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One of Earth’s oldest, and deadliest diseases. Malaria has been around since the dawn of civilisation, with evidence of Malaria antigens recently being discovered in Egyptian remains from 3200 BC. In the 20th Century alone, up to 300 million people died from Malaria – even in an era of advancing modern medicine and a vaccine explosion following WW2.
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On 21th September 1949, Mao Zedong took to the podium in Huairen Hall, Zhongnanhai, a former royal residence in Beijing, to announce that “the Chinese people, comprising one quarter of humanity, have now stood up.”
These striking words were all too appropriate for the moment: for Mao it represented the end of a quarter-century journey to the pinnacle of his own party and finally his country – a journey which began with the Long March.
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“No news from Petrograd yesterday”, was the headline in the Daily Mail on March 14, 1917. The story – or non-story – which followed, was only a few dozen words: “Up to a late hour last night the Russian official report, which for many months has come to hand early, had not been received”, it ran. So why publish it? The non-appearance of the daily news bulletin from the Russian government had led the Mail’s writer, trying to prepare a report in London, to suspect something was going on.
A SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA – AUDIOBOOK By Lucy Cazalet (1870 – 1956) A Short...
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Reading time: 6 minutes By orchestrating China’s transition to a market economy, Deng Xiaoping has...
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Reading time: 6 minutes For most people, the term “Russian Revolution” conjures up a popular set...
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