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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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Follow a newly hatched chicken named Peep and his friends Chirp and Quack (a robin and a duck) on their adventures. They live in 'the big wide world', a place of wonder and mystery, a place they are eager to explore. Wry and distinctive visual humor, charming plotlines, and lovable characters combine with a comprehensive science program to attract and engage kids 3-5 years old.
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Follow a newly hatched chicken named Peep and his friends Chirp and Quack (a robin and a duck) on their adventures. They live in 'the big wide world,' a place of wonder and mystery, a place they are eager to explore. Wry and distinctive visual humor, charming plotlines, and lovable characters combine with a comprehensive science program to attract and engage kids three-five years old.
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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.
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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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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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Join the adventures of Martin and Chris as they meet up with cool creatures from around the world, and witness many never-before-seen wildlife moments. With their creature smarts plus their newly invented Creature Power Suits, the brothers Kratt are using amazing animal abilities to rescue their animal friends when they get into trouble. Each episode is a wildly funny adventure that also features how animals use science in their natural lives.
13) 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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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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Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...