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Modern Marvels: The Telephone.
Friday, November 27 at 1 PM EST
Modern Marvels: The Telephone.
Friday, November 27 at 7 PM EST
Modern Marvels: Cheese
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Modern Marvels: Cheese
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Modern Marvels: More Bond Gadgets.
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Modern Marvels: The Telephone. Friday, November 27 at 1 PM EST
The Telephone.. From Alexander Graham Bell's crude creation, to today's high-speed wireless networks, we'll look into the past, present and future of the telephone. We'll visit the AT&T archives to see how the very first telephone boxes wired
Modern Marvels: The Telephone. Friday, November 27 at 7 PM EST
The Telephone.. From Alexander Graham Bell's crude creation, to today's high-speed wireless networks, we'll look into the past, present and future of the telephone. We'll visit the AT&T archives to see how the very first telephone boxes wired
Modern Marvels: Cheese Monday, November 23 at 11 PM EST
Cheese. From cheddar to brie, Parmesan to blue, take a look at both ancient techniques and new technologies behind some of the world's most popular cheeses. Visit the cow pastures of Wisconsin to the giant cheese factories of California to discover
Modern Marvels: Cheese Tuesday, November 24 at 3 AM EST
Cheese. From cheddar to brie, Parmesan to blue, take a look at both ancient techniques and new technologies behind some of the world's most popular cheeses. Visit the cow pastures of Wisconsin to the giant cheese factories of California to discover
Modern Marvels: More Bond Gadgets. Tuesday, November 24 at 1 PM EST
More Bond Gadgets.. He's everyone's favorite spy, the man with a woman in every port and a gadget in every pocket! No villain is too strong, no situation too tough for His Majesty's Secret Agent, thanks to his wits, cunning, and the best toys on the
Modern Marvels: More Bond Gadgets. Tuesday, November 24 at 7 PM EST
More Bond Gadgets.. He's everyone's favorite spy, the man with a woman in every port and a gadget in every pocket! No villain is too strong, no situation too tough for His Majesty's Secret Agent, thanks to his wits, cunning, and the best toys on the
Modern Marvels: Harvesting. Wednesday, November 25 at 7 AM EST
Harvesting.. Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking--whatever the crop, there's a custom machine to harvest it. It all began with handpicking and today it's often one man and one machine harvesting hundreds of acres in a single
Modern Marvels: Coffee. Friday, November 27 at 11 PM EST
Coffee.. Traces the origins of this tasty drink from Ethiopia over 1,000 years ago to the espresso-fueled explosion of specialty coffee stores like Starbucks today. Along the way, we'll see how American companies like Hills Brothers, Maxwell House,
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SPACE EXPLORATION,

The space age and practical astronautics commenced with the launching of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union in October 1957 and of Explorer 1 by the U.S. in January 1958. In October 1958 the NASA was created in the U.S. During the following decades, thousands of spacecraft of all varieties were launched, mostly in earth orbit. The overwhelming majority of these were launched by the Soviet Union and by the U.S.

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1983 First African American in space
1963 The U.S.-Soviet "hot line" goes into operation
1945 MacArthur arrives in Japan
1918 Vladimir Lenin shot
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