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		ALVIN FOR PRESIDENT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW7DWVJi3t0 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ---------------- 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. -------------------- 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 ---------------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ------------------- 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 - 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. --------------------- The NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity 30 January 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAaZaPg-FjE --------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ------------------- 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. ------------------- Carnival Rio de Janeiro Brazil Afternoon, February 9 to mid-day, February 14, 2024 A sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux3vGmwVsSY ----------------- Mardi Gras New Orleans Tuesday, 13 February 2024 2023 highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si9q-Ricgjs -------------------- 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. -------------------- 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 --------------------- 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 --------------- TRUMP VISITS MEXICAN BORDER The Telegraph 1 March 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_rTov239yw -------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ------------------- SWEDEN JOINS NATO Global News 7 March 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cJlltVCMg ------------------------ 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 ----------------- PRESIDENT - FOR - LIFE PUTIN Bill Browder Times Radio 17 March 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9BvRvMamk ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ----------- 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 ________________ 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 ------------------ Worst floods in 100 years Russia and Kazakhstan Steve Rosenberg BBC News 11 April 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Z2yO_NDEc ----------------- 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 ------------- 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 --------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ------------------ WARREN BUFFET, CEO BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY ANNUAL MEETING Morning session Omaha, Nebraska May 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qiDOL5V4M --------------- 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 ------------------ 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. ------------------------ 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 ------------ 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 ------------------ 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 ------------------ 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 Usyk and Fury review their fight TNT Sports 12:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzAH7HNKNEs&t=125s ANOTHER REVIEW OF THE FIGHT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8lHKdz8YY 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 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 ---------------------- DONALD TRUMP IN THE BRONX Trump in campaign rally Sky News 24 May 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqfsYhWxy0 ------------------ 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 ------------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------------- Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev Russian-Ukrainian politician Interview Uploaded 11 June 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysQYejsz_eI -------------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ------------------- 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 --------------------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------------- ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ AOC cuts loose Rally in the Bronx Forbes 23 June 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OitA-nKSeAI ----------------- 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 ------------------------ 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 ------------------------ 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 -------------- 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 ------------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ----------------------- 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, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a 20-year-old man from the Pittsburgh area. Crooks was a tall and lanky college student who lived at home with his parents. He had a job as a dietary specialist in a nursing facility. 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. There is much video and audio of everything else but the audio of the few seconds of this encounter and the policeman's subsequent irrational dash away from the building are withheld from the public. The public have received only second-hand reports of the audio. 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 around and away from him. The policeman did NOT climb up onto the roof. The policeman did not draw his gun. 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. The policeman did not tell other policemen to climb back to the roof with him. Another video shows 'Officer 1', in blue uniform and bareheaded, with his handgun drawn, walking in front of the building, 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 Plump out-of-shape women are assigned to protect the president. That was unthinkable just a few years ago. 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 The following bodycam video from the policeman, described above as 'Officer 1', was shown at a congressional committee hearing. However, 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 This was 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. The congressman used the meeting to declare his full backing of the local police by blaming the Secret Service. The meeting served no other purpose. There were some comments that ere made in the meeting that are worth posting: According to the committee chairman, in the missing audio from the bodycam, the policeman . . . identified as PD Ops 3 / Butler Township Police / Officer 1 radioed the following at 128:11:03: '. . . 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 actually quotes from the missing recording. 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 Officer 1 ran from the scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moQMUjsEcM Crooks shot at Trump from the top of a building referred to as 'the AGR building'. The building was one of several similar buildings within a fenced compound beside the rally grounds. The AGR compound is owned by the American Glass Research Company. Two local police (SWAT) snipers with high-powered sniper rifles and telescopic lenses were stationed in two windows in the building immediately behind the building that Crooks climbed onto and from which Crooks shot at Trump. The two police snipers had an excellent view of the building that Crooks shot from. They would have seen Crooks. However, the two police snipers left their posts just minutes before the shooting. The policemen left their posts and went home before Trump arrived. They quit their posts at 6:00 p. m. FOUR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS WERE ASSASSINATED: Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1865) was shot and killed by a famous 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 shipping and receiving clerk, was perched on the sixth floor of a book depository 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. An hour later, Oswald shot and killed a policeman, who stopped him in the street near his living quarters in a Dallas suburb. Oswald was apprehended by the police soon afterwards in a nearby cinema theatre. Oswald was in custody in a Dallas police station 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 16 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, and commander of the army, Ulysees S. Grant. Seward was severely injured. 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 an hour or so 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 captured and killed. Lecture by James Thompson, historian, at the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeaPcGxGeE0 Booth was shot by a soldier when tracked down. Booth's four co-conspirators were hanged together. The hanging at the Washington Arsenal Prison on 7 July 1865 An excerpt from a Hollywood movie in 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nV2VfMUGPQ Three co-conspirators were sentenced to life in prison with hard labor. One co-conspirator was imprisoned for six years with hard labor. 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, in a police station. 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 ----------------------- 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. ------------- 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 - worst Joe Biden, 2021 to 2025 - second worst Bill Clinton, 1993 - 2001 - third worst 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 --------------------- 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 ------------------------- Astronauts on the International Space Station / ISS Celebrate the Olympic Games The Tribune 27 July 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QCRKzeLPA --------------- 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 ----------------------- 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 ------------------------- 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. -------------------- 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. ----------------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ------------------ AOC First to speak at the Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago 19 August 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWBi-d1AhU -------------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ---------------------- 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. ------------------------ 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 -------------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ----------------- 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 --------------------- CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES Problems 60 Minutes 16 September 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80MGYrWWaM --------------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ----------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 -------------------- SANDY IRVINE Andrew Comyn Irvine Born in Cheshire, England on 8 April 1902 Lost on Mount Everest on 8 June 1924 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 Everest, in Tibet, for the mountain summit on the morning of 8 June 1924. They did not return. Mallory and Irvine were the first British climbers to die on Everest. The next climbing expedition, also British, nine years later, in 1933, found an ice axe belonging to Mallory or Irvine high up on Everest. Mallory and Irvine climbed with oxygen. In 1991, an American climber spotted an oxygen cylinder from the 1924 expedition a short distance further up the mountain. In 1999, an international expedition found Mallory's intact body high up on the mountain - well below the sites of the ice axe and oxygen cylinder. The partial remains of Irvine were found at the bottom of Mount Everest in September 2024. The approach to Mount Everest is from Nepal in the south and from Tibet in the north. Nepal was closed to mountain climbers until the late 1940s. British army Col. Francis Younghusband, with 3,000 soldiers, marched into Tibet in 1904 and forced the country to open to the British. The first climbing expeditions to Mount Everest were led by the British in 1921, 1922 and 1924. The 1921 expedition was a reconnaissance mission. Expeditions reached the North Face of Everest from the north by the Rongbuk Valley. They visited the Rongbuk Monastery and continued to the Rongbuk Glacier. They turned onto the east branch of the glacier, the East Rongbuk Glacier, and followed it to the base of the North Face of Everest. They climbed up the North Ridge of the mountain. They pitched their highest camp on the North Ridge. There were two ways to the summit from the high camp on the North Ridge: 1. Follow the North Ridge up 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. Climb west across the North Face to the Grand Couloir (a wide prominent gully) and climb up the Couloir to the summit pyramid and the summit. Mallory was the only climber to go on all three expeditions. The 1922 expedition made three attempts to climb to the summit. Mallory led the first and third attempts. Snowing conditions forced the first attempt to turn back on the North Ridge before reaching the Northeast Ridge. A malfunctioning oxygen set forced the second attempt to turn back half-way across the North Face before reaching the Grand Couloir. An avalanche, which killed many Sherpas, prevented the third attempt from reaching the North Ridge. The Sherpas were the first climbers to die on Everest. The 1924 expedition made three attempts to climb to the summit. Mallory led the first and third attempts. The first attempt ended on the North Ridge when the Sherpa porters refused to continue. Edward Norton, the leader of the expedition, started the second attempt, without oxygen, with a climbing partner who fell ill half-way across the North Face. Norton continued alone, in a solo climb, 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, lack of oxygen and shortage of time forced him to abandon the attempt. For the last attempt, Mallory planned to climb to the summit by the Northeast Ridge. 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. Mallory and Irvine were to set out from the high camp on the North Ridge at dawn, or earlier, on the morning of 8 June. Mallory and Irvine climbed with two bottles of oxygen each. Odell followed Mallory and Irvine from some distance in support. At 12:50 p. m., from below, Odell thought he saw Mallory and Irvine high up on the mountain - on the Northeast Ridge. At the high camp, Odell found indications that Mallory and Irvine experienced problems with the oxygen sets that might have delayed their departure from camp. Climbing above the high camp, Odell discovered that the oxygen sets did not work well at the highest altitudes. Mallory and Irvine reached the Northeast Ridge. Beyond that, nothing is known. There was a two-hour snow squall in the mid-afternoon, between two and four o'clock. The next climbing expedition, in 1933, found a Swiss ice axe from the 1924 expedition, belonging to Mallory or Irvine, just below the Northeast Ridge. The position and perfect condition of the ice axe indicated that it was deliberately set down. In 1991, an oxygen cylinder from the 1924 expedition was spotted a short distance further up along the Northeast Ridge. In 1999, Mallory's body was found high up on the mountain - but well below the sites of the ice axe and oxygen cylinder. 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. The rope that tied Mallory to Irvine snapped at Mallory's end 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. Mallory was found 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. 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. Mallory and Irvine were to climb with two oxygen cylinders each. Only one bottle, found on the Northeast Ridge, was ever recovered. Mallory was found without the oxygen bottle backpack frame. The oxygen sets might have failed on the Northeast Ridge, forcing Mallory and Irvine to call off the summit attempt and return to camp. Mallory and Irvine left an ice axe a short distance below the Northeast Ridge. Indications are that the ice axe was left on the descent from the mountain. However, the ice axe might have been set down on the ascent. The oxygen cylinder found further up might have been picked up and carried from a lower original point - perhaps the site of the ice axe - by climbers between 1960 and 1991. Mallory did not fall from the Northeast Ridge. Mallory chose to descend from the Northeast Ridge by a large snow field in the middle of the North Face, between the North Ridge and the Couloir. Mallory fell while crossing low on the snow field. Mallory and Irvine might have been caught in the mid-afternoon snow squall. 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 on a section of bare earth of a crevasse on the West Rongbuk Glacier, at the base of the north side of the mountain. The snow and ice had thawed a week or so before, leaving the boot exposed. In the boot were a sock (with a name tag: A. C. IRVINE) and a left foot. The presence of goraks / Himalayan ravens indicated the recent appearance of the foot from the melting ice. The boot was spotted by a drone. The remains were recovered from the West Rongbuk Glacier, also called the Main Rongbuk Glacier - NOT the East Rongbuk Glacier. Climbing expeditions usually approach the North Face by the East Rongbuk Glacier. Climbers seldom approach the mountain by the West Rongbuk Glacier. The location of the find, reported by the photographers, indicated a fall from the North Face of the mountain to the glacier. More human remains and clothing and climbing equipment could be in the snow and 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 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 Enquête sur l'Everest Documentaire 2022 17:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfn11VPNxic Le pied d'Irvine retrouvé sur l'Everest Une découverte incroyable FastNews / World News Octobre 2024 2:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP-cezSn500 ----------------- 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 ---------------- THANKSGIVING DAY Jour de l'Action de grâce CANADA 14 October 2024 --------------------- 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 ----------------------- 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 ---------------- HALLOWEEN Thursday, 31 October 2024 ---------------------- 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 retains 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. 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 Vote tallies as of 18 December 2024 Reported by the Associated Press Popular vote Trump 77,303,573 votes (49.9%) Harris 75,019,257 votes (48.4%) Electoral vote 538 electors 270 majority required to win Trump 312 Harris 226 Senate 100 senators - two senators from each of the 50 states 51 required for control Republicans 53, Democrats 47 The Dems lost four seats to the Republicans The vice-president presides over the senate and casts the tie-breaking vote. House of Representatives 435 members 218 required for control Republicans 220, Democrats 215 The Dems gained one seat; the Republicans lost one seat Trump won the popular vote by a smaller margin than every winner since 1888 - except Kennedy in 1960 and Nixon in 1968. Kennedy and Nixon won by the smallest margins. Trump lost the popular vote in the 2016 election. His opponent, Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote. But Trump won the electoral vote and thus the presidency. Trump lost the popular vote in the 2020 election. His opponent, Joe Biden, won the popular vote. Biden won also the electoral vote. In 2024, Trump won the popular vote and electoral vote. 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. Harris is vice-president until Inauguration Day on 20 January 2025. If Biden checks out before then, Harris must be sworn in as president and serve until inauguration Day, when Trump is sworn in. Significance Sky News 9 November 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5vkBwiEUk Errol Musk Father of Elon 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 and attacks in the West Bank. Get the Russians out of Ukraine - all of Ukraine. What will Trump do and how will he do it? BBC 9 November 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEdYBSS6VGQ Trump is not a popular character. Biden was elected to get rid of Trump. Voters thought Trump was at fault for Covid. Biden was a four-year-mistake. Trump's re-election put an end to that mistake. Trump will probably be worse. His cabinet choices are the worst in decades, if not the worst in U. S. history. Trump could be impeached and forced to resign early in his term. J. D. Vance and Mike Johnson will not be any better. ----------------------- 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 ------------------------- 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 --------------------- KING CHARLES III Celebrates 76th Birthday Anniversary 14 November 2024 --------------- RING MAGAZINE Boxing legend Oscar de la Hoya sells Ring Magazine to Turki bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Sheikh, Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia and advisor to the royal court November 2024 Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKU18f3VARE Comments by a night club bouncer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-JBvtavE8 ------------------- 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 ------------------------ 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 ------------------ TRUMP GAZA, LEBANON, UKRAINE AND TAIWAN Gen. Jack Keane Sky News 28 November 2024 13:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8wirJebjIM&t=66s ----------------------- THANKSGIVING Thursday, 28 November 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lslqtUMwDxA&t=204s Preparing a Thanksgiving Day Dinner 1796 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsWamvAJDKw THE MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS Puritans, Separatists, other passengers, crewmen, Documentary 47:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e5aY_JSuNI In 1500, most churches in western Europe followed the Church of Rome and its head, the Pope, and followed the practices of the Church of Rome. The Church of England, and its head, the Archbishop of Canterbury, also followed the Church of Rome and the Pope. 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 eventually led to Reforms, called the Reformation - or Protestant Reformation - on the Continent. Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII - was the King of England from 1509 to 1547. Henry did not have a son and heir. His wife, Catharine of Aragon, bore him sons but none survived. Henry wanted to marry another woman, Anne Boleyn, daughter of an English nobleman. The Pope refused to grant Henry's request to annul his marriage to Catharine of Aragon. Henry married Anne Boleyn. The Pope threatened to excommunicate Henry. Henry made himself the head of the Church of England and broke with the Pope and the Church of Rome (1534). The Church of England continued many of the practices of the Church of Rome but no longer followed the Pope. The Church of England was English, not Roman. The Church of England required all in England to conform. Those who did not agree were persecuted. Some people wanted an end to all Roman practices in the Church of England. They were called Puritans. 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 - and the Church of Rome. A group of Separatists left England to escape persecution. They moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1607 / 1608 and settled in Leiden. Eventually, in 1620, the Separatists sailed across the Atlantic to North America. The ship was called the Mayflower. Two hundred years later, they were commonly recalled as 'Pilgrims', or the 'Pilgrim Fathers'. Less than half the Mayflower passengers were traveling to North America for religious purposes. The Mayflower passengers founded a settlement in North America (near present-day Boston, Massachusetts) in 1620 and called it Plymouth, after the port of Plymouth on the coast of southwestern England, on the English Channel, whence they had sailed. Half of the Mayflower settlers died in the first year in America. The native inhabitants - the Wampanoag - helped the settlers in Plymouth to survive. In 1621, one year after founding Plymouth, the settlers and the Wampanoag celebrated together in thanksgiving. There were earlier British settlements in North America. Since the early 1500s, the Basques, Gascons, Normans and Bretons fished off the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador. They built fishing ports or stations. Harbour Grace in Newfoundland (named after Havre de Grâce, today the port of Le Havre, in Normandy) was settled by the French and English in the mid-1500s. The Spanish settled St. Augustine in Florida in 1565. The French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founded New France / Nouvelle France (all territory north and west of the British colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America) in the early 1600s. Champlain founded the French colony of Acadia (at one time most of the Canadian Maritimes) with its centre at Port-Royale on the Bay of Fundy, in 1604. Port-Royale is on the 'French Shore', between Yarmouth and Digby in the Canadian Maritime province of Nova Scotia. Port-Royale was destroyed by British from the colony of Virginia in 1613. Scots settled in Acadia and renamed it Nova Scotia. The Scots rebuilt Port-Royale in 1629. In 1710, the British renamed Port Royale after Queen Anne of England as Annapolis Royale. Today, descendants of Acadians live on the 'French shore' and speak a heavily accented French. Descendants of Acadians live throughout eastern Canada, northern New England and northern New York in the U. S. Acadians live in Louisiana, where they are called Cajuns, and speak French. (Claire Chennault of Flying Tiger fame is probably the most famous Cajun.) Roanoke (in present-day North Carolina) was settled by the British in 1585. This settlement disappeared without trace and the fate of its many inhabitants remains unknown. (They were led away by the local Indians or by the Spanish or perished at sea on a return to England.) 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' because she never married and never had children), was settled by the British in 1607. The story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas came from early Virginia. The Puritans and Separatists on the Mayflower were not commonly called Pilgrims before the 1820s - 200 years later. Mayflower Pilgrims, 1606 - 1620 Part 1. William Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, Mayflower Compact Jeffrey Meyer, uploader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QpqX6A1YzY&t=100s Mayflower Pilgrims Part 2 From Cape Cod to Plymouth Miles Standish, William Bradford Shallop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY9uE8nbSLE&t=34s CROMWELL 1970 British movie Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell, Alec Guinness 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 and its head, the Pope, and followed the practices of the Church of Rome. In 1534, the King of England, Henry VIII, made himself the head of the Church of England and broke with the Pope and the Church of Rome. The Church of England no longer recognised the authority of the Pope over the Church of England. However, the Church of England retained the practices of the Church in Rome. Many Englishmen sought to reform the Church of England. They wanted to rid the church of many Roman practices. They were called Puritans. Others wanted to start their own church. They were called 'Separatists'. King Henry was succeeded by his sole surviving son, Edward - by his third wife, Jane Seymour - as King Edward VI of England in 1547. Edward and his court, like a growing number of Englishmen at the time, favoured a Protestant Reformation in England, as on the continent. Edward died young, without issue, in 1553. King Henry's daughter, Mary Tudor, by his first wife, Catharine of Aragon, succeeded Edward as Queen Mary I, from 1553 to 1558. Mary, like her mother, Catharine, did not favour the Reformation. She recognised the Pope in Rome. Mary died in 1558. During her five-year reign, Englishmen who opposed the Pope were burned at the steak. Mary was succeeded by Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII and Henry's third wife, Anne Boleyn, as Queen Elizabeth I, from 1558 to 1603. Elizabeth supported the Reformation. Elizabeth never married and died without issue, the last Tudor. English supporters of the Church of Rome were called 'Catholics' and 'Popists'. Elizabeth's successor, a cousin, a descendant of King Henry VII - James Stuart of Scotland, King James I of England (1603 - 1625) - opposed Popish elements. James sponsored the translation of the Bible into English - the Authorized King James Version - and the 1604 revision of the Book of Common Prayer. James' son, Charles Stuart, was King Charles I of England from 1625 to his death in 1649. Charles' wife, Henriette Maria, was the daughter of King Henry IV of France / Henri Navarre and Marie de Medici of Florence, Italy. Henriette Maria was a devout Roman Catholic and distrusted by many Englishmen. Most Englishmen felt King Charles retained too many Catholic practices. Most members of the English Parliament were Protestants. Many were Puritans. King Charles and Parliament disagreed on many matters. King Charles 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 (1642 - 1651). Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan and a commander of the Parliamentary army, succeeded to the top command of the army in 1645. Earlier, in 1634, Cromwell wanted to go to the colony of Connecticut in America but Parliament compelled him to remain in England. Eventually, the Parliamentary army defeated the King's army (1646). King Charles was taken prisoner by the Scots and left with the English Parliamentary forces (1646). Parliament beheaded King Charles in Whitehall in 1649. Parliament abolished the monarchy, established a Republic and governed England, Scotland and Ireland as a Commonwealth (1649 - 1660). Oliver Cromwell subdued Ireland (1649 - 1650) and Scotland (1650 - 1651). Charles, the son of Charles I and Henriette, claimed the throne, as Charles II, but he was defeated by Cromwell in battle in 1651 and fled back to the continent. 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 was succeeded by his son, Richard Cromwell, as Lord Protector. Richard renounced the position months later, in 1659. The British Parliament restored the monarchy and Charles, the eldest son of Charles I, returned to England to be king - as King Charles II (1660 - 1685). At the death of Charles II, his younger brother, James, was King James II. James II was Catholic - the last Catholic monarch of England (1685 - 1688). King James II was deposed by Parliament. James was a Catholic but his daughters, Mary and Anne, were raised with the Church of England. They were not Catholics. Mary married William of Orange, a Protestant from the Netherlands. Leading Englishmen invited William to be King of England and he sailed with a large army to England in 1688. James raised an army but his soldiers deserted him. James' top commander, John Churchill, ancestor of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, also deserted. William rewarded Churchill with the title of Earl of Marlborough. James fled to France. William and Mary were King and Queen of England. James gathered an army in France and sailed to Ireland where, in 1690, he was defeated by the forces of King William at the Battle of the Boyne. James fled back to France and never returned. Mary died in 1694. William did not remarry. King William III died in 1702. William and Mary did not have a surviving child. Thus, William was succeeded by Anne (1702 - 1714). Anne married and had children, but none survived. Anne died without an heir (1714). Anne was the last Stuart monarch. The city of Annapolis Royale in Nova Scotia and Annapolis in Maryland were named in Queen Anne's honour. The English Civil Wars Documentary about the English Civil War Narrated by Robert Powell 1992 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Nq_6VY7MI Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702 - 1714), was succeeded by Protestant monarchs from Germany - from the House of Hanover from 1714 to 1901 and from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from 1901 to 1917. The House of Hanover: George I, George II, George III, George IV, William IV, and Victoria. Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Thus, their children were of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: King Edward VII (1901 - 1910) and George V (1910 - 1936). Anti-German sentiment in England ran high during the Great War (1914 - 1918). Thus, King George V changed the name of the reigning House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor in 1917. King George V died in 1936 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward, the Prince of Wales, as King Edward VIII. Edward abdicated later in the year to marry a commoner. Edward's younger brother, the Duke of York, became King George VI (1936). King George made his brother, Edward, Duke of Windsor. King George VI had two daughters. The eldest was Elizabeth, born in 1926. Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark in 1947. Philip was the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and grandson of King George and Queen Olga of Greece. Prince Philip was a Greek citizen born in Greece and a Greek Orthodox Christian. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. Battenberg is a town in the German state of Hesse. This branch of the family lived in England as British citizens. Prince Louis was an admiral in the Royal Navy and appointed First Sea Lord, head of the Royal Navy, in 1912. But anti-German sentiment in England forced his resignation two months into the Great War, in October 1914. At the request of King George V of England, Prince Louis anglicized the name of Battenberg to Mountbatten in 1917. King George made him Marquess of Milford Haven. Prince Louis and Princess Victoria had four children. One daughter, Alice, was the mother of Prince Philip. Another daughter, Louise, became the Queen of Sweden. A son, Louis, became Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command in the Second World War - and later Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Before wedding Elizabeth, Philip became a naturalised British citizen and adopted his maternal grandparents' name, Mountbatten. He was officially 'received' into the Anglican Church by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Prince Philip and Princess Elizabeth were married in a royal wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey. The first child of Philip and Elizabeth was Prince Charles, born in 1948, and registered in civil documents as Charles Mountbatten. King George VI died in 1952. Elizabeth succeeded her father as Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly afterward, Elizabeth declared that the British royal house would remain the House of Windsor. Prince Charles' eldest child, Prince William, was born William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor in 1982. When Charles became king, as Charles III, in 2022, he retained the name of the House of Windsor. The Hanoverian Succession Discussion on the BBC weekly Thursday radio programme In Our Time, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, on 28 November 2024. With guests Andreas Gestrich, Elaine Chalus and Mark Knights. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025d6j The Church of England, or Anglican Church, and the Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church are essentially the same. The Roman Catholic Church recognises the Pope as its supreme authority. Anglicans do not recognise the Pope. Anglicans consider the Archbishop of Canterbury the leading clergyman of England. Thomas Tallis Third Mode Tune Archbishop Matthew Parker's Psalter 1567 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bPFAKxb9IQ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s6tQpz9s7U Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis By Ralph Vaughan Williams 1910 BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Andrew Davis Gloucester Cathedral 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5_n5Fojkk -------------------- 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 French President Emmanuel Macron visits Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris A private tour 29 November 2024 Reopens on 8 December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs4S5KSPo3A NOTRE DAME de PARIS REOPENS Archbishop of Paris opens cathedral President Macron of France greets President Zelinski of Ukraine, the Prince of Wales, U. S. President-elect Trump 6 December 2024 BBC France24 3:25:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1TUhfg-Nrg France 24 English 3 hrs. 38 min. 25 sec. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSREjru-ZkY Cérémonie de réouverture de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris Élysée le 6 decembre 2024 2:17:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV4yfmrkV8c ----------------------- 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 ------------------------- STRANDED ASTRONAUTS ISS MORE DELAYS IN THE RETURN TO EARTH 18 December 2024 NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore departed Earth in a Boeing Starliner space capsule for the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024. Their departure was delayed several times due to thruster failures and helium leaks in the capsule. The problems persisted but NASA eventually decided to go through with the mission anyway. The two astronauts reached the ISS in early June 2024. They were to remain on the ISS only eight to ten days and return to earth. But the problems remained and NASA decided the space capsule might be unsafe. The capsule returned to Earth without the astronauts in September. A new capsule is to be used for the return mission. The return was rescheduled to February 2025. In December 2024, the return was pushed back again by NASA, to late March 2025 - at the earliest. The return trip must await the launch of SpaceX Crew-10 by NASA, with four crew members, scheduled for March 2025, to the ISS. On 18 December 2024, NASA announced a further delay to April 2025, at the earliest. SpaceX has not completed its space craft. Wilmore and Williams went to the ISS for a visit of eight to ten days. If they return to earth in April, will have been on the ISS for ten months. ------------------- Malaysia Airlines MH370 Boeing 777 Flight disappeared en route from Kuala Lampur to Beijing Radar evidence points to South Pacific as likely site of plane 8 March 2014 NEW SEARCH PLANNED with new deep-sea equipment Interview with Richard Godfrey, aeronautical engineer 20 December 2024 07:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v75NiyR8CSQ ------------------------ Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine Undefeated and Undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Defends his titles vs Tyson Fury of Great Britain, ex-champion Rematch 12 rounds Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saturday, December 21, 2024 The champion in training Punching the heavy bag Uploaded 23 November 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQ4G3dcyd8&t=179s The challenger in training Uploaded on 21 November 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAt1DAmxZ8Q Usyk is a 5 to 4 favourite to win - and to win by a decision. Comments LENNOX LEWIS 12 December 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq2eMTpO4KQ Oscar de la Hoya About Ring Magazine and the Usyk - Fury rematch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTk1hCYjibA USYK AND FURY ARRIVE IN SAUDI ARABIA Sky Sports 17 - 18 December 2024 9:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRx0Flm7A8 --------------------------- USYK WINS REMATCH Beats Fury a second time Unanimous 12-round decision All three judges score the fight 116 - 112 for Usyk CBS Sports News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTj5rZxYKwo The Bout Turki Alalshikh 1:36:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eacU_tjzyYM Round 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZzNW__8EE Round 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKnCUHovISM Round 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwssnYNENA Round 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTC4Dec-XMg Round 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPJG5Uqm4pA&t=3s Round 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCzoldPrlQ Round 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvGshDSRAWM Round 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbUuycDEEr0&t=3s Round 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBfdJqd8qxU Round 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ep89pLUhQ Round 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25GEdVpBMDs Round 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo_zjkoqvec The Decision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjXSVl1dK1o Michael Buffer Ring announcer The Decision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9UMc2PsWg Michael Buffer Comment about the fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxzvBSA4js Oscar de la Hoya Comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4EoLfD2mLg A review of the fight Geoffrey Ciani 22 Dec. 2034 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN9qQunJ6mg&t=388s Comments by Carl Frosch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbxfb_mWPjc 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, 2021 - 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. John L. Sullivan was from Boston, Massachusetts. Sullivan was called 'The Boston Strong Boy'. Jack Johnson was from Galveston, Texas. Johnson was called 'The Galveston Giant'. Jack Dempsey was from Manassa, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah. Dempsey was called 'The Manassa Mauler'. Joe Louis was from Detroit, Michigan. Louis was called 'The Brown Bomber'. Rocky Marciano was from Brockton, Massachusetts. Marciano was called 'The Brockton Blockbuster'. Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali was from Louisville, Kentucky. Clay was called 'The Louisville Lip'. Mike Tyson was from New York City. Tyson was called 'Iron Mike'. Vitali Klitschko was from Ukraine. Vitali was called 'Dr. Ironfist'. Wladimir Klitschko was from Ukraine. Wladimir was called 'Dr. Steelhammer'. Oleksander Usyk is from Ukraine. Usyk is called 'The Cat'. All the heavyweight champions From Sullivan to Usyk Geoffrey Ciani June 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUMns-wv5r4 -------------------- DONALD J. JONES PRESIDENT OF LAS VEGAS BIDEN IS SENILE AND COULD NOT CAMPAIGN FOR ANOTHER TERM AS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A FEEBLE-MINDED OLD BULL-SHITTER BIDEN AND TRUMP ARE OWNED BY THE KREMLIN AND ISRAELI LOBBY Trump is wholly divorced from reality Trump wants to change the name of the highest mountain in the U. S. Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico Trump wants to reclaim the Panama Canal for the U. S. Trump wants to buy Greenland Trump suggests Canada become the 51st state of the U. S. Trump wants to scrap Daylight Savings Time (DST) Trump nominated a homosexual male for Secretary of the Treasury 22 December 2024 Trump nominated a homosexual billionaire, Scott Bessent, to be the next Secretary of the Treasury Department. The appointment requires confirmation by Congress. If confirmed, Bessent will be the first homosexual cabinet member of a Republican administration. The current secretary of the Department of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat, is the first homosexual cabinet member in history. Buttigieg is married to a male. Buttigieg was nominated by Biden in 2020 and confirmed by Congress in 2021. Homosexuals are considered untrustworthy, unreliable and a high security risk, subject to blackmail by foreign spies. ADVISE AND CONSENT 1962 Hollywood movie directed by Otto Preminger Based on a book by the same name in 1959. The U. S. president nominates a controversial figure for the position of Secretary of State. During a congressional committee hearing about the nomination, a senator produces a witness who claims that the nominee was a communist in college. The nominee denies it. Privately, the nominee confesses to the president that he lied and asks the president to withdraw his nomination. The president insists that the nomination go through. The chairman of the congressional committee points out that the nominee lied under oath and insists he withdraw from the nomination. The president demands the committee chairman agree to the nomination. To force the chairman's compliance, the chairman, who is a happily married family man, is blackmailed over a homosexual affair many years earlier. Franchot Tone as the President; Henry Fonda as the President's nominee for Secretary of State; Charles Laughton as the President pro tempore of the Senate; Walter Pidgeon as the Senate Majority Leader; Don Murray as the congressional committee chairman; Peter Lawford as a senator; and Burgess Meredith as a witness at the congressional committee hearing. 2:09:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd4nf01ALrM&t=2s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65fpBamfnlk&t=3s ---------------- MICHAEL CLARKE Trump's talk about acquiring Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal Sky News 12 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJAxv1Y6Kcs The military reasons why Trump wants Greenland BFBS / British Forces Broadcasting Service News 10 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0KwaF26sRM ----------------- THE 14th DALAI LAMA Tenzin Gyatso 90 years old in 2025 Interview with Sikyong Penpa Tsering, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile ABC News 23 December 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T4QfgE3TdE ------------------------- 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 A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens 1843 1935 movie with the title Scrooge instead of A Christmas Carol Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge Donald Calthrop as Bob Cratchit Claude Rains as Jacob Marley Oscar Asche as Spirit of Christmas Present M. Ney as Spirit of Christmas Past C. V. France as Spirit of Christmas Future Philip Frost as Tiny Tim Robert Morley as Rich Man 1:17:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agYUYdR_nJg or 1:00:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqRl5K8sEuw Scrooge 1951 Alastair Sim as Scrooge Patrick Macnee as Young Jacob Marley 1:26:31 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3jghpg Hark the Herald Angels Sing! 1739 St. Paul's Cathedral London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDPwNPAV6tA Oh, Holy Night! 1847 King's College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFm-BSirod8 BETHLEHEM The Manger Jesus was born in a stable in the town of Bethlehem. Today, the site of Jesus' birth is under the Church of the Nativity in the main square of the town. Bethlehem is in the West Benk of Palestine, near Jerusalem. A tour / documentary December 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9jsor8muAY Midnight Mass / Christmas Eve Mass 2024 Church of the Nativity Bethlehem, Palestine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJe9cdblHdg&t=17s POPE FRANCIS, CHRISTMAS EVE MASS Holy Mass Christmas Eve St. Peter's Basilica The Vatican Pope Francis presides over midnight mass on Christmas Eve 24 December 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPICDQeKy3U NOTRE DAME, PARIS, CHRISTMAS EVE MASS Messe du soir de Noël Messe à Notre-Dame de Paris du le 25 decembre 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7YZaBvwCTM Messe du jour de Noël à Notre-Dame de Paris le 25 décembre 2024 2:03:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-IfkziFlQ ENGLAND CHRISTMAS MASS 2024 CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL Canterbury, Kent, England St. Augustin Apostle to Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k0sRQLrZIY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji7I582X0U Midnight Mass Christmas Eve 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_bEGAShdp0 A visit to Canterbury Cathedral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjpSgkIMd_c The investiture of Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury 1162 Excerpt from the 1964 movie Becket with Richard Burton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYIxTQ1nvDI The murder of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral 1170 Excerpt from the 1964 movie Becket with Richard Burton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCiziDnrS8 Memorial Service for the Martyrdom of St Thomas Canterbury Cathedral Sunday, 29 December 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWt682aVR48 Thomas Becket 2022 Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsqhCH5Xz4E&t=12s Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwTaqxLg7nk&t=33s Part 3 The cult of Thomas Becket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66q4cYgkOzM ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL London The Church of the Nation Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhTsQbYjx5M A visit by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsejntbXRw Wren's model of St. Paul's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGkZtN_kB8 2024 CHRISTMAS MASSES NOT UPLOADED WESTMINSTER ABBEY London Westminster Abbey Sir David Cannadine A tour Dan Snow From a Catholic monastery to a Protestant cathedral - tombs, statues, monuments, effigies, Winston Churchill's monument, and the Unknown Warrior's monument. 2022 Recorded during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALN5kwGkymQ 2024 CHRISTMAS MASSES NOT UPLOADED The Pilgrim's Way to Britain's Great Cathedrals A documentary series With David Suchet 2022 Episode 1 A description of cathedrals in southern England Southwark Cathedral, London Rochester Cathedral, Rochester Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury Winchester Cathedral, Winchester Chichester Cathedral, Chichester Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Bath Abbey, Bath Wells Cathedral, Wells Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS6E78hdsFo&t=742s A Portrait of Ely Cathedral Ely, Cambridgeshire Documentary 1992 29:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci3xqsiq2TM 30:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewEdDTwmYAo THE KING'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE King Charles III The King's Christmas Broadcast 2024 The Royal Family (Channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvpkMFa5fgg KING GEORGE V First Christmas broadcast Christmas Day 1932 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf30P_PbcZo THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE German and British veterans remember the Christmas truce of 1914 BBC 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPMyVa_p7qU The Twelve Days of Christmas Christmas Day to Epiphany Eve 25 December to 5 January The second day, the day after Christmas, 26 December, is Boxing Day - a day of presenting gifts, in boxes, to others. It is also a day to buy more gifts by taking advantage of the lower prices of the post-Christmas sales offered by stores. The day after Christmas is also Stephan's Day, or St. Stephen's Day, named after the first Christian martyr, Stephen. New Year's Eve is Saint Sylvester's Day, a feast day. The eighth day is New Year's Day. The twelfth day, 5 January. is Epiphany Eve. The three wise men - or three kings - from the East visited the new-born Jesus on Epiphany, 6 January.. The Twelve Days of Christmas Song Bing Crosby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QPQI5QUs74 The significance of 'The twelve days of Christmas'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwyMIoG5KI La fête des Rois, ou Épiphanie, traditionnellement le 6 janvier. Three Kings Day, 6 January. La galette des rois FRANCE 24 English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Az-iellcVw Comment on célèbre l'Epiphanie? C'est quoi la galette des rois? C'est quoi une fève? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ndOsrljt8 CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL Eucharist for Epiphany 6 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZNF3JfaGy8&t=31s American Cathedral Paris Holy Eucharist for Epiphany January 5, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8u5RHexS0A&t=4972s Bing Crosby Good King Wenceslas We Three Kings of Orient Are 1950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuKdQIVUrDg We Three Kings of Orient Are By John Henry Hopkins Jr. 1857 Sung by Kings College, Cambridge 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx35_DRIZ8g The Nativity Story 2006 movie 1 hr., 40 min., 54 sec. https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2006980923 or 1 hr., 40 min., 52 sec. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmPrUFguQ0Y&t=5s O Come, O Come, Emmanuel / Latin: Veni, veni, Emmanuel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4pc9ca10ag Silent Night Choir of St. John's College Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQaVw3QlDC8 Orthodox Christmas Tue, Jan 7, 2025 Moscow Church of St. George the Victorious Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill Christmas Eve 6 January 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomCg_nmweQ&t=1535s ------------- CHRISTMAS DINNER Jaimie Oliver Preparing and cooking a Christmas turkey, the stuffing, gravy - all the trimmings. Spices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPozmQncn18 Setting the table https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9mzBckf3G4 PAVAROTTI Christmas with Luciano Pavarotti Notre Dame Cathedral Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1978 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxzbXyBCTE ------------- 2025 DONALD J. TRUCK U. S. President-elect Press Conference Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida 7 / 8 January 2025 1:12:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8JJHeYHdFk -------------------------- Welcome to Country America Sky News 18 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6cfYd5POxA A good western: Roy Rogers Billy the Kid Returns 1938 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfrv-c8Zuew ---------------------- BIG DISCOVERY IN POMPEII BBC News 18 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPMmQ3kNCgE In A. D. 79, the volcano of Mount Vesuvius erupted. Ash buried the towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae, near the city of Naples / Neapolis. A famous wall mosaic of Alexander the Great and King Darius of Persia in the Battle of Issus was found in Pompeii. Advertisement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WsmHhbpZTs&t=68s The Last Days of Pompeii 1935 Hollywood movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5mgrn-zj6I or https://m.ok.ru/video/1612166597247 ITV Documentary / British 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrEUNrg2c6A *-----------------* INAUGURATION DAY EVE Trump Victory Rally Washington, D.C., 19 January 2025 YMCA Trump campaign anthem Song by the Village People On stage with Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4XY4kSfpy4 Inauguration Eve Trump Rally 'Everything is to change on Day One.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97REPsN73g INAUGURATION CEREMONY Due to rain, the ceremony was held indoors in the Rotunda, under the dome of the U. S. Capitol Building Washington, D. C. 20 January 2025 J. D. Vance sworn in as vice-president D. J. Trump sworn in as president by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiO3nFqlwGw The Battle Hymn of the Republic was sung by the U. S. Naval Academy Glee Club. The academy is in Annapolis, Maryland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsI3pThlmXs Trump inaugural address Sky News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atCvS1ljpF4 Trump's first day at work Signing executive orders White House 20 January 2025 CBS News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjvBoD1Wr3Q *----------------* ELON MUSK IS A KOOK End of story A rally after the inauguration ceremony DW News / Deutsche Welle 20 / 21 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gTx8MpRmI May Day 1936 Berlin British Pathé newsreel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDRYi1IYI2o&t=52s Elon Musk hung in effigy Upside down Piazzale Loreto Milan, Italy Musk was hung in effigy at the site where the body of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini was suspended upside down in April 1945. Forbes India 21 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rzO8blOKU The End of Musso Milan British Movietone newsreel April 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZTFl9kR0us Alexandria Ocasio Cortez / AOC Stand by your principles. Stand against evil! Forbes Breaking News 21 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4pFEz4UdII Excerpt from the movie Patton in 1970 Excerpt from a speech by General George Patton To the American soldiers invading France on D-Day, 6 June 1944 Drafted on 5 June 1944 George C. Scott as General Patton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5yfhPGaWE&t=258s -- Party in the USA Elon Musk Parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POm2t5t8TsI Springtime for Elon Trump salute song Parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvfIneIoAWw 'Springtime for Elon' is a parody of a song, 'Springtime for Hitler', from the 1967 movie, a musical, 'The Producers', about Hitler. Excerpt from the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zY1orxW8Aw With captions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFrwQnsBHy0 PROTESTS AGAINST ELON MUSK 'Elon Musk is a Nazi!' 6 February 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6VVL0prp28 'Deport Elon Musk!' Large crowds protest at NYC City Hall 6 February 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZBMWf1h6LY ------------------ Trump, Panama and the Chinese DW 21 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0m8pYNgROA ANDREW CHANG The Panama Canal and China CBC News / Canada 21 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmwjCuNCcg Panama Canal Documentary film from the American Experience series The history of the canal 1:23:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9OAKSR7WUs The Fraud of the Century How the French did NOT build the Panama Canal Short presentation The French tried to build a canal through Panama and gave up. Years later, the Americans built a canal in a different spot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCg5x9kIm4 ----------------------- AUSCHWITZ 80th Anniversary of the liberation of the German concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland by the Soviet Red Army on 27 January 1945 27 January 1945 - 27 January 2025 KING CHARLES III of England is the first British monarch to visit the former concentration camp in Auschwitz Presidents Zelenski of Ukraine, Duda of Poland, Macron of France also visit Auschwitz concentration camp survivors and world leaders mark 80 years since the camp's liberation by Soviet soldiers BBC News 27 January 2025 12:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83OlvIPFkc A Visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau German concentration camp in Poland DW Travel 25 January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwqfHJXjd10&t=195s Auschwitz is often remembered for its notorious camp commandant, Rudolf Hoess, and chief medical officer, Josef Mengele. Hoess was hanged in Auschwitz in 1947. Mengele evaded exposure and Israeli agents in South America. Russian President Putin honours Soviets killed in the Great Patriotic War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-HJrTLm1k4 A Soviet army soldier, Ivan Martynushkin, recalls liberating the concentration camps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSHpwmzMxc&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rnVHJLfEU&t=5s Red Army soldiers who liberated the concentration camps invited male inmates to join them on their westward march on Germany. The Pianist 2002 movie by Roman Polanski 2:28:47 https://vk.com/video-73707971_456239188 Schindler's List 1993 movie 3:15:12 https://www.tokyvideo.com/video/schindler-s-list-1993 Anne Frank Anne Frank was born Frankfurt in Germany in 1929. Her family were Jews. When the Nazis came to power in 1934, Anne's family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Germans invaded Holland in 1940. In 1942, Anne's family hid in a building in Amsterdam (Ann Frank Huis). The family hiding place was betrayed in 1944 and all were arrested. Anne was sent to the concentration camp in Westerbork and then to Auschwitz. Anne died in a concentration camp, Bergen Belsen, in Germany at age 15, in February or March 1945. The Diary of Anne Frank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8jSbCanv0 During Anne's two years in hiding in Amsterdam, she kept a diary. Anne's father, Otto Frank, was the only family member to survive the war. After the war he found the diary. There was some question about the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary. Some believe the diary could not have been written by a girl of Anne's age. They believe the diary was written after the war by Anne's father, Otto Frank. Betrayer of Anne's family identified? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKK3yxk5jY&t=164s ------------------ CHINESE NEW YEAR / LUNAR NEW YEAR The Year of the Snake Celebrations start on 29 January 2025 15 days Conclude on 12 February 2025 Chinese New Year in Shanghai 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVlf968tKyA Singapore 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoXi2ZtRC98 Hong Kong 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8t8gdnbAk 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf66yen8mDc ------------------ STRANDED ASTRONAUTS Two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station since June 2024 Conducted a spacewalk of five and one-half hours on 30 January 2025 Not expected to return to Earth before April FOX TV 30 Jan. 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVU7YIYjr74&t=5076s ----------------------- THE AGHA KHAN PASSES AWAY Lisbon, Portugal, 4 February 2025 Karim Agha Khan / born in Switzerland in 1936 Agha Khan IV A descendant of the Prophet Muhammad Leader of the Ismaelis (a sect of Shia Islam), with 15 million followers. The Agha Khan was paid his weight in gold once every year Karim Agha Khan was a Harvard graduate, class of 1959 A member of Iran's 1964 Olympic skiing team His grandfather, Agha Khan III, was President of the Assembly of The League of Nations in 1937 and 1938 His father was Prince Aly Khan. His mother was Joan Yarde-Buller of England. Aly Khan later married the Hollywood movie star Rita Hayworth in 1949. They were the parents of Yasmin Khan, younger half-sister of Karim. Karim married Sarah Frances Croker Poole, ex-wife of Lord James Charles Crichton-Stuart, in 1969. She was known as Sally Stuart. Karim and Sarah had three children - one daughter and two sons. The eldest son, Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini, was born in Switzerland in 1971. Prince Rahim is the new Agha Khan. He is the fifth Agha Khan, or Agha Khan V, and the 50th hereditary imam of Isma'ilism. Prince Rahim lives in Switzerland. He is a graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island. He pursued graduate studies in Spain. Prince Rahim married Kendra Irene Spears of Seattle, Washington, in 2013. They had two sons. They divorced in 2022. Aga Khan dead at age 88 Announcement by the Canadian PM 5 February 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVu8foiDhDs&t=425s Agha Khan III Wedding to Mlle Andree Carron Aix Le Bains 1929 British Movietone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zNStSnuGig H. H. the AGA KHAN speaks to Pathe Gazette on INDIA 1934 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcT-9D1x48E AGA KHAN WEIGHED IN DIAMONDS 26 August 1946 British Movietone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEkdZlWCd4I Platinum Jubilee 3 Feb 1954 British Movietone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9g0wy7IzUM World Mourns Aga Khan 1957 Pathé News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_w8BcT0fPU Prince Aly Khan RITA HAYWORTH MARRIES ALY KHAN Vallauris, near Cannes 2 Jun 1949 British Movietone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhkh8khWpag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrj9AOpVM_o Champagne Safari Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan and friends on a trip Pompeii, Athens, Cairo and Sub-Saharan Africa 1954 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XHs9V7oi8I&t=2795s Agha Khan IV The New Aga Khan 1957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIekjB-ffVo Interview 1957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQMlrhrJJyk Karachi Aga Khan Enthroned 1958 British Pathé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcURMXgK4y8 The Aga Khan IV marries Lady James Crichton-Stuart Paris, France 1969 British Pathé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlldzhKZMc Interview DW 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q12SgmgDxa8&t=49s Agha Khan Dead at 88 CBC News / Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8r8naWFLbs Agha Khan V Prince Rahim Statement Afghanistan Conference 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthN0kqAkZw ------------------------ PROTESTS AGAINST TRUMP ACROSS THE COUNTRY In every state capital 5 February 2025 'Trump is a fascist!' 'Gaza is not for sale!' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47dF9NDgQA Washington, D. C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si2giXygBkc Protests against Trump and Elon Musk 'Liar! Felon!' 'Nazi!' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syZkjCZ1E0A ------------------- Carnival Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Friday, February 28, 2025 to Saturday, March 8, 2025 See scenes from last year Samba dancing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEeSBE4Zvy4 Socialising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulH0gDaM9hg -------------------- EASTER Western Christian Church 20 April 2025 Eastern Orthodox Church 20 April 2025 THE PASSION / THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST Mel Gibson 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2fdsLVuFkY The History of St. Peter Documentary with David Suchet 2015 Part One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N5pjjzL8ik Part Two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfBXFZXPoA The History of St. Paul, the Apostle Documentary with David Suchet 2012 Part One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmewUegQiN4 Part Two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtB7rOzP0k The Sign of the Cross 1932 Hollywood movie produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille About the persecution of Christians in Rome after the Great Fire of Rome in A. D. 64 Charles Laughton as the Roman Emperor Nero Claudette Colbert as the Roman Empress Poppaea Fredric March as Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome Elissa Landi as Mercia, a Christian 2:05:44 https://m.ok.ru/video/1870679116486 1944 version Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLwfxoqB8SA&t=91s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYjgKjZ39g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDUzCgFZr5w&t=3s Constantine and the Early Church Lecture # 3 by Paul Freedman from a course The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210) at Yale U., Fall 2011 Introduction - Constantine's Rise to Power - The Battle of the Milvian Bridge and Constantine's Conversion - Constantine as a Christian Emperor - The City of Constantinople - Constantine intervenes in Church Doctrine - Constantine and Diocletian You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcIuAJ-jaSg Constantine the Great / Constantine and the Cross 1961 Italian movie about the Emperor Constantine the Great and rise and spread of Christianity Dubbed in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAwgdCgwhzo&t=414s Helena, Mother of Emperor Constantine the Great Helena made the first pilgrimage to the Holy Land A. D. 326 Helena found the Birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem, the Tomb of Lazarus, the Mount of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemane, and Golgotha - the site of the crucifixion. Helena's Journey Discovering the Land of Jesus Documentary 2003 Narrated by Ben Kingsley 1 hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ8yNxuqw8E or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQh3rZlmqw Longer version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ8yNxuqw8E&t=325s Constantine the Great Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg With Christopher Kelly, Lucy Crig and Creg Woolf 5 October 2017 48:24 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096gjw0 or https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b096gjw0 Nicene Creed The First Council of Nicaea, 325 Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed Second Ecumenical Council, Constantinople, 381 Orthodox Chant (381) English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PsRBO52dfY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qar4RiN9I9c and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdEs-rFGDLc Russian Orthodox Church, Sergiyev Posad, Moscow In Slavonic and Roman Catholic Church, Chartres, France In Latin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpZ2uOyRn9w Carl Sagan The Destruction of the Library of Alexandria and Murder of Hypatia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3rVNctpvL8&t=10s Agora (Ancient Greek word for market, meeting place) 2009 movie about Hypatia of Alexandia A Greek scholar, born A. D. 350 to 370, died A. D. 415 With Rachel Weisz and Michael Lonsdale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX15oxrs8Es or https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gkjqe The murder of Hypatia of Alexandria TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1mwZrVJ-TI What happened to the Library of Alexandria? TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvWncVbXfJ0 Alexandria The Cultural Heart of Ancient Egypt A history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxlMGQ70RGQ Alexander the Great in Egypt Documentary film short with Tristan Hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GFTZrmIKEc *Continue to the next page, 36, Outer Space*						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 ---------------- 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 ----------------------- 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 ------------------ AMERICA FIRST CHARLES LINDBERG FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1941 H. W. Brands FACE THE NATION CBS 2 December 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQLAbx6AA8 ----------------- 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 ------------------- 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 ----------------------- Jan Hus 1370 to 1415 Girolamo Savonarola Born 1452, died 1498 Ulrich Zwingli 1484 to 1531 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 MARTIN LUTHER Documentary PBS An Empires Special 2002 Two parts 1. Driven to Defiance 2. The Reluctant Revolutionary Both parts, 1 and 2, in one upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FpZG9BpYIw&t=4s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QNSzPREln0 In two parts in two separate uploads Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpf6IWsEsuo or https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6okqss Part 2 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6dm3rw or https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qfyj5 KING HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND THE REFORMATION Henry makes himself the head of the Church of England and breaks with the Church of Rome and the Pope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvqD7i__tHc THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES King Henry breaks up the monasteries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0cMF1nID4 THOMAS CROMWELL LORD CHANCELLOR DISSOLVES THE MONASTERIES 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hognzyPas8 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWQYxPBU9c THOMAS MORE Born 1478, beheaded 1535 Thomas More was a lawyer. More wrote Utopia, published in 1516. At the time, the Church of England followed the Church in Rome and its head, the Pope. The Church of England followed the practices of the Church of Rome. Like the King of England - King Henry VIII - More opposed Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and William Tyndale. More opposed the Reformation. King Henry was without a male heir. He wanted a new wife. He wanted to divorce his Queen, Catharine of Aragon, and remarry, to another woman, Anne Boleyn, who could produce a male heir. The Pope in Rome refused to grant Henry's request to annul his marriage to Catharine. Thomas More was King Henry's Lord High Chancellor of England from 1529 to 1532. More opposed Henry's plans to annul his marriage to Catharine. More was replaced as Chancellor. Henry remarried, to Anne Boleyn, with the approval of the Church of England, in 1533. The Church of England annulled Henry's marriage to Catharine in 1533. Henry and his supporters in the English Parliament broke with the Pope and the Church in Rome and Henry became head of the Church of England in 1534. The Church of England retained the practices of the Church of Rome. Thomas More refused to recognise King Henry as head of the Church of England. He recognised only the supremacy of the Pope. More accepted Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn but refused to accept the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. More was arrested, imprisoned, tried for treason, convicted and beheaded in 1535. A Man for All Seasons A radio play by Robert Oxton Bolt written in 1954, presented on BBC radio in 1957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXw0RXbfkeY A Man for All Seasons A film adaptation of the play Paul Scofield as Thomas More 1966 2:00:29 https://m.ok.ru/video/293518707363 A Man for All Seasons Charlton Heston 1988 2:29:34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTLIdxK20hU&t=5s KING HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 movie The six wives of Henry VIII Catharine of Aragon Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Anne of Cleves Catherine Howard Catherine Parr With Charles Laughton as King Henry Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour Elsa Lanchester as Anne of Cleves Binnie Barnes as Katherine Howard Everley Gregg as Catherine Parr Robert Donat as Thomas Culpeper, courtier Franklin Dyall as Thomas Cromwell. chief minister Miles Mander as Wriothesleye, Lord Chancellor, Lord High Admiral Laurence Hanray as Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, a leader of the Reformation in England 1:34:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP2lW3QwsMA Colourised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqmuYtJQ938&t=664s -------------------- JOHN CALVIN Jehan Cauvin Jean Calvin Born in Noyon, Picardy, France in 1509 Died in Geneva in 1564 Pastor and reformer, a leader of the Protestant Reformation Geneva ------------------ When in Rome, do as Romans do. In a synagogue, wear a yarmulke. In a mosque, take off your shoes.