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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Define what it means for polygons to be "similar"or "congruent"by thinking about photocopies. Then use that to prove the third key assumption of geometry—the side-angle-side postulate—which lets you verify when triangles are similar. Thales of Ionia used this principle in 600 B.C.E. to impress the Egyptians by calculating the height of the pyramids.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Scientific methods of verifying works of art have drastically reduced the number of paintings attributed to Rembrandt (1606-1669). Many canvases, hitherto believed to be by the hand of the Master, are now thought to be the work of artists who learnt their craft in his studio by copying his style. The film is a fascinating study of modern scientific techniques, a comprehensive art historical view of Rembrandt's work over the centuries and a reaffirmation...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Your ability to differentiate between fact and opinion and to judge the quality of media content is vital to a functional democracy. You do not have to go it alone. Learn how the professionals test and verify information, as well as what websites, plug-ins, and tactics can help you determine journalistic integrity and accuracy of information.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Follow the story of Vibia Perpetua, one of the earliest reliably verified Christian martyrs. How did the well-educated daughter of a noble family end up publicly executed in the arena? Trace the seemingly random series of events that led to a tragic death and see how Perpetua’s record of her own experiences became an immensely popular text in the early Christian church.
5) Nathalie…
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains graphic sexual content and may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. Cohen Film Collection presents Anne Fontaine's drama of intrigue and infidelity. A rich woman (Fanny Ardant) hires an elite prostitute (Emmanuelle Béart) in order to verify the faithfulness of her husband (Gérard Depardieu). Before long, the experiment gets out of control.
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
SINAI FIELD MISSION shows the routine activities of the diplomats and electronics technicians who operate the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning system established in 1976 to help facilitate the disengagement between Egypt and Israel after the 1973 war. The major purpose of the Mission is to monitor the approaches to strategic passes and to verify the operations of the Egyptian and Israeli surveillance stations in the Sinai Buffer Zone.....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
New dimensions: first, Howard Gardner revolutionized how we think about "intelligence" and "understanding." Now, with MI: millennium, Gardner expands, and builds upon the foundations of MI theory--bringing twenty years of research, and the history of "intelligence" theory into a timely new focus. In this dynamic presentation for the classroom, Gardner reveals entirely new dimensions of MI, including: a verified eighth intelligence and the possibility...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the Higgs boson is a triumph of modern physics. The hunt for the Higgs was the subject of wide media attention due to the cost of the project, the complexity of the experiment, and the importance of its result. And, when it was announced with great fanfare in 2012 that physicists has succeeded in creating and identifying this all-important new particle, the discovery was celebrated around the world. And yet, virtually no one who read...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in September/October 2009 at the third Columbia Conference on architecture, engineering and materials. Few concepts are as central in structural engineering as the ability of a material to sustain plastic deformation under tensile stress. The standardization of historically known deformation limits or ductile properties in most materials allows architects and engineers to keep the analysis of structure within known parameters of finite element...
10) Hunting Bigfoot
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
The worlds of narrative feature and documentary film are skillfully melded to capture this portrait of a broken man obsessively pursuing personal redemption in a world where many think he’s gone mad in his quest to find the elusive cryptid.
11) Seven pounds
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give 'pounds of flesh' that will give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. Tim intends to kill himself to atone for his sins. He decides to bestow...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Armed with a list of seven suspects confirmed by the killer himself, Patrick Jane and the CBI team are closing in on the elusive serial killer while continuing to solve California's most puzzling crimes. Could Red John be a cult leader? A ghoulish forensic analyst? A super-suspicious Homeland Security Agent? Or one of four law officials, including the director of the CBI himself? The identity of the man who killed Patrick Jane's family is finally...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013]
Language
English
Description
After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this hard-hitting action series. After suffering unimaginable ordeals on the island, Oliver returns to Starling City a new man, determined to right the wrongs of his father and sworn to bring justice to those who've corrupted his city.
15) Food matters
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
With nutritionally depleted foods, chemical additives, and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food matters sets about uncovering the trillion-dollar worldwide 'sickness industry' and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The December 1968 journey of the Apollo 8 crew into lunar orbit verified the essential elements of the Apollo-Saturn system, and at the same time gave man a view of the Earth that will live through the ages. For many of us, the Apollo 8 mission and broadcasts will always hold a special significance in the history of space exploration. Features the television transmissions from Apollo 8, along with rare footage of preparation, launch, all the onboard...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Includes two fast-paced, full-length MacGyver TV movies that followed the series finale. Lost Treasure of Atlantis: MacGyver is called on by his former archaeology professor to help verify the legend of the lost city of Atlantis and to recover its treasure; and Trail to Doomsday: While investigating the death of his best friend, MacGyver uncovers a shocking conspiracy to hold the world hostage to terrorism.
19) Hunting bigfoot
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Did he see it? Or was it just in his head? As he emerges from yet another long slog in the Northwest wilderness, John₂s resolve remains undiminished. Long estranged from his family, John checks in to grab some provisions and touch base with some fellow sympathizers and true believers before resuming his all-consuming quest to verify the existence of a Sasquatch he claims to have witnessed. In Hunting Bigfoot, Seattle-based filmmaker, Taylor Guterson...
20) The Great fever
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In June 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a medical team to Cuba on a mission to investigate yellow fever. For more than two hundred years the disease had terrorized the United States, killing an estimated 100,000 people in the 19th century alone. Shortly after Reed and his team arrived in Havana they began testing the radical theories of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, who believed that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. This...
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