It was always burning, since the world's been turning.

  1. Harry Truman

  2. Doris Day

  3. Red China

  4. Johnny Ray

  5. South Pacific

  6. Walter Winchell

  7. Joe DiMaggio

  8. Joe McCarthy

    1. Ep 48: A 3-act story: The Lavender Scare

  9. Richard Nixon

  10. Studebaker

  11. Television

  12. North Korea

    1. Ep 150 - North Korea: Where did it come from?

    2. Ep 151 - North Korean postscript: Operation Paul Bunyan

  13. South Korea

  14. Marilyn Monroe

  15. Rosenbergs

    1. Ep 8: Traitors and Terrorists - maybe? - The Rosenbergs & The DC Sniper

  16. H-Bomb

    1. Ep 19 - Part 1: Discovering the Universe - Marie & Pierre Curie

    2. Ep 106 - It's all fun and games until... War Games Pt 1: Able Archer 83

  17. Sugar Ray (Robinson)

  18. Panmunjom

  19. Brando (Marlon Brando)

    1. Ep 16 - Part 2: The Funnest Thing That Happened - The Mutiny on the Bounty

  20. The King and I

  21. And the Catcher in the Rye

  22. Eisenhower

  23. Vaccine

    1. Ep 162: Sugar Cubes for the Masses - The Polio Vaccine

  24. England's got a new queen (Queen Elizabeth II)

  25. Marciano (Rocky Marciano)

  26. Liberace

  27. Santayana goodbye (George Santayana)

  28. Joseph Stalin

  29. Malenkov (Georgy Malenkov)

  30. Nasser (Gamal Abdel Nasser)

  31. Prokofiev

  32. Rockefeller (Nelson Rockefeller)

  33. Campanella (Roy Campanella)

  34. Communist bloc

    1. Ep 106 - It's all fun and games until... War Games Pt 1: Able Archer 83

  35. Roy Cohn

  36. Juan Perón

  37. Toscanini (Arturo Toscanini)

  38. Dacron

  39. Dien Bien Phu falls

  40. "Rock Around the Clock"

  41. Einstein

  42. James Dean

  43. Brooklyn's got a winning team

  44. Davy Crockett

    1. Ep 82 - And Don't You Forget It!! - The Alamo

  45. Peter Pan

  46. Elvis Presley

  47. Disneyland

  48. Bardot (Brigitte Bardot)

  49. Budapest

  50. Alabama

  51. Khrushchev (Nikita Khrushchev)

  52. Princess Grace

  53. Peyton Place

  54. Trouble in the Suez

  55. Little Rock

  56. Pasternak (Boris Pasternak)

  57. Mickey Mantle

  58. Kerouac (Jack Kerouac)

  59. Sputnik

    1. Ep 116 - Off by a Milli-something: How Tiny Mistakes Doomed Space Exploration

  60. Chou En-Lai (Zhou Enlai)

  61. Bridge on the River Kwai

  62. Lebanon

  63. Charles de Gaulle

  64. California baseball

  65. Starkweather homicide

  66. Children of Thalidomide

    1. Ep 141 - Look for The Helpers: Thalidomide Babies

  67. Buddy Holly

  68. Ben Hur

  69. Space Monkey

  70. Mafia

  71. Hula Hoops

  72. Castro

  73. Edsel is a no-go

    1. Ep 27: Cruising through History: The Rise and Fall of the Edsel

  74. U2

  75. Syngman Rhee

  76. Payola

  77. Kennedy

    1. Ep 10 - Part 2: Ask what you can do to live a long life: The Kennedy Curse

  78. Chubby Checker

  79. Psycho

  80. Belgians in the Congo

  81. Hemingway

  82. Eichmann

  83. Stranger in a Strange Land

  84. Dylan (Bob Dylan)

  85. Berlin

    1. Ep 117 - The Olympics Pt 2: Nazi Showboating in 1936 Berlin

    2. Ep 83 - The path to freedom: The Berlin Wall

  86. Bay of Pigs invasion

  87. Lawrence of Arabia

  88. British Beatlemania

  89. Ole Miss

  90. John Glenn

    1. Ep 116 - Off by a Milli-something: How Tiny Mistakes Doomed Space Exploration

  91. Liston beats Patterson

  92. Pope Paul (Paul VI)

  93. Malcolm X

  94. British politician sex (Profumo Affair)

  95. JFK blown away

    1. Ep 10 - Part 2: Ask what you can do to live a long life: The Kennedy Curse

    2. Ep 30: I'M JACK RUBY YOU KNOW ME! - The story of Jack Ruby - Lee Harvey Oswald's killer

  96. Birth control

  97. Ho Chi Minh

  98. Richard Nixon back again

  99. Moonshot

    1. Ep 116 - Off by a Milli-something: How Tiny Mistakes Doomed Space Exploration

  100. Woodstock

  101. Watergate

  102. Punk rock

  103. Begin (Menachem Begin)

  104. Reagan

    1. Ep 106 - It's all fun and games until... War Games Pt 1: Able Archer 83

  105. Palestine

  106. Terror on the airline

    1. Ep 92: The Butcher of Africa: Idi Amin

    2. Ep 118 - The Olympics Pt 3: Massacre in Munich 1972

    3. Ep 161: Flight to Oblivion - The Lockerbie Bombing

  107. Ayatollah's in Iran

  108. Russians in Afghanistan

  109. Wheel of Fortune

  110. Sally Ride

    1. Ep 138 - Touching the Face of God: Challenger

  111. Heavy metal su*cide

  112. Foreign debts

  113. Homeless vets

  114. AIDS

  115. Crack

  116. Bernie Goetz

  117. Hypodermics on the shore

  118. China's under martial law

  119. Rock and Roller Cola wars