成人快手

The first 24-hour children's helpline

When a free helpline for kids was set up it showed just how widespread child abuse was

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Fighting for the pill in Japan

It took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.

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Confessions of a Prince

How Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands broke his silence to reveal a love child

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Sweden's fishy submarine scare

Could farting fish have triggered Sweden's Cold War submarine hunts?

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The Miami riots

After four white policemen were acquitted of killing a black man - Miami rioted in 1980

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Kowloon Walled City

How Hong Kong鈥檚 city within a city was torn down in 1993.

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The first 3D printer

The creator of the 3D printer had no idea how revolutionary this technology might become.

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Explaining autism

One scientist's ground-breaking work that revolutionised our understanding of autism

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Britain's World War Two crime wave

How criminals from looters to con artists thrived in London during the Blitz.

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The book that changed the way we eat

The book that highlighted the health and environmental benefits of a plant based diet

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Risking my life to protect Congo's forest

How a conservationist tried to protect Congo's rainforest during the country's civil war.

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The Gwangju massacre

The South Korean army crushed a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju on 27 May 1980

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Winston Churchill's doctor

Winston Churchill's personal doctor published his memories of the British leader in 1966

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Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer

Ann Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress but for years few people knew her name

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The start of eco-tourism

How Costa Rica's Monteverde cloud forest reserve became a major tourist site

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The Zanzibar Revolution

Just one month after gaining independence there was an uprising in Zanzibar in 1964.

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How Christo wrapped the Reichstag

The artist who delighted post-Cold War Berlin by wrapping its greatest monument

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The origin of the WHO

How the cold war helped shape the creation of the WHO and what role China played.

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The portable defibrillator

How Northern Irish doctor Frank Pantridge revolutionised heart-attack treatment.

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Brown v the Board of Education

A landmark case about racial segregation in the USA.

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The 16th Street church bombing

Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Alabama in 1963

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Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western

How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA

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Rodney King and the LA riots

People rioted in Los Angeles after police who had assaulted a black man were acquitted

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Three Strikes Law

One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life

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Elisabeth K眉bler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief

The remarkable Swiss psychiatrist who changed the way we think about dying.

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Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution

Chairman Mao banned all classical music in 1966, but some musicians defied the order.

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Sex trafficking and peacekeepers

Whistle-blowers implicated UN peacekeepers in sex trafficking in Bosnia in the late 90s

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The friendship train

The passenger train service between India and Bangladesh was resumed after 43 years.

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The 鈥楤lue Eyes/Brown Eyes鈥� anti-racist exercise

A teacher decided to separate pupils according to eye colour to teach them about racism.

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The New Deal

How the USA used public spending projects to battle through the Great Depression

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