麻豆社 World Service - Witness History

Lord of the Flies

It鈥檚 70 years since William Golding鈥檚 acclaimed novel was published

In 1999, Macau was handed back to China after more than 400 years as a Portuguese colony

How the Syrian army turned one neighbourhood near Damascus into a bombed-out wasteland

Between 2002 and 2005, Naghmeh Panahi set up a network of 'house churches' in Iran

The naturist movement began in Germany at the end of the 19th Century

In 2013, the gender of a six-year-old from Argentina was legally changed

In November 1989, 65 miners were rescued from the Mahabir Coal Mine, in India

In a 1974 referendum, the Greek people voted two to one in favour of becoming a republic

In 2013, 11 people were killed by members of a militant group at Nanga Parbat base camp

In 1948, the first stored-program computer the 鈥楤aby鈥� was invented