成人快手

Chef to five presidents

Cristeta Comerford was the first woman and person of colour to the White House's top chef

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'Kimchi war'

In the 1990s, a diplomatic dispute broke out between Japan and South Korea over kimchi

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Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition

The sitcom Dinner for One, recorded in 1963, has become a German New Year's Eve tradition

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Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu

On 26 December 2004, communities around the Indian Ocean were swept away by a tsunami

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Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh

In 2004, a deadly tsunami swept away entire communities around the Indian Ocean

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Robert Ripley and the 鈥楤elieve It or Not鈥� empire

During the Great Depression, cartoonist Robert Ripley made millions from freaky facts

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Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer鈥檚 atomic spy

In 1950, Klaus Fuchs admitted passing top secret nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union

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Creating Alexa

In 2000, two Polish students started creating a smart speaker which sounded human

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Marie Kondo

In 2011, Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo's first book was published.

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Charlie Hebdo attack

On 7 January 2015, 12 people were shot dead at a satirical magazine in France

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The invention of the hotel key card

In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card

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The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two

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The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks

In 2015, ship spotter Y枚r眉k I艧谋k saw Russian military trucks on a ship going to Syria

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Franklin D Roosevelt鈥檚 New Deal

In 1933, President Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to drag the US out of depression

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Confronting Betty Ford鈥檚 addiction

In 1978, former first lady Betty Ford sought help for addiction

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Thirty years on from the Kobe earthquake

On 17 January 1995, an earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, in Japan

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'I wrote Schindler's List'

Thomas Keneally stumbled across the story of Oskar Schindler while buying a briefcase

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Drum: Africa鈥檚 revolutionary magazine

The first African lifestyle magazine Drum, was first printed in 1951

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