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The Shroud of Turin.
The Wright Brothers plane.
The treasures of King Tut. This is a captivating examination of of the most famous objects and atrifacts in human history. Some are macabre (Abraham Lincolns deathbed), priceless (the Declraation of Independence) and more curious than anything else.
Features include {Episode 1:} Einsteins brain, a stuffed-and-mounted philosopher, and the Gettysburg Address; {Episode 2:} the auto that carried John F. Kennedy to his death, the wooden gun that John Dillinger used to bluff his way out of jail, and the amputated, stuffed leg of a Civil War general; {Episode 3:} John Paul Joenss body, the London Bridge, and George Washingtons wooden teeth; {Episode 4:} Jackie Onassis Kennedys blood-stained dress, King Herods tub, Paul Reveres lantern, and footage of the Spanish American War; {Episode 5:} the bus ridden on by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, the boat from the movie The African Queen, an English ruler who lost his head after he was buried, a fire horse who lost his hoof on the way to a fire, and monsters in New Jersey; {Episode 6:} the metal staircase at the U.S.
Embassy in Saigon that thousands of evacuees climbed, the tumor taken from Grover Clevelands throat; {Episode 7-8:} Edisons electric killing machine, Togo the sled dog, Calvin Coolidges exercise horse, Elvis Presleys purple Cadillac, Ludwig van Beethovens hearing aid, William Shakespeares will; {Episode 9:} Lewis & Clarks luggage, the Hollywood sign, faked photographs of fairies, the first vacuum cleaner, and the crew compartment of the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle; {Episode 10:} the St.
Valentines Day Massacre wall, the invention of barbed wire, a legless WWII ace who nearly escaped a POW camp on tin limbs, Alan Shepards golf shot on the moon, the first mteal detector, the pressed aluminum disk cut by convicted murderer Lead Belly, and a visit to a Civil War-era Washington, D.C. Brothel; {Episode 11:} the stuffed animal that inspired the classic Winnie the Pooh stories and sparked an international controversy, an escape from the prison known as The Rock, Alfred Packer - the Colorado Cannibal, Americas first astronauts - monkeys named Able and Baker, love letters from King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, and John Wayne on the way to the Alamo; {Episode 12:} the truth behind the death of Jesse James, the guillotine, the barber who killed mob boss Anastasia, Mark Twains bed, the image of the Marines planting the Stars and Stripes on Mt.
Suribachi, the first issue of Mad Magazine and Hugh Hefners pajamas; {Episode 13:} Imelda Marcoss shoes, Al Capones Cadillac and Lizzie Bordens ax; {Episode 14:} Buddy Hollys glasses and the original Monopoly board; {Episode 15:} Eva Brauns home movies, the infamous dress Marilyn Monroe wore at JFKs 45th birthday celebration; {Episode 16:} first Apple computer, George Washingtons schoolbooks, President Herbert Hoovers invented game called Hooverball, reel-to-reel tapes laid down by Louis Armstrong, and the last New York City Checker cab; {Episode 17:} Andy Warhols wigs, the funeral bier of Lincoln and Kennedy, a record-breaking car, and the Lone Rangers mask; {Episode 18:} the letters of Mary Todd Lincoln, the origins of the recreational vehicle, Jayne Mansfields death car, a surfboard, a musical instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin; {Episode 19:} the remains of the Hindenburg, the Appomattox surrender tables, Ghandis bloodstained dhoti, the first Zippo lighter, the original text of the Nuremberg laws, Ronald Reagans booth at Chasens, and James Deans motorcycle; {Episode 20:} Joseph Haydns lost head, Liberaces rhinestone piano, the first cellular phone, Silly Putty, the large shoes of Charlie Chaplin, and the Confederate Constitution; {Episode 21:} Hitlers moveable bunker, the first microwave oven, Jim Thorpes Olympic medals, Painless Parkers tooth necklace, the Watergate address book, Colonel Sanderss pressure cooker; {Episode 22:} the original La-Z-Boy and Schindlers famous list; {Episode 23:} the death auto of General George Patton, the first Academy Award, the U-2 spy plane in which Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, and the first modern surfboard; {Episode 25:} secret White House tapes made by Lyndon Johnson, the auto that got Henry Ford started on the road to his destiny, Elvis Presleys official (and ironic) DEA badge, the story of the remains of the unknown soldier, the first parking meter, and the fans of dancer Sally Rand; {Episode 26:} Rin Tin Tin, Stanley Milgrams Shock Box, the coat Admiral Nelson wore for his final battle, John Lennons station wagon, and Charlie Parkers plastic saxophone; {Episode 27:} Jack Rubys gun, the lost squadron of WWII, the original Sun Studio soundboard, the first transistor, the heart of Louis XVII, the original Coke bottle; {Episode 28:} the USS Pampanito, Mark David Chapmans autographed Double Fantasy album, the first Mustang convertible, JFKs missing tooth, Thomas Edisons tinfoil phonograph, and St. Stephens crown; {Episode 29:} the Srpuce Goose, Elvis Presleys guitar, Shackletons Arctic survivor: the James Caird, George Washingtons inaugural Bible, the original TV dinner tray; {Episode 30:} Malcolm Xs blood-stained diary, the worlds only private subway car, Peter the Greats amber chamber, Pancho Villas death mask, Bonnie and Clydes death car, and the log of the Mayflower. In the stories that surround them, history and the human condition are illuminated.
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