A royal affair could be a dangerous liaison. Anne Boleyn flirted with Henry VIII and lost her head. England's Princess Caroline had flings on the side, like her husband, George IV, but fell victim to double standards. France's Louis XV was the lustiest monarch in history, and paid for it with his life.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz4hA0hoqQk
Tells how, in contrast to the West, the predominant Middle Eastern political orientation is toward authoritarian rule with power generally concentrated in the hands of a monarch or military leader
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu393LxQD18
The forefather of all football folly-fests, this original collection is so old that it doesn't even feature the immortal John Facenda as narrator! This are your father's (OK, grandfather's) NFL foul-ups, but I must admit that it's fun to revisit the ancient days of the NFL -- and realize that there were some seriously clueless players back in the day.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnyC_QGZwz0
NHL is on the brink of collapse during the Great Depression, but the advent of radio carries the voice of Foster Hewitt to people's homes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8aOLvAZXQ
This 1975 NASA film entitled "The Mission of Apollo Soyuz" documents the historic Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, in which manned American and Soviet spacecraft docked for the first time. The astronauts and cosmonauts met each other in space and conducted science experiments together prior to returning to Earth.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq2Z_lj6gQE
A look at one of the most exciting searches of all—the hunt for the riches of the Old Testament. Did King Solomon actually have a mine near Mount Sinai?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn98NjI5u_4
At the turn of the century Europeans refused to believe that the craftsmen of the Nigerian Kingdom of Benin could have made such sophisticated and beautiful bronze castings. This program traces the history of Beni and Yoruba bronzes, and examines the techniques used in making them, and the results. We see the beautiful and elegant portrait busts, plaques and standing figures which read as impressive chronicles of the elaborate court life under the autocratic Obas of Benin.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkSKYxpGD2c
The saga of the Coral Castle, said to have been built by Edward Leedskalnin, a frail hermit who allegedly carved and lifted 1,100 tons of solid stone blocks weighing up to 30 tons each using the secrets of Atlantis.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbpBEiKYJ48
Why did the great Montezuma surrender to Cortes without fighting? What part did Aztec legend about a bearded white god play in the ultimate downfall of the Aztec Empire?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZS4o0Ws9A