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An expedition hunts for a monster-sized, predatory spider in South America and investigates reports from the Middle East about giant arachnids.

Examining how giant killer bees from South America are spreading northward into the United States, attack with ferocity and might be adapting to colder temperatures, which would make them an even greater threat.

New Englanders experience a vampire scare during the 1700s; investigators use the latest technology to analyze historical evidence and study people today who say they are vampires.

Cryptozoologists use special equipment to try to shed light on reports of rods: torpedolike creatures that fly so fast they cannot be spotted by the naked eye.

Creativity is everywhere - but who and where does it come from? Artrageous travels the globe showcasing creative geniuses from our past and today, the places that inspired them and that flourish today as hot-spots of ingenuity.

For an instrument developed as recently as the 17th century, the telescope has travelled a long way; the latest version of the once humble telescope will be going a lot farther, carrying us ever closer to the first light.

Wind energy; actor Ed Begley, Jr.; English school goes green.

The hosts test the patented designs of history's lost inventions.

They said he was a lustful Mad Monk, a Holy Devil, who preached God's word, yet practiced every form of evil; the real truth about the rise of Rasputin is stranger and more moving than the legend of the satanic monk.

In just six years, Mikhaeil Gorbachev brought democracy to Russia and ended the Cold War.

Profile of Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic, whose refusal to sign a peace accord led to an assault by NATO forces on his regime.

Portrait of the Russian leader who helped dismantle Communism and forged a new relationship with the United States and the West.

Profile of Roman Emperor Caligula includes details of his reign, including frenzies of lunacy, murder and perverse sexuality.

A profile of Queen Noor of Jordan, the former Lisa Halaby, includes interviews with actor Harrison Ford and King Hussein biographer Peter Snow.

Russian Czar Ivan, the Terrible, conquers Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia.

History judges Napoleon as warrior, statesman, genius and megalomaniac.

They said he was a lustful Mad Monk, a Holy Devil, who preached God's word, yet practiced every form of evil; the real truth about the rise of Rasputin is stranger and more moving than the legend of the satanic monk.

In just six years, Mikhaeil Gorbachev brought democracy to Russia and ended the Cold War.

Profile of Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic, whose refusal to sign a peace accord led to an assault by NATO forces on his regime.

Portrait of the Russian leader who helped dismantle Communism and forged a new relationship with the United States and the West.

Profile of Roman Emperor Caligula includes details of his reign, including frenzies of lunacy, murder and perverse sexuality.

A profile of Queen Noor of Jordan, the former Lisa Halaby, includes interviews with actor Harrison Ford and King Hussein biographer Peter Snow.

Russian Czar Ivan, the Terrible, conquers Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia.

History judges Napoleon as warrior, statesman, genius and megalomaniac.

They said he was a lustful Mad Monk, a Holy Devil, who preached God's word, yet practiced every form of evil; the real truth about the rise of Rasputin is stranger and more moving than the legend of the satanic monk.

In just six years, Mikhaeil Gorbachev brought democracy to Russia and ended the Cold War.

Profile of Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic, whose refusal to sign a peace accord led to an assault by NATO forces on his regime.

Portrait of the Russian leader who helped dismantle Communism and forged a new relationship with the United States and the West.

Profile of Roman Emperor Caligula includes details of his reign, including frenzies of lunacy, murder and perverse sexuality.

Acoustical tests discredit Maj. Reno's statement about Little Bighorn.

In Montana, the Weibert family sets out to solve the last mystery of the Battle of the Little Bighorn -- the whereabouts of the priceless cache of weapons taken from Custer's soldiers after the battle.

In Montana, at the edge of the known battlefield, cousins Penny and Craig Weibert close in on the priceless cache of weapons stripped from Custer's soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

The Weibert family is closer than ever to solving the last great mystery of The Battle of the Little Bighorn; guided by Native American legend, the team unearth a Custer-era bullet at the edge of the known battlefield.

New evidence confirms that a man named Finkle was the lone white survivor of Custer's Last Stand.

The Dakota kill 200 troops at the battle of the Little Bighorn; American Indian insights.

Acoustical tests discredit Maj. Reno's statement about Little Bighorn.

In Montana, the Weibert family sets out to solve the last mystery of the Battle of the Little Bighorn -- the whereabouts of the priceless cache of weapons taken from Custer's soldiers after the battle.

In Montana, at the edge of the known battlefield, cousins Penny and Craig Weibert close in on the priceless cache of weapons stripped from Custer's soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

The Weibert family is closer than ever to solving the last great mystery of The Battle of the Little Bighorn; guided by Native American legend, the team unearth a Custer-era bullet at the edge of the known battlefield.

New evidence confirms that a man named Finkle was the lone white survivor of Custer's Last Stand.

The Dakota kill 200 troops at the battle of the Little Bighorn; American Indian insights.

Acoustical tests discredit Maj. Reno's statement about Little Bighorn.

In Montana, the Weibert family sets out to solve the last mystery of the Battle of the Little Bighorn -- the whereabouts of the priceless cache of weapons taken from Custer's soldiers after the battle.

In Montana, at the edge of the known battlefield, cousins Penny and Craig Weibert close in on the priceless cache of weapons stripped from Custer's soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

The Weibert family is closer than ever to solving the last great mystery of The Battle of the Little Bighorn; guided by Native American legend, the team unearth a Custer-era bullet at the edge of the known battlefield.

New evidence confirms that a man named Finkle was the lone white survivor of Custer's Last Stand.

The Dakota kill 200 troops at the battle of the Little Bighorn; American Indian insights.

The construction of the transcontinental railway changes the Wild West forever.

American settlers cross the Great Plains and the rugged mountains.

Re-enactors and modern cowboys demonstrate skills; historic cowboys.

The more technology a gang uses, the more likely it is to be able to pull off a heist and strike it rich.

Humans' desire to control nature leads to disaster.

The military battles and pacifies the American Indians and paves the way for white settlement.

When the law can't solve problems, the masses rise up to take matters into their own hands.

American pioneers who migrated west met their deaths in a variety of different ways, including disease, starvation and mishaps; technology also plays a role in the deaths of many settlers, especially agricultural machinery, such as the grain reaper.

The construction of the transcontinental railway changes the Wild West forever.

American settlers cross the Great Plains and the rugged mountains.

Re-enactors and modern cowboys demonstrate skills; historic cowboys.

The more technology a gang uses, the more likely it is to be able to pull off a heist and strike it rich.

Humans' desire to control nature leads to disaster.

The military battles and pacifies the American Indians and paves the way for white settlement.

When the law can't solve problems, the masses rise up to take matters into their own hands.

American pioneers who migrated west met their deaths in a variety of different ways, including disease, starvation and mishaps; technology also plays a role in the deaths of many settlers, especially agricultural machinery, such as the grain reaper.

The construction of the transcontinental railway changes the Wild West forever.