Atoms: Part 1 - THE CLASH OF THE TITANS

 

I have yet to watch this but it is on the list.

StumbleVideo - Sioux_Ghost_Dance_-_Thomas_A_Edison_1894_.avi.mpeg

 

StumbleVideo - Sioux_Ghost_Dance_-_Thomas_A_Edison_1894_.avi.mpeg

 

This amazing video was taken just a few years after Wounded Knee. 

Bay City, Michigan History: Pere Marquette Depot Roof - Bay City#links

Bay City, Michigan History: Pere Marquette Depot Roof - Bay City#links

History is being made on the web everyday. This example of construction in Bay City, Michigan is important on several levels. It documents the construction technique. It documents the building, itself, and the buildings around it at the time of construction. Finally, it documents the people involved in the construction. If this was done properly all these people, items and buildings could be tagged. But, I'm thankful for the great advances we have made.

Directory of FREE Online Books and FREE e-books

 

Directory of FREE Online Books and FREE e-books

 

This source contains thousands of books..Many can be downloaded in a PDF format.  This is the source of the book listing Great Lakes Captains. 

Technorati Tags: History,free books,e-books,ebooks,research sources

Nova Account of the Jamestown Settlement

 

This week Nova has run an excellent account of the Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in English North America.  The program relates that previous to about ten years ago scholars believed that the old fort was gone forever underneath the James River.  That is what I heard when I was there in 1970.  That was wrong however.  The fort is found and with it the story that is told here. 

It is a story not of lazy gentlemen but of craftsman that were out to make money fast on the great resources of the new world. 

The Native American story is told as well with actual members of the tribes involved taking on historical roles. 

The program will add a great deal to your knowledge of the era.

Nanotechnology

ScienceDaily () -- Nanotechnology has already brought advances such as self-cleaning windows and energy-efficient LED lighting, and could soon deliver medical breakthroughs. To educate the public about nanotechnology's promise, the National Science Foundation has slated $20 million to fund a network of interactive exhibits at 100 museums around the country.

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Robert Pastors View of NAFTA's Next Step

NAFTA’s setbacks have been due partly to failures of compliance - related to sugar, softwood lumber, trucking - but mostly to what it omitted. The income gap between Mexico and its northern neighbors has not narrowed. Illegal migration has increased. Bureaucratic duplication on the border, combined with inadequate infrastructure and divergent regulatory policies, has raised transaction costs above the level of the tariffs that were eliminated. If Europe built too many institutions, NAFTA made the opposite mistake. It lacks institutions to anticipate or respond to crises or take advantage of opportunities. We also lack a vision of an inclusive identity that would inspire citizens of all three countries to think of themselves also as North Americans. Indeed, NAFTA is little more than two bilateral relationships that rely on old habits and too often an unproductive paternalism by the United States.

The US Federal government's denial of the NAU proposal is amazing after reading several of these pronouncements from people who are authorized to attend conferences held without media presence but with high rankings government officials like George Schultz.  Read more and decide for yourself what is happening.

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Tags: NAFTA, Robert Pastor, CFR. NAU, North American Union

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USS Liberty - a reality snapshot

This is one of the most revealing videos an American could ever see. It describes the actions of the federal government in dealing with the 34 deaths on the USS Liberty in 1967. It leaves me with the opinion that we will never be told for sure what happened that day. I find it very difficult to believe that the attack was an accident. As an ex-navy officer, I know that surveillance ships look like nothing else and that navy customs and procedures in the sixties would have made it very unlikely that the Liberty had no flag either on the jack staff or on the mast.

Tags: USS Liberty, six day war, Israel, Nasser, Egypt,

Tags: McNamera

Coup de couleur

Poésie sans parole
pleine de couleurs
féérie d'octobre
Cascades et riviere Beauport,Quebec

The World of Byzantium

This video from The Learning Channel is an hour and forty minutes of inspiration on the making of an historical video.

Wedgit

Reality and Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins explains how our minds give us only a view of reality that is appropriate to the scale we have evolved at. We have evolved in a sort of middle world. We reside in neither the smallest scale nor in the largest scale. We see things in that world.

Things that evolved at other scales would see a different reality.

Time team S14 SE03 - Jamestown USA

The team travel to Jamestown Virginnia to work alongside their american counterparts, to help uncover America's birthplace. There are some amazing well preserved artifacts discovered at the bottom of a well.

Time Team 2001 episode 1

Norman Liconshire

First Post on World History and Science

This blog with deal with world history and with the science of historical discovery.