Smithsonian Networks: April 4, 2010

6:30AM
Picturing the President: George Washington
The hidden symbolism of the Landsdowne, the famous full-length portrait of George Washington that hangs in the National Gallery.
7:00AM
Pandas in the Wild
Rare giant pandas in their natural habitat, the misty Quinling Mountains of southwest China.
8:00AM
SciQ: Underwater
The possibilities for living, working, and playing underwater - including aquatic hockey with fins instead of skates, free-diving, and plunging depths of hundreds of feet on just one breath.
8:30AM
SciQ: Sound
A tone deaf singer tries to audition for the job of lead singer with a rock band, the hosts learn the basics of sound from Blue Man Group, and how to scream from a vocal coach to the stars.
9:00AM
Baby Planet: Survival Skills
Babies at risk include a pair of Bonobos rejected by their mothers, baby seals rescued on the freezing British coastline, precious cheetah cubs in France and twin Ring Tailed Lemurs learning to climb.
10:00AM
Nick Baker's Weird Creatures: Blood Squirting Lizard
Native to Texas and Arizona, a lizard with a gruesome reaction to perceived threats: it squirts blood from its eyes.
11:00AM
The Real Story: Indiana Jones
The real-life adventurers and explorers that inspired George Lucas to create the fictional character of Indiana Jones.
12:00PM
Street Monkeys: Girl Gangs
The Pani troop seems to have landed in monkey heaven on a golf estate in Durban, South Africa.
1:00PM
System Crash: Maxed Out Grid
The Northeast Blackout of 2003 was a cascade of failures that began with overgrown trees taking out power lines and left 50 million without electricity; its lessons are helping utilities to create new technologies for the continent's growing power needs.
2:00PM
Stealth: Flying Invisible
The quest for the ultimate undetectable "ghost" aircraft, from the U-2 to the F-117 Nighthawk; an account of the only successful shooting down of a stealth fighter, from both the pilot and the soldier who fired the shots.
3:00PM
Cromwell: God’s Executioner Episode 1
Cromwell's initial attacks against the Catholic and royalist forces are successful, with atrocities at Drogheda and Wexford and the death of opposition leader Owen Roe O'Neill.
4:00PM
Cromwell: God’s Executioner Episode 2
Cromwell's army unexpectedly begin to founder as he fails to take two key strategic positions at Duncannon and Waterford then reaches a low point in the driving rain of Kilmacthomas, with his army reduced by disease and slowed by foul weather.
5:00PM
Decoding Christianity: Secrecy, Symbols and Mystery
Steeped in symbols and codes, Christianity has maintained a close relationship with secrecy since its early existence as a persecuted underground movement.
6:00PM
Decoding Christianity: Miracles
The Christian belief in miracles, the relationship of miracles to sainthood, and a visit with pilgrims to miraculous sites ranging from Ethiopia to Wales.
7:00PM
Decoding Christianity: A Faith Divided
The two historical upheavals of Christianity: the Great Schism of the 11th century that split the faith into Eastern Orthodox and Western, and the Reformation of the 16th century that divided Catholics and Protestants.
8:00PM
The Hittites
The Hittites were once almost totally lost to history but have now been identified by scholars as a Bronze Age superpower, with a culture, architecture, language, legal system and religious beliefs that shaped the modern world.
10:00PM
Timewatch: The Rebel Pharaoh's Lost City
The discovery of an ancient Egyptian cemetery where a thousand people from the lost capital that the rebel Pharoah Akhenaten tried to build to the god Aten - an early, failed attempt at a monotheistic style of religion.
11:00PM
The Hittites
The Hittites were once almost totally lost to history but have now been identified by scholars as a Bronze Age superpower, with a culture, architecture, language, legal system and religious beliefs that shaped the modern world.
1:00AM
Timewatch: The Rebel Pharaoh's Lost City
The discovery of an ancient Egyptian cemetery where a thousand people from the lost capital that the rebel Pharoah Akhenaten tried to build to the god Aten - an early, failed attempt at a monotheistic style of religion.
2:00AM
Decoding Christianity: Secrecy, Symbols and Mystery
Steeped in symbols and codes, Christianity has maintained a close relationship with secrecy since its early existence as a persecuted underground movement.
3:00AM
Decoding Christianity: Miracles
The Christian belief in miracles, the relationship of miracles to sainthood, and a visit with pilgrims to miraculous sites ranging from Ethiopia to Wales.
4:00AM
Decoding Christianity: A Faith Divided
The two historical upheavals of Christianity: the Great Schism of the 11th century that split the faith into Eastern Orthodox and Western, and the Reformation of the 16th century that divided Catholics and Protestants.
5:00AM
Stealth: Flying Invisible
The quest for the ultimate undetectable "ghost" aircraft, from the U-2 to the F-117 Nighthawk; an account of the only successful shooting down of a stealth fighter, from both the pilot and the soldier who fired the shots.

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