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Scope and content: Home movies, in color and black and white, shot by Albert and Mary Jane Werthan, spanning the time frame from 1935 to 1962, showing their children, friends, extended family at play and leisure in Nashville, Tenn. and environs. All scenes are shot outdoors. Includes scenes at the family farm in Williamson County, Tenn. known as Tollgate Farm, mostly of family, recreation, and scenic shots, but including scenes of haying operations...
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In Bridge the Gap to Uganda, host and global explorer, Chris Bashinelli, travels the world to experience life outside of his hometown -Brooklyn, New York. In this episode, he visits the Ruwenzori Mountain range of rural Uganda to see how fair trade has helped lift farmers out of extreme poverty. Once there, he learns how to "impregnate" a vanilla flower, rides a motorcycle taxi through the luscious green mountains, and runs screaming through the woods...
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An outbreak of Ebola in western Uganda caused dozens of illnesses or deaths. A team of investigators from America's Centers for Disease Control Special Pathogens Branch travels to Uganda to bring the outbreak under control and learn more about the reservoir hosts for the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
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Take an adventure with Dr. Brady Barr as he travels back to Uganda in search of a giant man-eating crocodile. This episode takes place on the Nile River in Murchison Falls National Park, where we'll find out just what it takes to capture crocodiles while Dr. Barr trains a team of rangers from the Uganda Wildlife Authority. Then it's on to the shores of Lake Victoria, where a massive, one-ton crocodile has been terrorizing villagers. Barr and the rangers...
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The day-to-day struggle for dignity and survival that goes on in refugee camps remains invisible to most of the world. In this ABC News program, actor Don Cheadle travels to Uganda to focus media attention on the plight of innocent people-especially children-displaced and endangered by war. Cheadle visits a rehabilitation center for boys and girls kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, the militia that has battled the Ugandan government for 20 years,...
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American Evangelical Scott Lively traveled to Uganda to speak at a seminar where he told the crowd that the gay movement is an evil institution that wants to defeat the marriage-based society. This ABC News report examines what has gone on in the African nation since that seminar. Pastor Martin Ssempa uses explicit gay pornography to convince his congregation to support a law calling for the execution of gays and lesbians, and the imprisonment of...
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East Africa: Worlds Together provides an overview of this country's rich culture. A mix of Africa and the Middle East, this country is full of exotic foods, rich colors, and exciting cityscapes.
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Science has made leaps and bounds in its assault on AIDS-but do antiretroviral drugs guarantee a long life? Why does the disease still cause widespread suffering in Africa, despite the development of new medicines? Author and actor Stephen Fry investigates, traveling across the U.S., Great Britain, and Uganda as he studies the medical obstacles to an AIDS-free world. Fry highlights good news, such as reasonable longevity among many patients and the...
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This Globe Trekker Special is all about our fellow primates: lemurs, monkeys, and apes. Conservationists Ian Wright, Megan McCormick, Justine Shapiro, Zoe Palmer, Holly Morris, Eils Nevitt, Nikki Grosse, and Zay Harding travel across Africa, Asia, and South America, visiting the last strongholds of many rare and endangered species. These conservationists will travel to such fascinating locations as Thailand, Borneo, Sumatra, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda,...
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Kevin McGuigan in RCSI in Dublin has been working for 20 years on a deceptively simple solution which can convert dirty water into clean water with no chemicals or additives of any kind. Aoibhinn travels to Uganda to meet Kevin and to find out about the latest Solar Disinfection (SODIS) project which is being funded by RCSI and the Higher Education Authority through Irish Aid. The project involves filling transparent PET-bottles or glass bottles with...
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Journalist Martin Adler courageously recorded warfare in Somalia, Liberia, and 38 other countries, helping define the way Americans saw foreign conflicts for more than a decade. This program brings together some of Adler's award-winning photos and footage to present a riveting profile of an extraordinary man. "I want to go to the places no one else goes to, and I want to listen to the people nobody else listens to," Adler once said. Women sweeping...
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Includes information on Afghanistan, Africa, animals, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, beaches, bicycles, Brazil, cars, cellphones, children, China, climate change, computers, developing countries, discrimination, diseases, Egypt, Ethiopia, fair-trade products, farming, food, France, gardening, HIV/AIDS, homeless, housing, India, Internet, Japan, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, peace, poverty, recycling, schools, South Africa, Sudan, toxins, travel,...