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Junko Tabei and Ang Tsering pictured on the slopes of Everest
20th Century

Q&A Who was the first woman to climb Everest?

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, born the son of a humble yak farmer, pictured around the time of his Everest triumph of 1953 (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
20th Century

Tenzing Norgay The Sherpa who first conquered the world's highest mountain

A photograph of Tenzing Norgay (left) and Edmund Hillary, sharing a smile in 1953, shortly after scaling Everest.
20th Century

Everest The story of the race to the top of the world

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Genghis Khan’s tent, as shown in a 14th-century Persian miniature. The Mongols’ conquests transformed the way the people of Eurasia did trade, shared knowledge, paid taxes and fought wars (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
Medieval

What was life like under the Mongol empire?

Thousands of Muslims gather in India in 2019 to offer Eid prayers, marking end of holy month of Ramadan
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A depiction of Empress Wu Zetian
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Empress Wu Zetian The only woman to rule China

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient
General History

A history of medicine 14 surprising facts

Afghan fighters on top of a destroyed Soviet helicopter, 1980 (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)
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War without end: conflict in Afghanistan, from the Cold War Soviet invasion to the Taliban

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Rosa Parks rides on a Montgomery bus
20th Century

50 important historical events: from Sutton Hoo to Rosa Parks

Mongol and Mamluk cavalry clash in a 14th-century manuscript
Medieval

How to repel a Mongol invasion: the success of Egypt’s Mamluk empire

Police disperse a mob attacking a Hindu temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) during the violence of Direct Action Day, 1946
20th Century

Why we should remember… Direct Action Day

A refugee family in a camp in Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947
20th Century

Enduring trauma: the legacy of partition

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