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You Are the Placebo – Making Your Mind Matter

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You Are the Placebo – Making Your Mind Matter
English | Size: 1.15 GB
Category: Tutorial


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A Brief History Of The Placebo
As the saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures. When Harvard-educated American surgeon Henry Beecher was serving in World War II, he ran out of morphine. Near the end of the war, morphine was in short supply in military field hospitals, so this situation wasn’t uncommon. At the time, Beecher was about to operate on a badly wounded soldier. He was afraid that without a painkiller, the soldier might go into fatal cardiovascular shock. What happened next astounded him. [Read more…]

Smithsonian Ch. – Hockney Seeing Beauty (2014) 1080p HDTV

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Smithsonian Ch. – Hockney: Seeing Beauty (2014) 1080p HDTV
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Category: Documentary


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Hockney: Seeing Beauty
He is one of the great surviving icons of the 1960s and arguably the most popular British artist of the 20th century. David Hockney’s career started with almost instant success, and despite private struggles with his art, relationships, and the tragedy of AIDS, he continued to explore, experiment, and create masterpieces in a variety of mediums. Take a deeply personal look into the life, career, and creative mind of this versatile genius in a portrait that, like its subject, is funny, inspiring, bold, and visionary. [Read more…]

BBC Imagine – Faith Ringgold Tell It Like It Is (2019) 1080p HDTV

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BBC Imagine – Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is (2019) 1080p HDTV
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Harlem-born artist, author and activist Faith Ringgold painted some of the most truthful and empowering representations of African Americans during the civil rights and women’s movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
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BBC – Our Classical Century Breaking the Sound Barrier (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC – Our Classical Century: Breaking the Sound Barrier (2019) 720p HDTV
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Part 4 of 4.
Suzy Klein and West-End star Alexandra Burke chart how, in the 80s and 90s, a new generation of young musicians – from Simon Rattle and Nigel Kennedy to Vanessa-Mae – defied tradition and burst out of the accepted confines of the classical genre. We look at Torvill and Dean’s triumph at the Winter Olympics, the Three Tenors at Italia 90, Tavener’s haunting anthem accompanying the funeral of Princess Diana and the successful launch of Classic FM.
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Albatross – Caravan of the Books Kenya’s Mobile Camel Library (2010) 1080p HDTV

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Albatross – Caravan of the Books: Kenya’s Mobile Camel Library (2010) 1080p HDTV
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Category: Documentary


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Caravan of the Books: Kenya’s Mobile Camel LibraryBold text
A library on four legs, the worlds only existing Camel Library is located in Northern Kenya. As they pass antelopes and giraffes, the heavily loaded caravan of camels are routinely carrying books through the rough savannah. [Read more…]

Max Hastings – Vietnam An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975 (Unabridged Audiobook)

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Max Hastings – Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975 (Unabridged Audiobook)
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of The Secret War.

Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the US in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the 1968 Tet Offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and also much less familiar miniatures such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people. [Read more…]

BBC Natural World – Hippos: Africa’s River Giants (2019) 1080p HDTV

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BBC Natural World – Hippos: Africa’s River Giants (2019) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 1.35 GB
Category: Documentary


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David Attenborough reveals the life of the hippopotamus as never seen before. With incredible underwater footage, this film delves into the world of the hippo – an animal that cannot swim yet is utterly dependent on water.
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Ch.4 – Dispatches Britain’s New Build Scandal (2019) 1080p HDTV

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Ch.4 – Dispatches: Britain’s New Build Scandal (2019) 1080p HDTV
English | Size: 872 MB
Category: Documentary


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Dispatches: Britain’s New Build Scandal
Reporter Liam Halligan investigates allegations of shoddy standards, poor customer care and excessive profits at Britain’s second biggest – and most profitable – builder, Persimmon
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BBC The Adventure Show – Pinkston Watersports (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC The Adventure Show – Pinkston Watersports (2019) 720p HDTV
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This week the Adventure Show is live from Pinkston Watersports for a host of dramatic action. There is the fast and furious wildwater kayaking and the highly competitive canoe polo, where boat and paddle handling skills are paramount. Expect thrills and spills during the extreme kayaking competition, where three paddlers race head to head down the course. And watch out for the incredible feats of the freestyle athletes. [Read more…]