Breakingviews: Split is no panacea for News Corp's woes
June 26 - Spinning off the scandal-hit publishing arm could make the movie and broadcasting businesses more profitable, but rehabilitation will be slow with Murdoch at the helm.
Breakingviews: Facebook's gender bend
June 26 - Breakingviews columnists discuss the appointment of COO Sheryl Sandberg as Facebook's first female director and what it means for women fighting for greater representation in the boardroom.
Churchill and Chamberlin Part 2
Faced with the growing power of Germany, Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sought accommodation with the Nazis through the "policy of appeasement." Length 3:32
Running with Harold Abrahams (1924)
Join legendary British athlete Harold Abrahams as he's put through his paces shortly after winning Gold in the 100 metre sprint at the 1924 Paris Olympics - later immortalised in the film 'Chariots of Fire'. This extract is taken from 'Running: A Sport That Creates Both Bodily and Mental Health', an edition of the 1920s newsreel 'Sporting Life: A Racing Outlook' which also includes Abrahams' fellow runner and 400 metre champion Eric Liddell.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
One of the finest examples of medieval Italian Romanesque architecture is year by year, slowly, relentlessly inclining to the south. Despite all efforts to correct this, it remains one of the continent’s premier attractions, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Length: 4:51
Science Bulletins: Light Pollution—Beyond the Glare
Scientists have long understood that artificial light can disrupt wildlife that takes cues from natural light. It's becoming increasingly clear that light reflected off shiny artificial surfaces such as cars, buildings, and roads can also disrupt animal behavior—sometimes fatally. A new review of research on light pollution by a team of Hungarian and American scientists describes a new concern with polarized light pollution. When light bounces off reflective surfaces, it can become polarized,
Hitler's Economics [Day 9 of Robert Wenzel's 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this Mises Daily was originally published August 02, 2003.] For today's generation, Hitler is the most hated man in history, and his reg
Criminals, Hot dogs, and bombs
CO 1069-286-225 The National Archives UK posted a photo: Description: Brantford. Prince of Wales' tour of Canada, 1919, a volume of photographs published by the Canadian Pacific Railway
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2012 Maryland Half Marathon
More than 1,700 people participated in the 4th annual Maryland Half Marathon to benefit the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center held Sunday, May 6 in the Maple Lawn community of Howard County, Md. The race has raised a total of $1 million since its inception in 2009 by co-founders Michael Greenebaum and Jon Sevel. This was the second year the course was located in Maple Lawn after two years in Timonium in Baltimore County.
The top finisher in this year's Maryland
Executive Education Cuisine: European Style
Thunderbird Executive Education rolls out a new point of view for teaching methods and experiential learning at its European headquarters in Geneva. http://www.thunderbird.edu/europe
Insert a Picture in PowerPoint 2007
This video clip demonstrates how to insert a picture in a PowerPoint 2007 presentation. It also describes how to resize and rotate the image as well as apply various styles and effects. (1:53)
Fighting Parasites the Sustainable Way
University of Georgia Professor Ray Kaplan describes how parasites in our animals are becoming resistant to the deworming drugs we use to kill them and what we must do to stop this alarming trend.
Lecture by Farshid Moussavi
This lecture was recorded on February 13, 2012, at the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts. The event was presented by the Architecture Lecture Series.
Farshid Moussavi is an internationally acclaimed architect and professor of architecture at Harvard University. As founder and principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she works on a wide range of prestigious international projects integrating architecture, urbanism, and landscape design, including the Museum of Cont
ENGR 408 - Patent Law C9::GoingNative Live: Kate Gregory and Steve Teixeira - Modern C++, AMP, Casablanca, C++ Renaissance In this special episode of GoingNative, Charles is joined by Kate Gregory and Steve Teixeira to discuss the latest and greatest in C++, VC++ and more - all native of course! Steve runs the VC++ PM team (feature team) and Kate is a consultant and engineer who's gone 100% native this year based on customer demand. Go native! Diego Velázquez - Pablillos de Valladolid Mass Murder of Nikolayev Jews-Part 2 Mass Murder of Novo-Moskovsk Jews -- Part 1
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El excelente retrato de Pablillos de Valladolid también formaría parte de la serie de bufones - junto a Cristóbal de Castañeda y El bufón Don Juan de Austria - supuestamente destinada al Palacio del Buen Retiro hacia 1636. La actividad de este bufón o actor consistía en divertir a la familia real, en muchos casos actuando, como podemos deducir por la actitud declamatoria y su act
Anatoly Egipko, who was born in 1928 in Nikolayev, tells how he accompanied his mother to the cemetery, how he saw many people there guarded by German military policemen, and how his mother, who was married to a non-Jew, was ultimately released to go home.
For more information: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?site_id=758
Natalia Levchenko, who was born in 1929 in Novo-Moskovsk and was living there during the war years, testifies how the Jews from Novo-Moskovsk were collected by the Germans and local policemen on March 24-26, 1942 under the pretext that they would be sent to Palestine. Their personal belongings and valuables were confiscated; some of the Jews was taken by boat across the Samara River to the murder site there.
For more information: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?s
