Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Windtakers

Tử Cấm Thành - Bản Di Chúc Của Một Bạo Chúa

Nguyễn An, một tù binh chiến tranh, một hoạn quan người Việt Nam, đã được Vĩnh Lạc, hoàng đế nhà Minh, giao trọng trách thiết kế và tổng chỉ huy việc xây dựng Tử Cấm Thành Bắc Kinh. Ngoài ra, ông còn làm tổng công trình sư nhiều công trình quan trọng khác ở Trung Hoa. (Nguyen An, a vietnamese prisoner and eunuch in service to the Chinese emperor Yongle, was the chief architect and chief manager-executive who constructed the Forbidden City of Beijing):

Monday, October 19, 2009

The Outer Planets

Meet the man who killed Pluto and sparked a controversy. New discoveries regarding the Outer Planets are creating a fundamental rethinking of our solar system.

Friday, October 16, 2009

What's My Line?

What's My Line? is a weekly panel game show, which ran from 1950 to 1967, whose objective was to guess the unusual occupations of contestants. It is the longest-running game show in the history of prime time network television. Hosted by John Charles Daly and with panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf, What's My Line? won three Emmy Awards for "Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show," in 1952, 1953 and 1958 and Golden Globe for Best TV Show in 1962.



WHAT'S MY LINE? by Wikipedia



Thursday, October 15, 2009

Alan Gilbert - Music Director of the New York Philharmonic



Eugenia Zukerman asks Alan Gilbert about his role as the music director of the New York Philharmonic.




ALAN GILBERT AT A GLANCE

ALAN GILBERT WEBSITE



New York Philharmonic Orchestra



New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Danny Kaye:

Taxi Driver

Classic Drama - Martin Scorsese directed this highpoint of American Cinema - a disturbing portrait of a New York cabbie (Robert De Niro) driven to madness by urban decay.
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Taxi Driver - Robert De Niro

Friday, October 9, 2009

Janine Jansen



JANINE JANSEN WEBSITE

2009 Nobel Prizes

2009 Nobel Peace Prize:


Interview about the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize:





2009 Nobel Chemistry Prize:


Interview about the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:





2009 Nobel Literature Prize:


Interview about the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature:





2009 Nobel Physiology/Medicine Prize:


Interview about the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine:





2009 Nobel Physics Prize:


Interview about the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics:



Tuesday, October 6, 2009