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Hell
I need this on my wall, ASAP.
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Meltdown Three Mile Island
They still had the same types of liars we'd recognize today.
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Hemingway
This one scratches an itch. I need some Ken Burns documentaries more than ever. I remember once seeing a viral video that was made by a couple for their wedding. The video used the exact formula and style of "Drunk History" to recount the story of how the
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Alexandria
I watch a ton of these low-rent documentaries. Smithsonian Channel pumps these out in bulk. History Channel basically only makes these. "Xive TV" is some foreign studio Amazon Prime fortunately taps into. They also have a bunch of German and French-produced documentaries which are sometimes double-
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Lost Alphabets
It kept bugging me "Dalziel" is pronounced DEE-ell, and not DAL-zee-ELL. I'm still slowly making my way through that show. It's not bad. I could probably find something more compelling, but I'm sticking with it. Anyway, I came across
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The Fujita Scale
I saw another good episode of American Experience, this one is on Ted Fujita. He had tornados figured out pretty well, and was the first to really categorize their destructive power accurately. He was on-site to study the aftermath of the atom bomb at Nagasaki and went to the
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Oak Island
Is this history? Is this a just a show watching some guys with a metal detector and immediately jumping to every conclusion possible, every time, with everything seen. Any and all theories makes sense on Oak Island. The biggest star of the show is the narrator. All the narrator does
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Elizabeth Friedman
I watched a pretty good episode of American Experience on Tuesday evening. Like usual, it was a pretty good story. The way they set it up, I thought this would be profiling one of the women stationed at Bletchley Park during WWII, and her unsung role in that triumph of
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National WWI Museum
I was extremely impressed with this museum in Kansas City, MO. I stuck my neck out more than any other time in the pandemic to have the opportunity to visit here on Veteran's Day aka Armistice Day aka Remembrance Day (November 11).