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Route 66
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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D-Day
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity
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May 25, 2026 |
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Dadaism
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May 18, 2026 |
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Mother's Day
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May 11, 2026 |
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This...is...a show about Sparta!
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May 04, 2026 |
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Seas, Gulf, Bays, Coves, Sounds, and Fjords: When Geographers Go Wild
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Five Minute Lit: The Stranger
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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From White Dwarfs to Supernovas: When Stars Collapse, Part 2
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Black Holes: When Stars Collapse, Part 1
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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The Impressionist Art Movement
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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A Drink To Go With The Food: The Molotov Cocktail
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Earth's Time Machine: The International Date Line
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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All About the Oscars
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Five Minute Lit: Wuthering Heights
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Uh...Is Anyone Eating Anything?? Ramadan and Lent
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Biggest, Tallest, Highest: Of Course We're Talking About Mountains
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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The Superbowl's Favorite Half-Time Act
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Things You Didn't Know Were Named For Real People
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Australia Wages War Against Itself: The Great Emu War of 1932
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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The Thing That Makes Up Everything: All About Quarks
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Official End of the Holidays: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Why Do We Celebrate New Years on January 1?
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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The Poem That Invented Christmas
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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The Map that Changed the World
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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The Ugly Car That Couldn't: The Ford Edsel
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Why Do the Cowboys and Lions Play on Thanksgiving?
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Broadway in Five Minutes: Cats!
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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All About Blood
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Five Minute Lit: The Old Man and the Sea
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Weird Borders--Condominiums and Enclaves and Exclaves
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Secret Service Code Names
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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World War 1, Part 3: The Christmas Truce of 1914
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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World War I, Part Two: Hitching a Ride to Battle...in Taxis
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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World War I, Part One: How It Started
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Taxonomic Nomenclature: Making Sense Out of Life
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Five Minute Lit: War and Peace
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Labor Day
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Broadway: From the Wickquasgeck Trail to the Great White Way
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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A World of Guineas
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Esperanto: The World's Most Successful Invented Language
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Gaggles and Mobs and Parliaments: All About Animal Groups
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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All About Literary Pen Names
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Wait...Pluto isn't a planet? (2/2)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Yay, Pluto is a Planet! (1/2)
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Best Boys and Grips and Gaffers and What???
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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The Show About...Everything
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Jul 12, 2025 |