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Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent. His talents have even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun -filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent. His talents have even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun -filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC's hit show "America's Got Talent." His talents have even earned him a place in the famous "Guinness Book of World Records." Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun-filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC's hit show, America's Got Talent. His talents even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World Records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun-filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent. His talents have even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun -filled hands on experience.

Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded a train car reserved for whites and was promptly arrested. Hearing the appeal of his conviction, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896 upheld the Louisiana statute, thus ushering in a half-century of legally sanctioned segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.

Williamjames Hull Hoffer examines that controversial decision and its repercussions in a discussion of his book about the landmark case. Hoffer is associate professor of history at Seton Hall University.

As the man behind Communism, Karl Marx has been revered as a prophet and blamed for some of the darkest atrocities of modern times. In his new biography of Marx, Jonathan Sperber challenges many of our misconceptions about this political firebrand-turned-London-émigré-journalist, presenting Marx’s personal story within the larger historical stage of a European continent roiling with political and social unrest.

Sperber is the Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri.

The trio of Mark Lowry, Raymond DeMarchi, and John Currey present a variety of musical styles performed on percussion instruments from all over the globe.

Appropriate for all ages.

Bev Chapman screens and discusses her new documentary about Nawang Gombu, who became the first man to twice scale Mount Everest, pioneered a safer style of mountaineering in the Himalayas, and became a champion of Sherpa culture.

Heart of a Tiger was filmed in Colorado, Washington state, California, Switzerland, Austria, and India, and features early mountaineers like Jim Whittaker, “Bull” Kumar, and Jim Wickwire.

Chapman was for 26 years a reporter for KMBC-TV. She retired in 2010.

Felicia Flash wildlife photographer, and her sidekick Karma, the elephant, are back from another globe trotting journey and are ready to relax in their OWN backyard. As usual, adventure is never far away from this wacky duo. A peaceful nap under the shade tree takes Felicia into an amazing ecosystem under her lawn chair. We are talking bugs. BIG BUGS... as she shrinks to bug size...or our stage grows to make the audience bug size.... Green Darner Dragon Flies, earth worms, tree frogs, slugs and more.