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8 years ago+7 9 2The island where nothing makes sense
Matthew Teller roams Ascension Island, a volcanic outpost of empire where it's hot and cold at the same time - and nobody's sure who's in charge.
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8 years ago+28 28 0The trig pillars that helped map Great Britain
Ordnance Survey celebrates 80 years of the trig pillars that helped map Great Britain.
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9 years ago+41 41 0The empire the world forgot
Ruled by a dizzying array of kingdoms and empires over the centuries, the former regional power of Ani is now an eerie, abandoned city of ghosts.
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9 years ago+45 45 0 x 2The Cold War space missions that never happened
From a spacecraft fitted with a gun to a nuclear-powered Mars ship, some Cold War missions came close to flight before being abandoned. But one of them is finally becoming reality.
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9 years ago+6 6 0Panama’s unexpected spot for climbers
The solid, geometric rock produced from Panama’s last volcanic eruption makes the district of Boquete an ideal destination for rock climbers.
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9 years ago+42 42 0 x 1Where people were sent to disappear
With poisonous snakes and shark-infested waters, this desert island had no hope of escape.
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9 years ago+28 28 0A desert’s once-in-a decade super bloom
Thanks to strong El Niño activity and heavy autumn rains, Death Valley – one of the least hospitable places on Earth – is experiencing its biggest explosion of flowers since 2005.
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9 years ago+47 47 0 x 1Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s
Plummeting oil prices have had many effects – one of which is that it may be cheaper for ships to travel right around Africa than go through the Suez Canal.
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9 years ago+6 6 0The world’s most secretive places
From an isolated Pacific island without running water to a James Bond-like spy base in England, these five places are practically off-limits to even the most curious travellers.
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9 years ago+41 41 0 x 1All hail the new Bugatti Chiron
We will dramatically raise the bar in terms of top speed, we will dramatically increase the power… We didn’t need a hybrid. There are days, and they don’t come often, when the automotive world shifts on its axis. This, ladies and gentleman, is one of ...
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9 years ago+29 29 0Step aboard a former Disney Imagineer's $83m flying palace
With the lavishly furnished Skyacht One private jet, designer Eddie Sotto evokes Captain Nemo's Nautilus.
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9 years ago+36 36 0A famous island nobody knows
“These islands touched my life without my knowing: the perfumes that waft by at parties, the vanilla that flavours my ice cream and the cloves that spice up my Christmas cookies.”
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9 years ago+5 5 0How is a Morgan made? Building Britain’s classic car by hand
At its small factory in England, the company builds more than 1300 cars each year – all by hand. We got behind-the-scenes access to film the mesmerising process, from frame to finish.
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9 years ago+31 31 0Greenland’s coolest jobs
Their traditional way of life is under threat – meet the entrepreneurial Greenlanders adapting their day jobs.
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9 years ago+28 28 0The sinister reason why people fall in love
Romance may have existed in some form long before the origin of humanity, and some believe it was born out of death and violence.
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9 years ago+5 5 0Erasing Franco's memory one street at a time
Spain is starting to change street names that honour Gen Francisco Franco, the dictator who ran the country from the 1930s to 1975, and his henchmen.
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9 years ago+11 11 012th February 2002 - Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial at The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Milosevic served as his own attorney for much of the prolonged trial, which ended without a ver ...
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9 years ago+20 20 0Game Change: Tesla And GM Announce Affordable, Long-Range Electric Cars
Driven by rapidly plummeting battery costs, two of the world's leading electric vehicle (EV) makers say they will soon deliver 200+ mile range EVs at a game-changing price of $30,000 or less.
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9 years ago+28 28 0Why are these masterpieces at risk?
Over the past few decades, Britain's public art has been thrown out, bulldozed, melted down or sold off. A new campaign seeks to track down what’s missing – and protect what remains
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9 years ago+20 20 0Inside the hunt for a million-dollar haul of ocean gold
Somewhere in the Atlantic, there’s a bounty of sunken gold worth millions of dollars. One team of treasure-hunters knows where it is – but can they get it to the surface?