19th century Videos
Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland
This video was taken on Dec 29th 2009, in the midst of a harsh winter. This Necropolis (City of the Dead) is a major part of Glasgow's heritage. It mainly came to prominence in the 19th century to house the deceased of Glasgow's merchant and wealthy elite at a time when Glasgow was the Second City of the (British) Empire. Consequently, the site is populated with many grand and extravagant memorials to the great and the good of Victorian Glasgow. The Necropolis, situated close to the Cathedral ...
Driving around Cairo 5 - Experiencing Cairo from a car
step pyramid built by the architect Imhotep for the third dynasty pharaoh Djoser. Though firmly attached to the past, Cairo is also home to a vibrant modern society. The Midan Tahrir area situated in downtown Cairo area , built in the 19th century under the rule of Khedive Ismail, has strived to be a "Paris on the Nile". There also are a number of more modern suburbs including Ma'adi and Heliopolis, while Zamalek is a quiet area on Gezira Island, with upscale shopping. Cairo is best in the ...
Author: MichaelLeanderNielse; Tags: cairo egypt kairo michael leander driving sights travel marketing
Fairfield Parlour - Drummer Boy Of Shiloh
oriented, with great use of acoustic guitar, flute and keyboards (especially the mellotron strings). Drummer Boy Of Shiloh is a very beautiful and melancholic song, with great mellotron strings, acoustic and electric guitar riff, military-like drumming and very beautiful singing by Daltrey, having a distinctive voice. It is not the traditional song from the 19th century, but its lyrics are certainly inspired on the traditional song. ... "Fairfield Parlour" UK 1970 "Peter Daltrey" British ...
Author: Lucija1729; Tags: Fairfield Parlour UK 1970 Peter Daltrey British Progressive
Bambalapitiya Bharatha Christmas Meet
This Bharatha Community a very small segment of the Sri Lankan population who have their most recent ethnic roots in Southern India and this particular community has their entry into Sri Lanka somewhere in the latter part of the 19th Century which is about 120 years old. Historians tell us that they have an ethnic connection to the Bharathas of Sri Lanka who settled in the country around 1310 AD. For more on this story go to www.blink.lk ... "Bharathas of Sri Lanka" "Bharatha community" " ...
Author: BlinkdotLK; Tags: Bharathas of Sri Lanka Bharatha community Christmas Sri Lanka Bharatha
Potnia .:. Po-ti-ni-ja .:. Πότνια
, Phigalia, Mount Ida, Magna Graecia and the islands of the Mediterranean. Despoina has, in living memory, been one of the names by which the memories of the Goddess are retained in the land, This fact has been well documented since the 19th century - the very time that this inspired litany came into being. The mysterious traditions of the wonder-working Black icon of Despoina of Tsakonian Elonas (Despina a 'Eona) still manage to transmit a distant ancestral remembrance of the ancient ...
Author: ChironCane; Tags: Πότνια Po-ti-ni-ja Potnia
Blood of the Amazon
Tim Dax as Capt. Grant who sailed the south pacific in the late 19th century
Author: timdaxII; Tags: tim dax blood of the amazon awe films
Sikkim state.
The majority of Sikkim's residents are of Nepali ethnic-national origin who arrived in the 19th century. The native Sikkimese consist of the Bhutias, who migrated from the Kham district of Tibet in the 14th century, and the Lepchas who are believed to have migrated from the Far East. Tibetans reside mostly in the northern and eastern reaches of the state. Immigrant resident communities include the Biharis, Bengalis and Marwaris from India who own most of the shops in South Sikkim and Gangtok. ...
A History of Hebrew Part 7- Old Hebrew to Greek and Aramaic.FLV
and it is this Aramaic "square" script that Israel adopted during their captivity. With the Aramaic alphabet in use by the Israelites, it continued to evolve into the modern Hebrew letters we are familiar with today. By the end of the 19th century, the translation of the Semitic alphabet was well established. The only mystery was the origin of this alphabet as mentioned in the 1922 "New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research" in its entry for the letter A. "A, the ...
Author: RRAA117; Tags: old-Hebrew alphabet also called paleo-Hebrew
