Alexander Vertinsky

https://youtu.be/mMaz70bOd7w?si=q1g4qw1uqt-hUqM7 Alexander Vertinsky – Dorogoi dlinnoyu – Дорогой длинною – By the long road.The orginal Russian song version sung here by Alexander Vertinsky, who first recorded “By the Long Road” in 1926. Gene Raskin used the song for “Those were the days.” Popularised by Mary Hopkins’ release 42 years later. Aleksander Wertyński (Vertinsky) – Chanson…… Continue reading Alexander Vertinsky

Every Major Composer’s Greatest Melody

https://youtu.be/qEzmd48TIrA?si=nlmiE2zrtbEl4oEe / 2024 /…(in my opinion)If you watch the video start to finish you’ll pretty much experience the entire history of classical music melody-making Listed in chronological order: 0:00 Claudio Monteverdi 1:38 Heinrich Schütz 2:23 Barbara Strozzi 4:03 Jean-Baptiste Lully 5:29 Henry Purcell 7:34 Arcangelo Corelli 9:13 Georg Friedrich Händel 10:41 Antonio Vivaldi 12:38 Jean-Philippe…… Continue reading Every Major Composer’s Greatest Melody

Slime Moulds | In Our Time

BBC Radio 4 – Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss slime mould, a basic organism that grows on logs, cowpats and compost heaps. Scientists have found difficult to categorise slime mould: in 1868, the biologist Thomas Huxley asked: ‘Is this a plant, or is it an animal? Is it both or is it neither?’ and there…… Continue reading Slime Moulds | In Our Time

BBC on Covid vaccine disinformation ↑OR↓ Dr. Paul Marik on fraud in medicine

https://youtu.be/EG8totFxL9c?si=iAidOfWKfW_DCEAH How Nobel Prize laureate Katalin Karikó got caught up in the Covid vaccine disinformation wars. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Scientist Katalin Karikó helped develop the mRNA technology behind one of the Covid vaccines but as disinformation about the vaccine spread, she found herself accused of wanting to “eliminate and…… Continue reading BBC on Covid vaccine disinformation ↑OR↓ Dr. Paul Marik on fraud in medicine

This is what Victorian people sounded like

https://youtu.be/BrXUcEh0ncE / 2024 / In a previous video I introduced the oldest voices that can still be heard through recordings made on Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s phonautograph and Thomas Edison’s early tinfoil phonograph. This time, we look at how efforts to promote Edison’s new “perfected” phonograph in Britain led to the preservation of the voices…… Continue reading This is what Victorian people sounded like

PAWNEE | Western

https://youtu.be/aOWDCLPP5Es?si=yIwj3p-SnmIDFCOE PAWNEE (Full Movie, Western, English, Entire Cowboy & Indians Feature Film) *free full westerns* (Full Movie, Western, English, Entire Cowboy & Indians Feature Film) *free full westerns*.Full Western Movie, Full Length Cowboy Film, English: Pawnee (original title). 1h 20min, Western. Pawnee is a 1957 American Western film directed by George Waggner and written by…… Continue reading PAWNEE | Western

Winterhawk | Filmed nearly 50 years ago

https://youtu.be/KrJxbMj8EaE?si=SSWvfrVzk5BRaw3- 2018 (Full Length Western Movie, HD, Classic Feature Film, English) *free full western.Full Western Movie, Full Length Cowboy Film, English: (1975), Rated 12, Runtime 1h 38min, Adventure, Western. Winterhawk is a 1975 western film about an Indian chief from the Blackfoot tribe who attempts to get help for his tribe who have been infected…… Continue reading Winterhawk | Filmed nearly 50 years ago