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After the advent of the Space Age on October 4, 1957 *

xx The Things They Carried - a book report
November 09, 2008, 06:17:44 PM by combinator
The Things They Carried - a book report
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4yCm6ElITuw&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/4yCm6ElITuw&rel=0</a>
 Film based off the novel about men in Vietnam.
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Category:  Film & Animation
Tags:
vietnam  war  battle  the  things  they  carried  inseyed  productions  steve  dabal  eric  hedeman  film  movie 
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xx Buddy Holly's '58 Impala - The Day the Music Died - Feb 1, 1958
November 08, 2008, 02:42:51 PM by combinator
Buddy Holly's '58 Impala - The Day the Music Died - Feb 1, 1958
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/mppMPqfe1FY&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/mppMPqfe1FY&rel=0</a>
Youtube information-attribution:
 This was one of the last cars Buddy Holly owned. It has since been restored/rebuilt.
Category:  Entertainment
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Buddy  Holly  Impala 


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xx America's Pride Restored: Intrepid Aircraft Carrier Returns -w- Ground Zero Flag
October 14, 2008, 10:34:59 AM by combinator
10.02.2008: Intrepid Aircraft Carrier Returns With The Ground Zero Flag
One of the most pivotal icons of America has returned to its Hudson River berth on the West Side of Manhattan - The edge of the Theater District - If you do nothing else on your visit to New York City, do this:
uGo to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Musem at Pier 86.  (The Pier 86 link is a live webcam).
Caution: The following video can make a strong, grizzled man well up:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/wBV9rForKPA&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/wBV9rForKPA&rel=0</a>


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xx Ronald Reagan's 1987 Stock Market Crash Press Conf. - America is Still Out There
October 10, 2008, 08:51:32 PM by combinator
Please see out post on this subject at www.EconomicsWorks.com & www.BankingWorks.com, specifically, here:

http://forum.bankingworks.com/index.php?topic=17.0
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xx [b]Dance Crazes Through the Ages - The Twenty Aughties[/b]
September 19, 2008, 01:32:06 PM by combinator
Dance Crazes Through the Ages - The Twenty Aughties
DANCE BATTLE 2 w/Miley Cyrus, Adam Sandler, Chris Brown etc
WARNING, awww, never mind ...
http://www.myspace.com/stepupmovie
http://www.youtube.com/user/jonmchu
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/UA7dEWKAT7Y&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/UA7dEWKAT7Y&rel=0</a>
Youtube information-attribution
http://www.youtube.com/user/jonmchu

The Biggest Online Dance Battle just got BIGGER.

Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux GET SERVED by
The ACDC (Adam/Chu Dance Crew) and a host of ALL STARS in this epic dance collision.

Jon...
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xx Lockheed Martin Skunk Works "Just Imagine What We Can't Show You"
August 18, 2008, 02:57:23 PM by combinator
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xx Lockheed Martin Skunk Works - UFOs to believe in
August 18, 2008, 12:15:49 PM by combinator
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/UAejPx_ZgJM&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/UAejPx_ZgJM&rel=0</a>
Youtube information-attribution:
 Lockheed Martin Skunk Works P791 LTA ACLS dynmicpara
Skunk Works, an official alias for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs and formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects, is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71, the F-117, and the F-22. Its largest current project is the F-35 JSF (Joint Strike Fighter), which will be used in the air forces of several countries around the world. Production is expected to last for up to four decades.

The roots for the Skunk Works started in Burbank, California when Lockheed was tasked with building a high speed, highly maneuv...
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xx February 10, 1962 Colonel Abel::Francis Gary Powers exchanged on Berlin bridge
August 18, 2008, 12:10:54 PM by combinator
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/10/newsid_2731000/2731827.stm

"on Saturday Captain Powers, 32, walked into West Berlin across a bridge separating the city's east and western sectors.

At the same time Russian spy Colonel Rudolph Abel crossed in the opposite direction."
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xx Francis Gary Powers's U2 shot down (The original golden bee-bee shot)
August 18, 2008, 12:00:00 PM by combinator
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vkOqOxKuzn8&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/vkOqOxKuzn8&rel=0</a>
YouTube information-attribution:
 Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 -- August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose CIA[1] U-2 spy plane was shot down while over the Soviet Union, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
Category:  People & Blogs
Tags:
Gary  Powers  U2  incident  American  pilot  whose  CIA  spy  plane  video  tv  docu  URSS  soviet  missile 
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xx May 9, 1960:Spy Story of The Year U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers :: Rudolph Abel
August 18, 2008, 11:56:39 AM by combinator
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eaf6cydnJG0&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Eaf6cydnJG0&rel=0</a>
YouTube information-attribution:
In Moscow, Khrushchev tells Presidium the Gary Powers was alive and his plane shot down on May Day, spokesman Lincoln White makes statement.
Category:  News & Politics
Tags:
Moscow  Khrushchev  U2  Powers 


Francis Gary Powers captured by USSR.  Kruschev remembers Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel is in USA federal custody and ultimately makes a prisoner trade.
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xx October Sky movie trailer & Homer Hickam booking information
August 06, 2008, 11:42:30 PM by combinator
www.BookingWorks.com wants you to know how to :
book Homer Hickam to speak at your next event.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gnX6yU8PJHE&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/gnX6yU8PJHE&rel=0</a>
 Trailer of the movie October Sky
Category:  Film & Animation
Tags:
movies  jake  gyllenhal  rocket  homer  hickam  science 


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q4buVVdcBcY&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Q4buVVdcBcY&rel=0</a>
 Homer Hickam, master storyteller and best-selling author of October Sky, speaks to the NTPN opening session.

If you're interested in booking Homer Hickam[...
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xx Sputnik Launch: October 4, 1957
August 06, 2008, 11:37:41 PM by combinator
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/qcex_MuBT7Y&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/qcex_MuBT7Y&rel=0</a>
YouTube information-attribution:
 Sputnik 1 (Russian: "Спутник-1", "Satellite-1", byname ПС-1 (PS-1, i.e. "Простейший Спутник-1", or Elementary Satellite-1)) was the first artificial satellite to be put into geocentric orbit. Launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, it was the first satellite of the Sputnik program.
Category:  Howto & Style
Tags:
R-7  ICBM  LAUNCH  SPUTNIK  FIRST  SATELLITE  ORBIT  EARTH  4  OCTOBER  1957 


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Primary Sources board at HistoryGrid.com *

xx The Education of Henry Adams
November 14, 2008, 09:20:48 PM by combinator
The Education of Henry Adams

A pivotal account of a pivotal time in the grid of history, authored by the grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, who served as private secretary to his father, the ambassador to the Court of Saint James during the U.S.Civil War.  Intimate friend of Mr. Abraham Lincoln's private secretary John Hay.  Autobiographical third-person narrative.

by Henry Adams

THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS

        CONTENTS
        EDITOR'S PREFACE
        PREFACE
        I. QUINCY (1838-1848) (1/3 chapter)
        I. QUINCY (1838-1848) (2/3 chapter)
        I. QUINCY (1838-1848) (3/3 chapter)
        II. BOSTON (1848-1854) (1/2 chapter)
        II. BOSTON (1848-1854) (2/2 chapter)
        III. WASHINGTON (1850-1854) (1/2 chapter)
        III. WASHINGTON (1850-1854) (2/2 chapter)
        IV. HARVARD COLLEGE (1854-1858)  (1/2 chapter)
        IV. HARVARD COLLEGE (1854-1858)  (2/2 chapter)
        V. BERLIN (1858-1859) (1/2 chapter)
        V. BERLIN (1858-1859) (2/2 chapter)
        VI. ROME (1859-1860) (1/2 chapter)
        VI. ROME (1859-1860) (2/2 chapter)
        VII. TREASON (1860-1861) (1/2 chapter)
        VII. TREASON (1860-1861) (2/2 chapter)
        VIII. DIPLOMACY (1861) (1/2 chapter)
        VIII. DIPLOMACY (1861) (2/2 chapter)
        IX. FOES OR FRIENDS (1862) (1/2 chapter)
        IX. FOES OR FRIENDS (1862) (2/2 chapter)
        X. POLITICAL MORALITY (1862) (1/3 chapter)
        X. POLITICAL MORALITY (1862) (2/3 chapter)
        X. POLITICAL MORALITY (1862) (3/3 chapter)
        XI. THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS (1863) (1/2 chapter)
        XI. THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS (1863) (2/2 chapter)
        XII. ECCENTRICITY (1863) (1/2 chapter)
        XII. ECCENTRICITY (1863) (2/2 chapter)
        XIII. THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY (1864) (1/2 chapter)
        XIII. THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY (1864) (2/2 chapter)
        XIV. DILETTANTISM (1865-1866) (1/2 chapter)
        XIV. DILETTANTISM (1865-1866) (2/2 chapter)
        XV. DARWINISM (1867-1868) (1/2 chapter)
        XV. DARWINISM (1867-1868) (1/2 chapter)
        XVI. THE PRESS (1868) (1/2 chapter)
        XVI. THE PRESS (1868) (2/2 chapter)
        XVII. PRESIDENT GRANT (1869) (1/2 chapter)
        XVII. PRESIDENT GRANT (1869) (2/2 chapter)
        XVIII. FREE FIGHT (1869-1870) (1/2 chapter)
        XVIII. FREE FIGHT (1869-1870) (2/2 chapter)
        XIX. CHAOS (1870) (1/2 chapter)
        XIX. CHAOS (1870) (2/2 chapter)
        XX. FAILURE (1871) (1/2 chapter)
        XX. FAILURE (1871) (2/2 chapter)
        XXI. TWENTY YEARS AFTER (1892) (1/2 chapter)
        XXI. TWENTY YEARS AFTER (1892) (2/2 chapter)
        XXII. CHICAGO (1893) (1/2 chapter)
        XXII. CHICAGO (1893) (2/2 chapter)
        XXIII. SILENCE (1894-1898) (1/2 chapter)
        XXIII. SILENCE (1894-1898) (2/2 chapter)
        XXIV. INDIAN SUMMER (1898-1899) (1/2 chapter)
       XXIV. INDIAN SUMMER (1898-1899) (2/2 chapter)
      XXV. THE DYNAMO AND THE VIRGIN (1900) (1/2 chapter)
      XXV. THE DYNAMO AND THE VIRGIN (1900) (2/2 chapter)
      XXVI. TWILIGHT (1901) (1/2 chapter)
      XXVI. TWILIGHT (1901) (2/2 chapter)
      XXVII. TEUFELSDROCKH (1901) (1/2 chapter)
      XXVII. TEUFELSDROCKH (1901) (2/2 chapter)
      XXVIII. THE HEIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE (1902) (1/2 chapter)
      XXVIII. THE HEIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE (1902) (2/2 chapter)
      XXIX. THE ABYSS OF IGNORANCE (1902) (1/2 chapter)
      XXIX. THE ABYSS OF IGNORANCE (1902) (2/2 chapter)
      XXX. VIS INERTIAE (1903) (1/2 chapter)
      XXX. VIS INERTIAE (1903) (2/2 chapter)
      XXXI. THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE (1903) (1/2 chapter)
      XXXI. THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE (1903) (2/2 chapter)
      XXXII. VIS NOVA (1903-1904) (1/2 chapter)
      XXXII. VIS NOVA (1903-1904) (2/2 chapter)
      XXXIII. A DYNAMIC THEORY OF HISTORY (1904) (1/2 chapter)
      XXXIII. A DYNAMIC THEORY OF HISTORY (1904) (2/2 chapter)
      XXXIV. A LAW OF ACCELERATION (1904) (1/2 chapter) 
      XXXIV. A LAW OF ACCELERATION (1904) (2/2 chapter) 
      XXXV. NUNC AGE (1905)
 

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Before the advent of the Space Age on October 4, 1957 *

xx Dance Crazes Throughout the Ages - The Nineteen Aughties
September 19, 2008, 01:31:14 PM by combinator
Dance Crazes Throughout the Ages - The Nineteen Aughties
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/97wCdra0DIk&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/97wCdra0DIk&rel=0</a>
Youtube information-attribution:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pixiecherries
Get ready to rock! Silent films from the Library of Congress archives mashed up with a fantastic sound track by zefrank at http://www.zefrank.com. Music came from www.archive.org.

"Foxy Grandpa" was a beloved character during the early 1900's and on through the 1930's. These actors are some of Vaudville's finest caught on film hamming it up to the max. Enjoy it and send it to your friends to give them a moment of lightness and joy!
Category:  Entertainment
Tags:
dancing  grandpa  silent  movies  zefrank  vaudville  humor  comedy 


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xx Dance Crazes Through the Ages - The Roaring Twenties
September 19, 2008, 12:19:40 PM by combinator
Dance Crazes Through the Ages - The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties - Dance Craze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0

Flappers - The Roaring Twenties or
So Granny, What Did You do when You Were a Girl?
http://www.youtube.com/user/Aaron1912
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svvCj4yhYc&feature=related

To Live In The 1920's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n8FO68LU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/user/Aaron1912
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xx The Gettysburg Address
September 06, 2008, 10:39:47 AM by combinator
The Gettysburg Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89mB27nVURs
 Added:  May 16, 2007  (Less info)
http://www.youtube.com/user/ockteby

The Gettysburg Address

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Category:  Entertainment
Tags:
abraham  lincoln  confederate  confederacy  civil  war  gettysburg  address  ockteby  fourscore 


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xx Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel - Top Soviet Masterspy - Captured 1957
August 18, 2008, 11:49:54 AM by combinator
http://www.youtube.com/v/AoLQqcqL6ZI&hl=en&fs=1
YouTube information-attribution:
1) Col. Rudolf Abel is returned to Brooklyn for arraignment, faces charges, after 9 years of spying
2) passenger liner SS President Hoover visited by Hoover on his birthday
3) sideways launching of Dutch freighter in Holland
4) dummy guided missile standing for real Snark in test - then real Snark blastsoff
5) fashions - feathers in hair, and swept-wing hair style of model in car with swept wings (partial newsreel)
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xx Sputnik Launch: October 4, 1957
August 06, 2008, 11:37:54 PM by combinator
http://www.youtube.com/v/qcex_MuBT7Y&hl=en&fs=1
YouTube information-attribution:
 Sputnik 1 (Russian: "Спутник-1", "Satellite-1", byname ПС-1 (PS-1, i.e. "Простейший Спутник-1", or Elementary Satellite-1)) was the first artificial satellite to be put into geocentric orbit. Launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, it was the first satellite of the Sputnik program.
Category:  Howto & Style
Tags:
R-7  ICBM  LAUNCH  SPUTNIK  FIRST  SATELLITE  ORBIT  EARTH  4  OCTOBER  1957 


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