成人快手

The paedophile identified by his hands

The first conviction of a paedophile using hand analysis.

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The outbreak of World War Two

On September 1st 1939 German troops invaded Poland. Cameraman Douglas Slocombe was there.

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The first all-women peacekeeping unit

The UN deployed its first all-female peacekeepers in Liberia in 2007.

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Inside lunar astronaut quarantine

Apollo 11's doctor tells how NASA tried to protect Earth from possible lunar alien life

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The Holocaust denial trial

The libel case that put history itself in the dock in 2000

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The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia

In 1991 Libero Grassi was killed in Sicily for publicly refusing to pay protection money.

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The coup, the president and the embassy

How the deposed Honduran president spent months holed up in the Brazilian embassy

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The TV series Friends

One of the most successful TV comedy shows of all time hit US screens in September 1994

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India's affirmative action controversy

Why guaranteeing government jobs to lower caste Hindus led to weeks of student protests.

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Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war

How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.

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Magellan and the first voyage around the world

In 1519, the Portuguese explorer set off on the first circumnavigation of the globe.

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An Ethiopian war hero

Ethiopia sent soldiers to fight alongside the United Nations during the Korean War

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The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'

Until 2011 LGBT service people in the US armed forces had to keep their sexuality secret

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Free breakfast with the Black Panthers

The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.

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CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia

The first book in CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series was published in autumn 1950

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Sir Anthony Blunt - Soviet spy

The distinguished art historian was exposed as a former Soviet spy in the autumn of 1979.

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The Sound of Music on Broadway

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was performed on stage before it became a movie.

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Being black in Nazi Germany

Theodor Wonja Michael was a child when Hitler came to power in Germany.

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Fighting the Islamic State group online

How one historian living in Mosul took aim at the Islamic State group on the internet.

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The Large Hadron Collider

In September 2008, the world's biggest science experiment was switched on.

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The death of a matador

The fatal goring of the legendary bullfighter Francisco Rivera P茅rez - "Paquirri".

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The birth of the People's Republic of China

On 1 October 1949 Chairman Mao declared China a communist state

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My memories of Chairman Mao

China's legendary Communist leader in the words of an American who knew him well

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Mao's Cultural Revolution

We hear from one man who took part in China's brutal Cultural Revolution.

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The 1967 Hong Kong riots

How workers and students filled the colony's streets, pressing for an end to British rule

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China opens up to capitalism

How China's Communist rulers established the country's first Special Economic Zones

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Learie Constantine - fighting racism in the UK

The great West Indian cricketer who fought against racism in the UK

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The first black woman MP in Britain

In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman to be elected to the British Parliament

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The Notting Hill riots

Inter-racial violence broke out in west London in the summer of 1958

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The Bristol bus boycott

How British black activists fought for employment rights in the 1960s

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