Podcasts de Historia y Creencias

Bullets & Blood: A Hollywood Epic - Part 11

The original Hollywood epic Bullets And Blood tells the sometimes unbelievable, but true tale, of...

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The Alligator Attack!

Who would have thought that such an incidental moment in a western, would spawn one of the most...

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• 18 días

Bullets & Blood: A Hollywood Epic - Part 13

The original Hollywood epic Bullets And Blood tells the sometimes unbelievable, but true tale, of...

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• 12 días

The Heimlich Manoeuvre

Since its adoption as a first aid method, the Heimlich Manoeuvre has saved untold numbers of...

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• 28 días

The founding of Nato

Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - was formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the...

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• 26 días

50 years of Abba

It's 50 years since Swedish pop group Abba won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. The victory...

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• 22 días

Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’

A group of men known as the ‘Cairo 52’ were arrested in Egypt in May 2001. They were on board the...

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• 8 días

Deadly Everest avalanche

On 18 April 2014, an avalanche on Mount Everest killed 16 men, who were carrying supplies for...

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• 5 días

Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight

Major Charity Adams was the first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion. It...

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• 4 días

Britain's first beach for nudists

In 1980, the seaside town of Brighton opened a very unusual attraction. It was the first British...

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• 27 días

Surviving the Rwandan genocide

April 1994 was the start of the Rwandan genocide, 100 days of slaughter, rape and atrocities. As...

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• 25 días

The 2010 Kampala bombings

In July 2010, two bombs went off at a rugby club in Uganda's capital Kampala. It was where...

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• 15 días

The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh

When the train service between India and Bangladesh was suspended in 1965, following war between...

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• 7 días

West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic

The 2014 Ebola outbreak devastated West Africa, killing more than 11,000 people over a two year...

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• 6 días

How Lake Karla in Greece was drained

Lake Karla supported hundreds of families in Thessaly, providing fish for all of the region and...

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• 14 días

The Scream: A stolen masterpiece

When Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream was stolen in 1994, an undercover operation was launched...

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• 13 días

St Teresa of Avila's severed hand

After winning the Spanish Civil War in 1939, Franco's dictatorship began. During the war, he...

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• 12 días

Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender

Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who spent nearly 30 years in the...

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• 11 días

South Africa's referendum on apartheid

On 18 March 1992, white South Africans overwhelmingly backed a mandate for political reforms to...

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Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

When South African schoolchildren marched in protest against having to study Afrikaans in 1976,...

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