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Back to SearchThe woman born in a prisoner of war camp
After the Sino-Indian war in 1962, around 3,000 men, women and children were incarcerated in a disused World War Two prisoner of war camp. Indians of…
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World War Two’s Rome escape line
Between September 1943 and June 1944 in World War Two, the Italian capital Rome was occupied by German soldiers.
Italy had surrendered and thousands o…
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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
In 1948, the foundation was laid for a “utopian” community of houses designed by a man described as America’s greatest ever architect.
Frank Lloyd Wri…
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The discovery of the first exoplanets
On 9 January 1992, astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced they had discovered the first two exoplanets, or planets outside our solar sys…
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Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus was a poor, single mother-of-three who lived in a derelict shack and spent her days scavenging for food.
Her diary, written be…
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The world’s largest model train set
In 2000, nightclub owners and twins Frederik and Gerrit Braun went from the neon lights of a Hamburg nightclub to building the world’s largest model …
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Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
South Africa’s first feature film aimed at black audiences was released in 1949, launching Dolly Rathebe’s career.
The actress and jazz musician was …
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The Battle of the Beanfield
On 1 June 1985, a convoy of New Age Travellers set off for the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in the south of England. They were planning to hold…
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The legacy of The Pirate Bay
On 31 May 2006, police launched one of the largest raids in Swedish history, seizing servers from The Pirate Bay - a hugely popular but highly contro…
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Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
In 1958 Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, published his first book, Things Fall Apart.
Set in pre-colonial rural Nigeria, it examines how the arrival o…
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