Belfast Walking Tour
Experience Belfast provides 2 city tours, one long, one short. See the sights and understand what makes Belfast special, from history, to the troubles to punk music! We're the original walking tour and deliver unique personal experiences that people love. We have small groups and local guides and you'll leave with a smile on your face and better insight into our wonderful city. Group sizes are small limited to 10 people, don't delay, for more info and to book see experiencebelfast.com
Black Taxi Tour Belfast
Black Taxi Tour Belfast. Copyright ISHOOTPEOPLE
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This is part of a Black Cab Tour of the Catholic and Protestant areas of Belfast, Northern Ireland that I took on January 5, 2012. This video shows some of the murals painted on the Peace Wall, a wall built to keep the Catholic and Protestant sides separated. If you are planning a trip to Belfast I highly recommend these Black Cab Tours as you hear the history of the areas from locals who lived through The Troubles. Belfast is a beautiful, interesting, active, fun and safe city full of fantastic people.. Like any big city keep your head on straight and enjoy.
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Shankill Square, Belfast, 30/8/09
On a private one-on-one black cab tour round Belfast. My driver (Tom) dropped me here and drove round the block. As a tourist, it was fine - but still strange to be in such an infamous location.
Charles & Cavey's Black Taxi Tour
Darren Cave recently took new signing Charles Piutau on a black taxi tour of Belfast, showing him some of the city's famous sites and filling him in on some of it's renowned history.
Of course, the boys had a bit of a laugh along the way too...
Christopher Hitchens | Talks at Google
Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a Slate columnist, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. He has also written for The Nation, Granta, Harper's, The Washington Post, and is a frequent television and radio guest. Born in England, Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He now lives in Washington, D.C., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2007. This event took place on August 16, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
DUBLINERS by James Joyce - FULL Audio Book | Greatest Audio Books
DUBLINERS by James Joyce - FULL Audio Book | Greatest Audio Books - Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence, and maturity. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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Chapter listing and START TIME:
01. The Sisters 0:19
02. An Encounter 18:29
03. Araby 36:29
04. Eveline 50:02
05. After the Race 1:00:32
06. Two Gallants 1:14:37
07. The Boarding House 1:37:42
08. A Little Cloud 1:53:53
09. Counterparts 2:23:28
10. Clay 2:46:23
11. A Painful Case 3:01:20
12. Ivy Day in the Committee Room 3:23:20
13. A Mother 3:55:04
14. Grace 4:21:02
15. The Dead 5:07:57
Chapter length:
01 - The Sisters -- 00:18:22
02 - An Encounter -- 00:17:59
03 - Araby -- 00:13:33
04 - Eveline -- 00:10:30
05 - After The Race -- 00:14:04
06 - Two Gallants -- 00:23:03
07 - The Boarding House -- 00:16:12
08 - A Little Cloud -- 00:29:35
09 - Counterparts -- 00:22:54
10 - Clay -- 00:14:56
11 - A Painful Case -- 00:22:00
12 - Ivy Day In The Committee Room -- 00:31:43
13 - A Mother -- 00:25:57
14 - Grace -- 00:46:54
15 - The Dead, Part one -- 00:58:21
16 - The Dead, Part two -- 00:33:36
Total running time: 6:39:39
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On the Tricontinental, the Basque Country, Mao Tse Tung, Easter Uprising and Chavez
On 13 April 2013 Tricontinental Anti-Imperialist Platform had its second event jointly organised with the Let Freedom Ring Coalition - THE LIFE & LEGACY OF BROTHER-LEADER HUGO CHAVEZ! (incorporating the commemoration of the 1916 Easter Uprising and launch of Let Freedom Ring! coalition)
Here Tricontinental organiser Sukant Chandan introduces the event.
This video includes a message of solidarity from the Venezuelan Ambassador to Britain read out at 10:03
Dan Glass from Let Freedom Ring Coalition makes a contribution at 12:27
Sukant Chadian discusses some of the connections between Ireland and the Venezuelan struggle at 15:20
This event seeks to bring together our specific challenges of anti-imperialist internationalism in the context of these islands, of which the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916 is the most important political event, and how the leadership of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela informs these tasks.
This is is an event jointly organised by the Tri-Continental Anti-Imperialist Platform (antiimperialist.net, website to be launched shortly) and the Let Freedom Ring! coalition (theglassishalffull.co.uk), the latter of whom will be having their london launch as the first hour and half part of this event.
Frederick Douglass | Wikipedia audio article
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Frederick Douglass
00:02:03 1 Life as a slave
00:06:46 2 From slavery to freedom
00:10:10 3 Abolitionist and preacher
00:13:40 3.1 Autobiography
00:14:53 3.2 Travels to Ireland and Great Britain
00:17:59 3.3 Return to the United States
00:20:07 3.4 Women's rights
00:23:43 3.5 Douglass refines his ideology
00:26:12 3.5.1 Photography
00:26:54 4 Religious views
00:32:38 5 Civil War years
00:32:48 5.1 Before the Civil War
00:33:15 5.2 Fight for emancipation and suffrage
00:35:37 5.3 After Lincoln's death
00:37:21 6 Reconstruction era
00:41:39 7 Family life
00:43:18 8 Final years in Washington, D.C.
00:47:23 9 Death
00:48:30 10 Legacy and honors
00:54:13 11 In arts and literature
00:57:04 12 Works
00:57:13 12.1 Writings
00:58:06 12.2 Speeches
00:58:36 13 See also
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was also a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, and in the liberal values of the U.S. Constitution. When radical abolitionists, under the motto No Union With Slaveholders, criticized Douglass' willingness to dialogue with slave owners, he famously replied: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Pearson Global Forum 2018
On Friday, October 5, The Pearson Institute will bring together international policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, and academics to create a robust agenda for the inaugural Pearson Global Forum.
With keynote addresses from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell, President of the U.S. Institute of Peace Nancy Lindborg, and former President of the UN General Assembly Vuk Jeremić, the conference will couple academic research and first-hand experiences to promote research practices and inform public policy.
BBC Radio Scotland − Jehovah's Witnesses permissive to child sex abuse, JW.org repeatedly on media.
Full program (3hr) BBC Radio Scotland 20 11 2017 ◄≡≡≡► Broadcast Monday, 20 November 2017
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)