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The History of Whaling
Episode 1719
Whaling is something that humans have engaged in for thousands of years.
For most of that time, indigenous groups conducted it on a small scale for su…
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Earth’s Magnetic Pole Reversals (Encore)
Episode 1718
Once every 450,000 years or so, the Earth undergoes a radical transformation.
The planet’s magnetic field will literally flip. The North Pole becomes…
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March Madness
Episode 1717
Every March, the United States experiences a period known as March Madness. It is the time when college basketball teams compete for a national cham…
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Why is the Alphabet in Alphabetical Order?
All of you are familiar with the ABCs. It is one of the very first things that children are taught.
Not only are they taught the letters that comprise…
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The Battle of Gettysburg
In the summer of 1863, after two years of war, Confederate General Robert E. Lee felt it was possible to swiftly end the conflict by taking the fight…
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The Invention of the Telephone
Episode 1714
The 19th century was one of rapid technological advancement.
Of all of the innovations to come out of this century, and there were many, perhaps none…
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Betamax vs. VHS (Encore)
Episode 1713
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a war erupted in the world of video technology.
Two competing video tape formats fought to gain supremacy in the ma…
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The Cardiff Giant
Episode 1712
In 1869, the world was shocked by a discovery that was made outside of the town of Cardiff, New York.
Two workers discovered what was claimed to be t…
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Lunar Eclipses
Episode 1711
For as long as humans have been watching the night sky, they noticed that every so often, during a full moon, the moon would briefly go dark, or at l…
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The Crossbow
Episode 1710
One of the most devastating weapons in the medieval world was the crossbow.
It evolved from early hand-held projectile weapons into a powerful tool o…
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