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67%

Women in Switzerland won the right to vote in 1971.

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English sweating sickness

English sweating sickness

In the 15th century, English ‘sweating sickness’ killed thousands of people and then disappeared; nobody knows what it was.

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A Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing...indeed

A Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing...indeed

Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don’t eat rice.

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This Is The Way a Bikini Explodes

This Is The Way a Bikini Explodes

A bikini is usually a women's abbreviated two-piece swimsuit with a bra top for the chest and panties cut below the navel.

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Christmas Truce

Christmas Truce

Even at the distance of a century, no war seems more terrible than World War I. In the four years between 1914 and 1918, it killed or wounded more than 25 million people.

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The Unlikely Christmas

The Unlikely Christmas

Inspired by real events from 100 years ago.

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Neanderthals: Up Close[r]

Neanderthals: Up Close[r]

Fred H. Smith a physical anthropologist at Loyola University in Chicago who has been studying Neanderthal DNA says that neanderthals "were believed to be scavengers who made primitive tools and w…

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