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48721) Operation maneater
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Veterinarian Mark Evans uses technology to tackle three of nature's deadliest giants: the Nile crocodile, the polar bear, and the great white shark. When these animals attack humans, both sides lose out. Mark Evans is on a personal mission to find ways to break the circle of violence. Follow him as he tries out high-tech solutions to the most hostile wildlife conflicts on Earth.
48723) Sesame Street: Love to learn
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Elmo and his friends love to learn about so many different things all the time. Elmo and Chris go on a camping trip and learn about what different animals eat. Also, Elmo and Leela teach Rosita about rainbows since she's never seen one. Join your Sesame Street friends as they learn about other fun and exciting things.
48725) Zoo School
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Learn about the ABCs from all the zoo animals at the school in this entertaining and educational children's video full of fun and laughs.
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Avery Posner from EverydayASL presents five different scenarios for building ASL expressive interpreting skills. First the five stories are presented without any signing or captions immediately followed by exercises to aid in expressive skill building: fingerspelling and numbers check, vocabulary check, idiom and phrase check, and finally short sentence check. After the exercise.
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Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
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"So how do you tell stories that stick-- in your own mind and in the minds of your family, friends, colleagues, and clients? That's precisely what you'll learn in The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals, an enthralling course that reveals the tried-and-true methods experienced storytellers use to develop and tell engaging, entertaining, and memorable tales. In 24 lectures, Professor Hannah B. Harvey of East Tennessee State University...
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"America stands at a dramatic crossroads: Massive banks and corporations wield disturbing power. The huge income gap between the 1% and the other 99% grows visibly wider. Astounding new technologies are changing American lives. Conflicts over U.S. military interventionism, the environment, and immigration dominate public debate. Sound familiar? You might be surprised to know that these headlines were ripped, not from today's newspaper, but from...
48733) The high Middle Ages
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This course of twenty-four lectures examines the period know as the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). The first eight lectures cover medieval society. Lectures nine through sixteen examine the intellectual and religious history of Europe during this period. The final eight lectures cover the major political developments and events. Lecturer is Philip Daileader from College of William and Mary.
48736) I will rise
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An award-winning and eye-opening documentary that exposes the brutal reality of human trafficking. This film not only takes viewers on a journey into part of Christine McDonald's life, a survivor of 20 years of being commercially exploited, but viewers will hear from subject matter experts as well. This film shines a light on the complex truth of the exploitation of the vulnerable, especially children. It also educates on the efforts of several organizations...
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In this edition of Moyers & Company, two icons of the '60s civil rights era-John Lewis and Bill Moyers- meet to share experiences and revelations related to the momentous March on Washington, which they both attended 50 years ago. Their discussion takes them to the spot in front of the Lincoln Memorial where Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Roy Wilkins, and others famously spoke about freedom and justice, creating critical momentum for...
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Explore the modernism literary movement with Professor David Thorburn. See how modernist authors created new techniques to reflect an increasingly complex post-Victorian world. This tradition includes some of the greatest authors the world has know--Joyce, Faulkner, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka.
48740) How to stay fit as you age
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"This course is designed to equip you with a basic understanding of how your body works and to enable you to set and meet your own health and fitness goals ..."--Guidebook p. 1."