Englishing
ESL - Literary Devices 2 (Alliteration, Imagery, Oxymoron, Hyperbole and Symbolism)
This is the second video lesson on literary devices. Mr. P. has published another video on literary devices on metaphors, simile, personification and onomatopoeia. In this video lesson, Mr. P. will discuss alliteration, imagery,...
NASA
NASA | 'Disk Detectives' Top 1 Million Classifications in Search for Planetary Habitats
Citizen scientists using the NASA-sponsored website DiskDetective.org have logged 1 million classifications of potential debris disks and disks surrounding young stellar objects (YSO). This data will help provide a crucial set of targets...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Perfecting Poetry - Sensory Imagery and Sound Devices (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Let’s dive deeper into the world of poetry. In this second lesson, we’ll explore poetry with all five senses. Discover how poets use sound devices, sensory imagery, figurative language and much more! Soon, you’ll have all the tools you...
NASA
NASA | Disk Detective: Search for Planetary Habitats
A new NASA-sponsored website, DiskDetective.org, lets the public discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The site is led and funded by NASA and developed by...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering Through Prose - Common Narrative Techniques (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
Our second lesson will zoom into the finer elements of prose fiction. We’ll explore narrative style, techniques, figurative language, imagery, syntax and tone. We’ll revisit some basic language features before building on your...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Poetry - Overview
The Elements of Poetry - Figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile, and metaphor . these are a few of the many topics explored in this lively video tour through the genre of poetry. Other elements illustrated in the program include:...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Poetry - Figurative Language
The Elements of Poetry - Figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile, and metaphor . These are a few of the many topics explored in this lively video tour through the genre of poetry. Other elements illustrated in the program include:...
Advocate of Wordz
Blank & Free Verse - Poetry Defined
Blank and Free Verse are sometimes confused as being interchangeable, but they aren't! Also, we sometimes believe we're writing in Free Verse, but we're actually denying ourselves credit we deserve.
Curated Video
Deforestation of Gaza for food, fuel due to lack of humanitarian aid
The IDF has cleared thousands of acres of trees throughout the Gaza Strip, something that's readily apparent in satellite imagery.
Bloomberg
UAW Begins Strike Against Ford, GM, Stellantis as Contract Lapses
The United Auto Workers began a strike against all three of the legacy Detroit carmakers Friday, kicking off a potentially costly and protracted showdown over wages and job security. Craig Trudell reports on Bloomberg Television.
Curated Video
NASA releases new images of Antarctica
1. Wide of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) news conference at Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric...
Sky News
William and Kate visit Hindu Kush in Pakistan on Official Tour
CLEAN: Shows exterior shtos Prince William Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge at the Chiatibo glacier talking to guide about risks of flooding. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited an isolated mountain village...
Bloomberg
What Earth Looks Like When Everything Stops
Apr.30 -- As life on Earth slowed to a crawl, hundreds of satellites orbiting overhead captured day-by-day images of this unprecedented moment in history. Analysts have been poring over the pictures to better understand the coronavirus...
Curated Video
USA: SATELLITE PICTURES OF RUSSIAN NUCLEAR WEAPON SITES RELEASED
English/Nat
U-S spy satellite photographs of the Soviet Union taken during the Cold War are emerging from their shell of secrecy.
Researchers and academics poring over thousands of declassified pictures say the images can now be used for...
Curated Video
Mnuchin: Redesign of Tubman $20 bill on hold
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said that a decision by his predecessor, Jacob Lew, to put African-American abolitionist leader Harriett Tubman on the $20 bill would be delayed and will not happen in 2020.
Curated Video
UK's Prince William, Kate visit north Pakistan
Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate on Wednesday travelled to Pakistan's scenic northern mountains and glaciers, drawing attention to the challenges of climate change in a region where glaciers are melting at a fast pace.
Bloomberg
Kevin Roberts: Churchill Wouldn't Give Up on Europe
June 17 -- Kevin Roberts, chairman at Saatchi & Saatchi and author of "64 Shots," looks back on former U.K. leaders as the nation prepares to vote on the Brexit referendum. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Photo credit added to...
Curated Video
Mnuchin: Redesign of Tubman $20 bill on hold
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said that a decision by his predecessor, Jacob Lew, to put African-American abolitionist leader Harriett Tubman on the $20 bill would be delayed and will not happen in 2020.
Curated Video
UK's Prince William, Kate visit north Pakistan
UK'S PRINCE WILLIAM, KATE VISIT NORTH PAKISTAN
Curated Video
WRAP Shuttle detaches from International Space Station
Space
1. Mid of space shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station (ISS)
2. Various of of ISS
3. Endeavour undocking from the ISS
Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas - 28 November, 2008
4. Wide of mission status...
Curated Video
People join search for missing billionaire online
1. Searchers roll out a small plane on a tarmac, ready for take off to join the search effort
2. SOUNDBITE: ( English) Trooper Chuck Allen, pubic information officer, Nevada Department of Public Safety:
"We're all remaining very...
Curated Video
Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with ISS, astronauts meeting
International Space Station (ISS)
1. Various of Atlantis turning around for inspection
2. Various close-ups of the shuttle
3. Approach to docking
4. Various wide shots of the shuttle approaching the space station
5. Various of docking
6....
Curated Video
USA: SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR EARTH MAPPING MISSION
English/Nat
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle "Endeavour" are continuing their Earth-mapping mission.
So far, they've mapped 44 (m) million square miles of the planet's terrain at least once and 31 (m) million square miles at least...
Curated Video
Min says sports events safe after IPL moved out of India for security reasons
1. India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram taking seat
2. Photographers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's home minister
"I have repeatedly said that cricket - or any other game - when played in India is...