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The term pecan was coined by the Algonquin from the word 'pacane,' which means a nut that needs to be cracked with a stone. By the 1950’s, Georgia had become the country's leading producer of pecans and remains the largest pecan-producing state.
We look at the lives of two titans of the 19th century, Wellington and Napoleon, following their epic encounter at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. The victor, the Duke of Wellington, became a national hero in Britain eventually becoming Prime Minister. The defeated Napoleon, however, was exiled to St Helena, a small island in the Atlantic, where he died in 1821.
This episode looks at three different German U-Boat wrecks, including the UC-66, the first to be sunk by a plane, and the U480, the world’s first stealth sub. Part 1 of 10.
Young men enthusiastically volunteered for the Great War, unaware of the horrors to come. Part 1 of 3.
Heroes of the Somme uses original archive from the Western Front to uncover the stories of seven of the men whose remarkable bravery in 1916 won them the Victoria Cross, Britain’s most prized military medal.
Dinosaur fossils are the new gold with record breaking auction sales every year. Rich and passionate private collectors are driving this new bone rush 2.0. with more and more rare fossils ending up in private hands. The 'rush' is on with fortune-seekers and professional excavators racing to unearth new fossils hoping to find the next Big John (full skeletons auctioned by rich collectors). From Jurassic World to Jurassic Cash, will science and museums be deprived of these dinosaur skeletons which have inspired generations of paleontologists?
