MayFlower & Monument Plymouth, MA
When people visit Plymouth, MA, they usually are looking to see the MayFlower ship that the Pilgrams arrived on in 1620. I was more interested to see the Monument to the Founding Fathers, featured in the documentary Monumental. This monument shows the vision of the Pilgrams when they arrived on this land of how they felt a prosperious society could be formed. Perhaps, not only does this monument show us our history, but also could point us of how to correct the problems of the current day United States.
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Hells Angels attend biker funeral under police surveillance
At Taxpayers' Expense - Pointless Aerial Spying in the Middle of the Woods
NOT ON THE SIX O'CLOCK NEWS: I filmed this helicopter circling over our home on July 10, 2013. I'm not even blaming the ones who did it. All are complicit who fund this, including me, but I'm not funding it voluntarily, just through my taxes. I'd like people to think about this. We knew of a missing person who was missing during this same time period. Surely there were others. Where are our priorities, and what do you think the founders of this nation, flaws and all, would think of this? More importantly, what do you think of this? Do you want a more reasonable society? Then why this?
In Beverly, 40-Year Tradition Celebrates Good Friday By Walking
Beverly's Good Friday Walk is a 40-year tradition to raise money for North Shore families in need. WBZ-TV's David Wade reports.
Our Town: Huntingdon (1997)
Fleeting Memories | Critical Role | Campaign 2, Episode 14
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Fridtjof Nansen | Wikipedia audio article
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Fridtjof Nansen (Norwegian: [²fɾɪtːjɔf ˈnɑnsn̩]; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth he was a champion skier and ice skater. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis. He won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his Fram expedition of 1893–1896. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
Nansen studied zoology at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania and later worked as a curator at the University Museum of Bergen where his research on the central nervous system of lower marine creatures earned him a doctorate and helped establish neuron doctrine. Later, famed neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal would win the 1906 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on the same subject, though technical priority for the theory is given to Nansen. After 1896 his main scientific interest switched to oceanography; in the course of his research he made many scientific cruises, mainly in the North Atlantic, and contributed to the development of modern oceanographic equipment. As one of his country's leading citizens, in 1905 Nansen spoke out for the ending of Norway's union with Sweden, and was instrumental in persuading Prince Carl of Denmark to accept the throne of the newly independent Norway. Between 1906 and 1908 he served as the Norwegian representative in London, where he helped negotiate the Integrity Treaty that guaranteed Norway's independent status.
In the final decade of his life, Nansen devoted himself primarily to the League of Nations, following his appointment in 1921 as the League's High Commissioner for Refugees. In 1922 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of the displaced victims of the First World War and related conflicts. Among the initiatives he introduced was the Nansen passport for stateless persons, a certificate that used to be recognised by more than 50 countries. He worked on behalf of refugees until his sudden death in 1930, after which the League established the Nansen International Office for Refugees to ensure that his work continued. This office received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1938. His name is commemorated in numerous geographical features, particularly in the polar regions.
How Exploding a Sperm Whale Spawned the First Viral Video
There's an important passing to mark this weekend. The man behind the giant exploding whale has died.
His name was George Thornton. In 1970, the Oregon highway engineer made the fateful, still controversial decision to dynamite the stinking carcass of an 8-ton, beached sperm whale. The explosion and aftermath would decades later become viral video legend.
The video, culled from a 1970 local news report, is so goof that over the years some people have insisted it's a hoax. Not so. This is indeed what happens when you take 20 crates of dynamite and pile it up against an absolutely enormous dead whale. Thornton had the charge buried on the landward side of the carcass, so its remains would be blown into the ocean.
That's not exactly what happened.
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Craft in America: INDUSTRY episode
craftinamerica.org. INDUSTRY: Handmade in the Creative Economy. Featuring Gee’s Bend quilters Lucy Mingo & Mary Ann Pettway, quilter Joe Cunningham, boat builder Graham McKay & Lowell’s Boat Shop, artist Bethanne Knudson & Libby O'Bryan & The Oriole Mill, jewelry artist Shane Yamane, Etsy. PBS premiere: May 2, 2014.
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Steamboat Wharf Marina in Hull
Nantasket Pier in Hull is the site of the new Steamboat Wharf Marina, where co-owner Justin Gould provides a tour. Video also includes footage of the summer of 2008 at the marina. -- By Cathleen Jeffrey
Performance (Working In The Theatre #288)
Actors Jennifer Ehle (Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing), Cherry Jones (Moon for the Misbegotten, The Heiress), Adam Pascal ('Aida, Rent), John Shea (The Wild Party, Jelly's Last Jam), John Shea (The Director), and Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan) discuss how and why they chose to be performers, their education and training, their work ethic, how one embodies a character, the craft of acting, and why they work in the theatre.
Originally taped - April, 2000
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American Theatre Wing’s Working in the Theatre documentary series features the most fascinating people on the stage, behind the scenes, and in the audience. From Tony Awards® and Obie Awards® winning artists to the next generation of theatre makers, we capture theatre’s inner-workings, industry luminaries, and unique stories that surround important work.
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Amherst Store Keeps Nostalgia Alive In Age Of Social Media
In downtown Amherst, a new shop with an old feel just opened its doors. And it all started on a former student’s Instagram feed. WBZ-TV's David Wade reports.
Benjamin Franklin | Wikipedia audio article
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department and the University of Pennsylvania.Franklin earned the title of The First American for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies. As the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat. To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette at the age of 23. He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he authored under the pseudonym Richard Saunders. After 1767, he was associated with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of British policies.
He pioneered and was first president of Academy and College of Philadelphia which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania. He organized and was the first secretary of the American Philosophical Society and was elected president in 1769. Franklin became a national hero in America as an agent for several colonies when he spearheaded an effort in London to have the Parliament of Great Britain repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. His efforts proved vital for the American Revolution in securing shipments of crucial munitions from France.
He was promoted to deputy postmaster-general for the British colonies in 1753, having been Philadelphia postmaster for many years, and this enabled him to set up the first national communications network. During the revolution, he became the first United States Postmaster General. He was active in community affairs and colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania. He initially owned and dealt in slaves but, by the 1750s, he argued against slavery from an economic perspective and became one of the most prominent abolitionists.
His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and his status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored more than two centuries after his death on coinage and the $100 bill, warships, and the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, and corporations, as well as countless cultural references.
Edgar Allan Poe | Wikipedia audio article
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Edgar Allan Poe (; born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Poe was born in Boston, the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Poe repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for Poe. He attended the University of Virginia but left after a year due to lack of money. Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time that his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with the anonymous collection Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to a Bostonian. With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. However, Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and he ultimately parted ways with John Allan.
Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Richmond in 1836, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem The Raven to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. For years, he had been planning to produce his own journal The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. Poe died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, at age 40; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.
Who is Maria Mitchell?
Published on March 1, 2014.
Who is Maria Mitchell? Maria Mitchell was a famous astronomer and educator in the 19th century United States. She inspired many young women to pursue scientific and educational careers. This is the inaugural video of Women's Stories, a YouTube channel dedicated to publishing stories of women to inspire girls, encourage young women and celebrate women's lives. These stories present short vignettes about historical and current women.
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is the sixth book by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea story of Captain Ahab's voyage in pursuit of a certain sperm whale that he calls Moby Dick . A contemporary commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation rose during the twentieth century. D.H. Lawrence called it the greatest book of the sea ever written. Jorge Luis Borges praised the style: Unforgettable phrases abound. Today it is considered one of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American Romanticism.
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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.
Hurricane Katrina Documentary(2) OFFICIAL.
Directed by Spike Lee
Theme music composer Terence Blanchard
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Spike Lee
Samuel D. Pollard
Editor(s) Geeta Gandbhir
Cinematography Cliff Charles
Running time 240 minutes total for part 1 & 2.
Production company(s) 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Release
Original channel HBO
Original release
August 23, 2010
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise is a 2010 documentary film directed by Spike Lee, as a follow-up to his 2006 HBO documentary film, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. The film looks into the proceeding years since Hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans and Gulf Coast region, and also focuses on the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its effect on the men and women who work along the shores of the gulf. Many of the participants in Levees were also featured in this documentary.
It won a Peabody Award in 2010 for ambitiously chronicling one of the hugest disasters in American history, interrogating the well-known narratives and investigating other stories that could have easily fallen through the cracks.[1]
High School Quiz Show - Quarterfinal #3: Sharon vs. Somerville (511)
In the third quarterfinal matchup of Season 5, Sharon High School takes on Somerville High School!
Toss-up Round: 01:52
Head-to-Head: 10:58
Category Round: 13:44
Lightning Round: 22:52
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