Asia

Chinese lanterns at Kek Lok Si temple, George Town, Penang, Malaysia. (Photo by Inti St Clair/Getty Images)

My favourite place: Penang, Malaysia

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Bhimrao Ambedkar, May 1946. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956)

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A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

How people make the past

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Why did the Germans never convince the Japanese to start a serious invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War?

A relief at the World Heritage site of Xanadu in Inner Mongolia, China. (Photo by Dreamstime)

My favourite place: Xanadu, China

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BME8P5 Shandian River, Bashang Grassland, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China

My favourite place: Xanadu, China

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Army of the Terracotta Warriors in Xian, China

General ancient history

The six ages of China

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Bali, Indonesia

My favourite place: Bali, Indonesia

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The Japanese city of Hiroshima shortly after the US dropped the atomic bomb

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Should America have dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Atomic bomb damage in Hiroshima

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Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War? You debate

Ministry Of Home Defence (Scientific Advisers' Branch), A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945. (Photo by IWM via Getty Images)

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The science behind the bombing of Hiroshima

Ruins of Hiroshima shortly after the dropping of the atomic bomb. (US Air Force/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The countdown to Hiroshima

A sculpture of Genghis Kahn

The brutal brilliance of Genghis Khan

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN: END OF THE WAR/HIROSHIMA PHOTO PACKAGE (FILES) This file photo dated 1948 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city, 06 August 1945, at the end of World War II. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing 06 August 1945, with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 09 August 1945. Following the bombings, Japan surrendered 02 September 1945 to Allied forces, officially ending World War II, bringing down the curtain on the costliest conflict in history. The 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima will take place with ceremonies in the Japanese city on 06 August 2005. AFP PHOTO/FILES (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

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In pictures: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki