Inside the Natural History Museum /
We examine a skull to discover if prehistoric Britons were cannibals, then pull a killer shark from a pool of formaldehyde to find out how it helped swimmers win Olympic gold. We dare a curator to handle a famous gem said to kill all who touch it, then enter a once top-secret room where WWII spymast...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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London :
British Broadcasting Corporation,
2011.
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| Series: | Art and architecture in video
Museum Secrets ; series 1, episode 5 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | We examine a skull to discover if prehistoric Britons were cannibals, then pull a killer shark from a pool of formaldehyde to find out how it helped swimmers win Olympic gold. We dare a curator to handle a famous gem said to kill all who touch it, then enter a once top-secret room where WWII spymasters created a bomb that came within a hair's-breadth of killing Hitler. We view the remains of Barbary Lions to find out why they spent their lives in the Tower of London, then consider a perfectly preserved specimen of a Dodo, to discover whether the flightless bird's extinction was really as inevitable as we have been led to believe. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (48 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:47:01 |