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episode 3: One Year - 1986: The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults
How a live television special became a legendary American fiasco.
episode 5: One Year - 1986: Herschel vs. the Blubber Busters
How a cute story about a hungry sea lion became a fight over targeted animal killing.
episode 6: One Year - 1986: The Miracle of Cokeville
How the worst school attack in U.S. history was narrowly averted.
episode 7: 1986: The Man From Fifth Avenue
The stranger-than-fiction story of a mysterious American who starred in a Soviet propaganda film.
episode 9: Hi-Phi Nation: The Illusionist
Pyotr Tchaikovsky composed and conducted his final symphony in 1893. He died 9 days later, after having knowingly drunk an unboiled glass of water during a cholera epidemic. Deep into the symphony, Symphony no. 6, there is a paradoxical passage that, when played, no one will be able to hear. This is because Tchaikovsky scored it to contain a musical illusion. We uncover the mystery of why he put it there...
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