Virtual tour of Independence Hall - Philadelphia
Virtual tour of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Includes audio commentary similar to what a tour guide would be telling you if you took the tour in person.
360 Video - Irem Theater, PA (UrbEx)
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White House 3D Tour
A video animation of Peter Sharkey's 3D White House, hosted by WhiteHouseMuseum.org, with narration.
Random Old Images of Philadelphia 1700s - 1900s
Here's a collection of random old photos, woodcuts and drawing of Philadelphia from the time of Ben Franklin up until the 1980s.
Declaration of Independence & Constitution - Independence Hall (preview)
Full 55 minute American Artifacts program debuts June 21 at 6pm ET on C-SPAN3. Learn about the Declaration of Independence & the Constitutional Convention in the room where they were debated and signed.
Independence Hall with Lego. Building .part 1
Video on fast motion of Independence Hall (Philadelphia, USA), with Lego parts.
See One of the World's Largest Model Train Sets
For the past 16 years, Bruce Zaccagnino has worked alone to build what is thought to be the world’s largest HO-scale model railroad set. Featuring more than nine miles of track, Zaccagnino's masterpiece also boasts 400 bridges, 3,000 miniature buildings and 50,000 streets. Welcome to your childhood fantasy. Welcome to Northlandz.
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Driving directions with Street View on Google Maps
Now you can use Street View when getting driving directions on Google Maps.
Steven Spielberg | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:12 1 Early life
00:07:41 2 Career
00:07:50 2.1 1970s
00:14:07 2.2 1980s
00:19:06 2.3 1990s
00:23:07 2.4 2000s
00:28:18 2.5 2010s
00:35:03 2.6 Upcoming projects
00:38:42 2.6.1 Projects on hold
00:39:44 2.7 Production credits
00:47:33 2.8 Onscreen appearances
00:48:43 2.9 Involvement in video games
00:50:18 3 Themes
00:55:14 4 Personal life
00:55:23 4.1 Marriages and children
00:58:18 4.2 Religion
01:01:34 4.3 Wealth
01:02:01 4.4 Yachting
01:02:41 4.5 Recognition
01:04:17 4.6 Politics
01:07:16 4.7 Hobbies
01:09:22 4.8 Stalking
01:10:23 5 Filmography
01:10:32 6 Awards and honors
01:16:06 6.1 Awards received by Spielberg films
01:16:17 6.2 Directed Academy Award Performances
01:16:33 7 Praise and criticism
01:24:18 7.1 Other
01:26:42 8 See also
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Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. Spielberg started in Hollywood directing television and several minor theatrical releases. He became a household name as the director of Jaws (1975), which was critically and commercially successful and is considered the first summer blockbuster. His subsequent releases focused typically on science fiction and adventure films, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993) are seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking.Spielberg transitioned into addressing serious issues in his later work with The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), Schindler's List (1993), Amistad (1997), and Saving Private Ryan (1998). He has largely adhered to this practice during the 21st century, with Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017). He co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Studios, where he has also served as a producer or executive producer for several successful film trilogies, tetralogies and more including the Gremlins, Back to the Future, Men in Black, and the Transformers series. He later transitioned into producing several games within the video-game industry.
Spielberg is one of the American film industry's most critically successful filmmakers, with praise for his directing talent and versatility, and he has won the Academy Award for Best Director twice. Some of his movies are also among the highest-grossing movies of all-time, while his total work makes him the highest-grossing film director in history. His net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion.
Same-sex marriage in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Same-sex marriage in the United States
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Same-sex marriage in the United States expanded from one state in 2004 to all fifty states in 2015 through various state court rulings, state legislation, direct popular votes, and federal court rulings. Same-sex marriage is also referred to as gay marriage, while the political status in which the marriages of same-sex couples and the marriages of opposite-sex couples are recognized as equal by the law is referred to as marriage equality.
Civil rights campaigning in support of marriage without distinction as to sex or sexual orientation began in the 1970s. In 1972, the now overturned Baker v. Nelson saw the U.S. Supreme Court decline to become involved. The issue became prominent from around 1993, when the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled in Baehr v. Lewin that it was unconstitutional under the state constitution for the state to abridge marriage on the basis of sex. That ruling led to federal and state actions to explicitly abridge marriage on the basis of sex in order to prevent the marriages of same-sex couples from being recognized by law, the most prominent of which was DOMA. In 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the state constitution for the state to abridge marriage on the basis of sex. From 2004 through to 2015, as the tide of public opinion continued to move towards support of same-sex marriage, various state court rulings, state legislation, direct popular votes (referendums and initiatives), and federal court rulings established same-sex marriage in 36 states.
During the first decade of the 21st century, gay marriage received vocal support from such figures as civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and Mildred Loving, plaintiff in the 1967 case that had made interracial marriage legal nationwide. In 2011, national public support for same-sex marriage rose above 50% for the first time. In 2012, the NAACP, the leading African-American civil rights organization, declared its support for same-sex marriage and stated that it is a civil right. In 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down DOMA for violating the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution in the landmark civil rights case of United States v. Windsor, leading to federal recognition of same-sex marriage, with federal benefits for married couples connected to either the state of residence or the state in which the marriage was solemnized. In 2015, national public support for same-sex marriage rose to 60% for the first time. That same year, the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark civil rights case of Obergefell v. Hodges that the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples, with all the accompanying rights and responsibilities, is guaranteed by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The most prominent supporters of same-sex marriage are human rights and civil rights organizations as well as the medical and scientific communities, while the most prominent opponents are religious groups. The ruling of the Supreme Court in Obergefell occurred following decades of consistently rising national public support for same-sex marriage in the United States, with support continuing to rise thereafter.
A study of nationwide data from January 1999 to December 2015 revealed that the establishment of same-sex marriage is associated with a significant reduction in the rate of attempted suicide among children, with the effect being concentrated among children of a minority sexual orientation, resulting in approximately 134,000 fewer children attempting suicide each year in the United States.
The United States of America is the most populous country in the world to have established same-sex marriage nationwide.
HBO | Wikipedia audio article
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HBO
00:01:13 1 Overview
00:05:59 2 History
00:06:08 2.1 Development and launch
00:12:08 2.2 National expansion, innovation and rise to prominence (1975–1993)
00:21:01 2.3 Rising prominence of original programming (1993–2018)
00:26:58 2.4 AT&T era (2018–present)
00:28:51 3 Channels
00:28:59 3.1 Background
00:31:36 3.2 List of channels
00:32:55 3.2.1 Cinemax
00:34:59 3.3 Other services
00:35:07 3.3.1 HBO HD
00:35:55 3.3.2 HBO on Demand
00:37:47 3.3.3 HBO Go
00:38:37 3.3.4 HBO Now
00:39:56 4 Programming
00:46:23 4.1 Original programming
00:49:38 4.2 Movie library
00:52:29 4.2.1 Former first-run contracts
00:54:32 4.3 Sports programming
00:58:20 4.4 Documentaries
01:03:45 5 Other ventures
01:04:00 5.1 Television channels
01:04:08 5.1.1 Take 2
01:04:56 5.1.2 Festival
01:06:47 5.1.3 The Comedy Channel / Comedy Central
01:08:06 5.2 Television and film production
01:11:33 5.3 Home video
01:12:46 5.4 Merchandising
01:13:44 6 Branding
01:19:57 6.1 Network slogans
01:20:07 7 International versions
01:21:47 8 See also
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Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by the namesake unit Home Box Office, Inc., a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. The program which featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television shows, along with made-for-cable movies and documentaries, boxing matches, and occasional comedy and concert specials.
HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service (basic or premium) in the United States, having been in operation since November 8, 1972. In 2016, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.93 billion, compared to the US$1.88 billion it accrued in 2015. HBO has 130 million subscribers worldwide as of 2016. The network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature, and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015 and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017.
National Museum of African American History and Culture | Wikipedia audio article
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
00:01:16 1 History
00:01:25 1.1 Early efforts
00:09:06 1.2 1990s efforts
00:11:15 1.3 Passage of federal legislation
00:15:12 2 Siting and design competition
00:19:24 2.1 Building design changes
00:23:04 2.2 Construction of the museum building
00:28:55 2.3 Opening
00:35:56 3 Collection and exhibits
00:36:05 3.1 Web presence
00:36:46 3.2 Pre-opening exhibits
00:39:14 3.3 Notable items in the collection
00:40:49 3.3.1 Pre-20th century
00:42:42 3.3.2 20th and 21st centuries
00:48:02 4 Restaurant
00:50:28 5 Reception
00:57:02 6 See also
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum established in December 2003. The museum's building, collaboratively designed by Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates and Davis Brody Bond, is on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It has close to 37,000 objects in its collection related to such subjects as community, family, the visual and performing arts, religion, civil rights, slavery, and segregation. The museum has about 85,000 square feet of exhibition space with 12 exhibitions, 13 different interactives with 17 stations, and 183 videos housed on five floors.
Early efforts to establish a federally owned museum featuring African-American history and culture can be traced to 1915, although the modern push for such an organization did not begin until the 1970s. After years of little success, a much more serious legislative push began in 1988 that led to authorization of the museum in 2003. A site was selected in 2006. The museum opened September 24, 2016, in a ceremony led by U.S. President Barack Obama.