Enrico Caruso Nellie Melba La Boheme O soave fanciulla

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Enrico Caruso and Nellie Melba singing the duet O soave fanciulla from Giacomo Puccini's La boheme. It was recorded in New York on 24 March 1907 (Victor C4326 95200).

Dame Nellie Melba GBE (19 May 1861 – 23 February 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian opera soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century.



La bohème is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger.

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

Enrico Caruso came from a poor background. Born in Naples in the Via San Giovanello agli Ottocalli 7 on February 25, 1873, he was baptized next door in the Roman Catholic Church of San Giovanni e Paolo, Naples, the next day.

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Artist/Composer: Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini RCA Victor
Keywords: Enrico Caruso; Nellie Melba; Nellie Melba, La Boheme; O soave fanciulla; Giacomo Puccini
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Jesus Loves Me

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Jesus Loves Me is a Christian hymn written by Anna Bartlett Warner (August 31, 1827 – January 22, 1915), an American writer, and author of several hymns and religious songs for children. She was born on Long Island and died in Highland Falls, New York. The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of a novel called Say and Seal, written by Anna's older sister, Susan Warner (July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885) an evangelical writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works and published in 1860.

The tune was added in 1862 by William Batchelder Bradbury (October 6, 1816 – January 7, 1868) a musician who composed many other popular hymns. Along with his tune, Bradbury added his own chorus "Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus Loves me..."

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Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak, but He is strong.

Chorus:

Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.

Jesus loves me! This I know,
As He loved so long ago,
Taking children on His knee,
Saying, “Let them come to Me.”

Chorus

Jesus loves me when I'm good,
When I do the things I should,
Jesus loves me when I'm bad,
Though it makes Him very sad.

Chorus

Jesus loves me still today,
Walking with me on my way,
Wanting as a friend to give
Light and love to all who live.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! He who died
Heaven’s gate to open wide;
He will wash away my sin,
Let His little child come in.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! Loves me still
Tho' I'm very weak and ill;
That I might from sin be free
Bled and died upon the tree.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! He will stay
Close beside me all the way;
Thou hast bled and died for me,
I will henceforth live for Thee.

Chorus

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Artist/Composer: Sookietex
Keywords: Jesus Loves Me; Sacred; Inspirational; Christian; hymn; gospel
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Bethesda Fountain Central Park New York City

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Bethesda Terrace overlooks The Lake in New York City's Central Park. It is on two levels, united by two staircases. The upper terrace flanks the 72nd Street Cross Drive and the lower terrace provides a podium for viewing the Lake. Bethesda Fountain is the central feature on the lower level of the terrace, constructed in 1859-64.

The pool is centered by a fountain sculpture designed by Emma Stebbins in 1868 and unveiled in 1873. Stebbins was the first woman to receive a public commission for a major work of art in New York City. The bronze, eight-foot statue depicts a female winged angel. It was the only statue in the park called for in the original design. Beneath her are four four-foot cherubs representing Temperance, Purity, Health, and Peace. Also called the Angel of the Waters, the statue refers to the Gospel of John, Chapter 5 where there is a description of an angel blessing the Pool of Bethesda, giving it healing powers.

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Producer: Sookietex
Audio/Visual: sound
Keywords: Bethesda Fountain; Central Park; New York City
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Anti-War Demonstation In New York City (1967) VIDEO

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Draft Card Burning Here. Antiwar demonstrators protest in New York City's Central Park and march to the United Nations building, October 21, 1967.

"President Johnson meanwhile let it be known that the FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity."

Universal-International Newsreel. In 1976, the films' owner, MCA, made the decision to turn over ownership of all of these newsreels to the National Archives. The decision effectively ended Universal's copyright claim, releasing the films into the public domain.

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Producer: Universal News
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Keywords: stock footage; standard 4:3; historic; 1967; peace demonstration; Vietnam War; draft card burning; FBI; students; peaceniks; King, Martin Luther (1929-1968)
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Künstlerleben (Artists' Life) Johann Strauss II

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Künstlerleben (Artists' Life) op. 316 Edith Lorand [1898-1960] and her Orchestra, 1923 written by Johann Strauss II in 1867, following closely on the success of the popular The Blue Danube waltz. Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899; German: Johann Baptist Strauß; also known as Johann Baptist Strauss, Johann Strauss, Jr., or Johann Strauss the Younger)



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Johann Strauss

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Artist/Composer: Johann Strauss
Keywords: classical; waltz, violin
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Carbon Nanotube: Etching, Indentation

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Contributors: Fedor Dzegilenko, Deepak Srivastava, and Glenn Deardoff

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A carbon nanotube can be used as a tip in an atomic force microscope (AFM).Such a tip in an AFM can be used to create nanoscale patterns i.e. nanolithograpghy or to etch material away from a surface in the fabrication of semiconductor chips(i.e. the tip acts like a " nanotweezer " to remove atoms from the surface).

In the above scenerios, one is then concerned with the interaction between the carbon nanotube tip and a surface. We look at two kinds of surfaces: silicon and diamond. The videoclips show real-time dynamics of interaction between carbon nanotube tips and silicon and diamond surfaces. Two interaction regimes are considered: etching (the nanotube barely touches the surface) and indentation (the nanotube is pushed into the surface to make "nano-holes"). Computer simulations show that in the first regime the nanotube tip is able to selectively extract several silicon atoms off the surface of silicon, and in the second regime it is able to penetrate the silicon surface without much hindrance. That is, the nanotube tip does a good job of both a " nanotweezer " and a " nano hole-puncher " with silicon. But with diamond, the harder diamond surface destroys the nanotube.

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Producer: NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology
Audio/Visual: silent
Keywords: Carbon Nanotube; nanotechnology; NASA
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D-Day Prayer Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR

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This prayer was originally entitled "Let Our Hearts Be Stout". It was read by President Roosevelt to the nation on radio, the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The previous night, June 5, the President had been on the radio to announce that Allied troops had entered Rome. The D-Day invasion began at 6:30 a.m. on June 6. By midnight about 57,000 American and 75,000 British and Canadian soldiers were ashore. Allied losses on D-Day included 2,500 killed and 8,500 wounded.



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Artist/Composer: FDR
Keywords: WW-2; history; radio; news
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944

"My Fellow Americans

Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest - until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom. And for us at home - fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters and brothers of brave men overseas - whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them - help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts. Give us strength, too - strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment - let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace - a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil. Thy will be done, Almighty God. AMEN."

Blessed Assurance

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"Blessed Assurance" is a well-known Christian hymn. The lyrics were written in 1873 by blind hymn writer Frances Jane Crosby (March 24 1820 – February 12 1915), usually known as Fanny Crosby, she was an American lyricist best known for her Protestant Christian hymns. A lifelong Methodist, she was one of the most prolific hymnists in history, writing over 8,000 despite becoming blind shortly after birth, to the music written in 1873 by Phoebe P. Knapp. (March 9, 1839 – July 10, 1908) who wrote over 500 hymn tunes, the most familiar being Assurance for Fanny Crosby's hymn Blessed Assurance.



The hymn appeared in the July 1873 issue of Palmer's GUIDE TO HOLINESS AND REVIVAL MISCELLANY, a magazine printed by Dr. and Mrs.W.C. Palmer of 14 Bible House, New York City and indicated it had been copyrighted by Crosby that year.

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1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

* Refrain:
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.

2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels, descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

3. Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

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Artist/Composer: Sookietex
Keywords: Gospel; Sacred; Inspirational; Christian; hymn; Blessed Assurance
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Twenty Million Miles To Earth Trailer (1957)

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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.

20 Million Miles to Earth is a American 1957 science fiction film written by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf from an original treatment by Charlott Knight. it was developed to showcase the stop-motion animation talents of Ray Harryhausen.

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Audio/Visual: sound, b&w

Boatswain's Pipe Call All Hands

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Before the PA sysytem was developed information or orders for the crew were passed by a boatswain's mate who first sounded the appropriate call on the pipe and then repeated the word fore and aft through out the ship. Now the word is broadcast all over the ship at once. An announcement is usually proceeded with now hear this or now hear there. Unless a boatswain's call is used. When a boatswain's call or pipe is used All Hands is used before any word concerning drills or emeregencies and Attention before any routine words.



Air Bedding, All divisions, Air bedding, First pipe, All Hands.

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Artist/Composer: U.S. Department of Defense
Keywords: Piping; Bosun's Pipe; boatswain's mate; pipe; All Hands
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Piping Aboard

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Bosun's Pipe, Piping Aboard with its distinctive low, high, low call. components of the whistle, the tube is known as the gun, the part which makes the sound is the buoy and the flat plate that holds the device together is the keel. It is suspended on a silver chain.



No self-respecting boatswain's mate would dare admit he couldn't blow his pipe in a manner above reproach. This pipe, which is the emblem of the boatswain and his mates, has an ancient and interesting history.

On the ancient row-galleys, the boatswain used his pipe to "call the stroke." Later because its shrill tune could be heard above most of the activity on board, it was used to signal various happenings such as knock-off and the boarding of officials. So essential was this signaling device to the well-being of the ship, that it became a badge of office and honor in the British and American Navy of the sailing ships.

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Artist/Composer: U.S. Department of Defense
Keywords: Piping; Bosun's Pipe; boatswain's mate; pipe
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Inaugural of John F. Kennedy Newsreel

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JFK in Oval Office, going to the inauguration, sitting with Ike in stand, LBJ sworn in as VP by Sam Rayburn, JFK sworn in by Chief Justice Warren, JFK speaks, lunch in the Capital, a procession to the White House riding in car, watching parade ended by replica of PT boat on float; night inaugural balls with Jackie (complete newsreel)

By Universal-International Newsreel In 1976, the films' owner, MCA, made the decision to turn over ownership of all of these newsreels to the National Archives. The decision effectively ended Universal's copyright claim, releasing the films into the public domain.

This movie is part of the collection: Universal Newsreels
Keywords: Inaugural, Inauguration,
Production Company: Universal Studios
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Creative Commons license: Public Domain