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The Love Story Behind The Taj Mahal

The capital of the Mogul Empire, was Agra, the centre of Imperial power where the royal dynasty lived in the magnificent Taj Mahal. The story of Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, defied the eastern world's concept of impersonal love as they had a romance quite rare for their time.

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Behind The Scenes Of Genius: Picasso.

Follow The Non Emptiness Of Space Astronauts explain the emotions they felt when looking at planet Earth from above. Witnessing city lights, long stretching storms, to floating asteroids, each tries to understand the evolution of Earth and how it came to be.

The Non Emptiness Of Space

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Follow Behind-The-Scenes with X Ambassadors X Ambassadors speak of how much they enjoyed collaborating with Hans Zimmer’s production music company Bleeding Fingers Music to create original music for National Geographic's Symphony For Our World.

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Follow Symphony For Our World Trailer Unprecedented event pairs National Geographic’s stunning natural history footage with an original symphony composed by Bleeding Fingers Music, taking viewers on a breathtaking musical journey through some of the world’s most incredible wildlife spectacles.

Symphony For Our World Trailer

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Climbing Angel Falls - the Beauty and the Danger

Follow Flight at the Edge of the Ozone Layer A Perlan glider uses air rising over the southern Andes to reach record heights and allow scientists to study the ozone layer.

Flight at the Edge of the Ozone Layer

Follow Genius: Perfect Painting The story behind the 20th century's most brilliant and controversial artists, Pablo Picasso (Antonio Banderas) and the muses who inspired him.

Genius: Perfect Painting

Follow Paraglider Soaring Over Alaska Glacier A powered paraglider offers stunning views in the jagged landscape of Alaska's Chugach Mountains and Knik Glacier.

Paraglider Soaring Over Alaska Glacier

Follow Lion Cubs Affected By Paralysing Disease Caused by a mineral deficiency, the paralyzing disease normally affects sheep, cattle, and goats.

Lion Cubs Affected By Paralysing Disease

Follow Head-Banging Tortoise Gopher tortoises are caught in a population decline due to human impact.

Head-Banging Tortoise

Follow Taiwan's Cat Village The free and well-loved cats of Houtong, Taiwan, have given a second life to the former coal town.

Taiwan's Cat Village