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The Global Legacy of the Boston Tea Party
The article “The Global Legacy of the Boston Tea Party” from BBC's HistoryExtra explains how the 1773 protest in Boston was influenced by global trade, colonial oppression, and the British Empire's economic crisis. The protest, where patriots dumped tea into Boston Harbor, sparked a revolution and became a model for civil disobedience around the world.
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A Hot Commodity: Chili Production

In A Hot Commodity: Chili Production, presenter Cherry Healey visits Guntur, India, to explore a chili farm and factory. Her eyes are watering, but that doesn’t stop her from helping pick, process, and grind the chili plants into powder. Learn how chili flakes and powder are made, and how India supplies the entire world with chili. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in the factories that make our favorite products.