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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
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Mr. Lemoncello launches a brand new television show called "Breakout" on the world-famous Kidzapalooza TV network. Kyle wants to audition so badly, but knows only a few will make it through to solve the puzzles, get through the obstacles, and win the ultimate Mr. Lemoncello prize--but maybe, just maybe, he could do it with the help of some friends.
3) Dog Squad
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"Fred, a scrappy and lovable dog, gets cast as a stand-in for the lead role in Dog Squad, a show about crime-fighting dogs, and he soon finds out the action doesn't always stop on screen"--Provided by publisher.
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Now in Paris with her parents who are filming their TV show about the world's haunted cities, Cassidy Blake (who can see ghosts) and her friend Jacob (who is a ghost) are alert for trouble, especially when the filming takes them into the underground Catacombs, the empire of the dead, where Cassidy accidentally awakens a powerful poltergeist spirit--one whose mystery she must solve before his power in unleashed on the whole city.--
10) City of ghosts
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Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
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This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series goes to Fort McClellan, Alabama, for this first look at the new training center for Women's Army Corps officers and enlisted women. Since the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was created in 1942, women training for service with the U.S. Army have had a number of temporary homes, ranging from Florida to Massachusetts, from Iowa to Virginia. The permanent WAC Center is a cluster of 22 cream-colored...
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And finally, a set of outrageous stories of the kind so frequently used at the end of news broadcasts. Clips in this program feature the largest and smelliest flower, a school for Santas, a pilot who literally flies blind, a telepathic terrier, the World Worm-Charming Championships, crossing the Atlantic by pedal boat, bungee-jumping at Victoria Falls, underwater hockey, the 16th Annual Juggling Olympics, the Fat Pets Slimming Contest, the world series...
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This episode of The Green Interview features Jane Goodall, a primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and environmental advocate whose studies with chimpanzees in Tanzania have changed not only our understanding of chimpanzees but also our understanding of the nature of human beings. In 1977, she established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which supports the Gombe research. Today she devotes virtually all of her time to advocacy on behalf of chimpanzees...
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This program theorizes about what would happen if people disappeared from Earth. We consider what will happen to Manhattan's Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge, and Roosevelt Island Tramway, all created of steel and concrete. The fates of Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Federal Reserve's gold, and domesticated animals, such as horses, are also examined. The ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, abandoned 90 years ago, is also discussed....
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This episode of The Big Picture television series produced by the U.S. Army follows the U.S. Army in action, taking viewers on a fast-paced, half-hour swing around the clock and around the world. Experience the American journey through our country's visual heritage in this video from the National Archives and Records Administration.
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This episode of The Green Interview features Franke James, a rabble-rousing artist, author, and activist who uses her art-a signature style of lively drawings mixed with photos and hand drawn text-and her written work to campaign for social and environmental justice. She has over 20 years' experience as a creative designer and marketing professional. Most recently, she made headlines when she discovered that the Canadian government under Stephen Harper...
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This program summarizes and distills what we have learned about the great religions in this series. Smith's lifetime of experience and study helps him to go beyond the differences between each tradition. He shows how the cultivation of virtues valued by all religions-intelligence, compassion, creativity, truth, beauty, and goodness-can lead to transcendence. In the many faces of God he has contemplated, Huston Smith sees no conflict. He believes them...
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This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series tells the story of the Army Postal Service, another one of the Army's "Army-within-an-Army" groups. From the National Archives and Records Administration, this video is told from the perspective of a soldier who waits for his package from home.
19) What is cancer?
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The first episode in the Cancer Story series provides a primer on how cancer begins and grows. Using colorful animation and interviews with medical experts, the program explains normal cell behavior and cancer etiology within a larger, dramatized story of a cancer patient undergoing diagnosis and treatment. With straightforward commentary from Drs. C. Norman Coleman, Christopher Lowrey, and three other renowned M.D.s, What Is Cancer painlessly introduces...
20) Broken Images
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This classic Horizon program looks at two patients suffering from a rare form of brain damage known as visual agnosia. The illness prevents sufferers from recognizing even familiar faces and everyday objects. Since brain lesions are implicated in agnosia, there currently is no direct treatment for the condition. Patients face so many challenging situations in everyday living that they may not be able to hold jobs or even relate properly to members...