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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World's first solar-heated home
In December 1948, a family of Hungarian refugees moved into the world's first home to be heated...
11:04
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
On 21 August 1986, hundreds of villagers in a remote part of Cameroon mysteriously died...
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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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In 1983, all hell broke loose when a new toy hit stores in the United States. Cabbage Patch...
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On 26 November 2008, 10 gunmen from the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba carried...
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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
On 22 November 1963, United States President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas....
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In 1987, a tea shop in Taiwan named Chun Shui Tang began selling pearl milk tea, or bubble tea,...
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In 1964, Zambia became a republic. It was the ninth African state to leave British colonial...
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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
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
In 2010, a previously little-known Icelandic volcano erupted twice, sending a huge plume of...
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In the 1970s, engineer Sheldon Kaplan and his colleagues were tasked with creating an...
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Following the devastating tsunami of 2004, a baby hippo named Owen was rescued from the sea off...
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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
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
In the 1980s, a brother and sister from Pakistan topped the charts in countries all over the...
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In 1978, British showbusiness star, Debbie McGee was a dancer with the Iranian National Ballet...
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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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