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The Allies droppedhoming pigeons with requests for information over German-occupied...

The Allies dropped
homing pigeons with requests for information over German-occupied territory, and the pigeons
had little cards on them that resistance fighters
could use, fill out the information, put it back in the pigeon,
and then the pigeon of course would fly straight home

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The Allies dropped homing pigeons
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with requests for information
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over German-occupied territory,
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and the pigeons had little cards on them
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that resistance fighters could use,
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fill out the information,
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put it back in the pigeon, and then the pigeon of course
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would fly straight home.
Duration
19 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:02
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Season
1
Episode
4
Genres
documentary
Production
A+E Networks,Blink Films

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From a piece of meteorite found in Tutankhamun's tomb to the Crown of Thorns, explore some of the most perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms.
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There at least three other instances on cuneiform tablets
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It's built around hundreds of tiny cubes of pure uraniu...
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The Judicial Papyrus actually talks about a lesser queen
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The helicopter carving starts life
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[Mark] When we look at the possible alphabet,
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His theory, the disc is a prayer
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John Allegro's argument was based upon the notion
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[narrator] The Era Do Genesis Tablet
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[narrator] The Papyrus claims that this lesser queen,
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[Philip] And when the splitting apart of uranium happened, c...
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A metal container has exactly the same effect on radio waves
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[Corey] And there is one other pigeon characteristic
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Sword said to have been found with it
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We do see some repetition in this disc