Tag: History
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Van Halen – Jump (Official Music Video)
Van Halen – Jump (Official Music Video) Brought to you by Van Halen’s Official YouTube Channel: Van Halen TV. Jump released in December 1983 as the lead single from their album 1984. It is Van Halen’s most successful single, reaching number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Lyrics I get up and nothin’ gets…
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“End of the Plain Plane!” Braniff International Ad
We have blue planes, orange planes, yellow planes. You can fly with us seven times and never fly the same color twice. Enjoy this 1960s-era Braniff international ad conceived by advertising trailblazer, Mary Wells Lawrence in an effort to distinguish Braniff flights as entertaining, unique, and memorable. Braniff Airways, Inc., operated as Braniff International Airways from 1948…
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The Cultural Revolution and the films it inspired [YOUTH]
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In this video I try to explore why Chinese cinema keeps coming back to the Cultural Revolution in a way that some might find surprising, given China’s governments track record on openly allowing discussion on difficult topics. The Cultural Revolution has had a huge impact on modern China and the world of art in the…
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Top Secret! How To Hold Those Curls In Place with Max Factor | Vintage Fashions
Watch this hilarious commercial for Max Factor’s hair product. This retro TV / cinema advert demonstrates a new hair product called Top Secret that holds curls in place.
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This photo triggered China’s Cultural Revolution
In 1966, Mao Zedong, China’s communist leader and the founder of the People’s Republic of China, was rumored to be in failing health. The devastating policies of his Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) — which forced millions of peasants to work tirelessly on government farming communes and by manufacturing crude steel — resulted in the greatest…
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Syncom II: Small Satellite, Big Changes
The Boeing Archives Presents Syncom II—the first geostationary communications satellite that brought the world closer together. Syncom 2 was the first geosynchronous satellite. Although the period was 24 hours and the spacecraft remained at a nearly constant longitude, the orbit was inclined at 33 degrees so it was not truly geostationary but moved in an elongated…
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Looking Ahead to the Information Age in 1985: AT&T Archives
A semi-futurist film about the growth and potential of computers and communications combining in The Information Age. The film puts forth that developments like digital television, speech recognition, and speedy networks might combine in ways to help humanity that wasn’t believed possible before the 1980s. This 1985 film contains an early use of the term…
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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
Beginning in 1922, archaeologist Charles Leonard Woolley, co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum, led a monumental excavation at Ur. Predating ancient Egypt and its famed pyramids by thousands of years, this southern Mesopotamian city-state possessed its own rich culture and architectural monuments, notably the ziggurat, a stepped structure topped by a…
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Petra And The Lost Kingdom Of The Nabataeans | Documentary
Land of history, Jordan is full of archaeological treasures. The most beautiful is the site of Petra. Director: Jacques Vichet
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The Copper Age Explained (The rise of civilization) – The Chalcolithic Period
The Chalcolithic or Copper Age lasting about one thousand years is the transitional period between the Neolithic, or Stone Age and the Bronze Age. The Copper Age originated from the island of Cyprus, where Romans mined copper from its rich copper mines. About 6000 years ago, copper was used in manufacturing tools and weapons, while gold was…
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The Birth of Civilisation – Rise of Uruk (6500 BC to 3200 BC)
Uruk, today known as Warka, was an ancient city of Sumer situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates River on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates 30 km east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Wikipedia Estimates of Uruk’s population vary wildly, but, by around…
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Santa Fe down to $8 per ticket, Southern Pacific responded with $6. By that afternoon reports of rates as low as $1 to California
Early in January 1887, Crank went east to New York in search of expansion capital. Scarcely had he arrived in New York City when Crank received an urgent invitation to visit Washington, DC, from Leland Stanford, who was then representing both the state of California and the greater Southern Pacific interests as a United States…
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