Ellwood Walter (August 16, 1803 – May 7, 1877) was president of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company in New York City for 28 years. The Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company was organized in April 1844. He was also secretary of the New York Board of Marine Underwriters since 1849. He insured Cornelius Vanderbilt and many American Steamship companies during the 19th century. (Wikipedia).
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
Developing Beyond Boundaries | Walter Crutchfield | TEDxASU
Walter Crutchfield is an Arizona-based real estate developer that listens. In this talk, he shares how we can each overcome our boundaries to improve the world around us. Walter Crutchfield is a partner at Vintage Partners, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based commercial real estate development and inve
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Submarines, Balloons, and the Battle of Los Angeles
The History Guy remembers little-known Axis attacks on the U.S. mainland during World War II which caused widespread panic and diverted war resources. The History Guy uses media that are in the public domain. As photographs of actual events are sometimes not available, photographs of sim
From playlist California, documentaries of forgotten history
A Beautiful World with Fascinating Physics
A Beautiful World with Fascinating Physics
From playlist Walter Lewin is Alive and Well!
Keep Ruby Weird 2016 - Keynote: The Building Built on Stilts by Nick Means
Keynote: The Building Built on Stilts by Nick Means
From playlist Keep Ruby Weird 2016
Free to Choose Part 8: Who Protects the Worker Featuring Milton Friedman
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From playlist "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman
RubyConf 2016 - The Building Built on Stilts by Nickolas Means
RubyConf 2016 - The Building Built on Stilts by Nickolas Means In the summer of 1978, structural engineer William LeMessurier got a phone call that terrified him. An undergraduate student claimed that LeMessurier's acclaimed 59-story Citicorp Center in Manhattan, just completed the year p
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2008 Stanford Commencement Ceremony
On June 15, 2008, Stanford University conferred 1,702 bachelor's degrees, along with 2,017 master's degrees and 947 doctoral degrees before an audience of over 25,000 at the university's 117th Commencement ceremony. Oprah Winfrey spoke to the Class of 2008, and shared three lessons abo
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SummerSchool "Arithmetic geometry" Tschinkel - Introduction | 2006
lecture notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VLucSK53-iLrVUbPAanNZ6Lb7nAAgaQ1/view?usp=sharing Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School 2006 on "Arithmetic geometry" survey lectures given at the 2006 Clay Summer School on Arithmetic Geometry at the Mathematics Institute of the Univer
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From playlist Walter Lewin is Alive and Well!
Stuff They Don't Want You to Know - The Family
The Family is a secretive evangelical group with powerful connections. It lobbies across the world for laws that reflect its values. This might be controversial to some, but it isn't illegal. So why do some believe this group is dangerous? http://howstuffworks.com http://facebook.com/Cons
From playlist Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? - Noah Charney
Discover what factors helped Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” become the world’s most famous painting. -- More than 500 years after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is arguably the world’s most famous painting. Many scholars consider it an outstanding work of Renaissance art—
From playlist New TED-Ed Originals
Governance, Leadership, Civil Society and the Private Sector: An African Perspective
Mo Ibrahim, founder of Celtel International, one of Africa's leading mobile telephone companies, and The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which supports good governance and great leadership in Africa, gives the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture.
From playlist The MacMillan Center
Plan Andinia: A New Jewish State? (Global Documentary) | Real Stories
Patagonia is one of the remotest regions in the world. It is situated in the southernmost point of South America and is shared by Argentina and Chile. Patagonia is not only a region of breath-taking beauty and vast natural resources, but also the region where, some people believe, a new Je
From playlist Global Documentaries
Governance, Leadership, Civil Society and the Private Sector: An African Perspective
Mo Ibrahim, founder of Celtel International, one of Africa's leading mobile telephone companies, and The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which supports good governance and great leadership in Africa, gives the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture.
From playlist The MacMillan Report
Pierre Emmanuel Caprace - Groups with irreducibly unfaithful subsets for unitary representations
A subset F of a group G is called irreducibly faithful if G has an irreducible unitary representation whose kernel does not contain any non-trivial element of F. We say that G has property P(n) if every subset of size at most n is irreducibly faithful. By a classical result o
From playlist Groupes, géométrie et analyse : conférence en l'honneur des 60 ans d'Alain Valette