When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster.
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How the Republican party went from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump
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How would medieval kings see today?
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Elizabeth
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Raise the Dead - A six part series on the (US) 1960 election and its stunning parallels to 2016
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Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union
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Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand
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This island of Minos: Crete in the Bronze Age
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Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel Other extra videos in the series: Find out More - The Battle Find out more - The Armour Find out More - Medieval Arrows...
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel
Other extra videos in the series:
Find out More - The Battle
Find out more - The Armour
Find out More - Medieval Arrowsedit: Tod also re-uploaded the previous video with better sound:
Find out More - Medieval Arrows*12 votes -
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Correcting the historical bias against domestic materials
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Instant stone (just add water!)
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The case of the shotgun booby trap
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Slot Machine - A British Pathé short film about vending machines in 1960s Britain
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The drowned lands of the Wallkill
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Denmark and Iceland clash over priceless medieval manuscripts – Reykjavik wants collection bequeathed by Icelandic scholar returned
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Book Review: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war
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How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?
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China's ancient dominance, how the West took it away from China and how China is regaining it
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Nara: Sacred images from early Japan
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The massacre that spawned the alt-right
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How Britain dishonoured its African first world war dead
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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The most gender-switched names in US history
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Killing time during the Trojan War with Ajax and Achilles | Curator's Corner S05 E10
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Iron: From mythical to mundane
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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Medieval Fighting Techniques - Mounted vs Foot (Lance vs Polearm & Sword)
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Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli series)
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Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant's Command Post
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Papers behind the pistol: Mauser's archives on the Model 1910
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The assassination of Julius Caesar (The Ides of March, 44 B.C.E.)
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4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease
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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
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MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
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The Oracle of Delphi - Chapter 1: The center of the world
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The Wave that changed the world
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The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in the US South
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Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum
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