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Nelson Mandela
From Robben Island to the presidency — the arc of South Africa's moral compass.
The Internet
From a Pentagon experiment to the world's nervous system.
Japan
Centuries of isolation, modernisation, catastrophe, and quiet reinvention.
Marie Curie
Two Nobel Prizes, two elements, and a life that redrew what science could be.
Cockroach Janta Party
A courtroom remark that became India's biggest youth protest movement.
Mahatma Gandhi
Father of the Indian nation who led independence through nonviolence.
Chernobyl Disaster
A timeline of the events leading to, during, and following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its long-term consequences.
Chernobyl Disaster
A timeline of the events leading to, during, and following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its long-term consequences.