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Amputations in the Napoleonic Wars I IT'S HISTORY
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MinuteEarth
The Similarity Trap
Try Squarespace for free: http://squarespace.com/MinuteEarth And subscribe to MinuteEarth! http://goo.gl/EpIDGd As we try to figure out the evolutionary trees for languages and species, we sometimes get led astray by similar but...
NativLang
Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis
Languages throughout Asia are startlingly similar, but are they all part of one huge family? Thus began the biggest fight in the history of historical linguistics. Subscribe for more:...
World Science Festival
Avian Einsteins
How do we learn to speak? What is the connection between language and movement? Join a broad and distinguished panel of biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, musicians and writers, including leading bird scientists...
TED-Ed
Slowing Down Time (in Writing & Film)
How do you slowmo a story? The narrator of a short video models how to slow down the pace of a narrative by using concepts drawn from slow motion filming. Just as slow motion in a film is achieved by speeding up the process so that more...
PBS
American Masters: The American Dream in the Grapes of Wrath
For many farmers displaced by the Great Depression and the droughts of the 1930s, California represented the American Dream: a place to find work, to establish a new life, and to provide for their families. The reality they found, as...
Crash Course
In the Mood for Love
English-speaking viewers don't need to read the subtitles to understand Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood For Love. The colors, the music, and the framing of the shots so beautifully express the emotions of the characters that dialogue, in any...
Study
Parallelism: How to Write and Identify Parallel Sentences
Parallelism pitfalls are the focus of a short video that models for viewers how to craft parallel constructions using coordinating and correlative conjunctions. The transcript, as well as a short quiz to check for understanding, are...
Crash Course
The Language of Film
New ventures and new technologies require new ways of referring to things. In stepped Edwin S. Porter, whose films Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery used parallel action and cross-cutting to develop his...
Crash Course
Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder - Hamlet Part I
"Words, words, words." Part I of a two-part course in Hamlet focuses on the changes Shakespeare made in his version of the old Danish tale and the reasons he might have made these changes. In particular, the narrator examines...
TED-Ed
Animal Farm - Context and Background
George Orwell's allegorical Animal Farm is the focus of a video that introduces the concepts of political allegory and totalitarianism. A great way to generate interest in the novel.
Crash Course
The Greeks and Romans - Pantheons Part 3: Crash Course World Mythology #9
The Greek Titan god, Cronus, was so worried that his children were going to overthrow him that he swallowed them. Talk about overreacting! Viewers analyze the similarities between Greek and Roman myths in the ninth installment of the...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Dante’s “Divine Comedy”?
Journey along with the narrator of a short, animated video who explains the political connections to be found in Dante's The Divine Comedy.
Crash Course
World Cinema Part One
Hollywood is the place to go if you want to make movies—right? Not necessarily. A fascinating video about the history of 20th century Asian cinema discusses the reflections of Japanese culture in the works of directors Yasujiro Ozu,...
TED-Ed
Mysteries of Vernacular: Venom
Choose venom as the word of the day and demonstrate the word's origins with a quick video. The narrator draws parallels between venom and its predecessors, briefly explaining history along the way. Check out the additional materials for...
PBS
Dr. Bledsoe: A Fictional Booker T. Washington
Many critics believe that the character of Dr. Bledsoe in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was modeled after Booker T. Washington. After watching a clip from the film Ralph Ellison: An American Journey about the Washington Bledsoe...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding?
Lord of the Flies, William Golding's tale of English schoolboys who have crashed and are stranded on a remote island, reflects Golding's view of just how thin the veneer of civilized behavior is. The narrator of a short video argues for...