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Fighting the Islamic State group online

The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler, the death of Paquirri, switching on the Large Hadron Collider and the Sound of Music on Broadway.

When the Islamic State group took over Mosul in Iraq in 2014 they flooded the internet with propaganda, claiming life under IS was fantastic. One historian living in the city decided to post a counter-narrative online, setting up a website called "Mosul Eye". Also in this edition, one black man's experience of growing up in Hitler's Germany; the gruesome death of the famous bullfighter Paquirri, switching on the Large Hadron Collider and the birth of the Sound of Music on Broadway in 1959.

(Photo: Mosul Eye website. 成人快手)

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Mon 30 Sep 2019 23:06GMT
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