Off the Beaten Path: Housatonic | Connecting Point | Apr. 19, 2017
Nestled in the shadow of the Berkshire town of Great Barrington lies the small village of Housatonic, along the river of the same name. A former bustling mill town, these days Housatonic is described by some residents as “the land that time forgot,” a throwback to a bygone era that houses a surprisingly eclectic group of townspeople, artists and unique businesses. Arlo Guthrie’s famed church is around the corner from not one but two recording studios, and Hollywood special effects magic was created in some of its old mills. Producer Tony Dunne and Videographer Mark Langevin peel back the small-town veneer to find the heart and soul of the village of Housatonic, which lies just off the beaten path.
ch 19) Surprises
chapter 19: A People's History (Of The United States) Howard Zinn.
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Chapter 19, Surprises, covers other movements that happened during the 1960s, such as second-wave feminism, the prison reform/prison abolition movement, the Native American rights movement, and the counterculture. People and events from the feminist movement covered include Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, Patricia Robinson, the National Domestic Workers Union, National Organization for Women, Roe v. Wade, Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, and Our Bodies, Ourselves. People and events from the prison movement covered include George Jackson, the Attica Prison riots, and Jerry Sousa. People and events from the Native American rights movement covered include the National Indian Youth Council, Sid Mills, Akwesasne Notes, Indians of All Tribes, the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars, Frank James, the American Indian Movement, and the Wounded Knee incident. People and events from the counterculture covered include Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Malvina Reynolds, Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, Jonathan Kozol, George Dennison, and Ivan Illich.
Abandoned brutalist carpark, London
Sep 2018. The iconic building on Welbeck st, London, once Debenhams carpark, will soon to be demolished to make way for a hotel.
Driving license test: DMV Questions of Road Signs Part 1
Driving license test, road signs in preparation for your permit test.
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Our Miss Brooks: Convict / The Moving Van / The Butcher / Former Student Visits
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
Oxford | Wikipedia audio article
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Oxford
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Oxford ( OKS-fərd) is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire. With an estimated 2016 population of 170,350, it is the 52nd largest city in the United Kingdom, and one of the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse. The city is 51 miles (82 km) from London, 61 miles (98 km) from Bristol, 59 miles (95 km) from Southampton, 57 miles (92 km) from Birmingham and 24 miles (39 km) from Reading.
The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English architectural period since the late Saxon period. Oxford is known as the city of dreaming spires, a term coined by poet Matthew Arnold. Oxford has a broad economic base. Its industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing and a large number of information technology and science-based businesses, some being academic offshoots.
Oxford | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:40 1 History
00:01:50 1.1 Medieval
00:07:45 1.1.1 University of Oxford
00:10:26 1.2 Early modern
00:10:35 1.2.1 English Civil War
00:11:29 1.3 Late modern
00:13:40 1.4 20th and 21st centuries
00:18:34 2 Geography
00:18:44 2.1 Physical
00:18:52 2.1.1 Location
00:20:17 2.1.2 Climate
00:21:42 2.2 Human
00:22:00 2.2.1 Suburbs
00:23:11 2.2.2 Green belt
00:24:37 3 Economy
00:24:58 3.1 Car production
00:25:27 3.2 Publishing
00:25:59 3.3 Science and technology
00:27:00 3.4 Education
00:27:32 3.5 Brewing
00:30:26 3.6 Bellfounding
00:30:45 4 Shopping
00:32:08 5 Landmarks
00:32:50 5.1 University of Oxford
00:33:45 5.2 The city centre
00:36:11 5.3 The Bodleian Library
00:37:27 5.4 Museums and galleries
00:41:11 5.5 Other attractions
00:41:54 5.6 Parks and nature walks
00:42:50 6 Transport
00:43:00 6.1 Air
00:43:29 6.2 Buses
00:46:32 6.3 Coach
00:47:30 6.4 Cycling
00:47:48 6.5 Rail
00:52:16 6.6 Rail–airport links
00:52:46 6.7 River and canal
00:53:52 6.8 Roads
00:55:04 6.8.1 A roads
00:56:51 6.8.2 Motorway
00:57:47 7 Education
00:57:56 7.1 Schools
00:58:05 7.2 Universities and colleges
00:58:39 8 Media
01:00:51 9 Culture
01:01:00 9.1 Theatres and cinemas
01:02:00 9.2 Literature and film
01:07:39 9.3 Music
01:09:54 10 Sport
01:10:04 10.1 Football
01:12:30 10.2 Rugby league
01:13:11 10.3 Rugby union
01:14:22 10.4 Speedway and greyhound racing
01:15:31 10.5 Hockey
01:16:14 10.6 Ice hockey
01:17:02 10.7 American football
01:17:31 10.8 Cricket
01:18:00 10.9 Rowing
01:18:36 10.10 Other sports
01:19:09 11 Twin towns
01:19:41 12 Gallery
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
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Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-C
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Oxford ( OKS-fərd) is a university city in south central England and the county town of Oxfordshire. With a population of approximately 155,000, it is the 52nd largest city in the United Kingdom, with one of the fastest growing populations in the UK, and it remains the most ethnically diverse area in Oxfordshire county. The city is 51 miles (82 km) from London, 61 miles (98 km) from Bristol, 59 miles (95 km) from Southampton, 57 miles (92 km) from Birmingham and 24 miles (39 km) from Reading.
The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English architectural period since the late Saxon period. Oxford is known as the City of Dreaming Spires, a term coined by poet Matthew Arnold. Oxford has a broad economic base. Its industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing and a large number of information technology and science-based businesses, some being academic offshoots.
Oxford | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Oxford
00:01:10 1 History
00:01:19 1.1 Medieval
00:05:43 1.1.1 University of Oxford
00:07:43 1.2 Early modern
00:07:51 1.2.1 English Civil War
00:08:32 1.3 Late modern
00:10:14 1.4 20th and 21st centuries
00:13:52 2 Geography
00:14:01 2.1 Physical
00:14:09 2.1.1 Location
00:15:13 2.1.2 Climate
00:16:16 2.2 Human
00:16:32 2.2.1 Suburbs
00:17:26 2.2.2 Green belt
00:18:18 3 Economy
00:18:35 3.1 Car production
00:18:59 3.2 Publishing
00:19:25 3.3 Science and technology
00:20:11 3.4 Education
00:20:37 3.5 Brewing
00:22:46 3.6 Bellfounding
00:23:02 4 Shopping
00:24:06 5 Landmarks
00:24:40 5.1 University of Oxford
00:25:22 5.2 The city centre
00:27:13 5.3 The Bodleian Library
00:28:12 5.4 Museums and galleries
00:30:57 5.5 Other attractions
00:31:31 5.6 Parks and nature walks
00:32:14 6 Transport
00:32:22 6.1 Air
00:32:46 6.2 Buses
00:35:00 6.3 Coach
00:35:46 6.4 Cycling
00:36:00 6.5 Rail
00:39:17 6.6 Rail–airport links
00:39:39 6.7 River and canal
00:40:30 6.8 Roads
00:41:17 6.8.1 A roads
00:42:38 6.8.2 Motorway
00:43:20 7 Education
00:43:29 7.1 Schools
00:43:37 7.2 Universities and colleges
00:44:04 8 Media
00:45:43 9 Culture
00:45:52 9.1 Theatres and cinemas
00:46:38 9.2 Literature and film
00:50:50 9.3 Music
00:52:33 10 Sport
00:52:42 10.1 Football
00:54:32 10.2 Rugby league
00:55:03 10.3 Rugby union
00:55:59 10.4 Speedway and greyhound racing
00:56:52 10.5 Hockey
00:57:25 10.6 Ice hockey
00:58:03 10.7 American football
00:58:27 10.8 Cricket
00:58:51 10.9 Rowing
00:59:20 10.10 Other sports
00:59:46 11 Twin towns
01:00:10 12 Gallery
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Oxford ( OKS-fərd) is a city in south central England and the county town of Oxfordshire. With an estimated 2016 population of 170,350, it is the 52nd largest city in the United Kingdom, and one of the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse. The city is 51 miles (82 km) from London, 61 miles (98 km) from Bristol, 59 miles (95 km) from Southampton, 57 miles (92 km) from Birmingham and 24 miles (39 km) from Reading.
The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English architectural period since the late Saxon period. Oxford is known as the city of dreaming spires, a term coined by poet Matthew Arnold. Oxford has a broad economic base. Its industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing and a large number of information technology and science-based businesses, some being academic offshoots.
CLOSED: Schindler Hydraulic Elevator at Lord & Taylor at Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights, MI
This elevator probably used to be a Westinghouse because the escalators are and the store opened in 1978. This video was taken in August 2015.
2019 Update: This store is now closed. The fate of this building is currently unknown.