The granite monolith of Half Dome is recognized throughout the world as an icon of Yosemite National Park. Thousands of visitors hike to the summit each year, rewarded with spectacular views and an experience that is not easily...

This old man he played one he played knick knack on my thumb! With a knick knack patty wack, give a dog a bone, this old man came rolling home! This is a classic song is great for preschoolers and toddlers. Children can sing along...

What do you do when a cymbal strap breaks? Here's a quick how-to to get that cymbal back in action!

MOT 1940: EAST INDIES AGRICULTURE: Domed jars of Quinina, Quininae Sulfas on display. Indonesians cutting South American imported, transplanted Cinchona trees, trimming bark for making quinine. Women working w/ Cinchona seeds & feather...

Follow an entire orbit of the ICESat-2 mission as it measures the elevation of oceans, sea ice, mountains, and islands around the Earth. This video shows the same orbit (ground reference track 1352) on...

In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible. What we...

Explore the cypress habitat with Ranger Yvette.

WS EXT Masjid-i ShahMasjid-i Shah in Isfahan (Esfahan) Dome of mosque w/ glazed tile mosaic (1612-37 Safavids dynasty art) / Praying Muslims / Seated Shia Islamic cleric Ayatollah Kashani talking (no SOT)

Analysis of images from NASA's Dawn mission reveals that dwarf planet Ceres hosts an unexpectedly young cryovolcano that formed with the past billion years.



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"Farewell to the King" by Richard Friedman...

The Dome of the Rock is one of the most iconic buildings in the world and one of the most sacred buildings for Muslims today. But what is the Dome of the Rock? What is its history?

MOT 1939: RUSSIA: MOSCOW: WS Moscow buildings ferry FG. Possibly Red Square. U.S.S.R.

The city of Florence set a goal so ambitious that they needed to transform their city in order to accomplish it. This is the story of the Florence Cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore.

In spring 2018, I got a special tour inside the Dome of the Rock. Here are my thoughts as I wandered around this sacred building.

The history of the Florence Cathedral is the history of the Florence Renaissance

The U.S. Congress is demanding an investigation into the Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands, which contains radioactive waste and is being threatened by rising sea levels.

Anatomy and function of the diaphragm.

Watch this to find out the answer to Park Mystery Video #7!

On Tuesday, June 26th, 2012, thirty filmmakers spread throughout Yosemite National Park to create this portrait of the park and the people who visit and work there.

There are more than 250 churches in Venice, both consecrated and desecrated. Obviously, the sacred ones are first of all places of worship, but all together they make up a cultural, artistic and human heritage of inestimable value.

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially, at least according to the Turkish government, it is a museum. But it was originally built as a church and then was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of...

San Lorenzo basilica was the parish church of the Medici family. In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the 11th-century Romanesque rebuilding. Filippo Brunelleschi, the leading Renaissance...

Which kind of space suit will an astronaut wear on Mars? In order to prepare for a future human mission on the red planet scientists are holding tests in order to figure out how to live in near-isolation.



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We resume our collection of Postcards from Uzbekistan in the famous Registan Square in Samarkand.



One of the impressive attractions here is the Tilla-Kori Madrassah, where Islamic studies

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Engineers hope to contain radioactive core with this massive dome