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For a nuclear missile to explode once is a grave misfortune. When it explodes twice, as Oscar Wilde would have...
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It was the hit TV series of the late 1970s to mid 1980s. The BBC aired Dallas from 1978 until...
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There were plenty of weird events in the 1970s but the kidnapping of Patty Hearst has to be one of...
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Few doubt we're in for a rocky economic time ahead. My gut feeling is that this is going to be...
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Over a four day period in September 1971, the Attica maximum security prison in New York state exploded into rioting...
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In 1972, a Palestinian terrorist group - Black September - infiltrated the Olympic village at the Munich Summer Olympics killing...
In the 1980s, capitalism was unleashed to its full. For some, this meant the first opportunity ever to make (and...
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When the police drama Kojak aired on the CBS TV channel in 1973, critics and audiences knew this was a...
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In the 1970s, the struggle for women's liberation - referred to as "Women's Lib" - erupted to the surface. News...
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There was a point in the mid-1990s when the public began to wonder if the tsunami of British political scandals...
