BBC - CONNECTIONS 2

Connections 2
20 files, Xvid and DivX

1 - Revolutions - Discover how the steam engine led to safety matches, imitation diamonds and the
moon in a wild ride.
2 - Sentimental Journeys - What has Freud got to do with maps? Or prison reform with blue dye? Or
the inside of a star with the Himalayas? India reveals the answers.
3 - Getting It Together - Start by examining a SWAT team, which leads to hot air ballooning, the
root of many inventions.
4 - Whodunit? - Who stole a set of billiard balls in 1902 and why was he the most famous crook in
history? The clues: maps from 1775, Charles Darwin's cousin and the FBI.
5 - Something for Nothing - Something impossible happened 400 years ago. And we wound up in outer
space, thanks (en route) to pigeon lovers, the Pope, and electric Italian frogs.
6 - Echoes of the Past - On his way to finding the secret of the universe, Burke takes us to the
Buddhist tea ceremony, ties it to international spies and Lincoln's assassination.
7 - Photo Finish - The Le Mans 24-hour race is the backdrop for linking photography and bullets,
relativity and blimps.
8 - Separate Ways - Two trails split over slavery in the 18th Century. One route leads to the Wild
West and Brooklyn Bridge, the other coining money and TV. Both end with a threat to peace.
9 - High Times - Unwrap a sandwich and you're on a path to World War II radar and Neo-Impressionist
painters.
10 - Deja Vu - History repeats itself, when you know how to look. Pizzaro beats the Incas, the
first stock market opens. The Queen of England salutes a Mexican beetle and Hitler's plans
misfire.
11 - New Harmony - Microscopic bugs inspired the novel "Frankenstein" which aided the birth of
Socialism.
12 - Hot Pickle - The connections between a cup of tea, opium dens, the London Zoo and a switch
that releases bombs.
13 - The Big Spin - The greatest medical accident in history starts a trail that leads to Helen of
Troy, 17th Century flower-power, the invention of soda pop and earthquake detection.
14 - Bright Ideas - A Baltimore man invented the bottle, which led to razors and clock springs, and
the Hubble telescope.
15 - Making Waves - Hairdressers, Gold Rush miners, Irish potato farmers and English
parliamentarians are really tied together.
16 - Routes - A sick lawyer in 18th Century France changes farming and triggers the French
Revolution and new medical research.
17 - One Word - One medieval word kicks off the investigation into different cultures with the same
stories that ends in cultural anthropology.
18 - Sign Here - Dutch piracy starts international law and French probability math, phonetics and
Victorian sances.
19 - Better Than the Real Thing - How the zipper started with technology Jefferson picked up in
Paris during a row about Creation.
20 - Flexible Response - Robin Hood starts us on a trail from medieval showbiz to land drainage, to
the invention of decimals that end up in U.S. currency, thanks to the guy who started the Erie
Canal