero was sent to stop China becoming communist and failed.

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The first gay marriage in the USA

One gay couple in Minneapolis had a same-sex wedding back in the 1970's

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The death of Neda Soltan

How a young woman became a symbol of anti-government protest in Iran

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Carl Gustav Jung

One of the most influential figures in psychoanalysis died in June 1961

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The assassinaton of Medgar Evers

The American civil rights activist and war hero who was murdered in 1963 in Mississippi.

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Sister Lotus - early Chinese online star

Sister Lotus was an unlikely online celebrity because she was famous for being ordinary.

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The yoga teacher and the violinist

How violinist Yehudi Menuhin and yoga teacher BKS Iyengar helped bring yoga to the West

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The fat acceptance movement

The National Association to Aid Fat Americans, NAAFA, held its first meeting in June 1969

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Catch-22

The story behind Joseph Heller's acclaimed, satirical anti-war novel which sold millions

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The Stonewall Riot

How a protest outside New York's Stonewall Inn inspired the modern gay rights movement.

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The Anfal genocide

Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurds in the 1980s

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