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Page 13. 2024














The 21st Century | Page 2. 1999 - 2004 | Page 3. 2004 - 2019 | Page 4. The Pandemic - Year One - 2020 | Page 5. 2020 - 2021 | Page 6. The Pandemic - Year Two - 2021 | Page 7. The Pandemic - 'Facts and Figures' | Page 8. 2021 - 2023 | Page 9. Burma 2021 - 2024 | Page 10. Pandemic - Year 3 - 2022, Year 4 - 2023, Year 5 - 2024 | Page 11. Ukraine 2022 - 2024 | Page 12. The Near East 2023 - 2024 | Page 13. 2024





Continued from page 12. The Near East




2024
































ALVIN FOR PRESIDENT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW7DWVJi3t0




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Celebrating the New Year around the World

NBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J6wUO4EM4I

CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBdrSrjx-O4

Guardian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCMk7Ez8Z8


Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Global News

1 January 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KebuFYIWqc



Bangkok, Thailand

1 Jan. 2024

AFP News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGk484CU3h4

Global News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyycPBL54Xg

Daily Mail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyycPBL54Xg





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SUNRISE IN INUVIK

After 30 Days of Polar Night

Inuvik is a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada
- and in the Arctic Circle.

January 7, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVKAHSgMGFQ




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HOLIDAY IN THAILAND

PHUKET

Russians, Ukrainians and Canadians

11 January 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK0o3y3oeu8


Actually, hordes of Russians appeared in Thailand soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

There were not many Russians in Thailand in the 1980s. They were in Vientiane - and they were Soviets then.

At one time, since 1991, there seemed to be more Russians in Phuket than anyone else.




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Hindus, Muslims and the Babri Masjid mosque


Babri_Masjid

The Babri Masjid mosque is in the city of Ayodhya in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The mosque was built by the invading Muslim Mugals in 1528.

The mosque was built on a spot called Ram Janmabhoomi, which Hindus believe is the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama.

In 1992, Hindus demolished the mosque.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_zXGXMzQxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kkrixwPQHM

Babri demolition: 20 years later

2012 TV broadcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KAlE1T98So

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQmvJKDSVgM


A Hindu temple was built on the spot. Construction began in 2020.

The temple is to be opened on 22 January 2024.

The President of India will attend the ceremony.


FRANCE 24

22 Jan. 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31OvoAa7JkE


DW News

22 Jan. 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf0rUC6yINU


BBC News

21 Jan. 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYtYAAn3Tjc&t=203s


Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi opens temple

Associated Press

22 Jan. 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kZ7A0915W0


First Post

22 Jan. 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMumilPMcfs


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2024 IS AN ELECTION YEAR IN THE U. S. A.


WELCOME, EVERYONE! YOU'RE INVITED! JOIN THE PARTY!

DONALD TRUMP

THE SOLE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT

Trump won the first primaries of the campaign, in Iowa and New Hampshire, on 23 January 2024, with ease.

All indications were that Trump had the Republican Party nomination sewed up.

This was confirmed two months later, on 12 March 2024, when Trump's victories in three states gave him a majority of the party delegates.


Biden also clinched the Democratic Party nomination on 12 March.

The rematch of the 2020 presidential contest is on.

Biden is senile. His odd behaviour causes hilarity. He should stay home or in a nursing home.

Trump is well ahead of Biden in the polls.

Biden continues to sink to 'new all-time lows' in polls.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uvq_UXrBJI



TRUMP will trounce Biden

2024 Election Map Prediction Based On Current Polls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-i-DToPr80


The only question now:

Who will Trump choose for his running mate?

Some suggestions: the Tin Man, Cinderella's step-sister, Joey Baloney . . .


BBC News

12 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNI3o2_1p2Y


This will be the first presidential contest rematch since 1956.

In 1952, General Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican Party nominee, defeated Adlai Stevenson, governor of Illinois and the Democratic Party nominee.

In 1956, President Eisenhower defeated Stevenson again.



The Arrival of the President of France and Mrs. Macron to the State Dinner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9toWeV8oA


The President and First Lady Visit the Taj Mahal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa3P76oK13k


First Lady Melania Trump Visits China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfrTKCJC3RA


The President and First Lady

NATO, Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOL4eEKp7KI


The President in North and South Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1STYbElLAI


President Trump with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RCowmzTToY


President Trump with Russian President Putin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-Jiil1Ues






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India ' s 75th Republic Day

Parade

New Delhi

Narendra Modi Channel

26 January 2024

3 hrs. 50 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xi5_OOPM-I





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Amelia Earhart's Last Flight

Red River Dave McEnery

First sung at the 1939 World's Fair in New York

First recorded in 1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUhB3-aHnNc




FOOL'S GOLD AND A SALVAGER


Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh flew from Long Island, New York to Paris, France in May 1927.

Bert Hinkler, an Australian, was the second to fly solo across the Atlantic. In November 1931, Hinkler flew solo across the South Atlantic from Natal in Brazil to St. Louis in French West Africa. Hinkler was the first to solo across the South Atlantic.

In May 1932, Amelia Earhart flew a plane solo from Newfoundland to Londonderry, Ireland.

Earhart was the second person to fly solo across the North Atlantic.

Earhart was often hailed as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.


Earhart disappeared in a round-the-world flight in July 1937.

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, had completed most of their journey when they took off from Lae in Papua / New Guinea for Howland Island in the central Pacific - a direct non-stop flight of 2,221 nautical miles / 2,556 statute miles, almost entirely over water, expected to take 18 to 19 hours.

Howland Island is the northern-most island of the Phoenix Islands. The island is about 50 nautical miles north of the equator and about 200 miles east of the International Date Line.

It was the most difficult stretch of the entire trip. No one had flown between Lae and Howland before. From Howland, they were to continue to Hawaii and then to California - their starting point.

Earhart and Noonan never reached Howland. Their plane, a Lockheed Model 10E Electra, was never seen again.

Earhart and Noonan were last heard, over the radio, 20 hours and 13 minutes into the flight, as they searched for the island along their reported landfall - a line of position calculated by celestial navigation, dead reckoning and a nautical or aeronautical almanac.

It was assumed that Earhart's plane ran out of fuel and went into the sea within 220 nautical miles of Howland Island.

Considering the strength of Earhart's radio broadcasts, many believed the plane went down within 30 to 100 miles of the island.


The initial search for the plane, launched two and one-half hours after Earhart's last radio message, was by the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, stationed on Howland.

The Itasca sailed along Earhart's reported landfall for fifty nautical miles to the north-northwest of Howland. Then, considering the possibility that Earhart flew beyond her landfall, the Itasca searched to the northeast of the island.

The Itasca found no trace of the plane or survivors on the ocean surface.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered an immediate search. The U. S. Navy searched a vast area, in all directions from Howland, including the Phoenix Islands and the Gilbert Islands. The search approached the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. The navy searched with many ships and many planes.

The search turned up no trace of Earhart and Noonan or their plane on any islands or on the ocean surface.


Five underwater searches for Earhart's plane were conducted near Howland many years later by billionaires Alan Eustace (2002, 2006, 2017) and Ted Waitt (2006, 2009). The last search, led by Eustace, found two planes shot down in the Pacific War (1941 - 1945).


On 28 January 2024, the head of an underwater salvage company in South Carolina claimed to have found Earhart's Electra.

There was no real evidence to support the claim. But the press played it up. It sounded like publicity for the salvager.

Anthony Romeo, a former Air Force pilot, whose father flew for Pan American many years ago, sold off commercial real estate in Florida worth $11 million to start the salvage company - and search for Earhart's plane.

Anthony Romeo and his brother, Lloyd Romeo, led a 100-day expedition to the Pacific, from early September to 2 December 2023.

The expedition, which included other unrelated searches, cost $1.5 million to $2 million.

A search requires an underwater robot to (1) survey the ocean floor with 3-D scans and then (2) take close-up photographs of objects (sonar targets).

The Romeo brothers used the latest technology, a single unmanned autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a deep-sea drone, the HUGIN 6000, produced by a Norwegian company, Kongsberg, in Kongsberg, Norway, and employed an experienced Scottish subsea engineer, Craig Wallace, from the Kongsberg office in Aberdeen, Scotland. The HUGIN cost $9 million. Wallace was the expedition's manager of operations.

The expedition searched from the Gilbert Islands eastwards to Howland.

The path followed by the Romeo brothers in their search was not made public.

Noonan plotted a flight path from Lae to Howland Island. But the actual flight path is not known. Early on, Earhart was forced to make diversions around bad weather.

The Romeo brothers' starting point, Tarawa, in the northern Gilbert Islands, is probably not where their underwater search began.

A direct path from Lae to Howland passes to the south of Tarawa by 175 nautical miles.

If Earhart and Noonan flew to within 25 nautical miles of the island of Nauru, to get a bearing on its light, they passed about 90 nautical miles to the south of Tarawa on their way to Howland.

The last radio message indicated that Earhart and Noonan approached Howland island indirectly, to follow their landfall from the north (or south), in the last hour or so.

Indications are that Anthony Romeo was guided by members of the Eustace expeditions in his search for Earhart's plane. In his remarks to the press, he paid frequent lip-service to members of the Eustace expeditions. He was full of praise and tributes.

Anthony Romeo claims that he based his search on a 'theory' of a girl who accompanied one of the Eustace expeditions that Noonan forgot about the International Date Line and thus looked up the wrong details in his almanac. That is utter nonsense. Even a child could not make such mistake. The Line of Position - landfall - reported by Earhart in her last radio message could be calculated from details in the Itasca's nautical almanac for that day.

Anthony Romeo is an idiot.

Anthony Romeo is also a dirty character. He wants to join other dirty characters who blame Noonan for Earhart's fate.

Noonan was the best navigator of the day. He was the most experienced. He was the navigator on Pan American's survey flights across the Pacific in 1935 and passenger flights in 1936. He was accustomed to long flights and working beyond his physical limits. He was known for his quick responses in emergencies. There were no mishaps. Earhart chose Noonan above all for his reliability.

Noonan was portrayed by Fred MacMurray in the 1943 Hollywood movie Flight for Freedom.

How much time the Romeo brothers actually spent looking for Earhart's plane is not clear. The submersible's camera broke down early in their search and the documentary film crew deserted.

On or about the thirtieth day of the trip, the broken camera of the submersible robot recorded a fuzzy sonar scan of something on the ocean floor - one hundred miles west of Howland Island and 16,500 feet deep.

The submersible was fifty-five metres above the ocean floor and 200 metres from the object when it recorded the image.

The ocean bottom - the sea bed - was flat and sandy.

Anthony Romeo pointed out that the sonar image is on Earhart's planned fight path to Howland.

The sonar image was recovered by Craig Wallace towards the end of the voyage, too late to return to the spot to search again.

On 28 January 2024, the Romeo brothers displayed the fuzzy, grainy sonar scan to the public. Anthony Romeo claimed that he went public because the image could not be kept secret. Too many people knew about it.

The Romeo brothers insist the image is of Earhart's plane.

In fact, nothing is certain. The image could be of anything. The image could be of a plane. It could be a pile of debris - and part of a larger debris field. The image could be of a shipwreck.

But there was a lot about it in the press.

The 'experts' are sceptical. They did not accept Anthony Romeo's claims that the fuzzy image in the sonar scan is Earhart's Electra.

The Electra 10E was a twin-engine aluminium (aluminum) propeller plane, with two straight wings and two big engines - Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp S3H1, 600 hp (447 kW) - one attached to each wing. The plane had a round nose.

The object in the sonar image looks like a single-engine jet fighter with a short flat nose and swept-back wings from the late 1940s and 1950s - a Soviet MiG-15 or its contemporary American counter-part, the North American F-86 Sabre (first flown in 1947), produced for the U. S. Air Force, or, more likely, later versions of it produced for the U. S. Navy - the North American FJ-2 Fury (first flown in 1951), or FJ-3 Fury (first flown in 1953), or FJ-4 Fury (first flown in 1954).

The FJ-2, FJ-3 and FJ-4 were single-seat, single-engine turbo-jet fighter bombers with a flat open nose (an inlet for air intake) and swept wings that could fly from aircraft carriers.

Anthony Romeo believes the wings in the sonar image could have been partially detached from the fuselage. Thus, they look swept back.

The sonar image does not indicate that an engine was attached to each wing.

If the sonar image is of a plane, it is a single-engine jet.

One might see a small rocket on the left wing of the plane in the sonar image. However, that part of the image might also indicate the edge of an engine.

The tail section, as it appears in the sonar image, is all that might resemble an Electra 10E.

The two horizontal stabilisers (tail wings) are straight in the image. The tail wings are not swept back. There are not many planes with swept wings and straight horizontal stabilisers. If the tail wings are swept back, it is very slight.

Anthony Romeo believes that the sonar image shows a plane with twin vertical stabilisers (tail fins), like the Model 10E Electra.

Anthony Romeo claimed that the Electra was one of few planes with twin vertical stabilisers. In fact, there are many planes with similar twin vertical tail fins. The B-25 - to name one.

Actually, the sonar image shows THREE vertical tail fins. Or the image shows two vertical tail fins and the tail rudder. The plane might be upside down.

Better and more sonar images are required.

Did a single-engine turbo-jet fighter with a short flat nose, swept wings and twin or triple vertical tail fins go down 100 miles west of Howland in the 1950s or 1960s? If so, there should be a record of it.

Few planes have been reported lost in the Phoenix Islands.

Many planes - American, Australian, British and Japanese - were lost at sea during the Pacific War.

How many planes have been lost between the Phoenix Islands and the Gilbert Islands?

According to Anthony Romeo, there is no record of a plane going into the sea in the area at any time, even during the war. The remark, if true, can only mean that Anthony Romeo checked with the U. S. Navy. That would be the correct thing to do. It is mandatory to any search. But Anthony Romeo claims he cannot reveal the location of the site - it must be kept secret for the present.

Perhaps a mining company that has been scanning the deep-sea bottom has detailed maps and better sonar images of the area, perhaps of the very spot.


Do the Romeo brothers really intend to continue their search?

The Romeo brothers say they plan to return to take more and better sonar scans and, if need be, photographs.

They hope to return in 2025.

Anthony Romeo is so certain that he found Earhart's plane that he plans to bring the press corps and relatives of Earhart on the next search.

Anthony Romeo has even offered to search for MH-370. He has applied to the Malaysian government.


Anthony Romeo claims that he found Amelia Earhart's plane. Yet, he has nothing to show for it. He expected fame and fortune.

The fuzzy sonar image is probably of a pile of debris or a navy jet from the 1950s.

Anthony Romeo dismisses doubts about the sonar image by claiming sonar distortion. He insists that anything that does not resemble Earhart's Electra is a sonar anomaly.

Many kooks, hoaxers, crooks and bull-shitters have claimed to know Earhart's fate.

Anthony Romeo must prove his claim. He must show photographs.

If the Romeo brothers learn that their sonar image is not Earhart's plane, they say they will continue to search for it.

Will Anthony Romeo continue to talk it up?

Some are certain that Earhart landed on an island of Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, 750 nautical miles from Howland, and perished in Japanese captivity on the island of Saipan. That is the oldest story.

Some insist that Earhart flew to Gardner's Island, the southern-most island of the Phoenix Islands, 343 nautical miles from Howland, and eventually died there. That is an old story, too, going back to the 1980s.

Most people believe that Earhart's plane is at the bottom of the sea. The question is where.

Some ocean explorers and experienced aviators have made calculations and offered suggestions.

The plane is some distance from Howland, in any direction.



UPDATE

8 November 2024

Tony Romeo obtained a new sonar image of the 'plane'. In a recent message from sea, Romeo reported that the object was a pile of rocks.

See:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-08/he-thought-hed-found-amelia-earharts-plane-it-was-a-pile-of-rocks



THE PLANES


Lockheed Electra Model 10

Air show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYbpo20M64A


1935 Lockheed Electra 10E

Air Museum, Seattle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wANa6lwg4vs



North American B-25 Mitchell

Air show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTIayvgopco&t=83s



F-86 Sabre

Air Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5BjcCxOkqU


F-86 Sabre

Australian Military Aviation History

June 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUVxnivq2q0

or

North American F-86 Sabre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUVxnivq2q0&t=943s


North American FJ-2 Fury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnL1FixPeA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Gd86yuwwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ZOhOc5Yiw


North American FJ-4 Fury

Presentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYW23dpgHbQ



TED WAITT

Searched for Earhart's plane in 2007 and 2009


Howland viewed from the air

2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9c3yZ0xeHw


Discusses search plan with sonar operator

2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZwFXyLd7a4



ALAN EUSTACE

Three searches for Earhart

2002 - 2017


Elgen Marion Long, aviator

2017

Earhart's last flight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2KLotQ-eQ


Tom Dettweiler

2017

The Electra ditching at sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKvWPEGXIU


John Thompson

Identifying the plane on the sea floor

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMff1HjFC8I


Tom Dettweiler

Side Scan Sonar

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eS2JVKroA



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ROMEO BROTHERS


Post and Courier

January 27, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r05K6ilkNCM

or

Evening Post Dev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uJrb9KWFSk&t=5s


Inside Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdXHnOr6Ew4


CNN-News 18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvdGbmwo--g


Dorothy Cochrane, curator, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

Associated Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUPupq04wc


The Romeo Brothers

Q & A

Amelia Earhart's Plane Found?

Radio show in Tampa, Florida

1 February 2024

98 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2aaQbDyZE8




HUGIN AUV 6000


HUGIN

2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H5uZWv22Ws




RICHARD GILLESPIE

Did Amelia Earhart land on Gardner Island?

FOX

4 February 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g6jch-48HU



MARSHALL ISLANDS

Photo might show Earhart and Noonan in Marshall Islands

CBS News

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj3YDnymMn8




FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM

1943 movie with Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray

https://ok.ru/video/315095059107





Glenn Miller

Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)

1939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvo0A_hJ7BY

With the Air Force Band

1942 - 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2HO7rYTv9_0





AMELIA EARHART IN SPACE

GPS III Space Vehicle 06 'Amelia Earhart'

Launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on January 18, 2023

The Space Force is a military service - a branch of the U. S. armed forces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E24r2qudUds




News sources, 6 November 2024


ANTHONY ROMEO ANNOUNCES SONAR OBJECT WAS A ROCK FORMATION

6 November 2024

New sonar images revealed object is NOT a plane

'It was just a bunch of rocks'

Anthony Romeo should have waited for confirmation before claiming that he had found Amelia Earhart's plane.





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The NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity

30 January 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAaZaPg-FjE







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Chukotka


00:00 - Introduction
01:26 - Pervomayskiy, Ugolnyye Kopi - the district of coal miners. Understanding Arctic architecture.
04:47 - Ghost town of Ugolnyye Kopi
09:04 - My Chukotka's accommodation
10:10 - 9 time zones between Chukotka and Moscow
11:35 - Extreme journey to Anadyr across frozen ice
21:26 - Chukotka's museum. Understanding WW2 lend lease
27:45 - The most expensive groceries in Russia. Shopping in Anadyr
32:17 - Recycling in Chukotka
33:03 - Chukchi food
35:36 - Journey to the abandoned military town that housed a storage of nuclear warheads targeted the United States.


4 Feb. 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR8H4qCzsTo










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King Charles III of England has a mild form of cancer

Not prostrate cancer


British PM says the cancer was caught early

CNN-News18

6 February 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8HKN_PQdBQ


Prince William would become the regent if Charles ' condition deteriorated

The Piers Morgan Show

Comments

Sir Anthony Seldon

Dr. Mark Seegal, American medical expert, suspects a mild form of bladder cancer, which can be easily cured

Sky News

February 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLQS_yBiZUo


Seegal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKay1k-Q1I




All ' s Well

King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William and Princess Kate

E News

4 February 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9z9l_7t7DY





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CHINESE NEW YEAR

Saturday, 10 February 2024

The first day of the year of the Wood Dragon.

Also called the Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival ends with the Lantern Festival on 24 February 2024.








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Carnival

Rio de Janeiro

Brazil


Afternoon, February 9 to mid-day, February 14, 2024


A sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux3vGmwVsSY







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Mardi Gras

New Orleans

Tuesday, 13 February 2024


2023 highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si9q-Ricgjs






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NORTHERN IRELAND

TRT

15 February 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pelMjzNjJOM


Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom, enjoyed the advantages of British membership in the European Union. Most people in Northern Ireland wanted to remain with the E. U. When the British quit the E. U., Northn Ireland had to leave it too. Southern Ireland - the Republic of Ireland - remained with the E. U.

This recreated customs at the border with Northern Ireland, which is British, and the Republic of Ireland.



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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre grills Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

House of Commons

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

14 February 2024

Global News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-wNCy9_zU8





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NAVALNY

Funeral in Moscow

1 March 2024


CBS News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrX7lZnoiEQ


WTVR CBS 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1r_5MUupQs


BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l1HLJjyKas


AFP News Agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYFYRnYKe0


Steve Rosenberg

BBC, Moscow

2 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hca9KkV0Bs





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TRUMP VISITS MEXICAN BORDER

The Telegraph

1 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_rTov239yw






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International Space Station (ISS)

Crew-8

Three astronauts and one cosmonaut launched to ISS

SpaceX

Cape Canaveral

4 March 2024

NBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXNPuHuDn_Y








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TRUMP IS THE ONLY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE

6 March 2024



Donald Trump's Family Tree

Outdated by three years

2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h3N7v1xAUA





Friedrich Droompf of Kallstadt in Bavaria / Frederic Trump

1869 - 1918

Father of Fred Trump, born in the Bronx

1905 - 1999

Grandfather of Donald Trump, born in Queens

1946 -

WION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhOiEJexRNg



JOHN GEORGE TRUMP

1907 - 1985

Electrical engineer

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Uncle of Donald J. Trump

Mark Felton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqhcsjHJCZQ



Donald Trump's Mother

Mary Anne MacLeod

1912 – 2000

Born and raised in the village of Tong on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland

Interview

Atlantic City, New Jersey

1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enr60NaOmpI


Isle of Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHeHMtjDZ_Y




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Voyager 1

15 billion miles from Earth


Communications faulty

NASA

19 February 2024

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
00:52 The Glitch
02:34 The Causes and Consequences
06:21 The Efforts and Plans
07:43
08:16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVTkZfAJe4g



Voyager 1

Launch

Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket

Cape Canaveral

September 5, 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LoWEncvTLQ


36 Years in Space

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9SjjcHd1Ec


How Earth and Voyagers 1 and 2 maintain contact

2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U13LDX-aowk


Recent breakdowns in communication with Voyager 2

2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNRHYV5IB_U


Voyager

Golden Record Images

Decoding

2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWXHIfou3pw&t=13s







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SWEDEN JOINS NATO


Global News

7 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cJlltVCMg







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MH-370

Malaysian airline disappeared ten years ago, on 8 March 2014

New search for missing Malaysian airliner ?

Malaysian government considering discussions about a new search with an American underwater exploration company Ocean Infinity

ABC News / Australia

7 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV_wCsKGw6c



DOCUMENTARY

THE STORY OF MH-370

Uploaded 5 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c42Zj-mGrIM&t=12s


What happened on board?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhkTo9Rk6_4


New underwater search for the plane?

Australian TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-5Efd6gvkU


Malaysian government considering a new search

New underwater search technology available

BBC News

8 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEMSQDO-pg





Searching the Deep Sea Floor

Mapping the deep ocean

Geoscience Australia and the search for MH370

Bathymetric mapping and side scan sonar

High resolution, multi-beam scanning

Geoscience Australia

2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLBQ-rAb-24&t=51s


David Kelly

Bluefin Robotics, Quincy, Massachusetts

Constructor of a submersible that creates a 3-D sonar map of debris on the ocean floor and takes close-up photographs.

PBS News Hour

April 15, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Ikzzqn6kE


Ron Allum

Deep sea robot

Searching the ocean floor

WSJ

April 9, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunkCElR7H4


The Search for MH-370

The deployment of various underwater vehicles

Fugro

April 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L01P0Tm1AD4






2024


OCEAN INFINITY CLAIMS IT HAS

NEW UNDERWATER SEARCH TECHNOLOGY

AND

NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOCATION OF MH 370

New Search for MH 370 ?

NBC News

5 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_w1B8crsVE






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PRESIDENT - FOR - LIFE PUTIN

Bill Browder

Times Radio

17 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9BvRvMamk




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ISLAMIC STATE / ISIS


Terrorist attack in the Moscow suburb of Crocus

Four gunman kill at least 133 and injure at least at 140 in a suburban concert hall.

The concert hall was in the local city hall.

The gunmen set fire to the city hall.

March 22, 2024


President Putin declares March 24 a day of mourning in Russia.



MICHAEL CLARKE

Sky News

23 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9u5sOBGUH4


MICHAEL CLARKE

Sky News

23 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8_o9WSdg1I


Why were the fire exits locked? Where were the concert hall guards? Where were the police?

The National Guard, posted two minutes away, arrived one-half hour to one hour late.


An ISIS group, called 'ISIS K', carried out the attack.

The full name of the group is The Islamic State - Khorasan Province.

It is not a new group.

Its members come from the Pakistan - Afghanistan border.

ISIS K is fighting its former ally, the Taliban, in Afghanistan.


How the attack unfolded

Sky News

23 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsASTC1lDiM



ISIS - K

FRANCE 24 ENGLISH

23 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5S3eIHmoA





Interrogation of Moscow Terrorist Attack Suspect

Arrested in Bryansk Region

Russian State News

Times of India

24 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACDAb22Qkys




STEVE ROSENBERG

BBC News

24 March 2024

ISIS claims responsibility

Four gunmen arrested with a car heading south

National day of mourning

Putin blames Ukraine

Zelinsky denies any involvement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvxwONwpRxc



137 killed, including children; 154 injured

The attack lasted 20 minutes

The four gunmen have been identified as Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, age 32; Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, age 30; Mukhammadsobir Faizov, age 19; and Shamsidin Fariduni, age 25

Mirzoyev is from Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic




Four men charged in Moscow court

The men had been severely beaten

One had an ear cut off. Another was unconscious and in a wheel chair. One was connected to an electrical device.

The four men face life in prison.

Putin ignored CIA warnings of imminent terrorist attack.

The Kremlin and Russian media blame Ukraine

25 March 2024

DW News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooF5Bjo498s



All four men are from Tajikistan

The four men were brutally tortured before appearing in court. One was unconscious. Two admitted guilt.

One claimed he was paid to kill people in Crocus City Hall.

One is a father of four children.

One worked as a barber in a town northeast of Moscow.


ISIS - K ordered the attack


26 - 26 March 2024

Four more men were charged

One was born in Kyrghyzstan

One is a Russian citizen


25 March 2024

Three more men were charged in a Moscow court.

26 March 2024

An eighth man, from Kyrghyztan, was charged in a Moscow court. He rented an apartment to the attackers.

Radio Free Europe

26 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkdbhisUcfM



11 men might have been involved in the attack.


139 people were killed and 182 wounded in the terrorist attack in Crocus on 22 March 2024.

As of 1 April 2024, 144 people, including three children, were killed in the attack.



Germany and France warn of terror threat from ISIS-K

DW News

26 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEO6LpPzPCU





BILL BROWDER

The terrorist attack in Moscow

TalkTV

26 / 27 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok_wCVw_x9s




Debunking fake news

Catalina Marchant de Abreu, Brazilian - Chilean journalist

Moscow terror attack

Fake claims about Ukrainian complicity

FRANCE 24 English

26 / 27 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2To0z3fYbw




Tajiks concerned that Russians will think negatively of them after the terrorist attack in Moscow

FRANCE24

27 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G9laRSkUdU


Sky News

27 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wdh9DzQdNY





Tajiks cancelling travel plans to Russia

Radio Free Europe

29 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IEtFu6kxqY




Tajikistan

Alexander the Great, Islam, Lenin

Tajik, Uzbek, Russian



Lenin's Children

Documentary

BBC

2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyGppOPUm2Y





TRADITIONAL TAJIK SINGING AND DANCING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJns7AVWVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3R5nwWegM


Tajikistan

Traditional Tajik Dances

UNESCO ICHCAP

2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_txh4JYPrI


Golrokh with Tajik Dance

2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3R5nwWegM






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BILL BROWDER

Terrorism in Russia, detention of American journalists in Russia

Times Radio

29 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ57zA-_ykI&t=73s







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KATE MIDDLETON

The Princess of Wales

Princess Kate is undergoing medical treatment for cancer.

Times Radio

23 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC1Y9Qfcuf8




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PALM SUNDAY


Jesus enters Jerusalem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbWurHq1bCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwy9m8XrswQ



Palm Sunday - Western Church

24 March 2024


Palm Sunday at the Vatican, 24 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krykLcZ82I


Palm Procession from Bethpage to Jerusalem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD3XRESt61Y


Palm Sunday last year in Jerusalem, 2 April 2023

From the Mount of Olives to the Old City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcMyHaPoIJk


Palm Sunday procession

Into Jerusalem

2024

Zahi Shaked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSR6LsCGCw



Vatican

2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLpstC9ljLw



MAUNDY THURSDAY


Royal Maundy Thursday Service

Queen Camilla

Worcester Cathedral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kF0DPTO4g


Pope Francis

Pope Francis washes the feet of 12 women inmates on Holy Thursday

Rome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCAh9qMMmzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHm11hZ0m4



GOOD FRIDAY

The arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane

The Sanhedrin sentences Jesus to death

Pontius Pilate questions Jesus

King Herod questions Jesus

The flogging of Jesus


Pontius Pilate and Jesus

Excerpt from 1977 film Jesus of Nazareth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtSz-DxGFmI

More footage of the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fapQwJrIoJc


The crowd demands the release of Barabbas and crucifixion of Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAORMb8RQB0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-SDIA2OH4U


The Crucifixion of Jesus

The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFEuTvTs8wM&t=416s


The Crucifixion of Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ4OLAdPrbg


The Crucifixion of Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFrh8vKMM80



The body of Jesus is placed in a tomb



Jerusalem

Old City

The Via Dolorosa

The Way of the Cross

By Zahi Shaked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOcjGJpWsPs


Good Friday

Pope Francis

St. Peter ' s Basilica

Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R43_vWhwpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1svUxPMikaY



Easter Vigil

Vatican

30 March 2024

Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Q2y9dyefg



Easter - West


EASTER SUNDAY

The resurrection of Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y907_HlF1KI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNUTfFHKzc


The Passion

Mel Gibson

2004

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48vwex



Christians in Jerusalem celebrate Easter

The war limits participation in Holy Week

30 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wswzKes090

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8LForBkZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJjEJQnbEN4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS3kE3j39Ks



Easter Sunday Mass

Mass of the Day

31 March 2024

Pope Francis

Vatican News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0HOJy5hMk


St. Peters Basilica

Pope Francis

Easter Message and Urbi et Orbi Blessing

Vatican News

31 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xaNllj2irg



Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Occupied East Jerusalem

Easter

Al Jazeera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ornebjygo1A



Paris, France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcfim5j4nk8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4akdibjpbw


Vatican

2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nAy9Ys1R0



KING CHARLES III and Queen Camilla

Royal Chapel

Windsor Castle

Easter Service

31 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0NOwzWb4QY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbtFcCbCTaw



Easter round-up

Pope calls for full resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza, immediate cease-fire in Gaza, and immediate release of hostages taken to Gaza on 7 October

DW News

31 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeP4K3aXFSE



Easter and Ukraine


Ukrainian Easter eggs

Naztazia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZ9Tc0I3EU


The Art of Pysanky

Ukrainian Institute of America

NYC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e51_FhOz74k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_izXebSpg2I




The Gospel of John

Christopher Plummer

2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lchB_CEg5VI


From Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL1KWNdNTsQ



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José Andrés

World Central Kitchen


Christiane Amanpour

Kyiv, Ukraine

March 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgRZ_zP-Ngc


Ukraine

CBS

May 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CdKkLkVbmY


60 Minutes

Puerto Rico

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il--ACr5G18


Earthquake in Morocco

September 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvCtd0vvKmA


Crisis in Gaza

Bringing Food to Gaza

ABC

4 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzQIDphcbf0


Ramadan in Gaza

12 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMyh5KhjwoA


WCK gets food to Gaza by sea

21 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw3FVlo9LLo


Seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen are killed by an Israeli attack in Gaza

José Andrés

Founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK)

The killing of WCK aid workers was not a mistake - it was systematic targeting.

Reuters News Agency / Al Jazeera

4 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkC9qHy7M-g


SBS News / Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddoBO4KToSw


PBS News Hour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-WKEDxrb9Y


More on how the seven aid workers with WCK were killed

One story (interim findings) by the Israeli military

Sky News

5 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6YNKnVQeJE



SEAN BELL

The Israelis mistook the World Central Kitchen aid workers for Hamas

Sky News

5 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwX4neavmbM





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International Space Station / ISS

Three return to Earth

Soyuz capsule

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky

Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus

Lands near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan

6 April 2024

Reuters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0oOzPifMS4





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The Electric Vehicle / EV

ELON MUSK / TESLA

CHINA offers an EV for one-third the price

Andrew Chang

CBC

6 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNymuiv-Vts





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Total Solar Eclipse

8 April 2024

A four-minute eclipse

From Mexico across the U.S. to the Canadian Maritimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_I5P_hyh4



The view from Niagara Falls

BBC News

8 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCG7IE7ngs





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Worst floods in 100 years

Russia and Kazakhstan

Steve Rosenberg

BBC News

11 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Z2yO_NDEc





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Russia launches Angara-A5 rocket

Vostochny Cosmodrome

11 April 2024

Sky News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw8eTbsb3XA


Sci News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRcy4MPiSA




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EMMANUEL MACRON

President of France

'The era when the E. U. bought its energy and fertiliser from Russia, outsourced its production to China and depended on the US for its security - that era is over.'

Address at the University of Paris

25 April 2024

FRANCE 24 English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL6xOZ2orJk

Entire speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZzt-9SgZns

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Lh2mUakKQ

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6cCr0ZN3SQ






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ORTHODOX CHURCH


Palm Sunday

28 April 2024



Palm Sunday Vespers, Matins, Liturgy

St. Symeon Orthodox Church

Birmingham, Alabama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu-tyNvfGqY&t=33s


Jerusalem

March 2, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHHFhxfYAOU


Jerusalem

2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHGGEq28khE

Jerusalem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKCR_T5UhTw



Easter - Orthodox

4 May 2023


Pascha / Easter

St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church, Stafford, Virginia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBI8ROlre98





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GEORGIA

GEORGIANS WANT CLOSER TIES TO EUROPE


A new Foreign Influence or Foreign Agents law in Georgia

Parliamentarians pass a law restricting European involvement in Georgia

The Foreign influence law is actually a Russian law - and an obstacle to Georgia joining the EU

Tens of thousands protest in capital

DW News

3 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIPYko5Jmo0



President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili

Western warning against the bill is actually meddling

DW News

3 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCbFWJod8Y



The next election in Georgia, in October, will be a referendum for or against Europe

President Zourabichvili

DW News

3 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc5NbLn4DIU&t=8s



MICHAEL CLARKE

The unrest in Georgia

Sky News

2 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CznwLGb2xfw&t=80s


Parliament passed the law

The president vetoed the bill

Parliament over-rode the presidential veto

Protests outside Parliament

DW News

28 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RujRmFlEc






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WARREN BUFFET, CEO

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY

ANNUAL MEETING

Morning session

Omaha, Nebraska

May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qiDOL5V4M




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DIEN BIEN PHU

7 MAY 1954



Description of the battle

Le Monde

Le 5 mai 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5ja19QCJc



70 years after the battle of Dien Bien Phu

Vietnamese and French veterans recall the FRANCH - VIETNAM WAR

Taiwan Plus

7 Mai 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3PJSSK3JQU


Celebration

Hanoi

7 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6AHeHRssYk

Parade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAnoklNn0Zo

Also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdv_lp2IrKo



End of an Empire

Documentary

Walter Cronkite

The 20th Century

CBS TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWY9KbIXpdI


Battle for Dien Bien Phu

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I-HK1Zv8v4&t=92s


Jump into Hell

1955 movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfLEbgL7FY


Dien Bien Phu

Film par Pierre Schoendoerffer

Avec Donald Pleasance

1992

Advertisement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2ejfZ3kjE&t=25s

Entire film

2 hrs. 12 min.

https://www.bilibili.tv/th/video/4789514412229120

or

2 hrs. 6 min. 40 sec.

https://ok.ru/video/833855162981





DIEN BIEN PHU

Many Years Later

Documentary

2004 -

FRANCE 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB9cl-Kcbw0





THE ANGEL OF DIEN BIEN PHU

Geneviève de Galard

Dies at age 99

May 2024

Le Figaro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGqJXAMlO0


Ticker tape parade

New York City

1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq9xVTNGurc



Genevieve de Galard

French flight nurse

The only French woman among some 11,000 defenders at Dien Bien Phu

2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HK3Zeeg3wA&t=12s



Geneviève de Galard

Recounts her experience in Vietnam

2010

C-SPAN

https://www.c-span.org/video/?296486-6/angel-dien-bien-phu



Interview

le 26 mars 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XnKRb8ZRWQ








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VLADIMIR PUTIN

PRESIDENT FOR LIFE



FRANCE 24

Sloviansk, Ukraine

7 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah96KoGSFtc


PUTIN BEGINS FIFTH TERM

INAUGURATION

KREMLIN

The Guardian

7 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJgXEIm5mw


The Telegraph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUs-MJMx8Zo


Reuters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z__GIPd5jMc


Boycotted by U. S., Britain, Canada and most EU nations.


Six more years, to 2030.






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THE ENDING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE

MAY 1945


Russians / Soviets enter Berlin

British Pathé

April - May 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJBLlBvI3bw


The German surrender of Berlin

2 May 1945


General Helmuth Weidling

Commander of Berlin

Ordered German cease fire

Surrendered Berlin to Soviets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy499FSu12Y


Radio announcement of the capture of Berlin by the Soviet Army

2 May 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DIxtoVdPV0


German General Helmuth Weilding met Soviet General Vasily Chuikov to sign the capitulation of German troops in Berlin

2 May 1945

The location / the building today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLRM5Ir1q-A




Germans surrender to Montgomery

Luneburg Heath, near Hamburg

4 May 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQRa7vpapBA

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW3mK2o2IUY




VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY / VE-DAY


Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies in Reims, France on 7 May 1945

Movietone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYuvOxEXDj4&t=7s


Winston Churchill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efvwJjzqKUk


Harry Truman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV-go1cuzgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJ4GK8UhVA


Paris, VE-Day 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv2o7nMRRkY



PARIS 2024

French President Macron

Arch of Triumph

Sky News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7aqPbN9go





VICTORY DAY IN RUSSIA

9 May 2024

Celebrates 79th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to the Allies in Berlin on 9 May 1945


Germans sign surrender in Berlin

8 - 9 May 1945

United News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7OIpH9J1AE


United News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8oqdJyqhw


Movietone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbetJKH3kLc


Russian newsreel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5itzshbRIdw


Stalin's Victory Speech

Moscow

9 May 1945

With English subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt0SACqvubg


The Fall of Berlin

Mosfilm

1949

Film 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hZam8dXHU

Film 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHUQ1QRVn4



Annual Victory Day Parade - 2024

Commemorates the victory over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War

Red Square

Moscow

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Address by President Vladimir Putin

Leaders of Kazakhstan, Laos, Guinea-Bissau, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Turkmenistan, and Cuba present

The Independent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgEHzz6SOU&t=580s



FIREWORKS DISPLAY

MOSCOW

9 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNKkAme8OE




VICTORY DAY IN KALININGRAD

Formerly the German city of Königsberg

9 MAY 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dka_gUckQA


Life in the Russian exclave Kaliningrad

German heritage, Russian people and Soviet buildings

0:00 Welcome to Kaliningrad!
1:27 A walk in the city
2:37 Is life here different from life on the mainland?
5:04 Prices in Kaliningrad
6:39 Soviet architecture
7:23 The museum of marzipan (a sweet)
10:36 The lost Amber chamber
14:00 How do the locals like Kaliningrad?
14:57 A visit to the westernmost point of Russia - the Baltic Spit

2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqYOZuT7TtY






Harry S. Truman

Trip to Berlin

July 1945

Reel 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oOQg3J_uI

Reel 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ULPtwMIiJE


BERLIN AND THE BIG THREE

STALIN, CHURCHILL AND TRUMAM

British Movietone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVJNG-rAUQ

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkxpqHqV3aY



THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE

Former President Truman Discusses the Potsdam Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CURyKYXNSs



Former President Truman

Discusses Negotiating With Stalin at Potsdam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjaLqO0yjzA

Truman recalls discussions with Stalin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STVSbnmIg78




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RINGO STARR

Talks to Dan Rather

11 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqqpcWKOgEY



RINGO STARR and HIS ALL STARR BAND

June 4, 2023

Outdoor Show

Chateau Ste Michelle Winery

Woodinville, Washington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3OcRVnC7UI


The Beatles

Can't Buy Me Love

The Netherlands

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iuIOjQpA5k





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WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT

Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine

Recognised champion by the WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO and Ring Magazine

vs

Tyson Fury of England

Recognised champion by the WBC


Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

18 May 2024



A note about 'sanctioning bodies':


The New York Athletic Commission (also known as the New York State Athletic Commission) was founded in 1911.

The National Boxing Association (NBA) was created in 1921.

For years, the New York Athletic Commission (New York State Athletic Commission) and the National Boxing Association (NBA) were the major sanctioning bodies. The two bodies often recognised different champions. The New York Athletic Commission championship title was the most prestigious.

For instance, in 1960, Paul Pender was recognised as the world middleweight champion by the boxing commissions of the states of New York and Massachusetts while Gene Fullmer was recognised as champion by the NBA.

The National Boxing Association (NBA) became the World Boxing Association in 1962.

WBA headquarters are in Panama.

The World Boxing Council (WBC) was formed in 1963 with the backing of the New York State Athletic Commission, which at the time was the most prestigious boxing commission.

The WBC is the biggest and most prestigious boxing sanctioning organisation.

The WBC headquarters are in Mexico City.


IBF = The International Boxing Federation was created in 1983 The IBF is headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts.

WBO = The World Boxing Organisation was created in 1988. The WBO is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.


'The Big Four'

The WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO are commonly called "The Big Four'.


IBO = The International Boxing Organisation was created in 1988. The IBO headquarters are in Coral Gables (Miami), Florida.


The Ring (Magazine) was created by a former boxer, Nat Fleischer, in 1922. It was a monthly journal that covered the latest developments in boxing. It offered feature stories, written in the style of the New Yorker (magazine), about legendary boxers, like, for instance, Peter Jackson. In recent years, the magazine went On-line.

The Ring ranks boxers of all divisions.

The Ring is currently owned by former middleweight champion Oscar De La Hoya and based in Los Angeles, California.


Winner takes all titles

Both boxers are undefeated

Usyk is 37 and Fury is 35


This fight might not take place.

Nothing is certain until both fighters are in the ring.

Fury is erratic and unreliable.

Fury won the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight championship titles by defeating Wladmir Klitschko on points in a close fight in November 2015. He skipped the rematch. He did not fight again for three years. He was stripped of his titles.

Fury won the WBC championship title in 2020.

Fury ducked Anthony Joshua, holder of the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO titles.


Usyk won the gold medal in the 2012 Olympics in London.

Usyk was professional world cruiserweight boxing champion in 2018 and 2019.

Usyk won the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world heavyweight championship belts by defeating champion Anthony Joshua by a unanimous decision in 2021.

Usyk won the rematch with Joshua by a split decision in 2022.

Usyk defended his titles in 2023.

Fury was to fight Usyk in 2023.

The fight was twice postponed by Fury - in December 2023 and again on 2 February 2024. The first time so Fury could fight someone else - an amateur, Francis Ngannou, in his pro debut. The second time due to a cut above the right eye inflicted in sparring.

In the fight against Nganoou, in December 2023, Fury was knocked down. He got a highly controversial split decision. Many people thought Fury lost the fight.

The same opponent, Ngannou, was handily outboxed and dispatched by Anthony Joshua in two rounds in March 2024.


If Fury pulls out again, it is hoped that the WBC will name Usyk the new WBC champion. No need for another delay. No need for an elimination tourney. Usyk has already beat everyone.


Fury is past his prime.

Usyk is at his fighting peak. Usyk is fast and agile. He is hard to nail. He can punch. He can take a punch.

Fury can be knocked down.

The fight will probably go the 12-round limit.

Neither Fury nor Usyk is a clear favourite to win.

Some experts favour Fury.

Some experts favour Usyk.

Betting appears to be even.

As fight time approaches, the betting seems to be on Fury. His big size has swayed some. Usyk is a big man but Fury is considerably bigger.

Big men have been beaten before.

Jack Dempsey - 'The Giant Killer' - battered Jess Willard, 'The Pottawatomie Giant', the most popular boxing champion in history, the man who beat Jack Johnson.

Max Baer battered Primo Carnera, 'The Gentle Giant' from Italy.

The 7-foot-tall Russian, Nikolai Valuev, was twice defeated on points at the end of his boxing career.

Usyk should win on points. He should win most rounds.

A close fight or a split decision will ensure a rematch later this year.



WEIGHT DIVISIONS

HEAVYWEIGHT, 201 pounds -
CRUISERWEIGHT, 176 - 200 pounds
LIGHTHEAVYWEIGHT, 168 - 175 pounds

MIDDLEWEIGHT, 154 - 160 pounds





TYSON FURY

Interview in late 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bze2L28Mcfs



Tyson Fury greets Mike Tyson

Uploaded 28 October 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lftO5kBE8Q8



Lennox Lewis greets Oleksandr Usyk

Lennox Lewis interview

Uploaded 9 January 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKH3--eWCX0



Tyson Fury greets Usyk

Uploaded 28 October 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6td9P4ENnI



Oleksandr Usyk

Comment after Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou fight

Uploaded 20 October 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWm5FERwUog

Oleksandr Usyk

Interview

Talks about Tyson Fury, his father, and the War in Ukraine

Uploaded 3 November 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQqyN1iJ1k



Pay TV Advertisement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1IiX9Yw_6s





Evander Holyfield

Comments

3 February 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu6KPooTjY4



Tyson Fury

Press conference

With Frank Warren, Sugar Hull Steward, Spencer Brown and Big John Fury

10 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9al-863E0KI




Usyk in training

13 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYWt04dUFMY




PRE-FIGHT COMMENTS


Lennox Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDDkShfgfWE


David Haye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WOEU8Xr4oQ

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWCaaOxUNg


Evander Holyfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU7dFemXGXQ


Wladimir Klitschko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRTcxSmMnKw

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdwohZt9SPA



THE WEIGH-IN

Riyadh

17 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJoVGn5MTWo


Usyk

233 pounds - 16 stone 9

The announcement was in error. Usyk actually weighed 223 pounds - 15 stone 9

Fury

262 pounds - 18 stone 10







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OLEKSANDR USYK

Undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Ukrainian Beats Tyson Fury

12-round Split Decision

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

19 May 2024

This was the most anticipated fight since the first fight between Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson in 1962.

Usyk and Fury split the first four rounds of the fight.

Fury dominated the middle rounds. He cut Uzyk above the right eye. The fight looked one-sided. It seemed that Fury would win the fight - by an eventual stoppage or an unanimous decision.

But Usyk came back from behind. Fury began to tire. Usyk cut Fury above an eye.

Usyk won the last five rounds - the eighth to the twelfth.

Usyk battered Fury in the ninth round. Fury was out on his feet. Usyk knocked Fury down. Some thought the referee should have stopped the fight. Fury took the mandatory eight-count standing. Fury was saved by the bell.

Fury recovered.

The fight went the limit.

A dramatic fight to the end.

Usyk dominated most of the fight.

Usyk was clearly the winner.

But the fight was to be decided by three ring-side judges.

Usyk won by a split decision.


How the three ringside judges scored the fight.

Scoring is based on the 10-point must system: 10 points to the winner of the round, nine points or less to the loser. A point is deducted for a knockdown or a foul.

Manuel Oliver Palermo of Spain:

115 - 112 for Usyk

Craig Metcalfe of Canada:

114 - 113 for Fury

Mike Fitzgerald of the U. S. A.:

114 - 113 for Usyk

The judge, Metcalfe, who scored the fight for Fury was way off the mark.


A broadcaster who gave a blow-by-blow account of the fight scored the fight seven rounds for Usyk and five rounds for Fury. That is how many saw the fight.

The same broadcaster scored the fight 115 - 112 for Usyk. The knockdown in the ninth round cost Fury a point.

1. USYK

2. FURY

3. USYK

4. FURY

5. FURY

6. FURY

7. FURY

8. USYK

9. USYK

10. USYK

11. USYK

12. USYK

The loss was the first for Fury in 16 years and 36 fights as a professional boxer.

Usyk is the WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO and Ring Magazine undisputed world heavyweight champion.

Oleksandr Usyk is the first boxer in 25 years, since Lennox Lewis, to be the sole heavyweight champion. There is not another claimant.

The fight contract had a rematch clause.

A second fight will pick up where this fight left off. Fury might prefer to skip it.

Fury should retire from boxing.


The entire fight

Turki Alalshikh

1:10:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrFK01V4bkI


The knockdown viewed from ringside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exC69hjPyiQ


Post fight press conference

Boxing promoter Alex Krassyuk

Oleksandr Uzyk

DAZN Boxing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0_5ocALMpc




THE DECISION

Comments by the boxers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMXVMVSocE

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdfEBaZsSMU



BIG HIGHLIGHTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0biHOd3G4A

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0biHOd3G4A


Wladimir Klitschko

Post-fight comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2iuPKLOqO0



Jeff Powell of the Daily Mail

About the Usyk victory over Tyson Fury

How will Fury be remembered? He won't be - unless he beats Usyk in a rematch.

Where does Usyk rank all-time? With this victory, he goes right to the top.

23 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KuGLSzRPFs



The Greatest Heavyweight Boxing Champions of All Time

According to general consensus, the greatest boxing legends

By order of reign


John L. Sullivan, 1882 - 1892

Jack Johnson, 1908 - 1915

Jack Dempsey, 1919 - 1926

Joe Louis, 1937 - 1949 (retired while champion)

Rocky Marciano, 1952 - 1956 (retired while champion)

Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali, 1964 - 1967, 1974 - 1978, 1978 - 1979 (retired while champion)

Mike Tyson, 1986 - 1990, 1996 - 1996

Vitali Klitschko, 1999 - 2000, 2004 - 2005 (retired while champion), 2008 - 2013 (retired while champion)

Wladimir Klitschko, 2000 - 2003, 2006 - 2015

Oleksandr Usyk, 2024 -


Sullivan was the last of the bare-knuckle boxing champions and the first boxing champion to fight with gloves. Sullivan and his opponents fought with bare fists until Sullivan's last fight, in 1892. Sullivan was the first champion to fight under Marquess of Queensbury rules, in his last fight, which required boxing gloves and the three-minute round.


Sullivan was from Boston, Massachusetts / 'The Boston Strong Boy'

Johnson was from Galveston, Texas / 'The Galveston Giant'

Dempsey was from Manassa, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah / 'The Manassa Mauler'

Louis was from Detroit, Michigan / 'The Brown Bomber'

Marciano was from Brockton, Massachusetts / 'The Brockton Blockbuster'

Clay / Ali was from Louisville, Kentucky / 'The Louisville Lip'

Tyson was from New York City / 'Iron Mike'

Vitali Klitschko was from Ukraine / 'Dr. Ironfist'

Wladimir Klitschko was from Ukraine / 'Dr. Steelhammer'

Usyk is from Ukraine / 'The Cat'



USYK HOMECOMING

Ukraine

23 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izanKSHuyTU



USYK

FAMILY LIFE

Oleksandr Usyk was born in Simferopol / Aqmescit, the second-largest city on the Crimean Peninsula, in 1987. His parents were from northern Ukraine. He has two younger siblings.

Usyk married Yekaterina / Katalina / Kateryna / Katya, who was born in Ukraine and raised in Russia, in Simferopol in 2009.

Oleksandr and Katalina have 3 children - two sons and a daughter.

The family live in Kyiv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U0PSSjETGI



REMATCH SET FOR RIYADH ON 21 DECEMBER 2024

On 28 May 2023, Sheik Ali Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia, announced the Usyk - Fury rematch.

Sky News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpy8ivf5Io







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DONALD TRUMP IN THE BRONX

Trump in campaign rally

Sky News

24 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqfsYhWxy0






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GEORGIA

Tibilsi

28 May 2024

Parliament passed a FORIEGN AGENTS law

All organisations that receive 20 percent or more of their funds from abroad must register with the government

The president vetoed the bill

Parliament over-rode the presidential veto

Protests outside Parliament

DW News

28 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RujRmFlEc




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TIENANMEN

Demonstrations, protests and massacre in Peking remembered

Tienanmen Square, 4 June 1989

35th Anniversary

FRANCE 24

4 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ty_1ik1Cw


Big protests were crushed

What led to the events?

Video by Zichen Tsui, BBC Chinese

BBC News

2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3RzKKfNkTk&t=83s


BBC News

1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKvxJ-Js3A


It happened in Tienanmen Square

2017 Documentary

Al Jazeera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbKroPF3W5Q




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V for Victory

Morse code

. . . _____ / dot-dot-dot dash

BBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZi_6FUbo-Q





Radio Londres

5 juin 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4BUkhuRglU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ailR-po4g




American General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force

Address to Allied soldiers

On the eve of D-day

5 June 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ7IKM-jiJI


British General Bernard Montgomery

Commander of all Allied ground forces in the Battle of Normandy / Operation Overlord

Address to the Allied Expeditionary Force

On the eve of D-Day

5 June 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luzEG0HXiT4



Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, Allied Naval Expeditionary Force commander

Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force




D-DAY

6 June 1944

80th Anniversary




BBC London

6 juin 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nnjGjGuRjo






THE GERMAN VIEW

The Battle of D-Day

Hitler, Von Runstedt, Rommel

Animated

16 January 2024

11:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_QDrYrlAY



Operation Overlord

Alastair Bruce

Sky News

5 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-282x415-Ko






'We Band of Brothers . . .'

Henry V

William Shakespeare

Laurence Olivier

Excerpt from Henry V

1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk_rPHoSc8w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0PSkfYl39E


Henry V

Prologue

1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOQozTk5Gj0


Entire movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLBQIwZ_h4





MORNING

June - August 1944

Episode 17 of the 1973 British documentary series The World at War

Produced by Thames Television

Narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3oeb6s




JUNE 6th '44

THE LIGHT OF DAWN

Documentary

00:00 June 6, 1944 / D-Day
03:07 Part 1. Preparing for War / The Tehran Conference, 1943
05:42 The Atlantic Wall / Line of Defence, from Norway to Spain
28:17 Desmond O'Neill, photographer
28:46 French Francs printed by the Allies
45:40 Omaha Beach / American beachhead
53:26 Sword Beach / British beachhead
58:04 Juno Beach / Canadian beachhead
01:03:28 General Montgomery
01:09:55 Charles de Gaulle, French leader
01:24:14 Winston Churchill

2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UJYYkK4d8s

or

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8f30qg

The film in French


6 JUIN 44

La lumière de l'aube

Documentaire

Part 1.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6s8tz7

Part 2.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6s8tz9



D-DAY IN COLOUR

Narrated by John Hurt

2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXRbhHcB5p4



Anthony Beevor

D-Day

Melbourne

2013

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_BqSOLR494

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qPCsZOhyUo






FRENCH AIRMEN WITH THE ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF)

FRANCE 24

1 -2 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irl4ucDgTU8







The 'Frenchies'

A Cajun (Acadian) from Louisiana

Recalls his experiences with the U. S. Army in France

FRANCE 24 English

3 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDUflSDcaXQ





Plages du debarquement

Le tourisme fait vivre la region

Quatre-vingt-quatorze sites dédiés à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de Saint-Mère-Église (Manche) à Merville-Franceville (Calvados) : quarante-quatre musées, vingt-et-un mémoriaux, vingt-neuf cimetières.

TF1 INFO

17 March 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3nioAn9-Ec




Les Plages du Débarquement

Région Normandie

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kc_FtzV4l0


Commando Kieffer

French soldiers on D-Day

Ouistreham

Museum of the Order of Liberation

2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TorX3-dGR-k


Excerpt from the 1962 movie The Longest Day with Christian Marquand as Capitaine de corvette Philippe Kieffer, commander of the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos (Bérets verts).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuK0ZT0CcHM&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZMkleDjWI&t=166s

https://www.facebook.com/8000ftmedia/videos/d-day-ouistreham-casino-scene-the-longest-day/1316328651840289/



Leon Gauthier

The Last French survivor of the D-DAY

Le commando Kieffer

Ouistreham / Sword Beach

Le Monde

24 juillet 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz8GllVzgME



THE LONGEST DAY

The story of D-Day 1944

1962 movie with an all-star cast:

Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Peter Lawford, Sean Connery, André Bourvil, Christian Marquand, Curd Jürgens . . .

https://ok.ru/video/205051464258

The Longest Day

Theme

Instrumental

Arthur Fiedler and the American Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5-Q0-rjdW8






D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy

CBS Reports (1964)

General Eisenhower, Walter Cronkite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaxTXfjfXk




World War Two

1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly

2012 BBC documentary with David Reynolds

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0FNnTX6cI

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xLvx8L_jzM&t=438s

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xLvx8L_jzM&t=228s





LORD LOVAT AND THE BAGPIPER


Scene from The Longest Day

Sword Beach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5rOrWiCZRo

Pegasus Bridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XreO3XkFzH8





KING CHARLES III

D-DAY

80th ANNIVERSARY

Portsmouth

June 5, 2024

Royal Family Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnZJI_J8QM&t=6s


KING CHARLES III

D-DAY

Normandy

6 June 2024

The King and Queen have lay wreaths at the British Memorial in Normandy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCLpxZbmtQ

Address

In French and English

FRANCE 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6R3n0Iwn1s


KING GEORGE VI

D-DAY 1944 6 June

Address

BBC Radio

'Four years ago our Nation and Empire stood alone against an overwhelming enemy with our backs to the wall . . .'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXfcVYEVL8


King Charles, Prince William and Prime Minister Sunak

Portsmouth

5 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fnawnIZuE




PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON OF FRANCE

D-DAY - 80th Anniversary

6 June 2024

Colleville-sur-Mer / Omaha Beach

FRANCE 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEIwl-96I9Y




RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN IS NOT INVITED TO D-DAY COMMEMORATION IN NORMANDY

RUSSIANS ARE NOT INVITED TO 8Oth ANNIVERSARY

FRANCE 24

6 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na6_eTQhedc


D-Day 80th anniversary

Commemorations became a major global event 40 years ago

FRANCE 24 English

6 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9qhu0RH7_w


ZELENSKY

President of Ukraine arrives in Normandy

6 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZNhdBHt7Fo


STANDING OVATION FOR ZELENSKY

Omaha Beach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F7C9YgTfhQ


'The Saviour of the People'

6 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dF0hQwvjRc

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IAXY_-y-IRI




A Tour of Southwick House

Southwick, Hampshire

Map room / D-Day

Liberation Route Europe (LRE) Foundation / Hiking trails

2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZywK9Vw74





D-DAY

Episode from the documentary series The Big Picture

By the U. S. armed forces

Produced sometime between 1951 and 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eobsrlIY0FU





D-Day - June 6, 1944

The American soldiers on Omaha Beach and Utah Beach

Walter Cronkite

You Are There

CBS

1955

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chhqDGKlcYU




Allies Strike Out From Beachhead (1944)

United News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn1Orbn6U3A


ALLIES CAPTURE CHERBOURG

The Battle of the Cotentin Peninsula

6 June - 1 July 1944

The Battle of Cherbourg

22 - 27 June 1944


Fall of Cherbourg

British Movietone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9YUIpzJi08


Fall of Cherbourg

British Pathé

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvlqpyCdemg






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Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev

Russian-Ukrainian politician

Interview

Uploaded 11 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysQYejsz_eI






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THE MONROE DOCTRINE

Named after President James Monroe, 1817 - 1825

The Monroe Doctrine, or policy, stated by President James Monroe in 1823, opposes European colonialism, or colonialist influence, in the Western Hemisphere. Interference by a foreign power in the affairs of the Americas may be a hostile act towards the United States.


The Monroe Doctrine

1939 movie

Britain, Spain and Russia claim parts of the Americas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfdMwusoUak&t=250s


Juarez

1939

During the American Civil War (1861 - 1865), Emperor Napoleon III of France invades and conquers Mexico and installs a Hapsburg, Maximilian, as puppet emperor. The United States funds the deposed Mexican president, Benito Juarez, to oust Maximilian and the French army and restore Mexico to democratic rule.

https://ok.ru/video/273249536675


Now, two centuries later, in 2024, four Russian warships are in the Caribbean Sea.

Russian warships have conducted military drills in the Caribbean before.

However, this time, the Russians are conducting military exercises with Cuba and Venezuela.

Also, Russian President Putin has declared that Russia may arm other countries to strike the West - 'just as the West is arming Ukraine to strike Russia' - and Russia might also provide nuclear arms.

The four Russian warships are not carrying nuclear warheads. However, one is carrying Zircon hypersonic missiles, against which there is no defence.

The Russians may be testing American resolve.


ANOTHER CUBAN CRISIS?

Unlikely.

The situation must be watched closely.


Russian warships visit Cuba

For military exercises

6 June 2024

FRANCE 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFDSwyRT_U


Putin warns Russian missiles could be used against the West

Sky News

6 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=382wNGOS5Ao


The Times and The Sunday Times

6 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NerDxBpgl0


Vladimir Putin warns Moscow could provide weapons to strike West

ABC News Australia

6 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyanPIR-898


Russian warships arrive in Cuba to conduct military drills.

There could be a run-in with the U. S. Navy along the Atlantic shore or in the Caribbean this summer.

CBS News

13 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUu6urevgXo



Mike Wallace

The Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gFNLKGoio4


ONE WEEK IN OCTOBER

Documentary by the Department of Defense and Office of Civil Defense

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzs4a8p7xOw


THIRTEEN DAYS

Movie 2000

https://w27.my-cima.net/play.php?vid=29ce4bb3c


THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER

Movie 1974

https://ok.ru/video/392012040944


John F. Kennedy

TV Address

22 October 1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZpbXdSJCBw


General Maxwell Taylor

Interview - 1983

Cuban Missile Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkWd1wlL1ow


Discussion with McGeorge Bundy and Dean Rusk

1983

McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to President Kennedy for National Security Affairs;

Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under Kennedy;

Edwin Martin, Assistant Secretary for Latin American Affairs under Kennedy;

Donald Wilson, Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2WIoHNl8eI


Discussion with McGeorge Bundy and Robert McNamara

1983

McGeorge Bundy;

Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy;

George W. Ball, Under-Secretary of State under Kennedy;

U. Alexis Johnson, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs under Kennedy;

Moderator, Richard Neustadt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHe2GQIu7c


Robert F. Kennedy

1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffGavQ5qgTs


John F. Kennedy

Press conference

Statements by the president followed by questions from the press

20 November 1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7dB0AkhvgM&t=451s


After a five-day visit, the four Russian warships departed from Havana, on Monday, 17 June 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bvbrcjgnxQ






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La Paloma / The Dove

By Sebastián Iradier / Sebastian Yradier, Basque composer, circa 1860

Transcription by Francisco Tarrega, Spanish composer and guitarist

Performed by Pepe Romero

Concert in Seoul

2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtBJcaY1kw&t=75s


La Paloma

Rosita Serrano, Chilean singer

1939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JItb7agzL78&t=8s






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THE PRINCESS OF WALES

KATE MIDDLETON

First public appearance in six months

Trooping the Colour

London

15 June 2024

Canadian Broadcasting Company / CBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-RoAvd0Xs









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JOINT U. S. and FILIPINO MILITARY EXERCISES

Philippines

16 June 2024

The F-35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7iYb41e0dM


The F-22

20 - 21 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jareTWylUVY







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NAZI GERMANY INVADES SOVIET UNION

June 22, 1941


President Putin of Russia lays wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Kremlin wall in Moscow

22 June 2024

83rd anniversary of invasion

Short report

Global News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31mPxfEtpCY


The Independent

Longer version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6762T0Zfobc&t=111s



Eastern Front

1941

Animated map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3p7dxrhl8



Eastern Front 1941 - 1945 in brief

Animated map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuI2BOw6SY0




1941 and The Man Of Steel

Documentary

1:29:15

David Reynolds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_pQLI9Vo58








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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ

AOC cuts loose

Rally in the Bronx

Forbes

23 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OitA-nKSeAI





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PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE 2024

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN VS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

Hosted by CNN, Atlanta, Georgia

27 June 2024

First of two scheduled debates


A well-handled debate. In a TV studio. No crowd.

Trump looked subdued and sounded better than usual.

Biden slurred his beach, sputtered, flipped out and petered out.

For Trump, it was an easy ninety minutes of 'jus' talkin'.

Who won? Trump.

Both men are growing old. Trump might be winding down.

Biden is unlikely to last to the elections.

The press was disappointed with Biden and gave up on him. It will be difficult to carry him much longer.

The Democratic Party will have to field another candidate when - not if - Biden acknowledges reality. The party convention is in August. Some think they can run Biden's VP, Pamela Harris.

Sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g55VhaqTuyE

Entire debate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqG96G8YdcE


Next debate: 10 September.




DENYS DAVYDOV

Ukrainian commentator

Debate confirmed reports of Biden's mental incompetence.

28 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SaXiFHzw4



LORD DARROCH

Former British ambassador to the U. S.

Biden's election debate performance signaled the end of his career.

Times Radio

28 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ylJYXIi5o4




DONALD TRUMP VS JOE BIDEN ?

Trump is the favourite to win the election.

There is not much difference between Trump and Biden.

Biden and his buddies in government are at fault for the genocide in Gaza. Trump could make it worse. Biden and his buddies are at fault for the Russian war in Ukraine. Trump could make it worse.

If Biden runs, he will probably keep Harris - a woman of colour who is whiter than many whites - as his running mate. She pushes his wheel chair.


Will Biden really run?

Many do not believe that he will.


Biden Will Drop Out of 2024 Race

And this is what may happen next

Steve Forbes

10 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qx_U0bfBpg

11 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMJSSkeGCM





THE TRUMP CARTOON


TRUMP AND BIDEN DEBATE

30 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJuDd-fdEew 1






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CELEBRATING AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

Independence Day

July 4



DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

2 / 4 July 1776



HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY

INDEPENDENCE DAY



Macy's 4th of July 2024 Fireworks

New York City

Hudson River

View from Hoboken, New Jersey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xHzGJu4EcI

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju73K-886gc



Yankee Doodle Dandy

Hollywood movie

1942

James Cagney as George M. Cohan

https://ok.ru/video/1027688499864



Louisiana

July 4, 2024

Wild West Law









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MIKE JOHNSON

SPEAKER OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Hudson Institute

9 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDWJa25aVn0

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2eHfH7UoU










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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / AOC

Files articles of impeachment against U. S. Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito

CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS

U. S. House of Representatives

NBC News

10 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1R_qtPiVY





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BASTILLE DAY

2024



Le chant des partisans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5tviHEj_V0


Défile du 14 juillet 2006

Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUwU_QGNKg








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BOEING GOING TO THE DOGS

THE PROBLEM IS INTERNAL


Mar. 26 2024

Boeing executives face scrutiny from regulators and customers

Boeing management shakeup

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and Boeing Chairman of the Board Larry Kellner are out by the end of 2024

Stan Deal, CEO of the Boeing commercial airplane unit, is out, effective immediately.



Boeing has stranded two astronauts in space

June 2024


SPACE X may be called to the rescue

Space Trends

22 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNG1NZiiUSQ



Space X

22 June 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rwj2pZlkqQ


THE PROBLEM IS NOT JUST BOEING.

NASA IS A PROBLEM, TOO.


The craft launched with a helium leak.

Now it has five helium leaks.

The astronauts will have to return to Earth in another craft.


NBC News

30 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4RrA_zKYE


Boeing CEO

Testifying before Congress

28 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SevHqjBN_3o





Is the Boeing Starliner capsule 'stuck' in space?

FRANCE 24 English:

'The first manned mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule was scheduled to last for 10 days.

'Mechanical problems, namely a slow helium leak in the spacecraft's propulsion system, have extended this mission to almost a month - and the return date has not yet been set.

'The Starliner can remain docked with the International Space Station for three months.'

Five of the 28 rockets are also malfunctioning. Docking had to be performed manually.

FRANCE 24

July 3, 2024

Julia Sieger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OfSQFxC3Dc

En français

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYR2s9sO2o0




BOEING STARLINER

Still stranded in space


PRESS CONFERENCE from space with the two American astronauts on board, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore

Williams and Wilmore are former commanders of the ISS

10 July 2024

Washington Post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkzU5wqt_pM


Comments by CBS News

10 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7NUjlnvqvM





SPACE X HAS A PROBLEM

ROCKET ENGINE FAILS

FIRST FAILURE IN A DECADE


A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 20 Starlink satellites from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 11, 2024.

The second stage engine did not complete its burn.

More than usual ice build-up.

Videos From Space

12 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwkL7VC_mWo&t=28s


SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket grounded after orbital failure

REUTERS

12 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiO0QcCZxNE


FAA investigating SpaceX rocket's catastrophic failure

July 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baXl66K2obQ


SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets grounded following failure in space

July 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdUydRTKkH4


FAA halts SpaceX Falcon 9 launches after in-flight failure

July 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UydZUcLiQc



Boeing Starliner astronauts stranded on ISS can return with SpaceX or Soyuz

Julia Sieger

FRANCE 24 English

July 16, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLutNS4sUB4


En français

Capsule Starliner

Quand les deux astronautes de la NASA vont-ils revenir sur terre ?

Julia Sieger

15 juillet 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-C9IZ7BUE0



NASA asks SpaceX to prepare a rescue

SpaceX Community

19 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhw1qN_lc4E





Boeing cannot fix Starliner

SpaceX grounded

Russian Soyuz an option?

Space Trends

18 - 19 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPiQDSBKqzM


SPACE X IS SIMPLY SUPERIOR

THE OTHER COMPANIES ARE BULLSHITTING FOR THE MONEY

25 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy1SFv52-Xw



AT PRESENT, ROSCOSMOS IS THE MOST RELIABLE FOR A RESCUE





Stranded astronauts to remain on ISS

Rescheduled return to Earth set for September

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgL5nysBF0







Boeing has lost $1.5 billion on its Starliner space capsule.

NASA is still discussing returning astronauts from the ISS by the Starliner - or sending the capsule back empty.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon and Roscosmos Soyuz spacecrafts can return the astronauts.


NASA wasting time

Aug. 1, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DANrYf530



This is a job for Superman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdeie2r-fLg&t=129s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfEpo-zSsUo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBatxZ90wag


SUPERMAN

Superman: The Movie

1978

Christopher Reeve as Superman

With Marlon Brando

https://www.tokyvideo.com/video/superman-the-movie


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DONALD TRUMP SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

BULLET SHOT THROUGH EARLOBE

Butler, Pennsylvania (33 miles north of Pittsburgh)

13 July 2024


As Donald Trump addressed the crowd at a campaign rally, a lone sniper with a semi-automatic rifle on a roof 130 yards away fired three single shots at the former president.

One bullet passed through the top of Trump's right ear.

Trump felt his ear, looked at his fingers, saw the blood and ducked down.

Secret Servicemen seated nearby ran to Trump and covered him.

The sniper fired five more shots rapidly.

Shots hit three men in the stands behind the podium - one was killed and two were critically injured.

A Secret Service sniper, perched on a nearby roof, shot and killed the assassin with one shot.

Secret Servicemen escorted Trump off the stage. Trump had blood at the top of his right ear and streaks of blood across his right cheekbone and chin. He waved to rally-goers. He was cheered by the crowd.

The assassin was a 20-year-old man from the Pittsburgh area.


BBC News

Saturday evening, 13 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sut9pcNvTUs


Rally-goers spotted assassin on roof before the shooting

Forbes Breaking News

13 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2IrSF9Brg




Secret Service sniper shoots assassin

VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOiQef0Lhdo


This video was shown by the press in a misleading way, with bad editing and false narration.

A Secret Service sniper DID shoot the assassin, but this video shows the wrong Secret Service sniper and at the wrong time.

This video does NOT show a Secret Service sniper shooting at the assassin - although it looks as if the sniper did so, twice, once before the assassin's first shot and once after the assassin's first or second shot.

There were three small one-story buildings behind Trump, the podium and stands. The buildings were lined up in a row, side by side, and facing the stands. The two outer buildings were identical. The centre building was slightly shorter than the outer buildings.

There were TWO Secret Service teams of two snipers each. Each team was perched on top of each outer building behind Trump, the podium and the stands.

One building was behind Trump and to his right. The other building was behind Trump and to his left.

One Secret Service sniper team was called 'Team 1' and perched on the top of the roof on one building, behind Trump and to Trump's left.

Another team, called 'Team 2', was perched on the top of the other building behind Trump, the podium and the stands, and to Trump's right.

This video shows a Secret Service sniper with 'Team 2', behind Trump and to his right, reacting to the first shots by Crooks. Contrary to claims, this sniper did NOT shoot his rifle. It looks as if he did so, but he did not.

The assassin was shot and killed by a sniper with the other team, 'Team 1', which does not appear in the video - 16 seconds after the first shot fired by the assassin.

The video also shows a photo of a bullet whizzing passed Trump.



The movements of the assassin before the assassination attempt.

CNN

15 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Gz6pPEYVA


TRUMP RECALLS THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Republican National Convention

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Final night

18 July 2024

Fox News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHd447EafFY




AN UNRECORDED CONFRONTATION

A Butler Township policeman, thus far identified only as 'Officer 1' in one of many videos on You Tube, reported that he encountered Thomas Matthew Crooks, the assassin, on the roof of a building - and Crooks confronted him - moments before Crooks shot at Trump and a Secret Service sniper killed Crooks.

Unfortunately, there is no video or audio of this incident.

The video recorded by the policeman's body camera does not show Crooks.

In fact, there is audio but all of it has not been shown to the public.

The encounter occurred 36 seconds before Crooks started shooting at former president Donald Trump.

Crooks was spotted on the roof of a one-story building by policemen at 18:08:22 - three minutes before he shot at Trump.

Another video, taken at the same time by another policeman, who was walking or driving towards the building, shows Crooks standing on the roof. The time was 18:08:22.

Another video, taken by another policeman at the same time, shows Crooks hopping from the roof of one building to the roof of another building.

The videos show Crooks with long hair and wearing 'white shorts'. He is carrying a small backpack. The pack probably carried Crooks' rifle, which was in two sections.

In a body camera video of 'Officer 1', the policeman parks at the short side of the building and leaves his cruiser.

The bodycam video shows the policeman walking to the long front side of the building and looking up at the roof. No one appears on the roof. The policeman walks the length of the building one way and back.

Then, the policeman returns to the short side of the building.

He is met by another policemen who is approaching the building.

The second policeman hoists 'Officer 1' up to the roof.

The policeman, 'Officer 1', pops his head above the roof and looks around.

The video from the bodycam shows nothing. There is the roof. There is no one on it. There is no audio.

It is 18:10:55 / 6:10:55 p. m.

According to the policeman, he saw Crooks on the roof at that moment. Crooks pointed his gun at him and then turned away.

The policeman did NOT climb up onto the roof.

A moment later, the policeman dropped off the roof and back down to the ground - and took off at a run for some fifty yards, away from the building, and eventually stopped and turned to face the long side of the building.

Another video shows 'Officer 1', in blue uniform and bareheaded, with his handgun drawn, straining to see Crooks.

Eight shots were fired. The first shot was fired at 18:11:31 / 6:11:31 p. m. The eighth shot was fired at 18:11:36. The eight shots were fired within five seconds.

A rally-goer was killed. Two rally-goers were critically injured. A bullet pierced the top of Trump's right earlobe. He escaped death by a couple of millimetres.

The policeman, 'Officer 1', doubled back to the short side of the building at the sound of the first or second shot.

Ten seconds later, at 18:11:46, one more shot was fired - by a Secret Service sniper - and the assassin was killed.

About ten seconds later, around 18:11:55, the Secret Service were informed: 'Shooter down!' Secret Servicemen covering Trump decided to accompany him off-stage.

The bodycam video of 'Officer 1' continues.

About six minutes later, at 18:16:52, the same policeman, 'Officer 1', climbs back up onto the roof, fully armed. He seems to have been unaware that the assassin was dead. There is audio this time. The roof is occupied by other policemen. There is endless swearing. There is video of Crooks, dead, lying on his left side. Two policemen turn Crooks over onto his stomach. A policeman tied Crooks' wrists behind his back. Policeman stood over Crooks, their rifles pointed at him, as if he were still alive and a threat.


Body camera video by the policeman, identified elsewhere as 'Officer 1':

Uploaded by The National Desk (TND), Sinclair Broadcast Group

8 min., 14 sec.

No audio before the 3:05 mark (after the shooting)

Follows the policeman from his arrival at the building in his cruiser to his second climb up to the roof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__xWjb6zoFw&t=154


More video by the same policeman, identified as 'Officer 1', with some audio:

Uploaded by the Butler Eagle, a daily newspaper published in Butler County

7 min., 27 sec.

Excerpts, sections with speeded-up film, long sections without audio

Follows the same policeman, 'Officer 1', from his arrival on a grassy area before the parking lot of the building to his second climb up onto the roof

Audio restored from 18:11:28 - three seconds before the shooting.

Video with 'Officer 1' goes to 18:25:31.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOfok0L-Rc


The same video with much clearer audio and video:

Uploaded by the Butler Eagle

25 min., 59 sec.

This is more of the video taken by 'Officer 1'.

Begins in police cruiser, on the drive to the rally, at 18:00:00 / 6 p. m. The cruiser reaches the rally area at 18:07:45. The policeman parks by the building at 18:09:01.

No audio before 18:12:08 - shortly after the shooting.

Views of Crooks, dead.

The entire uploaded video is by 'Officer 1'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DXWpZRFeX4


Many videos are incomplete and improperly edited because someone - a policeman or newspaper editor - tampered with them before uploading them.



NINE, TEN OR ELEVEN SHOTS

Were there eleven shots?

Crooks fired eight shots within five seconds.

A Secret Service sniper fired one shot - the last shot, or 'the ninth shot' - ten seconds after Crooks' last shot.

Some videos include an additional shot, with a different sound, heard after the first three shots by Crooks and before his burst of five shots.

Some videos include a single shot, with a different sound, immediately after the burst of five shots by Crooks. That would be a ninth or tenth shot.

Initially, this additional shot - immediately after the last shot by Crooks - was described as a shot fired at Crooks by a Secret Service sniper. But the shot by the Secret Service sniper was actually ten seconds later.

There is a story about that fourth shot - or ninth or tenth shot: it was a shot fired from a rifle by a local policeman at Crooks.

Were one or two shots fired by someone other than Crooks - one shot after Crooks' third shot and / or one shot after Crooks' eighth shot? There are claims and there is possible evidence in at least one video.

One story claims that Crooks was hit by a bullet shot by a local policeman. But Crooks' body was cremated shortly after the incident and the autopsy has not been released.

Another story claims that the stock of Crooks' rifle was shattered by a bullet shot at him by a local policeman. The rifle was found intact near Crooks' body. A photo of the rifle, displayed by the FBI, shows the stock with a large tear, as if a big chunk had been bitten out of it.

Then, ten seconds later, there was the shot fired by the Secret Serviceman that killed Crooks. A shot to the head. That was the final shot - a ninth, tenth or eleventh shot.

Ten seconds later, the Secret Servicemen guarding Trump were informed: 'Shooter down!' They decided to escort Trump off the stage.

Policemen also were notified that the assassin had been killed.




Jeff Ostroff

Comments about a second (third) shooter

16 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af_K1oGfljM

18 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3kAFu3sU6Q


Gray Hughes

Examining the same footage

Did a policeman shoot at Crooks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TOR17hXMZk&t=727s


Clips put together to play simultaneously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=terj9En34Uc



Dayve Stewart

Trump Rally, Butler

13 July 2024

The video camera faces the long side of the building

Shows activity in the area

Go to 2:44 mark

This video shows 'Officer 1', in blue uniform, is walking the length of the building and back.

Returning to the short side of the building, by the parking lot, "Officer 1' disappears from view (3:49 on the video).

Over the next forty seconds (from 3:49 to 4:29), 'Officer 1', who is out of view in the video, tried to climb onto the roof.

'Officer 1' reappears (4:29), at a run. He returns to the front of the building, his handgun drawn. He tries to spot Crooks on the roof.

Twenty-six seconds after the reappearance of 'Officer 1', the first shot is fired (at 4:55).

At the sound of the first shot, 'Officer 1' begins to run back to the short side of the building.

The last shot is fired by the Secret Service sniper 16 seconds later (5:11).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28lxF9LONGk&t=13s




Jeff Ostroff


Donald Trump Shooting Task Force Report

Crooks was Shot TWICE - once by a local policeman and once by a Secret Service sniper

17 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af_K1oGfljM


Studying the video taken by Dayve Stewart of Crooks with his rifle on the roof - and 'Officer 1' at the front of the building - seconds before Crooks began shooting.

Studying a video of the policeman who shot at Crooks.

This video includes footage of the Secret Service sniper team # 1, which shot and killed Crooks. Go to the 2:36 mark on the video. The sniper team is on the roof of the building behind Trump and to his left.

27 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2y6rZYuwY


Why did the FBI Delete Evidence so soon after the Trump Shooting?

26 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi6kGmk_qQs


FBI releases photos of Crooks' Rifle and Backpack

28 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wms2VGQvnk4




FBI Pittsburgh office

statements

28 August 2024

Crooks' motive unknown

Crooks acted alone

Crooks' rifle still worked after his death

No evidence that a local policeman's shot hit Crooks or his rifle


ABC News / Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNGciUKLggY


CBS Pittsburgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whbogNvk4CE




THE ASSASSIN'S RIFLE

AR 15

Semi-automatic DPMS DR-15 rifle

36 inches from stock to barrel

The assassin was Thomas Matthew Crooks, age 20, of Bethel, Pennsylvania. Crooks was a college student with a full-time job in a nursing home. Crooks was six feet four inches tall.

The rifle belonged to the assassin's father and was purchased about ten years ago.

The assassin took the day off from work, a Saturday.

The assassin borrowed the rifle from his father in the morning.

The parents alerted the authorities to their concern about the intentions of their son.

Mrgunsngear Channel

29 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NckmbtFIIfU




HEADS ROLL


CBS

At least five US Secret Service agents were placed on 'administrative leave' after the attempt on Donald Trump's life:

Four agents of the Pittsburgh field office, which coordinated security with local police, including the head of the office - and a member of Trump's personal detail.


ABC News

23 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RzXy7A-4n8


CBS News

23 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt3PE4cpWMI



J 13 FORUM

Republican Party Forum on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

U. S. Congress

Washington, D. C.

26 August 2024

Forbes Breaking News

1 hr., 52 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6i_OG2eRfk


Excerpts / highlights


Ben Shaffer, Washington Regional SWAT Team

Forbes Breaking News

Main problems at Butler: lack of communication and lack of drone coverage, water tower 'not secured' . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3vKYn-hymM


Ten shots were fired

Eight shots were fired by the assassin, two shots by 'friendlies'

Awaiting autopsy of Crooks to determine results of the two shots by 'friendlies'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxaRhfmyaTw




Is this a video of Crooks?

Found on You Tube after the assassination attempt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tBodQ0It8





WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC

Remember the Butler Township policeman, known as 'Officer 1' in a video of the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump.

At 18:10:55, 'Officer 1' reached the ledge of the roof of a building.

The policeman's body camera shows a part of the roof. There is no one there. There is nothing.

The policeman claimed that he saw the assassin, Thomas Crooks, with a rifle.

The policeman claimed also that Crooks pointed his rifle at him.

The policeman said also that Crooks was prone on the roof.

The policeman dropped back down to the ground.

Thus far, no video or audio of Crooks confronting the policeman has been seen by the public.

There should be video, taken by someone somewhere, of Crooks standing on the roof pointing his rifle in the policeman's direction.

WHAT DID THE POLICEMAN SAY OVER HIS RADIO AFTER CROOKS CONFRONTED HIM?

According to the press, the policeman reported Crooks' presence of the roof over his radio.

WHERE IS THE AUDIO?


Gray Hughes

Policeman encounters Thomas Crooks on the roof / Crooks confronts the policeman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sdFxsCiyh8



MISSING AUDIO

Critical sections of audio from police communication have not been released

Mrgunsngear

14 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF1Qo9rKVlM




Bodycam video from the policeman, described above as 'Officer 1', was shown at congressional committee hearing

Critical audio was missing

This video, with and without audio, has been shown many times in various forms since the assassination attempt on 13 July.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Fal8i3YRc&t=1s


The Congressional Task Force on the Assassination Attempt of Donald Trump

Hearing

September 26, 2024

Forbes Breaking News

The congressman chairing the meeting was from Butler, Pennsylvania and determined to cover for the local Butler police by blaming the Secret Service for the assassination attempt.

The congressman, a member of the House of Representatives, knew nothing about anything. The video clip is nothing new contrary to his claims.

However, there were some comments worth posting: according to the committee chairman, in the missing audio from the bodycam, the policeman . . .


PD Ops 3 / Butler Township Police / Officer 1

at 18:11:03

radioed the following:

. . . armed man on roof . . . He is armed. I see him. He is laying down. He has a long gun.


The committee chairman's remarks are NOT quotes.

The chairman's remarks contradict previous reports of the missing radio communication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGvKiTwfaNM


THEY DID EVERYTHING WRONG

Retired policemen discuss the failure of the police in Butler to engage Crooks

Shots Fired Podcast

11 August 2024

Former policemen discuss the actions of Officer 1 and other policemen in Butler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moQMUjsEcM



Local police snipers with view of roof left their posts


Two local policemen with high powered sniper rifles were stationed in two windows in the building immediately behind the AGR building.

From their windows the local police snipers had a view of the roof that Crooks climbed and shot from.

The policemen left their posts and went home before Trump arrived.





FOUR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS WERE ASSASSINATED:

Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1865) was shot and killed by an actor, John Wilkes Booth, in a theatre in Washington, D. C. five days after the end of the Civil War, in 1865. Booth had supported the defeated rebel South. Booth snuck into the President's box in the theatre and shot him in the back of the head at close range. Booth ran off. Booth was tracked down to a barn in northern Virginia twelve days later. Booth was shot by a soldier and died several hours later. Booth was a member of a gang. Four other members were executed by hanging.

James A. Garfield (1881 - 1881) was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a former speech writer for Garfield, in a train station in Washington, D. C. in 1881. Guiteau was executed by hanging.

William McKinley (1897 - 1901) was shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, a labourer, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York and died eight days later, in 1901. Czolgosz was executed by electrocution.

John F. Kennedy (1961 - 1963) was shot by a sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, in Dallas, Texas in 1963. Oswald, a labourer, was perched on the sixth floor of a building as Kennedy's motorcade passed in the street below. Oswald fired three shots with a rifle. Two shots hit Kennedy. Kennedy was killed instantly by the second shot. The governor of Texas, who was in the limousine, was wounded. A by-stander was grazed by shrapnel. Oswald shot and killed a policeman, who stopped him, an hour or so later near his living quarters in a Dallas suburb. Oswald was apprehended by the police soon afterwards in a nearby cinema theatre. Oswald was in police custody in Dallas when he was shot and killed by a local Mafioso / bar owner two days later.


One president survived an assassination attempt.

Ronald Reagan (1981 - 1989), was shot by John W. Hinckley, Jr. outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C. in 1981. Hinckley shot three people near Reagan. Reagan was wounded by a ricocheting bullet as he approached his limousine. Hickley was subdued and arrested on the spot and confined to a mental hospital and released 55 years later, in 2016. Hinckley's family were close friends with the family of Reagan's vice-president, George H. W. Bush. (Bush 1.)


Two former presidents survived assassination attempts.

While greeting a crowd outside a hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Theodore Roosevelt (1901 - 1909) was shot by John Schrank, a local tavern owner, in 1912. Roosevelt was shot in the chest at close range. He refused medical assistance and continued his speech. Schrank was arrested on the spot and confined to a mental hospital, where he died in 1943.

While addressing an election rally, Donald Trump (2017 - 2021) was shot by a sniper, Thomas Matthew Crooks, a college student and dietary aide in a nursing home, in Butler, Pennsylvania in 2024. Crooks was shot and killed ten seconds later by a sniper with the Secret Service.


Assassination of President Lincoln 1865


Smithsonian Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVLM0BSqx5o


President Lincoln's assassin was John Wilkes Booth. Booth's plot to kill Lincoln was part of a greater plot by Booth and his accomplices to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward.

After Lincoln's assassination, Booth fled with two accomplices. Booth and one accomplice, David Herold, hid in a barn in northern Virginia. Herold left Booth to visit a brothel. Herold spoke too much to the prostitutes, who told soldiers where to find Booth. Herold rejoined Booth in the barn. Herold surrendered to the soldiers. Booth was shot by a soldier and died hours later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG3StM-yjgk


Hunting down John Wilkes Booth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW7kcoD0Bfc


The Capture of John Wilkes Booth

You Are There

Walter Cronkite

CBS

1953

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm3AwTBbRnA


The Trial and Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators

The five conspirators planned to kill President Lincoln, Vice-president Andrew Johnson, Secretary of State William Seward, and General Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General of the United States Army.

Lincoln was killed. Seward was almost killed. He was seriously injured.

The five conspirators were killed.

Lecture

2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeaPcGxGeE0



The assassination of President Garfield 1881

Recounted by an author and researcher

CBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u4zOjtM4OU



Assassination of President McKinley 1901

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KbUNHn_wh0



Assassination of President Kennedy 1963


Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFeiM_Mxsv8


The Abraham Zapruder film of the assassination

A few frames are missing / not the original film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubW7KB4E--4


Interview with Abraham Zapruder

An hour or so after the assassination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLqOGEBcjnI


Abraham Zapruder

Interview

1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALPGB0ey90


The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, after his arrest, in police custody in Dallas, on 22 and 23 November 1963:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDDuRSgzFk


The shooting of the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, by the Mafioso, Jacob Rubinstein / Jack Ruby

Newsreel

24 November 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOx_tTQlEfY



The attempted assassination of President Reagan 1981


Jerry Paar, Secret Service

Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wr-4gNTWs4

Recounts incident

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Q52_rc2IA


Author and researcher, Del Quentin Wilber, 2013:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj-xPWXiQhE

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y5wLFeYB24


The attempted assassination of President Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr.

Judy Woodruff

PBS

2013

Del Quentin Wilber, author

Dr. Joseph Giordano, surgeon who operated on Reagan at George Washington University Hospital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc06RvkQKdM


John W. Hinckley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFlRyU1Ezw&t=5s


Interview

CBS

2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46rWLMXoHc




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TRUMP NOMINATED AT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION


First day of the four-day convention

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

15 July 2024



TRUMP ANNOUNCES RUNNING MATE

J. D. VANCE

U. S. Senator from Ohio


Hillbilly Elegy

Interview with the author of the book, J. D. Vance

October 27, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVvuTKWzOcs


Hillbilly Elegy

Movie based on the book, 2020

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8jjb2v


J. D. Vance opposes U. S. aid to Ukraine

J. D. Vance opposes U. S. aid to Gaza

Face the Nation

CBS

23 October 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nk2rSA-ifg


J. D. Vance in the Senate

Forbes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ea7vVZT-H8


TRUMP appears at the convention on the first of four-day event

Appears with J. D. Vance, Vice-Presidential candidate, and Mike Johnson, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives

July 15, 2024

Forbes Breaking News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvnRJo5iytw


Closing

Forbes Breaking News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szNqU-9WNC4


J. D. Vance's wife, Usha Chilukuri, is from Rancho Peñasquitos, a suburb of San Diego, California. Her parents are from Andhra Pradesh in India. Usha is a lawyer. Usha was once the law clerk of Chief Justice John Roberts. The Vances have three children.

ABC News

16 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMaDGGPVf20



James Crawford

Chairman of the Forest County Potawatomi Nation Community

Welcomes Republican Party Convention delegates to Milwaukee

16 July 2024

Forbes Breaking News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_BQxCTI3o



TRUMP

Speech on the last evening

18 July 2024

Entire speech

6abc Philadelphia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRUHMK9-gBg&t=12s



THE VOTERS MUST DECIDE


Joseph Robinette Biden / Joe Biden

and

Kamala Devi Harris / Kamala Harris

vs

Donald John Trump / Donald J. Trump

and

David James Vance / D. J. Vance


Biden is in his eighties. If Biden is re-elected, it is certain that he will give up the office to his VP, Harris, within a year or two.


Harris and Vance will debate on TV before election day.

Few people know them.

Multiple choice question: Who are Harris and Vance? Choose one: 1. Another crooked investment firm, 2. astronauts stranded in space, 3. V. P candidates

Kamala Harris' mother is from India.

The parents of D. J. Vance's wife are from India.


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BIDEN DROPS OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE

21 July 2024

ENDORSES HARRIS AS REPLACEMENT


FRANCE 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8uzjkjlRsc





The Worst U. S. Presidents


Barrack Obama, 2009 to 2017

Joe Biden, 2021 to 2025

John F. Kennedy, 1961 to 1963

Jimmy Carter, 1977 to 1981

Warren Harding, 1921 to 1923






Kamala Harris

Une pionnière à l'assaut de l'investiture démocrate

FRANCE 24

21 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KELWxrp9R8M






THE TRUMP CARTOON


TRUMP AND HIS RUNNING MATE, VANCE

2-4 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TVgL1sjzvc








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ENGLAND

KING CHARLES III


The State Opening of Parliament

Wednesday, 17 July 2024

The formal start of the parliamentary year

The King sets out the government agenda for the next session of Parliament, outlining proposed policies and legislation.

The Mirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnAH3Rs_Jpc&t=471s








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Astronauts on the International Space Station / ISS

Celebrate the Olympic Games

The Tribune

27 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QCRKzeLPA





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OLYMPIC GAMES


PARIS, FRANCE


XXXIII Olympiad


The Summer Olympics

Friday, July 26, 2024 - Sunday, August 11, 2024



Thousands of troops arrive in Paris

FRANCE 24 English

10 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi9SWxpz25o



32 sports / 329 events

206 countries

Russia and Belorus are barred.

Russian and Belorussian athletes can compete on their own as private individuals without representing their countries.


The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.

Paris held the second Olympic Games, in 1900.

Paris also held the Olympic Games in 1924.


The 2024 Games will be held at 15 sites in Paris.

The marathon will be run in Paris along the Seine.

Track and field events will be held in the Stade de France in Saint Denis, north of Paris.

Boxing matches will be held in the Parc des expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte near Charles de Gaulle Airport north of Paris.

Swimming competitions are to be held in the Seine.


There are questions about pollution in the Seine

The river might not be ready for the Olympics

CBS

27 June 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMxQktnX4oE


Six different cities in France will hold the football / soccer matches.

Sailing competitions will be held off Marseilles.

Surfing competitions will be held in the South Pacific -
in French Polynesia, on the main island of Tahiti, in the village of Teahupo'o.

Everything will be shown live on TV.


1900 Olympic Games, Paris

Alvin Kraenzlein of the U. S. won four gold medals in track and field competitions. The record still stands.


The 1924 Olympic Games, Paris

Johnny Weismuller of the U. S. won three gold medals in swimming.

Paavo Nurmi of Finland won three gold medals in track and cross-country competitions.


A tribute to Johnny Weissmuller and Duke Kahanamoku

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvm9QobjZI


Johnny Weissmuller in 1925

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx50JTFqS2M


Tarzan the Ape Man

Movie with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan

1932

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU41q9KtIJM


Tarzan and his Mate

Movie with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan

1934

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8wiiy8

or

https://www.tokyvideo.com/video/tarzan-and-his-mate-1934


Johnny Weissmuller in 1958

With Johnny Weissmuller, jr. and Jack Smith on the TV show You Asked for It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2DFLaXGvg


Paavo Nurmi

1924 Olympic Cross-Country Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9womQ1xgbQ


Paavo Nurmi - The Flying Finn

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WstUYBfx104



THE OLYMPIC TORCH


Lighting the torch

Olympia, Greece

BBC

15 April 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1iMZaLjBU4


The torch to arrive in Marseilles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltru1pLhh-Y


The torch arrives in Marseilles

9 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7A_HL8AR70


The torch to travel about Metropolitan France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai9wzc3Rmyo



Olympic Competition Preview

26 July 2024

Watchmojo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noZkCzMmhTc




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2024 Olympic Games

Paris

Medal Totals


1. United States

Gold 40
Silver 44
Bronze 42
Medals 126


2. China

Gold 40
Silver 27
Bronze 24
Medals 91


3. Japan

Gold 20
Silver 12
Bronze 13
Medals 45


4. Australia

Gold 18
Silver 19
Bronze 16
Medals 53


5. France

Gold 16
Silver 25
Bronze 22
Medals 63


6. Netherlands

Gold 15
Silver 7
Bronze 12
Medals 34


7. Great Britain

Gold 14
Silver 22
Bronze 29
Medals 65


8. South Korea

Gold 13
Silver 9
Bronze 10
Medals 32


9. Italy

Gold 12
Silver 13
Bronze 15
Medals 40


10. Germany

Gold 12
Silver 13
Bronze 8
Medals 33


11. New Zealand

Gold 10
Silver 7
Bronze 3
Medals 20



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Kamala Harris

Democratic Party nominee for U. S. President

BBC News

2 Aug. 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGJ_NcTN5cE


ABC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ1ulGlsIw4


CBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4PSi2zuBYc


Who is Kamala Harris?

Nobody knows.

Not a typical American woman.

Age sixty.

Unmarried until the age of fifty.

No children.

A lawyer. A government prosecutor.

Her father is a mixed-blood African from Jamaica. Her mother is from Tamil Nadu in India.

Harris was raised a black. She attended Howard University, an all-black college, in Washington, D. C.

She is a member of the Third Baptist Church, formerly the First Colored Baptist Church, of San Francisco.

She often speaks with a Southern drawl and a black ghetto accent.

She is married to a Jew - a Hollywood lawyer.

On August 6, Harris chose her running mate, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, Timothy James Walz.

Who is Tim Walz?

Nobody knows.

Of some German origin.

Raised a Roman Catholic.

A native of Nebraska.

Walz is age sixty.

A former high school teacher.

Married at age thirty a woman of Swedish origin from Minnesota, adopted her religion and became a Lutheran, and resettled in Minnesota.

Walz and his wife have two children.

A former member of the U. S. House of Representatives for Minnesota. Elected five times.

Governor of Minnesota since 2019.

Very mediocre people.

Trump and Vance should beat Harris and Walz easily.

But Trump is a swindler and some people might not like that.


Richard Nixon (1969 - 1974) and Ronald Reagan (1981 - 1989) sought rapprochement with Communist Russia. Nixon sought the opening of Communist China. Trump seems to be of the same mind. That is needed today.

Aside from neighbouring Canada and the Caribbean, Harris and Waltz have never been abroad.

At best, Harris might be an American ambassador to Liberia, if the country accepted her, or ambassador to a Caribbean island, like Jamaica.


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NASA stranded astronauts in space.

Two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, were launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 June 2024.

The astronauts were to return to Earth, after a ten-day visit to the International Space Station / ISS, on 14 June.

The purpose of the long-delayed mission was to test the Boeing Starliner space module in space - with humans in it
- for the first time.

In fact, the space capsule was never ready. It had at least two big problems, helium leaks and malfunctioning thrusters (propulsion). But NASA launched it anyway.

The Boeing Starliner capsule was never intended to work. It was a cash cow. A money-making scheme for some Boeing employees and their friends. They wasted $1.6 billion.

On the way to the ISS, the problems with the Boeing Starliner space capsule were evident.

A safe return to Earth on Boeing is impossible. But perverse minds and timid souls refuse to admit it. They pretend otherwise.

SpaceX claims that is willing to bring back the astronauts. But SpaceX says it cannot do so before February 2025.

Perhaps Roscosmos can do it.


The launch, 5 June

Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6JWriqIGxg

Docking the ISS, 6 June

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5mCIrhXS9o


NASA press briefing

PBS Newshour

7 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLNeIx7AwVE






BOEING AND NASA FAILED

0:00 - Starliner, Boeing and NASA have run out of time, air, and options
4:23 - The helium leaks
5:30 - Russia CAN save them. Is the US unwilling to admit that it needs Russia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB84Uy2sSEo



FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Roscosmos Soyuz spacecraft


The Soyuz launch sequence

2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVvgpKt5uCA


The Soyuz Mission

0:00-Intro
1:02-Baikonur Cosmodrome
2:12-Rocket Assembly & Rollout
4:26-Rocket Specifics
5:55-Launch Day
6:30-Getting into the Soyuz
8:13-Lift Off
10:03-Main Engine Cut-off
10:58-End of Soyuz Mission
12:53-Reentry
14:26-Landing

October 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7YgDum2Sg


Launch of the Soyuz MS-09

From lift-off to orbit

European Space Agency / ESA

2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr_hXLDLc38


Soyuz rendezvous and docking

ESA

2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2_NeFbFcSw&t=0s


Soyuz undocking, reentry and landing

ESA

2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7MM9yoxII



This could be a job for James Bond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjYEARQTrg



STARLINER FIASCO UPDATE

Starliner capsule cannot be undocked from ISS remotely

10 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HeuFpR6R_0




NASA delivers supplies to stranded ISS astronauts

17 August 2024

Geo News English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9JZ0xdLIBQ



Boeing Starliner astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams

To return from the International Space Station in early 2025 with Crew 9 on SpaceX craft

Boeing Starliner will return to Earth without crew

24 August 2024

WSJ

24 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkVNZNANU1o


Sky News

24 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvO_HkUUoY0




STARLINER RETURNS TO EARTH WITHOUT ASTRONAUTS


Boeing Starliner Undocking & Return to Earth

Undocking at 23:04 BST / GMT, 6 September 2024

Broadcast Live

6 - 7 September 2024

Launch Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueziZxViWCc


CNN-News 18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKnVMbbjls



The Starliner space capsule undocked from the International Space Station and dropped back to Earth without mishap.

Its original crew members, astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, remain on the ISS and will return with SpaceX in February 2025.

The Starliner capsule touched down at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at 10:02 p. m. local time on 6 September / 12:02 a. m. ET on 7 September 2024 / 6:02 a. m. GMT, 7 September.






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PRESIDENT TRUMAN WARNS JAPS TO GIVE UP

Universal Newsreel

1 June 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSgq0jMJYT4



HIROSHIMA

Canadian-Japanese movie 1995

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki on 9 August 1945

3:05:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ulEVymmrWs


MANCHURIA

The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, and northern China on 9 August 1945

Episode from the documentary series Battlefield

1:37:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBuMDG2TvcY



HARRY TRUMAN

Film takes

1945

President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima

Recorded on the USS Augusta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_A8LPtuX5c


1964

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Ogxh7F3Ws

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLQd0HJzRfI

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCijIIwmGs8

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH-MqdSUPNM




PAUL TIBBETS

2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H36v-d6_NS0&t=28s





The Decision to Drop the Bomb

NBC White Paper

Chet Huntley

Documentary 1965

1:22:11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JWxIVVeV98





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Victory Over Japan Day

VJ-Day

The Japanese surrendered throughout Asia and the Pacific in August, September and October 1945

August - September 2024


VJ-Day is on August 15 in Britain and the British Commonwealth and in Europe

VJ-Day is on September 2 in the U. S.


U. S. President Truman announces Japanese surrender

August 14, 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjwtTHdAZI&feature=endscreen&NR=1

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjwtTHdAZI

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B31eP3MzsZk

and

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4548205/truman-announces-japanese-surrender


Voice of America

Philippines

14 August 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5f7cPoYXqo


Clement Atlee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-E6lcH54DQ


Emperor of Japan

Announces end of the war

Broadcast 15 August 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiGtQ8mu1qc


Radio announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YbszLs1Fd0


Japanese Sign Final Surrender

Gen. MacArthur presides over proceeding

United News newsreel

Tokyo Bay

2 September 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7REAvk0iJQ

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPF54i-yIfI


General Douglas MacArthur

Allied Supreme Commander

Accepts Japanese surrender

Tokyo Bay

2 September 1945

Audio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2foqqQUlg4




Japanese surrender to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command

Singapore

12 September 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-TwLXjvORY


VJ-Day

Peking, China

2015

70th Anniversary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKwlUVOR-VE



V-J Day

Kamchatka

3 September 2023

Dmitri Medvedev

Nippon TV News 24 Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0p07s7bDuc




Surrender and Occupation of Japan

September 1945

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUn07eYE45M


The Supreme Allied Commander in Occupied Japan, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, meets the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito

Reenactment

Excerpt from a movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y5wCqJsE_Q



The Emperor visits Hiroshima

Dec. 7, 1947

Newsreels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R3RsHDUef4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw7_W1ht3Vk





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AOC

First to speak at the Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago

19 August 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWBi-d1AhU




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DONALD TRUMP

ON CAMPAIGN

Ashboro, North Carolina

21 August 2024

Forbes Breaking News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZCdut7ZhRo




DONALD TRUMP VISITS THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY

FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA

Forbes Breaking News

26 August 2024

The visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osI5BRKJ6HA

Commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjl_wNF6ZCg





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Liberation of Paris

August 1944

80th Anniversary


British Pathé

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDD_VuVhdc


British Movietone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KrmAwx0XHc


Paris Delivered

British Pathé

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUz2XvgaIEo


Liberation of Paris

Lowell Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT0VHYEHIJU


Excerpt from Liberation of Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyeGtAC_A-g




DÉTRUISEZ PARIS! 44 août

Documentaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOSGdONRIlM

In English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRq2rzWqQ9U&t=279s




Is Paris Burning?

Film advertisement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8oUSUNfdrw

1966 movie

https://ok.ru/video/2761660238534


Gert Fröbe as German General Dietrich von Choltitz, military governor of Paris

Bruno Cremer as Col. Henri Rol-Tanguy, leader of communists in Paris, commander of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans

Alain Delon as Jacques Chaban-Delmas, representative of Charles de Gaulle; a general in the army of the French Resistance

Orson Welles as Raoul Nordling, Swedish consul in Paris

Kirk Douglas as U. S. Army General George S. Patton

Glenn Ford as U. S. Army General Omar Bradley

Claude Rich as Gen. Philippe Leclerc, commander of French forces - the first Allied troops to liberate Paris

Serge Rousseau as Pierre 'Colonel Fabien' Gorges, Francs-Tireurs et Partisans

Pierre Dux as Alexandre 'Cerat' Parodi, delegate of French Committee of National Liberation

Michael Lonsdale as Jacques Debu-Bridel, resistant

Sacha Pitoëff as Frédéric Joliot-Curie, resistant


Music by Maurice Jarre

Is Paris Burning?

Overture

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UtOmY28BQc


IS PARIS BURNING? - Paris en colere

Melinda Million, vocal

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

Conducted by Nic Raine

2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2926U5e1MC4


Final scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxkmyA1PkCY



U. S. troops march through Paris

British Movietone

29 August 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7YdM1Dd_R8







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DONALD TRUMP AND ELON MUSK TEAM UP

TO STOP FRAUDSTERS IN THE U. S. GOVERNMENT

New York City

5 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YyGXgDG_i4


Donald Trump, Economic Club of New York, 5 September 2024:

'At the suggestion of Elon Musk . . . I will create a government efficiency commission (to be led by Musk) tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms. We need to do it. Cannot go on the way we are now.'


What will that mean?

All illiterate and semi-literate employees - presently at least half to three-quarters of salaried government employees - will be fired.

All employees without a basic education will be fired.

All employees without a basic knowledge of proper manners will be fired.

All employees with emotional problems that inhibit proper work will be fired.

All employees with criminal records will be fired.

That is bad news for women, coloured people, Latinos and Italians, Catholics, foreigners (especially from India and Latin America), hillbillies, fraudsters, alcoholics, homosexuals, paedophiles, prostitutes (who use their government jobs as cover).

The free ride, ensured by the government since the late 1960s, is OVER. The employment quota is over. Lazy and incompetent people, ensured a job for reasons of race, will not be hired.

Employees will have to pass qualification examinations every year.

Private businesses that have been compelled by law to hire a certain quota of coloured people will be free to hire according to qualification and capability instead.

Unemployable persons will have to request welfare assistance from the government.

Hardest hit will be the armed forces; the State Department; the Department of Justice (DOJ), especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other law enforcement agencies; the Treasury Department, especially the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); and many so-called 'independent' government agencies such as the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) and false government fronts that pose as non-governmental organisations (NGO) like the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

That should greatly reduce fraud and waste and improve efficiency in the federal government.

That means also that men will have to behave like gentlemen again, for the first time since the 1970s. Men will give up their seats to women on public buses. Passengers will have to line up and board airplanes in an orderly fashion rather than storm the entrance and crowd the doorway.

Fraud and inefficiency are much more obvious in city, county and state governments.






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9 / 11

2001

WTC in NYC; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania


World Trade Center, New York City

Documentary

January 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiyDLdUWlDM



2024

WUSA-9

September 11, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKShAqREz3g



AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11

Crashed into the North Tower, World Trade Center, NYC


The Last Hour of Flight 11

Documentary

2004

46:46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RraXWJSJGYI


Flight 11 crashes into WTC North Tower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys41jnL2Elk



UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 175

Crashed into the South Tower, World Trade Center, NYC


Flight 175

As the World Watched

Documentary

43:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLBS4KIE_o


Flight 175 crashes into WTC South Tower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsGcIkevyHM



THE PENTAGON


The Pentagon

Short history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TslAOxiCgOM


Design and Function

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKgtO3Sl5k



AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77

Crashed into the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia


Flight 77

Documentary

2011

1:20:07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGJSZN4apvs


Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hywAmUHxBds


Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW4LXaWxqWI



UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93

Crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania


United 93

Preview of 2006 movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQdjDtlK3uQ


Flight 93

Movie

2006

1:26:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2z1dCX996M


The Real Story

42:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPhP50OIZwM


The tape of the last moments of Flight 93

4:54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1HPrKtdYI


Flight 93 crashes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POkBYsJKU3E



Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

John W. Warner, Senator from Virginia

Pentagon Press Briefing

11 September 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_H4aJnC9Dk


Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

Pentagon Press Briefing

12 September 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLEocQubvOc






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POPE FRANCIS

REPLIES TO QUESTION FROM THE PRESS

THE U. S. ELECTION

NBC News

14 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUZ1v6OnFIg&t=1s





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ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE TRUMP

Trump's Golf Club

West Palm Beach, Florida

1:30 p. m. E. T.

15 September 2024

A Secret Serviceman checking the golf course spotted a rifle barrel poking through the bushes by the 6th hole. The Secret Serviceman fired his gun at the bushes.

A man in the bushes dumped his rifle and knapsack, ran to his car, and drove off.

Police caught the man one hour later on the highway.

The man is Ryan Wesley Rough, age 58, of North Carolina.

Trump was about 300 yards away at the time, walking from the 6th hole to the 5th hole.

WSJ

15 September 2024

0:00 The second apparent attempt to assassinate Trump

0:30 The incident

1:52 The suspect

2:35 The investigations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92G74UCO_fU&t=14s



Jeff Ostroff

15 September 2024

00:00 Introduction to Trump Golf Course shooting

01:05 Analysis of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

01:38 Layout of Trump International Golf Course

02:21 Trump was on 5th green when Secret Service shot at the suspect

03:02 Possible hiding places for an assassin on the Trump golf course

04:29 The best hiding spot for Trump's assassin

05:36 An overview of the Trump International Golf Course

06:54 How Secret Service agents spotted the shooter

08:50 The police search for the assassin

09:33 How the police captured the assassin

10:49 Determining the exact spot where the assassin lay in wait with his rifle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7lQQER90Zs



Ryan Wesley Rough

Biographical details

Mrgunsngear Channel

19 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K18TGp-7mXU


Update

Mrgunsngear Channel

23 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF1xDqb7pcs



RYAN WESLEY ROUTH

CHARGED BY A FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN MIAMI

WITH THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP

September 24, 2024

LiveNOW from FOX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGReNCIZdJ8




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THE TITAN SUBMERSIBLE

COAST GUARD PUBLIC HEARING

16 September 2024


Official U. S. Coast Guard transcript of the Titan Sub communication with the surface ship

Released on 16 September 2024

First public hearing held by the Coast Guard since the OceanGate Titan Submersible imploded on 18 June 2023 at the site of the RMS Titanic.

BBC News

17 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4n6YeOy7k


00:00 Introduction to the Coast Guard Oceangate Titan Sub communication transcript

00:48 First Photos of the Titan Submersible debris on the ocean floor

01:59 Coast Guard Comms log between the Titan sub and the Polar Prince surface ship

11:32 Coast Guard hearing revealed when the Titan sub imploded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNqp2_70hwg



VIDEO OF TITAN SUB ON OCEAN FLOOR

Jeff Ostroff

Uploaded midnight 18 / 19 September 2024

'Jeff Ostroff reviews videos released by the U. S. Coast Guard of the OceanGate Titan submersible wreckage on the ocean floor, 330 yards from the bow of the RMS Titanic.

'The wreckage of the OceanGate Titan sub was recorded as rescuers discovered the debris field with the Pelagius Research ROV known as Odysseus 6000 . . .'

'This video shows the Ocean Gate Titan submersible's tail cone and a piece of carbon fiber in the foreground.'

Video

00:00 Introduction to the Coast Guard Video of OceanGate Titan Sub on the ocean floor

00:16 Aft section of Titan submersible on ocean floor

00:36 OceanGate Titan logo on the side of Titan Sub Debris

01:09 Location of Titan sub when debris was attached

01:30 Azget Industries 3D model of OceanGate Titan Submarine

02:05 About Pelagius Odysseus 6K ROV, which captured video

03:59 2nd Coast Guard video of Titan Sub wreckage

06:14 How the Carbon Fiber Titan hull was glued to titanium domes

08:40 More analysis of Titan wreckage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFQGJKsN-Pg


Titan Submarine

Animation of last trip

Full transcript of last trip before implosion

Presented by the U. S. Coast Guard at the hearing on 17 September 2024

Daily Express

17 September 2024

00:00 Polar Prince journey to drop off
01:23 Titan Submersible begins dive
04:20 Titan has communications issues
08:40 Titan loses contact with Polar Prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THP26u1IKjo


Sal Mercogliano

What is going on with Shipping

Discusses the U. S. Coast Guard hearing on the loss of the submersible Titan during its dive on the wreck of RMS Titanic

19 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7uiqIZ_B88


ROBOT SALVAGES TITAN WRECKAGE ON OCEAN FLOOR

Video by the U. S. Coast Guard of wreckage of the OceanGate Titan submersible on the ocean floor.

The Pelagius Research ROV, the Odysseus 6000, salvages the debris from the ocean floor.

Jeff Ostroff

23 / 24 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX04xMem3-I


TITAN SUB DISASTER NEW EVIDENCE

Sub Brief Naval News

U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation

Public hearings

'Multiple system failures' on nearly every dive.

'Water tight boundaries' compromised and not retested repair.

Aaron

24 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqmvcq1dJA



National Transportation Safety Board / NTSB

Titan Sub Disaster Report

More details

Jeff Ostroff

26 September 2024


00:00 Introduction to the National Transportation Safety Board / NTSB Preliminary Report on the OceanGate Titan Sub disaster

01:06 New photos of the Titan Submersible wreckage next to the Titanic shipwreck

03:10 Titan Sub ' s delaminated carbon fiber hull on the ocean bed

07:51 Delaminated carbon fiber hull sections on the ocean floor

12:11 Dive 80: the mission that heard a loud bang

14:25 Realtime Monitoring System to detect a hull breach

15:25 Reading Audio Realtime Monitor sensors

17:30 RTM strain gage readings

19:50 Strain gages show deviance starting at Dive # 81

22:58 Titan Sub on the LARS almost sank in the sea

23:28 Defects found in the carbon fiber hull manufacturing

33:13 Cut pieces of the Titan carbon fiber hull

34:40 Comparing Titan carbon fiber hull V1 to V2

35:28 First pics of titanium rings at the Coast Guard Station

37:40 Front titanium cap with empty acrylic viewport seat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7xaePm9QhY





THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC

15 April 1912


You Are There

Walter Cronkite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HliceHS92R4&t=5s


The Sinking

Animated Simulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sucxhEV3DZU


BOB BALLARD DISCOVERED THE TITANIC

1986

National Geographic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlD6qo4rkk


STOCKTON RUSH

Oceangate CEO

2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phITr-J5wO8

2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClkytJa0ghc






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CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES

Problems

60 Minutes

16 September 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80MGYrWWaM






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80th Anniversary


OPERATION MARKET GARDEN

17 to 25 September 1944

Allied attempt to reach Berlin by Christmas

The Allies captured the German occupied Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen but failed to capture the critical bridge across the Lower Rhine at Arnhem

Short documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITH6D8BceS0


Operation Market Garden

Episode from the documentary series Battlefield

1:49:56

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JmyryLgCdw


A Bridge Too Far

British movie directed by Richard Attenborough

1977

With Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier

2:56:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6O8rLXB7Qg

or

2:56:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Fp2seukqs

Shorter version

2:48:59

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-JQEaVikY


Theme / Overture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9QPM0rwGI8










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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION / ISS

NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko depart from ISS and return to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft.

Chub and Kononenko spent a record 374 days in space on the ISS

Touchdown in Kazakhstan.

23 September 2024


Undocking from ISS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A8IbdqSgJg


Touchdown

NASA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEUYtIFSXcA


NEWS CENTER MAINE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBbjQttDIFE


Undocking to Touchdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49vHvQdiWfY








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SPACE X LAUNCHES RESCUE SHIP TO ISS

Cape Canaveral, Florida

Astronaut and cosmonaut will return with Butch Willmore and Sunita Williams in February 2025

Wilmore is now the commander of the ISS

28 September 2024


The crew

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexsandr Gorbunov

VideoFromSpace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYUt1eMpA4


The launch

VideoFromSpace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw-1B24-p4E



SpaceX Crew-9 docks on ISS

Sunday, 29 September, at 21:30 GMT / 17:30 EDT (eg. NYC)


In Russian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H756RLpoH74


Docking, hatch opened, crew enters ISS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7BDEbXGmDY


All ISS crew members together

Manila Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIjKpMFNKL8







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More than 100,000 show up for Trump's return to Butler, Pennsylvania

5 October 2024

WJACTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohtx57Q634M



GET OUT AND VOTE!

Elon Musk joins Donald Trump onstage at Butler rally

5 October 2024

FOX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4aFbyzrTdc



TRIUMPH in BUTLER

The National Desk (TND)

5 October 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73t4twdmevE




J D VANCE

Butler

5 October 2024

Excerpt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zuP3J5rNg

Entire speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDzVDNtZxCA


J D Vance speaks with media after Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doHr7W2nTN4



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SANDY IRVINE

Andrew Comyn Irvine

Born in Cheshire, England on 8 April 1902

Lost on Mount Everest on 8 June 1924


Partial remains found at the bottom of Mount Everest 100 years later, in September 2024


Irvine is pronounced Er - vin. The accent is on the first syllable. The second i is a short vowel.


Irvine and his legendary climbing partner, George Leigh Mallory, set out from their high camp on the North Ridge of Mount Everest, in Tibet, for the mountain summit on the morning of 8 June 1924.

They did not return.


In 1924, climbers on the north side - the Tibetan side - of the mountain climbed up the North Ridge and pitched their highest camp on the North Ridge.

There were two ways to the summit from high camp on the North Ridge:

1. Climb up the North Ridge to the Northeast Ridge and follow the Northeast Ridge to the summit.

The high camp on the North Ridge was well below the Northeast Ridge.

2. Cross the North Face well below the Northeast Ridge to the Grand Couloir and climb up the Couloir to the summit.

Mallory was to try to reach the summit by the Northeast Ridge.

The next climbing expedition, also British, nine years later, in 1933, found an ice axe belonging to Mallory or Irvine high up on Everest, just below the Northeast Ridge.

Mallory and Irvine climbed with bottled oxygen. In 1991, an American climber spotted an oxygen cylinder from the 1924 expedition a short distance further up along the North Ridge.

In 1999, an international expedition found Mallory's intact body high up on the mountain - but well below the sites of the ice axe and oxygen cylinder. Mallory was not far from the ledge of a steep vertical cliff and a drop of 7,000 feet to the glacier at the base of the mountain.

The location, position and condition of Mallory's body indicated that the two climbers - Mallory and Irvine - were roped together, with Mallory leading, when Mallory fell.

Mallory fell a short distance, sliding down a snow field. However, his injuries were fatal.

Mallory fell with or without his ice axe.

The rope that tied Mallory to Irvine snapped at Mallory's end when Mallory fell.

Irvine was not found but indications were that he should be nearby, with or without an ice axe, and, like Mallory, his rope around his waist. Otherwise, he went over the ledge and fell to the glacier below.

Indications are that Mallory and Irvine left an ice axe on the Northeast Ridge on their descent.


News: 11 October 2024

In September 2024, a team of photographers, preparing a documentary film about skiing on Everest for National Geographic Magazine, found by chance an old hobnail boot in the thawing ice of a crevasse on the glacier at the base of the north side of the mountain. In the boot were a sock (with a name tag: A. C. IRVINE) and a left foot.

The location of the find, reported by the photographers, indicated a fall from the mountain to the glacier.

The presence of goraks / Himalayan ravens indicated the recent appearance of the foot from the melting ice.

More human remains and clothing could be in the ice nearby.


See

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0g2p47xd5o

and

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/sandy-irvine-body-found-everest


Julie Summers, great-niece of Irvine

It's an object that belonged to him and has a bit of him in it.

It tells the story of what probably happened.

The remains were swept down the mountain by avalanches and crushed by the moving glacier.

I regard it as something close to closure.



Sandy Irvine's partial remains recovered

Hobnail boot found on glacier at base of Everest

ITV News

12 Oct 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QgZaY_f61A



Julie Summers

Interview by Thom Pollard, member of the search team that found George Leigh Mallory in 1999

25 October 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR8NG0ei9SA



The first expeditions to Mount Everest were led by the British in 1921, 1922 and 1924.

George Leigh Mallory was the only climber to go on all three expeditions.

The 1921 expedition was a reconnaissance mission.

Attempts to climb to the mountain summit were made in 1922 and 1924.

The 1924 expedition made three attempts to climb to the summit.

Mallory led the first attempt, which failed when the Sherpa porters refused to continue.

Edward Norton, the leader of the expedition, made the second attempt, a solo climb, without oxygen, across the North Face and up the Grand Couloir, which has borne his name since as the Norton Couloir. Norton climbed to within 280 metres of the summit. The extreme cold and lack of oxygen forced him to abandon the attempt.

Mallory planned to climb to the summit by the Northeast Ridge but an attempt by the Grand Couloir was also possible.

For the third and last attempt, Mallory was expected to take Noel Odell as his climbing partner. Odell was a strong and experienced climber.

Mallory chose Irvine, a strong but inexperienced climber, because he was more adept with oxygen sets and Mallory wanted to make the climb with oxygen.

Odell followed Mallory and Irvine from some distance in support.

At mid-day, from below, Odell thought he saw Mallory and Irvine climbing high up the mountain, along the Northeast Ridge. He waited for them at their high camp but they did not return.

At the high camp, Odell found indications that Mallory and Irvine experienced problems with the oxygen sets that might have delayed them. Mallory and Irvine might have started their climb late in the morning.

Odell found also that the sets did not work well at the highest altitudes.

Mallory and Irvine reached the Northeast Ridge.

Beyond that, nothing is known.

The oxygen sets might have failed on the Northeast Ridge, forcing Mallory and Irvine to call off the summit attempt and return to camp.

They left an ice axe a short distance below the Northeast Ridge.

Their route back to their high camp from the Northeast Ridge crossed a large snow field below the Northeast Ridge.

Low on the snow field, Mallory fell.

Mallory's body was found 75 years later at the bottom of the snow field.

Irvine's partial remains were recovered on the glacier at the bottom of the mountain 100 years later.



Mallory and Irvine

John Ridgway

Episode from the documentary series Wide World

ca. 1989

The documentary describes the attempts to climb Everest by Mallory and Irvine in 1924 and by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Tibet and Nepal in 1953.

30 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpMCG6Tgrlo

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLOJAXPC_s&t=118s



Lost on Everest

The Search for Mallory and Irvine

A British, American and German expedition found Mallory high up on the North Face of Everest in 1999.

Documentary

1999

50 minutes

Repeats at end / faulty upload

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd4aWRG1DT4&t=43s



Finding Mallory on Mount Everest

Interview with Dave Hahn, a member of the expedition that found Mallory in 1999

On Union Glacier, Antarctica

2019

26:33

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RY9zRpQEf8



Reinhold Messner

In 1978, Messner and a climbing partner were the first to climb to the summit of Everest without oxygen. They climbed from Nepal.

In 1980, Messner was the first to climb to the summit solo. Messner climbed without oxygen. Messner climbed up the Norton Couloir on the north side of Everest in Tibet.

Interview

2016

A discussion of Mallory, Odell and Irvine.

A discussion of Mallory's plans to the climb to the mountain summit and two possible routes.

From the 11 min. mark to the 26 min. mark on the upload

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIDuS4FNvko


Tenzing Norgay was a Sherpa, born in 1914, from Nepal and Tibet.

Tenzin was on British Everest expeditions in Tibet in 1935, 1936 and 1938 and a Canadian Everest expedition in Tibet in 1947.

The Swiss tried twice to reach the summit in 1952, with two expeditions, one before the monsoon and one after the monsoon. They climbed from Nepal.

Tenzing Norgay was on both Swiss expeditions to Everest in 1952.

The British led an expedition from Nepal in 1953.

Tenzin Norgay and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were with the British expedition and climbed to the summit.

They were the first to reach the summit.



The Conquest of Everest

1953 Documentary

Edmund Hillary and Tenzin Norgay climb to the summit with a British expedition.

1:16:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT98UwP8jmU



The Race for Everest

2003 Documentary

The two attempts to reach the summit by the Swiss in 1952 and by the British in 1953.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDbE00gV20k






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Columbus Day

14 October 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T3NtEB_4qA



Fats Waller and His Rhythm

1936


Mister Christopher Columbus
Sailed the sea without a compass.
When his men began a rumpus,
Up spoke Christopher Columbus, yes!

"There's land somewhere.
Until we get there,
We will not go wrong,
If we sing, swing a song.

Since the world is round-o,
We'll be safe and sound-o.
Till our goal is found-o,
We'll just keep rhythm bound-o."

Since the crew was makin' merry,
Mary got up and went home!
There came a yell for Isabel,
and they brought the rum and Isabel.

No more mutiny, no.
What a time at sea!
With diplomacy
Christory made history! Yes!

Mister Christopher Columbus! Uh-huh!
He used rhythm as a compass! Yes, yes!
Music ended all the rumpus! Yes!
Wise old Christopher Columbus!
Latch on, Christy! Yeah!

Well, look-a there! Christy ' s grabbed the Santa Maria,
And he ' s going back! Yeah! Ahhhh, look-a there! Uh-huh. . .
In the year 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue!
What ' d I say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T3NtEB_4qA


Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy

1936

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blv7BsDxwjw


Benny Goodman and His Orchestra

1936

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKWztC4XZd8


THE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Encyclopaedia Britannica Film

1948

16:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaefYFAuqdo


Leif Erikson Day

9 October

Leif the Lucky, son of Erik the Red

Celebrates the discovery of America by the Norsemen


The Vikings reach America 500 years before Columbus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfp1HB1gNlE&t=50s


The Viking Settlement at the Top of the World

L'Anse aux Meadows

Newfoundland

Canada

Archeological evidence found in the 1960s

2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2LXDu1dlw



The Greenland Vikings - Land of the Midnight Sun

Documentary

2020

1:22:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbY-GrM8pI&t=1296s




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THANKSGIVING DAY

Jour de l'Action de grâce

CANADA

14 October 2024







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KING CHARLES III

On a tour of Samoa and Australia


Address to the British Commonwealth Nations

Parliament House, Canberra, capitol of Australia

Talamua Media

25 October 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKsgV1MTr8M


King Charles and Queen Camilla

Royal welcome at a traditional Ava ceremony in Samoa / Western Samoa

Hosted by the Head of State of the Independent State of Samoa, Le Afioga ia Tuimaleali'ifano Va'aleto'a Sualauvi II

Falelatai Village

24 October 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ElRdc6zsgw


Opening Ceremony

Faafiafiaga ma Pesepesega

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tba8MudplI


Children Perform Concert for Queen Camilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouINmzGO-s






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WORLD SERIES


New York Yankees, American League champions

vs

Brooklyn Dodgers / Los Angeles Dodgers, National League champions


Best of seven. The two teams are to play seven games. The first to win four games wins the World Series and is world champion. Series over.


Schedule


1. Friday, Oct. 25 - L. A.

2. Saturday, Oct. 26 - L. A.

Sunday - rest

3. Monday, Oct. 28 - N. Y. - Yankee Stadium

4. Tuesday, Oct. 29 - N. Y.

5. Wednesday, Oct. 30 - N. Y.

Thursday - rest day

6. Friday, Oct. 31 - L. A.

7. Saturday, November 1 - L. A.


The Yankees and Dodgers are meeting in the world series for the first time since 1981.

The Yankees and the Dodgers met twelve times in the world series. The Yankees won eight world series against the Dodgers. The Dodger won three. Their first meeting was in 1941.

The Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles between the 1957 and 1958 seasons.





DODGERS WIN THE SERIES IN FIVE GAMES

New York

30 October 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ykZoQMJLI


SERIES RECAP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4XLMpoAtPA




Take Me Out to the Ball Game

By Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer

1908

Chorus

Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd;
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team
If they don't win, it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.


Sung by The Haydn Quartet

1908

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCH-7vyywpE

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

1908 Edison recording

Sung by Edward Meeker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ytGaO2uXU


NY Yankees

Ed Sullivan

1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drOdOCuWNRY


Dodger Stadium Organist

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Dodger Stadium organist

1970s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqcpfzpdD70


7th Inning stretch at Yankees Stadium

God bless America

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYkb3oxCfr4


Dodger Stadium

2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZC5fhaC-do


A Mickey Mantle Home Run

World Series

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Na4FfusJM



The 2024 World Series are the Biggest Ever

October 26, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMF95eS4YI4





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HALLOWEEN

Thursday, 31 October 2024









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TRUMP REELECTED

Leads all night in vote counting

The outcome was never in doubt

Fox News projected Trump the winner at 1:53 a. m. ET on Wednesday morning, 6 November - the first network to declare victory for Trump.




RECAP

The exact moment Trump won the election

Canadian Broadcasting Company / CBC News

Andrew Chang

6 November 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woCTR--uvFM



The Republican Party wins control of the executive and legislative branches of government. The President and Vice-president are Republicans. Most Congressmen are Republicans.

The Republican Party retains control of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The Supreme Court is conservative. Six of the nine justices were appointed by Republican presidents, including three by Trump.

Most states have a Republican governor.


Trump has won two terms as president. Trump cannot run for a third term. The U. S. Constitution, as last amended, in 1947, allows for two four-year terms.

Who will the Republicans run in 2028? At present, J. D. Vance, the Vice-president-elect, from Ohio, has the inside track.

Trump is full of beans and unlikely to spend much time napping. But if he kicks the bucket, Vance becomes president.

The Vice-president presides over the Senate and casts a tie-breaking vote if required.

U. S. senators serve six-year terms. U. S. Representatives serve two-year terms - and must run in every election. The most famous members of the House, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Democrat from New York, and Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, easily won reelection to the House.



US election results

As of 22 November 2024


Popular vote


Trump

50 %

76,779,944 votes


Harris

48.3 %

74,250,654 votes


Electoral vote

270 required to win

Trump 312

Harris 226



Senate

51 required for control

Republicans 53, Democrats 47

The Dems lost four seats to the Republicans



House of Representatives

218 required for control

Republicans 219, Democrats 213

The Dems lost one seat, the Republicans gained one seat



Harris is Vice-president until 20 January 2025. If Biden checks out before then, Harris must be sworn in as president. She will serve until inauguration Day, on 20 January 2025, when Trump is sworn in.


Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. His opponent, Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote. But Trump won the electoral vote and thus the presidency.

Trump lost the popular vote in 2020. His opponent, Joe Biden, won the popular vote. Biden won also the electoral vote.

In 2024, Trump won the popular vote and electoral vote.




Significance

Sky News

9 November 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5vkBwiEUk



The Father of Elon Musk

Errol Musk

South Africa

Interview

Al Arabiya News

7 November 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE6--zpkpCk



THE BIG ISSUES

Break the hold of the Houthis over the Straits of Hormuz

Stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza

Get the Russians out of Ukraine



What will Trump do and how will he do it?

BBC

9 November 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEdYBSS6VGQ







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REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

10 November 2024

King Charles, Prince William and Princess Kate at the Cenotaph


Sky News

4:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFBtfziKQ3I


The Royal Family Channel

11:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LF4ABQy3wI


Talk TV

22:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhOunzj2G4U





ARMISTICE DAY

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month - the Great War / First World War ended.

The Armistice began at 11 a. m. on 11 November 1918.

The Armistice was an agreement between the Allies, led by the United States, France and Britain, and the Central Powers, led by Germany, to cease fighting before negotiating a peace.

An armistice is a truce.

Armistice is Latin for to stand / still arms. Latin: arma - arms / weapons; stitium - a stopping. To stand or still arms.

In the British Commonwealth, the annual Armistice Day Service of Remembrance commemorates the signing of the Armistice.

A two-minute silence is observed at 11 a. m. on 11 November.




Armistice Day Commemorations

The Cenotaph

Whitehall

London, England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Lk9MsTZvs



The Western Front Association

Commemoration

The Cenotaph, Whitehall

11 November 2024

Lord Astor, Lady Lucy French

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG_Rilb_Y7c




In Flanders Fields

Poem by Lt. Col. John McCrae in 1915


In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.



John McCrae's War

In Flanders Fields

Documentary by the National Film Board of Canada

1998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJexUjbcKgk




LE 11 NOVEMBRE 1918

L' ARMISTICE EST SIGNÉE DANS LA CLAIRIÈRE DE RETHONDES

FRANCE 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mZ3riYE6eM


FRANCE 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeAsrJLfoLM



1944

France Acclaims Mr Churchill

Newsreel

Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and General Charles de Gaulle, head of the French provisional government, laying wreaths on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris on Armistice Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8vL4p_r9n0



2024

Armistice Day 2024

For the first time in 80 years, a British Prime Minister is in Paris for Armistice Day.

British PM Starmer and French President Macron in Paris

The last time was in 1944, when Winston Churchill and General Charles De Gaulle led the commemoration ceremony.

FRANCE 24 English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGl_TqIgb4s

Sky News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BZFT6iLuMA




VETERANS DAY

USA

In the United States, Armistice Day is not commemorated.

Instead, on the same day as Armistice Day, 11 November, Veterans Day is commemorated.


La Marseillaise, French National Anthem

The American Ambassador to France with military men from the U. S. and France

French Memorial in Yorktown, Virginia

11 November 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX16LGlan-g


In 1776, the thirteen British colonies in North America declared their independence from Britain as thirteen independent states.

At the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, the American Continental Army, led by General George Washington with the Marquis de Lafayette, and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau and a French naval force commanded by the Comte de Grasse defeated the British Army commanded by General Charles Cornwallis.

The British surrendered their claim to the thirteen American colonies.

Thus ended the American Revolutionary War and American War of Independence.

Victory at Yorktown

The British surrender

19 October 1781

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh_VqiFiTEI





Bitter Endgame

Documentary with David Reynolds

BBC2

2008

54:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUuHRbtz6dE

or

55:29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFfJwIVnVhY

or

1:28:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wgefi8lqU





The Ending of World War I

The Road to 11 November

A lecture by David Stevenson

Gresham College

7 November 2018

49:41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqJsKRtiBOQ




All Quiet on the Western Front

A German novel about German soldiers on the western front / the French front in the Great War / First World War by Erich Maria Remarque in 1929.


American movie

1930

Based on the novel by Erich Remarque.

2:13:25

https://ok.ru/video/4059025705708



All Quiet on the Western Front

British - American movie

1979

Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence

2:35:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-btanYdpU&t=4s

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-btanYdpU



All Quiet on the Western Front

German movie

2022


Preview

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8eqqha


Movie

English Sub-titles

2:28:48

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8wam4u







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THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY RESIGNS

11 November 2024

Justin Welby, as the Archbishop of Canterbury was the head of the Church of England and Anglicans worldwide.

Welby was reproached for failing to alert police to reports of widespread child abuse by a member of the church.


BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gq11CzQLg&t=9s


CBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQf2g8QAJUA






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KING CHARLES III

Celebrates 76th Birthday Anniversary

14 November 2024





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MIKE TYSON

A big return to boxing

Draws 70,000 fans to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

60 million TV viewers

Fights an eight-round match with a 27-year-old heavyweight boxer

Two-minute rounds

15 November 2024

Tyson, age 58, did not win the decision but he did not look bad.

Tyson appeared to be in good physical shape. All muscle. No fat. No sag. He was still Mike Tyson.

No knockdowns.

Neither fighter was ever in trouble.


Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zxPBQFkLe0






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MICHAEL CLARKE

Nuclear Confrontation

Russia and the U. S.

Sky News

19 November 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZXivH_XcW8



FAIL SAFE

Mistakes can happen. In the nuclear age, too.

1964 movie

https://ok.ru/video/7365604084280






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THANKSGIVING

Thursday, 28 November 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lslqtUMwDxA&t=204s




THE MAYFLOWER PILGRIMS

Documentary

47:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e5aY_JSuNI



In 1500, churches in Europe followed the Church of Rome and the head of the church, the Pope.

The Church of England, and its head, the Archbishop of Canterbury, also followed the Church of Rome and the Pope. The Church of England was Roman Catholic.

Some churches on the Continent objected to certain practices of the Church of Rome and protested, as did Martin Luther in Germany in 1517. They demanded reform of the Church. They were called Protestants and their protests led to the Reformation - or Protestant Reformation - on the Continent.

Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII - was the King of England from 1509 to 1547.

Because the Pope would not grant Henry's request for an annulment of his marriage to Catharine of Aragon, Henry made himself the head of the Church of England and broke with the Pope and the Church of Rome in 1534.

The Church of England - the Anglican Church -
retained Catholic practices. The Church of England remained Catholic. But the Church of England no longer followed the Pope in Rome.

The Church of England required all in England to conform. Those who did not agree were persecuted.

There were Puritans, who wanted an end to all Catholic practices in the Church of England.

Some Puritans believed that it would be necessary to leave the Church of England to form their own church. They were called Separatists.

Presbyterians, mostly Scots in Scotland and northern England, wanted to govern their churches themselves, independent of the Church of England.

A group of Separatists left England to escape persecution. They went to Leiden in the Netherlands in 1607 / 1608.

Eventually, in 1620, they sailed across the Atlantic to North America. They called their ship the Mayflower.

The Mayflower passengers, later called Pilgrims, founded a settlement in North America (near present-day Boston, Massachusetts) in 1620 and called it Plymouth, after Plymouth on the coast of southwestern England, whence they had sailed.

Half of the Mayflower Pilgrims died in the first winter in America.

The native inhabitants - the Wampanoag - helped the Pilgrims in Plymouth to survive.

One year after founding Plymouth, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag celebrated in thanksgiving.


There were earlier British settlements in North America.

Harbour Grace in Newfoundland (named after Havre de Grâce, today Le Havre, in Normandy) was settled by the French and English in the 1500s. The French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founded Nouvelle France (the present-day Canadian province of Nova Scotia) with its centre at Port-Royale on the Bay of Fundy in 1604. The settlement was destroyed by the British in 1613.

The Spanish settled St. Augustine in Florida in 1565.

Roanoke (in present-day North Carolina) was settled in 1585. (This settlement disappeared without trace.)

Jamestown (named after King James I of England), in the colony of Virginia (named after Queen Elizabeth I, who was known as 'The Virgin Queen'), was settled by the British in 1607.

(The story of Captain John Smith and Pocahantas came from early Virginia.)



CROMWELL

1970 British movie

Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell, Alec Guiness as King Charles I of England

2:19:50

https://vimeo.com/groups/817241/videos/762229506


The Church of England followed the Church in Rome. The Church of England was Catholic.

In 1534, The King of England, King Henry VIII, made himself the head of the Church of England and broke with the Church of Rome.

However, the Church of England retained Roman Catholic practices.

Many members of the Church of England - the Anglican Church - sought to reform the Church. They wanted to be rid of many Catholic practices. This was the Protestant Reformation.

King Henry's daughter, Elizabeth Tudor - Queen Elizabeth I - was a Protestant.

Elizabeth's successor, James Stuart of Scotland - King James I of England - was a Protestant.

James' son, Charles Stuart - King Charles I of England from 1625 to his death in 1649 - was a Protestant.

Most Englishmen were Protestant but felt King Charles retained too many Catholic practices.

Most members of the English Parliament were Protestant.

King Charles and Parliament disagreed on many matters.

The King tried to suppress members of Parliament who opposed him.

Parliament raised an army and went to war with the King and fought the King's army.

There followed a long Civil War in England.

Eventually, the Parliamentary army defeated the King's army.

King Charles was taken prisoner by the Scots and left with the English Parliamentary forces.

Oliver Cromwell, a Protestant and a Puritan and member of Parliament, succeeded to the command of the Parliamentary army.

Earlier, in 1634, Cromwell, a Puritan and Separatist, wanted to go to the colony of Connecticut in America but Parliament compelled him to remain in England.

Parliament beheaded the King in 1649.

Parliament abolished the monarchy, established a Republic and governed England, Scotland and Ireland as a Commonwealth (1649 - 1660).

Oliver Cromwell, as the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was the head of state and head of government from 1653 till his death in 1658.

Cromwell subdued Scotland and Ireland.

Several years after the death of Cromwell, the British Parliament restored the monarchy and Charles, the eldest son of Charles I, became king - King Charles II (1660 - 1685).

At the death of Charles II, his younger brother, James, was King James II.

King James II was Catholic - the last Catholic monarch of England (1685 - 1688).

King James was deposed by Parliament. His army deserted him.

James' daughters, Mary and Ann, were Protestants and succeeded James as monarchs.

Ann was the last Stuart monarch (1702 - 1714).

Ann died (1714) without an heir.

Ann was succeeded by Protestant monarchs from Germany - the House of Hanover to 1901 and the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to 1917 - and since then as the House of Windsor.

The English Civil Wars

Documentary about the English Civil War

Narrated by Robert Powell

1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Nq_6VY7MI







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Cathédrale NOTRE DAME DE PARIS

REOPENS 7 and 8 December 2024


Closed since a fire in April 2019


FRANCE 2024

9 Nov. 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OExntkM2IDQ





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PEARL HARBOR

7 December 1941

Japanese attack the Hawaiian Islands


83rd Anniversary

2024


Tora! Tora! Tora!

A Japanese and American movie

1970

An all-star cast, including Joseph Cotton and E. G. Marshall


Preview / Advertisement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvpYBcFpZc


The movie

2 hrs. 19 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvpYBcFpZc





BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL

The Prime Minister speaks in the House of Commons

BBC Radio broadcast

8 December 1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRsKsGA5T8


AMERICAN PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

Address to Joint Session of Congress

8 December 1941

Audio only

National Archives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnCkUY7jJ6k


Video excerpt

short excerpt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhtuMrMVJDk

longer excerpt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhtuMrMVJDk


British Movietone newsreel

Lowell Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXatRHDghvI



FIRESIDE CHAT

9 December 1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-EB46k9Fug



Pearl Harbor

Singapore

Episode 4 from Season 4 of the documentary series Battlefield

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 (8) December 1941

The Japanese capture of Singapore, 15 February 1942

Tim Pigott-Smith, narrator

2000

1:39:36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_C4Ui06ck





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Oleksandr Usyk

Undisputed and Undefeated World Heavyweight Boxing Champion


Defends his titles


Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine

vs

Tyson Fury of Great Britain, ex-champion

Rematch

12 rounds

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia






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Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Bill Evans

Piano solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbnF-xyQInc



Swingin ' them Jingle Bells

Fats Waller

1936

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuiPoDfvx7M&t=2s



I ' m Going Home for Christmas

Sydney Lipton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShLwITX5KJk








We Three Kings of Orient Are

By John Henry Hopkins Jr.

1857

Sung by Kings College, Cambridge

2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx35_DRIZ8g









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British WW1 Drill Instruction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7jYRMI9vI&t=241s


British WW2 Army Drill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkh0XBC-5d8



Drill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JI9j5p5-GU





Scotland the Brave

Massed Bands

March

Dufftown Highland Games in Moray

2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnG1oUkWBa8





Marching to Holyrood Palace

Balaklava Coy 5th Bn Royal Regiment of Scotland

Supported By Pipes and Drums 1st Bn Scots Guards

Followed by the Scots Band

17 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plMhDmNKZ04




Colonel Bogey's March

HM Royal Marines Band

Glasgow

2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPn9M7TLlI







THE GHOST GOES WEST

1935 British film

With Robert Donat, Jean Parker and Eugene Pallette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPGs3vOPpzc

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4xGMVul75E


En français

FANTÔME À VENDRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaiHB4Je8Ec




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The Shot Heard Round the World

The Coming of the American Revolution

By Kent Masterson Brown

2023

1:48:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqcndo3C1pk





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VIRGINIA


Williamsburg

The Story of a Patriot

With Jack Lord

1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4u_RZh9tc4&t=692s



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AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE


THE BOSTON MASSACRE

March 5, 1770


You Are There

Walter Cronkite

CBS

1955

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rueSDVu7aPs&t=20s


The Boston Massacre

Ohio State University

2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tckWeYSFlM


Crispus Attucks

A Native American (Wampanoag) with African ancestry

An escaped slave, sailor, whaler, stevedore

One of five colonists shot and killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WDuqJ7UgUo




THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

December 16, 1773


Introduction to The Boston Tea Party

Walt Disney

1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bUSpSrT2lg&t=211s


You Are There

Walter Cronkite

1955

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfOVu-uxM74&t=332s


Reenactment

Boston Harbor

2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJvdTNE1QsI




FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

Carpenter's Hall

Philadelphia

September 5 to October 26, 1774




GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!

Patrick Henry

March 23, 1775

2nd Virginia Convention

St. John's Church

Richmond, Virginia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbghWFMLyiA




After the Boston Tea Party, the British parliament clamped down on the government of colonial Massachusetts. The colonials thus formed the provisional Massachusetts Provincial Congress and warned local militias to prepare for combat. The British army marched from Boston to capture militia supplies in Concord. On the night of 18 April 1775, colonial riders from Boston warned the colonials along the road of the British approach.


To arms! To arms! The Redcoats are coming!


Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five . . .

Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.


The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hUMQG3MI8&t=114s


Summoning the militiamen in Lexington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2L8Hc0yoC0


The Colonials prepared to confront the British army in Lexington, on the road to Concord. On the morning of 19 April 1775, the colonials fought the British on Lexington Green. Later in the day, the colonials fought the British in Concord.


The Battle of Lexington Green

The British Army confronts the Massachusetts Militia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zpXaxg3is


British army confronts militiamen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG8S1oneoWQ

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsB6e2sTFy4


Reenactment

Lexington, Massachusetts

April 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWDf87VVpMk


The Battles of Lexington and Concord

April 19, 1775

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGf3E4cCx_g&t=12s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGf3E4cCx_g&t=37s


The Old North Bridge

Concord

Colonials confront British army

April 19, 1775

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVegWp1DB3E


As the British army withdrew to Boston, colonials shot at the soldiers as they passed on the road.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.



THE SIEGE OF BOSTON

April 19, 1775 TO March 17, 1776



Boston is on a peninsula.

The patriots pursued the British from Concord to Boston Harbor. The British returned to their quarters in Boston.

The Patriots blockaded the harbor. The British could not move from the peninsula.

The colonials brought canons captured from the British and shelled British ships in the harbor.



THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

June 17, 1775




SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

Pennsylvania State House

Philadelphia

May 10, 1775 to March 1, 1781



KING GEORGE III

Proclamation of Rebellion

Declaration by the British government that the American colonies are in a state of 'open and avowed rebellion'

26 October 1775

Read by John Hancock of Massachusetts, president of the Continental Congress, to the Congress

1 November 1775

Reenactment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JTxVHQAp8w



DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE


The Vote for Independence from England

Continental Congress

Philadelphia

2 July 1776

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFPFhuOsvQ4



The Declaration of Independence

A reading

4 July 1776

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjjX8RjSQds



The Signers

56 Men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8IdmKapYk



The Declaration of Independence

1938 movie

John Litel as Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson drafts the Declaration of Independence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lztj9eINZgE



Signing of the Declaration of Independence

You Are There

Walter Cronkite

CBS

1953

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wAO2gAz9qc



1776

A movie adaptation of the stage musical 1776

The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, considers the possibility of independence from England

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin discuss the drafting of the Declaration of independence

With William Daniels as John Adams, Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Franklin, Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson, David Ford as John Hancock, Donald Madden as John Dickinson, and John Cullum as Edward Rutledge

1972

2:46:38 / 166, 167 / extended director ' s cut

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ngcau



Ben and Me

A Walt Disney cartoon with Benjamin Franklin

1953

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXrNYo-_H1Y



1776

A book by David McCullough

2005

A talk by the author

Uploaded in 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMLYbJC0a0


C-SPAN

2005

https://www.c-span.org/video/?187160-1/1776


Q & A

C-SPAN

2005

https://www.c-span.org/video/?188297-1/qa-david-mccullough


Talk

National Book Festival

2005

https://www.c-span.org/video/?189007-14/1776



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Marquis de Lafayette



Marquis de Lafayette

Episode from the documentary series Washington's Generals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN1jrr_CMzM&t=668s



Lafayette & the Age of Revolution

Documentary

1:12:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9xfhOgrcM



Marquis de Lafayette Returns

Grand tour of America in 1824

Colonial Williamsburg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=436wRCo-bio



Changing of the American Flag over Lafayette's Tomb

Annual ceremony on July 4

Picpus Cemetery

Paris

France Revisited

2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2wlALvJNdQ&t=58s








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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR


Spies!

How A Group of Long Island Patriots Helped General Washington Win the Revolution.

An exhibit at the Three Village Historical Society in Setauket, Long Island, New York


George Washington ' s Spy Ring

How the five spies, called ' Culpers ', gathered information about British military activity on Long Island and Manhattan and sent it to General Washington.

A talk by Elizabeth Kahn Kaplan, Curator of the Three Village Historical Society in Setauket

International Spy Museum

2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq9VwhU_RV8





Frederich Wilhelm von Steuben

Baron von Steuben

Prussian military officer

born 1730

died 1794

Von Steuben arrived in America in 1777

In 1778, General George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, appointed von Steuben inspector general of the army

Von Steuben reformed the Continental Army


Von Steuben arrives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZbCs5yBrc&t=96s


Von Steuben ' s Continentals

The First American Army

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EmOBS3zMGg&t=221s


The Continental Army Manual Exercise

by Baron de Steuben

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWXn-_B41Dc




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German soldiers in the American Revolutionary War

German soldiers with the British Army


30,000 Hessians

From Hesse / Hessen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0eD92u1Xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOZTT2sDePc





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How the flintlock musket was used in battles of the Revolutionary War

National Park Service

2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drL9GeKrr6U





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Now or Never!

Documentary about the Yorktown Campaign of 1781

25:04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tXmpIp6_7c


Victory at Yorktown

Documentary about the British surrender at Yorktown on 19 October 1781

1970

11:39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh_VqiFiTEI






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2024 IS AN ELECTION YEAR IN THE U. S.




THE BEST-KNOWN U. S. PRESIDENTS


George Washington, 1789 - 1797

Thomas Jefferson, 1801 - 1809

Abraham Lincoln, 1861 - 1865

Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 - 1909

Mount Rushmore

A proud symbol of America

CBS Evening News

1 November 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVeeO_fuodQ





GEORGE WASHINGTON


When the Redskins Rode

A movie about the British, French, Indians and Colonel George Washington in the 1750s before the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763)

1951 movie

James Seay as Colonel George Washington

https://ok.ru/video/539284146928


Washington's War

General George Washington and the American Revolutionary War

Documentary

George Washington's Mount Vernon

2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFvx8n_9s9M


The Crossing

2000 movie

General Washington leads the Continental Army in an attack against the Hessian army camp at Trenton, New Jersey on 26 December 1776.

Jeff Daniels as General George Washington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jgEMrK1lcM


Now or Never

The Yorktown Campaign of 1781

Yorktown, Virginia

25:04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tXmpIp6_7c


The inauguration of George Washington

The first president of the United States

Federal Hall

New York City

April 30, 1789

Reenactment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgCQDZdlMdc


Recounting the inauguration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Kz36XbNQ4


David McCullough

The Importance of George Washington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNFNtBk7Cag


David McCullough

1776

Interview by Charlie Rose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84015J3oef0




THOMAS JEFFERSON


The Declaration of Independence

1938 movie

John Litel as Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson drafts the Declaration of Independence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lztj9eINZgE




ABRAHAM LINCOLN


Abraham Lincoln

1930

Walter Huston as Lincoln

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0BjEZUbwmo


Lincoln in the White House

1939

Frank McGlynn Sr. as Lincoln

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_White_House


Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1940 movie

Raymond Massey as Lincoln

https://ok.ru/video/3893615725303


The Gettysburg Address

Warner Pathé Newsreel

1951

Lincoln's address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863 - after the Battle of Gettysburg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b32TP_clDI


The Gettysburg Address

Recitation

Gregory Peck

Excerpt from the movie The Blue and the Grey

1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V5gToC_yl8

1986

Recitation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkKQJ0GVMk


Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Reenactment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UqcitsiY4o


Witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865

1930

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6IFEE_CM-I




THEODORE ROOSEVELT


Teddy, the Rough Rider

1940 short film

Sidney Blackmer as Theodore Roosevelt

The movie follows Roosevelt as police commissioner of New York City, appointed in 1895; as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy, appointed in 1897; his charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba in the Spanish-American War in 1898; his brief term as vice-president after William McKinley was elected president in 1900; and as president when McKinley was assassinated in 1901.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVZInNQ9sdQ&t=16s


Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt and the Spanish American War in Cuba

The charge up San Juan Hill

Tom Berenger

1997 TV series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjeYqS1WG34


The Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt

Reenactment

2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww_RcEAfT1o


Theodore Roosevelt

Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhlzdjPGxrs




WOODROW WILSON


Wilson

1944 movie about Woodrow Wilson

Alexander Knox as Wilson

The movie follows Wilson as the president of Princeton U., then as the governor of New Jersey, and then as the president of the U. S. - through the Great War, the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles, and his efforts to persuade America to back the League of Nations (forerunner of the United Nations).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrewqPWTamU&t=58s




FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT


Sunrise at Campobello

1960 movie

Ralph Bellamy as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Greer Garson as Eleanor Roosevelt

https://ok.ru/video/280126229155

Campobello is an island in the province of New Brunswick in the Canadian Maritimes, in eastern Canada on the Atlantic Ocean. The island faces east to the Bay of Fundy and Nova Scotia. The island is on the Canadian side of the U. S. - Canadian border. To the south, the state of Maine is on the U. S. side. To the north, the province of New Brunswick is on the Canadian side.

Campobello was the Roosevelt family summer home.

A healthy Franklin Roosevelt, age 39, is suddenly stricken with a permanent paralytic disease.


Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

1933 - 1945

Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

TV Series

1977

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDJ15OuK2CA

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPQ6v5veOsk&t=1114s

F D R

Pearl Harbor Speach

8 December 1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhtuMrMVJDk


FDR Dies

12 April 1945


Rest in Peace

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Movietone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B6J_z152cQ


Funeral of President Roosevelt

United News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJS5-YfJTpI


Franklin Delano Roosevelt

United News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVcxtuBk9n4

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

First Woman of the World

Interview

1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU5K17DfpQI




DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

1953 - 1961



IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY

2004

The 90 days to the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.

Tom Selleck as Eisenhower

https://www.bilibili.tv/th/video/2045623788

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pk_cjONaHY&t=342s

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49yzatqSO4w


General Eisenhower Takes Over New Command

Takes Command of Allied Forces of the Second Front / Western Front

London

Gaumont British News

1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lDs7C3D6EI


Eisenhower in Britain

British Pathé

1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGKoY8rsw0


Eisenhower in London

18 June 1945

The Allied Commander, General Eisenhower, is given the Freedom of the City of London.

Mr and Mrs Churchill greeted him on his arrival at the Guildhall for the ceremony.

From the Guildhall, General Eisenhower went to the Mansion House and from there he spoke to the gathered crowd.

British Movietone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQHM9oqufv0



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OVER THERE

George M. Cohan

James Cagney and Joan Leslie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYV044H5muI

George M. Cohan and FDR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1rkzUIL8oc


GOD BLESS AMERICA

Irving Berlin

Sung by Kate Smith

1938 - 1939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOAH2lv3H0


MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE

The Eric Rogers Chorale and Orchestra

1963 - 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYG-0OEwQfA


AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL

United States Army Band

Music for the Presidential Inauguration

15 January 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXlzBR23HG0


America, the Beautiful

Lucy Monroe, soprano

Lucy Monroe (1906 - 1987) was a direct descendant of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States.

National Symphony Orchestra

Charles O'Connell, conductor

Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.

Recorded January 29, 1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nArZU6inJwI


THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER

Lucy Monroe

1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2FWB3h2zpU



THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

The Robert Shaw Chorale

RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbboRBPZZQ




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A BIG YEAR FOR INDIANS FROM INDIA IN THE U. S. A.



Kim

A story by Rudyard Kipling

1950 movie with Errol Flynn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrlC57lU8wY


The Lady, or the Tiger?

A story by Frank Stockton

Movie 1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dQOCu-Uwas


The Jungle Book

By Rudyard Kipling

Feature-length cartoon by Walt Disney in 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8c9XngVwA4


Gandhi

1982 movie

Directed by Richard Attenborough

With Ben Kingsley as Gandhi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HT4BM7cgJw&t=54s


Remember when Indian women wore the sari / saree?

Saree

Evolution and Tradition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMKEC6HTKE0




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BIG YEAR FOR FRANCE


Chanson d'automne / Verlaine / Charles Trenet

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BlyCcrmHpI

Charles Trenet

1940

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89UWYbghhg


I Love Paris / Cole Porter

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hU_X6Vr1MY


Que reste-t-il de nos amours? / Charles Trenet

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OddALnXIhkE

Charles Trenet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_uvgm2_hRk


La Mer

Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Za8pKGT2E

Charles Trenet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztkUuunI7g


Getting some fun out of life

Joë Santoni and his Rhythm Club

With Tatiana Eva-Marie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJaSyC3kkI4


C'est Si Bon

Avalon Jazz Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBcsqD6f36s

Charles Trenet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oN7E-QUp74


Sous le Ciel de Paris / Under Paris Skies

Accordion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGqVAtDUMU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfqSmzR97UA



UNE VISITE À PARIS

La Tour Eifel / Champ-de-Mars / Place de Trocadéro / Palais de Chaillot

L'Arc de Triomphe / Les Champs-Élysées / Place de la Concorde / Obélisque de Luxor

La Cathédrale Notre-Dame

Le Louvre

La Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre

Le Palais de Versailles



Quelques films


Le Ballon Rouge

1956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGzY9zp46KI


Crin Blanc

1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-aB3H6El0&t=15s


La Vache et le Prisonnier

Fernandel

1959

En noir et blanc

https://www.tokyvideo.com/fr/video/la-vache-et-le-prisonnier-vf

Colorisé

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8stnbg



La Marseillaise

Instrumental

The Proms

2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWemV6TiUZE

Chorus

Le Concert De Paris

Bastille Day 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BhWcSBJtI

Chanté en français

Avec paroles en français et en anglais

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G60OzaglxAQ

Défilé du 14 juillet

Paris, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmnVJSg3z5A






Un café au lait

Un croissant

Un pain au chocolat

Un verre d'eau














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MARTIN LUTHER

1483 - 1546

Born and died in Eisleben, Mansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt



Martin Luther

1953 American and West German film

Niall MacGinnis as Martin Luther

105 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSoGjprY070

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eYUrgV4ONc


Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

The Wartburg Choir

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDdHtOSHIXE&t=20s