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Alastair Reid

Alastair Reid (22 March 1926, in Whithorn – 21 September 2014, in Manhattan) was a Scottish poet and a scholar of South American literature. He was known for his lighthearted style of poems and for his translations of South American poets Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. Although he was known for translations, his own poems had gained notice during his lifetime. He had lived in Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Morocco, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and in the United States. During the editorship of William Shawn he wrote for The New Yorker magazine, but his main income was from teaching. (Wikipedia).

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Colonel Fantock by Edith Sitwell - Read by John Gielgud

Colonel Fantock by Edith Sitwell read by Sir John Gielgud.

From playlist John Gielgud's Recordings

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Lord Walter Thomas Layton - This I Believe (1950s) - Radio broadcast

Walter Thomas Layton, 1st Baron Layton. A British economist and Liberal Party politician. 1922 - 1938 Editor of The Economist. 1930 - 1940 Editorial director of the News Chronicle.

From playlist Voices of History

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George W. Bush: A War on Terror (2001 – 2009)

George W. Bush is the second son of a former president to become president, after John Quincy Adams all the way back in 1825. Always the black sheep of the Bush dynasty, he eventually became governor of Texas, and then ran for president in 2000, an election that would go down in history du

From playlist American History

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Strata Online Conference - Building Data Startups, Mike Driscoll

In this session from the May 25, 2011 Strata Online Conference, MIchael Driscoll of Metamarkets leads a brief but detailed tutorial on Building Data Startups.

From playlist Strata 2011

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2 Reid & Common Sense Realism - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the second in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. Is it the case that every simple idea is a “copy” of a simple impression? Hume is but the latest to deny that we have direct access to the external world. The “ideal

From playlist Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

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6 Reid on Personal Identity - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the sixth in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. In the third of his Essays on The Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid devotes the fourth chapter to the concept of 'identity', and the sixth chapter to Locke's theory of

From playlist Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

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See Why This Island is Canada’s Best Kept Secret | National Geographic

National Geographic Adventurer Alastair Humphreys experiences the best kept secrets of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. Salmon fishing, whisky tours, kayaking, and a lobster boil are just a few of this journey’s highlights. And at the very end, Alastair has the opportunity to sle

From playlist News | National Geographic

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8 Reid on the Principle of Morals - Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

Professor Dan Robinson gives the final lecture in a series of 8 lectures on Thomas Reid's critique of David Hume at Oxford in 2014. “Like all other sciences, morals must have first principles, and all moral reasoning is based on them... In all rational belief, the thing believed is either

From playlist Reid's Critique of Hume (Dan Robinson)

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Vertebra by Kirk Haines

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From playlist MWRC 2009

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Reuters Historical Collection | British Pathé (contains flashing images)

WARNING: This video contains flashing images. British Pathé has signed a major deal to represent Reuters historic footage filmed before 1980. This brings together two of the greatest newsreel collections in the world, more than doubling the content British Pathé has to offer, increasing

From playlist What we do | British Pathé

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Archive Is Truth - The Reuters Historical Collection at British Pathé

British Pathé has signed a major deal to represent Reuters historic footage filmed before 1980. This brings together two of the greatest newsreel collections in the world, more than doubling the content British Pathé has to offer, increasing the total number of film items to 208,000 and t

From playlist What we do | British Pathé

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Two Friends + 24 Hours = One Great Adventure in Croatia | Short Film Showcase

Filmmaker Temujin Doran and his friend Alastair Humphreys, an adventurer and travel author, explore Croatia on a "micro-adventure." Humphreys, who wrote a book on the subject, says micro-adventures "are adventures that are close to home, cheap, simple, short, and yet very effective." Temuj

From playlist Short Film Showcase | National Geographic

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Speciation

008 - Reproductive Isolation and Speciation Paul Andersen explains how reproductive isolation can eventually lead to speciation. Three main barriers to gene flow are included: geographic, pre-zygotic and post-zygotic. Both allopatric and sympatric speciation are discussed. A brief disc

From playlist AP Biology Video Essentials

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Alastair MacDonald interviewed at Velocity Europe 2012

Alastair MacDonald UK Sales Director at AppDynamics AppDynamics is the leading provider of application management in the cloud and the data center, delivering solutions for highly demanding distributed, dynamic, and agile environments. Our customers use us to monitor, troubleshoot, diagno

From playlist Velocity Europe 2012

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