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The Castrati - 100000 Boys Castrated to Preserve Their Voice
A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto voice produced by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an...
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Inside the Medieval Mind - Sex
One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett, unearths remarkable evidence of the complex passions of medieval men and women. The Church preached hatred of the...
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Inside the Medieval Mind - Belief
One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett explores how beliefs, and the supernatural played a role in the minds of the medieval man. The medieval dead shared...
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 1 - The Peasant
Emmy nominated history series with Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones. The popular image of a medieval peasant is a person dirty, diseased and downtrodden, little more than a slave....
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 2 - The Monk
Emmy nominated history series with Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones. In this episode, Terry investigates the truth behind the cloistered medieval monk, whose ideal of giving up the...
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 3 - The Damsel
Emmy nominated history series with Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones. This episode tales a look at the world of the medieval damsel; not the shy, demure creatures we imagine today...
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Carl Sagan - The Planets 3: The History of Mars
Carl Sagan's 1977 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been held in London annually since 1825. They serve as a forum for presenting complex scientific...
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 4 - The Minstrel
Emmy nominated history series with Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones. In this episode, he reveals that minstrels were medieval spin doctors and could be warriors, political movers...
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 5 - The Knight
Emmy nominated history series with Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones. Knights were more interested in the fine art of killing people and profiting from war than romantic notions of...
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 6 - The Philosopher
Emmy nominated history series with Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones. He looks at the medieval scientist, or philosopher as they were known then, showing how they experimented on a...
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