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The box that changed Britain

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The shipping container turbocharged world trade and kickstarted the modern age of consumerism, bringing value, choice and luxury beyond our wildest dreams. It has changed the face of industry and altered our communities and coastlines forever. This is the story of how a simple metal box has transformed our lives.

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Israeli embassy staff shot dead in DC

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This documentary follows the construction of a gigantic marine life sanctuary in China: a glass and metal structure that can hold a 100-million-litre ocean. Ocean Kingdom, the world’s biggest aquarium, is on the island of Hengqin, next to Macao. There is not a single place that resembles this dream factory, in terms of construction site size, architectural type or scale, number of marine species on show or in estimated volume of visitors.

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The Höegh Trapper is the largest automobile transporter in the world, 200 meters long and 36 meters wide. But the major attraction is actually behind the steel hull: a gigantic cargo area, in total over 71,000 square meters. There’s enough room for almost 10,000 cars and and hundreds of the so-called “high and heavies”: gigantic machines of any kind.

Frank.

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Israeli embassy staff shot dead in DC

Two staff members of the Israeli embassy have been shot and killed while leaving an event at a Jewish museum in the nation’s capital, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said. The two victims, a man and a woman, were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum when the suspect approached a group of four people and opened fire, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said.

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