Amazing Tales About History
By Mike Allen
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Episodes: 197
Scott Thomas
Mar 11, 2025
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Marilyn Monroe, PT Barnum, American history, and Revolutionary War insights ... Dive deep into the hidden corners of history with mysteries, fascinating inventions, secret military operations, magical islands, ancient trails, forgotten roadways, Native Americans, supernatural activity, UFOs. 20-minute episodes. Memorable stories. Great guests. We present history as it should be – accurate, engaging, and told with a touch of magic. New episodes every Thursday.
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You Won't Believe General Israel Putnam's Death-Defying Horseback Ride
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May 29, 2025 |
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Secrets Behind the Building of the George Washington Bridge
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May 22, 2025 |
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The Mystery Behind the Design of NY City's Street Grid
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May 15, 2025 |
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The Sheer Exhilaration of Ski Jumping
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May 08, 2025 |
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Who Padlocked the Governor's Door, Barring Him from His Own Office?
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May 01, 2025 |
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The Slaying of one of the Biggest Robber Barons, Diamond Jim Fisk
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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His Trove of Letters Document Bloody Civil War Battles, Prisons, and Conditions
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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He was the Last Person Executed in CT - She Knew Him Best, 'Til the Day He Died
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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The Tiny Worm Behind an Enormous Industry
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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John Hancock: The Giant Signature that Fanned the Flames of Revolution
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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This Hero Stayed on a Sinking Sub to Save a Man
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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What's Hiding Behind That White Cross on the Hill?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Tracking Down the First Christmas Tree
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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The Illegal Pirate Radio Station at the Largest Rock Concert, Watkins Glen
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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You Used to Have to Pay to Use a Library
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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A Religious Group Pinpoints the End of the World
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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TV Cameraman Inside Ground Zero
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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An Ancient Hiking Rite Still Practiced
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Boxer / Opera Singer / Queen of the Rum Runners
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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PT Barnum's Incredible Legacy
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Skydiving's First Jump
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Island of Miracles
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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How Ethan Allen Created a New State
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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A Forgotten Village Abandoned and Hiding in Isolated Woods
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Just 30 Defenders Hold Off 1,300 British During 4-Day Attack
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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The Fatal Paparazzi Car Crash Involving Marilyn Monroe
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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America's First Folk Hero: General Israel Putnam
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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The Man Who Created the News Service You Use the Most
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The First Time a Phone was Used to Summon Emergency Help
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Some of the Worst Storms Hit in Years Ending in the Number 8
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Did Sybil Ludington Really Make her Paul Revere-like Ride?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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NASCAR was Born at this Trend-Setting Racetrack
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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From a 1-Room Schoolhouse to Wall Street Mega-Titan
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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The Oldest Volunteer Fire Department in the Entire Nation
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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What was the Ferocious Creature that Terrorized a town in 1939?
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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When the Blind and Deaf Woman, Helen Keller, Showed us the Way
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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A 185-year-old Mutiny that Impacted the Slave Era
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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The Deafening Sound of the Invisible Enemy Frightened an Entire Town
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Who was the 1899 Bank Robber Whose Grave Still Reads X-Y-Z?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The True Story Behind Arsenic and Old Lace
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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The CT Compromise - It Saved Our Country
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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The First Flying Automobile was Invented Decades Ago
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Can We Settle the Question of Who Settled First?
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Tweed - The Little Airport That Could
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Yankee Peddlers - The First Door-to-Door Salesmen, in the 1700s
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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The Man Who Chiseled Mount Rushmore
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Part 2: When a Secret Military Sea Mission Went Very Wrong
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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PART 1: When A Secret Military Sea Mission Went Very Wrong
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Riding Motorcycles with Top-Secret Documents Under Gunfire
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The #1 Word Puzzle Creator in the U.S.
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Secrets of the Oldest Town Green
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Inside New England's Stonewalls
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Among the Worst Naval Loses in U.S. History
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May 30, 2024 |
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The Hanging of Witches in the 1600s
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May 23, 2024 |
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Parts of This Important Early Dirt Path Still Survive
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May 16, 2024 |
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Who Put the Ivory in Ivoryton?
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May 09, 2024 |
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A Top-Secret World War II Project: "PO Box 1142"
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May 02, 2024 |
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Who Really Killed Seymour's First Selectman?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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The Very First Robot
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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One of the Biggest Construction Disasters - the L'Ambiance Collapse
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Benedict Arnold's Most Grizzly Attack
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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He Murdered for Love - and Hate
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Draft-Dodging Civil War Doctor
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Preserving Open Space is Getting More Difficult
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Noah Webster - Our Forgotten Founding Father
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Are Zoos Becoming a Thing of the Past?
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Did This Man Survive the Titanic by Wearing a Dress?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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When Your Small Plane Pilot Dies in Mid-Flight
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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169 Towns - Which One was First?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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PART 2: 20,000 Leagues Under Long Island Sound
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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PART 1: 20,000 Leagues Under Long Island Sound
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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This Ghost Story has Dozens of Witnesses
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The First Site Proposed for the U.N. Ran Into a Buzz Saw
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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A Founding Father’s Son Jailed
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Mystery Behind the Eerie Moodus Noises
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The Strongest Man in the World
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The Logistics of Moving a Foreign-Speaking, 5,000-Man Army
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The Real Story of the Mayflower Voyage
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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The Most Honored Actor in U.S. History
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The American Colony That Rose Above the Others
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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A Political "Who Done It" Involving a Magic Trick
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Archeologists Find a Camp Where Patriot Soldiers were Executed
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The First School Exclusively for Black Women in the U.S.
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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What Happened When You Were Sent to the Poorhouse
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Where Critical Military Equipment Came From During WW II
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Day 2 Rolling Skulls Revealed a Vampire Grave
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The First Time Penicillin Saved a Life
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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When a New Outdoor Weather Climate was Created
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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An Extremely Unique Gated Community
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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An Enclave Like No Other - The Russian Village
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Electric Cars Were Market Leaders - 130 Years Ago
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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A Real-Life ”Field of Dreams” Baseball Story
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The Longest Running Newspaper in the U.S.
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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George Washington Slept Here - Or Did He?
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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He Founded Antarctica
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Benedict Arnold - Was He Misunderstood?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The First Nuclear Submarine - The USS Nautilus
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Rochambeau's View on Helping America Win the Revolution
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Making Lawyers of our Founding Fathers' Children
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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How Some Native Americans Have Assimilated
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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The First Telephone Switchboard Was a Game-Changer
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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One Town - Two Very Different American Flags
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Greatest Rock Concert That Wasn’t
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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169 Noteworthy Signs
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Escaping Execution by Hiding in Judge’s Cave
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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What Remains of the Earliest Dirt Turnpikes
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May 25, 2023 |
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Hidden Revolutionary War Treasure
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Mystique of The Old Connecticut Path
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May 11, 2023 |
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The Ice Man Cometh
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May 04, 2023 |
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Putting the Spotlight on Lighthouses
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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From a Whale Hunt to the Oval Office
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Timing is Everything: Clock-Making Comes to America
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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What Do We Really Know About UFOs?
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Train Travel Fatalities Over 200 Years
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Hungarian Soldiers Spend a Winter in New England
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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One of America's Largest Power Plants - Candlewood Lake
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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When Cleaning Up U.S. Rivers Became a Priority
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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100 Years of Radio
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Bell Town USA - Where Most Bells are Made
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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200 Years of Whaling as an Industry
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Cleveland Was Founded by Cleaveland
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Piloting America's Oldest Ferry Boat
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Nathan Hale - What Really Were his Final Words Before Hanging?
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Thumbing the Nose at Prohibition
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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When the Devil was in Court - Charged with Murder
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Trivia Tidbits
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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One-Room Schoolhouses Posed Challenges
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Valley Forge Conditions at Putnam Park
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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How the Cavalry Helped Win the Revolutionary War
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The Country's First Female Governor, Elected in Her Own Right
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Hiding in Plain Sight - Stone Mile Markers
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The Fairytale Land: The Last Green Valley
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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After the British Raid, Patriots Buried This Brit With Honors
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Eyebrow-Raising Military Secrets from the Cold War
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Where Aerospace Took Flight
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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When Stagecoaches Were How You Got Around
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Day 4 Trains Collided in 10 Minutes
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Finding a Mass Grave While Renovating Your Basement
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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An Unbelievably Lucky Dinosaur Find
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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The First State to Open its Own Prison - Literally, A Dungeon
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Is a Pickle That Doesn’t Bounce Illegal?
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Benedict Arnold's Forgotten Role in the Battle of Ridgefield
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes and his Gillette Castle
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Charles Island - Buried Treasure, Curses, and Ghosts
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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The Civil War Was Also Fought in the North
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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The Devastating Floods of 1955
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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When Christianity Met Native Americans
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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The First Gold Strike East of the Mississippi
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Putting a Stop to Grave Robbing
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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The First Mass Murder in the U.S.
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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The Hubble Telescope: Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Greatness of Marian Anderson
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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The Odd Border Notch Between Connecticut and Massachusetts
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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An Old, Forgotten Pro Football Team
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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How an American Industry Grew but Then Left Big Problems
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Did JFK Single-Handedly Kill the Hatting Industry?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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The Day the Clowns Cried at the Worst Circus Fire in U.S. History
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Charles Ives - So Much More than ”Just” a Musical Giant
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May 19, 2022 |
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PART 2: The Greatest Showman on Earth - PT Barnum
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May 12, 2022 |
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PART 1: The Greatest Showman on Earth - PT Barnum
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May 05, 2022 |
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PART 2: Redding’s Favorite Son - Mark Twain
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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PART 1: Redding’s Favorite Son - Mark Twain
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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The Deadliest Fire in Federal Prison History
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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PART 2: There Was Never Anything Quite Like the Great Danbury State Fair
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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PART 1: There’s Never Been Anything Quite Like The Great Danbury State Fair
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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The Catastrophic Night When Not One, But Two Dams Gave Way
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The Show Must Go On - Even Outdoors
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Keeping The Grange Alive in the 21st Century
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The World is His Oyster
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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She Put the Alice in Alice’s Restaurant
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Hippies, Zealots or Entrepreneurs - The Odd Sandemanian Religion
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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The Gruesome Woodchipper Murder Case
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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PART 2: A Trail Like No Other - It Brought Us Freedom
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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PART 1: A Trail Like No Other - It Brought Us Freedom
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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The Mad Hatters and Their Major Supreme Court Case
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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What Would Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk Think About COVID?
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Incredible Trail of the Whispering Giants
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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The Erie Canal's Eastern Cousin
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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PART 2: The Weekend the British Burned Danbury
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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PART 1: The Weekend the British Burned Danbury
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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The Magic of Flying Two-Seater Planes
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Soap Box Derby Racing
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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The Story Behind the Separation of Church and State
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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How to Build a New England Town Center
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Kickbacks Paved the Merritt Parkway
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Who Killed Jack the Ripper?
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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PART 2: Protecting Against Nuclear War
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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PART 1: Protecting Against Nuclear War
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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An Enchanting Legend of The Leatherman
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Ode to the Housatonic Railroad
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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The Man Who Taught PT Barnum About the Circus
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The Era of Stagecoaches, Trolleys and Steam Locomotives
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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The Unbelievable Pardue Brothers Crime Spree
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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The Appalachian Trail
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Earthen Roads Built Colonial Ameria
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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Fighting Hitler - in the U.S.
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Mark Twain‘s Final Years
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Sep 05, 2021 |