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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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Celebrate the ingenuity and imagination found in the world around us. 24/7 episodes of Modern Marvels, television's most innovative series.

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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Jet truck; mobile command truck; building specialty trucks.

Extreme Trucks

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

Shipyards

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

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

Precision-guided weapons become a flashpoint for war critics.

Smart Bombs

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.

Space Shuttle Columbia

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

Metal

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