Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with high of 82. Sunrise is 6:29 AM and sunset 7:14 PM for 12h 45m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States. Lies,…
Documentary
Culture, Daily Bread, Documentary, Sports
Daily Bread for 7.31.22: The Trails Before Us
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 5:46 AM and sunset 8:16 PM for 14h 32m 05s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1777, the Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of…
City, Documentary, Film, History
Film: Wednesday, July 20th, 1:00 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk
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Wednesday, July 20th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Documentary One hour 75 years ago, he lost his home and his family. Now he is going back. 95 year old Vladimir Munk, a Holocaust survivor,…
Documentary, Film, Science/Nature
I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It
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?? Growing up in a Quaker household, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was raised to believe that she had as much right to an education as anyone else. But as a girl in the 1940s in Northern Ireland, her enthusiasm for the sciences was met with hostility from teachers and male students. Undeterred, she went on to…
America, Crime, Documentary, History, Insurrection
Inside the January 6th Capitol Riot
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Over the last year, Trumpism has advanced three grand lies: against the significance of the pandemic, against Biden’s clear win in the presidential election, and against the fact of a violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. In response to that third lie – that there was no violent insurrection – there is ample…
Birds, Documentary, Film
Film: Bob of the Park Knows New York City Birds. But He’s Ruffled a Few Feathers
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If you grab binoculars and head to Central Park in New York, you may see a warbler, a robin and Robert DeCandido, also known as “Birding Bob.” If you can’t spot him, you’ll definitely hear him. Among dedicated birders, some consider his use of recorded bird calls a disturbance to birds and bird-watchers alike, while…
Documentary, Film, Insurrection
Frontline: American Insurrection
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Coronavirus, Culture, Documentary
Frontline: Death Is Our Business
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Coronavirus, Documentary, Public Health
Film: Inside a Covid I.C.U., Through a Nurse’s Eyes
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Documentary, Music
Monday Music: How Olivia Rodrigo Wrote ‘Drivers License,’ the Biggest Song of the Year (So Far)
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America, Authoritarianism, Congress, Documentary, Never Trump, Politics, Trump, Trumpism
Frontline: Trump’s American Carnage
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In the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, FRONTLINE investigates how Donald Trump’s presidency laid the groundwork for bitter divisions, violence and ultimately insurrection. “Trump’s American Carnage” investigates Trump’s siege on his enemies, the media and even the leaders of his own party, who for years ignored the warning signs of what…
Congress, Crime, Documentary, Right-wing Populism, Trump, Trumpism, Violence
Inside the U.S. Capitol at the Height of the Siege
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At 2:12 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Trump began climbing through a window they had smashed on the northwest side of the U.S. Capitol. “Go! Go! Go!” someone shouted as the rioters, some in military gear, streamed in. It was the start of the most serious attack on the Capitol since the War…
Documentary, Film
Film: A Year of Ping Pong
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Documentary
Smithsonian Channel’s Top 10 Most-Watched Videos of 2020
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0:00 – Intro to Top 10 Most Watched Videos of 2020 00:23 – Unleashing a Medieval Trebuchet 2:27 – Lioness Won’t Let Cub’s Father Near 6:25 – Bombing Exposes the Navy’s Need for New Boat 10:13 – 15th Century Weapon of War Fired 100 Arrows at Once 12:22 – Terrifying Dwarf Croc Holds Its Breath 15:28 – Egyptologists Open Newly-Discovered Pyramid 18:50 – Roman…