The Hidden Library Of Alexandria – Ancient Mystery Documentaries

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Published on Feb 22, 2015

The Hidden Library Of Alexandria – Ancient Mystery Documentaries

The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Old Collection of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was among the biggest as well as most significant collections of the old globe. It was committed to the Muses, the nine sirens of the fine arts. It thrived under the patronage of the Ptolemaic empire and worked as a significant facility of scholarship from its construction in the 3rd century BC till the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. With collections of jobs, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and also yards, the collection belonged to a larger study organization called the Musaeum of Alexandria, where many of the most famous thinkers of the old globe studied.

The library was created by Ptolemy I Soter, that was a Macedonian basic and the follower of Alexander the Great. Most of guides were kept as papyrus scrolls, as well as though it is unknown the amount of such scrolls were housed at any offered time, their integrated worth was incalculable.

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Little Ice Age Big Chill Documentary

Graham

Published on Nov 7, 2014

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Ice Age Death Trap – Documentary

Science&Technology 4U

Published on Nov 27, 2014

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Fifty Shades of Dry: Grim forecast for drought-stricken California

RT America

Published on Jun 3, 2015

The recently published weather outlook for the summer by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that it is going to be a dry one that might intensify the drought in California. Lindsay France reports from Los Angeles.

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What type of government do we have?

Occupy.com

Published on Jun 3, 2015

With the help of activist comedian Lee Camp and the world wide interwebs, we dig into the self – the true self of this twisted system…is it oligarchy? Plutocracy? Both?

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Scientists Warn Rising Sea Levels Not Reversible in Foreseeable Future

VOA News

Published on Jun 3, 2015

Scientists say the sea level is rising and will continue indefinitely. Coastal communities around the world are already feeling the impact and many are adapting to this new reality. This response has been photographed and presented at an exhibit in Long Beach, California, called Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change. Correspondent Elizabeth Lee has more from the exhibit’s site at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
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ObamaTrade Is What’s for Dinner

The Big Picture RT

Published on Jun 3, 2015

Curtis Ellis, Obamatrade/American Jobs Alliance joins The Big Picture. Obamatrade will make it harder to know where your food is coming from and make it easier for transnational corporations to write US law.

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Global Hunger Rates Drop | On Point

A new UN report on world hunger says there’s less of it. We look at what the world did right and the food challenge ahead.

In this file photo, A vendor roasts some corn to sell at a market in Harare, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 . A new report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization suggests that world hunger is down 167 million people in the last decade (AP).

Good news on world hunger recently. Not great. Not solved. But good. While the world’s population zoomed up in the last 25 years, hunger fell. A new UN report shows that while the global population jumped up by two billion, the number of hungry people – without sufficient food supplies – fell by about 200 million. There’s still plenty of hunger. But the percent of those going hungry in the developing word has fallen by nearly half. That’s worth exploring. Understanding. Improving on. This hour On Point: with population up, what’s driven world hunger down?

– Tom Ashbrook

Guests

Josef Schmidhuber, deputy director of the economic and social affairs division of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization.

Douglas Irwin, economist and professor of social sciences at Dartmouth College. Author of “Trade Policy Disaster” and “Free Trade Under Fire” and co-author of “The Genesis of the GATT.”

Christopher Barrett, professor of applied economics and management and agriculture at Cornell University, where he is also director of the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Author of the new book, “Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability.”

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Fracking Protests Continue in Texas as New ALEC-Backed Law Bars Towns from Banning Drilling

Democracy Now!

Published on Jun 3, 2015

http://democracynow.org – The small Texas town of Denton is in a showdown with Big Oil after it tried to pass a ban on fracking within its city limits. On Tuesday night, residents of Denton, about 30 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth, packed a city council meeting to oppose a vote to repeal the ban. The vote was ultimately tabled. The move comes after Texas lawmakers passed a new law that prohibits such bans. The measure went into effect on Monday. That same morning, three protesters locked themselves to the entrance of the first fracking well to reopen. It was just this past November that nearly 60 percent of Denton residents supported the ban at the ballot box. But they were immediately threatened with lawsuits by the Texas Oil and Gas Association and the Texas General Land Office. Those same interests worked with lawmakers and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, to pass this new ban on fracking bans known as House Bill 40. All of this comes as Oklahoma became the second state to ban fracking bans on Friday. Meanwhile, Maryland became the second state, after New York, to ban fracking. We are joined by Tara Linn Hunter, volunteer coordinator for Frack Free Denton.

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“Cultural Genocide”: Landmark Report Decries Canada’s Forced Schooling of In digenous Children

Democracy Now!

Published on Jun 3, 2015

http://democracynow.org – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada has concluded the country’s decades-long policy of forcibly removing indigenous children from their families and placing them in state-funded residential Christian schools amounted to “cultural genocide.” After a six-year investigation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report concluded: “The Canadian government pursued this policy of cultural genocide because it wished to divest itself of its legal and financial obligations to aboriginal people and gain control over their lands and resources. If every aboriginal person had been ‘absorbed into the body politic,’ there would be no reserves, no treaties and no aboriginal rights.” The first schools opened in 1883. The last one closed in 1998. During that time over 150,000 indigenous children were sent away to rid them of their native cultures and languages and integrate them into mainstream Canadian society. Many students recall being beaten for speaking their native languages and losing touch with their parents and customs. The report also documents widespread physical, cultural and sexual abuse. We are joined by Pamela Palmater, associate professor and chair of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, an Idle No More activist and author of “Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity and Belonging.”

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