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The Sami protest song that made Eurovision history
In 1980, Norway’s Eurovision Song Contest entry included a traditional Sami joik song
When Sweden invented the reality game show
In 1997, Sweden launched the world's first reality-based competitive TV show
Uncovering a lost burial ground in Rio
In 1996, Merced dos Anjos unearthed the New Blacks Cemetery under her home in Brazil
The fossil that revealed the first dinosaur feathers
In 1996, a fossil in China showed the first real hint that some dinosaurs had feathers
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
A 2015 report found 'cultural genocide' was committed against Canada's Indigenous people
Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest
In 1954 a new television programme launched the career of the world-famous broadcaster
Africa's worst stadium disaster
In May 2001, 127 people died after a stampede at a football match in the Ghanaian capital
Finding the world’s most complete T-rex fossil
In August 1990, a team discovered the most complete T-rex fossil in the world
Norway's WW2 railway sabotage plot
In 1942, Norwegian resistance fighters set out to blow up a railway used by the Nazis
Nuns killed in Algeria
In October 1993, two nuns were shot dead near their convent in Algiers
