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Tsunami

 

Boxing Day, 26 December 2004

A natural disaster

Est. 230,000 deaths

 

 

The planets orbit the Sun as they travel through space.

The Earth travelling through space.

The earth spins on its axis. It encounters turbulence as it travels through space. Turbulence can cause the Earth to wobble.

A wobble caused an earthquake. (And the earthquake caused a wobble.)

Tectonic plates

Map of epicentre, Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula

The waves spread

 

Animated map

Sumatra

Sumatra, Indonesia

Aceh, Sumatra after the tsunami

Thailand

Hat Rai Lay near Krabi, Thailand 

Hat Rai Lay, Krabi, Thailand

The tourists on the beach got away in time. 

Khao Lak, 8:30 a. m.: The local man on the beach and the Canadian tourist who took the photo were killed. The latter's body and camera were recovered on the beach the next day.

Ao Nang, Thailand

Khao Lak  

Khao Lak, Thailand, four days after the tsunami.

The 2004 earthquake and tsunami.

 

 

Bhumi Jensen, a Thai-American grandson of the King of Thailand, drowned in the tsunami on Khao Lak. His body was recovered on the beach the next day.

British movie director Sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi [1982]), lost three members of his family when the tsunami swept them away from Khao Lak   -   his eldest daughter, her mother-in-law, and a granddaughter.    

Map of Southern Thailand

Map: Countries hit by the tsunami caused by a 9.1 magnitude 

earthquake at 7:54 a. m.

Indonesia (former Dutch East Indies) est. 170,000 deaths.

Sri Lanka (Ceylon) est. 35,000 deaths.

India est. 16,000 deaths.

Thailand (Siam) est. 8,200 deaths, including 3,100 missing.  

The Wave that Shook the World

 

Documentary (50:39)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YOf44bNzw4 

The Day the Wave Came

 

Documentary about Banda Aceh (28:55)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ePNdTMGx0

 

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Krakatoa

 

 

 

Photo of the volcano of Krakatoa in the Sunda Straight, between the islands of Java and Sumatra, on 26 August 1883, hours before its biggest eruption.

 

 

 

Krakatoa

 

2005 documentary about the great volcanic eruption on Krakatoa Island in the Dutch East Indies and the giant Tsunami of 1883.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrEIT66oPqU

 

 

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Paradise Now

Palestinian movie

2005

About a Palestinian suicide bomber in Israel

https://vimeo.com/510883804

Wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsynufog7w

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The passing of Pope John Paul II

18 May 1920 - 2 April 2005


Pope from 1978 to 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CoK7J49NJE


Documentary 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZg5pg3kI00

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The Lost City

2005 movie directed by Andy García

Cuba in 1958, 1959 . . .

Andy García

Inés Sastre

Dustin Hoffman as Meyer Lansky

Bill Murray

Jsu Garcia as Che Guevara

Juan Fernández de Alarcón as President Fulgencio Batista

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKV5lxXY98


Interview with Garcia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN375M4vJms

Memories of Cuba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dokiOdsdp2k

Soundtrack

Cuba Linda

Mambo

Descarga Cubana #1

Blue Danube 'Cha Cha Cha'

Goza Mi Mambo Cubano

Yenyere Guma

Macorina

Danza Lucumi

La Comparsa

Es Diferente

Los Muñequitos

A la Antigua

Guajira Clasica

Solitude

Si te Contara

Attack at the Palace

Yo Soy Tiburón

Otra Cosa

A Gozar Con Mi Combo

Pastoral Lullaby (Berceuse Campesina)

Yo Si Como Candela

Que Bueno Baile Usted

Club Social de Marianao

Cachao's Guiro

Suavecito

Tenia Que Ser Asi

Amalia Batista

Si Me Pudieras Querer

Si Me Pudieras Querer

La Bella Cubana

Ave Maria (Op.52 No.1)

Fico's Cha Cha Cha

L'International

Te Pico La Abeja

Adios A Cuba

Veinte Años

Cuba Linda

Limbo Jazz

La Ciudad Perdida (The Lost City)

Versos Sencillos

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ROMAN POLANSKI

A Film Festival

Five films directed by Roman Polanski


Repulsion (1965)

With Catherine Deneuve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S00f4HhjhSI


Cul-de-sac (1966)

With Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfaYgKBwd88&t=171s


The Fearless Vampire Killers / Dance of the Vampires (1967)

With Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ewymb


The Pianist (2002)

With Adrien Brody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARjkj9Vk0xs


Oliver Twist (2005)

With Ben Kingsley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTZAEC0iNM&t=4s

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Tchaikovsky

Andante cantabile

String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

Cello and Orchestra

2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0X4SkRL-k

 

Pope Benedict XVI

Reconciling East and West

Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Western Church, and

Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople and head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, 

pray in Istanbul in November 2006.

The Pope and Patriarch pray in the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 2008.

Pope Benedict prays in the Blue Mosque in Instanbul with Turkey's grand mufti, Mustafa Cagrici, in October 2006.

Retired in 2013

Pope Benedict XVI

Historic Farewell

2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGBjL28DbnI

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Flamenco

Asturias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8EPgkwDk5U

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Sub-Prime Mortgage Scandal

Financial Crash of September 2008


Warren Buffett Explains the 2008 Financial Crisis

2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VSSNECLTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQcPC31KRqA

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Margin Call

Movie (2011)

With Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany and Jeremy Irons


Previews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjZ-ke1kJrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlDr8HBdk4A


Excerpt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elyfo1DIlzs

Excerpt with Jeremy Irons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhy7JUinlu0


Extrait avec Jeremy Irons en français

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnkuwfLDsP8


Movie

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


Interview with the director

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vS_z2YSLf0


Interview with Jeremy Irons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGncJE4GcsM


Movie review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REhsdjd7Lb0

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Bernie Madoff

December 11, 2008


The Madoff Affair

Documentary

2009 FRONTLINE PBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH1Y66IwKvc


The Man Who Knew

60 Minutes

The man who figured out the Madoff Ponzi scheme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wUJesUik5A


Madoff dies in prison

2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCvuO1BhmA8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpRWrX5kG2I

Charles Ponzi

Documentary

Charles Ponzi and history of the Ponzi Scheme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4waqVKanxA

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Introduction to Mortgage Loans

Housing

Finance & Capital Markets

Khan Academy

5 January 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-1Gh4ewklY

Insurance company, AIG, caused the 2008 financial crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyjMz5Sf02Y

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RINGO STARR


Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band


The Greek Theatre

Wanna Be Your Man

2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fAj_S0JJAk


Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxzC1ibuvVI


With A Little Help From My Friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19C5l_keLJU


What Goes On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQv6LTXPDkw

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Wynton Marsalis and Friends


Corinne, Corinna

Taj Mahal

With Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton

Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City, 2011

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

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Hungarian National Gypsy Orchestra

Belgrade

2011

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


Jenö Lisztes & Roby Lakatos ensemble

Flight of the Bumblebee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLD05_pC8TY

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Mikhail Gorbachev

The last president of the Soviet Union

Nobel Peace Prize recipient

LBJ Auditorium, Austin, Texas

18 October 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-RC0U1CFN4

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THE FRIENDS OF PAVAROTTI

Concert

Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana

Conducted by Fabrizio Maria Carminati

Modena, Italy

2012

Verdi

Quartetto Rigoletto

Bella figlia dell'amore

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

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The Klitschko Brothers

 

 

Vitali and Vladimir

 

The brothers dominated boxing for two decades, from the late 1990s to 2015.

 

Both were world heavyweight champions.

 

Vitali was three times world champion.

 

Wladimir was twice world champion.

 

The Klitschkos were from the Ukraine.

Vitali Klitschko vs Samuel Peter in Frankfurt in 2010.

Vitali won the world heavyweight championship title in 1999, lost it in 2000, regained it in 2004, defended it once and retired; Vitali returned to the ring in 2008, regained the title and retired in 2012.  

Vitali Klitschko in Ukrainian parliament.

Mayor of Kiev since 2014.

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The last space shuttle

Atlantis

STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7)

135th and final mission of Shuttle

July 2011


The Last Lift-Off

NASA documentary 2021

2011

Flew to the International Space Station (ISS)

Last lift-off

11:29 a.m. EDT, July 8, 2011

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


Lift-Off, Visit to ISS, and Landing

Launched 8 July 2011, at 15:29 UTC

Docked with ISS 10 July 2011, at 15:07 UTC

Landed 21 July 2011, at 09:57 UTC, Florida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEb_7e66rVM


The Space Shuttle's Last Flight

Atlantis

Documentary

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

23 Gold medals

The Olympic record

2000 Olympic Games, Sydney, Australia

Qualified, age 15 

2004 Olympic Games, Athens

6 Gold medals:

100 m butterfly
200 m butterfly
200 m medley
400 m medley
4×200 m freestyle
4×100 m medley

2 Bronze medals

200 m freestyle
4×100 m freestyle

 

2008 Olympic Games, Peking

8 Gold medals (all-time record)
 
200 m freestyle 
100 m butterfly 
200 m butterfly 
200 m medley
400 m medley 
4×100 m freestyle
4×200 m freestyle
4×100 m medley

2012 Olympic Games, London

4 Gold medals

100 m butterfly 
200 m medley
4×200 m freestyle 
4×100 m medley 

2 Silver medals

200 m butterfly 
4×100 m freestyle

2016 Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro

5 Gold medals

200 m butterfly 
200 m medley
4×100 m freestyle 
4×200 m freestyle 
4×100 m medley 3:27.95 (OR)

1 Silver medal

100 m butterfly 51.14

23 Gold medals, 3 Silver medals, 2 Bronze medals

Most Olympic medals: 28

Most Olympic Gold medals: 23

Set 39 world records

Current holder of four world records

Phelps was the U. S. team flag bearer in the 2016 Olympic Games Parade of Nations in Rio de Janeiro.

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Sprinting

Jesse Owens (1913 - 1980)

The 100-Yard Dash

 

Asafa Powell of Jamaica holds the current world record in the 100-Yard dash with 9.07 seconds, run in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia on 27 May 2010.

 

 

 

The 100-Metre Run

 

 

Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds the current world record in the 100 metres, running it in 9.58 seconds in Berlin on 16 August 2009.  

 

 

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FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Austrian Skydiver

World Record

Highest Jump from a Balloon - 38,969.3 metres / 127,852 feet

Free Fall - 36,402.6 metres / 119,431 feet

Parachuted the last 2,566.7 metres / 8,421 feet

Roswell, New Mexico

14 October 2012

Joe Kittinger, who held the world record for the highest jump, set in 1960, guided Felix Baumgartner in the dive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvbN-cWe0A0


Joe Kittinger, age 84, was the capsule communicator, directing Felix Baumgartner on the 24-mile (39 k.) freefall. The dive broke Kittinger 53-year-old record.

FELIX BAUMGARTNER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2F_S3Tl0Y

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Myron Leon Wallace / Mike Wallace

Born 1918, died 2012


60 Minutes

CBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRxQI8r8X9E


Television in America: An Autobiography

Mike Wallace

2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABSuJ92J7Ws


1950s

Golden Fluffo Shortening Commercial

Mike Wallace

Mid-1950s

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


Canadian actor Christopher Plummer portrays Mike Wallace

The Insider

Movie 1999

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


Mike Wallace Interviews Carmen Basilio

1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gYg_kwGKo


Mike Wallace interviews Salvador Dali

1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwMs9HBFp_4


Mike Wallace interviews Pearl S. Buck

1958

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


Mike Wallace interviews Walter Reuther

1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gFqbGPoE8o


Mike Wallace interviews Erich Fromm

1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTu0qJG0NfU


Mike Wallace interviews Maria Callas

1973

Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrDb5c7BAg

Part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jki3K1LPGQ4


Mike Wallace interviews Frank Snepp, author of Decent Interval

60 Minutes

1978

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


Mike Wallace interviews Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Iran

1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz3YbLeMuBc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz3YbLeMuBc&t=338s


Mike Wallace visits My Lai

60 Minutes

1998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N7AZs1sNjI


Mike Wallace interviews Jack Kervokian

60 Minutes

1998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiZKY6FSfwA


Mile Wallace interviews Jiang Zemin

60 Minutes

2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tNMH2M_jJ0

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AMERICA'S CUP

2007

32nd America's Cup. Valencia, Spain

June 23, 2007.

Day 1, Race 1

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

Last race, July 3, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcgy_tFro7s


2010

33rd America's Cup

Race 1

Valencia, Spain

February 12, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h9SKsCK09M

Last day, last race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Z5lLKXc0A


2013

34th America's Cup. San Francisco

September 7, 2013.

1st Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJNtTytSO8

Last day, last race

San Francisco. September 25, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-4vGmSUYAQ

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Gaia

Space observatory

European Space Agency / ESA)

Launched from French Guiana on 19 December 2013

To operate to 2025


Launch

ESA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDmQvJVJg8Y&t=137s


From launch to orbit

ESA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XcJ1wFRCk8


3D View of the Galaxy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8EGR6N1MM

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Vaughan Williams

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis, conducter

Gloucester Cathedral

In Gloucester Cathedral in 1910, Fantasia was played and conducted for the first time. The conductor was the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Uploaded 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY

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Verbunk

Badapest, Hungary

2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cbbkw8hx_g


Gypsy performances

Tokyo

c. 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkxX-NNm0A

A controlled ditching, indicating the presence of someone with flying experience in the cockpit. 

 

An uncontrolled steep dive and crash, indicating no control from the cockpit.  

Satellites of numerous countries spotted possible debris in the southern Indian Ocean shortly after the crash.

  

A starboard flaperon found on the beach of Saint-André on the French island of Réunion in the western Indian Ocean in late July 2015.

An analysis of the flaperon indicted that it was not extended when the plane hit the water, thus the plane crashed into the sea in a steep dive.

 !

More wreckage was found on beaches of Mozambique and South Africa.

Three to four years of underwater search in the South Pacific failed to find the plane.

Possible cause of incident: a 221-kilo cargo of lithium-ion batteries started a fire.

There were at least three reports of a plane on fire in the area of the southern Andaman Sea about the same time:

Two commercial passenger planes, flying in the vicinity, reported seeing a plane on fire.

Also, a woman on a private yacht, sailing from India to Phuket in Thailand, later recalled seeing a plane of fire fly overhead.

Lithium batteries have been the cause of many on-board fires on planes.

Despite the many warnings, it was not until 2000 that airlines in the U. S. banned smoking on board.

It is only a matter of time before batteries and chargers are banned on planes.


Lithium batteries cause an on board incident at least once a week in the U. S.

CBS News

8 May 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsHjI88mCQA


Smoke fills American Airlines flight in San Francisco

NBC News

12 July 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m9W9B6qqcA


Lithium battery in laptop causes fire and prompts plane evacuation at San Francisco Airport

ABC News

12 May 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpSlpJ6JwTg

Lost Flight MH370:

Episode One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=W5ak7EPeyn8


The Vanishing of Flight 370

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd2KEHvK-q8


WHERE IS THE MH370?

Analysis of the radar images, satellite data, cell phones and debris drift

Xavier Tytelman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6A85oQ-0R8


QUE S'EST-IL PASSÉ À BORD DU MH370?

Incendie, dépressurisation, détournement, bavure...

Xavier Tytelman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELMsWof5s1M

The Pilot and the Co-Pilot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Q2Vj5eeAk


The Co-Pilot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0xt6UgOpE

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pL6M4LU2pc


Debris found on Reunion

Flaperon found on Reunion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMuY_H16ew



60 Minutes Australia

MH370: The Situation Room

What really happened to the missing Boeing 777

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm1j1fpldkc



Flaperon found on Tanzanian coast was retracted, indicating a steep dive and crash

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


Flaperon indicates a long uncontrolled spiral dive and crash

Analyse des débris du MH370

étude de l ' impact, possible amerrissage, rétrodérive

Xavier Tytelman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ruFWW-q5Z0


Flaperon indicates a controlled ditching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHl5SmA08A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5c4Mn0xDt8


Larry Vance

Canadian air accident investigator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbO8VUpwY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NQ1jCxBig


Condition of recovered flaperon indicates a controlled ditching

News Nation / Australia

2024

First 40 minutes of upload

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW2PWwRM3MA&t=573s

The air traffic controller in Kuala Lampur called the plane:

'Malaysian 370! Contact Ho Chi Minh 120 decimal niner. Good night.

The final words from the cockpit of MH 370, in reply to Kuala Lampur ground control:

'Good night. Malaysian three-seven-zero.'

Some maintain that the voice was that of the pilot.

Others maintain that the voice was that of the co-pilot.

The above reply, from the cockpit, was actually incorrect form.

The cockpit should have repeated the assigned frequency just mentioned by ground control:

'Malaysian three-seven-zero. Will contact Ho Chi Minh 120 decimal niner. Good night.'

Cockpit - Air Traffic Controller / ATC Communication audio

MH370 Cockpit communications released by the Malaysian government

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRXYb-eO1ew

RICHARD GODFREY

Tracking MH-370 through a Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR)

60 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq-d4Kl8Xh4




MH370 - Théorie de Richard Godfrey et WSPR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8M0kiioa0

A landing gear door of the plane was found in the home of a fisherman in Madagascar

WION

2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fipwORBC3HY

Possible scenario

Michael Smiths of Perth Australia

Jan. 9, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plSIAPDW1Tk&t=364s

Hymn 579, 1982 Hymnal, Episcopal congregations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YO8ZOtC75w

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Russia invades Ukraine

Annexes Crimean Peninsula

February, March 2014

Ukraine-Russia Crisis

Lecture by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

2016

A History of Eastern Europe:

The Great Courses

23. The Unfolding of the Ukraine-Russia Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1WL2VJOn2A

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_C8KQfqIYQ

Kyrie eleison

Requiem for Peace

National Philharmonic of Ukraine

Kiev Symphony Chorus

Feb. 20, 2020

Remembrance Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes

Revolution of Dignity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDi9vqQrIE

Malaysian Airlines MH 17

Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine shoot down Malaysian passenger jet

MH-17

Schipol to Kuala Lumpur

17 July 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deB00rQQHcU

In Dutch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNNOX2O1cFQ


Impact on ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyxIiW9m2mM


Rebels at crash site

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


Body crashed through roof of house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYh0iOTl4bw


60 Minutes

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwmlOFl9CXI


Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPY92q-cuQo


Four charged

2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnzv-JO3GAA

Three convicted for shooting down Malaysian Airlines MH-17 in 2014

Two Russians and one Ukrainian convicted by Dutch court

One Russian acquitted

17 November 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w40ZZU3h3g

Bomber a politician

DENYS DAVYDOV

2 April 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6t3_G1Emf0&t=12s

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Vladimir Putin

Putin's Way

FRONTLINE

2015 PBS documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgqhU4lkgo

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Behind-the-scenes in a U. S. Air Force nuclear missile control center

60 Minutes

2014

Report on the U.S. Air Force Space Command

60 Minutes

2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy2RGu2L2DI&t=42s

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Saint John Paul II

Pope John Paul II becomes a saint


On 5 July 2013, Pope Francis decided to officially canonize Pope John Paul II.

On 30 September 2013, Pope Francis assigned a date for the Canonization.

The Canonization Mass was celebrated by Pope Francis with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square on 27 April 2014 (Divine Mercy Sunday).

St. Peter's Square

The Vatican

27 April 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQzjX3LOJo

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La Paloma

Composed by Sebastian Yradier

Transcription of Francisco Tarrega

Pepe Romero

Concert in Seoul

2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtBJcaY1kw

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THE KING CRAB

The Giant Crab of Kamtchatcka

2015 episode from the documentary series Conquerors

The King Crab is caught by fishermen in Alaska and eastern Siberia. It fetches an excellent price.

In the 1970s, the King Crab was brought to the Norwegian artic and soon colonised the many fyords of the Norwegian coast.

49:34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzrfLPGd9uk

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KING RICHARD III OF ENGLAND


Skeleton discovered under a car park

2012


Richard III

The Unseen Story

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


Last days of Richard III before the Battle of Bosworth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vopJ1wHJwI


Battle of Bosworth

David Starkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLBTnq_XJh0


The Battle of Bosworth Field

22 August 1485

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEm4SrSNTkQ


The Battle of Bosworth Field

Discussion of the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg

With guests Anne Curry, Steven Gunn and David Grummitt

April 26 2012

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



BURIAL

Leicester Cathedral

2015


The Burial of the King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSwWgbPObB0



Richard III

By William Shakespeare

Laurence Olivier as King Richard III

1955

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



Henry VII, the first Tudor King

Winter King

Real Royalty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wXTB52oUYE

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Wynton Marsalis

Lincoln Center

New York City

2015

Duke, Dizzy, Trane & Mingus : Jazz Titans

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

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bOcGc-ZE4&t=2722s

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The Road to Berlin

Russian movie

2015

Begins in Russia in 1942 and ends in 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkjl55XvUQo

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Victory Day

70th Celebration

End of the War - 1945

Grand military parade

Peking, China

8 September 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzrpCC7XmyE

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Elon Musk

SpaceX

First stage of an orbital rocket returns to Earth in a vertical landing

Falcon 9 flight 20

22 December 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brE21SBO2j8


Vertical Take-Off and Vertical Landing (VTVL) Rockets Before SpaceX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39cjZTCay24

Four famous monuments in Washington, D. C., clockwise from top left:

Capitol Building (meeting place of Congress), Lincoln Memorial (statue of Abraham Lincoln), White House (President's office and residence), Washington Monument (obelisk in honour of George Washington)

It's an old story but one worth retelling here.

Once upon a time

there was a popular American president  

Dwight D. Eisenhower ('Ike')   

Soldier, Supreme Allied Commander in WW2 (D-Day),

34th President of the U. S. (1953 - 1961).

He was a grandfather figure, statesman, beloved by all.  

  

Ike was a world leader in the post-war era with the other Allied victors   -   Stalin (- 1953), Chiang Kai-Shek (1945 - 1975) Churchill (1950 - 1955) and DeGaulle (1958 - 1969).   

With a vice-president . . .      

. . . Richard M. Nixon ('Dick'), who became a prominent figure after Ike suffered a heart attack early in his second term . . .  

. . . but lost in his bid for the presidency to

Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.

 

Or, rather . . . Joseph Kennedy's son, John F. Kennedy ('Jack'),

who is remembered as an Irish Catholic from Boston. Some consider him a saint.

Many people believe the country went down the drain at this point, never to recover. Many former American leaders do not like to be considered by histories written after 1960.

Kennedy was assassinated.

A commission concluded he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He was replaced by . . .

. . . the vice-president, Lyndon B. Johnson (1963 - 1969) . . . who was blamed for everything   -   the saint's death, Vietnam, negroes   -   and who very few can remember because he was drowned out by . . .  

. . . Nelson Rockefeller ('Rocky'), governor of New York.

Anyway, Johnson handed it . . .  

 

. . . to Nixon.

Nixon made Nelson Rockefeller's top advisor on foreign affairs, Henry Kissinger, his right-hand man.

Nixon and Kissinger put on a dazzling performance in foreign affairs.

Nixon with Mao and Brezhev

Kissinger and Le Duc Tho

However, some of Nixon's cabinet secretaries and presidential aides and even an Eisenhower in-law wound up in a big money scandal   -   and had to go.

His vice-president, whose name no-one can recall, also was caught in a money scandal and forced to resign.

Thus, following procedure, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Gerald Ford ('Jerry') of Michigan, became the new vice-president.

 

Not long after that, Nixon faced impeachment. 

So, he resigned and left the office to his vice-president,

 

Ford (1974 - 1977) . . . who took Nelson Rockefeller as his vice-president and made Henry Kissinger his secretary of state . . .

. . . but could not overcome public displeasure with his predecessor's administration . . .   

. . . and thus lost the office to a flying saucer buff, Jimmy Carter of Georgia (1977 - 1981), who was really just a temporary stop-gap measure . . .

. . . until he was chased out by Ronald Reagan and his millions of friends.

Reagan was a Hollywood movie star and represented actors in negotiations with studio bosses in the 1930s and 1940s.

A liberal Democrat in the 1930s and 1940s he became a conservative Republican in the 1950s.

He was a politician in the 1960s and 1970s. He was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

He was considered a dark-horse candidate for president during the Republican convention of 1968.

He won election as president by a wide margin in 1980 and re-election by a landslide in 1984.

Reagan was ever-popular. He brought Hollywood to Washington. His two terms were an eight-year celebration.

Reagan kept it low-key.

Reagan was a staunch conservative. He warned against involving too much government in the lives of the people.  

He gave the Navy its yacht club and ran up the biggest deficit in American history.

Reagan was followed by his vice-president, George H. W. Bush (1989 - 1993), who did well but was done in by the falling economy . . .  

. . . and lost to Bill Clinton (1993 - 2001), a hillbilly from Arkansas who resembled a professional wrestler or country singer. He had a bit of experience working as a lorry chauffeur in the U. K. He worshipped Kennedy (kissed his ass) in public to get elected. In office, he caused a big scandal with an extra-marital affair with an intern. He was roundly condemned and almost run out of town. 

But he cut the deficit and balanced the budget. He took it out of the red and put it in the black. A very rare thing.

He was succeeded by . . .   

. . . one of these three men:

George W. Bush, son of former president George H. W. Bush;

Dick Cheney, once a top Reagan aide, and

Donald Rumsfeld, considered a possible presidential candidate as far back as 1973.  

They conquered the Barbary Coast and subdued the pirates. They conquered Asia and repelled the invaders.

Somehow or other, they were succeeded by . . .     

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The First Person of Colour in the White House

A Mulatto Elected U. S. President

November 2008

Barack Hussein Obama II, 44th U. S. president (2009 - 2017), born in Honolulu in 1961.   

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Obama's father

  

Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr. (1936 - 1982), was from a Luo tribal village called Kogelo on Lake Victoria in Nyanza Province of British colonial Kenya.

Kenya (formerly the protectorate or colony of British East Africa) is one of three countries, with Uganda and Tanganyika (formerly a German colony), in a geographical region known as East Africa.

Lake Victoria in East Africa

Barack Obama, Sr.'s father, Onyango Obama (1895? - 1979?), joined the local Catholic Church early in life.

He was baptised by Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries. 

He joined the King's African Rifles during the Great War (1914 - 1918) and travelled to India and Tanganyika.

In Tanganyika, he adopted Islam and took the name Hussein. 

Hussein Onyango Obama's son, Baraka Hussein Obama (or Hussein Baraka Obama), was raised a Muslim.

He attended an Anglican missionary school and became an Anglican at age six.

He changed his name from Baraka to Barack.

He did well in school, attending an Anglican boarding school and, with scholarships, studied at the University of Hawaii and Harvard University before taking a position as an economist with the Kenyan government in Kenya.

He met another student at the University of Hawaii, Ann Dunham, from the western United States. Ann lived with her parents, who had moved to Honolulu in 1960. 

Obama's mother

 

Obama's mother, Ann Dunham (1942 - 1995)

Obama's maternal grandparents

The Dunhams

Ann Dunham's parents, Stanley Dunham (1918 - 1992) and Madelyn Lee Payne (1922 - 2008) (above), were from Kansas. Photo taken in the early 1940s.

Ann Dunham as a young girl with her parents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham.

Ann Dunham

Obama's parents

Barack Hussein Obama and Ann Dunham married in Honolulu in 1961.

The couple had a son, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., born in Honolulu in 1961.

Barack Obama Jr. grew up in Honolulu.

 

Obama, Jr. with his mother, Ann Dunham, left, and his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., right.

Obama's parents divorced after three years of marriage, in 1964.

Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, remarried, to a Javanese oil man and Obama lived with his mother and step-father in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Ann Dunham visiting Borobudur on Java in the mid-1960s.

 

Eventually, at age ten, in 1971, Obama joined his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, in Honolulu. 

Obama was raised by his maternal grandparents in Honolulu. He completed secondary school studies in Honolulu.  

Stanley Dunham with his grandson.

Obama, Jr. graduated from Columbia University in New York.

Obama settled in Chicago, Illinois to study and practice law.

Obama with his wife, Michelle, also of Chicago, and their two daughters.

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In 2008, Obama, a first-term Democratic senator from Illinois, competed with Vietnam War PoW John McCain, senator from Arizona and the Republican candidate, for the presidency.

McCain was the son of Admiral John McCain Jr., commander -in-chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINPAC) (1968 - 1972).  

Obama won the election with 52.9% of the popular vote and 365 of 538 electoral votes. 

He won it by worshipping Kennedy in public.

In truth, the country wanted a change. People were fed up with 'Iraq'. The 'Iraq War' was a fraud. The excuse for it was false. There was also the big Red Cross-Iraq scandal. There was a worse financial scandal at home   -   the sub-prime mortgage scandal.

The Democrats could have run anyone for president and won the election.  

He won it also through the ambivalence of his opponent, who gave up in mid-year (and sold it).

Many could not believe the results. How could it happen? There had to be an explanation. Obama was really Claude Williams   -   with a make-over.    

Obama succeeded George W. Bush (2001 - 2009).

Obama with his vice-president, Joe Biden, born 1942, an Irish Catholic lawyer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Obama visits Luo relatives in Kenya.

  

Obama's Luo relatives, including half-siblings, in Kenya.

Obama's Republican opponent in 2012 was a former Mormon missionary, Willard Mitt Romney, from Michigan and Utah, and former governor of Massachusetts (2003 - 2007).

Romney's father, George W. Romney, was president of American Motors (1954 - 1962); governor of Michigan (1963 - 1969); and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (1969 - 1973) in the Nixon Administration.

Obama won 51.1% of the popular vote and 332 of 538 electoral votes.

Obama served two terms as president (2009 - 2017).

Obama was almost as popular as Al Jolson.

Restoring the good old times in Cuba

Raúl Castro, Pope Francis, Barack Obama

Relations between Cuba and the US were suspended in 1960.

Pope Francis got the Cubans and Americans together again. 

Relations were restored 54 years later in 2014. 

American and Cuban presidents meet

 

Obama meets Raúl Castro in Panama on 11 April 2015

Obama and Raúl Castro at the United Nations on 29 September 2015    

Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Havana, 21 March 2016

 

Havana, March 2016

Obama was the first US president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years.

President Calvin Coolidge visited Cuba in 1928.

Obama resides in retirement in Washington, D. C.    

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The U. S. A. in rigor mortis

 

The United States are a union (or federation) of 50 states   -   and a district and territories.

In many matters, the federal government, headquartered in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia (D. C.), cannot act without the agreement of the states. The federal government is often obliged to defer to the states. For example, it cannot declare war without a consensus of the states   -   the representatives of the states in the bicameral legislature.  

In nation-wide presidential elections, the people cast their votes for a presidential candidate but they do not vote directly for a candidate. That is, the popular vote does not determine a winner.

Each state selects an elector to represent it in the electoral college. Each state has a certain number of electors, based on the size of its population.

Thus, the most populous states have the most electors   -   California (55), Texas (38), Florida (29) and New York (29).

The least populous states have the fewest electors  -   Alaska, Delaware, Montana, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming and the District of Columbia (Washington, D. C.) (each has 3 electors).

The candidate who wins the most votes nation-wide   -   the popular vote   -   does not necessarily win the election.

A candidate must win the votes   -   and electors   -   of each state.

The candidate who wins the votes of most the registered voters of a state, even if by just one vote, wins all of that state's electors.

Thus, it is possible for a candidate to lose the nation-wide popular vote but win the most votes in the electoral college. 

In the 2016 elections, the mogul Donald Trump, running as a Republican in his first political campaign, defeated Hillary Clinton.

Clinton   -   a former First Lady, wife of former president Bill Clinton and Obama's former secretary of state   -   was the first woman to run as a major party candidate in a presidential contest.    

Many voters considered Trump a rich playboy.

Many voters did not want a woman for president. Many recalled Bill Clinton's scandalous extra-marital affair and did not want a return of the Clintons to the White House.

Trump lost the popular vote but won the more important and deciding electoral vote   -  and the presidency.

Popular vote: Clinton 66 M, Trump 63 M.

Electoral vote: Trump 306, Clinton 232

 

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Donald Trump

President

Stocks almost tripled in value in the two years following Trump's election. 

Melania Trump

Donald and Melania Trump 

Inauguration, January 2017

The President and the First Lady

The First Lady

The Trumps with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall

The Trumps with Prince Charles and Camilla

The Trumps with Queen Elizabeth at a royal state banquet hosted by the Queen in Buckingham Palace in June 2019.

The President with Pope Francis

President Trump, Prime Minister Trudeau (Canada), Chancellor Merkel (Germany), President Macron (France) and President Putin (Russian Federation) mark Victory in Europe Day (VE-Day) in Paris.

President Trump at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

Trump with his oldest and best friend, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

  

The President's plane, Air Force One, gets a paint job   -   to the President's specifications.

Bringing in the New Year

The President in Quebec-Ville 

The President plays golf in Canada.

The President and First Lady with their son.

 

 

Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali (1940 - 2016)

in 2010 photo.

 

Muhammad Ali died at his home in Arizona on 3 June 2016.

The funeral was in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky on 10 June.

Among the pallbearers were former heavyweight boxing champions Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Mike Moorer, (a brother of) Jimmy Ellis and Hollywood actor Will Smith.

Won a gold medal in the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.

 

Three times world heavyweight champion, from 1964 to 1967, 1974 to 1978, and 1978 to 1979. 

Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali is considered one of the greatest world heavyweight boxing champions in history, among the best   -   Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and Mike Tyson.

Muhammad Ali Funeral

FULL MEMORIAL SERVICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpGSjYqHFV0


Olympic Gold Medal 1960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8qe7ypkzU


Cassius Clay vs Sonny Liston

Post-fight interview with Steve Ellis

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5kzOHaPJMo


Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman

Post-fight interview with David Frost

1974

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


Muhammad Ali

The Greatest

1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MU_u3qIyQ

Excerpt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIJMjZq65mU


Freedom Road

1978

Excerpt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7hoKLwlc-E

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King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand

Dies at age 88 in Bangkok on 13 October 2016

Royal Anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Jxzc4JYpg


Thai Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha announces death of H. M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejSTw2dkVU


Bangkok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KphS7Q5E6Ac


United Nations General Assembly

Special Tribute to H. M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej

28 October 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3XO7FDCFB4

Love at Sundown

A composition by the King of Thailand

Benny Goodman

Bangkok

1956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQTEsQpvS0

King and Queen of Thailand visit England

1960

Newsreel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Njzh0LeEc

Le roi de Thaïlande en famille

1961

Bhumibol Adulyadej a vécu de l'âge de 5 à 23 ans.

En 1960, le monarque, son épouse Sirikit et leurs quatre enfants dans la Villa du Flonzaley à Puidoux-Chexbres.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHIaSHPqiD8

King and Queen of Thailand visit New Zealand

1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Tp1H0n-gY&t=138s

King of Thailand

1988

Jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjLSuFd3lfo


How High the Moon ?

King Bhumibol Adulyadej on saxophone

1996

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

Eleven royal elephants pay tribute to late Thai king

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ-eajKB87E

Cremation ceremony

Bangkok

October 26, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t6CMqRY39M

Royal Cremation Ceremony for H. M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej

October 26, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-P-pmdCWjY

Royal Anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLBH0pMMUgg

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Fidel Castro Ruz

 

 

Fidel Castro Ruiz (1926 - 2016)

 

 

 

Photo of Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra in the late 1950s by Alberto Korda. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1959

 

Fidel Castro

 

Mini-Bio (2009)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ24jmIHIUk

 

 

Fidel Castro on the revolution 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ZWBl-66H8&feature=related

 

 

Fidel - The Untold Story

 

Documentary (2001)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkNm7BWcOl0&feature=related

 

 

Fidel Castro

 

2004 American Experience documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caojl4mw5X0

 

or

 

Part 1.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUGpfFm0YAs

 

or, the same: 

 

Part 1.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yNhO7A4c6o

 

Part 2.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPP6dGZLaU

 

 

 

 

 

Castro's Revolution

 

Episode from the Secrets of War series narrated by Charlton Heston (200_)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfOiAaN6G8I

 

 

Castro in 1969

Fidel

 

This 2002 movie is a shortened version of a mini-series and many events are cut incredibly short or excluded entirely. (2:31:14)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20rCxqg-Vzw

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipng6p7cEUs

 

 

Fidel

 

Documentary (I hr. 30 min. 41 sec.)

 

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

 

 

Fidel Castro

 

l'Enfance d'un Chef

 

Documentaire (2004)

 

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

 

 

 

Castro with Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere in Tanzania in the 1970s

 

 

Cuba! Africa! Revolution!

 

Documentary about Cuban support of revolution in Africa (2017) (1:37:40)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAAvrYz8oYM

 

Or in two parts:

 

Congo in 1965 and Portuguese Africa in 1974

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmzIIzszch4

 

Angola 1974/1975 -  

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiPd_yru0G8

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fidel and Raúl Castro in 2003

 

 

Fidel Castro Dies at Age 90

 

25 November 2016

 

BBC News

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYF2_aeTI10

 

ABC News

 

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

 

PBS News

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpVcGw1UBBQ

 

 

 

The funeral cortege with the ashes of Fidel Castro arrives in Santiago de Cuba

 

Fidel Castro Memorial in Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba

 

 

Fidel Castro interred in ceremony at Santiago de Cuba

 

PBS

 

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

 

CNN

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6jhNrsl6Y

 

 

Fidel Castro's ashes interred

 

Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, Santiago de Cuba

 

December 4, 2016

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqMgypR9Oo 

 

Fidel Castro monument in Cienfuegos, Cuba