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Secrets of the Dead Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Dogfight Over Guadalcanal
Wed, Nov 8, 2006
Secrets of the Dead examines some odd aspects of the legendary dogfight between James "Pug" Southerland and Saburo Sakai. The program reviews the memoirs of the combatants, the capabilities and combat tactics of the Grumman Wildcat and Mitsubishi Zero and the wreckage of Pug's wildcat found in the jungle of Guadalcanal.
Episode 2
Battle for the Bible
Wed, Apr 25, 200755 mins
Three men who dared to circulate English-language translations of the Bible and paid dearly for their heresy are the subject of this episode. The dangerous lives of the Bible translators, John Wycliffe (mid-1320s - 1384) and William Tyndale (c. 1494 - 1536), and the English Reformation leader Thomas Cranmer (1489 - 1556) are depicted. Modern-day scholars and historians are interviewed.
Episode 3
Herculaneum Uncovered
Wed, May 2, 2007
Pompeii was not the only town buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Scientists explore Herculaneum, the biggest of the cities that were lost in this catastrophe.
Episode 4
Headless Romans
Wed, May 9, 2007
What happened to the 30 Romans whose decapitated bodies were found buried in York, the town from which in the 3rd century A.D. the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and his sons Caracalla and Geta led a brutal campaign against the Scots.
Episode 5
Irish Escape
Wed, May 16, 2007
In 1876, a group of Irish rebels traveled on a three-masted whaling bark called Catalpa from Massachusetts to the British penal colony of Western Australia to aid in the escape of six Irish political prisoners.
