For thousands of years, the Great Plains were home to countless numbers of American bison, but in the late 1800s, the number of bison dropped from nearly 30 million to just a few hundred in less than 100 years. What happened to place this national icon on the brink of extinction? Join us as we detail the events that led to this mass extermination. Then follow the story of William Temple Hornaday, a chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian Institution who headed west to hunt bison for the museum, but ended up saving the species instead.
Las aventuras del escritor Newt Scamander en la comunidad secreta de brujas y magos de Nueva York setenta años antes de lo acontecido en "Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal".
Cuando la famosa historiadora norteamericana Deborah E. Lipstadt acusa a determinados periodistas e historiadores de negacionistas en su libro "La Negación del Holocausto", es denunciada por el negacionista británico David Irving, el famoso periodista e historiador admirador de Hitler, y se querella contra ella en 1996 por difamaciones. Entonces Lipstadt se propone derrotar a Irving y los negacionistas en Inglaterra sólo con expertos en el ámbito académico: sin llamar a declarar siquiera a un sólo superviviente de la Shoah.
Únete a Katsuma, Poppet y los otros Moshi Monsters en una carrera contra el tiempo para detener al malvado Dr. Strangeglove y su incompetente compañero Fishlips que intentan hacerse con el descubrimiento de Gran Huevo Moshling.
A Japanese animal photographer, Tadashi Shimada, captures crucial photographs of wild birds in Oceania. This episode of Shimada filmed in high-definition, focuses on the rare and fascinating Birds of Paradise in New Guinea and their beautiful yet humorous courtship behavior. In yellow, red, and hybrid orange, the long-feathered Greater Bird of Paradise and Raggiana Bird of Paradise dance together in the air. The Paradise Riflebird with its distinctive jet-black body and long blue feathers lives deep in the jungle. The program captures splendid images of the Magnificent Bird of Paradise's courtship dance that's never been seen on film before. Shimada's brilliant camera work creates the supreme art of nature..
It's Halloween, and friends Nick and Kate are on a mission to find the biggest and best pumpkin in the patch. Unfortunately, the pumpkin thy chose is haunted by the ghost of the Headless Horseman...and he wants his head back! Aided by the skittish spirit Nathaniel, the two kids have to keep the Headless Horseman from getting his pumpkin head back before midnight. Inspired by the classic Washington Irving tale, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", the whole town of Sleepy Hollow gets involved in the exciting and thrilling race towards midnig
Siguiendo la pista de una valiosa pieza de arte robada, la agente de seguros Gin Baker convence a su compañía para que le permitan llevar a cabo un golpe en colaboración con un prestigioso y veterano ladrón, Robert "Mac" MacDouglas. Pero Mac la someterá a una serie de duros entrenamientos y pruebas antes de confiar en ella.
