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Making Reactions Go Faster Since the 1700s | Great Minds: Elizabeth Fulhame
154 views / 0 likes - addedSciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. The chemical process of catalysis happens in a myriad of places in our modern world - from industry to inside your cells. Our know
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How 60 Million Bison Became 1,000 In A Century
944 views / 3 likes - addedIn the late 1700s, more than 60 million bison roamed the Great Plains. Over the years, demand for fur and meat drove their numbers down until, by the end of the 19th century, there were just a 1,000 left. From: AERIAL AMERICA: The Great Plains http://bit.
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Hear the Worlds Oldest Piano (1720) at The Met Museum
325 views / 0 likes - addedWhen Bartolomeo Cristofori constructed his "gravicembalo col piano e forte" (harpsichord with soft and loud) in the early 1700s, he wasn’t trying to create a new instrument — he was actually trying to build a harpsichord with a little more con
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Corn Dogs 250 Years Ago? - Time Travel Food! - 18th Century Cooking
63 views / 0 likes - addedIn Time Travel Food, we go back in time and make modern favorites for historical figures. In this episode, Jon makes Corn Dogs for Samuel Adams. The struggle is making them with ingredients and tools/techniques that were available in the 1700s. Thanks for
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Food That Time Forgot: Pemmican, The Ultimate Survival Food
91 views / 0 likes - addedPemmican is and has always been the ultimate survival food. Pemmican revolutionized trade in the 18th century by giving travelers a new compact source for energy. Originally used as a food to help Native Americans make it though harsh winters, pemmican tu
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Snippet: Shipworms that eat rocks
345 views / 0 likes - addedShipworms have long been a menace to humankind, sinking ships, undermining piers, and even eating their way through Dutch dikes in the mid-1700s. Now, researchers have found the first shipworm that eschews wood for a very different diet: rock. Read more:
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The Spanish Empire, Silver,&Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25
800 views / 0 likes - addedIn which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-
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Earliest born human from 1700's ever seen on film?
586 views / 0 likes - addedPerhaps the earliest born human in history we will ever see on film. This lady was born in the 1700s (film is from 1905, she is already over 100 in it)."Grandmother Despina". This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers
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Why is There Braille on Drive Up ATMs?
630 views / 1 likes - added→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the wate
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Why did the US try to kill all the bison? - Andrew C. Isenberg
47 views / 0 likes - addedExplore how the US government hunted bison to near-extinction in the 1800s to force Native Americans onto reservations.--By the mid-1700s, many Plains nations survived on North Americas largest land mammals: bison. They ate its meat, made the hides into w
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This Is How Your Body Builds Immunity
1,471 views / 0 likes - addedWe encounter bacteria, viruses and parasites all the time, but how exactly does our immune system kill these dangerous pathogens? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Human! http://bit.ly/HUMANplaylist Visit our shop at http://sho
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