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S4, EP1 "Electricity: A Bright Idea!"Distant ancestors were afraid of lightning and thought that it was sent by the gods; today, electricity is part of people's daily lives.
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S4, EP2 "Heredity: It's a Family Affair!"Early in their history, humans realize that they can affect nature by controlling fire, making tools and taming wild animals; what they were not given by nature, they harnessed in other species.
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S4, EP3 "Gravity: It All Falls Into Place!"From the mysterious megaliths in prehistory to the first hot air balloons and the construction of the Giza pyramid complex, ancestors have always observed and experimented to gain a better understanding of their world.
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S4, EP4 "Viruses and Bacteria: Tiny but Tough"A journey through the key events that have allowed people to better understand the world of microbe.
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S4, EP5 "Plastic: A Toxic Friend?"A journey through the key moments that enabled humanity to discover plastics.
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S4, EP6 "Electromagnetic Waves: Do You Copy?"Long-distance communication, moving stealthily through the dark without being detected, and observation from afar have all become commonplace; at any moment, one can know exactly where one is on the planet.
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S4, EP7 "Energy: A Burning Question"The understanding of energy enables people to send rockets into space; learning what exactly is energy and where it comes from.
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S4, EP8 "Fluid Mechanics: A Source of Inspiration"Running climate simulations on a global scale; learning to control rivers and protect against flooding.
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S3, EP1 "Kursk: The USSR Strikes Back"After successive failures at Moscow and Stalingrad, Germany goes on the offensive again in the spring of 1943 and clashes with the Soviet Red Army at Kursk, which is considered the greatest tank battle in history and a turning point of World War II.
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S3, EP2 "Vikings: Assault on the Frankish Empire"In 885, hundreds of Viking longships launch an assault on the Frankish Empire and the Norsemen besiege Paris.
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S3, EP3 "Deepwater: An Ocean of Oil"The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico April 20, 2010, causing a gigantic oil spill.
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S3, EP4 "Cook: In Pursuit of the Southern Lands"In 1415, the Portuguese launch an era of explorations that lead to European discoveries around the globe and fierce competition between Britain and France for possession of North America and the West Indies.
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S3, EP5 "Champollion: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Stone"French Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt leads to 1799's chance discovery of the Rosetta Stone, which proves to be the key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphs, opening a window into Egyptian history.
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S3, EP6 "Gandhi: The Force of Willpower"Young Indian lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is thrown off a train in South Africa for daring to sit in a first-class compartment in May 1893.
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S3, EP7 "Lawrence of Arabia: For a Fistful of Sand"British officer T.E. Lawrence helps spearhead the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
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S3, EP8 "Apartheid: The Spiral of Fear"After several months on the run, South African black leader Nelson Mandela is arrested by police and imprisoned on Robben Island off Cape Town in 1962, beginning a long ordeal.
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