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The 9th Life of Louis Drax

The 9th Life of Louis Drax is a 2016 supernatural thriller film directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Aiden Longworth, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Julian Wadham, Jane McGregor, Barbara Hershey, and Aaron Paul. It was written by Max Minghella based on Liz Jensen's best-selling 2004 novel of the same title. The film was released in the United States and United Kingdom on September 2, 2016, by Summit Premiere and Soda Pictures. (Wikipedia).

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Ten Minute History - The French Revolution and Napoleon (Short Documentary)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars from the beginning of King Louis XVI's reign all the way to the death of Na

From playlist Ten Minute World History (Chronological)

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Jesus: His Life Sneak Peek - Peter | Concludes Monday at 8pm ET/PT | HISTORY

“Jesus: His Life” explores the story of Jesus Christ through a unique lens: the people in his life who were closest to him. Each of the eight chapters is told from the perspective of different biblical figures, all of whom played a pivotal role in Jesus’ life including Joseph, John the Bap

From playlist Jesus: His Life | History

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The Rise and Fall of the Romanovs

Russia's Romanov dynasty reigned for 300 years—and ended with the execution of the entire Romanov family in the basement of a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg. The Romanovs didn't survive the Bolshevik Revolution, but their story did. Pack your bags, traveler: We're headed to Russia. Thi

From playlist European History

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Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (Part 3)

The year is 1793, Louis XVI has just been executed. France is devastated by its civil war and is now threatened by the 1st Coalition. Paranoia and terror, oh, terror grips the country by its throat as the people ask for more and more purges. As a result, almost 17,000 are executed in just

From playlist Historical Series

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Jesus: His Life Extended Trailer | Premieres March 25th 8/7c | HISTORY

“Jesus: His Life” explores the story of Jesus Christ through a unique lens: the people in his life who were closest to him. Each of the eight chapters is told from the perspective of different biblical figures, all of whom played a pivotal role in Jesus’ life including Joseph, John the Bap

From playlist Jesus: His Life | History

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Ten Minute History - Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire (Short Documentary)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the turmoil in the Frankish Kingdom which led to the rise of Charles Martel who famously defeated the invading forces of

From playlist Ten Minute World History

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Quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities by Jacqueline Bloch

Open Quantum Systems DATE: 17 July 2017 to 04 August 2017 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore There have been major recent breakthroughs, both experimental and theoretical, in the field of Open Quantum Systems. The aim of this program is to bring together leaders in the Open Q

From playlist Open Quantum Systems

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The Death of Elijah Lovejoy

After he was driven out of St. Louis for expressing controversial views, city leaders in Alton, Illinois tried to tell publisher Elijah Lovejoy what he was allowed to discuss in his newspaper. What happened next made Lovejoy one of the first men to die defending the freedom of the press.

From playlist Extraordinary people and personalities

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A Victim of French Demographics: Marie-Louise Giraud

On the 9th of June 1943, Marie-Louis Giraud, mother of two, is found guilty of attacking the unity of the country, the State, and the people of France. For that, she will be guillotined on the 30th of July on that same year. Her crimes? Performing abortions. Hi! This is Barris, a French

From playlist What the France?!

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CGSR | Arctic: Toward the End of the Exception Strategic, Nuclear and Maritime Issues in the Region

Abstract: Through multiple international initiatives, including the creation of the Arctic Council at the end of the Cold War in 1996, the Arctic appeared to be one of the last areas of peaceful cooperation in the world till February 2022. This Arctic is also devoid of any serious territor

From playlist Center for Global Security Research

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Lucile Vandembroucq (11/19/20): Topological complexity for manifolds with abelian fundamental group

Title: On the nonmaximality of the topological complexity for manifolds with abelian fundamental group Abstract: We will give sufficient conditions for the (normalized) topological complexity of a closed manifold M with abelian fundamental group to be nonmaximal, that is to have TC(M) les

From playlist Topological Complexity Seminar

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Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (Final Part)

The year is 1793, Louis XVI has just been executed. France is devastated by its civil war and is now threatened by the 1st Coalition. Paranoia and terror, oh, terror grips the country by its throat as the people ask for more and more purges. As a result, almost 17,000 are executed in just

From playlist Historical Series

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Frédéric Faure: Emergence of the quantum wave equation in classical deterministic...

In the 80’s, D. Ruelle, D. Bowen and others have introduced probabilistic and spectral methods in order to study deterministic chaos (”Ruelle resonances”). For a geodesic flow on a strictly negative curvature Riemannian manifold, following this approach and use of microlocal analysis, one

From playlist Analysis and its Applications

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A Ghoul, a Ghost and a Grisly Murder: The Legend of Dr. Joseph McDowell

In Antebellum St Louis, Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell was, to put it mildly, an eccentric, whose legendary reputation included body snatching, artillery, demagoguery, ghosts, a live bear, and murder most foul. He is said to have inspired a character in one of America’s most famous works of fict

From playlist Extraordinary people and personalities

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Highest Altitude Balloon Record

Charles Lindberg’s was not the only feat of aeronautics to come out of the St Louis area in 1927. Much less remembered but no less daring, were the efforts of an Army officer, Captain Hawthorn C Gray, to rise higher than any had before. Check out our new community for fans and supporte

From playlist Aerostats: Dirigibles, Blimps and Balloons

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Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (Part 4)

The year is 1793, Louis XVI has just been executed. France is devastated by its civil war and is now threatened by the 1st Coalition. Paranoia and terror, oh, terror grips the country by its throat as the people ask for more and more purges. As a result, almost 17,000 are executed in just

From playlist Historical Series

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Jérémie Bouttier: Multicritical Schur measures

HYBRID EVENT Recorded during the meeting "Random Geometry" the January 18, 2022 by the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (Marseille, France) Filmmaker: Guillaume Hennenfent Find this video and other talks given by worldwide mathematicians on CIRM's Audiovisual Mathematics

From playlist Probability and Statistics

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J'accuse! The History of the Dreyfus Affair

At the end of the 19th century, the young Third Republic, born in the ashes of the humiliating defeat that was the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, would face a scandal that tore apart the very fabric of French society for more than a decade. L’Affaire Dreyfus! Project Shoah: https://youtube.

From playlist J'accuse! The History of Antisemitism

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Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror (Part 2)

The year is 1793, Louis XVI has just been executed. France is devastated by its civil war and is now threatened by the 1st Coalition. Paranoia and terror, oh, terror grips the country by its throat as the people ask for more and more purges. As a result, almost 17,000 are executed in just

From playlist Historical Series

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The Battle of Wilson's Creek and the Fight for Missouri

Sponsored by Blinkist. The first 100 people who go to https://www.blinkist.com/thehistoryguy are going to get unlimited access for one week to try it out. You'll also get 25% off if you want the full membership. While the Battle of Bull Run, also called the Battle on Manassas- the first

From playlist US History

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