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Wild West Tech: Deadwood Tech.
Saturday, April 04 at 9 AM EDT
Modern Marvels: Diamond Mines.
Wednesday, April 08 at 1 PM EDT
Modern Marvels: Diamond Mines.
Wednesday, April 08 at 7 PM EDT
Modern Marvels: Magnets.
Thursday, April 09 at 1 PM EDT
Modern Marvels: Magnets.
Thursday, April 09 at 7 PM EDT
Modern Marvels: 90's Tech
Saturday, March 28 at 7 PM EDT
Modern Marvels: Sub Zero.
Friday, March 27 at 1 PM EDT
Modern Marvels: Sub Zero.
Friday, March 27 at 7 PM EDT
Wild West Tech: Deadwood Tech. Saturday, April 04 at 9 AM EDT
Deadwood Tech.. Touted as one of the "liveliest and peculiar places west of the Mississippi", in Deadwood, speculators, misfits, and cold-blooded killers came together to stake their claim. Located in South Dakota's Black Hills, in
Modern Marvels: Diamond Mines. Wednesday, April 08 at 1 PM EDT
Diamond Mines.. Half a mile below the earth's surface, men mine for rough diamonds--a pure carbon substance. Brilliant when cut and polished, they are marketed as the most precious gem in the world. From the earliest mines of the 4th century BC to
Modern Marvels: Diamond Mines. Wednesday, April 08 at 7 PM EDT
Diamond Mines.. Half a mile below the earth's surface, men mine for rough diamonds--a pure carbon substance. Brilliant when cut and polished, they are marketed as the most precious gem in the world. From the earliest mines of the 4th century BC to
Modern Marvels: Magnets. Thursday, April 09 at 1 PM EDT
Magnets.. We played with them as children, but the world of magnets isn't kid's stuff! The pervasive magnet serves as the underpinning for much of modern technology. They can be found in computers, cars, phones, VCRs, TVs, vacuum cleaners, the washer
Modern Marvels: Magnets. Thursday, April 09 at 7 PM EDT
Magnets.. We played with them as children, but the world of magnets isn't kid's stuff! The pervasive magnet serves as the underpinning for much of modern technology. They can be found in computers, cars, phones, VCRs, TVs, vacuum cleaners, the washer
Modern Marvels: 90's Tech Saturday, March 28 at 7 PM EDT
90's Tech. The dot com decade opened up the information superhighway and for the first time, people could shop, search, and surf online with the click of a mouse. Take a trip back to the end of the 20th century and the beginning of
Modern Marvels: Sub Zero. Friday, March 27 at 1 PM EDT
Sub Zero.. Come in from the cold while we explore some of Earth's most frigid places and examine how man copes with sub-zero climates. With the advance of technology, our boundaries have expanded--from the North and South Poles, to the
Modern Marvels: Sub Zero. Friday, March 27 at 7 PM EDT
Sub Zero.. Come in from the cold while we explore some of Earth's most frigid places and examine how man copes with sub-zero climates. With the advance of technology, our boundaries have expanded--from the North and South Poles, to the
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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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