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Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Historian of science Michael Gordin highlights three often unappreciated problems associated with Karl Popper's "falsification criterion". Each one of his concerns is then discussed and debated by theoretical physicists Nima Arkani-Hamed, Artur Ekert and Scott Tremaine.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Old Smokey and Josh try one of the most notorious military rations ever made. Then, will things fizzle when they taste an out of this world powdered candy from the 70's' And, the guys visit a beer club where they find a brew that changes colors.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
It's time for dessert when Josh and Old Smokey try to bake a box of 40-year-old chocolate chip cookie mix. The guys then visit a bar for an underground tasting and discover illicit booze. Plus, they eat Cold War era survival food, originally created in the event of a nuclear fallout...and designed to last.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Josh and Old Smokey take a trip to an abandoned mining town to dig for forgotten food. Then they chug one of America's most infamous lost beers. And later, they get an opportunity to taste a Viking elixir.
10) Eating History
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (211 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Food from the past still exists, packaged decades or even centuries ago, laying in forgotten bunkers and pantries around the world. These foods have long since expired...or have they?
11) A Space Odyssey
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Houston, we have a potato. Old Smokey and Josh travel to the final frontier for some spacey spuds. Then they cook up some revolutionary rice, and visit an estate sale to find forgotten goodies.
12) The Candy Man
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Something's fishy when the guys administer the "slap test" to emergency drinking water rations from 1953. Then some classic Italian canned food from a legendary chef has a surprising shelf life. And, they visit an infamous Irish bar where they meet a dancing girl and sample a 63-year-old bottle.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Things get sticky when Josh and Old Smokey put a classic Korean War era chocolate taffy legend to the test. Then the guys taste what dinner was like on the northern frontier with a moose sized portion of nose jelly. And later, they get a chance to open up a classic cereal from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Can Josh and Smokey champion the oldest cereal ever eaten' Then, they examine a Vietnam-era ration, but could the 40-year old meat inside possibly be preserved' And later, they try a 40-year-old hot sauce to determine whether it gets hotter with age.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Josh and Old Smokey eat decades old corn chips and century-old Civil War hardtack, then "freshen up" with 100-year-old tooth powder, all to determine whether these forgotten foods have survived the test of time.
16) Once You Pop
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The boys crack open a 40-year-old can of iconic "chips". Then, they head to Michigan to meet a couple with a huge collection of memorabilia from one of America's biggest and most nostalgic brands. To wash it all down, they sip a soda that was one of the most famous flops of all time.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (22 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Josh and Smokey sample three generations of America's favorite sandwich cookies to see how they've changed over the years. Then the boys open a box of over 30-year-old bat cereal from the Dark Knight. And they try a meal of river rodent, just like Lewis & Clark would've had during their quest.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
vi, 314 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Nothing goes wrong quite so dramatically as a disastrous military expedition."-from the Introduction
ARROGANT ARMIES
Spanning more than two hundred years of martial adventurism, aggression, and outright blundering, Arrogant Armies chronicles the profoundly misguided and utterly calamitous military expeditions of the great empire builders and overconfident expeditionary forces. From colonial America to South Africa, from Mesopotamia to Khartoum,...
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (176 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Tony Robinson gives the past a good kick up the bottom in this entertaining tour through British history. Tony isn’t interested in the rich and famous, instead, he tells a lively storythrough the everyday lives of ordinary people.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This is the story of World War II told through the astonishing filter of a widespread Nazi scheme to provide methamphetamine to German soldiers to make them invincible.
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