Modern Marvels
The Allies devise scientific and mechanical breakthroughs to thwart Hitler's Atlantic Wall and to make the D-Day invasion successful.
2026-01-30 10:09:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-30 11:01:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Modern Marvels
Americans insert more than 3.5 million coins into vending machines every 15 minutes how vending machines work visiting a factory that produces high-tech vending machines giant gumball machine.
2026-01-30 04:11:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-30 05:00:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
When cultures develop literacy, science, and language, codes emerge spontaneously explore the rich history of secret symbolic communication from Egyptian hieroglyphics to Caesar's encryption, wartime codebreakers, and cyberspace.
2026-01-30 03:20:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-30 04:11:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
America's technologically advanced military descends from Civil War innovations the first modern war introduced machine guns, aerial reconnaissance, battlefield medicine, ironclad ships, and aircraft carriers that revolutionized warfare.
2026-01-30 02:29:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-30 03:20:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Chrome hot rod the Chrome Shop Mafia adds bling to truckers' big rigs in Missouri Illinois' Arlington Plating Co. adds luster to auto parts how Harley-Davidson puts chrome to work as both a decorative and protective feature of motorcycles.
2026-01-30 01:41:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-30 02:29:00 +0000 UTC(48m)
Modern Marvels
More than two million people die in the U.S. annually, creating 5,500 daily burials with 80 percent choosing caskets and 20 percent cremation explore dealing with death throughout centuries and today's $20-billion funeral industry.
2026-01-30 00:48:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-30 01:41:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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A journey back to an unruly era examining the complexity of their construction and the multi-purpose they served homes to kings and nobles, economic centers, courthouses, treasuries, prisons, and torture chambers.
2026-01-29 23:55:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-30 00:48:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
An exciting spin through the history of the casino going behind the neon lights, free drinks, and 24-hour gambling to see how the gaming industry has evolved from a simple house of cards to a high-tech multi-billion dollar industry.
2026-01-29 23:02:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 23:55:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
All life-forms and modern technology are built on a foundation of carbon the steel industry coal-fired power plants graphite pencils a charcoal water filter diamonds.
2026-01-29 22:11:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 23:02:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
America's technologically advanced military descends from Civil War innovations the first modern war introduced machine guns, aerial reconnaissance, battlefield medicine, ironclad ships, and aircraft carriers that revolutionized warfare.
2026-01-29 14:29:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 15:20:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Chrome hot rod the Chrome Shop Mafia adds bling to truckers' big rigs in Missouri Illinois' Arlington Plating Co. adds luster to auto parts how Harley-Davidson puts chrome to work as both a decorative and protective feature of motorcycles.
2026-01-29 13:41:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 14:29:00 +0000 UTC(48m)
Modern Marvels
More than two million people die in the U.S. annually, creating 5,500 daily burials with 80 percent choosing caskets and 20 percent cremation explore dealing with death throughout centuries and today's $20-billion funeral industry.
2026-01-29 12:48:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 13:41:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
A journey back to an unruly era examining the complexity of their construction and the multi-purpose they served homes to kings and nobles, economic centers, courthouses, treasuries, prisons, and torture chambers.
2026-01-29 11:55:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 12:48:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
An exciting spin through the history of the casino going behind the neon lights, free drinks, and 24-hour gambling to see how the gaming industry has evolved from a simple house of cards to a high-tech multi-billion dollar industry.
2026-01-29 11:02:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 11:55:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
All life-forms and modern technology are built on a foundation of carbon the steel industry coal-fired power plants graphite pencils a charcoal water filter diamonds.
2026-01-29 10:11:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 11:02:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Modern Marvels
Americans visit car washes two million times per day at an annual cost of $25 billion how car washes are built to clean, ranging from tunnel systems to in-bay automatics visiting the biggest car wash facility in the United States.
2026-01-29 09:20:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 10:11:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Data lines power plumbing photovoltaics conserving energy painting carpeting moving furniture lights.
2026-01-29 04:10:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 05:00:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Built with the pioneering use of steel-wire support cables, the Brooklyn Bridge became an instant symbol of American pride rare photographs and behind-the-scenes stories recall the politics, the struggles, and the tragedies that made it possible.
2026-01-29 03:18:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 04:10:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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From amazing ancient Roman aqueducts and arch bridges, romantic Renaissance spans, 19th-century railroad crossovers, to monumental marvels of our time, bridges played a key role in the human quest to connect and unify.
2026-01-29 02:28:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 03:18:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
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Beer, one of the world's oldest beverages revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America's Founding Fathers, evolved from prehistoric times through ancient Sumeria, China, and Egypt to today's multi-billion-dollar global craft brewing industry.
2026-01-29 01:36:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-29 02:28:00 +0000 UTC(52m)