The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in Cape Town, by the South African apartheid regime and the man who jumped from space back to earth.
Also, stories about a Soviet fashionista, the Nazi occupation of Jersey and the Mongolia Revolution.
(Photo: District Six, circa 1969, in Cape Town. Credit: Getty Images)
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