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...

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...

MOT 1945: DRAMATIZATION: Racketeers in car watching herd of cattle. NIGHT: Men stealing cattle herding into truck. EXT Barn. INT Barn w/ man cutting hanging beef carcass men carry cut beef out of garage & place in pick-up truck.

This is a question, I get asked ALL the time by students...how long does my paragraph need to be? In this short, I answer that question, hopefully for the last time by showing you that you are actually asking the wrong question. I will...

The French Revolution (Part 1)

In 1789, the French Monarchy's habit of supporting democratic popular revolutions in North America backfired. Today, we're talking about the French Revolution. Across the world, people were rising up to throw off monarchies, and Louis...

Physicists are interested in the big questions like "Where did we come from?" and "What is all this stuff?". But the answers to some of these questions, just lead to more questions.

What rights do people have, and where do they come from? Who gets to make decisions for others, and on what authority? And how can we organize society to meet people's needs? Tom Mullaney shows how these questions challenged an entire...

Learn about the causes of the French Revolution in song format! A great way to boost classroom engagement when introducing new topics.

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The Enlightenment may not have left physical evidence behind like the pyramids of Egypt or the Coliseum of Rome, but it has left us an intellectual heritage which is unquestionable in its importance. This video looks at how one of the...

An animated video outlining the basic narrative of the French Revolution, how it started, who were the main players and when they lost their heads, along with the rise of Napoleon amidst the chaos.

Today, we think of 1700s-era France as a period of unwashed and unparalleled squalor. While this is partially a misconception, it does contain some truth. During the 18th century, people's attitudes towards personal hygiene were laxer...

In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes over the issues and events that precipitated rebellion in Britain's American...

In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes over the issues and events that precipitated rebellion in Britain's American...

Parasites can dramatically change the behaviour of their hosts. This lecture tells us what this can tell us about the human brain. A lecture by Dr Tristram Wyatt, Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford 26...

The next time you look in a mirror, think about this: In many ways you're more microbe than human. There are 10 times more cells from microorganisms like bacteria and fungi in and on our bodies than there are human cells. But these tiny...

After the fall of Kwajalein, U.S. nurses were brought onto the island with the rest of the troops; but they were guarded around the clock out of concern they'll end up as Japanese POWs. From the Series: The Pacific War in Color: Island...

Historians estimate that one in four cowboys were African American, though you’d never guess because the conventional Hollywood image of a cowboy is a white man. Black cowboys have been written out of history, along with the original...

This video goes over the main causes of the French Revolution, while also exploring the palace of Versailles. In order to make sure you remember all of the important information in the video consider purchasing my guided notes that go...

Though historians have been right to point to a variety of French Revolution causes - ranging from economic and social issues to questions of political representation - it is also true that French royal excess played no small role in...

Reservedly advocated as a humane killing device by Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin during the 18th century, the guillotine executed people en masse during the French Revolution; France discontinued its use after 1977. The mechanism of...

This video describes the fan-out pattern for pub/sub messaging in microservices. It explains how this pattern enables broadcasting messages to multiple subscribers, ensuring that each interested service receives the relevant...

Season 1, Penguins part 1. Brandon and Kayne hike, abseil, and kayak to reach Bruny Island. When they reach their destination, Brandon challenges Kayne to go out after dark and spot little Penguins sneaking out of the sea to feed their...