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    Witness History

    Witness History

    Witness History

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    Length:
    1082 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    History as told by the people who were there.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 1082 episodes

    Title

    The Sunflower Movement

    Between 18 March and 10 April 2014, more than 500,000 people in Taipei, Taiwan, protest...

    9 minutes
    		Oct 14, 2024

    'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    After the death of her brother, engineer Thérèse Izay Kirongozi got to work handmaking ...

    10 minutes
    		Oct 11, 2024

    How the QR code was invented

    In 1994, bar codes were in widespread use in businesses around the world, but the Japan...

    10 minutes
    		Oct 10, 2024

    The world's first general purpose electronic computer

    In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in Philadelphia, in...

    9 minutes
    		Oct 09, 2024

    WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot

    Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973...

    9 minutes
    		Oct 08, 2024

    Eliza: When chatbots started

    Eliza is the name of a 1966 invention by German born scientist, Joseph Weizenbaum, that...

    10 minutes
    		Oct 07, 2024

    The longest plane hijacking in Latin America

    In 1973, two men pretending to be Colombian guerrillas took a plane and flew across Lat...

    9 minutes
    		Oct 04, 2024

    The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea

    In November 1967, the Maltese diplomat, Arvid Pardo, addressed the United Nations with ...

    9 minutes
    		Oct 03, 2024

    South Africa’s nuclear weapons

    In 1989, South Africa became the first, and only country to make and then dismantle nuc...

    9 minutes
    		Oct 02, 2024

    Cambodia war crimes

    In 2009, a UN-backed war crimes tribunal opened in Cambodia to try the senior Khmer Rou...

    9 minutes
    		Oct 01, 2024