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5 days ago
Stephen Fry Speaks Out Against the Catholic Church Part 1
Uploaded first by atheistmediablog, i don't care if you have already seen
it, Stephen is wonderful and he makes Pat Condell look like Milly Molly
M...
StMartinTours
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3 weeks ago
Jeeves &Wooster S04E06 Part 3/5
Jeeves &Wooster property of ITV. "The Ties That Bind".
Adapted from the works of P.G. Wodehouse.
StMartinTours
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Why the heck would anyone need to identify Dante as "The Florentine poet Dante Alighieri" and his best known work as the "Divina Commedia", when it is universally known in English as the "Divine Comedy"? This is the screenwriters trying too hard to make Jeeves sound erudite.
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1 month ago
Antonio Vivaldi - "L'Autunno" (Autumn) - Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra - Miho Hashizume, violin
Miho Hashizume, violin soloist
The first movement of the "Autumn" Concerto from Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) evokes the scene of a merry...
StMartinTours
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@mrsherman109 I happen to be a professional baroque violinist, and I can tell you that there are many different styles of baroque playing in the early music world these days. It is the particular one on display here that I object to; I find it fussy and mannered.
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1 month ago
Matthew Locke - How Doth the City Sit Solitary
English composer. Sang at Exeter Cathedral under Edward Gibbons. Traveled to the Netherlands in the 1640s, perhaps with exiled royalists; returned ...
StMartinTours
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A fine piece, but the beauty of this type of music is spoiled by tuning in boring equal temperament.
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4 months ago
AD61 samples
Here are shown a few samples of the interviews with characters from ancient Rome. A Latin Qvarter film with Robert Bathurst, Marco Bortolami, Olivi...
StMartinTours
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@imshadi The Romance forms "verita'", "verdad", etc., derive from the accusative Latin form "veritatem" rather than the nominative "veritas". This is why they are accented on the "a". However, you're exactly right about the "e" and "a" in "veritas" being long.
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5 months ago
1939 New York World's Fair - Part 1 of 2 - A Home Movie Spectacular!
Filmed by my Grandfather. None of this footage has appeared in any World's Fair documentary anywhere!
PART ONE:
Trylon and Perisphere, the theme c...
StMartinTours
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What is the musical selection?
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Fry's remarks are a concatenation of historical fallacies, fuzzy thought, and ignorance. To cite just two examples (perhaps mentioned by others): Galileo was NOT tortured, and Thomas More did NOT torture people for reading the Bible in English. This is not even to go into his errors in logic an...