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─ Videos: 16-30 of 47 Totaling 2 hours 33 minutes

Oxford, England - Visit the University of Oxford View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

Join Karine as she goes behind the scenes at the University of Oxford, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious educational institutions and alma mater to kings and presidents.

University of Cambridge - Cambridge, England: Historic University Town View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Australia, USA

The University of Cambridge is one of England's greatest universities. There's no main campus – instead, the university's many colleges are scattered throughout the charming town center. Many colleges welcome the public to browse around.

The First Airplanes - Samuel Langley, Otto Lilienthal, and the Wright Brothers View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

USA

Are you interested in aviation? Here's the first chapter of a documentary about the invention of the airplane entitled Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers' Journey of Invention.

John S in New York - Cleopatra's Needle Obelisk View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

USA

In the middle of Manhattan, there is an ancient Egyptian monument with carved hieroglyphics. John informs us of its vital statistics and lasting significance.

A History of Ideas - The Trolley Problem

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

USA

The trolley problem is a classic thought experiment in moral philosophy. Is sacrificing one life to save the lives of many others the best possible outcome?

The First Airplanes - Pilot Interviews Lilienthal and Wright Gliders View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

USA

Andy Beem (Windsports, CA) and Billy Vaughn (Kitty Hawk Kites, NC) talk about flying 1895 Lilienthal and the 1902 Wright glider replicas, and engaging with the history of human flight on a tactile level.

8-Bit Philosophy - What Is Real? (Plato's Allegory of the Cave) View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

Plato is considered one of Philosophy’s greatest writers. He was able to conceive of greater realities by imagining how much poorer our perception would be if we had lived our whole life as prisoners locked in a cave.

Euromaxx city - A Visit to Oxford, England

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom, USA

The city of Oxford is home to some 150,000 residents and a famous seat of learning, the oldest English-speaking university in the world. Although the exact date of its founding isn't known, it is said that local priests and monks were first taught in monastery schools in the area in the eleventh century.

Horrible Histories - Scary Schools - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

Some of the schools in Georgian England were very rough places! In this video, a prospective pupil and his parents get caught up in a full-scale schoolboy rebellion while on a tour with the headmaster. They even encounter flying masonry and gunfire!

Horrible Histories - Scary Schools - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

After Victoria became Queen, English children’s names became really weird. A girl called Never… a boy called Toilet… For one poor teacher, taking the class register is almost impossible!

The History of English - Internet English View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

The English language has changed in many ways over the centuries, but the internet has changed it in just a few decades. Why use a whole sentence when an abbreviation will do?

Horrible Histories - Scary Schools - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

Not long ago, in Welsh schools, the pupils weren’t allowed to speak their native language, Welsh! There was no choice but to learn English. In the Victorian classroom, learning is dull and repetitive, but today’s lesson is not going exactly as the teacher has planned.

Blackbeard - The True Story - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

Continuing to pirate audaciously, Blackbeard sails up the eastern coast of the United States, where, incredibly, he secures a pardon from the Governor of North Carolina. Setting up base on an island, he is soon plundering ships again, but by now has made some determined enemies and faces capture, dead or alive.

Horrible Histories - Scary Schools - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

Even if you're not the biggest fan of school, you've got to admit it's better than the historical schools depicted in this series! They certainly had some questionable moral codes and weird punishments...

60-Second Adventures in Thought - The Twin Paradox View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

United Kingdom

How can one brother travel into space and return younger than his twin? In just sixty seconds, a startling side effect of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is explained to us.

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