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Mark Twain Colorized 1909: Filmed by Thomas Edison at Stormfield - Speed Adjusted and Restored Video

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In 1909, Thomas Edison visited Mark Twain at Stormfield, his home in Redding, Connecticut and filmed this footage. Part of the footage was used in The Prince and the Pauper (1909), a two-reel short film. This is the only known existing film footage of Twa
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The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe (Reading & 1909 Film)

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Quoth the raven, "Nevermore..." Incredible poem from 1845 by famous American writer Edgar Allan Poe, set to an old silent film inspired by the poem. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," starts the famous narrative. It follows t
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How Spiders Fly (1909)

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This charming short film is surprisingly technically advanced for its time, using a mechanical spider to demonstrate how the creatures spin the threads to create their webs. Suddenly the spider lifts up all of its legs, allowing itself to be dragged throu
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RMS Titanic: Fascinating Engineering Facts

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Bill shares fascinating images and information gleaned from the 1909 to 1911 editions of the Journal The Engineer. It includes photos of the construction of the Titanic and its twin the Olympic, the launching of these Olympic-class ships, and accidents th
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Blackstone oil engine startup

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1909 10HP Blackstone oil engine was used for pumping water from a river to a market garden. The engine was sabotaged in the 1920s by someone blowing up the cylinder with explosives. A new cylinder was installed and the engine was returned to service for a
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Why is New York City Called the Big Apple?

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→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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Wyatt Earp's Nephew, Virgil Earp (Born in 1879), Talks About the Wild West - Restored Video/Audio

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Virgil Edwin Earp (April 19, 1879 - November 20 1959) was the son of Newton Jasper Earp, Wyatt Earp's half-brother. Newton and Wyatt had the same father, Nicholas Porter Earp (September 6, 1813 – February 12, 1907). Born in Tombstone, Arizona in 187
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Robots learn to use their hands

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Having robots learn dexterous tasks requiring real-time hand-eye coordination is hard. Many tasks that we would consider simple, like hanging up a baseball cap on a rack, would be very challenging for most robot software. What's more, for a robot to learn
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The Truth About "Elementary, My Dear Watson"

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Most People Don't Know Wine Moves Like This | EVERYDAY MYSTERY

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Wine legs aka wine tears or wine fingers are stranger than they seem. Check out Vsauce3 Can You Survive the Movies!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfcdJ7sizcZero G with Veritasium and e-penser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_AJWZajEkBursting Droplete
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HALLEY, 2061

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The intellectual taming of comets began with Edmond Halley (with an assist from Newton) in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In the April 11, 1908, supplementary edition of Scientific American, astronomer S. I. Bailey wrote, Before Halleys time come
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The tragic story of this famous meteorite

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And the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him.Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjOIn 1897, American explorer Robert Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition to Greenland with an enormous iron meteorite, which he had tak
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Hookworms And The Myth Of The

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The stereotype of the "lazy Southerner" may have been caused by widespread hookworm infections in the American South. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓
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Historical Figures Brought To Life (Akhenaten, King Charles II, Bach, Mata Hari)

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Historical Figures Brought To Life Using AI Technology. AI motion by Mystery Scoop The photos of the subjects in this video have been digitally manipulated and brought to life using AI technology. Images have been enhanced, colorized and facial motion add
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Are "Acts of God" Disappearing?

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Considering humans' increased impact on the environment, we may want to reconsider whether there is still a place in our legal system for the Act of God defense. Thanks to all our viewers and supporters for an incredible year of videos! Thanks also to our
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The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve

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The Collatz Conjecture is the simplest math problem no one can solve it is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veri
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Rare Footage Of Extinct Animals

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I dare you to watch this and not get the feels. Rare and moving footage of six extinct animals taken before they were wiped out. It also features an eye watering list of every animal that has gone extinct since 1900. 1. Heath Hen - Extinct 1932 Heath hens
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512 Year Old Greenland Shark. Oldest Shark in the World.

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Researchers have found an ancient shark in the North Atlantic, believed to be 512 years old, which could be the oldest living vertebrate in the world. This particular shark, was measured at 18 feet in length and weighed over a tonne. By measuring the size

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