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Mystery of The Sun

It's an alien landscape where magnetic tornados twist upward tens of thousands of miles, home to mysterious dark spots each large enough to engulf the Earth ebb and flow. It is a place of violent eruptions that shoot tones of charged particles into space at speeds of over two million mile per hour.This is not some strange world on the other side of the galaxy, this is our Sun a yellow dwarf st

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Mystery of the Murdered Saints

For the first time, the Catholic Church is allowing scientific experts and historians to openly test the veracity of the remains of reported saints.National Geographic has exclusive access to the forensic investigation. Deep in the crypt below the Cathedral of Reggio Emilia lie a set of bones believed to be those of two ancient saints, Chrysanthus and Daria.For more than 1,500 years they’

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Mystery Of The Left Hand

Mystery of the Left Hand explores the characteristics of left-handed people. But don’t be surprised if you can’t remember deciding whether to be left or right handed. Hand preference is thought to begin in your mother’s womb and stay with you for life.And what comes naturally to us is important information for scientists. Handedness may be a clue into human behaviour and how our bodies work.Ou

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Mystery Of The Cocaine Mummies

In the 21st dynasty of the pharaohs, 3000 years ago there took place one night at a temple the funeral of Henut Taui, The Lady of The Two Lands. Compared to the great rulers of Egypt her burial was a modest affair but just like the pharaohs she too was mummified and her body placed in the depths of the desert tomb in the belief it would give her immortality and in an unexpected way it has.He m

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My War, My Story

Iraq war vets from across the country talk about why many of them oppose the war. Most of these vets remain loyal to their branch of the service, but believe that U.S. involvement in Iraq is wrong. This documentary is not a statement from the political left– many of these vets who now abhor the war come from conservative backgrounds. You will meet Dave, from Illinois, who believed he was there to

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My Trip To Al-Qaeda

The events of 9/11 left a nation in shock. The devastation that occurred on that day lives in the heart of each American. The country, paralyzed with questions, tried to heal and rationalize the complexity of such an atrocity. One man followed his personal questioning and took actions that led him on a trip he will not soon forget.Journalist Lawrence Wright explored the moral dilemmas he exper

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My Son The Jihadi

Sally Evans, mother of two, is on a journey to discover what it was that drove her eldest son Thomas to join leave home and join the deadly Islamic terror group known as Al Shabaab. Thomas was only 21 when he decided to leave his home in a Buckinghamshire village and travel to Somalia.The group Al Shabaab is a jihadi Al Qaeda affiliate which is responsible for many atrocities commited in Kenya

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My Russian Side

My Russian Side is a touching film which follows the story of Alex Gilbert, a 24 year old living in New Zealand who in 2013 with the help of social media managed to track down and meet up with his biological parents who were located in Russia.He himself was born in Russia but lived in an orphanage until he was 2 years old, this was when his adopted parents came along and brought him to New Zea

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My Pet Dinosaur

It's a palaeontologist's dream: the chance to live in a world where dinosaurs are not something to be dug out of the ground but are living among us. It may sound far-fetched but dinosaurs were actually rather unlucky. The meteorite impact that doomed them to extinction was an event with a probability of millions to one. What if the meteorite had missed?Had dinosaurs survived, the world today wou

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