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Plant is thirsty and there is no water to be found. The gang has to help and learns about water, its sources and uses in the process.
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We keep some animals as pets but eat others. How did this come to be?
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When Skeleton litters the classroom with debris, he finds out why it's so important to dispose of our garbage properly.
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Professor Iris explains which animals are rodents. We learn all about these gnawing creatures.
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Plant and Skeleton go for a rocket ship ride to discover planet earth from afar. It is extrordinary in space, but even nicer to come home.
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For some, winning is all that matters, but it's participation that makes sport fun.
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A journey through the history of painting shows the real value of art.
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Information and knowledge enable the media to make it a small world.
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The post World War II period saw the struggle of Middle Eastern peoples to throw off British hegemony in the area. In Iran, Mossadegh nationalized the Iran oilfields, but was forced out of power by the CIA. In Egypt, Nasser took power from the corrupt King Farouk and became the apostle of a new sense of Arab identity. He sought to modernize Egypt, and with powerful American support drove the British and French from their control of the Suez Canal, a turning point which exhilarated the Arab world.
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Professor Iris and the gang find lots of things in the classroom to count. They learn that there are different ways to count things, like on an abacus, or on their fingers.
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The issues of slavery and states' rights point to a dark and bloody Civil War; 600,000 Americans will die in conflict; Reconstruction, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Indian Wars bring the gradual suppression of the Indians, and the end of the western frontier follows.
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A basic introduction to electrons and the octet rule and the formulae of alcohols, ethers, amines. aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and esters; an explanation of the difference between polar and non-polar bonds and how the attachment of polar groups renders non-polar hydrocarbons non-soluble; and a simple look at how substitute groups create other organic families.
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ABORIGINAL TECHNOLOGY - Engineering 40,000 years ago. BANGKOK SEWERS - Installing the sewage infrastructure in the middle of a densely populated city, MICROSURGERY - The tools and ergonomical design of instruments for surgeons to operate on our internal organs.
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Examines the causes of genocide and ethnic conflict in parts of the world with widely differing cultural traditions. The 20 years of bitter ethnic strife in Sri Lanka have taken the lives of 100,000, but young people from both sides work together for tolerance. In Cambodia the survivors of Pol Pot's genocide struggle to create a democratic state -from a nation that was victim of a murderous radical "social engineering project" which killed 2 million men, women, and children.
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After experiments with sundials, water and candle clocks, the Chinese developed the world's first accurate clock involving an escapement device. Their mathematicians calculated pi; their astronomers recognized the egg yolk shape of the earth and developed an accurate system for measuring the movement of the stars.
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Searching for rainwater's journey to the ocean, Johan takes a field trip traveling from gutters to drains and then to rivers and oceans.
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What sciences are involved as the astronauts go EVA and venture into the hostile environment of space in a smaller spacecraft, performing many tasks for which they have previously trained in a weightless environment?
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Looks at what we wear on our heads, from racing h elmets to commercial kitchen coverings, and why. Hat designers share the process from conception to final product, and children design and model their own sun hats.
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This episode chronicles Chinese trade. In the 15th century, China destroyed its great fleets and began a period of nearly 300 years of isolation. It wasn't until 1760 that trade with Westerners officially was allowed. In the early part of the century, with the rise of communism, the Chinese began to regain control of its international economic relations. China opened up, slowly at first, in the 1950s. Today, China presents an open door to the world, while maintaining full control.
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Preparing Hydrogen, "Popping" Hydrogen. Exploding a Mixture of hydrogen and air. Reacting hydrogen with oxygen and chlorine. Reducing mercury(H) Oxide by Hydrogen.
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This film shows many examples from different parts of the Islamic world of mans cooperation with the forces of nature such as the use of earth as a building material, the large dams built long before anything comparable in Europe, the system of underground canals upon which whole areas depend, the huge water wheels of Syria, counteracting the high temperatures of the Middle East, how ice was supplied right through the summer many centuries ago, and the earliest windmills in the world, still in use.
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This program explores the marketing of the snack-sized chocolate cake in the months before and after its release. The program follows the months of boardroom discussions as the marketing team plans and implements its campaign.
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This episode studies northern Morocco, from Tangiers to Fez to Meknes. The heady presence of a centuries old culture is all-pervasive among some of the finest examples of Islamic architecture. Inhabited by a warm and friendly people, its shores dip into the Mediterranean and its deserts into the Sahara, with a culture embracing European and African influences and a cuisine so refined, it lingers in the memory forever.
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Conditions such as backaches, tennis elbow, arthritis, breathing disorders, pinched nerves, sciatica, swayback and stress-related disorders can all be treated with movement therapies using the Alexander Technique.
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The opening movement of Mozart's beloved A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is march-like in nature. It is light and charming like the DIVERTIMENTI, pleasant works designed to entertain. The RONDO ALLA TURCA was originally the last movement of a piano sonata; it is an airy tune in the style that Mozart's Vienna liked to refer to as "Turkish." The V SONATA IN C is here performed by flute with string accompaniment. The "Rondo" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC repeats its opening phrase on many different steps of the scale, and bounces along to a vibrant conclusion. The EXSULTATE is the finale of Mozart's 1773 cantata, where its bright hue makes it a perfect contrast with all the expressive music that precedes it; it is marked to be played "presto."
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Nuclear fission was discovered in 1938, demonstrating that untold quantities of energy are locked inside the atom. Its potential was first tapped by the military, and then the civilian sector. The new technology inspired high-flying visions as the world's major powers developed nuclear power plants. But the problems of safely disposing of nuclear waste remain unsolved. There are different views of the future of nuclear power.
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The issue of balance between Mother Nature and all living things; and what happens to that balance when man begins to intervene in nature's environments that depend on fresh water. How do species survive in the Nabib Desert in South Africa and at Glen Canyon in the USA.
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Whatever is inside the earth is very hot. The trail of clues leads to the model of a metallic core surrounded by a rocky mantle. Huge, slow convection currents rise up, often resulting in earthquakes and volcanoes.
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Millions died of starvation and other effects of the war. The broken promises and implicit threats between the Big Three created an arena for the confrontation of the two new superpowers as exhausted Britain lost its preeminence. Britain repudiated Churchill's dreams of restored imperial grandeur, and the USSR and the US went in twelve months from being allies to enemies.
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Follows the US struggle to reach a consensus concerning American involvement in Vietnam, the efforts of Kissinger and Nixon, and the presidency of Carter, and the heightened conflict in Third World countries.
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Islamic societies are generally known for their restrictions on women's rights and freedoms; for example, polygamy, honor killings and the enforcement of wearing the Hijab and Chador. Since all cultural traits are created because of social needs in the region, is it right for outsiders to judge this practice? How do people currently living in the region accept these customs? What do today's Islamic women think of these traditions? What is the image of Islamic women in this ever-changing world?
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