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The Making of King Arthur

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The Making of King Arthur
English | Size: 2.09 GB
Category:Documentaries|Misc


Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend through the literature of the medieval age and reveals that King Arthur is not the great national hero he is usually considered to be. He’s a fickle and transitory character who was appropriated by the Normans to justify their conquest, he was cuckolded when French writers began adapting the story and it took Thomas Malory’s masterpiece of English literature, Le Mort d’Arthur, to restore dignity and reclaim him as the national hero we know today. [Read more…]

Michael Pollan – The Botany of Desire (Documentary)

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Michael Pollan – The Botany of Desire (Documentary)
English | Size:931.26 MB
Category:Everything Else


The Botany of Desire examines this unique relationship through the stories of four familiar species, telling how each of them evolved to satisfy one of our most basic yearnings. Linking our fundamental desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control with the plants that gratify them – the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato – The Botany of Desire shows that we humans are intricately woven into the web of nature, not standing outside it. [Read more…]