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After water, tea is the second most popular drink in the world. It has been around as a drink for 5000 years, and 6 billion pounds of tea are harve...

Its roots go back to the Ancient Egyptians, whose iron weapons helped maintain an empire that lasted three millennia. But in the 1850s, Englishmen ...

As mankind's greatest achievement of the 20th century, Apollo 11 stood as the apogee of science, exploration, flight, and technological prowess. In...

It's one of the world's oldest and most beloved beverages--revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America's Founding Fathers. Today, brewing the bitter ...

The development of the still camera was one of the most significant advances of the age of invention. The captured image has transformed the way we...

When you tap your faucet does clean, pure water flow? Can your city supply enough water for industry, firefighting, and street cleaning? U.S. publi...

From water and grain...to mash...still...vat...barrel and bottle--the distilling of alcoholic spirits is a big business and near-sacred religion. I...

Legendary drivers lead us on a record-breaking race through a century-long search for sheer acceleration that began before World War One, when hot-...

Inside your house lurk many electronic motors that make your appliances function--some you know, but others you may not notice. In an electrifying ...

Traces the history and evolution of the world's most important fossil fuel. Without gasoline, modern life would grind to a halt. Americans use abou...

Around the world and across the eons, gold stands as a symbol of power, wealth, and love. The quest for the yellow metal took men across oceans, in...

The task was monumental: Build the world's largest dam in the middle of the desert, and tame the river that carved the Grand Canyon--all in seven y...

Metal constitutes the very essence of the modern world; the cadence of our progress sounds in the measured ring of the blacksmith's hammer. From so...

From wildcatters to visionaries, geopoliticians to geologists and capitalists to union organizers, few real-life dramas feature such colorful chara...

For 25 years, construction crews dug, blasted, tunneled, and bridged their way up America's West Coast along the California, Oregon, and Washington...

An incredible tale of drama, history and action. See engineers tackle the most daunting project ever attempted.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! This sentiment permeated the masonry and clanging bars of prisons built throughout the ages. We'll see how the...

To some it was a miracle. Others derided it as a triumph of illiteracy. The introduction of the radio changed life in America nearly overnight. In ...

The names are designed to inspire terror in the faint of heart: The Beast, Raptor, Steel Phantom, Colossus, Cyclone and Demon Drop. In amusement pa...

Route 66, encompassing eight states from Illinois to California and 2,400 miles, represented an American myth--that something better lay over the r...

With the ironic motto, Peace is our Profession, the Strategic Air Command was in charge of U.S. nuclear forces from 1946 to 1992. SAC was the ultim...

It is a story of man's struggle with nature, but also of a battle to protect nature from man. It is a tale of engineering genius and the brutal lab...

During the Cold War, the Berlin Wall stood as a forbidding barrier in an embattled world. Erected in August 1961, the Wall system stretched 103 mil...

At the center of the American Dream is the home--and at the center of its creation or renovation is the lumberyard. We'll explore the options lumbe...