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Sometimes the messiest stuff and the biggest mistakes can take you someplace wonderful. With the help of their hit TV show, Fixer Upper, the husband and wife team of Chip and Joanna Gaines have transformed the seemingly everyday work of renovating homes and flipping houses in Waco, Texas, into something much more. With their fun personalities, good humor, strong love of family, and unique design style, they've managed to capture the hearts of Americans...
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Tommy demonstrates how to create a beautiful, must-have piece of furniture for every home: an HDTV stand and console table, with an emphasis on wood-bending. Then Tommy travels to New York City to visit the Brooklyn Museum where he meets with the curator, an expert in the work of the Thonets, famous for perfecting the technique of steam-bent lamination.
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Tommy MacDonald builds a beautiful Shaker-style project inspired by the centuries-old drop-leaf and gate-leg tables in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Plus, Chuck Bender of the Acanthus Workshop in Pennsylvania stops by the shop as Tommy instructs viewers on the ins and outs of the always fun-to-learn finger joints.
9) 125 years
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A collection of memorable National Geographic programs to celebrate 125 years of the society.
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This revealing and poignant film by Ken Burns portrays 200 years of Shaker life in America, guided by the recollections of the three surviving members of the faith, along with a wealth of archival material from over 40 collections. Explore every aspect of this strange and noble sect that produced some of the greatest architecture and furniture in American history.
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Tommy creates a dramatic piece that serves as the perfect introduction to chairmaking, revealing that the legs, arms, and back are all constructed using standard mortise-and-tenon joinery. Then Tommy travels to California where he visits the home of the late, great Samuel Maloof, one of the biggest names in chairmaking, and talks with a local curator who specializes in Maloof.
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Steps inside the workshop of fine furniture maker Tommy MacDonald, a graduate of the famed Boston-based North Bennet Street School, as he shares his skills and best practices, allowing anyone with an interest in woodworking to not only learn the basics, but to excel at the craft. In Shaker-inspired night stand, Tommy provides detailed instructions for one of his favorite projects, highlighting techniques for mortise and tenon joinery, and leg tapering....
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"Gain a fascinating, engagingly intimate glimpse behind the iconic images on the marble busts and the noble faces gazing out from our dollar bills and pocket change. And discover the remarkable, unseen private sides of the men who risked their reputations, fortunes, and lives for the cause of American independence"--Container.
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"Just five years after the end of World War II, America was fighting a new enemy -- the spread of international communism. In June 1950, North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung invaded South Korea and just two months later, he held almost the entire country under control. The operation launched on September 15, 1950 and remains one of the most daring feats in military history. In this episode of 'War Stories,' you'll meet the Marines who climbed the seawall...
16) The poison squad
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By the close of the Industrial Revolution, the American food supply was tainted--by frauds, fakes, and legions of new, untested chemicals--all threatening the health of consumers across the country. Based on the critically acclaimed book by Deborah Blum, it tells the story of crusading government chemist Harvey Washington Wiley, the man who led the pure food movement against the food manufacturing industry in the early years of the twentieth century,...
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"Ancient Aliens is a thorough exploration of the theories first proposed by Erich von Daniken in his 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods. Go back to the very beginning of the hit series from HISTORY� as we examine 75 million years of the most credible alien evidence here on Earth, from the age of the dinosaurs, to ancient Egypt, to the skies over the western desert in the present day. Ancient cave drawings of strange creatures, an asphalt-like substance...
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In World War II, two historic Allied invasions played key roles in the defeat of the Axis powers. In this gripping DVD, witness the magnificent D-Day invasion of Normandy, when 150,000 brave soldiers stormed ashore to begin their march across Europe. Then discover the details surrounding another great invasion, the Beachhead at Anzio, in Italy. Here, a daring and aggressive maneuver cut the German lines between Rome and Cassino, and the Allied heroics...
20) Life story
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The makers of the Emmy Award(r)-winning series Life take viewers deeper than ever into the perilous and exhilarating drama humans share with every other animal on the planet, from the circumstances of birth and the struggle to reach adulthood, secure a home and find a mate, to the unpredictable challenges thrust on all creatures by the environment, enemies and even families.
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