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[Blackleaf]

Italy's Invisible Cities

Episode 1: Naples

Using the latest 3D scanning technology, Italophile Pointless host Alexander Armstrong and historian Dr Michael Scott uncover 2,500 years of hidden history in Naples, from its earliest Greek and Roman origins.

They explore how the volcano of Mount Vesuvius both nurtured the region and exacted a terrible price on the local population. Plus, they delve into a labyrinth of fascinating underground spaces that helped build and sustain the city.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=9NI-1hSpGyk


Episode 2: Venice

Documentary series. Using the latest 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott explore the watery wonderland of Venice.

They uncover how a city built in a swamp became one of the most powerful in medieval Europe and dive into its canals to experience how the city remains standing. Plus, they reveal how the city's beauty once masked a ruthless secret state and a world of excess and vice.

http://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=2ehouu4bk#/watch?v=sYzawE9BTA8

 

[gopher]

I was just watching two excellent boxing matches:


Leo Santa Cruz > Frampton

Miguel Berchelt > Francisco Vargas


also watched UFC and rugby 7s

 

[Murphy]

News.and listing the people and agencies that Donald has attacked / criticized in the past 48 hrs. We are entering some very turbulent times.

You worry too much. Have a caffeine stim and all will be better.

 

[Blackleaf]

British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Episode 1: The Wars of the Roses

Lucy debunks the foundation myth of one of our favourite royal dynasties, the Tudors.

According to the history books, after 30 years of bloody battles between the white-rosed Yorkists and the red-rosed Lancastrians, Henry Tudor rid us of civil war and the evil King Richard III. But Lucy reveals how the Tudors invented the story of the 'Wars of the Roses' after they came to power to justify their rule.

She shows how Henry and his historians fabricated the scale of the conflict, forged Richard's monstrous persona and even conjured up the image of competing roses. When our greatest storyteller William Shakespeare got in on the act and added his own spin, Tudor fiction was cemented as historical fact.

Taking the story right up to date, with the discovery of Richard III's bones in a Leicester car park, Lucy discovers how 15th-century fibs remain as compelling as they were over 500 years ago. As one colleague tells Lucy: 'Never believe an historian!'

 

[Blackleaf]

George III - The Genius of The Mad King

After 200 years under lock and key, all the personal papers of one of our most important monarchs are for the first time seeing the light of day. In the first documentary to gain extensive access to the Royal Archives, Daily Mail columnist and royal observer Robert Hardman sheds fascinating new light on George III, Britain's longest reigning king. George III may be chiefly remembered for his madness, but these private documents reveal a monarch who was a political micromanager and a restless patron of science and the arts, an obsessive traveller who never left southern England yet toured the world in his mind and a man who was driven (sometimes to distraction) by his sense of duty to his family and his country.

Featuring Simon Callow and Sian Thomas as the voices of King George III and Queen Charlotte.

 

[Blackleaf]

Sicily: The Wonder of the Mediterranean

Historian Michael Scott begins his journey through Sicily - the largest island in the Mediterranean and seventh-largest in Europe - on the slopes of Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano. For the ancient Greeks, the island was a land of gods and monsters - a dangerous and unpredictable world. Michael discovers how, 3,000 years ago, the Greeks began to settle on Sicily's east coast - planting their olives and vines and building great city states that soon came to rival even Athens itself.

He learns how great battles were fought between the Greeks and the Carthaginians for control of the island; how the Romans made it their first foreign colony and stripped Sicily of its forests to plant vast fields of grain. When Rome fell in the 5th Century, waves of barbarian invasions followed, before Sicily was conquered by the Byzantines - the eastern Roman Empire. How have those early invaders helped to shape the character of the island we see today? And what lessons have Sicilians learnt from their turbulent past?

 

[Blackleaf]

Tales from the Coast with Robson Green

Despite its relatively small size, the UK has the world's 12th-longest coastline, and actor, singer, songwriter, fisherman and TV presenter Robson Green is exploring it.

In this first episode, Robson visits the shores of north Devon, the location of some of his most precious childhood holidays. He stops off at the quaint coastal villages of Ilfracombe and Clovelly along the way.

He strips off for a cold shower in a waterfall, looks at wildlife in a rock pool and frees a huge conga eel which had been living in a pipe for at least two years.

In Clovelly, he discovers that the locals drag goods from the harbour using sledges, even when there's no snow.

He then visits the tiny island of Lundy ("puffin island" in Old Norse), 12 miles off the north Devon coast in the Bristol Channel. There he visits a lighthouse with deckchairs at the top rather than a light, learns about the island's unique postal system and climbs the Devil's Slide, the largest slab of granite in Europe!

 

[Blackleaf]

British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Episode 2: The Glorious Revolution

In this episode, Lucy debunks another of the biggest fibs in British history - the 'Glorious Revolution'.

In 1688, the British Isles were invaded by a huge army led by Dutch prince William of Orange. With his English wife and cousin Mary he stole the throne from Mary's father, the Catholic King James II. This was the death knell for absolute royal power and laid the foundations of our constitutional monarchy. It was spun as a 'glorious and bloodless revolution'. But how 'glorious' was it really? It led to huge slaughter in Ireland and Scotland. Lucy reveals how the facts and fictions surrounding 1688 have shaped our national story ever since.

British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley Episode 2 The Glorious Revolution (2017) BBC Documentary - Video Dailymotion

 

[Nick Danger]

There are a lot of good dramatic TV series on the run right now, more than I can keep up with. I've been in the habit for the last few years of picking stuff up on disc a season at a time and binge watching one or another on rainy wekends. Stuff on my radar lately: Billions, Designated Survivor, Game of Thrones, The Expanse, and a couple of Netflix notables like Stranger Things and their darker Marvel offerings that push the envelope a bit for mainstream TV, like Jessica Jones, Daredevil and Luke Cage. But I tell ya, there just isn't enough time to keep up on everything I'd like to.

 

[Mowich]

Watching the Women's final of the Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling from Banff, AB - Heather Sweeting's Crew lead heading into the 6th end.

 

[spaminator]

Debra Messing 'pressured' to film naked scene in 'A Walk In The Clouds' | Celebr

 

[Ludlow]

Life below zero. I could not endure that kind of life as I know many could not handle the desert heat. But they seem happy off the grid and that's all that matters.

 

[gopher]

old commercials on youtube such as this:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngc8lIPgjl4






yeah, I know what you're thinking - "gopher, you need to get out more ..."

 

[Ocean Breeze]

CNN.and the Flynn saga . A chaotic regime unraveling even further?? Maybe trying to run the gov.. using the business model is a fools ideas....What a circus. If it were not so concerning on the world stage level.it would be the biggest joke in a century. Not even four weeks into their term.....and the inmates continue to run the asylum..... Not an adult in stupidity and incompetence in full world views. Looks like i is time to do some REAL cleaning of the swamp starting with Trump...who has NO CLUE as to what he is doing.... but believes in his omnipotence. sadly american stupidity was lain bare open Nov.... and the world is watching closely....with less respect for the US than ever before..and it was not all that great before. All the world needs is a major world event .....

 

[Locutus]

Asaf Avidan & The Mojos - One Day/Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix)(Day Version)

 

[Ludlow]

Bowling . Exciting shyt.

 

[Locutus]

Skip A Rope Henson Cargill

 

[Ludlow]

Skip A Rope Henson Cargill

I had that album when I was a kid.

 

[Ludlow]

Alaska Bush People. Only ones with any sense are Gabe and the girls. The rest are embeciles.

 

[EagleSmack]

Alaska Bush People. Only ones with any sense are Gabe and the girls. The rest are embeciles.

I thought you'd be watching white padded walls.