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Knights of Mayhem: Battleground Vegas : TUE DEC 6 9p et/pt : channel.nationalgeographic.com Who will hit their way to the top of the first ever Ultimate Jousting arena event?

They don’t call them “king snakes” for nothing — this serpent rules the roost out in the deserts near Baja California. But a four-foot-long killer is about to meet its match… a tiny curve-billed thrasher.

Mad Scientists: Shocking Flying Machine : WED NOV 16 10p et/pt : channel.nationalgeographic.com Meet a mechanical engineer who’s built 21 — yes, 21 — airplanes with his own two hands.

Explorer: Born to Rage? : channel.nationalgeographic.com Ex-punk rocker Henry Rollins is on a mission to figure out why many have struggled with feelings of aggression their entire lives.

Writer Cynthia Gorney recounts the story of Nujood Ali, a young girl from Yemen who stood up to the tribal tradition of forced marriage.

In July 2009, an amateur metal-detecting enthusiast made an astonishing find: 1500 pieces of bejeweled gold and silver almost 1500 years old — buried, lost, then forgotten. “Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: War, Treasure, and the Mystery of the Saxons,” a new National Geographic book by New York Times bestselling writer Caroline Alexander, explores [...]