Saturday, March 19, 2016

3/18 and 3/25

North Korean show trial -- American student has been arrested for taking down a poster of the leader and sentenced to 15 years of labor in prison (just watch a bit of this to get the idea)

North Korean refugee (parental supervision, difficult speech)

Nassar talking about Arab unity and revolution

Oum Kalthoum, often considered Egypt's greatest singer -- very different sound than what we are used to -- I have NO idea what she is singing

Aswan Dam across the Nile (I've only watched the first part)


Eisenhower on Kennedy 

war cake


Fabulous computer generated video of the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany (fortified and guarded)

Berlin Wall newsreel showing East Berliners jumping out of buildings along the wall

Tom Brokaw when the wall came down

Reagan at the wall

Berlin blockade and airlift

quick apartheid video

absolutely heartbreaking story of the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Mao 

Patty Lupone as Evita in the Broadway play about the life of Eva Peron


More from Evita

Hammer and Feather :  Astronauts on the moon prove Galileo was right when he said if there were no air resistance a hammer and a feather would fall at the same rate -- gravity pulls all objects at an equal rate

Mythbusters on same

Clip from movie about Apollo 13 -- the flight to the moon that had to be aborted because of an accident, amazing story.  The movie is not a documentary and it is not G rated, but the event really happened, the astronauts and ground crew had to figure out how to get a spaceship home from space when it was severely damaged.

The story of Thurgood Marshall, who grew up under segregation and became a great Supreme Court justice

Kennedy assassination ( graphic)


MLK Jr. dream speech