History as told by the people who were there.
Dolores Ibárruri was dubbed La Pasionaria for her fiery speeches in the Spanish civil war
In 1989, dark comedy Heathers was released and changed the teen movie genre
In 1998 a strange phenomenon turned the world’s most colourful coral reefs deathly white
In the early 1990s, around 50,000 Cubans were struck down with sight loss
In June 1944, 642 people were killed in Oradour, France
In 1966, the Frenchman upended philosophy with his theory of "deconstruction"
An estimated 500 million people in China watched English lessons on television in 1981
In 1968, more than 50,000 teachers went on strike in New York City, in the USA
In the aftermath of World War Two, children fled East Prussia in order to survive
On 23 August 1989, approximately two million people joined hands to form a human chain
