Crash Course
How World War I Started: Crash Course World History 209
In which John Green teaches you about World War I and how it got started. Crash Course doesn't usually talk much about dates, but the way that things unfolded in July and August of 1914 are kind of important to understanding the Great...
Crash Course
Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210
In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one of the nations involved. Did the fault lie with Austria-Hungary? Germany? Russia? Julius...
SciShow
Gregor Mendel: Great Minds
Hank brings us the story of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who, with the help of a garden full of pea plants, discovered the fundamental properties of inheritance and paved the way for modern genetics. He also gives us the dirt on a...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why is Marie Antoinette so controversial? | Carolyn Harris
She was the Queen of France, notorious for living in opulence while peasants starved and became a symbol of everything wrong with monarchy. But was Marie Antionette a heartless, wasteful queen, or a convenient scapegoat in turbulent...
Curated Video
Steinmeier on Syria and France's economic policies
Germany's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the "prospects of success" of the Geneva talks on ending the Syrian conflict could not be guaranteed without the participation of the Syrian opposition.
The Western-backed Syrian National...
Curated Video
Various - Austrian Chancellor Vranitzky resigns
Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky resigned on Saturday (18/1) after ten years in power.
He made the announcement shortly before a closed door meeting of his Social Democratic Party (SPOe).
street Vienna with anti eu posters;
pro euro...
Curated Video
KOSOVO: EU TEAM ARRIVE IN EFFORT TO STOP ESCALATING VIOLENCE
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Following Serb gains on the battlefield, a three-member European Union delegation has arrived in Kosovo in an effort to stop the escalating conflict in the Serb-ruled province.
On Wednesday, the head of the E-U team...
Curated Video
AUSTRIA: COMPENSATION TO NAZI-ERA FORCED LABOURERS (V)
Voice and effects
VOICED BY: Susan Poizner
In an historic recognition of Nazi crimes, Austria on Tuesday officially established a 6 (B) billion schilling (380 (M) million U-S dollar) fund to compensate thousands of surviving slave...
Curated Video
UK's Hammond and China's Wang leave talks venue
Foreign ministers from the six world powers left Vienna's Palais Coburg on Monday - venue of the latest nuclear talks with Iran - after a frenetic six days of diplomacy.
Nuclear negotiators failed to meet a Monday deadline for the deal...
Curated Video
Reax from Amstetten and St P�lten, Fritzl's house, voxpops
Amstetten
1. Wide of Fritzl house
2. Close up of window of Fritzl house
3. Mid of gate with police sign reading (German) "Police - no trespassing"
4. Wide pan across Ybbs Street
5. Wide of man in newspaper shop
6. Various of newspaper...
Curated Video
FRANCE: FOREIGN MINISTERS ATTEMPT TO BROKER KOSOVO PEACE DEAL
French/Ger/Eng/Nat
European Union foreign ministers have began consultations at the German foreign minister's residence in Paris in an attempt to broker a peace deal in Kosovo.
As the talks enter their second week in Rambouillet, the 15...
Curated Video
Authorities unable to remove pre-war gravestone with swastika
The marble tombstone looks like others dotting the main cemetery of Graz, Austria's second city - but only at first glance.
Carved into it are a swastika and the inscription: "He died in the struggle for a Great Germany."
Footsteps away,...
Curated Video
Iran says UN sanctions invalid, warns it will resist pressure to freeze enrichment
1. Various of exteriors of UN building in Vienna
2. Interiors of the opening session of the board of governors meeting
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian delegate to the International Atomic Energy...
Curated Video
Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I: Crash Course World History
In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an added bonus, World War I changed the way...
TED Talks
TED: The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings | Anna Heringer
There are a lot of resources given by nature for free -- all we need is our sensitivity to see them and our creativity to use them, says architect Anna Heringer. Heringer uses low-tech materials like mud and bamboo to create structures...
Curated Video
Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210
In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one of the nations involved. Did the fault lie with Austria-Hungary? Germany? Russia? Julius...
Crash Course
The Congress of Vienna: Crash Course European History
The end of the Napoleonic Wars left the great powers of Europe shaken. Judging from the destruction that had been wrought across the continent, it seemed to the powers that be that the Enlightenment had liberated the people, and led to...
Curated Video
HOW World War I Started: Crash Course World History 209
In which John Green teaches you about World War I and how it got started. Crash Course doesn't usually talk much about dates, but the way that things unfolded in July and August of 1914 are kind of important to understanding the Great...
Crash Course
Eastern Europe Consolidates: Crash Course European History
While the focus has been on Western Europe so far, there has also been a lot going on in Eastern Europe, which we'll be looking at today. The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, The Ottoman Empire, and Russia were all competing at the...
Crash Course
Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I Crash Course World History
In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an added bonus, World War I changed the way...
Crash Course
Italian and German Unification: Crash Course European History
So, we haven't talked much about Italy and Germany so far in Crash Course Euro, and that's because prior to the mid-19th century, those two nation-states weren't really a thing. Today we'll look at how Italy and Germany pulled it...
Curated Video
The French Revolution: Crash Course World History
In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the...
Crash Course
Enlightened Monarchs: Crash Course European History
Last time we learned about the Enlightenment, and the philosophers and thinkers whose ideas would shape governance for hundred of years. This week, we're learning how monarchs across Europe were influenced by those ideas. Adoption of...
Crash Course
Revolutions of 1848: Crash Course European History
In 1848, Europe experienced a wave of revolutions. Last week we covered some of the reform movements that presaged these uprisings. This week, we're learning about what the people wanted from the revolutions, who was involved, and how...