成人快手

Chiang Kai Shek: The Man Who Lost China

The Chinese civil war remembered by the Nationalist leader's former chief aide.

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Pioneer North Sea Divers

In the 1970s, deep sea divers were at the sharp end of the North Sea oil boom

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The Death of Evita

Remembering Argentina's controversial First Lady Eva Peron, who died on July 26 1952.

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Surviving the "Auschwitz of the Balkans"

Croatian fascists killed Serbs, Jews and Roma people in Jasenovac camp during WW2.

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The Birth of the Water Baby

In 1977 a state hospital near Paris began quietly changing the way women gave birth.

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China's Crackdown on Falun Gong

In July 1999, the Chinese government banned the spiritual movement Falun Gong

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The Camp David Summit

In 2000 the US led a major effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Discovering The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Charles Moore recalls how he came across the world's largest floating rubbish dump.

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The Murder of Naji al-Ali

The acclaimed Palestinian cartoonist was gunned down in London in 1987

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The Calcutta Killings of 1946

Exactly a year before Indian independence there were deadly riots in the city of Calcutta

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Florence Nightingale

The "lady with the lamp" died on August 13th 1910.

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Reagan's Bombing Joke

"We begin bombing in five minutes" said the US President in 1984. But he was only joking

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Germany's Nudists

How East Germans went naked on the beaches despite official communist party disapproval.

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Nike and the Sweatshop Problem

In the 1990s Nike got a bad name after being linked to sweatshops in Asia.

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The Buenos Aires Herald

The English-language newspaper was credited with standing up to Argentina's dictatorship.

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The Division of Cyprus

In August 1974, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus for a second time cutting the island in two

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Rabindranath Tagore

The "Bard of Bengal" died on August the 7th 1941.

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The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials

A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two

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The Discovery of Botox

How an ophthalmologist and a dermatologist discovered that a toxin could stop wrinkles

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Medicine In World War One

Veterans tell the story of how medical care dealt with the horrors of WW1

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The Rostock-Lichtenhagen Riots

A home for asylum seekers was set on fire in the German city of Rostock in August 1992

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Notting Hill Race Riot

The racial disturbances in west London which shocked Britain in 1958.

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The Revolutionary Head Scan

The summer of 1983 saw a major breakthrough in the treatment of facial deformities.

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George Orwell and Animal Farm

Animal Farm was an allegory about the dangers of Soviet communism and of Joseph Stalin.

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The Birth of eBay

The online auction site first went live in 1995.

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The Death of Princess Diana

Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash whilst being chased by paparazzi

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The Funeral of Princess Diana

Diana's brother Earl Spencer remembers the emotional speech he made at her funeral.

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Jamaica's Worst Train Accident

A survivor recalls the Kendal train crash in September 1957 when more than 200 died.

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The Fairy Photos

How two girls' photos convinced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that fairies exist.

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Biosphere 2: Building A New World

Eight scientists sealed themselves inside a giant greenhouse for an ambitious experiment.

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