The Salem Witch trials of 1692 imprisoned more than 150 people, with 19 hanged. Centuries later, a plausible, natural explanation has emerged for symptoms exhibited by those said to be bewitched. Behavioral psychologist Linda Caporeal takes viewers on a journey from wrenching convulsions and vivid delirium to contaminated crops, hallucinogenic drugs, and an ancient bog man hacked to death. Her theory may finally solve the witches’ curse.
Countries: US
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SOD: Witches Curse – Public Performance
The Salem Witch trials of 1692 imprisoned more than 150 people, with 19 hanged. Centuries later, a plausible, natural explanation has emerged for symptoms exhibited by those said to be bewitched. Behavioral psychologist Linda Caporeal takes viewers on a journey from wrenching convulsions and vivid delirium to contaminated crops, hallucinogenic drugs, and an ancient bog man hacked to death. Her theory may finally solve the witches’ curse.
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SOD: The Syphillis Enigma
Columbus’ crew carried diseases that decimated New World Indians. Their revenge, so it goes, was to send syphilis back to Europe. New evidence may refute this, and help explain how new diseases are dealt with today. A medieval skeleton from an English priory shows signs of syphilis, but in the 1340s; long before 1492. Forensic, archaeological, and medical experts study how diseases spread and mutate, perhaps resolving an age-old mystery.
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Secrets of the Dead: Bugging Hitler’s Soldier
In the aftermath of World War II, ordinary German soldiers claimed they knew nothing about the Holocaust. They blamed all its atrocities on the SS. However, recently uncovered transcripts of a massive bugging operation by MI19, an intelligence division of the British War office, tell a very different story. Over the course of the operation, MI19 spied on 4,000 German POW’s, listening in as the men revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win World War II. Some of these POW’s were high-ranking German officers who were lulled into a false sense of security by the special treatment they received while held in stately British country homes that were bugged with state-of-the-art equipment. They spoke freely, sharing their-at times conflicting-opinions of Hitler, the Third Reich, and the fate of Germany. Over 100,000 hours of conversations by German POW’s were secretly recorded, and the most dramatic and revealing of these unguarded conversations are recreated, offering new insight into what German soldiers really thought about Hitler’s regime. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by a team of leading German historians and scientists, BUGGING HITLER’S SOLDIERS tells the story of how those confessions were stolen, how they changed the outcome of the war and how they can now reveal, in more shocking detail than ever before, the hearts and minds of the German fighter.
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Ten Mistakes Web Sites Still Make
Strategies for demystifying baffling navigation, maximizing use of space, improving search tools, unearthing buried treasure, translating “site speak” into your target’s language, and revving up flat content by making use of the Web’s special powers.
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User-Generated Content
Use social media to engage your readers in repurposing and integrating your Web content in ways that serve your mutual goals. Learn commonsense principles for encouraging your users to build out your site through blogs, reviews, viral marketing, and more.
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Using Web Metrics
We all have technology in place to track Web statistics. But interpreting the data and acting on it to improve our sites is challenging. Learn what Key Performance Indicators you should track, who should see the data, and how to analyze it against your performance goals.
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Video Strategies: What’s Working Today
Whether you’re a novice and learning how to cost effectively build the infrastructure for video capability at your site, or you’re experienced and exploring new strategies such as video distribution, get tips on new practices that draw and engage more users.
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SOD: Japanese SuperSub – Home Use
Merging the stealth and tactical advantages of sea and sky, the I-401 aircraft carrier submarine carried three specially designed Seiran attack bombers. The vessel had the potential to change the course of the war in the Pacific. Japanese SuperSub, investigates Japan’s efforts to take submarine technology where it had never gone before, and reveals how close the Japanese came to using the sub for an attack on the U.S.
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Behind the Browser
In easy-to-understand lay terms, Matt Cohen explains the key applications at work behind a web page. You’ll see how a page is generated from file downloads and links, how traffic to the page is tracked, what cookies are and how they are used, and more.