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    Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world

    A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)
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    The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?

    An Athenian red-figure kylix (cup) dating from around 510–500 BC depicts a young pentathlete pulling his older lover towards him for a kiss. In many of the city-states of ancient Greece, sex between a man and a youth was an accepted – even idealised – form of love, its virtues extolled in works by writers including Plato. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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    Pride and prejudice: same-sex relations through history

    A women drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or Wyoming) in 1887
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    From the real Calamity Jane to ‘Madam Moustache’: pioneer women of the Wild West

    An account of the story of James Allen, whose sex at birth was revealed only by an autopsy conducted after their death
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    ‘Female husbands’: the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers

    The city Bhaktapur looming over the Kathmandu valley
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    The hippy trail: a pan-Asian journey through history

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