This work presents a journey through a century of flight, capturing the spirit and excitement of aviation past and present, from the Wright brothers' first airborne attempts to the story behind the space race. Bone-jarring moments of flight with pioneers such as Orville Wright, Harriet Quimby and Roland Garros are presented, along with absorbing profiles of the key personalities and the planes they flew. Readers can follow the swift advances in aviation technology that took place with the onset of war, as supremacy in the skies became a crucial factor.

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History series which sees skeletons of everyday people from across the ages analysed in staggering detail, opening new windows on the history of our forebears by literally revealing the person behind the skeleton.

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This performance, taped at La Scala on opening night, 1963, is a breathtaking example of true verismo performing. [...] The sound is surprisingly good, but certainly not up to modern standards. I still love the Scotto/Domingo/Levine [Cavalleria rusticana] set on RCA--but sorry, all other recorded performances of this work pale beside this one. Robert Levine, Classicstoday.com.

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Jurassic Fight Club is a paleontology-based television series on History which premiered in July 2008.
Scientists study the battles of prehistoric creatures, such as dinosaurs, before they went extinct. Each episode features a forensic-styled breakdown of a prehistoric battle. Based on fossil evidence and paleontologist analysis, a CGI rendering of the battle, based on the evidence and the imagination of George Blasing (the show's "host") is the final act of each episode.