This Land is Our Land
Throughout history, as the concepts of empire and nation-states took hold, individual countries secured their borders and tried to keep unwanted migrants out. As we enter the 21st century Anwarul K. Chowdhury, an Under-Secretary of the United Nations, says, 'The first step towards examining the road to peace should start with an appreciation of the changing nature of conflicts. Gone are days of war between states for conquest, extension of spheres of influence in the name of ideology ... Today's
Korean War ( The road to Seoul ) 5/15
Korean War - The road to Seoul Video gives history of the war. See Korea as the soldiers saw it. Pictures are real and may be disturbing. (CAUTION: Scenes of executions and dead bodies)
Children's Spelling 4
This childrens educational video teaches kids how to spell some
simple words: can, gift, rope, tree, milk, vine, crown, tool, frog,
nail, cake, rat, road, ape, bulb, mask, mud, day, night, pig. A picture is shown for each word as it is spelled slowly. Lesson page:
http://xoax.net/childrens/Spelling4.php
Robot Cars
Robots cars are here and this one from Virginia Tech is "on the road" and this video explains how it works. Good to motivate students.
An Overview of the Ancient Silk Road of China
This film is a series of slides and some video of the deserts and such that make up this road. The narration is good without too many difficult terms. It tells the basic facts such as the route itself and the types of materials traded at the time.
Russian dance music - Barynya Quartet
Russian dancers & musicians St.Petersburg, FL
Ensemble Barynya performance in St.Petersburg, Florida, March 2009. (8 minutes promo video). Performers: Valentina Kvasova (dance, vocal), Alexey Maltsev (dance, costumed characters), Alexander Menshikov ( vocal, tambourine, guitar), Mikhail Smirnov (garmoshka, guitar, vocals).
Program of the show: "Kalinka", "Dark Eyes" (Ochee Chyornye), "Barynya", "The Peddlers" (Korobushka), "Russian Food Song", "The Snowstorm" (Metelitsa),
Amazing Footage of Huge Tornado Forming
TornadoVideos.net storm chasers Reed Timmer and Dave Holder captured this huge, violent wedge tornado in southwest Manitoba on June 23, 2007. The crew was blasted by mud and flying corn stalks as the tornado crossed the road less than 200 yards away! Younger children may find the video unsettling. Suitable for older elementary and up students.
Using sound deadening material
This Teach Me topic explains about sound deadening material and how
it is used on floor pans, doors and bonnet and boot lids to reduce road and engine noise and
vibrations.
English Vocabulary-Lesson 4-Idioms About Driving
Vocabulary for the advanced English language learner. Lesson 4 topic: Idioms and sayings about driving-"backseat driver", "road hog", and "running on empty" (2:58).
Traveling Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
A professor from Southern Arkansas University discusses Robert Frost and his famous poem, "The Road Not Taken". The words appear alone on the screen, read by the female professor. This video is part of the video collection at NextVista.org (http://nextvista.org), a proud partner of Curriki. (4:34)
"The Road Not Taken" Poem by Robert Frost
Here is a black and white virtual movie of the head (photograph) of Robert Frost "reading" probably his best known poem, "The Road Not Taken."
Weird US - Midwest Points of Interest A variety of strange sites encountered along the road on a trip from PA, through OH, IN, IL and WI. The places they visit are; a mine fire in Pennsylvania which could burn for many more years, Carbon County Prison, the Valley of the Shadow of Death, in Ohio-visit a drive in restaurant where people put chewing gum on the outside of the building, Fairmount to visit the place where James Dean died, the Leaning Tower of Piza outside
Sample of Black and Gold Metallic Fabric
Sample of Black and Gold Metallic Fabric - from the The Betty Smithers Design Collection at Staffordshire University.
Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project at AMNH
There's only a month left to hitch a camel ride on the illustrious Silk Road without even leaving New York City. Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World sends visitors on an ancient trade route that stretched from the marketplaces of Asia to the bustling hub of the Middle East. And on Sunday afternoons, visitors can wrap up their journey with live musical performances organized by Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.
For more information visit http://www.amnh.org
Authors@Google: Paul Ingrassia
The Authors@Google team welcomed Paul Ingrassia to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster".
"Paul Ingrassia is the former Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street
Journal. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 (with Joseph B. White)
for reporting on management crises at General Motors, Ingrassia has
chronicled the auto industry for more than twenty-five years. His
latest book, "Crash Course: the American Autom
1.1 Background Aberdulais Falls is under the control of the National Trust. It is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty that has attracted artists for centuries (Turner visited the ten-metre high waterfall in 1796). Aberdulais Falls also has a four-hundred-year history of industrial use, due to the opportunities it provides for water power. The industrial history of Aberdulais Falls goes back to 1584, when the availability of water power and fuel led to copper ore from Cornwall being smelted there. C
2.2 Collecting and selecting Writers are always on the alert for potential material. A notebook is an essential tool for any writer and has several functions. These range from the jotting down of observations while you’re out and about to an account of daily events, your rants and raves, ideas for poems, single words, clippings from newspapers, responses to books or poems you’ve read, notes from research, all kinds of ‘gathering’. Your notebook is for you, and it needs to contain whatever helps you or fuels
The Internationalization of Spanish Companies: Ferrovial, The Rise of a Multinational
Move over, Italy. Rafael del Pino is here to claim Spain’s rightful spot as a major European player in the global infrastructure market. Founded by del Pino’s father in 1952 as a builder of sleeper cars for trains, Ferrovial has diversified into a conglomerate with a hand in construction, real estate, road bui
Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility
If you had half a million dollars, would you opt for a passenger car that could drive itself (called an autonomous vehicle) or would you choose a new Ferrari? Emilio Frazzoli provides a number of reasons why autonomous vehicles might be the preferred choice, if not the typical one. Autonomous vehicles, that use electron
Three More For The Road
In a trio of mini-talks, Arnold Barnett applies statistical analysis to some of society’s most confounding challenges. He first takes up the minority achievement gap -- the apparent under-performance of black and Hispanic students on standardized tests in comparison to white and Asian students.
In his own work i
