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2 December 1922: Horse racing and the betting man.

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23 March 1973: On J Paul Getty, America’s richest buccaneer.

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27 June 1997: With the handover of Hong Kong, China’s relationship with the former colonial fiefdom will be the most…

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22 August 1959: The zoo is a penitentiary, a theatre, an alms house, a laboratory, a conference room, a microcosm.

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1 July 1967: How might Britain best accept immigrants?

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23 June 1917: Three years of war have been enough to effect an amazing transformation in the average female worker.

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15 January 1965: The end of hanging and the future of firearms.

By CS Rolph