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The oldest song in the world

Deciphering the 3,500 year-old song discovered on a clay tablet in Syria

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Buddhists and death row

How criminals facing the death penalty in the USA found peace

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The 'strike' in space

How three astronauts on the Skylab space station fell out with mission control

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Sequencing the Ebola virus genome

When the deadly Ebola virus broke out in West Africa scientists in the USA set to work

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The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster

The book describing a sudden uncontrollable downturn that was ignored by governments.

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When Spain's parliament was stormed

Armed Civil Guards took MPs hostage in Spain's parliamentary chamber in 1981

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Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol

How independence campaigners opened fire in Congress in 1954, wounding five US law-makers

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Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer

She was the first to graduate from Oxford and was a pioneer for women lawyers in Britain.

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Landing on Titan

The remarkable mission to explore one of the moons of Saturn in 2005

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Estonia's singing revolution

Rock star T玫nis M盲gi describes how Estonia sang its way out of the Soviet Union.

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The New Cross fire

How the New Cross fire in 1981 led to The Black People鈥檚 Day of Action.

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Hitler's beer hall putsch

Adolf Hitler made his first attempt to take power in Germany in 1923

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The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred

The white supremacist novel by William Pierce which has been blamed for inciting violence

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Kenya's pioneering publisher

Dr Henry Chakava made it his life's mission to publish in African languages.

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Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs

Anti-Sikh violence flared in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984

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Egypt's Facebook Girl

How social media was used to organise against Egypt's government before the Arab Spring

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Syria in the Arab Spring

The moment that hundreds of thousands of Syrians demanded change in 2011.

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Yemen's 2011 uprising

Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt young Yemenis took to the streets in January 2011

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Libya's Arab uprising

In 2011 protests soon turned into an armed revolt seeking to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.

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The anthem of the Arab Spring

How a singer in Tunisia helped inspire young protestors all over the Middle East in 2011

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The first Eurostar from England to France

The driver of the first train to take passengers from London to Paris remembers

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The Moscow State Circus

The biggest circus in Soviet Russia opened in Moscow in April 1971.

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The Burma uprising of 1988

People took to the streets of Burma, or Myanmar, to protest against military rule in 1988

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Drugs in the Vietnam War

How a heroin epidemic among US troops in Vietnam caused panic in the military

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General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel

Lee was charged with treason, so why did Congress reinstate his citizenship in 1975?

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DES Daughters

A medical scandal which affected millions of women around the world

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Francis Bacon in the archives

The painter Francis Bacon was known for his disturbing images and bohemian lifestyle

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The paper that helped the homeless

The 'Street News' paper was sold by homeless people in New York at a profit to earn money

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A Ghanaian nurse's story

Nurses from outside the UK form a vital part of the country's medical workforce

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How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War

More than 400 civilians died when US bombs hit the Amiriya air raid shelter in Baghdad

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