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LUXEN TV Series
Extra History
2013·174 Seasons·513 Episodes·★ 0.0
Videos of an educational YouTube channel made up of entertainment enthusiasts with backgrounds in game design, television production, literature and academia. The team creates short-form animated video essays every week about world history.
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Long-form commitment · 174 seasons
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Seasons
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Rome: The Punic Wars
4 episodes
2013
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World War I: The Seminal Tragedy
4 episodes
2014
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Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai
6 episodes
2014
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England: South Sea Bubble
5 episodes
2015
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Zulu Empire
4 episodes
2015
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Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora
12 episodes
2015
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Europe: The First Crusade
6 episodes
2015
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Korea: Admiral Yi
5 episodes
2015
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Middle East: Odenathus
2 episodes
2015
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England: The Broad Street Pump
4 episodes
2015
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Mary Seacole
2 episodes
2016
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World War II: The Battle of Kursk
5 episodes
2016
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Suleiman the Magnificent
6 episodes
2016
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WWII: The Resource War
4 episodes
2016
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Early Christian Schisms
4 episodes
2016
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The History of Writing
2 episodes
2016
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Samuel HaNagid
1 episode
2016
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First Opium War
4 episodes
2016
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Urbino
1 episode
2016
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Lindisfarne
1 episode
2016
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The Brothers Gracchi
6 episodes
2016
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Hiawatha
2 episodes
2016
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The History of Paper Money
6 episodes
2016
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Veterans Day
1 episode
2016
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Simón Bolívar
6 episodes
2016
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Catherine the Great
6 episodes
2017
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Ned Kelly
5 episodes
2017
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Mary Anning
1 episode
2017
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The Articles of Confederation
4 episodes
2017
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Hunting the Bismarck
4 episodes
2017
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Kamehameha the Great
2 episodes
2017
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D-Day
4 episodes
2017
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The Bronze Age Collapse
4 episodes
2017
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Saragarhi
1 episode
2017
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Great Northern War
5 episodes
2017
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The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire
1 episode
2017
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Otto von Bismarck
6 episodes
2017
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Berlin Airlift
1 episode
2017
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Khosrau Anushirawan
5 episodes
2017
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WW1 Christmas Truce
2 episodes
2017
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Cheng I Sao
1 episode
2018
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Cuban Missile Crisis
3 episodes
2018
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Genghis Khan
6 episodes
2018
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The Danelaw
2 episodes
2018
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1 episode
2018
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The Empire of Mali
5 episodes
2018
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The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry
5 episodes
2018
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Thermopylae
2 episodes
2018
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1918 Flu Pandemic
7 episodes
2018
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Pellagra
1 episode
2018
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Kingdom of Majapahit
5 episodes
2018
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Battle of Saipan
2 episodes
2018
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Quantum Computing
6 episodes
2018
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Julie d'Aubigny
1 episode
2018
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Viking Expansion
6 episodes
2018
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Defense of Poland
2 episodes
2018
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Sun Yat-sen
5 episodes
2018
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Tuberculosis
2 episodes
2019
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Jane Austen
1 episode
2019
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Irish Potato Famine
5 episodes
2019
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The Boston Massacre
1 episode
2019
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Siege of Vienna
3 episodes
2019
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Queen Nzinga
2 episodes
2018
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U.S. Civil War
1 episode
2019
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The Three Kingdoms
2 episodes
2019
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History of England
6 episodes
2019
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Joan of Arc
5 episodes
2019
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The Warsaw Uprising
1 episode
2019
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Hogs in History
1 episode
2019
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The Inca Empire
5 episodes
2019
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History of Dentistry
2 episodes
2019
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Charles Darwin
1 episode
2019
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Building Angkor
5 episodes
2019
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History of Space Travel
6 episodes
2019
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The Berlin Wall
1 episode
2019
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Akhenaten
1 episode
2019
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Policing London
5 episodes
2019
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History of Vaccines
1 episode
2019
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Allan Pinkerton
1 episode
2020
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The Haitian Revolution
6 episodes
2020
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Ibn Battuta
6 episodes
2020
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Rasputin
1 episode
2020
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The 1929 Stock Market Crash
1 episode
2020
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Dividing the Middle East
5 episodes
2020
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The Field of the Cloth of Gold
2 episodes
2020
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The Sacred Band
1 episode
2020
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Exploring the Pacific
5 episodes
2020
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The Burning of Black Wall Street
1 episode
2020
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Marie Antoinette
1 episode
2020
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The Trojan War
2 episodes
2020
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Rome & The Third Century Crisis
5 episodes
2020
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Syphilis
2 episodes
2020
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The Harlem Hellfighters
1 episode
2020
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Bartolomé de las Casas
1 episode
2020
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Cleopatra
5 episodes
2020
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Voting in America
1 episode
2020
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The Beast of Gévaudan
1 episode
2020
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The Harlem Renaissance
1 episode
2020
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End of the Samurai
5 episodes
2020
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The Polio Epidemic
1 episode
2020
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Francis Walsingham
1 episode
2020
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Saladin & the 3rd Crusade
5 episodes
2021
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Black Boxing Heavyweights
1 episode
2021
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Redlining
1 episode
2021
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Crusader States Craziness
1 episode
2021
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Interstate Displacement
1 episode
2021
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Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster
5 episodes
2021
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Do No Harm: Black Medical Exploitation
1 episode
2021
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The Assassination of Medgar Evers
1 episode
2021
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Jewish Pirates
4 episodes
2021
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Rome: Battle of the Milvian Bridge
1 episode
2021
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Climbing the Matterhorn
2 episodes
2021
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Thirty Years' War
5 episodes
2021
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Negro League Baseball
1 episode
2021
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The Harlem Numbers Racket & Stephanie St Clair
1 episode
2021
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Vlad the Impaler
5 episodes
2021
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History of Coffee
2 episodes
2021
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The Erfurt Latrine Disaster
1 episode
2021
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Grigori Rasputin
4 episodes
2021
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Marcus Garvey
1 episode
2021
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The Great Emu War
2 episodes
2021
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Conquest of India
5 episodes
2021
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The Discovery of Insulin
2 episodes
2021
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The Cotton Gin
1 episode
2021
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Japanese Militarism
5 episodes
2021
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Götz of the Iron Hand
1 episode
2021
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The Zimmermann Telegram
1 episode
2022
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Empire of Brazil
5 episodes
2022
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Maya Angelou
1 episode
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Mary Toft
1 episode
2022
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History of Beer
5 episodes
2022
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Great Disappointment
1 episode
2022
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New England Vampire Panic
1 episode
2022
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Tulip Mania
5 episodes
2022
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Carlisle Boarding School
1 episode
2022
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Billie Holiday vs The US Government
1 episode
2022
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Ethiopian Empire
6 episodes
2022
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
4 episodes
2022
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Battle of Blair Mountain
2 episodes
2022
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The Irish Easter Rising
5 episodes
2022
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The Battle of Culloden
1 episode
2022
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The Path to Pearl Harbor
6 episodes
2022
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Christmas Chaos at West Point
1 episode
2022
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Frederick the Great
5 episodes
2023
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The Real Red Wedding
1 episode
2023
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Operation Avalanche
2 episodes
2023
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John Brown
5 episodes
2023
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The American Revolution’s Forgotten War Crime
1 episode
2023
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Napoleon in Egypt
6 episodes
2023
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A Race to Ancient Secrets
1 episode
2023
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The Mass-Murdering Mongoose
1 episode
2023
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The Crimean War
5 episodes
2023
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The Buddhist Expansion
5 episodes
2023
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Henry Ford
5 episodes
2023
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Ramesses the Great
2 episodes
2023
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The Little Ice Age
4 episodes
2023
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The Draft Riots of 1863
1 episode
2023
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Shootout at the OK Corral
2 episodes
2023
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The Dodo Bird
1 episode
2023
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The REAL War on Christmas
1 episode
2023
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Wu Zetian
5 episodes
2023
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The Disastrous History of the First Transatlantic Cable
1 episode
2024
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Pigs
1 episode
2024
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Sitting Bull
4 episodes
2024
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Jim Thorpe
1 episode
2024
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John L. Sullivan
1 episode
2024
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Secret Societies
5 episodes
2024
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The Great Locomotive Chase
1 episode
2024
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Hypatia of Alexandria
4 episodes
2024
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The Dark History of the Panama Railroad
1 episode
2024
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History of the Board Game
1 episode
2024
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Invasion of Quebec
4 episodes
2024
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The Calendar's 10,000 Year History
1 episode
2024
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Benedict Arnold
2 episodes
2024