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Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)in 1857 photo
French biologist and chemist, studied germs as the cause of disease to develope preventative vaccines to reduce mortality
from puerperal fever and prevent rabies and anthrax.
Pasteur developed pasteurization - the treatment of milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination.
Pasteur
Portrait d'un visionnaire
Documentaire (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_anbvqBV3Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kD_gZwFCQ
Pasteur
2000 ans d'histoire sur France Inter
Avec Corrine Maier
2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXO7N5XlgE8
Louis Pasteur
Discussion on In Our Time
Weekly Thursday BBC radio programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests
Andrew Mendelsohn, Anne Hardy and Michael Worboys
18 May 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q317p
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936 Hollywood movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-rib8h3D64
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpw7i4rUkX0
Health Heroes
The Battle Against Disease
Short 1959 film about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch and Joseph Lister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oov0INx5NMw
Medicine through Time
Short film about Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister and Robert Koch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51AlasUu4ag
Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch and Bacteriology
Episode form the series Milestones of Natural Science and Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR4sC9RDaKY
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La Tour Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
1889
Started in late 1887 and completed in March 1889
Completed by Alexandre Gusteave Eiffel in March 1889
Gusteave Eiffel
Napoleon
Episode
from the series Engineering an Empire with Peter Weller (44:30)
or
Or in 5 clips:
Photos and film footage
The Eiffel Tower
Episode from
the documentary series Modern Marvels
or
La Tour
Eiffel
Documentaire
The Story of the Eiffel Tower
Movie in French
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The South African Wars
1879 - 1915
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Berlin Conference
1885
Western European diplomats divide Africa
Map shows the division of the African continent by the leading Western European
nations at the Berlin Conference, 1884 - 1885
Berlin 1885 - The Scramble for Africa
Advertisement for a documentary film
2011 Documentary (in French)
The same in German:
The Berlin Conference
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted
by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Richard Drayton, Richard Rathbone and Joanna Lewis
31 October 2013
Le début
du colonialism
Partie 3 de L'autre avant-guerre 1871-1914
Henri Guillemin
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Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes (1853 - 1902)
Cecil John Rhodes
African Colossus
Documentary film short by De Beers
Rhodes
Hollywood movie (1937)
Rhodes planned a telegraph line and railroad from across Africa,
from Cape Town to Cairo
"The Rhodes Colossus"
Sketch of Cecil John Rhodes in the British weekly humour magazine
Punch on 10 December 1892
The Rhodes Memorial overlooking Cape Town
The Heritage of Cecil Rhodes
Movietone News (1952)
Settlers of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland hold talks with the British government in London
The Rhodes Scholarship
Doc goes here
Gentleman Jim
James J. Corbett
The Gentleman Prizefighter
Documentary
Top Contenders
James J. Corbett of San Francisco vs Peter Jackson of the Danish
West Indies and Australia
San Francisco
May 21, 1891
Called off after 61 rounds
No Contest No Decision
John L. Sullivan, world champion
vs.
James J. Corbett
New Orleans
1892
John L. Sullivan, left, defends the world
heavyweight championship title against
James J. Corbett, right, in New Orleans
in 1892.
The first heavyweight championship contest
fought with gloves and under Marquis of
Queensbury rules.
Corbett knocked out Sullivan in the
21st round.
Bat Masterson was
among the notables in attendance.
Gentleman Jim
1942 Hollywood movie with Errol Flynn as James J. Corbett
Advertisement
or
Excerpt
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Invention of the Radio
Wireless Telegraph
From the early 1800s to 1895
The Radio
Episode from the documentary series Secret Life of Machines (1990)
First
transatlantic transmission of radio signals
1901
Guglielmo Marconi
and the invention of radio
Excsrpt from a documentary
Excerpt from a documentary
The
Invention of Radio
Episode from the documentary series Modern Marvels
The
Invention of Radio
Discussion on the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With
guests Simon Schaffer, Elizabeth Bruton and John Liffen
4
July 2013
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Bob Fitzsimmons
Robert James ("Bob") Fitzsimmons
("Ruby Robert"), world
heavyweight
boxing champion
(1897 - 1899),
from Cornwall, England
James J. Corbett, champion
vs
Bob Fitzsimmons, challenger
Reno, Nevada (1897)
or
Corbett knocks Fitzsimmons down in round 6
Challenger Bob Fitzsimmons knocks out Champion Jim Corbett in the 14th
round of their championship fight in Carson City, Nevada on March 17, 1897
Fitzsimmons punched Corbett in the solar plexus, paralysing him.
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The Spanish-American War
1898
U.
S. takes Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines from
Spain.
U.
S. makes Cuba and the Philippines US protectorates.
Map shows
the Spanish Empire in 1898 and former Spanish possessions.
The U. S.
claimed uninhbited Midway Island, geographically one of the Hawaiian Islands, in 1856 and again in 1867.
The sinking of the US
Navy battleship USS Maine, with
266 men, in Havana Harbor of the Spanish colony of Cuba on 15 February 1898.
Following
the sinking of the US Navy ship USS Maine in Cuba's Havana Harbor in February 1898, the US declared war on Spain
in April 1898.
The US destroyed
the Spanish fleet in the Philippines in May 1898. The Spanish surrendered in August.
The US took
the island of Guam from Spain in June 1898 and placed it under the control of the US Navy.
The US annexed
the Hawaiian Islands, an independent republic, in June 1898 and claimed uninhabited
Wake Island in July 1898.
In the Caribbean
Sea, the US defeated the Spanish on the islands of Cuba by July 1898 and Puerto Rico by August 1898.
In Central
America in 1903, the US, interested in building a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, backed separatists in the Columbian
province of Panama, recognised the Panamanian declaration of Independence from Columbia, and made Panama a US protectorate.
Cuba
Map of Cuba
Inhabited
by Taino Indians (Arawak), who inhabited most of the Caribbean, the island of Cuba was claimed for Spain by Chrisopher Columbus
in 1492. The origin of the name Cuba may be Taino or Portuguese.
Spain colonised the
island. Spanish colonists fished; grew sugar cane, tobacco and citrus; and raised cattle. Spanish missionairies introduced
the natives to Catholicism. Spain brought
many slaves from Africa. In the 1800s many Chinese, Indian (from South Asia) and Malay laborers were brought in from
Asia.
In the 1800s Spanish colonists
rebelled against Spanish rule. Jose Marti is the best known of the Cubans who fought for independence from Spain. Marti was
killed in fighting Spanish soldiers in 1895.
The U. S. sent a battleship, the U.
S. S. Maine, to Cuba to protect American interests in 1898. While docked in Havana,
the ship exploded, killing 266 of the crew. Some Americans accused the Spanish of sabotage.
The USS Maine in Havana Harbor after sinking.
New York Journal, a newspaper owned by William Randolph
Hearst
New York Journal
The
US declared war on Spain in April 1898.
Philippines
The Battle of
Manila Bay on 1 May 1898.
US Navy Rear Admiral George Dewey's flag ship, the USS Olympia,
heads the U.S. Asiatic Squadron's attack on the Spanish fleet off Cavite in Manila
Bay.
American forces backed Filipino rebels
against Spanish rule in the Philippines. The Spanish surrendered in August.
The US took the island of Guam from Spain in June 1898.
Map of dates and battles between the US and Spain on the island of Guam and in the Philippines
in 1898.
The U. S. demanded Cuba from Spain.
American troops were sent to Cuba and,
joined by Cuban rebels, fought Spanish troops for three months, until the Spanish
agreed in August 1898.
Map indicates the path of US military
campaigns on Cuba in June and July 1898 and on Puerto Rico in July and August 1898.
Map on the left indicates area of
US blockade, the path of US offensives, the path of Spanish forces and battles between
US and Spanish forces in the Caribbean Sea in 1898. Map on the right indicates the path of the US Navy to the Philippines
in 1898.
In the Treaty of Paris of 1898, the Spanish gave up Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean
Sea and the Philippines and Guam in the Pacific Ocean to the U. S.
American troops occupied Cuba for three years, until 1902, when
the U. S. granted Cuba independence.
The U. S. kept a small piece of Cuba in Guantanamo Bay for an
American naval base by a lease without a date of expiration.
A Cuban president was democratically elected in 1902.
The US occupied Cuba again to protect American interests during
rebellions from 1906 to 1909.
Puerto Rico remains a US territory. Puerto Ricans have been US
citizens since 1917.
Hawaii was a US territory until it became the 50th state in 1959.
Midway
Atoll, geographically one of the Hawaiian Islands, remains a US territory. Home to many birds, it is a national
wildlife refuge.
The Philippines
were a US protectorate until granted independence in 1946.
Guam remains a US territory. Guamanians
are US citizens.
Wake
Island remains a US territory and is used by the US Air Force for missile testing. The atoll is claimed also by the Republic
of Marshall Islands.
Map indicates
the results of the Spanish-American War in 1898. The US took Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea and Guam and the Philippines
in the Pacific Ocean from Spain.
Crucible of Empire:
The Spanish American War
1898 - 1901
PBS documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g8NpQsmxj4
The Spanish-American War
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9DE43boGxU
The Spanish-American War
The Birth of a Superpower
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfYxr5s488s
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_cSWjAw4xo
The Spanish-American War
and Thomas
Edison
Film footage by Edison (24 min. 37 sec.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9fxS86QjuE
A Message to Garcia
1936 Hollywood movie with Wallace Berry (1:25:19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5HuyOsHcIU
Rough Riders
1997 Hollywood movie with Tom Berenger as Teddy Roosevelt (3:03:34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK8XiUinllI
The Spanish-American
War (1898)
Lecture by David Silby
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Wheaten, Illinois
March 25, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMF7a8nsNTs
Sea Tales
History Channel documentary (47:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SshpBcUQGqE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYliq_4LXqA
The Death of the USS
Maine
Episode from
the documentary series Unsolved Mysteries (48:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmqtBuDrVf0
Amigo
2010 movie
in Filipino (1:22:33)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Gl7uoU7hc
Los Ultimos de Filiipinas
Spanish movie (1945) (99 min.)
1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines
1898, Los últimos de Filipinas
2016 Spanish movie (2 hrs. 9 min. 28 sec.)
Baler
2008 Filipino movie
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U.
S. takes Hawaii
1898
The Hawaiian
Islands on a world map.
The
eight main Hawaiian islands (Southeastern Hawaiian Islands). From east to west (right to left): Hawai'i, the biggest island,
known as "The Big Island"; Kaho'olawe; Maui, Lana'i; Moloka'i; O'ahu; Kaua'i; and Ni'ihau.
The British explorer Captain James Cook called the Hawaiian Islands the
Sandwich Islands, for his patron, the Earl of Sandwich, in 1778.
The Islands were known as the Sandwich Islands until the early to mid-1800s.
The King of the island of Hawaii, Kamehameha, was the king of most of the Hawaiian Islands -
Hawaii, Maui, Molokai and Oahu - by 1895 and all the islands by 1810.
Kingdom of Hawaii
Hawaii was recognised as an independent kingdom by the U. S. in 1846 and subsequently established
relations and agreed treaties with Denmark
(1846), Hamburg (1848), Bremen (1851), Great
Britain (1851), Sweden and Norway (1852), Tahitian Postal Convention (1853), France
(1857), Belgium (1862), the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1862),
Italy (1863), Spain (1863), the Swiss Confederation
(1864), Russia (1869), Japan (1871), New South Wales (1874), Austria-Hungary (1875), Germany
(1879, Portugal
(1882), Japan (1886), Samoa
(1887) etc.
David Kalākaua (1836 - 1891), last king of the Hawaiian Islands (1874
- 1891).
Queen Queen Liliʻuokalani Kapiʻolani, last monarch of the Hawaiian Islands (1891 - 1893), sister
of David Kalakaua.
Monarchy Overthrown
Favoring American annexation of Hawaii, resident American businessmen
overthrew the monarchy in 1893 and formed a provisional government.
Provisional Government
Sanford Dole, President of the Provisional Government
The Citizens Guard, the Honolulu Rifles - 1,500 armed white businessmen patrolled the city.
162 U. S. Marines from the USS Boston in Pearl Harbor occupied the royal palace.
The American president, Benjamin Harrison, favored annexation.
The new American president, Grover Cleveland, withdrew the proposed treaty to annex Hawaii, relieved the
captain of the USS Boston and replaced the U. S. Minister to Hawaii.
Republic of Hawaii
The provisional giovernment of Hawaii proclaimed the Republic of
Hawaii in 1894. Sanford Dole was its president.
A new American president, William McKinley, favored annexation and submitted
a treaty to Congress but it failed in the U. S. Senate in 1898.
The government of the Republic of Hawaii declared its neutrality in the
Spanish-American War.
Transfer of Sovereignty to the U. S.
The U. S. Congress passed a domestic resolution which was used (without
a real legal basis) to transfer Hawaiian sovereignty to the U. S. in 1898.
Annexation
The U. S. Congress voted to annex the Hawaiian Islands as a territory in
1898.
U. S. Territory of Hawaii
In 1900, Hawaii was a self-governing U. S. Territory with its own elected government. Sanford Dole was
appointed its first governor by U. S. President McKinley.
Ua Mau Ke Ea
Documentary
Preview
Documentary
Conquest
of Hawaii
Documentary about the 1898 annexation of
Hawaii by the United States
The Last Queen of Hawaii
PBS documentary from the American Experience series.
Hawaiian Islands in 1906
by Thomas Alva Edison
Aloha
Oe
Madame Alapai (1911)
Waialai
Henry N. Clark and Kaai Glee Club (1911)
That Hula Jazz
Ben
Hokea and Al Nani (1920)
Sweet Lei Lehua
Kalama's Quartet (January 1927)
Sound film
Hula
Hula
National Geographic
The Grit and Grace of Hula
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James J. Jeffries
James J. Jeffries (1875 - 1953), "The
Boilermaker", world
heavyweight
boxing champion (1899
- 1905)
Jeffries and Fitzsimmons shake hands before
their fight on Coney Island in 1899
Bob Fitzsimmons, Champion, vs James J. Jeffries, Challenger
Coney Island, New York (1899)
Jim Jeffries, right, versus Tom Sharkey, left
Champion Jim Jeffries vs Challenger Tom Sharkey
1899
Jim Jeffries vs Gus Ruhlin
Career Record
Jeffries
The Best of his Time,
One of the All-Time Greats
Jeffries Training
James J. Jeffries
Billy's Boxing Stories - Round Four
Jeffries retired from boxing, undefeated, in May 1905. He was never
knocked down.
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Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)
The Picture of Dorian Grey (published in 1890). The
above is a frame from a 1945
Hollywood movie.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 movie based on the novel by Wilde
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7xAM-ZCCg
1973 performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Khfvkw1lE
1976 performance with John Gielgud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwfGQYRq-LA
Oscar Wilde
Spendthrift of Genius
1986 documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZudaO67Fg
Oscar Wilde
Discussion on the BBC weekly Thursday radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With Valentine Cunningham, Regenia Gagnier and Neil Sammells
6 December 2001
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547m3
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
The Man with the Green Carnation
The Green Carnation
Based on a play about libel and criminal cases that involved Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry
1960 British film with Peter Finch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQWf3VyLu9Y
Oscar Wilde
With Robert Morley
1960 movie (a performance of the same play with Finch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLr9IGKbn8
The Importance of Being Ernest
A play by Wilde
1986 performance with Joan Plowright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoOjUMkRuQM
The Importance of Being Ernest
1952 movie with Michael Redgrave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUD2hbH6bM
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h4pISoNwyg
The Trial of Oscar Wilde
BBC Radio
Witness History
23 April 2012
Wilde was a bi-sexual, he was tried in court, jailed and died in exile.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00qqq67
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The most famous American president of the 20th Century.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore
Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
American president from 1901 to 1909.
Best remembered for leading American soldiers in a charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba in the Spanish-American
War.
Began construction
of the Panama Canal.
Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Mount Rushmore
The busts of four American presidents were carved from the
face of Mount Rushmore between 1927 to
1941.
The four presidents
are, from left to right:
George Washington, the nation's first president (1889 - 1897), representing the nation's birth;
completed first, in 1934;
Thomas Jefferson, the country's third president (1801
- 1809), representing the nation's growth; completed second, in 1936;
Theodore Roosevelt
(1901 - 1909), representing the nation's development, completed last, in 1939; and
Abraham Lincoln (1861
- 1865), representing the country's preservation; completed third, in 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt, Mount Rushmore
The Carving of Mount Rushmore
Lecture by David Jones
Rockford Road Hennepin County Library
Crystal, Minnesota
March 6, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9H3ncvgxsI
Mount Rushmore
American Experience
Documentary 2014
How Gutzon Borglum carved the world's largest sculpture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xTXln0obg
Theodore Roosevelt
Biography
Narrated by Mike Wallace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5_uxmyyMc
Theodore Roosevelt - American
Documentary
C-SPAN
https://www.c-span.org/video/?507180-1/theodore-roosevelt-american
Theodore Roosevelt and the Western Experience
KSPS Public Television
1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lc4th0w7I
Theodore Roosevelt: A Life
Interview of author Nathan Miller
C-SPAN
1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrriLucZBPA
The Charge up San Juan Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zL-5QtyNQ
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY
BUFFALO, NEW YORK
Shot twice by a Polish-American factory worker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1iMBhfNZA0
VICE-PRESIDENT THRODORE ROOSEVELT BECOMES PRESIDENT
14 SEPTEMBER 1901
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhTjdsAB9O8
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The Death of Queen Victoria
22 January 1901
Alexandrina Victoria (1819 - 1901), Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland (1837 - 1901) and Empress of India (1876 - 1901).
1882 photograph
Queen Victoria at a Garden Party
1898 film footage
Queen Victoria
Part 11. The End of an Era
Queen Victoria's Funeral
2 February 1901
Newsreel footage
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The Prince of Wales
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (c. 1880)
The Coronation of King Edward VII
9 August 1902
Albert Edward (1841 - 1910), Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay
(1841 - 1910), Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Saxony (1841
- 1863), Prince of Wales (1841 - 1901) and Earl of Chester
(1841 - 1910), Earl of Dublin (1850 - 1910), King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, the British Dominions and Emperor of India (1901 - 1910)
King Edward VII and Queen
Alexandra (married in 1863)
at the coronation in 1902
1902
Coronation
Newsreel
King Edward VII
Documentary
Part 1.
Part 2.
The Real Edward VII
Documentary
King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra
Edward the
Seventh
1975 British television series
13 episodes
Start here:
v=q3OQNrwk3jg&list=PLdEBPyoq11-7bdHUtosIbU_vTT5VtblqT
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The
Airplane
1903
photo
First
Flight
At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew
a motor-powered plane three or four times. The longest flight was about 200 feet.
The Wright Brothers
Orville
and Wilbur Wright
Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina
December
17, 1903
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5o-fhBKf8Y
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfyvspnko04
Wright
Brothers
The History of Flight
US
Navy presentation
Paul
Garber, first director of the Smithsonian Institute's National Air Museum
1969
5-part
program (only parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 available)
(1:51:53)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XbM3nJ7r2M
Conquest
of the Air
Movie about the history of flight by Alexander Korda (1938)
(62 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCPt8e1WG4A&feature=related
The
Wright Stuff
Episode
from the documentary series American Experience
In 6 clips:
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoFib7jWOLE
2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym7T-tP_aHM
3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12WTdgBdFnI
4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7QuF3xFfXo
5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4R8ffxpzW0
6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ue6Wow0Lc
The
Wright Brothers at Huffman Prairie
US
Air Force documentary (24:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4V1eWIsfE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvEvQql0lpI
Wright
Brothers' Flying Machine
NOVA Documentary (56:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsc8lRjcWGE
The
Beginning
1903 – 1916
History of the Air Force
USAF Audiovisual Presentation
(runs to 09:53, then repeats)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LK18sYBOdg
or
14:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlkyaUXh_I
Man Learns to Fly
Frank B. Wood
1877 - 1975
Saw the first powered flight of the Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
December 14, 1903
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuHqxkHu4Vs
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Marvin Hart
Marvin Hart, world heavyweight boxing
champion (1905 - 1906)
In late 1905, the two top-ranked boxers, Jack Root and Marvin Hart,
fought for the vacant world heavyweight championship title in Reno, Nevada.
Retired champion Jim Jeffries refereed the fight.
Hart knocked out Root in the 12th round and won the championship belt.
Marvin Hart knocks out Jack Root in 12th round in
Reno, Nevada on July 3, 1905 and wins the championship.
In February of the following year, 1906, Hart defended the title
against Tommy Burns of Canada in a 20-round bout in Los Angeles, California.
Hart lost the decision and the title to Burns.
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Tommy Burns
or
Champion Tommy Burns vs Bill Squires
Ocean View, California, July 4, 1907
Burns won by a knockout in the first round
or
Champion Tommy Burns vs James 'Gunner' Moir of England
London, England, December 2, 1907
Burns knocked out Moir in the 10th round
Tommy Burns in 1926
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Jack
Johnson
Jack Johnson (1908 photo)
John Arthur Johnson (1878 - 1946), won the world colored heavywight boxing championship
title in 1903. World heavyweight boxing champion from
1908 to 1915.
First black man to hold the
title. Nicknamed L'il Arthur and The Galveston
Giant.
Won 73 fights, lost 13, drew in 10, 5 ND-NC.
Jack Johnson
The Rise and Fall of Jack
Johnson
Unforgivable Blackness
Documentary in 2 parts
Part 1.
Part 2.
Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson
Boxing
documentary with Jimmy Jacobs
Jack
Johnson
Black
Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Jack Johnson
Breaking Barriers
Documentary
Jack Johnson
Le champion qui divisa l’Amérique
Documentaire
Tommy Burns defends the title against Jack Johnson
Sydney, Australia
Boxing Day 1908
Booklet recounting the fight in full
Tommy Burns defends his world heavyweight boxing championship
title against Jack Johnson in Sydney, Australia
on Boxing Day 1908
Scheduled for 20 rounds, Johnson battered Burns over 14 rounds before
the police stopped it and Johnson was awarded the fight and the title.
Jack Johnson vs Tommy Burns
Rounds 1, 5, 8, 11, 14
December 26, 1908 (Boxing Day)
Jack Johnson
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Johnson knocks out Stanley Ketchel
Jack
Johnson vs Stanley Ketchel
1909
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James J. Jefferies
comes out of retirement to challenge Jack Johnson
July 4, 1910
Jim Jeffries returns to the ring six years after his retirement to take on Jack Johnson in "The Fight of the Century" in Reno, Nevada on July
4, 1910
Jack Johnson vs Jim Jeffries
July 4, 1910
Johnson knocked Jeffries down twice in the 15th round. Jeffries' corner threw
in the towel.
Medford Mail Tribune (Oregon), July 4, 1910
Johnson's vistory over Jeffries caused race riots.
Associated ?ress report from Chicago, July 4, 1910.
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Jack Johnson visiting London, England
British Pathé
silent newsreel
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Jack
Johnson vs Frank Moran
Paris
1914
Jack Johnson in one of his racing cars
Johnson was married
at least three times, including three marriages to white woman. The first was a Brooklyn socialite, Etta Terry Duryea,
The above photo is of Johnson and Duryea in 1911 or 1912,
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First
Powered Flight Across the Channel
Louis Bleriot
25 July 1909
Bleriot took off from Calais at 4:41 a. m. and crash-landed in Dover 36 1/2 minutes later.
Louis Bleriot
Le Matin, Nice, France, 25
juillet 1900
Louis Blériot
L'homme de la Manche
Biographie
La Direction Générale de l'Aviation
Civile (2009)
D'un
Blériot, l'autre
Documentaire (1998) (48:36) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e89JM75spLw
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The Death of King Edward VII
6 May 1910
Funeral procession of Edward VII in London
Funeral of King Edward VII
20 May 1910
Silent film footage
and
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The Coronation of King George V
Westminter Abbey, London
22 June 1911
King George V and Queen Mary on
Coronation Day
King George V and Queen Mary in coronation robes in May 1912
Coronation of His Majesty King George V
1911
British Pathé newsreel
Delhi Durbar
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Revolution in China (1911)
End of Monarchy
End of the ruling Manchu (Ching) Dynasty
(1644 - 1912)
The Last Manchu
Pu Yi (1906 – 1967), the last emperor
of China (1908 - 1912), at age three,
in
1909, standing beside his father, Zaifeng,
Prince Chun (1883 - 1951), the Prince-
Regent (1908 – 1911), and his younger
brother, Pujie (1907 - 1994)
Pu-Yi was forced to abdicate at age six,
on 12 February 1912, ending 2,000 years
of imperial rule in China
Sun
Yat-Sen
Sun Yat-Sen (1866 - 1925), the founding
father and first president of the Republic
of China (1 January 1912 - 10 March 1912)
China: A Century of Revolution
1911 - 1949
Part 1.
The Last Emperor of China
Documentary about Henry Pu-Yi (01:40:54)
Resisting Imperialism, Resisting Decolonisation
Making China from the Ruins of the Ching
1912 - 1949
Lecture by Kenneth Pomeranz at the Library of Congress in Washington
D. C. on 23 July 2013
Starts at 00:08:32
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Norweigians First to Reach South Pole
December 1911
Norweigian expedition led by Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
on 14 December 1911.
Amundsen
Episode from the documentary series Explorers hosted by David Attenborough (1972) (49:31)
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RMS Titanic Sinks on Maiden Voyage
15 April 1912
Painting of the Royal Mail Steamer/Steamship Titanic
Photos of the RMS Titanic (1911 - 1912), sister ship
of the RMS Olympic and His Majesty's Hospital Ship
(HMHS) Britannic
Source: Northern Ireland Tourist Board
The Titanic departed from the home port of Belfast in Northern Ireland.
The ship stopped to pick up passengers at the Channel port of Southampton in England,
the port of Cherbourg across the Channel in Normandy in France, and the port of Queenstown (Cork) in Eire (southern Ireland).
Then the Titanic proceeded across the Atlantic Ocean for New York Harbor.
Photo of the iceberg believed to have struck the RMS Titanic.
Source: Cheryl
Santa Maria
Every spring and early summer Icebergs float south from the Arctic,
through the Davis Straight, into the Labrador Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Some icebergs float as far south as the Grand Banks off the south of Newfoundland.
Der Untergang der Titanic
Engraving by Willy Stöwer (1912)
Front page of the New York Times, 16 April 1912
A Night to Remember
1958 Hollywood movie
This movie is considered the most accurate Hollywood movie about
the disaster.
What's below the tip of the iceberg?
A lesson by Camille Seaman on TED Ed
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Film footage
1911 and 1912
Uploaded by British Pathé
Film footage
With narration and survivors' interviews
Titanic Millionaires
John Jacob Astor IV
Rex Ziak recounts the Astors' trip on the Titanic
Two parts
Part 1.
Part 2.
Endstation Titanic
Die Story der Familie Straus
Isador and Ida Straus went down with the Titanic
2015 German documentary with English Captions
The Story of Benjamin Guggenheim and Ninette Aubart
Recovering bodies
from the sea
Short excerpt from a documentary narrated by Patrick Stewart
1957 BBC TV Programme
Excerpt from a 1957 BBC TV programme includes interviews with
passengers and crew
The Lost
Film of the Titanic
Documentary with survivors' interviews (29:03)
The Sinking
of the Titanic
Episode from the weekly CBS-TV program You Are There
hosted by Walter Cronkite (1963 - 1967)
Recreation of the event with on-the-scene reporting
Titanic
Two-part 1994 A&E documentary narrated by David
McCallum
Part 1. Death of a Dream
or
Part 2. The
Legend Lives On
C. Q. D.
This is Titanic
2012 BBC Radio documentary
Save Our Souls
The Titanic Inquiry
2007 BBC docu-drama
Did the SS Californian refuse to assist the RMS Titanic?
Preview
Docu-drama
or
Dinner menu offered to first class passengers privately in their cabins
Titanic's First Class Dinner
with Conor McClelland
Eternal Father, Strong to Save
Hymn
Words by William Whiting (1860)
Music by John B. Dykes (1861)
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Hymn
Excerpt - the ending - from the 1953 Hollywood movie Titanic
The musicians
The wreck of the RMS Titanic was discovered in September
1985 by a joint international American and French team on the Research Vessel (R/V) Knoor of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute. The search was funded by the U. S. Navy.
The Observer, weekly British Sunday newspaper
edition of 1 September 1985
TV news broadcasts
September 1985
Titanic
The Nightmare and the Dream
1986 documentary with Robert Ballard about the exploration of
the wreck in 1986
(52:28)
or
(52:28)
Artist's conception of the starboard
side
Artists's conception of the bow of the RMS
Titanic at the bottom of the sea (based on photos)
Artist's conception of the port side of the front half of the
RMS Titanic on the ocean floor
(Art by Ken
Marschall based on photographs)
Name of Titanic on the starboard or port bow
1987 French expedition video
Unsinkable
RMS Titanic
Lecture by Daniel Allen Butler at the Flagler Museum in Palm
Beach, Florida on 26 February 2012
The sister ships of the RMS Titanic
RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic
Engineering Facts
Details about the three Olympic Class ships from editions of
the engineering journal The Engineer (1909 - 1911)
The Engineer Guy
(11:27)
HMHS Britannic
Episode 1 of the 2016 documentary series Ocean Liners of
Kea
Calypso's Search for the Britannic
L’énigme du Britannic
1977 Episode from the documentary series The Cousteau Odyssey
Jacques Cousteau's discovery of the HMHS Brittanic
in 1975
or
The Curse of the Titanic Sister Ships
2005 NOVA documentary
about a 2003 Australian expedition to the wreck of HMHS Britannic (46:51)
Expedition confirmed that the ship hit a mine
or
or
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Titanic
Documentary 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIoxcsYrqMw
Olympic Titanic Britannic
Documentary about the three sister ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aK6Q8qN6uk
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Bob Ballard and Finding the Titanic
Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life
Excerpt from a National Geographic documentary (2020)
The Search for the Titanic was a military cover-up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlD6qo4rkk
Titanic - The Nightmare and the Dream
1986 British documentary (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwVX43gQYec
How the Titanic Sank
Animation
James Cameron
surface and underwater views
short version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSGeskFzE0s
long version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwpeHim-JJY
Titanic sinking
Animation
Surface view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERB0qnXIwvA
Titanic Sinking
Animation
Surface view
Real Time (2hrs. 40 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9w5bgtJC8
Drain the Titanic
National Geographic
2015
Computer graphics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXlalGvxkaY
Eva Hart
Titanic survivor recalls ship broke in half before sinking
Interview 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD5J43Z9AWI
The Titanic Chronicles
Subcommittee of the U. S. Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Senator William Alden Smith.
Washington, D. C., 19 April 1912 - 25 May 1912
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCyn8mXXUJ4
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Titanic Revisited: 1912 - 2014
Lecture by Stephen Payne
2014
Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZkvaoqU8o
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Why They Sank the Titanic
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_d_GEy8lr0
Titanic
The Ship that Never Sank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj6Hqwmf77A
Q&A with Bob Ballard in Belfast
20 March 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aktJ9R2Wkw
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Bob Ballard and Finding the Titanic
Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life
Excerpt from a documentary film (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlD6qo4rkk
Titanic - The Nightmare and the Dream
1986 British documentary (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwVX43gQYec
How the Titanic Sank
James Cameron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSGeskFzE0s
Eva Hart
Titanic survivor recalls ship broke in half before sinking
Interview 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD5J43Z9AWI
3-D Scan of the Titanic
Summer of 2022
BBC News
17 May 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2XtefrMNhg
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Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (The Duke,
The Big Kahuna) (1890 - 1968), Hawaiian swimming and
surfing champion.
1911 - Broke minute-barrier and set world record in the 100-yard
freestyle in the sea off Honolulu with 55.4 seconds.
Set world record in the 220-yard (200 metre) freestyle
Equaled world record in the 50-yard (46 metre) freestyle
Popularised surfing in Califormia in 1912
Popularised surfing in Australia in 1914
1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm
Gold medal 100-metre freestyle
Silver medal - men's 4×200-metre freestyle relay (team)
1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp
Gold medal - 100-metre freestyle
Gold medal - men's 4×200-metre freestyle relay (team)
1924 Olympic Games in Paris
Silver medal - 100-metre freestyle
Duke Kahanamoku
Duke
Kahanamoku
Duke Kahanamoku won thirteen consecutive
terms to the office of sheriff of
Honolulu County, from 1932 to 1961.
This Is Your Life
1957
or
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Panama Canal
1914
The Panama Canal, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, was completed by the U. S. in August 1914.
Before the Panama Canal was completed, ships sailing between New
York and San Francisco had to go around
South America. The canal shortened the trip by 9,000 miles.
Silent film footage
(1919?)
Panama Canal
PBS documentary by American Experience
Panama Canal
Episode # 5 of 7 of the BBC documentary series Seven Wonders of the Industrial
World
Panama Canal
National Geographic documentary
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Jess Willard
Jess Willard (1881 - 1968). world heavyweight boxing champion, was the most popular
man in America. 1913 photo.
Jess Willard (1881 - 1968), world heavyweight boxing champion (1915 - 1919). Nicknamed
the Pottawatomie Giant.
Jess Willard in undated photo.
Alone among the many white boxers hailed
by the public as The Great White Hope
who might defeat Jack Johnson and restore
to the white race
its dignity, Willard succeeded, in 1915, and
remained the most popular figure in America long after his years
as champion.
Willard stood six feet and six and one-half
inches tall. He was the biggest man in boxing.
Won 26 fights, lost
6, drew in 1, with 2 ND-NC.
Jess Willard
in 1915
Jess
Willard in March 1915
Jack Johnson, Champion
vs
Jess Willard, Challenger
Havana, Cuba
April 5, 1915
Scheduled for 45 rounds
Souvenir magazine for the Jack Johnson - Jess Willard world heavyweight boxing championship fight in Havana, Cuba on April 5, 1915.
Johnson won the championship in 1908. The
fight against Jess Willard was his ninth title defense.
Johnson was
37 years old. Willard was 33.
Johnson
and Willard before the opening bell.
Over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Havana.
Johnson dominated the first 15 rounds, outboxing Willard and landing the harder punches.
Johnson had Willard in trouble in the second,
eighth, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth rounds.
Willard kept going.
In the 16th round Johnson began to tire.
Willard began to assert himself in the 17th
round.
Johnson checked Willard in the 18th round.
Willard went on the offensive in the 19th round
and landed some hard punches.
Johnson went on the defensive in the 20th round.
Willard
controlled the fight.
Johnson rallied in the 21st round but Willard
checked him.
Johnson came out a tired fighter in the
22nd round.
In the 26th round, Willard caught Johnson with
a terrific right cross that knocked Johnson down. It was the only knockdown of the fight.
Johnson was counted out.
The knock-out punch
Video photo of the knockout
Video photo of the knockout
Jess Willard knocks out heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in
the 26th round in Havana, Cuba on April 5, 1915
Jack Johnson vs Jess
Willard
Havana, Cuba, 1915
Jack Johnson vs Jess Willard
Excerpts (6:20)
same (35:41)
Jess Willard was the most popular man in America for years, into
the early 1920s.
Jess Willard vs Frank Moran
Title fight, New York 1916
The fight went the limit, ten rounds, with no decision as required by law
Advertisement for a 1919 movie The Challenge of Chance starring Jess Willard
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Jim Thorpe
Greatest Athlete of All-Time
Wa-Tha-Suk (Bright Path)/Jacobus
Franciscus Thorpe (1888
- 1953), half-
American Indian, track and field
champion, Olympic gold medalist, star
baseball and football player, considered
one of the greatest athletes
that ever
lived.
Jim Thorpe with The Canton
Bulldogs in 1915
Jim Thorpe - All-American
Advertisement for 1951 Hollywood movie
Jim Thorpe
World's Greatest Athlete
Lecture by biographer Robert W. Wheeler
National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, D.C.
Thorpe in track and field competitions in the
1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden
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Porfino Diaz, Mexican
general, President of Mexico
(1876, 1877 - 1880, 1884 - 1911)
La Revolución Mexicana
Pancho Villa
José Doroteo Arango Arámbula
(Francisco "Pancho" Villa) (1878 -
1923), Mexican revolutionary
La Revolución Mexicana
Documentary
Revolution and Rebirth
Episode 4 of the documentary Mexico
The Storm the Swept Mexico
Documentary
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (1879 – 1919), Mexican revolutionary, in Cuernavaca
in 1911
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