
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
In which #7 and #13 go up to Michigan to see the Dymaxion House.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Supplement
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In which #7 and #13 go up to Michigan to see the Dymaxion House.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Supplement
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It was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind... so why aren't you living in one right now?
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 13
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A system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... and made from index cards.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 13
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Everyone knows the first battles of the American Revolution were Lexington and Concord... unless, that is, you live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Categories: People & Places, Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 13
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In which a mysterious lost people turn out to not be so mysterious after all... and maybe not even all that lost, if the Internet can be believed.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 13
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The Canadian revolution seemed over... and then the Redcoats seized an American ship, set it on fire, and sent it plunging over Niagara Falls.
Categories: History, Series 13
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A special treat: "Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, read by the incomparable Eric Leslie.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Bonus Episodes, Least Popular
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An instructive tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-so-clever.
Categories: Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 13, Sports & Leisure, The Quest for the Past
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The Countess di Frasso was the most famous hostess in the world, who threw parties for kings; actors, athletes and aviators; Nazis and mobsters.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Biography, Eccentrics & Prophecies, Entertainment & Media, People & Places, Series 13
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Listen up, fruitcake... or, rather, listen up -- fruitcake! Everything you never wanted to know about your least favorite holiday treat.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Series 13, Strange Customs & Superstitions
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For seven years he lived in hell, tormented nightly by a demon cat and the spectre of death. Finally, an angel told him what he had to do to end it all...
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, People & Places, Series 13
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The story of Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England. Just remember that the most and least haunted house are the exact same amount of haunted...
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 13
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