1507 Epizód

  1. Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 25.

  2. The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 24.

  3. Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 21.

  4. The first mega cruise ship

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 20.

  5. The beginning of Benidorm

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 19.

  6. How Cancún became a tourist destination

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 18.

  7. The first budget transatlantic flights

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 17.

  8. Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 14.

  9. Kielland disaster

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 13.

  10. The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 12.

  11. Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 11.

  12. Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 10.

  13. The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 07.

  14. Saving lives on D-Day

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 06.

  15. The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 05.

  16. Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 04.

  17. ‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan

    Közzétéve: 2024. 06. 03.

  18. The commercial that changed advertising: 1984

    Közzétéve: 2024. 05. 31.

  19. The Flint water crisis

    Közzétéve: 2024. 05. 30.

  20. The first Aboriginal MP

    Közzétéve: 2024. 05. 29.

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