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In my last year at university, two things happened to me. I got elected Deputy President of the university student...
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The 1970s was a bumper decade for every kind of cult. Terrorists, violent extremists, fringe religions, etc. By the end...
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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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Plenty of people know about planes being hijacked by terrorist groups in the 1970s but few remember the spate of...
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In 1972, a Palestinian terrorist group - Black September - infiltrated the Olympic village at the Munich Summer Olympics killing...
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The 1970s 1980s, and 1990s saw some terrifying brainwashing cults emerge resulting in mass murder and suicide. In November 1978,...
