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Hazardous-material shipment trucks carrying classified government materials Con-Air flight moves dangerous felons.
2025-12-05 17:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 17:52:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Modern Marvels
Food trucks are hitting the big time across much of America, they're changing the way people eat from humble beginnings as chuck wagons and hot dog carts, they've taken off as ethnic eateries, gourmet specialists, and even high-tech mega trucks.
2025-12-05 16:11:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 17:00:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
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Complex engineering failures include Sun Valley's 200-foot sinkhole, Laguna Beach landslide destroying 11 homes, Charles de Gaulle Terminal 2E roof collapse killing four, Fokker F-10 crash with Knute Rockne, and Marine Electric sinking disasters.
2025-12-05 15:20:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 16:11:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Throughout history the same builders and engineers that paved man's path out of the caves and into the modern world also caused some of mankind's worst disasters often a huge calamity is traced back to a tiny cause, but triggering a domino effect.
2025-12-05 10:06:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 10:59:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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A steam pipe explosion rocks New Yorkers on a summer day in Midtown Manhattan Boston's Big Dig highway project suffers a major setback when sections of a tunnel ceiling fall onto the roadway.
2025-12-05 09:14:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 10:06:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Sinking of Ocean Ranger offshore oil rig plane carrying golfer Payne Stewart malfunctions Connecticut Turnpike collapse South Fork Dam failure PEPCON jet fuel plant explosion.
2025-12-05 08:24:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 09:14:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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The Baldwin Hills dam collapse in Los Angeles a wing separates from a passenger plane a freighter slams into a Florida bridge the Northridge earthquake of 1994.
2025-12-05 07:32:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 08:24:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Examine mysterious maritime tragedies including Edmund Fitzgerald's 1975 sinking, Boeing 737 rudder crashes in 1991 and 1994, secret 1959 government nuclear facility meltdown, 4-million gallon diesel storage tank failure, and more.
2025-12-05 06:42:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 07:32:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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From a massive oil spill to refinery blaze to a downed plane, find out what went wrong and how to prevent the next engineering disaster.
2025-12-05 05:52:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 06:42:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Hazardous-material shipment trucks carrying classified government materials Con-Air flight moves dangerous felons.
2025-12-05 05:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 05:52:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels Essentials: Logging Tech
Meet the loggers who started it all, and find out what really happens on the journey from stump to sawmill.
2025-12-05 04:33:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 05:00:00 +0000 UTC(27m)
Modern Marvels
Shoes have come a long way from their humble beginnings as simple leather moccasins Nowaday footwear is built to withstand any extreme environment where a foot can tread, from the heart of a burning building to the track of an Olympic stadium.
2025-12-05 03:43:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-05 04:33:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
The 1969 flight of Apollo 11, which landed two American astronauts on the Moon, as seen through the eyes of the astronauts, mission controllers, engineers, and designers who made it happen.
2025-12-04 21:31:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 22:25:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
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Star City, the Gagarin Center for Training Cosmonauts, was established by the former Soviet Union in the 1960s as a school for the future conquerors of space.
2025-12-04 20:38:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 21:31:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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With technological advances, our ancient struggle against the sea has turned into a luxurious holiday a peek at the elegant life on these floating resorts.
2025-12-04 19:43:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 20:38:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
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Exploring the ocean floor using old and new technology and examining revolutionary biological and geological discoveries.
2025-12-04 18:47:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 19:43:00 +0000 UTC(56m)
Modern Marvels
Nuclear submarines carry more firepower than all bombs dropped in history since the 1950s, these steel vessels became U.S. defense cornerstones, sparking Cold War underwater competition and creating engineering miracles for deterrence.
2025-12-04 17:53:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 18:47:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
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Battered and fried or simply raw--seafood is a popular dish, no matter how you serve it americans consume more than 5-billion pounds yearly, an order that takes more than a fishing rod to fill and worries conservationists.
2025-12-04 17:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 17:53:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels Essentials: Logging Tech
Meet the loggers who started it all, and find out what really happens on the journey from stump to sawmill.
2025-12-04 16:33:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 17:00:00 +0000 UTC(27m)
Modern Marvels
Shoes have come a long way from their humble beginnings as simple leather moccasins Nowaday footwear is built to withstand any extreme environment where a foot can tread, from the heart of a burning building to the track of an Olympic stadium.
2025-12-04 15:43:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 16:33:00 +0000 UTC(50m)