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In the early 1900s, while serving in the British Army, Lord Robert Baden-Powell laid the foundations for what would become one of the largest interna…
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Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
In 1962, Egyptian actor Omar Sharif made his Hollywood debut in Lawrence of Arabia, a sweeping epic that would become one of cinema’s most popular fi…
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The Aswan High Dam
In the early 1960s, Unesco appealed for scientists to go to Egypt to save antiquities that were threatened by the construction of one of the largest …
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Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
In 2014, Egypt’s outgoing president, Adly Mansour, issued a decree which categorised sexual harassment as a crime punishable by a minimum six-month j…
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Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
In 1979, Egypt’s former first lady Jehan Sadat helped lead a campaign to grant women new rights to divorce their husbands and retain custody of their…
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Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
In June 2012, Mohamed Morsi, representing the Muslim Brotherhood, became Egypt's first democratically elected president.
In 2022, Ben Henderson spoke …
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How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
On 15 September 1935, following the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany, seven-year-old Lotte Hershfield and her family left their hom…
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9/11: The generosity of Gander
On 11 September, 2001, a small Canadian town called Gander became a haven for thousands of airline passengers and crew stranded after the 9/11 terror…
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The story behind The Peter Principle book
In 1969, a satirical book, The Peter Principle, suggested promotion led to incompetence.
It was written by a Canadian Professor of Education, Dr Laure…
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The Enabling Act
On 23 March 1933, the Enabling Act was passed in Germany, handing Adolf Hitler unchecked power. It became the legal foundation of his dictatorship.
Bu…
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