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The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Egypt's Arab Spring, abortions in 1960s America, the champion of the Parthenon Marbles
The Iron Curtain
Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, South Africa's Sharpeville massacre and a deep dive.
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines
Black History: The Black Panthers
How radical was the US black rights group? Plus, Mary Wilson of the Supremes
US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter
Hundreds of civilians killed in a Gulf War airstrike; the newspaper to help the homeless
The Burma protests of 1988
The fight for democracy in Burma, US troops on drugs in Vietnam, the Moscow state circus
The Arab Spring of 2011
Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Hitler's first attempt at seizing power, anti-Sikh riots in India, and the Turner Diaries
Attack at the US Capitol
Puerto Rican militants attack Congress, India's first woman lawyer, landing on Titan
Buddhist on Death Row
How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"
