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Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, Ep. 10 "The Smile of Reason"
414 views / 0 likes - addedClark discusses the Age of Enlightenment, tracing it from the polite conversations of the elegant Parisian salons of the 18th century to subsequent revolutionary politics, the great European palaces of Blenheim and Versailles, and finally Thomas Jefferson
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Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, Ep. 09 "The Pursuit of Happiness"
494 views / 0 likes - addedClark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart and the reflection of their music in the architecture of the Rococo churches and palaces of Bavaria.French ClassicismJohann Sebastian BachBalthasar N
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Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, Ep. 03 "Romance and Reality"
357 views / 0 likes - addedBeginning at a castle in the Loire and then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa, Clark examines the aspirations and achievements of the later Middle Ages in 14th century France and Italy.The Gothic SpiritC
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Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, Ep. 08 "The Light of Experience"
350 views / 0 likes - addedClark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of waterworlds that the telescope and microscope revealedand the new realism in the Dutch paintings of Rembrandt and other artists that took the observation of human character to a new stage of development
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How I memorized an entire chapter from “Moby Dick”
595 views / 0 likes - addedWith memory palaces, anyone can look like a memory genius. For more info about Joshua Foer's book on memory palaces: http://joshuafoer.com/moonwalking-with-einstein Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cu
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Maybe rich people should build weird fountains again
177 views / 0 likes - addedThe Wasserspiele of Bergpark Wilhelmshhe are 300 years old, powered entirely by gravity, and entertaining tourists. As legacies for rich people go, there are far worse ones. More about the Bergpark: https://museum-kassel.de/en/museums-parks-palaces/unesco
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LITERATURE - Goethe
500 views / 0 likes - addedGoethe is one of the great minds of European civilisation, though his work is largely unknown outside of the German speaking countries. He deserves our renewed attention. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look
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The Secret Behind Jupiter's Northern Lights | Space Mysteries | BBC Earth Lab
110 views / 0 likes - addedJupiter's auroras are the most spectacular in our solar system and produce enough energy to briefly supply all of human civilisation! But, what causes them? And why do they pulse like clockwork?Best of Earth Lab: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BB
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View the world's first large scale 3D printed sculpture in 360 VR
274 views / 0 likes - addedSee how artist Jonathan Yeo created the world's first large scale 3D printed sculptural self portrait using Tilt Brush. As part of 'From Life' at the Royal Academy of Arts, Yeo takes you inside his studio and explains his process in creating the portrait.
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The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack
295 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the mysterious Linear B symbols, found on ancient tablets on the island of Crete, which took scholars nearly 50 years to decode.--In the early 1900s, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans uncovered nearly 3,000 tablets inscribed with strange symbols. He
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Top 10 Most Incredible Time Capsule Findings
1,792 views / 1 likes - addedWhilst time machines don't exist (yet), time capsules are the closest thing we have in reality to them, so lets find out the most incredible time capsules! Subscribe for more! ► https://goo.gl/pgcoq1 ◄ Stay updated ► https://goo.gl/JyGcTt https://goo.gl/5
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Tiny Windows Serving Wine? Yes Please
9 views / 0 likes - addedA glass of wine...served out of a window In Florence, Italy there are tiny little windows built into the side of most noble palaces. And from these tiny windows, wine is served. Affectionately known as "buchette del vino", Florence's wine windows date bac
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A General Who Finally Told Hitler No - The Insane Order to Burn Paris to the Ground
235 views / 2 likes - addedHitler's Third Reich was rapidly crumbling before his very eyes; the vast empire that had once spanned from Tripoli to Rome to Kyiv was now shrinking, drawing ever so close to Berlin. Also, Paris was still under Nazi control, but not for long. By the summ
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Carl Sagan Christmas Lectures 3 - The History of Mars
136 views / 0 likes - addedCold, arid, and tens of millions of miles away from Earth, Mars has intrigued scientists for centuries. The existence of liquid on its surface was confirmed by NASAs flyby mission, Mariner 4, in 1965, but the question of whether life exists on our neighbo
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Human Population Through Time
497 views / 0 likes - addedIt took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on
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