60 Second Histories
Builders and engineers in the Roman Empire
A Roman legionary describes the amazing construction projects undertaken by Roman builders such as the Coliseum and the Cloaca Maxima and includes the concrete they made and the fabulous arches
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Roman Construction: The Arch, Vault, Dome, and Concrete
“Roman Construction: The Arch, Vault, Dome, and Concrete” will explain how the Romans advanced in construction to undertake massive building projects.
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Overview: Romans Ch. 5-16
Watch our overview video on the book of Romans, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. Paul shows how Jesus created the new covenant family of Abraham through his death and resurrection and the sending...
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Overview: Romans Ch. 1-4
Watch our overview video on the book of Romans, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. Paul shows how Jesus created the new covenant family of Abraham through his death and resurrection and the sending...
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The white lie we've been told about Roman statues
The ancient world was actually really colorful. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab When you think of the ancient world, you probably picture towering buildings of white marble, adorned with statues also made of white...
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Exploring Ancient Roman Theatre: Pompeii's Virtual Reality Perspective
In this video, researchers from Warwick University explore the ancient Romans' passion for theatre and their use of perspective paintings as a form of virtual reality. By applying state-of-the-art computer modeling to Pompeii wall...
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The Consequences of Anger... | Bite Sized Project Management Thought from Marcus Aurelius
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.' This quote from Marcus Aurelius – Roman emperor and Stoic Philosopher - reminds us of the critical importance of self-control to Project Managers and, indeed,...
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You are Your Choices | Bite Sized Project Management Thought from Seneca
Seneca was an early first-century Roman stoic philosopher and dramatist. He asserted that ‘You are Your Choices’. Well, he may not have said it, but it is widely attributed to him and there are many variants. I think this means that the...
NASA
One Image, One Million Galaxies
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang. Hubble peered at a single...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Modeling Imperfect Knowledge and Non-Routine Change
How do you model the unmodelable? By taking seriously the idea of non-routine change. Simply put, change in capitalist economies is to a significant degree non-routine, and thus cannot be adequately represented in advance with mechanical...
Smarthistory
Ancient Rome
A project between Smarthistory and Rome Reborn - with Dr. Bernard Frischer. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. For those interested in exploring the digital model, please visit: www.romereborn.org
Eat Happy Project
Ancient Oil with expert Graham in Andalusia, Spain (Trailer)
We’re off to an olive grove in Spain to learn all about Ancient Oil! Join us live to find out how the Ancient Romans used oil, and how we consume it today. Watch the Ancient Oil Online Field Trip in full and download the supporting...
Eat Happy Project
Ancient Oil: how ancient is oil?
Learn about the history of olive oil - from the Aztecs to the Romans to how we use it today. For lots of teaching resources to support this video, and to watch the full Online Field Trip, visit our website here:...
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Julius Caesar 1.1 Caesar’s Rise to Power
This video explores the dramatic rise of Julius Caesar against the backdrop of the Roman Republic's political dynamics, highlighting his early alliance with Pompey, his unparalleled military successes in Gaul, and the consequential civil...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 29, Centennial Challenges Small Steps, Giant Leaps
Monsi Roman, NASA Centennial Challenges Program Manager, discusses the agency’s flagship prizes and competition program.
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Mastering Microsoft Word 365 - Font and size
Learn some quick tips for adjusting text font and size to fit any project in Word 365.
Easy Languages
New Year's Eve in Brazil | Easy Brazilian Portuguese 26
New Year's Eve in Brazil | Easy Brazilian Portuguese 26 Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of...
Crash Course
Neutron Stars
In the aftermath of a 8 – 20 solar mass star’s demise we find a weird little object known as a neutron star. Neutrons stars are incredibly dense, spin rapidly, and have very strong magnetic fields. Some of them we see as pulsars,...
Eat Happy Project
Where does oil come from? Join us from an olive grove in Spain to find out
We visited an olive grove in Spain to learn all about Ancient Oil! Join our Online Field Trip to find out how the Ancient Romans used oil, and how we consume it today. Key learning points: Where different oils come from How olives are...
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Acts Ch. 21-28
In the final video in our Acts series, we trace Paul’s final journey to Jerusalem and then into a Roman prison. But paradoxically, Paul’s suffering leads him into the heart of the Roman empire where he gets to announce God’s Kingdom over...
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Acts Ch. 13-20
What was it like for the apostle Paul to travel around the Roman Empire announcing the good news about the risen Jesus? What drove him to plant new Jesus communities in city after city, and how did people respond to his message? In our...
The British Museum
Shipwrecks and samian ware: commissioning art with Turner Contemporary
Between 8 October 2016 and 8 January 2017, the British Museum sent a Spotlight loan of samian ware pottery to Turner Contemporary in Margate as part of the Museum’s wide-ranging national partnership work. Also known as pudding pans, the...
Getty Museum
Conserving the Drunken Satyr at the Getty Villa
A rare large-scale Roman bronze, the Drunken Satyr from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy, has arrived at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa for study and conservation. Hear conservator Erik Risser describe the...
The Cynical Historian
Silence (2016) | Based on a True Story
Silence has the makings of a good movie, but it bombed at the box office, and for a good reason. The plot is fascinating, and the history behind it is even more so. But the movie ended up being a boring mess. I think there is a gem...