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Back to SearchThe day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
In January 1990, Cuban singer Celia Cruz, known as ‘the Queen of Salsa’, went back to Cuba. Banned by Fidel Castro for opposing his regime, it was th…
1 year, 11 months ago
How the air fryer was invented
In 2006, Dutch engineer Fred van der Weij invented a kitchen device that changed the way many of us cook today: the air fryer.
Fred’s first prototype …
1 year, 11 months ago
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
In Canada's 1993 election, the governing Progressive Conservative Party was routed, ending up with just two seats.
In the 1980s, the party won the lar…
1 year, 11 months ago
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
It's 35 years since the release of one of the most provocative songs in music history.
Fight the Power by hip-hop group, Public Enemy, was radical bot…
1 year, 11 months ago
Georgia’s political crisis
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the newly independent state Georgia found itself on the verge of a civil war.
Rebel grou…
1 year, 11 months ago
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Between 1937 and 1938, Soviet leader Josef Stalin carried out his most severe purge in Georgia.
Known as the Great Terror, thousands of political riv…
1 year, 11 months ago
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
In 1984, urban photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant came together to publish an era-defining book about the early graffiti movement.
They ha…
2 years ago
I designed Hello Kitty
In 1974 an unknown Japanese artist put pen to paper and created a character that would go on to be worth more than $80 billion.
The illustration was t…
2 years ago
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
In June 1954, the first CIA-backed coup took place in Guatemala, when President Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown in a operation organised by the US gover…
2 years ago
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
In 1998, the assisted dying society, Dignitas was set up in Switzerland by lawyer Ludwig Minelli.
It was the first end-of-life organisation in the wor…
2 years ago