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Jim Jeffries sparring with Joe Choynski

choggie (http://history.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:44:25 -0700

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Hours before Jack Johnson handed Jeffries' ass to him in the history making fight(Reno, July 4, 1910), seen here with a crowd that includes no black folks, and a bunch of uppity, hard-core, whiteys....
http://www.ibhof.com/ibhfhvy3.htm

Jack Johnson vs. Jack London

choggie (http://history.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:29:43 -0700

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Segment from a discovery channel documentary on the greatest boxer the world has ever seen....and we are not simply speaking of his professional skills as they relate to his craft/gift

Immortal Beloved - trailer

chilaxe (http://history.videosift.com/member/chilaxe) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:07:16 -0700

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Ebert:
There is an image in "Immortal Beloved" as evocative as any I can remember. Movies that attempt to match visual images to great music are often asking for trouble, but what Bernard Rose has accomplished in "Immortal Beloved" is a film that imagines the mental states of Beethoven with a series of images as vivid and convincing as a dream.

The film unfolds like a biographical puzzle. Beethoven after his death left a letter addressed to his "immortal beloved," with no hint as to who that person was. As a last testament this document may have been faulty, but as a biographical puzzle it was a masterstroke, inspiring two centuries of fevered speculations, of which this film is the latest and most romantic... Rose has created a fantasy about Beethoven that evokes the same disturbing, ecstatic passion we hear in his music.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, ou la mort!

kulpims (http://history.videosift.com/member/kulpims) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:42:14 -0700

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May 1968 is the name given to a series of student protests and a general strike that caused the eventual collapse of the De Gaulle government in France. The vast majority of the protesters espoused left-wing causes, but the established leftist political institutions and labor unions distanced themselves from the movement. Many saw the events as an opportunity to shake up the "old society" and traditional morality, focusing especially on the education system and employment.

It began as a series of student strikes that broke out at a number of universities and lycées in Paris, following confrontations with university administrators and the police. The de Gaulle administration's attempts to quash those strikes by further police action only inflamed the situation further, leading to street battles with the police in the Latin Quarter, followed by a general strike by students and strikes throughout France by ten million French workers, roughly two-thirds of the French workforce. The protests reached such a point that de Gaulle created a military operations headquarters to deal with the unrest, dissolved the National Assembly and called for new parliamentary elections for 23 June 1968.

The government was close to collapse at that point (De Gaulle had even taken temporary refuge at an air force base in Germany), but the revolutionary situation evaporated almost as quickly as it arose.[citation needed] Workers went back to their jobs, after a series of deceptions carried out by the Confédération Générale du Travail, the leftist union federation, and the Parti Communiste Français (PCF), the French Communist Party. When the elections were finally held in June, the Gaullist party emerged even stronger than before.

May '68 was a political failure for the protesters, but it had an enormous social impact. In France, it is considered to be the watershed moment that saw the replacement of conservative morality (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) with the liberal morality (equality, sexual liberation, human rights) that dominates French society today. Although this replacement did not take place solely in this one month, the term mai 68 is used to refer to the shift in values, especially when referring to its most idealistic aspects.

source: wikipedia