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| 23 :03x01 - The Spirit of St. Louis; Suicide Pin; Image of Apache Warrior Geronimo (Jun/27/2005) | | Puzzles involving Charles Lindbergh, American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and Geronimo are investigated. Two New Jersey brothers suspect that their uncle built the Spirit of St. Louis's Wright Whirlwind J-5C engine. A used toolbox bought by a Kansas City man contains two pins that could be “poison pins” similar to the one Powers had with him when he was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960. And a Kentucky woman has a photo she thinks depicts the Apache warrior. | |
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| 24 :03x02 - Black Star Line Stock Certificates; Mickey Mouse's Origin; Pro-Nazi Newspaper in Texas (Jul/07/2005) | | Questions concern black leader Marcus Garvey, Mickey Mouse and a WWII POW camp in Texas. A North Carolina woman found two stock certificates for Garvey's Black Star Line steamship company that her great-grandfather purchased in 1919. A San Francisco antiques dealer owns a toy mouse named “Micky” with a patent date of 1926 on it (two years before Walt Disney invented Mickey). And a Texas woman has heard stories that the government expropriated her family's land in 1942 for a camp for German POWs. | |
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| 24 :03x04 - Cherokee Bible; Slave Banjo; United Empire Loyalists (Jul/25/2005) | | Genealogy figures into segments examining the 1838 “Trail of Tears” Cherokee relocation, a banjo's history and Revolutionary War British loyalists. In the first segment, a Texas woman is curious about a Cherokee-language bible that has been in her family for generations. Bluesman Taj Mahal discusses the history of a banjo that might have been owned by a slave in the second segment. And in the third, a California woman is intrigued by the notation “United Empire Loyalist” on her family tree. | |
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| 24 :03x05 - Portrait of George Washington; Revolutionary War Poem; Revolutionary War Cannon (Aug/01/2005) | | A Revolutionary War-themed program features segments on a poem, a cannon and a drawing of George Washington, presumed to be by painter Gilbert Stuart. The poem was signed by a POW named Daniel Goodhue in 1780. The cannon is said to have been stolen by the rebels from the British, who went to retrieve it---from Concord, Mass., on April 19, 1775. And as for the Washington sketch, the fact that Stuart seldom made drawings is only one problem with it. | |
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| 24 :03x06 - Secrets of the Tape; Mountain Mail Bag; Banned Birth Control Box (Aug/15/2005) | | Questions concern a vintage automobile tape player, a 19th-century California mailbag and birth control in the 1890s. The tape player, owned by an Alabama man, might be the first of its kind in the U.S., and the technology behind it might have been developed by the Nazis. The bag might have belonged to the legendary “Snowshoe” Thompson, who delivered mail in the Sierras from 1856 to 1876. And a Missouri woman owns a box dated 1894. Its inscription says it contained a birth-control device. | |
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| 25 :03x07 - Doc Holliday’s Watch; Civil War Female Soldiers; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork (Aug/22/2005) | | Questions concern a watch that might have belonged to Old West figure Doc Holliday, female soldiers in the Civil War and watercolors of a World War II internment camp for Japanese-Americans. The watch might also have been given to Holliday (a dentist as well as a gunman) by Wyatt Earp. Triggering the segment on women in the Civil War is a photo of a member of the 2nd Louisiana Infantry. And the 10 postcard-sized watercolors were painted on the back of an internment evacuation notice. | |
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| 26 :03x08 - Hermann Goering's Shotgun; Calf Creek Arrow; the Edison House (Aug/29/2005) | | Questions concern Thomas A. Edison, Nazi Hermann Goering and an arrowhead found in a bison skull in Oklahoma. A New Jersey man believes that his concrete house was designed and built by Edison, and a New York State man believes he owns a shotgun that was taken from the Luftwaffe chief's home when he was arrested in 1945. As for the arrowhead, it might have been fashioned some 5000 years ago by the Calf Creek people. | |
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| 27 :03x09 - Coney Island Lion; Legacy of a Doll; Ballet Shoes (Sep/05/2005) | | “Junior detectives” help the adult sleuths sniff out the stories behind ornamental lion claws, a jazz-age Broadway shoemaker and a doll linked to Robert E. Lee. A New York man thinks the zinc claws he bought at an estate sale were part of a lion that guarded Coney Island's Steeplechase Park. A Maryland grandmother was told that her doll was given by the Lees to one of their slaves. And a Long Island teen has heard that her great-great-grandfather made dance shoes for Broadway stars. | |
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| 28 :03x10 - Leisureama Homes; Jim Thorpe Tickets; 1667 Land Grant (Sep/12/2005) | | Questions concern the legendary athlete Jim Thorpe, a 1667 Manhattan land grant and the “Leisureama” homes developed in the 1950s by the designer of the model kitchen in which Nixon and Khrushchev conducted their impromptu “kitchen debate” in 1959. Of Thorpe, the question is: Did he play basketball? The land grant was given to a black woman by the first British governor of New York. And the grandson of the Leisurama homes' designer is looking for examples of the houses in Florida. | |
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| 29 :03x11 - Home for Unwed Mothers; Long Expedition Encampment; Evelyn Nesbit Portrait (Sep/19/2005) | | Questions concern an adoptee searching for her birth parents, an 1819 expedition into the West and a portrait of a young woman by early-20th-century illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. The adoptee has a medallion that was attached to her diaper when she left a home for unwed mothers with her adoptive parents. A Nebraska man owns land on the Missouri River where the explorers camped. And the portrait owner believes the woman depicted is Evelyn Nesbitt, “the first supermodel of the 20th century.” | |
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