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...

Ancient Discoveries is a documentary television series that premiered on December 21, 2003 on The History Channel. The program focuses on ancient technologies. The shows theme is that many inventions which are thought to be modern have ancient roots or in some cases may have been lost and then reinvented. The program is a follow-up to a special originally broadcast in 2005 which focused on technologies from the Ancient Roman era such as the Antikythera mechanism and inventors such as Heron of Alexandria. Episodes of the regular series have expanded to cover other areas such as Egypt, China and East Asia, and the Islamic world.

Presented by snooker legend Steve Davis and narrated by the most authoritative voice in the game, Clive Everton, History of Snooker is a unique and comprehensive look at this great sport.Using rare footage it traces the evolution of the game from a pastime for British soldiers in India through to the first professional legend, Joe Davis, who along with his brother Fred dominated the game in the first part of the 20th century.

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the psychedelic sixties. Now in this two hour History Channel TV Special, his former student Wade Davis, follows in his footsteps to experience the discoveries that Schultes brought to the western world. Shot around the planet, from Canada to the Amazon, we experience rarely seen native hallucinogenic ceremonies and find out the true events leading up to the Psychedelic Sixties. Featuring author/adventurer Wade Davis (Serpent and the Rainbow), Dr. Andrew Weil, the Grateful Dead s Bob Weir and many others, this program tells the story of the discovery of peyote, magic mushrooms and beyond: one man s little known quest to classify the Plants of the Gods. Richard Evans Schultes revolutionized science and spawned another revolution he never imagined.

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.

This documentary tells the thrilling story of the Spitfire. From prototype to commander of the skies during World War Two, this legendary aircraft possesses an iconic status which is much deserved. We explain who designed and built the Spitfire, revealing what it was like to fight and fly in this legend of the skies.We explain how the Spitfire achieved its reputation, looking at the machine s first prototype. The gull wing plane, with its fixed undercarriage, closely resembled the already existent Stuka plane. We examine the key decisions made by R. J. Mitchell when the design process was still in its infancy.

Part 14: Beyond the Big Bang
Season 1, Episode 14 – Aired: 9/4/2007
The universe began with a massive expansion, billions and billions of years ago, and it continues to expand with every passing second. The idea that the universe, and mans very existence, began with a Big Bang is no longer a topic of debate among most scientists it is essentially taken as fact.

Reconstructing the 1944 battle of Leyte Gulf using CGI animation to re-create one of the Second World War s largest sea battles between America and Japan

The program focuses on the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. The show is produced by Flight 33 Productions. Battle 360 makes extensive use of computer animation to depict the story of the Enterprise. The animation is combined with documentary footage, interviews of Enterprise crew members and military historians, and voice-over narration.

Through the winning and losing of an American empire and the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment, Neil Oliver reveals how in the second half of the 18th century Scotland was transformed from a poor northern backwater with a serious image problem into one of the richest nations on Earth. This was the dawn of the modern age when Scotland made its mark on the world by exporting its most valuable commodities - its people and ideas.

Destructive waters overtake the world we leave behind. Rain floods New Orleans again, and when power goes out in the city s aquarium, it spells doom for thousands of animals. Corrosion from rain brings down Seattle s Space Needle, while humidity in the Middle East wrecks Dubai s space-age structures.

After a rough start to the season, Troy is back in the groove, and on pace to fill his 320 tags. His new sharpshooter Liz has been a large part of his success. But on the swamp, things can change in a heartbeat. During a capture, Liz is injured...and Troy s momentum is suddenly in doubt. Bruce has always hunted solo in the swamp. That s the way he likes it.

Chasing Mummies with Dr. Zahi Hawass: Digging up ancient treasures is dirty and dangerous business, and nobody knows that better than the legendary Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass. History s cameras follow closely as he and his cadre of fellows unearth astonishing finds and tackle some of the world s greatest archaeological riddles, from who built the pyramids to the location of Cleopatra s tomb. It s a whirlwind tour, led by the man who holds the keys to Egypt s greatest antiquities and rules his world like a modern-day pharaoh. Unfiltered, entertaining, exciting and suspenseful, Chasing Mummies lets viewers share in the thrills and hardships facing the team and crew as they toil to reveal what lies beneath the sand. With its wealth of historical information and blow-by-blow coverage of world-altering discoveries, this series breaks new ground literally.