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The Cheyenne Mountain Complex
Episode 2260
Buried deep beneath thousands of feet of granite in Colorado is one of the most famous military installations ever built.
Designed during the Cold W…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ivan the Terrible
Episode 2259
In the 16th century, one ruler transformed a growing principality into a powerful empire, crowned himself with a new title, conquered vast territorie…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem
Episode 2257
For centuries, one of the holiest places in Christianity has been governed by an extraordinarily delicate balance of tradition, property rights, reli…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Srivijaya Empire
Episode 2257
For centuries, one of Asia's most powerful empires controlled the vital sea lanes connecting China, India, and the Middle East.
It grew fabulously w…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
A History of Looney Tunes
Episode 2256
For decades, audiences around the world have watched a collection of characters survive explosions, outwit hunters, fall from cliffs, and repeatedly …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Organ Transplants
Episode 2255
For most of human history, when a vital part of the body failed, there was little doctors could do.
Then a series of advances in surgery, immunology…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Pirahã People
Episode 2254
Deep in the Amazon rainforest lives a small society that has challenged some of our most basic assumptions about language, numbers, time, memory, and…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Great Awakening
Episode 2253
In the early 18th century, religion in the American colonies was often orderly, formal, and deeply tied to established churches.
Then a new generati…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mosquitoes
Episode 2252
Throughout human history, a tiny insect has influenced wars, shaped settlement patterns, halted major engineering projects, and caused more deaths th…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The 1920 Wall Street Bombing
Episode 2251
At 12:01 PM on Thursday, September 16, 1920, a large explosion went off in the heart of America’s financial industry.
30 people were killed instantl…
1 month, 4 weeks ago