The history of human civilization parallels the history of its cities. From Athens under the rule of Pericles to the Jerusalem that Jesus knew, the great cities of the past defined the eras in which they were built and shaped the minds of countless generations. These places embodied the knowledge and beliefs of entire societies within their walls and yet due to the vagaries of history, these worlds are lost to us, buried beneath the ruins of time and memory.

This feature-length docudrama from HISTORY takes viewers deep inside Charles Manson?s twisted world of hate, fear, and mind control to tell the story of how one man transformed a harmless group of hippies into a gang of brutal murderers. After 40 years of silence, Linda Kasabian, a member of the Manson clan and participant in the Helter Skelter murders of the late 1960s, will give insight into the groups lifestyles, murderous plots and what they were attempting to accomplish. He was the mastermind of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, a crazed guru who terrified the world and plunged the city of Los Angeles into a state of paranoia and panic. This feature-length docudrama from HISTORY takes viewers deep inside Charles Manson s twisted world of hate, fear, and mind control to tell the story of how one man transformed a harmless group of hippies into a gang of brutal murderers.

Michael Mosley provides an insight into transplant surgery, revealing how the rates of success for the practice have increased considerably as knowledge of the human immune system has evolved. The presenter learns about French neo-Nazi Alexis Carrell, who invented a surgical stitch that made it possible to sew blood vessels together. He also meets New Zealander Clint Hallam, who received the world s first transplanted hand

After the fall of Rome, Italy slowly fell into a dark sleep. It wasn t until the 11th century when the Holy Roman Empire loosened its grip on Italy, that it reawakened. Autonomous city-states emerged, and though ravaged by waves of the plague, these tiny republics began to revitalize their cities and build on a massive level not witnessed since the rise of the Rome. In the late 15th and 16th centuries, alliances among various city-states continually shifted as foreign superpowers tried to sink their claws into Italy. France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire fought out their battles with each other on Italian soil, while the threat of the Turks lurked off the shores of Venice. The masters who are most known for creating the works of art and architecture of the Renaissance, were also the greatest military and civil engineers of the time. With a knowledge of the ancients and a thirst for new invention, engineering rose to heights not seen since the Roman Empire - advancing methods in everything from civilian projects, to architecture, and finally - to war. Some of the epoch s greatest feats of engineering were: The creation of a vast underground aqueduct system in Siena. The Building of the cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore by Brunelleschi. The advancement of fortification and firepower by engineers like Sangallo and di Giorgio. And, the renewal of Rome s glory as a city from the repairing of the Roman aqueducts to the moving of St. Peters mammoth obelisk.

A very interesting screen saver which shows all the World Cup. You can also set the wallpaper. FIFA World Cup history Screensaver - provides an opportunity to touch the history of football. Represents a successive series of prompts with a set of transition effects. You will be able to remember all the world champions in football since 1930, and ending at the last FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2006.

Following his international bestseller, A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright provokes once again, as he explores the oldest American myth: the endless frontier. In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we ve traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow.

The figure of the lone genius may captivate us, but we intuit that such geniuses’ creations don’t materialize in a vacuum. Johnson supported the intuition in his biography of eighteenth-century scientist Joseph Priestly (The Invention of Air, 2009) and here explores it from different angles using sets of anecdotes from science and art that underscore some social or informational interaction by an inventor or artist. Assuring readers that he is not engaged in “intellectual tourism,” Johnson recurs to the real-world effects of individuals and organizations operating in a fertile information environment.

Description : This book was designed to map out a popular history of painting in the western world, from medieval times to the present day. Rather than focusing on the biographical details of individuals and their specific contributions, I hawe looked in detail at where artists were located in time, with which movements they were associated and who or what inspired them to work in the way that they did...

Description : What do we mean when we call a work of art beautiful ? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and srt lovers, but ones that are all too often ignored in discussions of art today. Elizabeth Prettejohn argues that we simply cannot afford to ignore these questions. Charting over two hundred years of western art, she illuminates the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art, from the works of Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rosetti, Cezanne to Pollack. Beautifully illustrated with 100 photographs-60 in full color--Beauty and Art concludes with a challenging question for the future: Why should we care about beauty in the twenty-first century?

In today's era of modern Western medicine, organ transplants are routine, and daily headlines about the mysteries of DNA and the human genome promise that the secrets of life itself are tantalizingly within our reach. Yet to reach this point took thousands of years.

Around 1,200 BC, an ancient Armageddon swept through the eastern Mediterranean and wiped out the greatest civilizations of the age in a single generation.
While the exact cause of this mass destruction remains a mystery, new archaeological evidence found among ancient ruins at unimaginable heights is now shedding light on the source of this great cataclysm. In this fascinating program, join renowned archaeologist Krzysztof Nowicki as he reveals the spectacular clues he has uncovered in his search for answers to this age-old puzzle. Discover how the evidence Nowicki and his colleagues have found supports the theory that the Bronze Age collapse may be explained by the invasion of a mysterious and destructive military force the Egyptians came to call the Sea Peoples.