Suresh: Lesson 68 – Places worth seeing in India
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The Libyan People versus Muammar Gaddafi We are living in an Orwell novel, so it is not expected that anyone would remember President Ronald Reagan's war on Libya in 1986. Both Reagan and his vice president, Bush, were on television daily to decry Libya as a terror state ruled by a wicked dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The US bombing campaign was supposedly in retaliation for the alleged Libyan involvement in an attac
Malcolm Gladwell - Why do some succeed where others fail? What makes high-achievers different?
Malcolm Gladwell, two-time number one national bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, discussed his latest book Outliers and more at a Penn alumni event at the Hudson Union Society.
Romeo and Juliet Prologue Paraphrase
This student-created video shows a student reading his paraphrase of the prologue of Romeo and Juliet. The video does include slang but could be useful as an example of paraphrasing literature. (:40)
Oil's 30 months high on Libya unrest
Brent rose and U.S. crude oil reached a 2-1/2 year high on concerns the revolt in Libya could spread to other major oil producers as companies suspended operations and ports were disrupted.
Carlisle Castle J950151 CARLISLE CASTLE, Cumbria. 1992 Aerial view. A reconstruction drawing by Terry Ball (English Heritage Graphics Team).
"Joseph B. Williams" Pushing Barges
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Market Street view in front of Blocks looking towards the State Capitol, ca. 1980.
Market Street view from in front of Blocks Department Store looking towards the State Capitol, ca. 1980. The building remains and is currently retail and residential but the Blocks store is gone.
Plate Tectonics and Contributions from Scientific Ocean Drilling - Going Back to the Original Data
The purpose of this activity is to bring you back to the original discovery and original data of DSDP Leg 3 in the South Atlantic. It is scientific data in its original context.
Bath House and Blue Bird Stand at Hudson Lake
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Title Page from Parry Manufacturing Company Catalog
The page shows a drawing of the company's facility in Indianapolis where they built carriages and wagons. Company officers are listed in the upper right corner. The lower left corner gives the cities where the company has branches.
Lucy, la pionnière (video)
A l’occasion du colloque « Les sciences dans les années 70 », Yves Coppens revient sur son activité de paléontologiste et sur les nombreuses campagnes de fouilles menées dès les années 1920 dans le cadre de la recherche sur les origines de l’homme. Il retrace en particulier les prémices et la découverte dans les années 70 de l’Australopithecus afarensis, la célèbre Lucy.
Très médiatisée lors de sa découverte car elle détenait le record du plus vieil hominid
Deadly Medicine Exhibit at Texas Tech Museum
Lynne Fallwell, an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech specializing in German and medical history, is one of the key organizers responsible for bringing Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race to the Museum of Texas Tech University.
Though mainly associated with the Nazis, Fallwell said eugenics theory sprang from turn-of-the-20th century beliefs asserting that Charles Darwin's theories of "survival of the fittest" could be applied to humans.
Supporters, spanning the globe and pol
Neighborhood in Crown Point, Indiana
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FORMATIC – Paris 2011 – Ouverture du colloque Jérôme CLEMENT, Pierre ESPINOZA (audio)
FORMATIC – Paris 2011 – Ouverture du colloque Jérôme CLEMENT, Pierre ESPINOZA
Conférence enregistrée lors du congrès international FORMATIC PARIS 2011. Ouverture du colloque : Jérôme CLEMENT Président de l'Association FORMATIC SantéPierre ESPINOZA (praticien hospitalier télémédecine Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou – Paris),
Réalisation, production : Canalu UN/3S, CERIMES
Literary Festival 2011 - Facts are Subversive: crossing the borders between history and journalism
The border between journalism and academic history is a minefield. Timothy Garton Ash has been crossing it stubbornly for the last thirty years, attempting to combine the crafts of journalist and historian, writing what he calls ‘history of the present’. Taking examples from his most recent book, Facts are Subversive, he talks about the delights and pitfalls of this mongrel craft. Timothy Garton Ash is the author of nine books of political writing or ‘history of the present’, which have
The Evolution of Financial Technology
An unmistakable glow of nostalgia rises from this reunion of “five of the founding fathers of modern finance,” in the words of Andrew Lo. The speakers reminisce about their start in economics, and their professional lives at MIT, a decades-long era of intense collaboration and creativity that both transformed the academic field and th
Hominid dispersals and the Middle Palaeolithic of Arabia
Huw Groucutt, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010.
Merging Cultures
Many West African cultures make landfall in colonial Virginia, where they adapt and adopt traits that will form the basis of a new African American culture. Historian Rose McAphee describes the blend.Author(s):
LA BRONCHE A TRAVERS LES AGES
Ce film permet de montrer l'évolution de la pratique endoscopique en Pneumologie durant ces 30 dernières années.
C'est un film d'information didactique pour le grand public.
