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Why the USS Wahoo and Its Skipper Were a Perfect Match (01:22)
What a Broom Tied to a Periscope Means in the U.S. Navy (01:47)
Why the Templar Secret Rituals Were So Controversial (02:07)
How the Knights Templar Came to Be (01:50)
Was This Hidden Tunnel Used by the Knights Templar? (01:18)
Native Americans Saw Buffalo as More Than Just Food (02:29)
Why the U.S. Army Guarded the 23 Remaining American Buffalo (02:40)
How the British Cleverly Diverted Nazi Missiles (02:13)
The Only Live News Report from the Attack on Pearl Harbor (02:05)
Video: Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak Uses Satellites to Uncover Ancient Egyptian Ruins (01:20)
The National Museum of Natural History Gets a Facelift (21:31)
The Nazi Engineer Who Created the First Ballistic Missile (02:02)
Do We Finally Know How the Holy Grail Disappeared? (02:45)
Why Porsche Is Revisiting the Hybrid Car It Also Invented (02:05)
The Typos on This Dead Sea Scroll Don't Mean It's Fake (02:26)
Why Was King Tut's Tomb Prepared in Such a Rush? (03:31)
The Exorcist's Rule Book (02:07)
Why Churchill Approved a Risky Mission on a Nazi Stronghold (03:22)
The Horrifying True Story Behind the Movie 'Scream' (02:50)
A Heroic Mission to Disarm Nazi Snipers Goes Very Wrong (04:00)
The 1960s Conspiracy That Inspired Spielberg (04:38)
Ask Smithsonian: When Did People Start Keeping Pets? (01:05)
What Is the Glass Palace Chronicle and Why Is It Important? (01:14)
How the Thinnest Burmese Gold Leaf Is Made (02:00)
The Daring Plan to Steal Nazi Radar Technology (03:05)
What These Mysterious Scrolls Tell Us About Women in Petra (02:17)
Were the Women of Petra More Important Than Men? (03:34)
The Burmese Monument That Appears to Defy Gravity (02:51)
The $10 Million Race to Invent Star Trek's Tricorder (04:15)
Why Dead Rulers of the Han Dynasty Were Plugged With Jade (03:33)
Wu Zetian's Bold Move at the Spectacular Longmen Grottoes (02:48)
Does China's Only Female Emperor Deserve Her Bad Rap? (02:17)