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Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman
Pulling back the curtain on the master of illusion
Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent
Safeguarding peace and wilderness with the Antarctic Treaty
Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece
The multi-layered masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes
Algae: Slime life
The evolution of life鈥檚 original alchemists
The original Goths
How did a Germanic tribe come to inspire an architectural style and a global subculture?
Laskarina Bouboulina, the mother of modern Greece
An intrepid sea captain who commanded daring naval attacks with her own fleet of ships
Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science
The 19th-Century polymath who popularised science for generations of readers
The Malayan Emergency
One of the earliest Cold War conflicts in Asia
The Devils: Dostoevsky鈥檚 novel of political evil
Dostoevsky鈥檚 study of terrorism and poisoned ideals in pre-revolutionary Russia
A focus on spectacles
Looking at the history of an invention many of us take for granted
