The Surprising History of Egypt with Terry Jones
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Title: The Surprising History of Egypt with Terry Jones a.k.a. The Hidden History of Egypt *DW Staff Approved*
Channel Transmitted: Discovery Channel
Date: 2001
Source: PDTV
Format: DivX
Category: Documentary / Educational
Description:
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If you thought you knew the ancient world, think again. This programme, presented by Terry Jones, is packed full of surprising facts that throw light on our understanding of the ancient Egyptians.
Terry unearths the secrets of this ancient world in his unique style, rooting out the confidential information about how ordinary people lived three to four thousand years ago, and reveals that there are still many similarities in modern day Egypt.
http://www.seventh-art.com/productions.php?year=2001
Presented by Terry Jones
Written by Terry Jones, Alan Ereira, Phil Grabsky
Directed and Produced by Phil Grabsky
Produced by Seventh Art Productions Ltd. for Discovery Channel
http://www.seventh-art.com/
English and Romanian subtitles as srt files
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Napoleon's Obsession: The Quest for Egypt
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"Napoleon's Obsession: The Quest for Egypt" details the real facts behind a little-known account in Napoleon's illustrious military career. Those who do know of the French leader's invasion of Egypt, and the so-called Battle of the Pyramids, may have fallen victim to one of the best public relations campaigns in history. As we learn in this documentary, hosted by renown Egyptologist Bob Brier, Bonaparte's attempt to conquer Eqypt was nothing short of an exercise in vanity. By 1798, General Bonaparte was looking for new military challenges after conquering Europe. He turned his sights on the historical and symbolic wealth of Egypt and The East. Economical with everything except the lives of his men, Bonaparte was ill prepared for this invasion and marched his troops from Alexandria through 130-degree desert heat in woolen uniforms and with very little water. Napoleon had a few victories, including a melee against the defending Mamelukes of Cairo, which became know as the Battle of the Pyramids (in reality, it was fought in a melon patch, miles from the city). On the whole, the campaign was disastrous; the French Fleet had a nasty encounter with Admiral Nelson, and the troops were stranded in Egypt without reinforcements or supplies. Napoleon's reaction? He commissioned paintings of victories and wrote glowing letters. He even returned to France a hero after sneaking out of Egypt in the middle of the night, leaving his men behind, and not even informing his second in command. Thankfully, Brier reminds us several times throughout the production of the practical contributions Napoleon made from this ill-conceived campaign. To Egypt he brought several artists, scholars and scientists and established the Institut de l'Egypte. Their work and the soldiers' looting led to the discovery of the Rosetta stone and the birth of modern Egyptology. But while these contributions are impressive, Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt included horrible atrocities against Turkish civilians. Still, Brier's enthusiasm brings to life the many illustrations, some by Institut de l'Egypte's own Vivant Denon, which are combined with stunning footage of Egypt and the landscapes and sites along the French army's campaign road. In addition, crisp editing by James Marshall and concise direction by Peter Spry-Leverton make for an informative and handsomely packed hour of entertainment.
Directed and produced by Peter Spry-Leverton
Narrated by Bob Brier
Music by Toby Langton-Gilks
Edited by James Marshall
50 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio, 1999
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Apollo 11 - The Untold Story
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When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in July 1969, Apollo 11 was hailed as the supreme triumph of American technology. But behind the flag waving lies a very different story: the untold account of how close the mission came to disaster. Now, nearly forty years later, men on that mission reveal what really happened on the first voyage to the moon, and unpublished NASA documents are made public for the first time. It's a tale of how primitive computer technology coupled with human errors and mechanical failures nearly caused the tragic loss of the crew.
Apollo 11: The Untold Story reveals how, in deep space, the lunar module lost all contact with earth, coming within seconds of crashing. By running off course, the lunar module became critically low on fuel over inhospitable boulder-strewn lunar terrain. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalls how the astronauts believed they saw a UFO some 200,000 miles from earth, an event covered up at NASA's insistence for over thirty years.
We discover how Mission Control's total computing power was the equivalent of one of today's laptops while the power of the lunar module was equal to a modern digital watch. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin reveals how a ballpoint pen saved him and Neil Armstrong from a lonely death stranded on the moon; and we discover how behind the scenes, so great were the fears that the crew wouldn't return that during the mission White House officials prepared a secret memorial speech for President Nixon to deliver to the world in the event of tragedy.
Everybody thinks they know about Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong's "one small step for man", the stars and stripes planted firmly in the moon rock, the triumphant return to earth. This film, drawing on first hand testimonies from Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 flight director Gene Kranz and key personnel from the mission, reveals just how complicated that mission really was. For a group of pioneering men armed with experimental 1960s technology, Apollo 11 was a triumph against the odds that came close to ending in disaster.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Man Made Marvels: HII-A Space Rocket
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The Japanese space industry is about to reach another milestone. From its base on Tanegashima Island, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is counting down to the latest launch of the HII-A - JAXA's engineering marvel. Though this isn't its first launch, every launch might be stymied by a myriad of possible problems, and sometimes the consequences are heart-breaking, expensive or even deadly. This time, as the HII-A attempts to carry its heaviest payload to date into space and join the big league of commercial satellite launchers, the stakes are as high as they've ever been for Japan's space program.
Directed by Glenn Krawczyk
Narrated by David Kersten
Music by Don Richmond
Edited by Stuart Waterhouse
Photography by Paul Henry
48 minutes, English audio, 2007
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Understanding: Time
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Time - what is it? St. Augustine wrote, "What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know. But if I want to explain it to someone, I do not know." Perhaps we should ask: Did time have a beginning? A very old question, indeed. But how can we imagine a world before time began? If we count backwards beyond the clock, beyond the calendar, three and a half billion years, we arrive at our own beginning - the dawn of life on earth. Science has a word for it: biogenesis. The birth of life. With life, nature created a new kind of time; more advanced, more evolved from the time of the physical world. Memory and expectation provided us with a competitive advantage. Memory and expectation gave birth to the concept of a past and a future. Now flash forward three and a half billion years. Humanity rules the earth. Humanity is wrapped tight in ticking time. But time ticks on towards the unknown. In physics, space is represented as three dimensions. Time is represented as the fourth dimension. To describe time, we are often asked to think of objects in motion. For instance, time has been compared to the cable that drives the quaint cable cars of San Francisco. The cable car attaches itself to something that's hidden, something that's to an extent, mysterious. It is moved by a mechanism you don't know and cannot see. It just moves you along - takes you on a ride. At birth, we are clamped to a buried cable, time. And at death, cast loose from its passage. Or are we? The answer lies somewhere in time, yet an understanding of time remains as elusive and mysterious as life itself.
Produced and written by Ned Judge
Narrated by Jane Curtin
Edited by Kathleen Kane
Music by Chris Purrington
53 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio, 1996
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Original Vampire
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It annoys us, it attacks us and it makes us itch. But, more than that, of all the great hunters and predators that stalk the planet, it is the one that has taken more human lives than any other: the mosquito. But it is an unwitting killer. Each year, all around the world, 700 Million people are infected with mosquito-borne illnesses... 3 million of them die. And the numbers are rising, the diseases are adapting and evolving. We are caught in a battle against the mosquito, a race against time to learn more about this formidable foe, this enemy with a thirst for blood.
Produced by Larry Engel and Mary Olive Smith
Written by Rob Goldberg
Directed by Larry Engel
Narrated by Mary Olive Smith
Edited by Steve Olswang
48 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
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Human Body: The Ultimate
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It is riddled with holes, yet contains 15 gallons of water and a pint of hydrochloric acid. It has more protein than 70 pounds of peanuts. It has enough carbon to fill a thousand pencils, and enough phosphorous for 3,000 match heads. What sounds like a collection of chemicals in a leaky bag is the most complex structure on our planet, and 400,000 of them are born every day. The one thing we all have in common is the amazing machine we all inhabit... the human body. In the course of its life, it will breathe ten million balloons worth of air. It will process 30 tons of food. And it will secrete 17 gallons of tears. But humans rarely stop to think about the amazing technology behind even the most mundane action, the technology we will explore in this episode of The Ultimate Guide.
Produced and Directed by Luke Campbell
Narrated by Will Lyman
Edited by Gwyn Jones
Music by Daniel Pemberton
50 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Understanding - Bacteria
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The experts say this is the beginning of the golden age of microbiology. Industry, medicine, the definition of life itself, are all being changed by single-celled creatures you and I can't even see. But the news is not all good. Many people are spooked by the diseases caused by bacteria: Pneumonia, Salmonella, meningitis... all caused by bacteria and passed among us every day. Infectious diseases are the greatest cause of illness and death in human history. Bacteria can make us deathly sick and often kill us. And just when we develop medicines to kill the germs, they do what they do best... mutate, find ways to resist our medicines. Now we are bombarded with products that promise to kill these germs. The number of new antibacterial products has tripled. But does the use of these products just make the germs even more resistant?
At the same time, the search for new microbial life has taken researchers from the lab to the ocean floor and to the heavens. A meteorite from Mars has fossilized structures on it that look suspiciously like small bacteria. Scientists are coming to the conclusion that life may be far more common in the universe than we had supposed. Anywhere that there is liquid water, there is a possibility of life, and, in fact, anywhere on Earth where there is liquid water, you find there is life. And so on worlds such as Mars or Europa where there may be hydrothermal features under the ice, the prospect of finding microbial life is very exciting.
Produced and written by Marijo Dowd
Narrated by Jane Curtin
Edited by Robert Zakin
51 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio, 1997
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Understanding - Magnetism
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Without magnetism, we would not have music as we know and experience it today; we would not have computers, motor vehicles, compasses, or MRI scans. Magnetism literally shapes our modern-day world. Learn how magnetic forces were first discovered and how magnetism affects both humans and other animals. Explore the role of magnetism in computers, audio recording, medicine, travel and its importance in your daily life.
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Understanding - Flight
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The desire to fly is as old as human culture. Ancient Egyptians studied birds in an attempt to learn how to fly. Centuries later, we were still strapping on wings, jumping off cliffs... and crashing. It took a bit of time, bruised bodies and the occasional death to figure out that we were too heavy and too weak to propel ourselves with flapping wings. But in the last century, our dreams of flight finally became reality. While we haven't grown wings, we have learned how to fly by shaping metal and plastic into machines that take us higher and faster than birds could ever fly or possibly even imagine.
Produced and written by Pamela Caragol
Narrated by Jane Curtin
Photography by Chris Nusbaum
Music by Michael Whalen
50 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio, 1996
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Best Kept Secrets of Mysterious Societies
NFO:
Now on Best Kept Secrets: a glimpse inside America's most dangerous and mysterious secret societies. What secrets are locked inside the Tomb of Skull and Bones? And who belongs to this prestigious and private fraternity? Answer: some of the most powerful people on the planet. Next, Earth First. They call themselves peaceful environmentalists. But are they putting innocent lives in danger? Plus the Secrets of the Ku Klux Klan revealed. From the Klan's secret handshake, to the hidden meaning of the KKK symbol. We take you inside the most feared secret society in America. Next, this mild-mannered professor is the voice of The National Alliance, but is he also the inspiration behind the Oklahoma City bombing? Last, what's in a rave? Youth, music, all-night parties and drug abuse? These stories and more on Best Kept Secrets.
Produced by Debra Weeks
Narrated by Lauren Manda
Edited by Rick Frazier
50 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
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Audio2: Mandarin Chinese
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Number of Parts: 1
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Pyramids: The Ultimate Guide
NFO:
These are some of the world's greatest monuments. They combine colossal mass with precision engineering. For over 4,000 years they were unsurpassed, yet they were built by peasant societies with only simple tools. And the Egyptians weren't alone. From China to the Americas, pyramids were the crowning achievements of other civilizations around the world. While searches for treasure have always brought thieves and bounty hunters to the pyramids, the challenge for today's explorers is to reveal the amazing stories of the people who built them.
Produced and Directed by Steve Gooder
Narrated by Will Lyman
Edited by Lucy D'Auvergne
50 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
Technical Specs
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Audio1: English (subs included separately)
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Audio1 Channels: 2
Audio2: Mandarin Chinese
Audio2 Codec: Dolby AC3
Audio2 Bitrate: 256 kb/s @ 48KHz
Audio2 Channels: 2
Runtime per Part: 50 minutes
Number of Parts: 1
Part Size: 746 MB (1/6 DVDR)
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
Great Books: Great Expectations
NFO:
This is what it's like to be outside, looking in. Dickens used the story of a blacksmith's boy who rises from the working class into a life of leisure to hold a mirror up to Victorian society and ask, what is it that really makes a gentleman? For once, the reaction of the British aristocracy was to grow a conscience. But, before such soul-refinement could occur, Dickens' character had to pass from the largely unreported, dark world of lower-class Britain, far, far up to its dizzying - but not so enlightened - heights. Along the way, there is the pain of falling in love with the wrong person, the pleasure of having dreams come true, and the realization that no matter how far you run, you can never really escape your past. As the boy plays the remarkable hand life has dealt him, its hard not to wonder what any of us would do in his place, on the brink of destiny, just waiting to see what the future holds.
Produced and written by Jan Albert
Narrated by Donald Sutherland
Edited by David Pentecost
Music Composed by Michael Karns
52 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
Technical Specs
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MP3 Audio Book Direct Download & URI Magnet links
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Great Books: Gulliver's Travels
NFO:
In the story of Gulliver's Travels a beached sailor takes four voyages to visit creatures large and small, in places far away. It is a dark and comical tale, read on many levels, characterized by a grotesque and deviate view of human kind. Perhaps it's an attempt to answer the question, "Who are we?" or "What is our nature?" At carnivals and amusement parks we can see ourselves and others from different perspectives. Our imagination is engaged as we see mirrors and distortions of ourselves. Long ago, there lived a genius and prolific writer, Jonathan Swift, who wrote a tale on distorted creatures and distorted perspectives. In it, he seemed to ask that question for us all: Who am I?
Produced and written by Ginny Durrin
Narrated by Donald Sutherland
Edited by Martin Nelson
Music by Fred Karns
52 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
Technical Specs
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MP3 Audio Book Direct Download & URI Magnet links
Text/HTML Ebooks w/ Illustrations and Map
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Great Books: The Odyssey
NFO:
Men have been embarking on odysseys since the dawn of civilization. In 1970, Captain James Lovell, commander of the ill-fated Apollo XIII mission named his command module Odyssey. Looking up the definition of odyssey, you'll find it means a long voyage with many changes of fortune, and that it was - in spades. But the granddaddy of all odysseys comes to us from a thousand years before Christ, the story of a mythical Greek warrior named Odysseus and his search for home. Together with its companion poem, The Iliad, they form western literature's first action adventure story, written by the man we call Homer. It is a grand adventure, an allegory of all our lives, writ large. We first meet Odysseus in The Iliad, during one of the most famous wars in history, The Trojan War. We think the actual war happened, if it happened at all, around 1200 BC. It is in The Iliad that we read of Helen of Troy, "The Face That Launched A Thousand Ships", and in The Odyssey, the Trojan Horse, which taught us to beware of Greeks bearing gifts, or gifts bearing Greeks. So the warriors of The Iliad have left a legacy from the sublime to the ridiculous: Achilles can be found in medical books; Ajax is on every supermarket shelf; names and images that have survived three thousand years appear and reappear, known and unknown. It is these stories that are the first stories of Western civilization, and every time you pick up one of these stories, you're on the edge of something archetypal, something that's always - and always will be - within us.
Produced by Nancy LeBrun
Narrated by Donald Sutherland
47 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
Technical Specs
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The Iliad PDF Ebook
The Odyssey PDF Ebook
The Odyssey & The Iliad Text/HTML Ebook
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Mummies: The Ultimate Guide
NFO:
The Earth is giving up its secrets: Mummies, people immortalized by ancient science or nature's whim, bodies that have hardly decomposed. Each one is an archaeological bonanza no matter how incomplete. Anthropologists pick over them inch by inch for the information they contain. Their preserved remains give us clues across millennia, silent witnesses that speak through their clothes, skin, and fingernails, telling us truths about the past, and giving up secrets long forgotten... and what they are saying could help shape the future.
Produced and Directed by Karen Bishop
Narrated by Will Lyman
Edited by Simon Rose
Photography by Charles Pitt and Mike Coles
50 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
Technical Specs
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Great Books: Machiavelli's The Prince
NFO:
Dear Mr. President,
I am deeply honored to have been asked for my advice as you assume the awesome burdens of your new office. I can offer several rules of thumb, which I believe time and experience has proven sound. Act boldly in the beginning. The public has a short attention span and it will make them forget the accomplishments of your predecessor and impress them with your vigor. Make your first priority the protection of your power. Without it you are useless. Appear steadfast but be flexible. Remember, some of God's greatest gifts are broken campaign promises.
Let me close with a few additional words of caution. Choose the most brilliant advisers. Tell them to speak to you candidly and then be wary of their advice. When decision time comes, keep your own counsel and never ever forget that you are in show business. That leadership is nine-tenths acting a role. Never step out of it in public. Don't, for God's sake, carry your own bags. Welcome to the top of the heap and lots of luck.
Your humble and admiring servant,
Niccolò Machiavelli.
P.S. don't look to heaven for your reward.
This is a playful paraphrase of words written in the year 1513 by a cashiered civil servant in Florence, Italy. What he actually wrote became one of the most hotly debated, deeply disturbing and important books of western civilization. To some it was a veritable guidebook for tyrants and totalitarians. Mussolini loved it. Marxists recognized a fellow revolutionary. To others, alternately, it paved the way for ethnic and religious toleration, individual rights, the advancement and restoration of republics, of modern democracies. But, fairly or unfairly, it has caused his name, Machiavelli, to ring through the centuries as a synonym for evil, though this would certainly be a misunderstanding of the man.
Produced by Nancy LeBrun
Directed by Lisa Gannon
Narrated by Donald Sutherland
Photography by Chip Nusbaum
51 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
Technical Specs
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Discovery: Stress Test
NFO:
1.. EXPLODE
Explosions, in a second, maim, destroy and kill. Scientists test explosives to see how they work and to figure out how to contain them. They urgently seek new ways to protect people & to save innocent lives. First, you have to understand what an explosion does. To begin with, it's a chemical reaction, and that sets off a violent release of energy, a blast. The blast produces a shock wave that hurtles outwards. It's this shock wave and flying debris that do dreadful damage to people. In the 1980's and '90's, Americans became targets for terrorist bombs. It began in 1983 in Beirut. First, the U.S. Embassy was flattened by a bomb, killing 63. Next, a truck laden with explosives killed 241 US soldiers. Then the menace attacked Americans at home: The Atlanta Olympics, the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City. Events and places with no obvious connection, but now, all are linked by bombs, violence, and terror.
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2.. IMPACT
Everyday someone, somewhere feels the force of impact. When two objects crash into each other, trouble follows. Now science is hitting back, stress testing ways to protect us from the destructive power of impact. Impact is what happens in a collision. Impacts release energy causing objects involved to bend, break or rebound in response - the force has to go somewhere. Today, scientists are trying to control the violent effects of impact, and trying to make the world a safer place.
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3.. COLLAPSE
Every time we build something we run the risk that it'll collapse. When structures collapse, people suffer. Keeping structures up and designing ones that won't collapse is a constant challenge for architects and engineers because if gravity had its way, everything would just fall down, and, eventually, everything will. Add earthquakes, floods and high winds and the result can be a wave of destruction and death. Engineers struggle to figure out exactly how collapses happen, so they can design structures that offer safety instead of danger.
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Produced and directed by Mike Slee
Narrated by Eric Meyers
Music by Will Gregory
Edited by Stuart Davidson
150 minutes total, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Discovery: Great Quakes
NFO:
1.. San Francisco
In San Francisco, violent earthquakes have historically been downplayed by the city's landowners. After the 1868 Hayward (7.0) and the 1906 San Francisco (7.8) earthquakes devastated the Bay Area, investigations that starkly illustrated the dangers of another large earthquake were suppressed and, in one case, investigation documents were actually destroyed. In another large event, the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge - the most-used bridge in America - would likely see its upper-deck collapse (as partially happened in the quake of 1989), and perhaps the entire eastern section of the bridge as well. The US Department of the Interior estimates that the dead and injured could number over 100,000. Today, another event is both inevitable and ill-prepared for. Can scientists and concerned citizens beat the geologic time-clock before the next big one?
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2.. Mexico City
The Aztecs believed the world would end by earthquake and fire. For a moment in 1985, it seemed they were right. Mexico City was struck by an earthquake both deadly and mystifying. How did people survive for nine days in the rubble? Learn how the largest urban center on the face of the earth was built in perhaps one of the worst places for earthquakes, and what happened in 1985 when one of the world's strongest ever earthquakes rocked it seemingly to the ground.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/66676707/Discovery.Great.Quakes.2of3.Mexico.City.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/66677528/Discovery.Great.Quakes.2of3.Mexico.City.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/66678427/Discovery.Great.Quakes.2of3.Mexico.City.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/66679309/Discovery.Great.Quakes.2of3.Mexico.City.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/66679642/Discovery.Great.Quakes.2of3.Mexico.City.part8.rar
3.. Kobe, Japan
It was Japan's worst disaster since World War II - the most deadly earthquake since a 1923 Tokyo quake that killed 140,000 people. But the Kobe earthquake was not just a physical earthquake. It was also a cultural earthquake because it called into question so many bedrock beliefs of the Japanese. Yet more than a Japanese tragedy, this was perhaps a preview of an even greater disaster since the heart of so many cities can be found on land ill-suited for similar or even more powerful earthquakes.
RS:
http://rapidshare.com/files/67537903/Discovery.Great.Quakes.3of3.Kobe.Japan.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/67538200/Discovery.Great.Quakes.3of3.Kobe.Japan.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/67538477/Discovery.Great.Quakes.3of3.Kobe.Japan.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/67538787/Discovery.Great.Quakes.3of3.Kobe.Japan.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/67539033/Discovery.Great.Quakes.3of3.Kobe.Japan.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/67539319/Discovery.Great.Quakes.3of3.Kobe.Japan.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/67539633/Discovery.Great.Quakes.3of3.Kobe.Japan.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/67539763/Discovery.Great.Quakes.3of3.Kobe.Japan.part8.rar
Technical Specs
Video Codec: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1800 Kbps
Video Resolution: 640x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33 / 4:3
Video Framerate: 29.97
Quality Factor: 0.20 b/px
Audio: English (subs included separately)
Audio Codec: Dolby AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s @ 48KHz
Audio Channels: 2
Runtime per Part: 52 minutes / part
Number of Parts: 3
Part Size: 746 MB / part (1/2 DVDR total)
Ripped by: PolarBear
ENGLISH SUBTITLES:
http://rapidshare.com/files/70344511/Discovery.Great.Quakes.Eng.SRT.subtitles.complete.rar
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Sky Archaeology
NFO:
This Central American jungle holds a secret, a treasure abandoned two thousand years ago. It's a secret unlocked from outer space with a breathtaking new technology. Sensors mounted in satellites and on spacecraft can see what the human eye cannot. Ancient cities hidden under jungle canopies, entire civilizations buried under great dunes of desert sand: this is sky archaeology.
English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio
52 minutes
Technical Specs
Video Codec: DivX 5.2.1
Video Bitrate: 1701 Kbps
Video Resolution: 624x464
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.34 / 4:3
Video Framerate: 29.97
Quality Factor: 0.20 b/px
Audio1: English (subs included separately)
Audio1 Codec: Dolby AC3
Audio1 Bitrate: 192 kb/s @ 48KHz
Audio1 Channels: 2
Audio2: Mandarin Chinese
Audio2 Codec: Lame MP3
Audio2 Bitrate: 96 kb/s CBR @ 32KHz
Audio2 Channels: 2
Runtime per Part: 52 minutes
Number of Parts: 1
Part Size: 746 MB (1/6 DVDR)
Ripped by: PolarBear
ENGLISH SUBTITLES:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68717796/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.Subs.EN.rar
RS:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68458887/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/68459336/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/68459723/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/68460014/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/68460334/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/68460738/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/68461055/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/68461208/Discovery.Sky.Archaeology.part8.rar
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