成人快手

The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction

The story of the painstaking project to rebuild Dresden's historic baroque church.

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Chandigarh: India's city of the future

How the modernist architect Le Corbusier designed a city for newly-independent India

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Teheran's Freedom Tower

The vast monument built for the Shah, but now a centrepiece for protests in Iran.

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Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center

The ground-breaking building was the first American museum to be designed by a woman

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The Shard

The building of the controversial London skyscraper, designed by Italian Renzo Piano.

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The Chernobyl nuclear disaster

In 1986, a reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine causing the worst nuclear accident ever.

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The Budapest Memorandum

The security "assurances" offered to Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994

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The Holodomor: Ukraine's great famine

Several million people died in the 1930s in what became known as The Holodomor

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Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre

The mass killing of Ukrainian Jews by Nazi Germany during World War Two.

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Soviet holidays in Crimea

Artek, on the Black Sea coast, was the Soviet Union's most popular children's camp.

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The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin

A decade ago protestors tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power

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The black stunt performers who took on Hollywood

The battle to fight prejudice behind-the-scenes in the American film industry.

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Afghanistan's women's newspaper

Aina-E-Zan, or Women's Mirror, was launched in 2002 at a time of hope for Afghan women.

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Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers

How one of the Dutch artist's masterpieces was auctioned for a world record in 1987.

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Escaping a Maoist cult

Aravindan Balakrishnan ran a cult in London for 30 years; then two of its members fled.

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The Falklands War - An islander's account

A local radio broadcaster remembers keeping calm as Argentine troops invaded his studio.

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The Falklands War - an Argentine account

An Argentine conscript remembers his country's doomed military campaign in 1982.

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The Soviet Union's Afghan War

How what Moscow planned as a short military operation turned into the Soviet "Vietnam".

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The handshake in Space

How Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met up in space during the Cold War

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The Great American Grain Robbery

How a catastrophic trade deal between the US and Moscow sparked a global food price shock

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Nato intervenes in Kosovo

How the US and its allies backed air strikes against Serbian forces to stop atrocities.

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The largest war crimes trial in history

The former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at The Hague in 2002.

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Greece's Great Famine

How hundreds of thousands of Greeks starved to death under Nazi occupation.

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How Tinder changed the dating game

How the dating app with the swipe revolutionised the world of online romance

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The World Wide Web

How the World Wide Web was created

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Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme

The programme that's let millions of EU students live and study in other countries.

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Women's rights in Basra

How women in the southern Iraqi city were persecuted for "anti-Islamic" behaviour

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Britain's Soviet spy scandal

In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.

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Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising

A boy caught up in the forgotten battle for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979

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The battle for Kinder Scout

How workers in Manchester fought for the right to walk in the nearby countryside.

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