HISTORY DETECTIVES

Monday, June 29 at 9 p.m. 

A contributor is certain his father worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. His father refused to talk about his war assignment, except to say that he sold his patent to the U.S. government. Was this invention used to build the atomic bomb? A woman in Portland has a large chunk of what she believes is very old beeswax. For centuries, ships carried beeswax on trade routes. Could this beeswax have been cargo on a legendary ship that foundered more then 300 years ago? A Chicago man recently unearthed a French manuscript rolled in a cardboard tube. “Duplessis,” his great-grandmother’s mother-in-law’s surname, is jotted in a margin, and “Rouzan,” his grandmother’s maiden name, appears at the bottom of another page. What is it and why has his family kept it for 160 years?

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