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The year is 2005... Anakin turns to the dark side, YouTube makes its debut and we’re all couch-jumping for Maria, McDreamy and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo…
T minus 20, rewind to this week in history 20 years ago with Joe and Mel.
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Holy smokes, we’ve got a new pope! Rewind to 3 April to 9 April 2005 when the Vatican signalled smoke, Baghdad signalled fury and WrestleMania went full Hollywood.
🕊 Farewell JP2. The world farewelled Pope John Paul II after 26 years in the top job. Cue one of the largest funerals in history and all eyes on a chimney as the conclave kicked off. White smoke = new pope. Enter Benedict XVI.✊ <...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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Paging McDreamy: Grey’s Anatomy (feat TV’s hottest doctor) premieres. Rewind to 27 March to 2 April 2005 where tectonic plates shifted, hearts broke and McDreamy made his swoon-worthy entrance.
🌊 Another quake, more heartbreak.Just months after the Boxing Day disaster, a massive 8.6 earthquake rocked Sumatra. Panic spread across the region but mercifully, no tsunami. Tragically, nine Australian military personnel lost their liv...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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Time lords, breakup anthems & the birth of an angry god. Rewind to 20 to 26 March 2005: Doctor Who regenerates for a whole new era, Kelly Clarkson gifts us the greatest pop-rock breakup anthem, Kratos unleashes mythological fury and BP faces disaster
🌍 The Fukuoka earthquake shakes Japan—an unexpected 6.6 magnitude tremor devastates Genkai Island, leaving one dead and over 1,000 injured. Aftershocks continued for months, proving nature doesn’t always follow the schedule.🔥 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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13 to 19 March 2005: Did we almost create a black hole? Why was our Delta Goodrem being labelled as a home wrecker? And is this where the machines first rose up? Cause robots have taken over the workplace and the box office.
⚛️ Did scientists almost create a black hole? Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider were smashing particles together at nearly the speed of light, reaching temperatures hotter than the sun. One physicist suggested we may have create...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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The internet’s first viral hit: a croc named Schnappi
⚖️ The U.S. Supreme Court makes a landmark ruling, banning the death penalty for crimes committed by minors. ♟️ The world’s greatest chess player retires, leaving us all to wonder: who will defend us when AI takes over?🎤 50...
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Episode 8
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