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Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
She received numerous Hugos and Nebulas - top writing prizes for sci-fi writing

Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
In 2003, Serbia's prime minister was assassinated in Belgrade

The museum at the end of the world
In 1992, a zoologist opened one of the world's most remote museums, on an Atlantic island

Grenada's underwater sculpture park
In 2004, Jason deCaires Taylor built the worlds first underwater gallery in Grenada

Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
In 2009, Rudolf Brazda returned to the former concentration camp he was in for being gay

Wounded Knee siege
Fifty years ago, indigenous American activists staged a protest against the US authorities

When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
For the 2012 London Olympic Games the Queen appeared to jump out of a helicopter

Families interned in WW2 China
A first-hand account of being sent to a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai as a child

The invention of Semtex
In 1958, Stanislav Brebera invented Semtex, a malleable and odourless plastic explosive

Seggae riots in Mauritius
Mauritian musician Kaya, died in police custody on 21 February 1999, sparking rioting