Tracing The Path

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How The Oregon Trail Game Made Apple Computers Famous

Minneapolis's tech community was far ahead of everyone else. And their state government's progressive attitude paved the way for great changes.  1,500 miles away Steve Jobs was building a computer company, but he knew something was missing, and the answer fell in his lap. Learn how Apple went from selling 300 computers, to millions because of a game. 

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  Robert Smalls & the Death of Lincoln: A Civil War Story

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  Chinese Spy Balloon, Baltimore Bridge & Maritime Law

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  What Happens in French Lick, Indiana Spreads Around the Globe

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  How Many Times Has Coca-Cola Changed Their Secret Recipe?

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  The 20th Century Trivia Window: Jeopardy & Trivial Pursuit

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  The Whole It's A Wonderful Life Movie Story

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  Was Dickens the World's First Influencer?

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  How East Texas Wildcatters Won World War II

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  1882: Do Not Enter These United States

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  A Sketchy Popcorn Story

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  Celebrity Edition: The Rest of the Story

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  Oxford, Tolkein & The Accidental Murder

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  The Comet That Saw it All

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  300 Years to Email Enron

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  484 Year Documentary of Muscle Shoals

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  Who Silenced Alfred Hitchcock?