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  Author: Minhchick   |   23 June 2020   |   : 0

Part of The History Channel's Modern Marvels series, The Manhattan Project documents how scientists were brought together by the American government in order to create what at that time was the most devastating weapon in history - the atomic bomb. The United States wanted to build an atomic explosive to counter the threat posed by the German nuclear development program. The term Manhattan Project came about because the program began under the Manhattan Engineering District of the War Department

  Author: Minhchick   |   23 June 2020   |   : 0

Highlights of the singer's voyages along the most famous inland waterways the continent has to offer.

  Author: Minhchick   |   22 June 2020   |   : 0

It came without a warning and spread like wildfire, but the origins of the Novel Coronavirus remain a mystery. A look at the origins and impacts of the Novel Coronavirus is featured.

  Author: Minhchick   |   22 June 2020   |   : 0

Two-thirds of our planet is covered in water, split into five distinct oceans, but in reality Earth's seas are part of one huge global water system - a system that has been instrumental in shaping our destiny for millions of years. Now, however, in the 21st century, it is mankind that is shaping the destiny of our oceans. In unprecedented ways, humans are changing our seas and the life within. The ocean bed, the currents, marine life, even the water itself is transformed by what we are putting into our oceans.

  Author: Minhchick   |   21 June 2020   |   : 0

A mesmerising and unflinching look behind the doors of a textile factory in India, as director Rahul Jain observes the life of the workers and the oppressive environment they seldom escape from. Machines tells a story of the human cost of mass production in a globalised world, showing the gulf between rich and poor from both perspectives.

  Author: Minhchick   |   19 June 2020   |   : 0

James Herriot was the original Yorkshire Vet, and this documentary sees Peter Wright and Julian Norton celebrating how the Herriot ethos and legacy lives on in veterinary practice and across the North Yorkshire countryside.

  Author: Minhchick   |   18 June 2020   |   : 0

In January, a woman passenger had her temperature checked at Incheon International Airport - and South Korea discovered its first case of coronavirus. In the hundred days that followed, the country would become a model for how to fight the virus.

  Author: Minhchick   |   18 June 2020   |   : 0

Fighter pilots...warriors of the sky. Jousting on aerial steeds made of steel, speeding through the skies at hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles per hour. Their goal? To get the other guy before he gets them. Hosted by U.S. Air Force Major Paul "Max" Moga of the Air Combat Command's 1st Fighter Wing, "Showdown: Air Combat" recreates some of history's most compelling aerial combat manoeuvres with restored aircraft from every era of airborne warfare. The series also offers a compelling insight into each aircraft's strengths and weaknesses, its place in the evolutionary time line of design innovation, and the ground-breaking battle tactics employed in each confrontation.

  Author: Minhchick   |   18 June 2020   |   : 0

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Franz Marc's 1912 Tiger shows obvious debt to Picasso's cubism and Paul Cezanne. Cubism is used as a means of heightening realism and sentiment, the cubist influence is even stronger in his another painting Deer in the Forest.

  Author: Minhchick   |   16 June 2020   |   : 0

For a few tense days in June 1944, the success of the greatest military invasion the world had ever seen depended on weather readings taken by 21-year-old Maureen Sweeney at the remote Blacksod weather station on Ireland's west coast.