Enemy of All Mankind | A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt | S30-E1

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Ferris Wheel | Wheel in the Sky | S31-E1

The 1889 World’s Fair in Paris dazzles attendees with the Eiffel Tower. So, when plans begin for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, the mandate is clear: beat the Tower. 

America’s architects and engineers compete to win the job – but every proposal they submit is mo ...

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Radar | Welcome to Tuxedo Park | S33-E1

What technology won WWII? Most people would say the atomic bomb, but the real answer is radar.

As a small island country, vulnerable to aerial attacks, England took the lead in developing radar in the 1930s. But the early radar systems were too massive to fit into planes ...

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