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History That Hits, 81 episodes.

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Why Did Polish Orphans Call an Indian Maharaja Bapu?

2

Pompeii's Last To-Do List: A City Interrupted, Not Just Destroyed

3

Dolly Behind the Glass: The Sheep That Made the Future Tremble

4

Six Million Under Glass: The Great Exhibition at 175

5

When the Scoreboard Couldn’t Show Perfection: Nadia Comăneci and Montreal ’76

6

The Women Who Wired the Future: ENIAC at 80

7

The First Footpad on Mars: Viking 1 and the Photograph That Made Another World Feel Solid

8

The Courtroom That Put Power on Trial: Nuremberg at 80

9

The Night Tangshan Fell: China’s Deadliest Modern Earthquake at 50

10

First Love, Then Technique: Gaudí’s Unfinished Cathedral at 100

11

The Men Who Ate Borax: The Poison Squad and the Birth of Food Safety

12

The Test That Promised to Measure the Mind: The SAT at 100

13

Houdini’s Last Escape: The Magician Who Went to War With Ghosts

14

The Atoll Asked to Move: Bikini, Operation Crossroads, and the Bomb at 80

15

Before TSA, Before Jetways: The 1926 Law That Taught America to Fly Safely

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The Book That Taught Nations to Count: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations at 250

17

Stooky Bill Blinks: The Ghostly Dummy That Became Television

18

An Arch of Fire Over London: The Great Fire at 360

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The Children Who Said No: Soweto at 50

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The Girl in the Grease: Gertrude Ederle’s 14-Hour War with the Channel

21

The Cloth That Conquered England: The Bayeux Tapestry Comes to Britain

22

The Mother Road at 100: Route 66 and the America That Learned to Move

23

Sun Writing: The Faint Window View That Invented Photography

24

Where the Girl Saved Her Brother: Little Bighorn at 150 and the Battle America Misremembered

25

The First Pandemic: What 230 Bodies in a Roman Racetrack Reveal About the Plague That Changed History

26

Nine Days That Shook Britain: The 1926 General Strike Turns 100

27

The Flight That Conquered the Arctic—and Destroyed a Friendship: The Norge Expedition Turns 100

28

The Weapons in the Well: A Cenote Reveals the Forgotten Maya War That Almost Destroyed Mexico

29

The Coins That Never Stopped Beeping: Norway's Largest Viking Hoard and the Forgotten Iron Kings of Østerdalen

30

The Towns That Died Together: The Pals Battalions and the First Day of the Somme

31

The 43,000-Year-Old Fingerprint: When Did Neanderthals Become Artists?

32

A Neanderthal Family Portrait: DNA Reveals a Community Frozen in Time

33

The Man Who Saved the World: Stanislav Petrov and the 26 Minutes That Almost Ended Everything

34

The Eleven Days That Vanished: Agatha Christie's Mysterious Disappearance Turns 100

35

The Scream of the Carnyx: A Celtic War Trumpet Emerges from English Soil

36

Rolling the Bones: How Native Americans Invented Dice 12,000 Years Ago

37

The Canoe Parking Lot: 5,000 Years of Indigenous History Beneath a Wisconsin Lake

38

The Invisible Killers: How DNA Revealed What Really Destroyed Napoleon's Army

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The Fingerprint That Rewrote Prehistory: When a Neanderthal Made Art

40

The Man Who Didn't Salute: August Landmesser's Defiance

41

The Hidden Passage: Manhattan's Secret Stop on the Underground Railroad

42

Alexander's Lost City: Rediscovering the Forgotten Capital of Ancient Global Trade

43

The Princess Who Whispered 'Liberté': Noor Inayat Khan's Secret War

44

Ten Days in a Mad-House: How One Woman's Deception Changed Mental Healthcare Forever

45

Chernobyl at 40: The Liquidators Who Walked Into the Invisible Fire

46

Dance 'Til You Drop: The Mysterious Plague That Made a Town Dance to Death

47

The Boy Who Survived the Lion: Ancient Care in the Copper Age

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67,800 Years in the Making: The Cave Art That Rewrites Human History

49

The Forgotten Alexandria: Rediscovering Alexander the Great's Lost City on the Tigris

50

The Man The New York Times Mocked: How Robert Goddard's 2.5-Second Flight Changed Everything

51

The JFK Files: What 80,000 Pages Finally Revealed About Mexico, the CIA, and the Limits of Truth

52

The Limping Lady: How a One-Legged Spy Became the Gestapo's Most Wanted

53

The Gambler Who Built an Empire: Babur and the Battle That Changed Asia

54

Before Stonehenge: The 12,000-Year-Old Temples Rewriting Human History

55

Black Moses: Edward P. McCabe's Dream of an All-Black American State

56

1776 to 2026: What the Founders Got Right, Wrong, and Never Imagined

57

The Voice That Terrified Rome: The Norfolk Carnyx Discovery and Boudica's Ghost

58

Stagecoach Mary: The Gun-Toting, Cigar-Smoking Grandmother Who Conquered the Wild West

59

The $24 Myth: What Really Happened When the Dutch 'Bought' Manhattan 400 Years Ago

60

The Nine Months Before Rosa Parks: Claudette Colvin and the Strategic Erasure of a Teenage Hero

61

CROATOAN: How DNA Cracked America's Oldest Cold Case

62

Cleopatra's Party Boat: The Sunken Pleasure Barge That Reveals Egypt's Lost Luxury

63

The Cave Dwellers Who Vanished: Spain's Hidden Medieval Underground Society

64

When the Hobbits Died: The Climate Catastrophe That Ended a Human Species

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America at 250: The Untold Story of Independence Day

66

The Forgotten Pharaoh: How the Discovery of Thutmose II's Tomb Rewrites Egyptian History

67

The Telegram That Pulled America Into War

68

Pompeii's Secret Cult: The Dionysian Mysteries Revealed After 2,000 Years

69

Before Stonehenge: Scotland's 6,000-Year-Old Timber Halls Hidden Beneath a School Playground

70

The Real Christopher Robin: The Dark Side of a Beloved Story

71

When Writing Began: The 40,000-Year-Old Symbols That Rewrote Human History

72

The Day Iceland Stopped: How 90% of Women Changed a Nation Forever

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The First Story Ever Told: How Tiny Stone Animals in Turkey Reveal Humanity's Oldest Narrative

74

The Dancing Plague: When a Town Danced to Death

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Secrets Frozen in Ash: The Pompeii Discovery That Reveals Rome's Forbidden Cult

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160,000 Years Ahead of Their Time: How Ancient Toolmakers in China Are Rewriting Human History

77

The AI That's Rewriting the Bible: How 'Enoch' Is Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls

78

Twelve Days of Fire: The Hungarian Revolution the World Forgot

79

The City That Rose When Caral Fell: Peñico and the Oldest Civilization in the Americas

80

The Forgotten Heroes of Yorktown: America's First Black Regiment

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The Moon Man Who Changed Everything: Robert Goddard's Century-Old Dream Takes Flight