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A closer look at the 1991 Eclipse in Mexico, and the UFO sightings which happened at the same time.

Modern Marvels gets down to the nitty-gritty of saws.

Battle 360 provides insight into what it was like to live on the USS Enterprise

In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross, an organization established to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International Red Cross. Barton, born in Massachusetts in 1821, worked with the sick and wounded during the American Civil War and became known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" for her tireless dedication. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln commissioned her to search for lost prisoners of war, and with the extensive records she had compiled during the war she succeeded in identifying thousands of the Union dead at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp.

Footage of the first test flight in 1909, conducted by the Wright brothers.

Geo Beach takes us through the longest tunnel in the United States to Whittier Harbor.

An analysis of the mysterious "rods" suggests that they may be descendants of creatures from ancient times.

On February 13, 1937, liberal Republican Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. spoke out in support of President Franklin Roosevelt's controversial plan to neutralize Supreme Court justices that were hostile to the New Deal. Over the previous two years, the high court had struck down several key pieces of New Deal legislation on the grounds that the laws delegated an unconstitutional amount of authority to the executive branch and the federal government. Flushed with his landslide re-election in 1936, President Roosevelt issued a proposal in February 1937 to provide retirement at full pay for all members of the court over seventy. If a justice refused to retire, an ''assistant'' with full voting rights was to be appointed, thus ensuring Roosevelt a liberal majority. Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called ''court-packing'' plan. However, in April, before the bill came to vote, two justices came over to the liberal side, and by a narrow majority upheld the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act, acknowledging that the national economy had grown to such a degree that federal regulation and control was now warranted. Roosevelt's reorganization plan was thus unnecessary, and in July the Senate struck it down by a vote of seventy to twenty-two. Soon after, Roosevelt had the opportunity to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, and by 1942, all but two of the justices were his appointees.

Tougher in Alaska makes tracks on Alaska's snowy roads and trails.

Crew members from MonsterQuest provide insight into an eerie incident that occurred at Snelgrove Lake, Canada.