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| Title | Date published | ||
| Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup | 2024-07-15 | ||
| Arrested for playing football in Brazil | 2024-07-12 | ||
| Italy's 'poison ships' | 2024-07-11 | ||
| The 1968 Mexico City massacre | 2024-07-10 | ||
| The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba | 2024-07-09 | ||
| How the air fryer was invented | 2024-07-08 | ||
| Conservative wipe-out in Canada | 2024-07-05 | ||
| Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest | 2024-07-04 | ||
| Georgia’s political crisis | 2024-07-03 | ||
| Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia | 2024-07-02 | ||
| Subway Art: The graffiti bible | 2024-07-01 | ||
| I designed Hello Kitty | 2024-06-29 | ||
| The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America | 2024-06-27 | ||
| Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society | 2024-06-26 | ||
| Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision | 2024-06-25 | ||
| The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans | 2024-06-24 | ||
| Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand | 2024-06-21 | ||
| The first mega cruise ship | 2024-06-20 | ||
| The beginning of Benidorm | 2024-06-19 | ||
| How Cancún became a tourist destination | 2024-06-18 |