Trust me, this was supposed to happen. They're starting to show the cycle from late July. It looked like this...
WEDNESDAY 07/19/06:
The Smashed Printing Plate of Fredrick Douglass
The Imperial Purple Robe of Empress Theodora
THURSDAY 07/20/06:
The Bifocal Monocle of One-Eyed Jack
Ponce de Leon & the Lost Fountain of Youth/The Water Bottle of Ponce de Leon
FRIDAY 07/21/06:
The Shriveled Hand of Efoua
The War Fan of the 47 Ronin
SATURDAY 07/22/06:
The Ivory Elephant of Shahrazad/Scheherazade
The Stolen Arm of Shiva
SUNDAY 07/23/06:
The Lion-Headed Bracelet of Chandragupta
The Sacred Ring of Sultan Suleiman
MONDAY 07/24/06:
The Milk Bucket of Freydis
The Helmet of Genghis Khan
...
So they shoewd it 4 days earlier, so what? I still feel like we're gonna get the episodes shown above.
Am I the only one who remembers they took a one-day break from the 20-or-less-episode cycle somewhere in October? They showed The Useless Map of the Chibcha Chieftain and The Lucky Pillow of Annie Taylor, and I was hoping that would end the cycle. But no, they started it up again the next day.
Olmec, I really hope you're right, but with another repeat of a pair of episodes we've seen eight times in two months, it seems kinda unlikely. (And to think if they're not staring up the cycle again they skipped over 6 episodes I never seen.

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