Truman Henry Safford
Truman Henry Safford (6 January 1836 – 13 June 1901) was an American calculating prodigy. In later life he was an observatory director. (Wikipedia).
Truman Henry Safford (6 January 1836 – 13 June 1901) was an American calculating prodigy. In later life he was an observatory director. (Wikipedia).
Portraits of Power - Truman - Years of Decision Narrated by Henry Fonda Harry S. Truman (actually, Harry S Truman) ( 05/08/1884 in Lamar, Missouri until 12/26/1972 in Kansas City, Missouri) was an American politician and from 1945 to 1953 President of the United States of America. Democ
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Harry Truman: Dropping Bombs (1945 – 1953)
Harry Truman ascended to the presidency upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He had to wrap up World War II, which involved his controversial decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman also had to deal with the Soviet Union emerging as th
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IMS Public Lecture: Order and Rigidity Sensing by Biological Cells
Samuel Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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Truman und Eisenhower landen 1945 in Deutschland zur Potsdamer Konferenz
Seltenes Archivmaterial in Farbe von der Landung von Außenminister James F. Byrnes, President Harry S. Truman und General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Berlin 1945 zur Potsdamer Konferenz.
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Bill Perry: The Department of Defense and the National Security Ecosystem
Bill Perry was the 19th US Secretary of Defense, serving under Bill Clinton. Prior to this role, Secretary Perry was also Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley electronics firm. Currently, Secreta
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The voice of Henry Herbert Asquith - 1909
Henry Herbert Asquith's budget speech of 1909.
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Lyndon B. Johnson: A Tragic Figure (1963 – 1969)
Lyndon Johnson ascended to the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was a large, imposing man, who had been an influential Senate Majority Leader and Vice President. And as President, it is difficult to say whether he is remembered better for his incredible domestic acc
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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
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Top 9 CRAZIEST Parties in History | History Countdown
Join us as we explain the wildest, weirdest, most shocking moments of all time in History Countdown - https://histv.co/countdown From the soirees of 1920s Paris to the festivals of King Henry VIII's court, history was full of outrageous celebrations. So grab some champagne and take a tour
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Susan Dunn, “Speed – and Speed Now: Mobilizing Industry and Labor for War”
Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs. Susan Dunn on “FDR’s Third Hundred Days – Preparing for War and Global Leadership: November 1940 to March 1941” Nov. 15, 2016, “Plan Dog: From Isolation to a Strategy for War” https://youtu.be/pF0b7BLTlnI Nov. 16, 2016, “A Declaration of I
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Full title reads: "Washington - Atlantic Pact - 12 Nations Unite For Peace". Washington DC, United States of America (USA). LV Foreign Ministers entering the Departmental Auditorium. LV Ministers assembled on dais. SV Flags of countries signing. CU Map. Pointers sprout out to Pact co
From playlist NATO
Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material. Washington DC, United States of America (USA). American voiceovered newsreel material. LV Foreign Ministers entering the Departmental Auditorium. LV Ministers assembled on dais. SV Flags of countries signing. CU Map. Pointers
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The Potsdam Conference - When the Cold War began
July 1945 - two month after the end of the war in Europe and the allied victory over the German Reich the three allied leaders have come to Germany to work out a piece treaty - these 16 days, where the fate of post-war Europe was decided, go down in history as the Potsdam Conference (Jul 1
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Ep34: This is 1 Reality Show That Definitely Isn't Ethical--The Truman Show (1998) w/ Mehwish Safdar
Join Alex and Virginia Commonwealth University undergrad Mehwish Safdar (https://twitter.com/mxhwishhh) in a discussion of the various psychological concepts in the wildly unethical, but touching lark The Truman Show (1998) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382). The film stars Jim Carrey,
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William R. Polk on “America Confronts the Post-Imperial World,” Lecture 3
“Is Our Quest for Affordable World Security Feasible and What Can We Do To Make It More Likely?” William R. Polk, a veteran foreign policy consultant, and author, gave a series of three lectures in February 2018 on “America Confronts the Post-Imperial World” for the Henry L. Stimson Lectur
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Lecture 3 | African-American Freedom Struggle (Stanford)
Lecture 3 of Clay Carson's Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). This lecture is entitled "Shirley Graham: Transformation of an Artist/Intellectual". Recorded October 2, 2007 at Stanford University. This co
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Harry S. Truman - This I Believe - 1950s Radio broadcast
An episode of the CBS Radio Network programme hosted by Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955.
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Secrecy, Democracy, and the Birth of the CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is America’s premier intelligence organization, charged with keeping constant watch in an increasingly dangerous and unstable world. In this video we look at three main periods in US history that led to the creation of "The Agency." This video is epis
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