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Mary Wilson

The American singer died on 8th February 2021

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Acid rain

How the world woke up to the threat from acid rain

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Ireland's bank bailout

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis Ireland had to borrow billions

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The fall of Kwame Nkrumah

How one of Africa's most famous independence leaders was overthrown in 1966

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The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone

Johnny Smythe was one of very few West Africans to fly with Britain's airforce during WW2

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Banning landmines

A landmark treaty banning anti-personnel landmines was agreed in 1997

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The world's deepest dive 11km down

Don Walsh was the first to go to the very bottom of the deepest part of the ocean in 1960

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Refugee Island

How a tiny Pacific Island became a limbo for asylum seekers

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When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home

How 11 people died when explosives were dropped on a house by a police helicopter

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The Sharpeville massacre

In 1960, South African police shot dead 69 black protestors, sparking worldwide outrage

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Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech

How the historic speech in March 1946 came to symbolise the beginnings of the Cold War

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The women of Egypt's Arab Spring

In 2011 women were at the forefront of protests calling for a change in power in Egypt

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Cixi: China's most powerful woman

She was the power behind the Chinese throne for decades

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Jane: The underground abortion network

How feminists ended up performing abortions for women in 1960s America

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The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles

Melina Mercouri, actress turned politician, requested the marbles be returned to Greece

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The first Indian to win Miss World

Reita Faria was the first Indian to win the Miss World beauty competition in 1966

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Paris is Burning

The groundbreaking film about drag queens and LGBTQ+ people in New York

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Jamaica鈥檚 鈥榙rug lord鈥�

The hunt for the Jamaican drug lord which left dozens of civilians dead

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Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden

The story of Swedish social reformer, Alva Myrdal, who won the Nobel peace prize in 1982

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Mars-500 isolation experiment

Why six men were locked inside a spacecraft on earth for 520 days

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The dirtiest chess match in history

How the 1978 World Chess Championship was overshadowed by allegations of dirty tricks

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The Ulster Workers' Strike

Protestant workers went on strike in Northern Ireland in 1974

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Banksy鈥檚 first street art mural

It鈥檚 difficult to pinpoint the first major piece of Banksy street art, could this be it?

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The woman who got America talking about sex

Dr Ruth Westheimer first became popular on a radio show in New York in the early 1980s

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South Africa takes on big pharma

The fight between Big Pharma and South Africa over the right to import cheap drugs.

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The fight against slavery in Mauritania

Brahim Bilal Ramdhane was born into slavery in the 1960s, now he fights against it.

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Anorexia nervosa

The death of the singer, Karen Carpenter, showed how devastating the illness could be.

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When the prisoners ran the prison

Prisoners at Walpole maximum security prison were in charge for three months in 1973

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Mrs Thatcher鈥檚 ground-breaking Soviet TV interview

How Mrs Thatcher shook up the Soviet media with a landmark interview in Moscow.

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Kidnapped on an orchid hunt

How two Englishmen were seized by Colombian rebels while crossing the lawless Darien Gap

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