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World's first solar-heated home BBC
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World's first solar-heated home

In December 1948, a family of Hungarian refugees moved into the world's first home to be heated...

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Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country BBC
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Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country

After Tanzania, then called Tanganyika, became independent from Britain in 1961, the country's...

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Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths BBC
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Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths

On 21 August 1986, hundreds of villagers in a remote part of Cameroon mysteriously died...

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The bird that defied extinction BBC
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The bird that defied extinction

In 1969, a Peruvian farmer called Gustavo Del Solar received an unusual assignment - finding a...

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Cabbage Patch Kids BBC
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Cabbage Patch Kids

In 1983, all hell broke loose when a new toy hit stores in the United States. Cabbage Patch...

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The Mumbai attacks BBC
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The Mumbai attacks

On 26 November 2008, 10 gunmen from the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba carried...

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The Paris heatwave BBC
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The Paris heatwave

In August 2003 Europe was hit by the hottest heatwave for hundreds of years. Tens of thousands of...

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Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory BBC
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Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory

On 22 November 1963, United States President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas....

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The invention of bubble tea BBC
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The invention of bubble tea

In 1987, a tea shop in Taiwan named Chun Shui Tang began selling pearl milk tea, or bubble tea,...

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The independence of Zambia BBC
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The independence of Zambia

In 1964, Zambia became a republic. It was the ninth African state to leave British colonial...

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The Bolivian Water War BBC
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The Bolivian Water War

The Bolivian Water War was a series of protests that took place in the city of Cochabamba in 2000...

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Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer BBC
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Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer

In 1951, Rosalind Franklin began one of the key scientific investigations of the century. The...

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Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent BBC
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Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent

In 2010, a previously little-known Icelandic volcano erupted twice, sending a huge plume of...

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The invention of the EpiPen BBC
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The invention of the EpiPen

In the 1970s, engineer Sheldon Kaplan and his colleagues were tasked with creating an...

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The hippo and the tortoise BBC
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The hippo and the tortoise

Following the devastating tsunami of 2004, a baby hippo named Owen was rescued from the sea off...

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Destruction of Mostar Bridge BBC
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Destruction of Mostar Bridge

On 9 November 1993, one of Bosnia's most famous landmarks, the historic bridge in Mostar, was...

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Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion BBC
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Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion

In 2000, the pioneering underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio made one of the greatest ever...

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The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars BBC
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The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars

In the 1980s, a brother and sister from Pakistan topped the charts in countries all over the...

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Debbie McGee in Iran BBC
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Debbie McGee in Iran

In 1978, British showbusiness star, Debbie McGee was a dancer with the Iranian National Ballet...

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‘The disappeared’ of Argentina BBC
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‘The disappeared’ of Argentina

Between 1976 and 1983 in Argentina, the military ruled the country. Thousands of mainly young,...

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