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A painting for the US Army "Stars and Stripes" newspaper shows a downed US Army Air Force pilot fighting off sharks with a knife in 1944 somewhere in the Pacific Ocean (Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images)

How WWII spawned our shark obsession

Janet M. Davis - The Conversation
A view of a great white shark. (Discovery Channel)

"Shark Week" vs. Science?

Melanie McFarland
(Discovery Channel via AP)

dueling shark programming

George Burgess - The Conversation
(Mogens Trolle/Shutterstock)

Here comes Shark Week

Lindsay Abrams
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Hannibal Buress (Conan)

Buress kicks off Shark Week

Colin Gorenstein
(<a href='url to photographer'>Sergey Uryadnikov</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Shark Week is a bottom feeder

Joanna Rothkopf
Hand Job Academy (<a href='http://www.laurajunekirsch.com/'>Laura June Kirsch</a>)

The rise of period pride

Emily Shire
(<ahref ‘http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1720960p1.html’>Alexius Sutandio</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jason Bittel
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(Discovery Channel)

Prachi Gupta
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