1509 Episodio

  1. Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

    Pubblicato: 14/12/2023

  2. Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime

    Pubblicato: 13/12/2023

  3. Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs

    Pubblicato: 12/12/2023

  4. Murder of the Romanovs

    Pubblicato: 11/12/2023

  5. The release of DOOM

    Pubblicato: 08/12/2023

  6. ‘The disappeared’ of Argentina

    Pubblicato: 07/12/2023

  7. A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power

    Pubblicato: 06/12/2023

  8. La Haine: The film that shocked France

    Pubblicato: 04/12/2023

  9. World's first solar-heated home

    Pubblicato: 01/12/2023

  10. Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country

    Pubblicato: 30/11/2023

  11. The bird that defied extinction

    Pubblicato: 28/11/2023

  12. Cabbage Patch Kids

    Pubblicato: 27/11/2023

  13. The Mumbai attacks

    Pubblicato: 24/11/2023

  14. The Paris heatwave

    Pubblicato: 23/11/2023

  15. Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory

    Pubblicato: 22/11/2023

  16. The invention of bubble tea

    Pubblicato: 21/11/2023

  17. The independence of Zambia

    Pubblicato: 20/11/2023

  18. Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion

    Pubblicato: 17/11/2023

  19. The Bolivian Water War

    Pubblicato: 16/11/2023

  20. Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer

    Pubblicato: 15/11/2023

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