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| Title | Date published | ||
| Ethiopia's 1984 famine | 2024-10-23 | ||
| I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica | 2024-10-22 | ||
| The fight to stop skin lightening in India | 2024-10-21 | ||
| Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt | 2024-10-18 | ||
| Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings | 2024-10-17 | ||
| Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child | 2024-10-16 | ||
| The Rose Revolution in Georgia | 2024-10-15 | ||
| The Sunflower Movement | 2024-10-14 | ||
| 'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo | 2024-10-11 | ||
| How the QR code was invented | 2024-10-10 | ||
| The world's first general purpose electronic computer | 2024-10-09 | ||
| WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot | 2024-10-08 | ||
| Eliza: When chatbots started | 2024-10-07 | ||
| The longest plane hijacking in Latin America | 2024-10-04 | ||
| The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea | 2024-10-03 | ||
| South Africa’s nuclear weapons | 2024-10-02 | ||
| Cambodia war crimes | 2024-10-01 | ||
| Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass | 2024-09-30 | ||
| The Estonia ferry disaster | 2024-09-27 | ||
| South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage | 2024-09-26 |