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The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
In 1940 a rescue operation helped Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied
Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress
In 1974, a kidnapped socialite ed forces with her captors
The Juliet letters
Since the 1990s the Juliet Club has answered letters to the Shakespearian heroine
The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’
How Gort in the west of Ireland became home to so many Brazilians
Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war
In 1972, a Danish brewery created Supermalt
The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs
Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world with his two-headed dog experiments
Icelandic women's strike
In 1975, 90% of all women in Iceland took part in a massive nationwide protest
Trans murder in Honduras
The 2009 murder of Vicky Hernandez forced recognition of transgender rights in Honduras
Columbus Lighthouse
A memorial for the ashes of Christopher Columbus opened in the Dominican Republic in 1992
Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts
In 2003, Whistler Blackcomb won its bid to host the Winter Olympics
Russia annexes Crimea
In 2014, Russia took over the Crimean peninsula
Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
The hugely popular Soviet holiday camp, Artek
The lost Czech scrolls
The Torah scrolls stolen by the Nazis, rescued by an London Jewish community.
The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru
In 1987, the looting of an ancient pyramid led to an extraordinary golden discovery
The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
Beginning in 1984, a dispute over an island was marked by geniality, and bottles of booze
Uruguay v the tobacco giant
In 2010, Uruguay was taken to court by a tobacco company for its trailblazing smoking ban
French child evacuees of World War Two
In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
In 1974, a 41-year regime was overthrown in a day
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
In 2002, a nun was sent to northern Uganda to help those suffering from a bloody conflict
MH370: The plane that vanished
Ghyslain Wattrelos' wife and two children were on MH370, the plane that disappeared.
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
Nearly 200 died when Spanish commuter trains were bombed in 2004
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
In 1992 a student found a set of fossilised footprints from the earliest vertebrate
Paraguay adopts its second language
How Guarani was officially recognised in Paraguay’s new constitution
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
The forgotten story of Winifred Atwell, the pianist from Trinidad who broke sales records
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
In 1958, Zhou Youguang introduced a new writing system in China
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Thousands of people were sent to re-education camps during China’s cultural revolution
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
Discovering the Terracotta Army
In 1974, Chinese farmers stumbled upon an astonishing archaeological site
Wham! in China
How Wham! became the first Western pop act to perform in communist China
Britain's Mirpuri migration
In 1967, the Mangla Dam was built in Mirpur spurring a huge global migration
