成人快手

Le Corbusier and Chandigarh

The modernist architect Le Corbusier agreed to build a 'city of the future' in India

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Saving the Great Barrier Reef

In the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef

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The oldest song in the world

Deciphering the 3,500 year-old song discovered on a clay tablet in Syria

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Buddhists and death row

How criminals facing the death penalty in the USA found peace

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The 'strike' in space

How three astronauts on the Skylab space station fell out with mission control

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Sequencing the Ebola virus genome

When the deadly Ebola virus broke out in West Africa scientists in the USA set to work

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The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster

The book describing a sudden uncontrollable downturn that was ignored by governments.

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When Spain's parliament was stormed

Armed Civil Guards took MPs hostage in Spain's parliamentary chamber in 1981

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Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol

How independence campaigners opened fire in Congress in 1954, wounding five US law-makers

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Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer

She was the first to graduate from Oxford and was a pioneer for women lawyers in Britain.

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Landing on Titan

The remarkable mission to explore one of the moons of Saturn in 2005

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Estonia's singing revolution

Rock star T玫nis M盲gi describes how Estonia sang its way out of the Soviet Union.

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The New Cross fire

How the New Cross fire in 1981 led to The Black People鈥檚 Day of Action.

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Hitler's beer hall putsch

Adolf Hitler made his first attempt to take power in Germany in 1923

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The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred

The white supremacist novel by William Pierce which has been blamed for inciting violence

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Kenya's pioneering publisher

Dr Henry Chakava made it his life's mission to publish in African languages.

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Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs

Anti-Sikh violence flared in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984

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Egypt's Facebook Girl

How social media was used to organise against Egypt's government before the Arab Spring

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Syria in the Arab Spring

The moment that hundreds of thousands of Syrians demanded change in 2011.

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Yemen's 2011 uprising

Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt young Yemenis took to the streets in January 2011

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Libya's Arab uprising

In 2011 protests soon turned into an armed revolt seeking to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.

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The anthem of the Arab Spring

How a singer in Tunisia helped inspire young protestors all over the Middle East in 2011

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The first Eurostar from England to France

The driver of the first train to take passengers from London to Paris remembers

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The Moscow State Circus

The biggest circus in Soviet Russia opened in Moscow in April 1971.

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The Burma uprising of 1988

People took to the streets of Burma, or Myanmar, to protest against military rule in 1988

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Drugs in the Vietnam War

How a heroin epidemic among US troops in Vietnam caused panic in the military

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General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel

Lee was charged with treason, so why did Congress reinstate his citizenship in 1975?

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DES Daughters

A medical scandal which affected millions of women around the world

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Francis Bacon in the archives

The painter Francis Bacon was known for his disturbing images and bohemian lifestyle

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The paper that helped the homeless

The 'Street News' paper was sold by homeless people in New York at a profit to earn money

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