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It is the 29th of July, 1588, and a huge fleet of ships - known as the Spanish Armada - approaches the English Channel. The future of Britain hangs in...
As ships of the Spanish Armada continued to make their way east, in the English Channel, neither side had harmed the other. Although two Spanish...
After a great deal of research into the deadly flu virus which killed so many people throughout the world, between 1918-19, scientists are still not...
Clip from a documentary comparing the Spanish-Flu pandemic, during 1918-1919, with today's health-care capabilities.
In the midst of World War I, another devastation - "Spanish Flu" - infected people throughout the world.
After they won the match against New Zealand's All Blacks, the Springboks celebrated in their change room.
Encouraged to learn the words to "Nkosi Sikeleli" - a former black resistance song in the Xhosa language - the Springboks worked with a tutor to get t...
This video clip, based on historical information (and, one hopes, at least a few tongue-in-cheek recreations), demonstrates the U.
The SR-71, also know as the Blackbird, is the world's fastest airplane.
To help rebuild the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin and his government sent millions of people to forced labor camps.
After Stalin (born Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) died in 1953, Khrushchev said the countrys former leader had committed grave injustices against ...
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who died, under suspicious circumstances, while in police custody.
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