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Richard Shepherd

Sir Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (6 December 1942 – 19 February 2022) was a British politician who was Member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills from 1979 to 2015. A Eurosceptic, Shepherd was one of the Maastricht Rebels that had the whip withdrawn over opposition to Prime Minister John Major's legislation on the European Union. Shepherd was also a libertarian Conservative, and had a three line whip imposed against him by Margaret Thatcher when he introduced an amendment to loosen the Official Secrets Act 1911. (Wikipedia).

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Richard II by William Shakespeare - Starring John Gielgud - 1960

The audio drama performed by The Shakespeare Recording Society. Sir John Gielgud Sir Michael Hordern Leo McKern Keith Michell and cast Copyright 1960 Caedmon, The Shakespeare Recording Society, Inc. Published by HarperCollinsAudioBooks

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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John Gielgud - Two Richard's Speeches from Richard II by William Shakespeare

Sir John Gielgud - Richard II by William Shakespeare: Act III, Scene 3 & Act IV, Scene 1 Read by Sir John Gielgud. Source: Ages of Man by Sir John Gielgud. Caedmon Records, 1959.

From playlist John Gielgud's Recordings

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Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev - Academy of London Orchestra - Narrated by John Gielgud

Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev Conductor: Richard Stamp Orchestra: Academy of London Narrator: Sir John Gielgud

From playlist John Gielgud's Recordings

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These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy

They may not look like much, but beneath that shell lies an evolutionary mystery - one that stumped the biggest names in natural history for over a hundred years. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** P

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Santa Prassede (Praxedes)

Mosaics, Santa Prassede, Rome, early 9th century Mosaics from the early 9th century, under Pope Paschal. The church is dedicated to Saint Praxedes and her sister Saint Pudentiana, daughters of Saint Pudens. The sisters were martyred because they provided Christian burials for martyrs, agai

From playlist Art of Medieval Europe | Art History | Khan Academy

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Scott Kim - Musical Illusions - CoM Oct 2020

Ever heard a sound that keeps going up in pitch, but comes back to where it started? It’s called a Shepard tone, and it was invented by psychologist Roger Shepard in the 1960s. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan recently used this effect for the soundtrack of his movie Dunkirk, to create an endle

From playlist Celebration of Mind

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MountainWest JavaScript 2015 - TDD for Your Soul: Virtue and Web Development by Abraham Sangha

TDD for Your Soul: Virtue and Web Development by Abraham Sangha Web development pushes us to our limits, not only of cognition, but, perhaps surprisingly, of character. Using the cardinal virtues as a framework, we can see that developers need courage to learn, temperance to prioritize go

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Earliest Depictions of Jesus in Art

Check out our biblical family tree chart: https://usefulcharts.com/products/biblical-family-tree CREDITS: Photograph of Jesus image at Shivta, Israel by Dror Maayab and reconstruction by Dr. Emma Maayan Fanar https://haifa.academia.edu/EmmaMaayan Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin

From playlist Religious Studies

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David Crowder*Band - How He Loves (Official Music Video)

Music video by David Crowder*Band performing How He Loves (Official Music Video). #DavidCrowderBand #HowHeLoves #Vevo

From playlist God's Faithfulness

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OWASP AppSec USA 2010: Panel Discussion: Defining the Identity Management Framework 4/4

Panel members: Barbara Danzi, Garda Cash Logistics (moderator) Richard Tychansky, Lockheed Martin Jeff Williams, Aspect Security Hord Tipton, (ISC)² Mano Paul, SecuRisk Solutions More information can be found on the OWASP website: http://bit.ly/hY4bqh Source: http://bit.ly/owasp_appsec_u

From playlist OWASP AppSec USA 2010

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SIX: Joe "Bear" Graves & His Wife Talk About Buck's Death (Season 1, Episode 5) | History

Joe “Bear” Graves (Barry Sloane) and his wife Lena Graves (Brianne Davis) discuss the death of his friend Beauregard “Buck” Buckley (Donny Boaz). #SIX Subscribe for more from SIX and other great HISTORY shows: http://histv.co/SubscribeHistoryYT Find out more about the show and watch full

From playlist SIX | Official Series Playlist | History

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RubyConf 2014 - TDD For Your Soul: Virtue and Software Engineering

By, Abraham Sangha Software engineering pushes us to our limits, not only of cognition, but, perhaps surprisingly, of character. Using the cardinal virtues as a framework, we can see that developers need courage to learn, temperance to prioritize goals, a sense of justice by which to disce

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Robert Miles - Children [Dream Version]

(C) 1996 Deconstruction/BMG. Under exclusive licence from 'DBX Records' Italy. Written, Arranged & Produced by Roberto Concina aka Robert Miles. Read more about this track here: http://www.saltrecords.com/recordings/biography/?id=1

From playlist My music [Energy]

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OHM2013: Reverse Engineering of VMFS

For more information visit: http://bit.ly/OHM13_web To download the video visit: http://bit.ly/OHM13_down Playlist OHM 2013: http://bit.ly/OHM13_pl Speaker: Soheil Eskandari Bavani During this research I have analyzed the newest file system of VMware on bitlevel which is called Virtual M

From playlist OHM 2013

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The Kitchen Debate and the Soda Pop Navy

The History Guy remembers rubles, cola and a kitchen that changed history. It is a forgotten moment during the Cold War that deserves to be remembered. The History Guy uses images that are in the Public Domain. As photographs of actual events are often not available, I will sometimes use

From playlist The Presidents

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'Lord of the Flies' Character Analysis: Simon

In this video we take a detailed look at the character of Simon in William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’. Sources referenced: ‘The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces’, William Golding, 2013; ‘The Tragic Protest’, David Anderson, 1969; ‘William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flie

From playlist 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding

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The NACA: The Most Important Government Agency You Never Heard Of.

I suspect that not one in a thousand Americans is familiar with the work of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, and that is truly a tragedy, because the committee had an outsized effect that played a critical role in winning the Second World War, and shepherding the US into the

From playlist US History

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John Gielgud - Richard III by William Shakespeare: Act I, Scene 4 (Clarence's Dream)

Sir John Gielgud - Richard III by William Shakespeare: Act I, Scene 4 Read by Sir John Gielgud. Source: Ages of Man by Sir John Gielgud. Caedmon Records, 1959.

From playlist John Gielgud's Recordings

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