Series: Genius - Volume 1

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• Genius - Volume 1

  This is a series of iMinds lessons.

• The Internet

  Learn about the invention of The Internet with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The story of the Internet begins in the early 1960s, when Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial earth satellite. Afraid of the technological potential of the Russians, the United States Department of Defense formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), in order to develop US science and technology, and in particular its application in the military.

  In order to share information between different US military and research institutions, a network was established between different computers. A government agency called RAND developed the idea of a decentralized network - so if one location was attacked, the others would still be able to connect to each other.

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• Route 66

  Learn about Route 66 with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Route 66 is arguably the most famous road in the United States of America. Stretching 2448 miles across much of the country, from Chicago in the East to Los Angeles in the West, it was also America's longest road. As it wound its way across the remarkable scenery of America, Route 66 originally passed through the states of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

  In the early 1920s, entrepreneurs Cyrus Avery and John Woodruff conceived the idea of building a massive highway that linked Chicago to Los Angeles. Their inspiration sprung from the changing needs of the American people.

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• Deja Vu

  Learn about the feeling of Déjà Vu with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  When Charles Dickens wrote in his 1850 novel David Copperfield about ‘a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before’, he may well have been referring to the experience of déjà vu. When the popstar Madonna took the lead role in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan, her character referred to her emerging snippets of memory after a head injury as exactly that. But even if it feels like you have experienced something before, is this always an experience of déjà vu?

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• Eternal Truths

  Learn the philosophy of the Eternal Truths with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  ‘Eternal truths’ are ideas that are not proved or demonstrated, but are nonetheless believed due to their apparent self-evidence. Acceptance of such facts is believed to come about through reason. Those who believe in eternal truths define them as ideas or statements so undeniable that proof is unnecessary. For example, the sentence, “I think, therefore I am”, is an eternal truth, as no further proof of existence is required. The very fact that we think, shows that we exist.

  One of the foremost European scholars of the Enlightenment was René Descartes, who lived from 1596 until 1650. Descartes wrote extensively on eternal truths, and laid the foundation for many scholars to follow.

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• l'esprit de l'escalier

  Learn about the feeling of l'Esprit de l'Escalier with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  There’s nothing like a good comeback. It’s witty, snappy and completely devastating to your verbal sparring partner. A woman once said to US President Calvin Coolidge: “I’ve made a bet with a friend that I can get you to say at least three words to me this evening. What do you have to say to that?” Coolidge looked at her and calmly replied: “You lose.”

  But how many times have you gone completely blank when arguing with someone, only to think of the perfect comeback an hour later? It’s too late, of course. More than anything, you wish you could wind back time and deliver your riposte at the perfect moment. That’s l’esprit de l’escalier.

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• Murphy's Law

  Learn about Murphy's Law with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
  
  Murphy's Law is a tongue-in-cheek and rather pessimistic adage of eight simple words: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The translation of these words into "Murphy's Law" was in honour of US aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy Junior. Legend has it that in 1949 Murphy made an offhand comment to his colleagues while working at an Air Force Base in California. His team was testing human tolerance for g-forces during rapid deceleration. The experiments involved Air Force officer John Stapp being strapped into a sled moving at great speed. As the sled decelerated, an instrument was supposed to take readings of the g-forces Stapp experienced.

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• International Criminal Tribunals

  Learn about the International Criminal Tribunals with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The concept of prosecuting war criminals is not unique to the modern world. Individuals who breached the “rules of war” were tried in Ancient Greece, and probably earlier. However, those early prosecutions were carried out by national courts, generally by victors against the vanquished, and so could hardly be described as examples of fair and impartial international justice.
  
  Underpinning the prosecutions was a notion that, even in war, there are certain rules which must be obeyed. The first notable international attempt to codify these “rules of war” was the Geneva Convention of 1864, followed by the Hague conventions in 1899 and 1907.
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• The Dropa Stones

  Learn about the mystery of the Dropa Stones with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Dropa Stones are supposedly a collection of circular stones found in a cave in Tibet in 1938. They were discovered by Chinese archaeologist Chi Pu Tei. They purportedly tell of aliens coming to earth in 10,000 BC. No claims have been verified, and so the Dropa Stones are part of a highly elusive mystery.

  High in the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains in Western China, Chi Pu Tei led a group of students on an expedition surveying interlinking caves in the Himalayas. The caves were apparently remarkable in that they appeared to have been carved using a technically-advanced cutter.

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• Behavioral Economics

  Learn about Behavioral Economics with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  According to most economics textbooks, human beings are super-rational creatures who know what is in their own best interests and always act accordingly. When making a decision to buy something, the rational consumer will evaluate all the possible alternatives before making a purchase, having already conducted research on the state of the market. They would not buy something on the spur of the moment, or on the recommendation of a friend. Nor would a rational consumer be unduly influenced by advertising or a brand name in making purchasing decisions. This explanation of human behavior is known as the rational agent model. Sound realistic?

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• John F Kennedy

  Learn about the life and times of John F Kennedy with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds.

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or JFK, was President of the United States of America from 1961 to 1963. From his unlikely rise to power at the age of forty-three to his dramatic death at the hand of an assassin, his presidency marked a transformative and tumultuous period in American history.

  Kennedy was America’s first Catholic President. Historically, Catholics suffered considerable prejudice, but Kennedy had been brought up amongst influence and money.

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• Fireworks

  Learn the history of Fireworks with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  A Chinese book from 850 CE, called Classified Essentials of the Mysterious Tao of the True Origin of Things, warns the reader that if sulphur, realgar and saltpetre are heated with honey, they produce smoke and flames.

  Thus begins the history of artificially made fire. Taoism permeates every facet of Chinese society. Lao Tzu introduced Taoist thought in the sixth-century BCE as a purely philosophical discipline. Its centrality to Chinese society led it to have an effect on all intellectual pursuits, including alchemy, which led to the development of gunpowder in the eighth-century CE and, subsequently, fireworks as we know them today.

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• Mocumentary

  Learn about the film genre of Mocumentary with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Mockumentary.. or fake documentary.. is becoming an increasingly successful film and television formula across many genres.

  This is Spinal Tap is considered by many the quintessential rockumentary, a study of an aging and once great rock and roll band on the path to self-destruction. Cult film Best in Show offers a fascinating look at the cutthroat world of prize dog shows, and in doing so gives us an insight into relationships and the human condition. Box-office smash hit Borat was a memorable portrait of an outsider and made an unlikely Kazakhstani journalist an international superstar.

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• Pele Lesson

  Learn about Pelé with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Edson Arantes do Nascimento is one of the most successful sports players in history. You probably know this Brazilian soccer player by his nickname – Pelé. Pelé played soccer professionally for 20 years between 1957 and 1977. In this time he went from being a young sporting prodigy to the most admired and distinguished soccer player in history. Pelé referred to his beloved sport as “the beautiful game” and he is one of soccer history’s star players. In his accomplished career, he displayed such skill and talent that he won awards spanning all sporting fields. In 1999, the International Olympic Committee named Pelé the “Athlete of the Century”.

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• Triple Crown of Racing

  Learn about the US Triple Crown of Racing with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Triple Crown is the most esteemed horse racing trophy in North America. The Triple Crown trophy was introduced in 1930 after a journalist suggested that Gallant Fox's triumph in America's three biggest horse races, the Preakness Stakes, the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes, deserved a trophy of its own. He suggested the name, the Triple Crown, after the British Triple Crown trophy.

  In Britain, a horse must win the St. Leger Stakes, the Epsom Derby and the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes to collect the Triple Crown.

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• Davis Cup

  Learn the history of the Davis Cup with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Davis Cup weighs more than 100 kilograms, is over one metre tall, and is the world's oldest sports trophy. It has been filled with champagne in Paris nightclubs, stolen in Peru, and locked in bank vaults during world wars. These days, it is sought after by more than 100 countries every year and known to many as the "holy grail" of men's tennis. The Davis Cup tournament started in 1889 when four Harvard students decided to test their tennis skills against players in Britain. The prize was neither money nor fame, but simply a silver trophy.

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• Climbing Everest

  Learn about Climbing Everest with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Mount Everest is situated in the Himalayan Mountains, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. It is the tallest mountain in the world, standing roughly 29,029 feet above sea level. Every year, Mount Everest gets taller by about half an inch. This is due to movements in the Earth’s crust and two tectonic plates, deep beneath the Earth’s surface, pushing together. The name “Himalaya” means “home of snow”, but snow is only one of the many challenges faced by a climber of Mount Everest.

  The danger with snow is that there is always the risk of an avalanche. Snow, ice and rocks can slide down the mountain at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour. Temperature is also a concern.

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• New York Yankees

  Learn about the New York Yankees with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  New York City is situated on a large natural harbor in the North-eastern part of the United States of America on the Atlantic Coast. It is arguably the centre of America in many regards. It is considered by many to be America’s business, cultural and artistic centre. New York City has more of everything compared to any other city in the country: more people, more buildings, more lights and more action. People come from all over the country and all over the world to seek success in New York City. A group that represents the success of the city is the American League baseball team, the New York Yankees.

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• Parkour

  Learn about the sport of Parkour with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  If there was only one way to describe parkour, it would be to call it a sport. Parkour involves the task of overcoming obstacles, both physical and mental. But not everybody is in agreement with what parkour is truly about. What we do know is that parkour originated in France where it is sometimes referred to as “l’art du déplacement” meaning “the art of displacement”. The basic principle of parkour is to use only the human body to move from point A to point B in the most efficient, direct and fluid way possible.

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• Meteorites

  Learn about the science of Meteorites with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  A meteorite is a mass of stone or metal which has reached the earth’s surface from outer space. There are various names for a meteorite depending on where it is situated. While it is traveling in space, it is referred to as a “meteoroid”. When it passes through the earth’s atmosphere and produces a fiery streak in the sky, known as a “shooting star”, it is called a “meteor”.

  Because meteorites formed from the dust present during the creation of the solar system, they are on average around 4.5 billion years old. Their composition is, therefore, a record of past geologic processes which occurred while they were still part of their parent asteroid.

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• Great Pacific Garbage Patch

  Learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  In 1997, a Californian man named Charles Moore was sailing home from Hawaii after competing in a boat race. On a whim, he decided to change course and head through a part of the eastern Pacific Ocean known as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Known to seafarers as "the doldrums", this is an area of light or no wind and little boat traffic. Its calm weather is due to a permanent column of high pressure air, which causes the ocean for hundreds of miles across to swirl slowly towards its centre.

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• Wind Power

  Learn about the science of Wind Power with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Wind power is a limitless, non-polluting resource that currently contributes almost 2% of the world's energy supply. It's the fastest-growing resource market in the world and has become one of the biggest issues in the green movement. Importantly, there’s enough of it in the atmosphere to meet the daily global energy demand five times over!

  But what is wind? In fact, it is the sun's heat and the earth's varied surfaces that create wind. When the sun's rays hit the earth, the north and south poles receive less heat than the equator because of their angle to the sun.

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• Evolution

  Learn about the theory of Evolution with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds.

  Evolution is a theory which explains how life on Earth developed. At its heart, it proposes that all species, including human beings, are formed by way of a gradual process of mutation from other species. According to this theory, humans are related to gorillas and reptiles because they share common ancestors. They are like distant cousins with the same grandparents. The important difference is that millions of generations separate them! Amazingly, evolutionary theory even suggests that we share a common ancestor with all organisms on earth.

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• Man on the Moon

  Learn about landing a Man on the Moon with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  When the Cold War was at its height in the 1950s and 1960s, the US and Russia were fierce rivals. So, with burgeoning technology making flying safer and easier, these two world powers embarked on a “space race” to see who could be the first to launch a rocket into space. On 12 April 1961, Russia won! And the astronaut Yuri Gargarin went down in history as the first person to make it into space.

  That same year, John F Kennedy became President of the United States. NASA’s Administrator, James Webb, was like a breath of fresh air for JFK, helping to stir up enthusiasm for an American moon-landing.
  
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• Stencil Art

  Learn about Stencil Art with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  In any urban setting throughout the world today, you can expect to see examples of stencil art. On street corners, train stations and public toilets the world over stencil art is a favoured tool of the graffiti artist. Many consider such imagery urban pollution, the work of mindless vandals. Such attitudes ignore what has fast become one of the most significant artistic and cultural movements of the early 21st century. Stencil Art is no longer the sole domain of the graffiti artist, the aesthetic is now ubiquitous in advertising, the mainstream press and even on the walls of the world’s most famous galleries.

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• Aurora Borealis

  Learn about the science of the Aurora Borealis with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The aurora borealis, often referred to as the northern lights, is a natural light-show that appears in the sky around the north magnetic pole. Auroras can sometimes be seen in other places of the world, but not as clearly. In the southern hemisphere, the phenomenon is called “aurora australis”.

  The aurora borealis occurs because of an interaction between solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field. When the sun’s gases explode, some of the particles are blown away in a phenomenon known as solar wind. The particles in the solar wind travel at speeds of over 600,000 miles per hour and take two to three days to reach the Earth.

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• US Federal Reserve

  Learn about the US Federal Reserve with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The US Federal Reserve is stirring more excitement these days than is probably recommended for a central bank just shy of its 100th birthday.

  The Fed, tasked with fostering economic growth and price stability in the US, was ratified by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. It followed two failed attempts, and two hundred years of boom and bust in what was to rapidly become the world’s leading economy. The Fed's own lifetime has been scarcely less eventful. And today it tackles the gravest in a long line of crises that, for better and worse, have helped shape the US financial environment.

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• Culture Jamming

  Learn about Culture Jamming with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  It is increasingly in the media, but what exactly is culture jamming and how does it work?

  Culture jamming is a form of protest in which advertisements and other media messages are re-arranged or parodied in humorous or disturbing ways. The term covers a range of practices, including sabotaging billboards, spoofing well-known ads, and hoaxing the mainstream media.
  The purpose of culture jamming is to expose the reality behind corporate spin and to reclaim the media and public spaces from the influence of powerful corporations.

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• Flash Mobs

  Learn about Flash Mobs with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Have you ever witnessed 200 dancers in gold-lamé trousers invade a Los Angeles Department store? Or maybe 300 nude cyclists riding down Paris' Champs-Elysees? Or perhaps you've received a text message inviting you to an impromptu 500 person pillow fight in London's Piccadilly Circus? If you answered yes to any of the above, chances are you've unwittingly been exposed to the contemporary but curious cultural phenomenon of the Flash Mob.

  The first ever Flash Mob occurred, or rather was planned to occur at 7:24pm on the evening of Tuesday June 3, 2003. An anonymous figure “Bill” sent an email to 50 friends giving detailed instructions, he encouraged them to forward the email to any friends who might be interested.

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• Lehman Brothers

  Learn about the Lehman Brothers collapse with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Lehman Brothers Holding Co. was the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank before the firm’s spectacular collapse in 2008. Lehman’s global businesses previously generated more than $19 billion in 2007 from its vast capital markets, investment banking and investment management businesses.

  The firm’s numerous subsidiaries included Neuberger Berman, Aurora Loan Services, Lehman Brothers Bank and Eagle Energy Partners. Lehman’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing on September 15, 2008 marked one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history and sent shockwaves throughout the global financial markets.

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• Joan of Arc

  Learn about Joan of Arc with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  It is said that when Joan of Arc was born on 6 January in 1412, the roosters in her village all crowed, even though it was midnight.

  When Joan was 13 years old, something happened to change her life. She was working in the garden when she thought she saw a bright light coming from the church, and heard someone speaking French in a sweet, low, beautiful voice. The voice told her it was the angel Saint Michael, and that he had a message from God. He told her she had a great mission to fulfill, and that she would be the one to save France.

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• Lobbying

  Learn about Lobbying with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  In a perfect world, elected officials in democratic countries would make decisions in the public interest after considering issues objectively and impartially. This is how parliaments and other representative bodies are supposed to work. In reality, however, politicians around the world are subject to a range of influences and pressures that can distort the political process. One of the most persistent pressures is lobbying: the practice of seeking to influence legislation and other government decisions by those with an interest in the outcome.

  Lobbying is an ancient art, because powerful people and groups have always had an incentive to manipulate official decisions in ways that are favourable to them.

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• Stonehenge

  Learn the history of Stonehenge with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Five thousand years ago, at the same time as the pyramids were being constructed in Egypt, another monolithic structure was being built in the English county now known as Wiltshire. This structure, a complex series of earthworks and towering standing stones, is one of Europe's most famous prehistorical sites. But while we know quite a lot about who built the pyramids, and how and why they were constructed, we know very little about Stonehenge. Was it an astronomical observatory? A place of magic and ritual? A burial ground? A place of healing? The debate still rages.
  
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• Plantaganets

  Learn about The Plantagenets with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The House of Plantagenet was a royal house of 15 monarchs who ruled England from 1154-1485.

  The Plantagenets originally came from France, where they ruled a county called Anjou. They were a strange and powerful family, complex and prone to insanity. Their founder, Count Fulk III (known as “The Black”), had his wife burned at the stake in her wedding dress when he discovered she was sleeping with a goatherd. His great grandson, Geoffrey V gave the dynasty its name. The word Plantagenet comes from the name of a flower: plante genêt in French, or “common broom”. Geoffrey V was said to have worn a sprig of the golden flower in his battle helmet.
  
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• The Bubonic Plague

  Learn about the history of The Bubonic Plague with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Bubonic plague is widely regarded as being responsible for two of the most infamous plagues in recorded history - the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century and the great plague of London in 1665.

  The causative organism of modern-day plague was discovered independently in 1894 by two bacteriologists: the Swiss born Dr. Alexandre Yersin and Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato from Japan. Both were conducting research in Hong Kong during the third plague pandemic then occurring in Asia. Kitasato was working with the backing of the British authorities and had access to autopsies of plague victims at Kennedy Town Hospital.
  
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• Tragedy of the Commons

  Learn about the Tragedy of the Commons with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Tragedy of the Commons is a situation in which a jointly-owned resource is overused or destroyed because each person takes more than they would if the resource was privately owned. With each individual acting independently, the combined pressure on the resource exceeds what is in the interests of the community as a whole. The term was coined in 1967 by Garrett Hardin, a biologist from the University of California, in a famous article in the journal Science.

  According to Hardin, there are some kinds of problems which society cannot resolve through technology, but which instead require a wholesale change in morality and behavior - what we might now call a cultural shift.
  
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• Seven Wonders of the World

  Learn about the Seven Wonders of the World with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  2,500 years ago, people began to talk about the wondrous structures they had seen in their travels around the Mediterranean. In 222 B.C., Philo of Byzantium wrote an essay called “On the Seven Wonders”. The historian Herodotus had made his list a few hundred years before. But it was Antipater of Sidon, a Greek poet, who brought the Seven Wonders to life in 120 B.C. Antipater lived during the Hellenistic age, when the culture of the ancient Greeks had spread throughout the Mediterranean. Seven was a mystical number to people of this era. And Antipater’s Seven Wonders soon became tourist shrines, much like the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower are today.

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• UFOs Lesson

  Learn about UFOs with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  On 25 June 1947, Kenneth Arnold, a United States Forest Service employee and private pilot, witnessed nine Unidentified Flying Objects in the sky near Mount Rainier, Washington. This incident was to mark the beginning of a rapid increase in public interest in UFOs. Arnold, who at the time was searching for a downed transport plane, originally thought the objects he saw were jets. However, on closer inspection, he realised the objects had no tails and all but one looked like flat disks. He later described the objects as being similar to saucers skimming across the surface of the water. This description was repeated by a journalist when reporting the story, and this is how the term "Flying Saucer" was coined.

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• Protocols of Elders of Zion

  Learn the story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the one of the world's most famous conspiracy theories. It is a statement of prejudice and paranoia, a fake historical record and a grand hoax all rolled into one.

  The Protocols claim to prove that there is a Jewish plot to take over the world and purport to show that socialism, liberalism and every other reformist idea or activity are just tools of a Jewish secret cabal. The Protocols have been discredited many times over their 110-year-old history and would be laughable, except for the tragic role they played in the Twentieth Century.

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• Hope Diamond

  Learn about the mysterious Hope Diamond with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The 45.52-carat Hope Diamond is the largest deep-blue diamond in the world. In its body of less than one cubic inch, it holds a history dripping with mystery, conspiracy and celebrity. It is now housed behind three inches of bulletproof glass in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and looks out at a world fixated with its beauty and history.

  Originally 115 carats, the Hope Diamond was discovered in India by the French merchant-traveller Jean Tavernier, in the 1660s. Born in 1605, Tavernier was apprenticed to a jeweller at a young age. Later in life, between 1631 and 1638, he made six trips to India to obtain and trade diamonds.

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• Crop Circles

  Learn about the mystery of Crop Circles with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Crop circles are geometric patterns found in agricultural fields, most often in Southern England. They consist of flattened plant stems lying in regular patterns, some of which are highly complex. Crop circles usually appear in fields of wheat, barley, canola and other common crops. Circles have also been known to appear in grass, sand and ice. Because of their size - hundreds of feet across - crop circles can only be truly appreciated from the air. There are at least 10,000 reported instances of crop circles to date.

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• Hemophilia

  Learn about the condition of Hemophilia with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The term "hemophilia" describes hemorrhagic, or bleeding, disorders. The most common of these disorders is caused by a deficiency of Protein in the blood known as 'blood-clotting factor'. There needs to be at least 30% of the clotting factor for the blood to clot normally. Less than 30% results in the blood being slow to clot, causing bleeding for a longer time than someone with a regular amount of clotting factor.

  Internal bleeding, usually into joints and muscles, is the most common form of bleeding sustained by those suffering from hemophilia. This can result from an incident such as a fall, or even spontaneously, with no apparent cause.

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• REM Sleep

  Learn about REM sleep with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
  
  REM is an important component of sleep. But sleep itself is a difficult phenomenon to study, because it is such an insular process. Dreams in particular are highly elusive for the researcher of sleep. As dreaming is a "state of mind", theories concerning it are frustratingly convoluted and highly theory-based, with any advancement unlikely to be supported by hard evidence. However, what scientists can do is measure the physical reactions that take place in our bodies and by our bodies when we are sleeping. This helps us understand what happens to us when we sleep and what REM is all about.
  
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• Epidemics

  Learn about Epidemics with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
  Epidemics are important to us as humans because they affect our very survival. Knowing what they are and how to control them have been of interest to us for centuries.

  A simple explanation of the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic would be to say that an epidemic is the large-scale transmission of an illness, whereas a pandemic is an epidemic that spreads across several countries. Until relatively recently‚ before advancements in science‚ most people believed epidemics were a punishment from God. There has been a large degree of mystery surrounding the spread of illnesses.
  
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• Stockholm Syndrome

  Learn about Stockholm Syndrome with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  At first glance two of the 1970's most notorious bank robberies would seem to have nothing in common. They occurred eight months apart, for different motives, on opposite sides of the globe. But these two incidents would prove seminal to the development and understanding of a curious and once controversial psychological condition; Stockholm Syndrome.

  On the 15th of April 1974, the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco was robbed. Security footage showed a young, attractive urban guerrilla brandishing a machine gun and ordering people in the bank to lie face down on the ground.
  
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• Boston Tea Party

  Learn about the Boston Tea Party with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  It was another cold night in Boston, Massachusetts on the 16th of December 1773. But this was no ordinary night. This night would ignite the flames of injustice within many an American colonist. And it would eventually lead to the American Revolution.

  That night, three British ships - the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver - were moored in the Boston harbor. Their holds were filled with British tea that the American colonists had refused to accept. However, Thomas Hutchinson, the royal governor of Massachusetts, in turn, refused to issue the permits which would allow the ships to leave the harbor and return to Great Britain.

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• Great Fire of London

  Learn about the Great Fire of London with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Before the Great Fire, the City of London was filled with crowded, timber-framed buildings with thin, plaster walls. Candles, rushlights, coals and fireplaces were omnipresent, and the risk of fire was paramount.

  The Great Fire of London is believed to have been started by the baker Thomas Farrynger shortly after midnight on Sunday, 2 September 1666, in his shop on Pudding Lane, just East of London Bridge. Within a few hours, the fire had spread rapidly, consuming Pudding Lane, Star Inn at Fish Street Hill and also part of Thames Street. For the next four days the fire raged, mercilessly consuming everything in its wake. Londoners were beside themselves trying to extinguish it.

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• Whaling

  Learn about the history of Whaling with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The history of whaling is a fascinating look at international efforts to protect finite resources in international waters, otherwise known as common territory or commons.

  While whaling can date back to 6000BC, large-scale whaling is thought to have commenced around the twelfth century, with the Basques who killed a large number of right whales in the Bay of Biscay. Despite very primitive modes of slaughter, using hand-held harpoons and man-powered boats, they were believed to have depleted the local whale stocks within a century.

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• Magna Carta

  Learn the history of the Magna Carta with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Magna Carta: the great document has become synonymous with the power of the people. A medieval English charter of 63 clauses, it has become one of the most famous legal documents in history. Those who wrote the American Declaration of Independence claimed to have been inspired by it. Parliaments the world over look to it as an early affirmation of their right to govern. But what is the Magna Carta, why was it written, and what were the consequences of its production?

  To understand the Magna Carta, we must know about the monarch who was forced by his barons to sign it. King John of England could only be pressured into bending to the will of his barons because his rule was highly unsuccessful.
  
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• Rosetta Stone

  Learn about the Rosetta Stone with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  In 196 BCE, priests of all the gods of Upper and Lower Egypt assembled at Memphis to celebrate the accession to the throne of the boy king Ptolemy V. He was already in the ninth year of his reign, but this was the first time that such a momentous gathering as this had taken place. The Council of Priests reviewed all the good works that Ptolemy had performed since acceding to the throne. They also decided that his services to Egypt merited extra honours to be paid to him in all major temples in Egypt. So, after this ceremony, the priests went about drafting a decree in which the good deeds of Ptolemy V and the extra honours to be paid to him were laid out.

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• Barbary Pirates

  Learn about the Barbary Pirates with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  For 350 years, from the late 15th century onwards, Europeans travelling by boat in the Mediterranean Sea were under constant threat of pirate attack. But these were not pirates as normally understood; rather, they were Muslim warriors officially sanctioned to plunder ships from Christian countries and kill or enslave anyone they found aboard.

  The ships of the Barbary corsairs, as the pirates were known, were usually owned by the local ruler, or pasha, who granted the captain of each ship license to engage in piracy against ships from non-Muslim countries. Local merchants would also invest in corsair ships, which could be a source of handsome profits.
  
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• Film Noir

  Learn about Film Noir with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  If you’re watching a movie where a world-weary detective is having trouble with a “dame” or a “broad”, and cigarette smoke is wafting through the scene – you’re probably appreciating a bit of “Film Noir”.

  Film Noir literally means black film referring to both the look and the attitude of these movies. Classic Film Noir movies were produced between 1940 and 1958. This film making style emerged in the United States as the Second World War raged and the Great Depression was only recent history.

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• Hollywood Blacklist

  Learn about the Hollywood Blacklist with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  It was November 25th, 1947.

  There was a joint release of a statement saying the Hollywood studios would not employ Communists. But it did not end there. They also agreed that those people identified as the Hollywood Ten should be fired or suspended without pay until they had publicly sworn that they were not communists, and were cleared of Congressional contempt charges.
  This was the official beginning of the Hollywood blacklist. But who were the Hollywood Ten? How had Tinsel town become a battleground for the Cold War?

  The Hollywood Ten were screenwriters, film directors and producers. These ten men had been subpoenaed to appear before the Congressional House Committee on Un-American Activities.

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• Anime

  Learn about Anime with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
  Super robots to schoolgirls, Astroboy cute to violent realism, Pokemon to pornography.

  All of these different images, stories and types of entertainment, in cartoon form, can be called Anime.

  The term Anime covers an enormous range of animation. A specific definition of Anime is difficult as the style is vast, steeped in history and ever evolving. Most often it characterizes all animation of Japanese origin - or of the Japanese style. Anime has a long and varied production history in Japan, but principally entered the Western conscience in the 1980's. Since then it has grown in popularity and international significance.

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• Andy Warhol

  Learn about Andy Warhol with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Andy Warhol came to public attention as one of the leading lights of the Pop Art movement of the 1960’s. Since then his art and legacy have polarised art critics and the public alike. This thin, pale, asexual man in a silver wig has been described as both a genius and a charlatan. His art, and maybe more importantly his approach to art, have taken him out of the galleries and museums into the public arena. Love or loath his work most agree that he broke down the divide between high art and mass culture.

  Crucial to Warhol is this paradox: As an artist who approached art from its commercial perspective he pointed out how art is debased by money.

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• Blues

  Learn about Blues Music with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Blues music is a type of African-American folk music. It is concerned with expressing emotions through song. Generally, blues songs deal with tragic themes such as lost love, hardship, poverty and death. Indeed, the name "blues" comes from the emotions expressed in the songs themselves! However, blues songs are presented in a way to make audiences feel better about their own situation in life. This is because they encourage listeners to take control of their lives and move past any hardship. Due to this, blues music is very effective at connecting with its audience. This is best proved by Lead Belly, a famous US musician who was released from jail in 1925 due to his ability to sing the blues!

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• Robin Hood

  Learn about the story of Robin Hood with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The story of Robin Hood is one of the most famous legends in the English language. The events of the legend place him in the regency of Prince John, when King Richard the Lionheart was away on crusade. This means if Robin Hood existed, he would have lived in the late twelfth century.

  The legend of Robin Hood takes place in Sherwood Forest, near the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands, England. It is well known that Robin Hood and his band of merry men were outlaws in the forest. One version of the story states that Robin Hood was a Saxon who was treated unfairly by his Norman overlords.

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• Battle of Waterloo

  Learn about the Battle of Waterloo with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18th June 1815 between Napoleon’s French Army and the British, Dutch, Belgian and German forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington. It is one of the most famous battles in the world and one of the most decisive events in history.

  Waterloo marked the endpoint of an extremely turbulent period. In 1789, the French Revolution destroyed the old order of king and church, in the name of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality. King Louis XVI was executed and Europe’s monarchs, horrified at what the Revolution might mean for them, invaded France. A young army commander, Napoleon Bonaparte, seemed the only one capable of defending France.

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• Armistice Day

  Learn about Armistice Day with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Armistice Day is a day put aside to commemorate the ceasefire which effectively ended the "Great War", as World War One was previously known.
  It happened at 11 am on 11 November 1918. The Allied Forces -- made up of the United Kingdom, the Russian empire, France, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Italy, New Zealand, Japan, Portugal and the US -- were the victorious against the Central Powers.

  The word "armistice" signifies only a temporary ceasefire. However, the armistice that took place on 11 November 1918 ended the fighting of World War One for good, with the necessary negotiations for peace taking place soon afterwards.
  
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• The Spanish Inquisition

  Learn the history of the Spanish Inquisition with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Spanish Inquisition was a governing authority started by the crown in the late-fifteenth century. It included a network of spies who worked across the state to ensure Spaniards conformed to the accepted behaviour of traditional Catholic subjects. It was relentless in ensuring Catholic orthodoxy within Spain. But why was Spain so self-conscious in ensuring a singular religious identity?

  Let's go back to the year 711. Muslim armies from North Africa successfully conquer much of the Iberian Peninsula, leaving only pockets of resistance in the North. There is Islamic rule in at least part of Spain for the most part of the next eight centuries.

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• Guantanamo Bay

  Learn about Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp was set up by the United States Government as a detention facility for “unlawful enemy combatants” captured in the “war on terror”. Opened in 2002, it is located on the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

  Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US, the Congress granted President Bush the authority to “use all necessary and appropriate force” against those who committed the attacks. Two months later President Bush issued an executive order, which provided that any non-citizens believed to be involved in international terrorism could be held by the US military indefinitely.

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• D-Day Invasion

  Learn about the D-Day Invasion with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The story behind D-Day begins in 1939 when Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, attacked Poland and ignited World War Two. The following year, the Germans occupied France and Western Europe and launched a vicious air war against Britain. In 1941, they invaded the Soviet Union. Seemingly unstoppable, the Nazis now held virtually all of Europe. They imposed a ruthless system of control and unleashed the horror of the Holocaust. However, by 1943, the tide had begun to turn in favor of the Allies, the forces opposed to Germany. In the east, despite huge losses, the Soviets began to force the Germans back.
  
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• Bay of Pigs

  Learn about the Bay of Pigs invasion with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Bay of Pigs refers to the 1961 invasion of Cuba by a force of CIA-backed Cuban exiles attempting to overthrow Fidel Castro’s left-wing government. In Cuba the invasion is called the Battle of Girón, one of the beaches in the Bay of Pigs, which is on the south coast of Cuba. The invasion was one of the flashpoints of the Cold War and pushed the world towards the brink of nuclear war.

  Cuba gained independence from Spain in 1898, but in the decades that followed, American business gained control of many industries and landholdings. Cuban governments, such as that of Fulgencio Batista, who effectively ruled from 1933 to 1958, were closely allied to the United States.

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• Seven Archangels

  Learn about the Seven Archangels with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The history of Angels rests predominantly in the Middle East. Other cultures had gods, goddesses or faeries, but in the Middle East they worshiped angels as their gods. Once the idea of a single all powerful God evolved, however, it was necessary to create another space for angels. And so, they became known as mediators between the newly created all powerful God and his servants –humankind- on Earth. The concept of angels was particularly native to Jewish and Babylonian culture.

  The word angel comes from the Greek word for “messenger”.
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• Creationism

  Learn about the theory of Creationism with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Creationism is the name given to the belief that God created the universe and everything in it, including life. In the West, the word is usually associated with the account of creation given in the book of Genesis in the Christian and Jewish bibles, but it can apply equally to the foundation stories of other religions, such as Islam and Hinduism. There are various forms of creationism, each associated with a different interpretation of scripture and with different views about its impact on current scientific thinking. The book of Genesis says that “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth”, and that the whole world was created in six days.

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• Geisha

  Learn about the history of the Geisha with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Mystery and misconception surround the geisha. At first glance, she may appear to be rather average looking, heavily clad in a weighty costume and an excess of make-up. But behind this mask lies a range of artistic skills and social etiquettes of immense importance to Japanese culture past and present.

  The most common place to find a geisha today is in Kyoto, the former capital of Japan before Tokyo –or Edo- took over. Even so, it is rare to see a real geisha walking the streets there. There are Japanese girls who look like geisha - wearing colorful kimonos with thick obis wrapped tightly around their waist, tottering along on pairs of wooden okobo.

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• Nazca Lines

  Learn about the Nazca Lines with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
  
  The Nazca Lines have been called the eighth wonder of the world. They are a series of large drawings on the ground – called geoglyphs – located in the Nazca desert, in Peru. The Nazca desert is a high plateau situated between the towns of Palpa and Nazca, which is 400 kilometres south of the Peruvian capital of Lima. The drawings are large outlines of creatures and plants, created by removing the red pebbles of the landscape to reveal the white earth underneath. What are left behind are striking white outlines of immense figures, best viewed from the air. The drawings include depictions of many animals, including hummingbirds, fish, monkeys, llamas and spiders.

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• The Last Supper

  Learn about the Last Supper with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
  
  “While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, ‘Take it; this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, ‘This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.”

  In the Gospel according to Mark, we read of the night before Jesus was arrested, before he was taken to his death on the cross. On his last night on earth, he shares bread and wine with his twelve chosen disciples. This—his Last Supper—continues to be remembered and rehearsed as an important event in the Christian faith.

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• Penicillin

  Learn about the discovery of Penicillin with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  When Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, it was a lucky accident. He didn’t realize at the time that penicillin would dramatically change the face of medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.

  Fleming was a researcher studying the natural antibacterial substances produced by the body. He had been working with the bacteria that caused boils. To study the bacteria he grew colonies of it on plates. He later took a holiday leaving plates of bacteria to grow while he was away. On returning from his holiday, he noticed a mould growing on one of the plates. Colonies of the bacteria, which should have been growing around the mould, had died off.

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• Loch Ness Monster

  Learn about the Loch Ness Monster with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Throughout the world, there are hundreds of lakes in which monsters are said to live. None of these lake monsters is more famous than the Loch Ness Monster, who is said to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.

  “Loch” is the Scottish word for a lake or a large body of water. And Loch Ness, situated near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, is the largest body of water in Great Britain. It is a freshwater loch, roughly 750 feet deep. It contains more freshwater than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Although Loch Lomond, also in Scotland, is bigger with regards to total area of water, due to Loch Ness’ great depth, it is the biggest in terms of volume.

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• Confucius

  Learn about the teachings of Confucius with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure. His teachings have profoundly influenced Asian thought and life. The impact of his life and intellectual ideas have changed human history and it can be argued that he is the most influential philosopher who has ever lived. In China, he is known as K’ung Fu-Tzu, but in the West, he is more popularly known by his Latinized name. Legend and tradition have built up around Confucius since his death around 479 B.C. It is therefore difficult to know who the “real” Confucius was. It is hard to separate fact from fiction, truth from legend.

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• Krumping

  Learn about the dance style of Krumping with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Imagine teams of super athletic dancers, engaging in spectacular and aggressive dance battles, their styles reminiscent of African dance to Hip Hop break beats, the scene looking more like a fight than a dance. The teams of dancers, made up of men, women and children, have their faces painted in elaborate styles from the childlike to the grotesque. All the while this practice is being engaged in the spirit of community inclusion and good citizenship. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Krumping. Krumping was a movement with humble and unlikely origins.

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• Habeas Corpus

  Learn about the principal of Habeas Corpus with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase which means 'have the body'. It is a legal writ, or order, that a court may make, requiring a prisoner to be brought before it so that the lawfulness of their detention may be determined. The fundamental principle behind the writ is that no-one should be detained without cause.

  The origins of the writ are in English common law, and its use has been traced back to at least the early 1300s. Habeas corpus was adopted into the constitutions of many of the countries that incorporated English law, including the United States and Canada. As such it is often thought of as a constitutional guarantee against arbitrary detention.

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• Eternal_Truths.mp3
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• Murphy_s_Law.mp3
• International_Criminal_Tribunals.mp3
• The_Dropa_Stones.mp3
• Behavioral_Economics.mp3
• Fireworks.mp3
• Mocumentary.mp3
• Pele.mp3
• Triple_Crown_of_Racing.mp3
• Davis_Cup.mp3
• Climbing_Everest.mp3
• New_York_Yankees.mp3
• Parkour.mp3
• Meteorites.mp3
• Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch.mp3
• Wind_Power.mp3
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• Man_on_the_Moon.mp3
• Stencil_Art.mp3
• Aurora_Borealis.mp3
• US_Federal_Reserve.mp3
• Culture_Jamming.mp3
• Flash_Mobs.mp3
• Lehman_Brothers.mp3
• Joan_of_Arc.mp3
• Lobbying.mp3
• Stonehenge.mp3
• The_Plantagenets.mp3
• The_Bubonic_Plague.mp3
• Tragedy_of_the_Commons.mp3
• Seven_Wonders_of_the_World.mp3
• UFOs.mp3
• Protocols_of_Elders_Of_Zion.mp3
• Hope_Diamond.mp3
• Crop_Circles.mp3
• Hemophilia.mp3
• REM_Sleep.mp3
• Epidemics.mp3
• Stockholm_Syndrome.mp3
• Boston_Tea_Party.mp3
• Great_Fire_of_London.mp3
• Whaling.mp3
• Magna_Carta.mp3
• Rosetta_Stone.mp3
• Barbary_Pirates.mp3
• Film_Noir.mp3
• Hollywood_Blacklist.mp3
• Anime.mp3
• Andy_Warhol.mp3
• Blues.mp3
• Robin_Hood.mp3
• Battle_Of_Waterloo.mp3
• Armistice_Day.mp3
• The_Spanish_Inquisition.mp3
• Guantunamo_Bay.mp3
• D-Day_Invasion.mp3
• Bay_Of_Pigs.mp3
• Seven_Archangels.mp3
• Creationism.mp3
• Geisha.mp3
• Nazca_Lines.mp3
• The_Last_Supper.mp3
• Penicillin.mp3
• Loch_Ness_Monster.mp3
• Confucius.mp3
• Krumping.mp3
• Habeas_Corpus.mp3