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Prevented from following the Tropic through China by the Chinese government, Simon instead discovers the increasing Chinese influences in neighboring Laos and Vietnam. In Taiwan he meets some of the world's highest achieving children and his journey finally ends in Hawaii, but here he finds a paradise blighted by environmental problems.
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In this first episode, Professor Richard Fortey is on Hawaii to investigate how life colonizes a newly born island. The most remote island group in the world, by some estimates only one new species successfully colonized Hawaii every 35,000 years- yet the Hawaiian Islands teem with a great diversity of life. In search of the evolutionary secrets of how one species becomes many, Prof. Fortey encounters beautiful honeycreeper birds whose evolution rivals...
9) Hawaii
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Panoramic chronicle of the Hawaiian Islands and their people from legendary times more than a thousand years ago down to eve of statehood.
10) Hawaii
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This program seeks to understand the beautiful yet violent Hawaiian Islands - a region of explosive volcanoes, vast landslides, mega-tsunamis, and strange forces emerging from the core of the planet.
11) Hawaii's story
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Wife of an Englishman, friend of Queen Victoria, honored guest of American presidents, lavish and generous hostess to world-famous figures, prisoner of the Americans on charges of treason--these were aspects of her role as the last of Hawaii's monarchs.
"The history of America's fiftieth state is by no means less absorbing than that of any of the other forty-nine--and in no way less dramatic. No matter in what form it is set down--in native Hawaiian...
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The Hawaiian Islands were created in a crucible of tectonic fire in the midst of a watery wilderness so vast that until the beginning of the 20th century they were the remotest place on the planet. This A & E Special takes a broad view of the watershed moments in Hawaiian history, from discovery, to first contact with outsiders, to unification of the islands into a sovereign kingdom, to an act of war that led to Hawaii's annexation by the United States....
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They lure insects into death traps, then gorge on their flesh. Carnivorous plants deceive, then kill. Bugs are drawn to what look like dewdrops on a sundew, then find themselves entangled in sticky tentacles. A tropical pitcher plant smells sweet to bugs, but its slippery surfaces tumble victims into its open maw. A Venus flytrap snaps shut if its tiny hairs are brushed twice. Like figures in a shadow theater, silhouettes of prey show through a Philippine...
15) Sharks of Hawaii
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Discover surprising facts about the sharks that call the warm waters near Hawaii's islands their home. Meet the Whitetip reef shark, Whale shark, Tiger shark and more through the lens of remote sensor cameras and new drone technology.
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