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 Tõnis Mägi 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’s 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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