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Norway's WW2 railway sabotage plot
In 1942, Norwegian resistance fighters set out to blow up a railway used by the Nazis
Nuns killed in Algeria
In October 1993, two nuns were shot dead near their convent in Algiers
The origins of World Press Freedom Day
In 1991, journalists created the Windhoek declaration leading to World Press Freedom Day
Inside the Cuban thaw
In 2014, secret negotiations aimed to improve relations between the US and Cuba
Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment
In 1972, Peter Singer published one of the most influential ideas in modern philosophy
Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis
In October 1973, the Netherlands became the first country to introduce car-free Sundays
The world's first perfume archive
In 1990, L'Osmothèque opened in Versailles, France with a collection of 400 perfumes
The Tabasco floods
In 2007, the Mexican state of Tabasco experienced its worst flooding in 50 years
The clean-up of Chernobyl
The story of the clean-up at the world’s worst nuclear accident in Ukraine in April 1986
Canada's war in the woods
In 1993, rainforest logging plans sparked Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience
