https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVLM0BSqx5o NARRATOR: The Lincolns and their guests arrive at Ford’s in high spirits.00:00:05 The crowd applauds the President. They stop the play.00:00:16 They sit down and the play begins. Comes to they’re barking up the wrong tree about the oak.00:00:26 About 10 minutes after 10, Booth began to mount the stairs leading up to the…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZZAAWxB_W4 I’ll sit here. OK.00:00:06 What’ll we talk about? My name is Gloria. How are you? My name’s Lucia.00:00:13 Lucia? That’s a beautiful name and you’re a gorgeous looking girl. What’s the best thing about being old? People are nicer to you when you’re older.00:00:21 I don’t really think, to be quite truthful, there’s an…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqSxjmvXzzY 00:00:12Okay, may I ask you a question, the first one? Right. What is the worst thing about being young? Well, you get lots of homework It’s also pretty it’s like in the middle like it’s all like in the middle of bad and good Oh What is the worst thing about being old? Not…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIYcrqBrq2U 00:00:07You’re peering into the Amazon River when, suddenly, you lose your footing and fall.00:00:12 Piranhas dart about in the rapidly approaching water. So, are you doomed? Will your fall trigger a fatal feeding frenzy? To forecast your fate, let’s see what we know about these fish. There are more than 30 piranha species.00:00:28 All…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRa0Gi_mRjs 00:00:06On September 19th, 1991, two hikers traversing the Ötzal Alps on the border of Austria and Italy discovered a corpse emerging from the ice. Researchers soon realized they weren’t looking at the victim of a recent climbing accident, as initially assumed, but the mummified body of a man who’d lived about 5,300 years ago,…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCYDzsQ_yM They’re the unknown workers. They’re the unsung heroes of construction. Their attitude, I think their casualness, the indifference to the risk that they’re taking is what separates the photograph. If you see the picture once, you never forget it.00:00:30 This photograph which is known around the world shows eleven men sitting on a beam…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ymtOMtk4o 182 metres tall and decorated with 12,000 uniquely-crafted bronze panels, India’s 50-storey Statue Of Unity is a triumph of aesthetics and engineering. And get this – it’s made from melted-down old farm equipment. How did they do it? Can it really withstand earthquakes? And how will its appearance change over the coming decades? Join…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKkzZTFCuuI My name is Charles Toh Chai Soon. I’m 93.00:00:05 My working hours now are Mondays to Fridays and Saturdays half day. Dr Charles Toh is one of Singapore’s pioneering heart specialists He has never retired and still enjoys working full-time I wake up at 7am, I leave home at 8am and I’m here at…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qj-qkc4LEg 00:00:02Seeing the light is the story of a beacon if ever you have been in the dark at Sea when the water below is as black as the sky above there’s no sign anywhere of the way home or of land or of anything at all Beyond deep and distant space on every 00:00:17side then…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1lcO9ncz90 When Mark Rothko died in 1970 he was widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century now the roots of his imagination are on display and Robert Costa is our guide his works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide swaths of color and floating fuzzy edged 00:00:28rectangles all part of the signature vision …
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