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Shoah the Film

Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's epic nine-hour film on the Holocaust was released in spring 1985

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Wine Shock: The Judgement of Paris

How California stunned the French wine world in the 1970s.

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The 麻豆官网首页入口 at Caversham

For 75 years the 麻豆官网首页入口 ran a monitoring service based in an English stately home.

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Canadian Indigenous Protest

Plans to expand a golf course led to a stand-off between Mohawks and Canadian police.

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The First Bicycle Sharing Scheme

In the mid 1960s a Dutch engineer came up with a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution.

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The Thalidomide Trial

Executives of the German company that made the drug Thalidomide went on trial in May 1968

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Free Health Care For All

In 1948 Britain launched the National Health Service, NHS

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Isaac Asimov and Science Fiction

The American writer and scientist considered one of the greats of Science Fiction.

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Lyuba the Baby Mammoth

How a herdsman found the perfectly preserved body of a 42,000-year-old baby mammoth.

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Couch to 5K

The birth of the running programme that got millions off their sofas and out jogging

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The Assassinaton Attempt that Sparked a Middle East War

In 1982, a Palestinian gunman attacked the Israeli ambassador to London, Shlomo Argov

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The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt

In June 1968, students in Belgrade rebelled against Yugoslavia's 'market socialism'

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The Death of General Sani Abacha

Nigeria's military ruler died suddenly in June 1998.

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The Execution of Adolf Eichmann

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was executed in the early hours of June 1st 1962

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Korea Divided

The Korean peninsula was split between North and South at the end of World War Two.

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The Beginning of the Korean War

North Korean communist troops invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950.

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The GI Who Chose China

After the Korean war ended a few American prisoners chose to try life under communism.

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The Unified Korean Table Tennis Team

How ping pong brought together athletes from bitter rivals North and South Korea.

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The Death of Kim Il-sung

The founding father of communist North Korea died in July 1994.

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The Battered Child

The American doctor who forced the medical profession to face up to child abuse.

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Bata the Shoemaker's Revolution

Bata, a Czech company, pioneered assembly line shoemaking

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Wittenoom: An Australian Tragedy

How a town built around an asbestos mine made its residents fatally ill.

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Demoted For Being Gay

When the Israeli Army punished Colonel Uzi Even for being gay, he fought back.

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How the World Woke Up to Global Warming

James Hansen got US politicians to listen to his warnings about climate change in 1988.

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The King of Lampedusa

How 4,000 Italian troops surrendered to a young Jewish pilot from London, during WW2.

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Veronica Guerin - Dying for the Story

The Irish journalist murdered for her work exposing drug barons in the 1990s

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The SARS Emergency

Early 2003 saw a medical emergency sweep across the world.

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Whiskey On The Rocks

The Cold War stand-off when a Soviet submarine was stranded on a Swedish rock.

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The President and the Gun Lobby

Former President George Bush Senior's public row with the National Rifle Association.

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The Search For Deep Throat

In July 2005, the most famous informant in American history Deep Throat revealed himself

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