| S2021E01 |
The First New Deal: Stemming the Tide of Depression in 1933
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January 1, 2021
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16
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| S2021E02 |
Lockheed D-21 - The Drone Version of the SR-71
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January 4, 2021
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14
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| S2021E03 |
SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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January 6, 2021
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14
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Execution - Finding An Ethical Way to Kill
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January 8, 2021
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17
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| S2021E05 |
The Davy Crockett - America's Tactical Nuclear Weapon
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January 11, 2021
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11
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The Hanford Site - Powering the Manhattan Project
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January 13, 2021
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19
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Bathyscaphe Triest - The Quest to Actually Dive 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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January 15, 2021
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12
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The Hunt for the Unabomber
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January 18, 2021
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19
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ICBMs - Enabling the End of the World
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January 20, 2021
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17
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| S2021E10 |
Operation Black Buck - The UK's Mega Bombing Runs in the Falklands War
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January 22, 2021
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17
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| S2021E11 |
The World Trade Centre - The Tragic Story of New York's Twin Towers
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January 25, 2021
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17
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| S2021E12 |
The Arecibo Telescope - Puerto Rico's Iconic Instrument (That Didn't Survive 2020)
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January 27, 2021
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17
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| S2021E13 |
SOSUS - Spying on Soviet Submarines
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January 29, 2021
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16
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| S2021E14 |
Skunk Works - The Dream Factory for War
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February 1, 2021
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15
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| S2021E15 |
The Golden Gate - San Francisco's Iconic Bridge
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February 2, 2021
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16
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| S2021E16 |
Drilling for Climatology - Antarctica's Deep Bore Ice Cores
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February 5, 2021
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16
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| S2021E17 |
Chichen Itza - Mexico's Mayan Wonder
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February 8, 2021
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13
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The Establishment of Jamestown - Staving Off Death in England's First Permanent American Settlement
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February 10, 2021
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18
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| S2021E19 |
The Boeing Everett Factory - The Biggest Building in the World (By Far)
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February 12, 2021
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14
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| S2021E20 |
The B-29 - America's Flying Superfortress
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February 15, 2021
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18
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| S2021E21 |
The AK-47 - The Most Reliable Killing Machine in Modern History
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February 17, 2021
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14
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| S2021E22 |
The Space Shuttle - NASA's Astronaut Pod
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February 19, 2021
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20
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| S2021E23 |
The SS United States - A Throwback Ocean Liner That Refuses to Die
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February 22, 2021
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16
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| S2021E24 |
The DB Cooper Case - The Only Successful Skyjacking in U S History
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February 25, 2021
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20
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| S2021E25 |
Railguns - The Kinetic Future of Warfare
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February 26, 2021
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13
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| S2021E26 |
Hadrian’s Wall - The Mysterious 38th Parallel for Roman Legionaries and British Barbarians
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March 1, 2021
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17
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| S2021E27 |
Airbus A300 - The European Jet That Challenged Boeing's Air Supremacy
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March 3, 2021
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19
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| S2021E28 |
The James Bay Project - Three Gorges Dam of the West
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March 5, 2021
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17
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| S2021E29 |
The V-3 Cannon - Hitler's Unfinished Mega-Gun
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March 8, 2021
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16
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| S2021E30 |
SR-72 - The Son of Blackbird
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March 8, 2021
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12
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| S2021E31 |
The Seawise Giant - The Middle Eastern Oil Tanker That Refused to Die
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March 12, 2021
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12
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| S2021E32 |
The Paris Gun - Germany's Infamous Artillery Weapon from World War I
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March 15, 2021
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14
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| S2021E33 |
Apollo 13 - Houston, We Have a Problem
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March 17, 2021
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18
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| S2021E34 |
The New Coastal Road - Building a Highway Around an Island
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March 19, 2021
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12
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| S2021E35 |
The US Capitol - America's Legislative Center
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March 22, 2021
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15
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| S2021E36 |
The V-1 Flying Bomb - The Nazi Cruise Missile
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March 24, 2021
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15
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| S2021E37 |
The Ho Chi Minh Trail - How the Vietnam War was Won
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March 26, 2021
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16
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| S2021E38 |
The Lewis and Clark Expedition - How the USA Discovered Its Eventual Western Borders
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March 29, 2021
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20
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| S2021E39 |
The Human Genome Project - The 13-Year Quest to Chart the Mysteries of Human Genetics
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March 31, 2021
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17
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| S2021E40 |
The Symphony of the Seas - The World's Largest Cruise Ship
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April 2, 2021
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19
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| S2021E41 |
The T35 - The Soviet Union's Land Based Battleship
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April 5, 2021
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15
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| S2021E42 |
Russia's Road of Bones - The Eastern Highway That's Literally Built on Corpses
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April 7, 2021
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14
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| S2021E43 |
Zumwalt Destroyers - Three Next-Generation US Stealth Ships (That Kind of Look Like Ironclads)
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April 9, 2021
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17
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| S2021E44 |
The Stargate Project - When the CIA Dabbled with the Psychic
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April 12, 2021
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17
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| S2021E45 |
The Nazi Sun Gun - Remembering That Time When Hitler Wanted a Death Star
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April 14, 2021
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12
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| S2021E46 |
The Enigma Machine - The Totally, Definitely, Absolutely Unbreakable Sequence of German War Codes
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April 16, 2021
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18
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| S2021E47 |
The Forbidden City - The Magnificent Imperial Palaces of Dynastic China
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April 19, 2021
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15
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| S2021E48 |
The V2 Rocket - How Nazi Germany Created The World's First Guided Ballistic Missile
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April 21, 2021
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17
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| S2021E49 |
The US Interstate System - More than 40,000 Miles of Open Road
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April 23, 2021
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17
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| S2021E50 |
Soviet TU160 - The Supersonic 'White Swan' of Russian Aircraft
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April 26, 2021
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16
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| S2021E51 |
Seawolf Class Submarine - Hunting the Soviet Typhoon
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April 28, 2021
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14
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| S2021E52 |
The Death Rail - The SiamBurma Railway Route That Was Built By Japanese Prisoners in World War II
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April 29, 2021
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17
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| S2021E53 |
Voyager 1 - The Furthest Man-Made Object From Earth
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April 30, 2021
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18
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| S2021E54 |
The Tsar Bomba - Building the World's Biggest Nuke
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May 3, 2021
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13
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| S2021E55 |
The Harrier Jump Jet - How Cold War Anxiety Inspired a Vertical Takeoff
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May 5, 2021
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23
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The Nuclear Arms Race (And Its Decline)
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May 7, 2021
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20
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| S2021E57 |
The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
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May 10, 2021
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13
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| S2021E58 |
Walls of Constantinople - The Last Great Ancient Fortification
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May 12, 2021
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18
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| S2021E59 |
Operation Bodyguard - The Absolutely Crazy (And Successful) Plan to Fool Hitler Before D-Day
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May 14, 2021
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15
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| S2021E60 |
Boeing X37 - America's Secret Space Plane
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May 17, 2021
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14
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| S2021E61 |
India's Railway System: Carrying 8 Billion People Every Year
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May 19, 2021
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14
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| S2021E62 |
The Event Horizon Telescope - Taking a Picture of a Black Hole
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May 21, 2021
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14
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| S2021E63 |
Westminster Palace - One Thousand Years of History
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May 24, 2021
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16
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| S2021E64 |
The Snowy Mountains Scheme - Bringing More Water to Australia from On High
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May 26, 2021
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12
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| S2021E65 |
Amundsen vs Scott - The Race to the South Pole
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May 28, 2021
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18
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| S2021E66 |
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
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May 31, 2021
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20
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| S2021E67 |
The Colt Single Action Army Revolver - The Gun that Won the West
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June 2, 2021
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15
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| S2021E68 |
The Syracusia - Archimedes' Massive Sailing Ship
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June 4, 2021
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14
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| S2021E69 |
The Suez Canal - The Desert Ditch Ferrying 1 Billion Tons of Goods Every Year (When It's Not Blocked)
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June 7, 2021
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16
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| S2021E70 |
USS Nautilus - The First Nuclear Powered Submarine
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June 9, 2021
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15
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| S2021E71 |
NASA's Crawler Transporter - How Does the US Spaceship Get Set Up Before Blastoff
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June 11, 2021
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12
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| S2021E72 |
Lockheed AC-130 - The Angel of Death
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June 14, 2021
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16
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| S2021E73 |
The Louvre - The Largest Art Museum in the World
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June 16, 2021
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16
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| S2021E74 |
The German Autobahn System - The Benefits of Unlimited Speed
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June 18, 2021
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15
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| S2021E75 |
The London Underground - How 'The Tube' Became the First Modern Subway System
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June 21, 2021
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19
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| S2021E76 |
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter - The Flying Coffin
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June 23, 2021
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17
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| S2021E77 |
The 1970s Soviet Mission to Mars
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June 25, 2021
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16
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| S2021E78 |
Australia's Highway 1 - The Longest National Highway in the World
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June 28, 2021
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13
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| S2021E79 |
The James Webb Space Telescope - Evolving Hubble for the 21st Century
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June 30, 2021
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16
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| S2021E80 |
Char 2C - The Largest (Operational) Tank Ever Made
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July 2, 2021
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16
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| S2021E81 |
Acoustic Kitty - The CIA's Plan to Spy... with Cats
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July 5, 2021
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16
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| S2021E82 |
Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar - The Spaceplane With a Silly Name
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July 7, 2021
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13
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| S2021E83 |
Hunting Nazis - How Israel Captured Adolf Eichmann
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July 9, 2021
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20
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New York's Subway System - The Most Expensive Railway Ever Constructed
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July 12, 2021
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13
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| S2021E85 |
The Dissolution of the USSR
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July 14, 2021
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22
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| S2021E86 |
The Great Alaska Pipeline
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July 16, 2021
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18
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| S2021E87 |
Essex Class Aircraft Carriers - Revolutionizing Modern Warfare
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July 19, 2021
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13
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| S2021E88 |
The Hong Kong Express Rail Link - The Most Expensive Infrastructure in Hong Kong's History
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July 20, 2021
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14
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| S2021E89 |
Nazi Germany's Nuclear Weapons Program
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July 21, 2021
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16
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| S2021E90 |
The MQ-8 Fire Scout - America's Unmanned Robot Helicopter
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July 22, 2021
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16
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| S2021E91 |
The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
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July 23, 2021
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19
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| S2021E92 |
The Eradication of Polio
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July 26, 2021
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17
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| S2021E93 |
Perseverance - NASA's 2020 Mission to Mars
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July 28, 2021
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19
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| S2021E94 |
Rebuilding Japan after World War II
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July 29, 2021
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17
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| S2021E95 |
The YAK-41 - The Soviet Attempt at a VTOL Aircraft
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July 30, 2021
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21
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Africa's Great Green Wall - Stopping the Spread of the Sahara
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July 31, 2021
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17
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| S2021E97 |
Hypersonic Aircraft - Breaking Mach-5 With Next-Generation Jets
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August 2, 2021
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14
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| S2021E98 |
The Atlantic Wall - The Nazi Defence of Europe
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August 4, 2021
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16
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| S2021E99 |
Black Gold - The Rapid Rise of Saudi Arabia
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August 6, 2021
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15
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The White Sea–Baltic Canal - Stalin's Western Industrial Project That Cost 250,000 Lives
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August 9, 2021
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15
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| S2021E101 |
The F-35 Lightning - Jack of All Trades, or Master of None
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August 11, 2021
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22
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The Rise and Quick Fall of Chaco
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August 13, 2021
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16
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| S2021E103 |
The Wright Flyer - The Spectacular Birth of Modern Flight (That Many People Believed Was Fake)
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August 16, 2021
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15
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| S2021E104 |
The Buran - The Soviet Union's Suspiciously Familiar-Looking Space Shuttle
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August 18, 2021
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16
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| S2021E105 |
The British Empire - The Good, Bad, and Ugly Details of The World's Largest Empire
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August 20, 2021
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21
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| S2021E106 |
The Parker Solar Probe - Firing Sensors into the Sun
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August 23, 2021
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15
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| S2021E107 |
Making Maps - The Story of the UK's Ordnance Survey
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August 25, 2021
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18
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| S2021E108 |
The Antonine Wall - The Other Great Roman Wall
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August 27, 2021
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16
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| S2021E109 |
The Lockheed Have Blue - First in Stealth
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August 30, 2021
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17
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| S2021E110 |
The Satan-2 - Vladimir Putin's Hypersonic Nuke
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September 1, 2021
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16
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| S2021E111 |
The Defence of Stalingrad
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September 3, 2021
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16
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Building Dubai - The City in the Desert
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September 6, 2021
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19
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| S2021E113 |
The Oresund Bridge - Connecting Sweden and Denmark
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September 8, 2021
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14
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| S2021E114 |
After 9/11 - Rebuilding After America's Worst Terrorist Attack
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September 10, 2021
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14
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| S2021E115 |
Sputnik I - How the First Soviet Artificial Satellite Caused an American Panic
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September 13, 2021
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16
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| S2021E116 |
The Long March - The 9,000 Kilometer Retreat that Led to Mao's Communist Victory
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September 15, 2021
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20
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| S2021E117 |
The Thames Tunnel - The World's First Underwater Passage
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September 17, 2021
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18
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| S2021E118 |
Kansai Floating Airport - Japan's Popular Aquatic Airport (That's Sinking into Osaka Bay)
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September 20, 2021
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18
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| S2021E119 |
The Iron Dome - Israel's Ultimate Missile Defence
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September 24, 2021
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17
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| S2021E120 |
Building Britain's Canals - How the UK Powered Up for the Pre-Railroad Industrial Revolution
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September 27, 2021
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| S2021E121 |
I-400 - The Japanese Submarine... That Was Also An Aircraft Carrier
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September 30, 2021
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17
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| S2021E122 |
The Rolls Royce Merlin - Powering History's Most Famous Fighters
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October 1, 2021
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16
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| S2021E123 |
The Kremlin - The Fortress Behind Russian Power
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October 4, 2021
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15
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| S2021E124 |
Angkor Wat - Cambodia's Magnificent City of Temples
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October 6, 2021
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14
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| S2021E125 |
The Tu-95 - Dropping Russian Bombs for 100 Years
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October 11, 2021
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16
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| S2021E126 |
Prelude FLNG - The Largest Offshore Facility Ever Created
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October 13, 2021
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12
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| S2021E127 |
Eradicating Smallpox - The Horrific Disease We Destroyed
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October 15, 2021
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22
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| S2021E128 |
The Akron and Makon Airships - That Time the USA Decided they Wanted a Hindenburg…
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October 18, 2021
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12
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| S2021E129 |
The Battleship Bismarck - Challenging British Naval Supremacy with a Super-Armoured Ship
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October 20, 2021
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19
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| S2021E130 |
Yuri Gagarin and The First Human Mission Into Space.... Or Was It
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October 22, 2021
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19
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| S2021E131 |
The Great Mosque of Mecca - The Largest (And Holiest) Mosque in the World
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October 25, 2021
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13
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| S2021E132 |
Wascally Wabbits - The Rabbit-Proof Fence That's Sealing Off Australia
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October 27, 2021
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19
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| S2021E133 |
Formula 1 - A Short History of the Pinnacle of Racing
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October 29, 2021
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19
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| S2021E134 |
Mir Space Station - The Original Space Habitat
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November 1, 2021
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19
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Falcon 9 - SpaceX's Reusable Rocket
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November 3, 2021
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12
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| S2021E136 |
B-47 Stratojet - A Danger to Enemies, a Danger to Fly
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November 8, 2021
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18
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The Soviet Nuclear-Powered Lighthouses
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November 10, 2021
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13
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| S2021E138 |
The Black Dragon M1 Howitzer - The WWII Superheavy Artillery That's Still Relevant in Taiwan
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November 12, 2021
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11
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| S2021E139 |
The Temple of Artemis - The Great Wonder of Ephesus (That Kept Getting Destroyed)
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November 15, 2021
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14
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| S2021E140 |
Railway Mania! Building the Victorian Railways in Britain
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November 17, 2021
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14
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| S2021E141 |
Churchill Falls - Canada's Incredible Underground Power Station of the 1960s
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November 19, 2021
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12
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| S2021E142 |
HMS Vanguard - The Royal Navy's Largest Battleship
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November 22, 2021
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12
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Reunification - Re-Absorbing East Germany After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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November 24, 2021
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17
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Nord Stream - The Longest Sub-Sea Pipeline in the World
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November 26, 2021
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| S2021E145 |
GPS - How Satellites Revolutionized Our Mastery of Geography
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November 29, 2021
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11
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| S2021E146 |
Operation Downfall - The Allies' Plan for an Invasion of Japan
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December 1, 2021
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13
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| S2021E147 |
The Presidential Compound - Turkey's Insane Presidential House
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December 3, 2021
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13
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| S2021E148 |
Millau Viaduct - The World's Tallest Bridge
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December 6, 2021
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15
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| S2021E149 |
Saturation Diving - The Incredible World of Underwater Construction
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December 8, 2021
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| S2021E150 |
Northrop YF-23 - The Grey Ghost
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December 10, 2021
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The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy - Moving the US Military
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December 13, 2021
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13
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| S2021E152 |
The Forth Bridge - An Incredible 19th Century Achievement
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December 15, 2021
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10
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| S2021E153 |
Sky City - The Skyscraper China Tried (and Failed) to Build in 90 Days
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December 17, 2021
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12
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| S2021E154 |
RMS Olympic - The Titanic That Didn't Sink (Right Away)
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December 20, 2021
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13
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The North American X-15
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December 22, 2021
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16
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The A-10 Warthog
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December 24, 2021
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16
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The Union Pacific GTEL Locomotives
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December 29, 2021
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The Iron Curtain - The Cold War's Deadly Line of Demarcation
season finale
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December 31, 2021
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