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Communists erect a 103-mile-long wall through and around Berlin in order to stop the flow of refugees to the West.

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More than 100 pyramids built as tombs for pharaohs still stand in Egypt, but many things about the ancient monuments remain obscure.

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Dreamers and schemers try an odd assortment of flawed ideas for inventions.

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Shipyards are waterside construction sites where some of the largest tools ever built help create the biggest machines on earth.

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Two ribbons of concrete span the largest inland body of water in Louisiana, forming the world's longest automobile bridge.

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Precision-guided weapons become a flashpoint for war critics.

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Perched on a ridge in the Peruvian Andes is the engineering marvel Machu Picchu, originally built by the Incas.

Machu Picchu

The Overseas Highway contains 51 bridges, linking mainland Florida with the Florida Keys.

Overseas Highway

The history of the Columbia, the first space shuttle to fly outer space, ranging from its inception to its deadly destruction in January 2003.

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Metal has helped shape human progress since man first thrust copper into a fire and forged a tool.

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Termites, mosquitos, rats, mice, ants and cockroaches have spread damage, disease and death for millions of years.

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