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History Detectives | Season 6, Episode 10 | PBS

Duration: 54:07 (Full Program)
Program: History Detectives #610
Broadcast Date: Sep. 15, 2008

Blueprint Special
Did this record play a dramatic role in the Allied victory during the Second World War?

Monroe Letter
Does this letter link America's fifth President to the high seas piracy of U.S. merchant ships in the early 1800s?

Atocha Spanish Silver
What is the meaning of these markings on a silver bar discovered in the wreck of the Spanish ship?

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Post Date: September 15, 2008