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The Angelus

The Angelus, sung by the Daughters of Mary in Latin

http://www.daughtersofmary....

(English subtitles)

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zimnaya said:

This plainchant setting of the Angelus has a beauty and purity that quiets the heart and lifts it to the contemplation of that extraordinary truth: "...for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life..."

Sisters, th...

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  Aristocrat Girl Guillotined

  Guillotine execution scene from Napoleon and Josephine movie .

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  @ForeverComplaining

  How right you are. Recent examination of accounts prove that Louis XVI's rather unpleasant aunts spent more on fashion than Marie-Antoinette. She was, in every way, most wrongly framed. And in France it is still called 'la Revolution Glorieuse'. Hundreds of thousands died...

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Death of King George VI

How the death of the late British monarch was captured on a series of archive films. George VI, "Bertie", was not the first in line to the throne, ...

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Unlike the people of Russia and of France, it is not the custom of the English to apply epithets or sobriquets to their sovereigns although some of the earlier Plantangenets are exceptions. If it were the custom then surely King George would be known as "the Great & Good" because that is what he...

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  Death of King George VI

  How the death of the late British monarch was captured on a series of archive films. George VI, "Bertie", was not the first in line to the throne, ...

  175,005 views

  zimnaya said:

  Unlike the French and the Russians, it is not an English custom to apply to their sovereigns, but, if it were, King George would be, King George the Great, the Good.

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  'Who the Hell You Think You Are?' Nigel Farage throws egg in Eurocrat faces

  British politician and the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage has slammed EU bosses over European crisis. "It's even more seri...

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  Nigel Farage - much more than a politician. A honest man and a true hero.

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zimnaya commented 3 weeks ago

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Queen Henrietta Maria

Excerpt from the historical monologue "400 Years of English History" presented by artist/historian George S. Stuart as part of an exhibit of his Hi...

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Alors voilà une chose d’intéressant que je ne savais pas auparavant! It would seem, however, that the title Madame Royale had almost fallen into desuetude by the time of Louis XV…Madame Infante, Madame Deuxième, Madame Troisième, Madame Quatrième, Madame Cinquième, Madame Sixième and then as Lo...

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  Queen Henrietta Maria

  Excerpt from the historical monologue "400 Years of English History" presented by artist/historian George S. Stuart as part of an exhibit of his Hi...

  3,584 views

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  @TaliaA1990 Do you not think that 'hate' is rather a strong word? Although hatred has been described as 'a failure of the imagination' one might, with good reason hate Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung for the incomprehensible evil of their lives, but Henrietta Maria...? Please! The woman was ac...

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  Toilets through time (Or, a royal flush)

  A guided tour through 1000 years of toilet history, from the 18-seater 'Common Jakes' to an ornate Victorian flusher via Henry VIII's constipation ...

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  Lavatory, please...not and never 'toilet'. Oddly, at my school the lavatories were called 'jakes' as at Hampton Court Palace. After we had been caned (a gruesome, vicious procedure) we would run down the stairs from the Housemaster's office, into the jakes, sit down and pull the flush. The col...

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zimnaya commented 2 months ago

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Gramophone Awards 2011 -- Instrumental

Murray Perahia receives his award and gives a short masterclass on Brahms's 'Handel' Variations. The 2011 Gramophone Classical Music Awards, given ...

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Wonderful masterclass. Although brief, I learnt a great deal. And the playing goes without saying - superlative

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  Händel: Exceeding glad shall he be (Coronation Anthems)

  Dear Youtube User

  If you are the COPYRIGHT OWNER of this performance I kindly ask you to first contact me requesting to delete the

  video but avoid...

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  Superbly played and fine singing. Very happy memories of singing this and 'The King shall Rejoice' for Pope Paul VI as a young alto choirboy...

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zimnaya commented 3 months ago

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Anderson & Roe | DER ERLKÖNIG | Steinway Piano Factory

Featured on "When Words Fade" -- http://bit.ly/nYryXK -- an album (with bonus DVD) by the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo on the Steinway Record Label. Or...

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zimnaya said:

Hynotic, powerful, perfect playing....magnificent video! Although I sing the 'Erl-Konig', I have to say that I now much prefer this four-hand version. It communicates the fear and the madness, the myth and the delirium... Congratulations!

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zimnaya commented 3 months ago

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Chant grégorien des Bénédictines du Barroux

"Commovisti, Domine".Album "In Paradisum - Les Soeurs".http://parousie.over-b­log.fr/article-les-benedictine­s-d-avignon-chanteuses-5521543­9.html

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Real church music and real nuns! May God shower His blessings on them.

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  CREDO I

  Latijnse geloofsbelijdenis

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  So, so wonderful to hear Credo again. It makes one realise all that we lost when the trendies threw plainchant, a sacred treasury spanning well over a thousand years and more, blithely out of the window.

  I remember the Latin Mass so well, 'Introibo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat juventute...

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  Donna in Romania pt1

  Dying my hair using rudimentary tools and my friend Nicolette finding the whole thing quite hilarious.

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  'Dying' you hair, dear? I think you mean 'dyeing', though of course we didn't see the result of that green gunge...Nicolette's laugh doesn't change. It had me laughing here in Hong Kong at 3.32 in the morning!

  I do hope the jaunt in the 'horse and cart' was enjoyable.

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zimnaya commented 3 months ago

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Cadbury's - Wispa - Ruth Madoc - UK Advert

Cadbury's - Wispa - Ruth Madoc - UK Advert

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Such a wonderful double act, each so different and yet always complementary

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zimnaya commented 4 months ago

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Chopin Etude Op 10 No 1 / Debussy Arabesque 1 - Calvin Lee, MD

Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 1 / Debussy Arabesque No. 1 | Calvin Lee - Surgeon & Acupuncturist, living in Modesto, CA.

I work with Plastic Surgeon D...

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zimnaya said:

I love the way you just appear to 'throw out' the notes of the Chopin...extraordinary fire and power. Absolutely wonderful. And the way you caress the Debussy Arabesque. Teaching Chinese children in Hong Kong I am almost used to their plethora of talents, but you are something else. Magnifice...

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