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Back to SearchCharlie Hebdo attack
On 7 January 2015, 12 people were shot dead at the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris, the capital of France.
The two gunmen had targeted Charli…
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Marie Kondo
In 2011, Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo’s first book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up was published.
Overnight she went from tidying other …
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Creating Alexa
The smart speaker Alexa is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world every day, but did you know its voice was created by two people in…
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Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs played a key role in the development of the first atomic bomb during World War Two.
The project, known as the Manhat…
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Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
In December 1918, sports writer and cartoonist Robert Ripley was struggling to find some content for his column in the New York Globe.
So he compiled …
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Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
An earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on 26 December 2004, triggered a tsunami which cost the lives of an estimated 230,000 people around the Indi…
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Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
On 26 December 2004, an earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia sparking a tsunami which swept away entire communities around the Indian Ocean. …
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Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
Every New Year’s Eve, millions of Germans turn on their TVs to rewatch an old favourite – the comedy Dinner for One.
The black and white sketch is in …
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'Kimchi war'
In the run-up to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, in the United States, a row broke out between Japan and South Korea over who would supply the ath…
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Chef to five presidents
Cristeta Comerford has cooked for some of the most powerful people in the world. She spent almost three decades as a chef in the White House, serving…
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