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 So, Who Did Discover America?Abu Raihan al-Biruni, an Islamic scholar from Central Asia, may have discovered the New World centuries before Columbus – without leaving his study – as S. Frederick Starr explains. |
 A Record to Bragg AboutDuring the First World War, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist William Lawrence Bragg devised a system to locate enemy guns, which made a dramatic impact on the Allied war effort and beyond, says Taylor Downing. |
 Britain, Vietnam and the Special RelationshipThough UK governments rejected US requests to send troops to Vietnam, Britain did not stay out of the war, says Marc Tiley. |
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 Interactive: A History of the Space RaceFrom Gagarin to Armstrong and crew, the milestones in the race for supremacy in space. |
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 Churchill and the Great WarAllan Mallinson joins us to discuss a 'lost' memo penned by Winston Churchill in 1911 concerning the prospect of a European war. |
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Was the Whig historian and politician Thomas Babington Macauley the inventor of Western liberal intervention? |
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The fate and fortunes of the occult during the long 18th century. |
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December 2013
In this month's issue: The Real Bethlehem - Churchill's WW1 Plan - Who Discovered America? - Patriotism and the Daily Mail - Lessons from Auschwitz - Wagner
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