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Aine Quinn

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The true story of The Great Escape

On 24 March 1944, 76 allied officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag Luft III – a mission that was memorialised in a classic...

25.03.2025 100

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Aine Quinn

The rocky origins of online dating, decades before Tinder

In 1966, the BBC's Tomorrow's World visited a party in New York organised by the electronic dating service Tact, or Technical Automated Compatibility...

14.02.2025 30

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Aine Quinn

How a child star saved a Hollywood studio

In December 1933, five-year-old Shirley Temple signed with a nearly-bankrupt Fox Studios. In History looks back at how she revived the studio's...

17.12.2024 30

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Aine Quinn