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H.L. Hunley Discovered | Project Discovery Revisited
H.L. Hunley Discovered | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: 4 8

The H. L. Hunley was a product of the pre-Civil War Industrial Revolution. Submersibles, torpedoes, and shells were also innovations of the 1860s. James McClintock and Baxter Watson built the Hunley...
Fire Academy, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited
Fire Academy, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

At the South Carolina Fire Academy, we learn what it takes to become a firefighter. This 208-acre facility contains classrooms, drill towers, a fire station, equipment storage, and teacher offices...
Fire Academy, Part 2 | Project Discovery Revisited
Fire Academy, Part 2 | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Students begin their fire training in a Class A combustible burn building. They learn what fire is and how it burns. In a flashover, flames go from the floor to the ceiling. Breathing is done through...
Robert V. Royall, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Interview
Robert V. Royall, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Interview

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Robert V. Royall (1934 - ) After David Beasley was elected governor of South Carolina in 1994, his first priority was choosing a secretary to head the Department of Commerce, a new Cabinet post that...
Kings Mountain | Project Discovery Revisited
Kings Mountain | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Kings Mountain was the site of an important battle of the Revolutionary War. The British were defeated and started a retreat to Yorktown, where they eventually lost the war, giving the 13 colonies...
Eliza Lucas Pinckney | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Eliza Lucas Pinckney | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722–1793) Eliza Lucas, who was born in 1722 in Antigua, was 16 when she took charge of her father's plantation near Charles Town and successfully managed it. In 1738, Lieutenant...
Thomas B. Pearce | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Thomas B. Pearce | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A profile of Thomas Butler Pearce. (1888–1947) Tom Pearce built a small wholesale produce business into one of the nation's largest food distribution companies and still found time to serve his...
March on Washington | Road Trip
March on Washington | Road Trip

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Grades: 6 7 8

Joseph McDomick, Jr., former Penn Center project supervisor for over thirty years, tells how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his inner circle worked at Penn to plan events like the March on Washington...
Frank Washington | Civil Rights in S.C.
Frank Washington | Civil Rights in S.C.

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Grades: 8 9 10 11 12

Civil Rights Youth Media Summit: Frank Washington Interviewed by Cassie Nelson (Scott's Branch High School) and Tyesha Elder (A.C. Flora High School)
Medieval Times, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited
Medieval Times, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: 6 7 8

Part 1 of this program takes the viewer into the early part of the period from the end of classical civilization to the revival of the learning in the West. Visitors return to the Dark Ages as they...