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A black and white images of islanders from Tristan da Cunha sat in a line (Credit: Getty Images)
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Sent to the UK from the world's most remote island

By Fiona Macdonald

Benjamin Ferencz acting as the chief prosecutor during the Einsatzgruppen trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1947 (Credit: Alamy)
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The US lawyer who put Nazis on trial at Nuremberg

By Fiona Macdonald
A black-and-white photograph of JRR Tolkien smoking a pipe (Credit: Alamy)
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The 'most tragic moment' in The Lord of the Rings

By Fiona Macdonald
A black-and-white photo of a group of people looking at a classic Roman pot behind glass (Credit: Getty Images)
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The tomb raiders who plundered million-dollar pots

By Fiona Macdonald
A black and white close up portrait of Georgi Markov (Credit: Getty Images)
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The poisoned umbrella that pointed to a KGB murder

By Fiona Macdonald
Gloria Steinem (Credit: Getty Images)
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Gloria Steinem on the trailblazing Ms Magazine

By Myles Burke
A view of Stonehenge with a pink and purple gradient sky (Credit: Getty Images)
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The theory that Stonehenge was an ancient computer

By Fiona Macdonald
Gene Savoy poses in front of some ruins (Credit: Getty Images)
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The US explorers who 'found' a lost, ancient city

By Fiona Macdonald
A black and white image of a man walking with a bicycle amid debris after the bombing of Nagasaki (Credit: Getty Images)
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An insider's account of Nagasaki's atomic bombing

By Fiona Macdonald
A grainy, black and white photograph of three v2 rockets (Credit: Getty Images)
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The V2 rocket smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Poland

By Fiona Macdonald
A black-and-white photo of Kim Philby in a suit speaking to a room of men (Credit: Getty Images)
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The British double agent who taught enemy spies

By Fiona Macdonald
Black-and-white photo of Eva Perón smiling (Credit: Getty Images)
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The macabre kidnapping of Eva Perón's corpse

By Fiona Macdonald
A black-and-white photo of a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine breaking through the ocean surface (Credit: Alamy)
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The nuclear submarine wreck that is a 'time bomb'

By Fiona Macdonald
A close up black and white image of J Paul Gety (Credit: Getty Images)
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How J Paul Getty became the world's richest man

By Fiona Macdonald
A still of a man riding a horse and holding up a gun in Clash of Loyalties (Credit: Iraqi Film Corporation)
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Saddam Hussein's epic Hollywood-style film

By Fiona Macdonald
A black and white portrait of John John le Carré sat in a living room, with a television behind him (Credit: Getty Images)
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Le Carré's novels were shaped by a con-man father

By Fiona Macdonald