成人快手

The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'

Thinkers trained in free-market economics in Chicago shaped Chile after its military coup

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Russia鈥檚 bitter taste of capitalism

Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the sudden market reforms of early 1992.

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Jana Andolan 鈥� Nepal鈥檚 people power movement

A people鈥檚 movement brought an end to Nepal鈥檚 absolute monarchy in 1990.

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The Rolling Stones drugs trial

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went on trial for drugs offences in June 1967

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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium

The life of a nine-year-old girl quarantined in a TB sanatorium for 4 years in the 1950s

• 9 mins

The lost Nazi-era art trove

How a secret collection of art missing since Nazi rule was found in Germany in 2012

• 13 mins

How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams

In 1990, South Africa banned skin-lightening creams containing hydroquinone

• 9 mins

The doctor who discovered how cholera spread

How Dr John Snow found out the cholera bug was spread through contaminated water in 1854.

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The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998

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Montreal's 'Night of Terror'

When the city's police force went on strike there was looting and rioting in the streets.

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The death of Frida Kahlo

In July 1954 the great Mexican artist died after years of illness. She was just 47.

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The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist

A US government report into the riots of 1967 blamed white racism for creating ghettos

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The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel

A Jewish feminist group's campaign to pray freely at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

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How Club Med changed holidays

Holidaymakers arrived at the first Club Med resort in Majorca in summer 1950

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Returning Ethiopia's looted history

The Stele of Axum, a 4th century Ethiopian treasure, was returned by Italy in 2005

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The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors

How the British city forced out Chinese seamen who'd served during World War Two.

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South Korea's 1980s prison camps

A so-called Social Purification project led to thousands of citizens being imprisoned

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The man who tried to kill Hitler

On 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg put a bomb under Adolf Hitler's desk

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The Million Man March

On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington DC

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The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests

When logging threatened the rainforests of Sarawak, local communities fought back

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The first safe house for Afghan women

Mary Akrami set up the first refuge for women fleeing violence and abuse in Afghanistan

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The fastest vaccine ever developed

How a five-year-old girl helped her father create a record-breaking vaccine

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The writer who put Latinos centre stage

Remembering the pioneering Cuban-American playwright and agony aunt, Dolores Prida

• 9 mins

Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires

How 400 separate bushfires burnt their way across Victoria, Australia in 2009.

• 9 mins

Adrift for 76 days

A remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean

• 14 mins

Benidorm and the birth of package tourism

The story of the mayor who created one of the world's biggest holiday resorts.

• 9 mins

The death of Heinrich Himmler

The leading Nazi was caught by British troops shortly after WW2 had ended in Europe

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

A first-hand account of the surprise strike on a US naval base in December 1941.

• 9 mins

The internment of Japanese Americans

During World War Two thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps

• 9 mins

The battle of Midway

How a huge naval battle between aircraft carriers changed the war in the Pacific

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