West Point Foundry Preserve | Cold Spring, NY
The West Point Foundry was a pioneer of the American Industrial Revolution.
Located a short distance up the Hudson River from NYC, this bustling ironworks produced military armaments such as the famous Parrott Gun. The history of the foundry is rich with American ingenuity and sweat equity.
Check out the short easy day hike thru the Hudson Highlands that include:
Replica of the original turret platform that was used to test large Parrott Guns
Administrative Building beside the original cupola
Waterwheel Sculpture to commemorate the place where the Foundry once stood
Thanks to Scenic Hudson for preserving the past so that future explorers can enjoy learning the role local Hudson Valley citizens played in early America!
Cheers,
Joe Mc
Hudson Valley Bound
Hiking trip - Cold Spring, New York - FALL 2013
A short video of our trip to Cold Spring, New York, to see that last little bit of Fall.
West point hike
Hike up along the Hudson river just north of west point military academy and south of Newburgh ny
Cold Spring, NY. June 8, 2014
Testing the video capability of the Canon EOS 70D.
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West Point museum, upstate New York, Hudson Valley
West Point museum, upstate New York, Hudson Valley
Cold Spring, NY - Some Hurricane Sandy Footage
It really didn't hit us that hard at all, but I thought I'd put together a few stuff I filmed.
Hope everyone's recovering alright.
Music - Constance by Kevin Macleod ( )
Battle Chains Across the Hudson,7.4.2015,West Point
The ancient chains. used by the US to fight British frigates.
British Campaigns of 1777
The failed attempt by the British to overtake the Hudson River Valley
Nature and American Vision: The Hudson River School
A conversation with Linda S. Ferber, senior art historian and museum director emerita at the New-York Historical Society.
related exhibition: Nature and American Vision: The Hudson River School
on view: December 7, 2014–June 7, 2015
more info at lacma.org/hudson-river
About the exhibition:
Drawn entirely from the premier collection of The New-York Historical Society, the exhibition features forty-five outstanding American landscape paintings from the nineteenth-century. Among the artists represented in the exhibition are the heroes of the American landscape movement: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, and Albert Bierstadt, among others. Also included are lesser-known artists, some of whom helped the American landscape achieve recognition through the new democratic medium of prints and portfolios. Arranged thematically by place, the exhibition is designed as a grand tour of the American landscape. The full range of the exhibition demonstrates that the movement extends beyond the Hudson River, with work by artists who reflect both realistic and romantic attitudes toward nature in scenes of New England, the American West, and even to South America.
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Manhattan | Wikipedia audio article
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Manhattan
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- Socrates
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Manhattan (), often referred to locally as the City, is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, its cultural identifier, and its historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each aligned with its long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.
Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and the borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the setting for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals roughly US$1050 in current terms. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan approximated US$1,600 per square foot ($17,000/m2) as of 2018, with Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commanding the highest retail rents in the world, at US$3,000 per square foot ($32,000/m2) in 2017.Manhattan traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York, based in present-day Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals of liberty and peace. Manhattan became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898.
New York County is the United States' second-smallest county by land area (larger only than Kalawao County, Hawaii), and is also the most densely populated U.S. county. It is also one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 1,664,727 living in a land area of 22.83 square miles (59.13 km2), or 72,918 residents per square mile (28,154/km2), higher than the density of any individual U.S. city. On business days, the influx of commuters increases this number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile (65,600/km2). Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York City's five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, and is the smallest borough in terms of land area.Many districts and landmarks in Manhattan are well known, as New York City received a record 62.8 million tourists in 2017, and Manhattan hosts three of the world's 10 most-visited tourist attractions in 2013: Times Square, Central Park, and Grand Central Terminal. The borough hosts many prominent bridges, such as the Brooklyn Bridge; skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building; and parks, such as Central Park. Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese ...
Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007)
Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007) with subtites.
Storyline - This film gathers information from many sources and puts it together in a way that shows it is possible for people to be manipulated by large institutions, governments and economic powers. With many news clips from tragic events in history, audio excerpts from those who believe people are being misled about the level of freedom they have.
Director: Peter Joseph
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Manhattan | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:59 1 Etymology
00:06:16 2 History
00:06:25 2.1 Colonial era
00:10:42 2.2 American Revolution and the early United States
00:12:13 2.3 19th century
00:15:37 2.4 20th century
00:19:40 2.5 21st century
00:22:15 3 Geography
00:22:24 3.1 Components
00:23:26 3.1.1 Manhattan Island
00:24:53 3.1.2 Marble Hill
00:25:46 3.1.3 Smaller islands
00:26:19 3.2 Geology
00:26:28 3.2.1 Bedrock
00:27:35 3.2.2 Updated seismic analysis
00:28:12 3.3 Locations
00:28:21 3.3.1 Adjacent counties
00:28:53 3.3.2 National protected areas
00:29:31 3.3.3 Neighborhoods
00:33:07 3.4 Climate
00:35:55 3.5 Boroughscapes
00:36:04 4 Demographics
00:40:39 4.1 Religion
00:41:35 4.2 Languages
00:42:56 5 Landmarks and architecture
00:44:11 5.1 Architectural history
00:49:02 5.2 Parkland
00:51:23 6 Economy
00:52:38 6.1 Financial sector
00:54:27 6.2 Corporate sector
00:55:26 6.3 Technology sectors
00:58:23 6.4 Tourism
00:59:24 6.5 Real estate
01:01:11 6.6 Media
01:01:19 6.6.1 News
01:02:08 6.6.2 Television, radio, film
01:03:44 7 Education
01:08:32 8 Culture and contemporary life
01:15:01 9 Sports
01:19:40 10 Government
01:22:19 10.1 Politics
01:24:01 10.1.1 Representatives in the U.S. Congress
01:25:32 10.2 Federal offices
01:26:13 10.3 Crime and public safety
01:28:49 11 Housing
01:30:55 12 Infrastructure
01:31:04 12.1 Transportation
01:31:13 12.1.1 Public transportation
01:36:12 12.1.2 Major highways
01:36:38 12.1.3 Taxis
01:37:05 12.1.4 Bicycles
01:37:18 12.1.5 Streets and roads
01:41:32 12.1.6 River crossings
01:43:53 12.1.7 Heliports
01:44:47 12.2 Utilities
01:46:43 12.3 Health care
01:47:24 12.4 Water purity and availability
01:49:08 12.5 Address algorithm
01:49:34 13 See also
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Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Manhattan (), often referred to locally as the City, is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each aligned with its long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.
Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and the borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the setting for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals roughly US$1038 in current terms. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan approximated US$1,600 per square foot ($17,000/m2) as of 2018, with Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commanding the highest retail rents in the world, at US$3,000 per square foot ($32,000/m2) in 2017.Manhattan traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 16 ...
Reinhold Niebuhr | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:56 1 Early life and education
00:07:03 2 Marriage and family
00:08:06 3 Detroit
00:10:00 3.1 First World War
00:11:34 3.2 Origins of Niebuhr's working-class sympathy
00:14:48 3.3 Conversion of Jews
00:15:31 4 1930s: Growing influence in New York
00:17:43 4.1 Niebuhr and Dewey
00:18:56 5 Neo-orthodox theology
00:23:16 6 Politics
00:23:26 6.1 Domestic
00:24:17 6.2 International
00:32:28 7 Views on race, ethnicity, and other religious affiliations
00:34:49 7.1 Catholicism
00:36:54 7.2 Martin Luther King Jr.
00:38:44 7.3 Judaism
00:40:26 8 History
00:42:35 9 Serenity Prayer
00:43:34 10 Influence
00:46:49 11 Legacy and honors
00:48:34 12 Personal style
00:49:28 13 Selected works
00:55:08 14 See also
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Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. A public theologian, he wrote and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion, politics, and public policy, with his most influential books including Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man. The latter is ranked number 18 of the top 100 non-fiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library. Andrew Bacevich labelled Niebuhr's book The Irony of American History the most important book ever written on U.S. foreign policy. The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. described Niebuhr as the most influential American theologian of the 20th century and Time posthumously called Niebuhr the greatest Protestant theologian in America since Jonathan Edwards.Starting as a minister with working-class sympathies in the 1920s and sharing with many other ministers a commitment to pacifism and socialism, his thinking evolved during the 1930s to neo-orthodox realist theology as he developed the philosophical perspective known as Christian realism. He attacked utopianism as ineffectual for dealing with reality, writing in The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944), Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Niebuhr's realism deepened after 1945 and led him to support American efforts to confront Soviet communism around the world. A powerful speaker, he was one of the most influential thinkers of the 1940s and 1950s in public affairs. Niebuhr battled with religious liberals over what he called their naïve views of the contradictions of human nature and the optimism of the Social Gospel, and battled with the religious conservatives over what he viewed as their naïve view of scripture and their narrow definition of true religion. During this time he was viewed by many as the intellectual rival of John Dewey.Niebuhr's contributions to political philosophy include utilizing the resources of theology to argue for political realism. His work has also significantly influenced international relations theory, leading many scholars to move away from idealism and embrace realism. A large number of scholars, including political scientists, political historians, and theologians, have noted his influence on their thinking. Aside from academics, numerous politicians, and activists such as former US Presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter; Myles Horton, Martin Luther King Jr., Hillary Clinton, Hubert Humphrey, Dean Acheson, James Comey, Madeleine Albright, and John McCain have also cited his influence on their thought. Recent years have seen a renewed interest in Niebuhr's work, in part because of Obama's stated admiration for Niebu ...
Ice Cold: Solid Carbon Dioxide Cleaning - Session 3 - Julie Wolfe, Siska Genbrugge, Jim Gwinner
Solid carbon dioxide cleaning (snow to pellet) has been tested and used in critical cleaning capacities, such as the removal of surface contamination during the production of silicon microchip wafers and precision optical lenses. Significant advances in CO2 technology and its employment have produced valuable results for the field of conservation, specifically for objects with sensitive surfaces.
On Thursday, September 10th 2015, the Lunder Conservation Center presented a symposium in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s McEvoy Auditorium.
The symposium was divided in three sessions. This is session three with Julie Wolfe, Siska Genbrugge (at 33:08) and Jim Gwinner (at 1:04:12)
Session 1 can be found here:
Session 2 can be found here:
Session 3 can be found here:
The Art and Literature of the Great War
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art.
The First World War, known as the Great War, was also the first modern war, claiming millions of lives, in part, by newly invented weapons such as the machine gun, tank, aircraft, and poison gas. The arts of the period present a portrait of the terrible price paid by humanity—the carnage and suffering caused by the war were documented in paintings, sculptures, novels, memoirs, and poems produced both during, and immediately after, the struggle. In this presentation on March 27, 2019, senior lecturer David Gariff explores the responses of artists and writers to the trauma of the First World War, which transcended national boundaries. Paintings, sculptures, and prints by Otto Dix, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Käthe Kollwitz, Fernand Léger, John Singer Sargent, and Natalija Goncharova; poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and Anna Akhmatova; and memoirs and novels by Ernest Hemingway, Erich Maria Remarque, and Robert Graves are discussed against the backdrop of “the war to end all wars.”
Zeitgeist: The Movie [2010 Update]
Zeitgeist: The Movie is a 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph. This movie was first presented as a public performance and was later published online, along with a website:
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ch 15) Self Help In Hard Times
chapter 15: A People's History (Of The United States) Howard Zinn.
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Chapter 15, Self-Help in Hard Times covers the government's campaign to destroy the IWW, and the factors leading to the Great Depression. Zinn states that, despite popular belief, the 1920s were not a time of prosperity, and the problems of the Depression were simply the chronic problems of the poor extended to the rest of the society. Also covered is the Communist Party's attempts to help the poor during the Depression.
Vasa (ship)
Vasa is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship foundered and sank after sailing about 1,300 m into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. She fell into obscurity after most of her valuable bronze cannons were salvaged in the 17th century until she was located again in the late 1950s in a busy shipping lane just outside the Stockholm harbor. Salvaged with a largely intact hull in 1961, she was housed in a temporary museum called Wasavarvet until 1988 and then moved to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. The ship is one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions and has been seen by over 29 million visitors since 1961. Since her recovery, Vasa has become a widely recognized symbol of the Swedish great power period and is today a de facto standard in the media and among Swedes for evaluating the historical importance of shipwrecks.
The ship was built on the orders of the King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus as part of the military expansion he initiated in a war with Poland-Lithuania. She was constructed at the navy yard in Stockholm under a contract with private entrepreneurs in 1626–1627 and armed primarily with bronze cannons cast in Stockholm specifically for the ship. Richly decorated as a symbol of the king's ambitions for Sweden and himself, upon completion she was one of the most powerfully armed vessels in the world. However, Vasa was dangerously unstable due to too much weight in the upper structure of the hull. Despite this lack of stability she was ordered to sea and foundered only a few minutes after encountering a wind stronger than a breeze. The order to sail was the result of a combination of factors. The king, who was leading the army in Poland at the time of her maiden voyage, was impatient to see her take up her station as flagship of the reserve squadron at Älvsnabben in the Stockholm Archipelago. At the same time the king's subordinates lacked the political courage to openly discuss the ship's structural problems or to have the maiden voyage postponed. An inquiry was organized by the Swedish Privy Council to find those responsible for the disaster, but in the end no one was punished for the fiasco.
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Startup America
National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, Council of Economics Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee, SBA Administrator Karen Mills and other Administration officials participate in a kickoff event for Startup America, a national campaign to help America achieve these goals by promoting high-growth entrepreneurship across the country. January, 31, 2011.
Student Webinar: The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men
Best-selling author Robert Edsel presents his new book for young readers, The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men. Don’t miss this opportunity for your students to connect with the true story of how American and British volunteers found themselves in a desperate race against time to locate and save the many priceless treasures and works of art stolen by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. Examine Monuments Men artifacts and themes from the book with a Museum curator and educator.
Appropriate for grades 7–12 or ages 12 and older.