Suez Canal Seized By Egyptians VIDEO

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Nasser tells crowd he has seized Suez Canal, pictures of canal and Mideast (partial newsreel).

Universal Newsreel, produced from 1929 to 1967, was released twice a week. Each issue contained six or seven short stories, usually one to two minutes in length, covering world events, politics, sports, fashion.

Universal City Studios gifted Universal Newsreel to the American people, put the newsreels into the public domain, and gave film materials to the National Archives in 1976. Surviving materials from the entire collection are available at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland.

The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, was a war fought by Britain, France, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956.

The attack followed Egypt's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal,

The events that brought the crisis to a head occurred in the spring and summer of 1956. On 16 May, Nasser officially recognised the People's Republic of China, a move that angered the U.S. and its secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, a keen sponsor of Taiwan. This move, coupled with the impression that the project was beyond Egypt's economic capabilities, caused Eisenhower to withdraw all American financial aid for the Aswan Dam project on 19 July.

Nasser's response was the nationalization of the Suez Canal. On 26 July, in a speech in Alexandria, Nasser gave a riposte to Dulles. During his speech he deliberately pronounced the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of the canal, a code-word for Egyptian forces to seize control of the canal and implement its nationalization.

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TEXT RESOURSE: Suez Crisis From Wikipedia

Enrico Caruso Recondita armonia Giacomo Puccini Tosca

Enrico Caruso Recondita armonia Giacomo Puccini Tosca VBR MP3 4.12 mb, Enrico Caruso Recondita armonia Giacomo Puccini Tosca OGG format 1.7 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Enrico Caruso's (1873-1921) performance of "Recondita armonia", ("Hidden harmony") from Giacomo Puccini's (1858-1924) Tosca. This is Matrix B-8347, recorded November 6, 1909, and released under various labels

Recondita Armonia is the first romanza in the opera Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini. It is sung by the painter, Mario Cavaradossi, when comparing his love, Tosca, to a lady he was painting.

Tosca is an opera in three acts set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900.



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Libretto:

Italian

Dammi i colori...

Recondita armonia di bellezze diverse!
È bruna Floria, l'ardente amante mia.
E te, beltade ignota, cinta di chiome bionde,
Tu azzurro hai l'occhio,
Tosca ha l'occhio nero!

L'arte nel suo mistero,
le diverse bellezze insiem confonde...
Ma nel ritrar costei,
Il mio solo pensiero,
Il mio sol pensier sei tu,
Tosca, sei tu!

Translation in English

Pass me the colors...

Concealed harmony of contrasting beauties!
Floria, my ardent lover, is dark haired.
And you, unknown beauty, crowned with blond hair,
You have blue eyes,
Tosca has black eyes!

Art, in its mysterious way,
blends the contrasting beauties together...
But while I'm painting her,
My only thought,
My only thought is of you,
Tosca, it is of you!

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Artist/Composer: Giacomo Puccini Enrico Caruso
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TEXT CREDIT:

• Recondita armonia
• Enrico Caruso, Recondita armonia (Tosca)
• Tosca

Johann Sebastian Bach Fugue in C major

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Johann Sebastian Bach March 31, 1685 – July 28, 1750 was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist. He is now generally regarded one of the main composers of the Baroque style,

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Mozart Piano Sonata No. 11, Menuetto

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Performance Licence: converted and placed into the public domain by the creator Mutopia Project. Instrument(s): Piano, Style: Classical, Opus: KV 331, Date of composition: 1778 or 1781-3, Source: Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig, Copyright: Public Domain. Sonate Opus KV 331 - Menuetto Sheet Music in PDF FORMAT

The second movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11. This file is 5:34 long.

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Note that this is synthesized music, not a live recording.



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Humpback Whale Songs Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

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Whale Songs, Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae): Singing humpback whale recorded in The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary waters.

Although many species of whales and dolphins are vocal, humpback whales are best known for their songs. The “humpback song” consists of sequences of sounds that are repeated over and over in a pattern. Patterns of humpback whale sounds change from year to year and can vary in different parts of the ocean. Scientists have found that male humpback whales sing while in their breeding grounds. Other humpback whale sounds have also been recorded in feeding areas. Each of the sounds made by the humpback is thought to have a distinct purpose.



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The Blue Danube a Waltz

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The Blue Danube, An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (At the Beautiful Blue Danube), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.

Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899; also known as Johann Baptist Strauss, Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son. An Austrian composer he composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. He is known as "The Waltz King",

Played by Finnish orchestra Rytmi-Pojat, directed by Eugen Malmstén. The recording Tonava kaunoinen Kultaa ja hopeaa by Columbia. Doria database of Finnish National Library



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Johann Strauss

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Auld Lang Syne Big Band

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Les Deux Love Orchestra performing "Auld Lang Syne" in the classic big band tradition. Perfect for dancing and crying at midnight on New Year's Eve.

Auld Lang Syne written in 1788 by Scottish poet Robert Burns it is set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is most often heard to celebrate the start of the new year at midnight on New Year's Day.



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Jingle Bells

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Jingle Bells is a secular Christmas song. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) in 1857 and copyrighted under the title 'One Horse Open Sleigh' on September 16, 1857.



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RELATED: Jingle Bells United States Marine Band

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The Eyes of Texas

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Composition Licence: "The Eyes of Texas" is the alma mater of the University of Texas at Austin. The song was written in 1903 by John Sinclair. It is set to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad."

"I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894.



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Lyrics

The eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the live long day.
The eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them,
At night, or early in the morn'.
The eyes of Texas are upon you,
Till Gabriel blows his horn!

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Keywords: Texas; Longhorn; I've Been Working on the Railroad
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Labor Demonstration

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About 300 workers, demonstrators at Labor demonstration march while blowing whistles, November 22 2010, 600 Third Avenue New York City, New York.

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Keywords: labor demonstration; labor; demonstration; labor movment
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A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful friend and servant, C. D. December, 1843.

Stave One: Marley's Ghost.

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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A Christmas Carol - Stave 2	32.2 MB	23.7 MB	16.1 MB
A Christmas Carol - Stave 3	42.2 MB	30.3 MB	21.1 MB
A Christmas Carol - Stave 4	28.7 MB	20.2 MB	14.4 MB
A Christmas Carol - Stave 5	11.5 MB	8.1 MB	5.8 MB

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Artist/Composer: Charles Dickens
Date: 2007-01-30
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Keywords: librivox; fiction; christmas; charles dickens; scrooge; tiny tim; cratchett; ghosts
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Flight of the Bumblebee

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Flight of the Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (March 18, 1844 – June 21, 1908) for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900.

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Advance Australia Fair national anthem of Australia

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"Advance Australia Fair" is the official national anthem of Australia. Created by Peter Dodds McCormick (1834? – October 30, 1916) in c.1878, a Scottish-born school teacher and composer.

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boatswain's bosun's call Piping the Side

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A boatswain's call is a pipe used on naval ships by a boatswain. It is pronounced, and sometimes spelled, "bosun's call".

Historically the boatswain's call was used to pass commands to the crew when a voice could not be heard over the sounds of the sea. Because of its high pitch, it could be heard over the activities of the crew and bad weather.

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Barber of Seville

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Barber of Seville by Edison Concert Band (1902). The Barber of Seville, is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The première (under the title Almaviva, or the Useless Precaution) took place on February 20, 1816, at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La cenerentola.



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Hindenburg disaster Zeppelin Explodes Scores Dead 1937/05/10 (1937)

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"Lakehurst, NJ: Thirty-five persons die and scores of others are injured as the mighty dirigible explodes three hundred feet over the landing field at the end of her first voyage of the season from Europe. A terrific burst of flame engulfs the stern of the ship and spreads with the rapidity of lightning to the bow. The inferno of blazing hydrogen gas cremates all living beings in its path, as the twisted skeleton of the balloon settles quickly to the ground. Rescue crews brave death to save sixty-three persons, some of them horribly burned." scenes of Hindenburg burning with narration.

Universal City Studios gifted Universal Newsreel to the American people, put the newsreels into the public domain, and gave film materials to the National Archives in 1976. Surviving materials from the entire collection are available at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland.

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Production Company: Universal Studios
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Columbus Day Parade Tarantella

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The Annual Columbus Day Parade has been organized in New York since 1929.

Columbus Day Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City. Monday, October 11, 2010 Fifth Ave. from 47th to 72nd Streets 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 pm.

The Tarantella refers to different southern Italian couple folk dances characterized by an upbeat tempo, usually in 6/8 time, accompanied by tambourines. It is among the most recognized of traditional Italian music. The specific dance name varies with every region, tammuriata in Campania, pizzica in the Salento region.

The term tarantella originally referred to an exorcism ritual in Greece from around 2000 BC, connected to the gods Dionysus and Apollo, the Greek gods of wine and music. It continued on in southern Italy, an area then known as Magna Grecia greater Greece.

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Keywords: Columbus Day Parade; Tarantella
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Birth of a Nation - trailer (1915)

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Birth of a Nation premiered with the title "The Clansman" is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play.

It was the highest-grossing film of the silent film era, and is noted for its camera techniques and narrative.

It has provoked controversy for promoting white supremacy and positively portraying the "knights" of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes.

Many, most, trailers for movies released before 1964 are in the Public Domain because they were never separately copyrighted. The law at the time granted the owner 28 years to file a copyright registration. The trailer is published (run in a theater) before the movie itself is published. Thus, the trailer requires a separate copyright, and the scenes contained in the trailer are in Public Domain.

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Audio/Visual: sound, b&w

Naked Cowboy For President Times Square

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The Naked Cowboy For US President.

Robert John Burck aka The Naked Cowboy, 39 announced his intention to run for president in 2012 as a member of the conservative Tea Party movement, "the only legitimate grassroots movement". Mr. Burck saying he'd run under a Tea Party platform, is registered as a Republican in Ohio.

Robert says his policies would include closing the borders, making drug tests for welfare recipients mandatory, abolishing unions for government workers, and reversing the recently passed health care law.

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Keywords: Naked Cowboy; President
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The Star Spangled Banner VOCAL

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The words were written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, who had been inspired by the sight of the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry after a night of heavy British bombardment. The text was immediately set to a popular melody of the time, "To Anacreon in Heaven."

The tune is a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith (March 30, 1750 – September 21, 1836) for the Anacreontic Society, a London social club. "The Anacreontic Song". Smith wrote the tune in the mid-1760s, while still a teenager. It was first published by Longman & Broderip in London in 1778/1779.



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Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office.

This Composition is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain.

This composition is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779–January 11, 1843) and John Stafford Smith (March 30, 1750 – September 21, 1836), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31 of that date.

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out of of their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave'
From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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Artist/Composer: The United States Air Force Band
Keywords: Star Spangled Banner; national anthem
Creative Commons license: Public Domain