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The first safe house for Afghan women

Mary Akrami set up the first refuge for women fleeing violence and abuse in Afghanistan

• 9 mins

The fastest vaccine ever developed

How a five-year-old girl helped her father create a record-breaking vaccine

• 9 mins

The writer who put Latinos centre stage

Remembering the pioneering Cuban-American playwright and agony aunt, Dolores Prida

• 9 mins

Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires

How 400 separate bushfires burnt their way across Victoria, Australia in 2009.

• 9 mins

Adrift for 76 days

A remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean

• 14 mins

Benidorm and the birth of package tourism

The story of the mayor who created one of the world's biggest holiday resorts.

• 9 mins

The death of Heinrich Himmler

The leading Nazi was caught by British troops shortly after WW2 had ended in Europe

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

A first-hand account of the surprise strike on a US naval base in December 1941.

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The internment of Japanese Americans

During World War Two thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps

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The battle of Midway

How a huge naval battle between aircraft carriers changed the war in the Pacific

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The atomic bombs dropped on Japan

Atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945

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The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution

How Beate Sirota Gordon got wording on gender equality into Japan's post-war constitution

• 9 mins

Radar and World War Two

How British women operated secret radar technology during World War Two

• 9 mins

Bremen’s Elephant Statue

How the German city addressed its colonial past by rededicating a famous monument

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Beirut's Hotel War

How the Lebanese Civil War came to Beirut's luxury hotel district in 1975.

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Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey

How Turkish campaigners forced a radical change in the law on crimes against women

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The invention of the modern ventilator

How a polio epidemic in Denmark in 1952 led to the invention of the modern ventilator

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Surviving Saddam

The memories of a young Iraqi woman who grew up in the dictator's inner social circle

• 9 mins

The lost King of England

How archaeologists discovered the lost grave of King Richard III under a car park

• 9 mins

The first modern asthma inhaler

Millions of people’s lives have been saved and improved by the metered dose inhaler.

• 9 mins

The Guatemalan syphilis scandal

How American doctors carried out secretive STD experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s

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The siege at Ruby Ridge

An 11-day standoff between a fugitive and the US government ended with three people dead.

• 9 mins

Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer

The trades union activist and politician who fought for Nigerian independence.

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America's first woman combat pilot

How Jeannie Leavitt became the first woman to fly a US Air Force fighter plane in 1993.

• 9 mins

Occupy Wall Street

How former policeman Ray Lewis joined the anti-inequality demonstrations in New York

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St Kilda

The remote Scottish islands whose last inhabitants were evacuated in August 1930

• 9 mins

Who has the right to vote in America?

The decision that quashed a key part of an electoral law designed to protect black voters

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Inventing James Bond

How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy

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Flying through a volcano

How a British Airways jumbo jet flew through a volcanic ash cloud and survived

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The birth of the Sony Walkman

The portable tape player that brought music-on-the-move to millions was launched in 1979

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