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APR 19, 2024
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
The first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion
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APR 18, 2024
Deadly Everest avalanche
In 2014, an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 sherpas on Mount Everest
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APR 17, 2024
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
In 2014, Sierra Leone was devastated by Africa's biggest Ebola outbreak on record
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APR 16, 2024
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
In 2008, India and Bangladesh were reconnected by train after 43 years
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APR 15, 2024
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
In May 2001, 52 men were arrested in a gay nightclub floating on the River Nile
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