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Origins of Modern Iran
8 November 2022As protests continued across Iran, a number of Iranian-made kamikaze drones were fired by Russian forces at targets thousands of miles away in...
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The Race for the North Pole
7 November 2022On April 6th 1909, deep inside the Artic Circle after months on the ice, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and their four Inuit guides reached what...
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WW2: Battle of El Alamein
7 November 2022The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a key turning point in the Second World War - a moment when the Allies were no longer on the defensive, but...
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Life in Tudor England
7 November 2022What was life really like in Tudor England? This was a society where monarchy was under strain, the church was in crisis, where contending with...
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The Birth of the CIA
7 November 2022American intelligence services like the CIA are commonly thought of as global behemoths of international surveillance and covert operations,...
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The World's Earliest Cave Art
6 November 2022200,000 years ago in what is now Tibet, two children left a set of hand and foot prints on a travertine boulder, still identifiable today and is...
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Rise and Fall of Zeppelins
6 November 2022They were cigars the size of ocean liners that floated through the clouds. Cow intestines filled with hydrogen held them up. The world’s first...
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The Czech Braveheart: Jan Žižka
5 November 2022Jan Žižka is the legendary Czech national hero who led Hussite forces against three crusades and never lost a single battle. His rise to...
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Indecent Exposure
4 November 2022It can happen on a bus, in a park, in your home, at the school gates. An estimated one in every ten women in England and Wales have reported it...
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Iranian Revolution
4 November 2022The current uprisings in Iran have connections that date back to the 1979 Iranian revolution, which saw the country go from a monarchy, to an...
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4. Tutankhamun: Inside the Tomb
4 November 20224/4. Dan descends the very same stone steps into Tutankhamun's tomb that Carter did, 100 years earlier. From within the chamber, Dan and...
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Becoming FDR
3 November 2022In August 1921, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was 39 years old, he contracted Polio, paralysing him from the waist down. Jonathan Darman tells Don...
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