Faranak Amidi presents The Fifth Floor, a weekly programme that revels in the variety and range of stories produced by the BBC World Service's language sections. Faranak joined the BBC Persian ...

1756: Britain declares war on France (Seven Years War). 1792: 24 merchants form the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. 1824: Lord Byron’s diaries are burned according to his wishes by six of the ...

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