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Saturday, July 20; 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Autumn brings the world’s most spectacular transformations. It is also the last chance to breed, to grow up, to stock up before the cold returns. Chipmunks and beavers stash their winter supplies and many animals—from musk ox to beetles—have to battle for mates.
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Arnold Schwarzenegger explores how the military is adapting to climate change and limiting national security risk by increasing energy efficiency and using renewables, but needs to increase the pace of this adaptation. In Kuwait, he sees how fuel convoys are responsible for most US soldier deaths. He finds how our armed forces are dealing with an increased number of climate-related military conflicts and natural disasters. Cattle ranching, drought,...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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At Festival Mozaic, Scott Yoo and his wife, the flutist Alice Dade, get to know America’s greatest Romantic composer, Amy Beach, and European women composers of her time. Across the country, they explore Beach’s New England roots and career, in a time when polite society looked down on women composers. Despite this resistance, Beach was one of the first to try to invent a truly American music.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Many composers have struggled with mental health problems, few more famously than Robert Schumann. Scott goes to Scotland, Germany and France, with cellist Bion Tsang, psychiatrist and pianist Dr. Richard Kogan and other fascinating musicians and scholars, to understand the connection between mental health and creativity in the work of Schumann and other great artists.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Join sea lion pup Luna on an incredible journey as she learns the skills she’ll need to survive in the north Pacific Ocean. From her first miraculous moments in the womb to her arrival on a wild and remote island, she faces unforgiving odds and unimaginable dangers. With devoted mom Star by her side, she must master the skills she’ll need to embark on her first challenging ocean adventure. Some flashing lights sequences or patterns may affect...
48) Great Composers
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Mozart was without doubt the most prodigiously gifted of all Western composers. More than any other composer, it is his mythological biography - from the archetypal 'Wunderkind' childhood to his early obscure death - that defines our popular conception of a great composer. This film unravels two hundred years of fiction and myth. The deteriorating relationship Mozart had with his father, and his choice of Constanze for his wife are re-assessed in...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this episode of "The Great Bear Stakeout," viewers meet Parsnip, a first-time grizzly mum, and her young cub, Pushki. Only half of new bear cubs make it through the season, and they are both struggling to survive in this vast Alaskan wilderness. This area is ruled by a massive male bear, Van, and his partner Alice, a prized female bear with an aggressive and sinister side. Hungry adult bears will kill cubs, so Parsnip's summer is full of unexpected...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps returned triumphantly to Paris after completing the Suez Canal in 1869, he was hailed as a national hero. Thousands raced to invest in his next, even bolder scheme: to build a great canal across Panama. His dream would cut a swathe across the South American continent and unite the vast oceans of the Atlantic and Pacific. Fortunes seemed assured as shipping would no longer have to face the terrors of Cape Horn...
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Pub. Date
[2013], c2007
Language
English
Description
Vaucluse House: Peter Cundall visits Sydney's Vaucluse House, which was built in 1803. It's surrounded by 25 acres of gardens, including a pleasure garden, bushland, and significant trees. Peter also lends a hand in the huge kitchen garden. Compost Tea: Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how to make his grandfather's recipe for compost tea, a liquid manure that serves as a great garden fertilizer. Camellias: Jane Edmanson shows us a wonderful collection...
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English
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A fun 3D animated learning episode to support the early years development area of communications and language. Vicky Voice is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! In this mission she is learning about everyday noises and sounds. She is listening very carefully to the noises coming from the big screen inside the mission control room. Try and guess each sound before the pictures appear on the big screen. Have fun listening to each sound... there...
53) The Borrowers
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English
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When you're only 15cm high the world is a pretty frightening place! Meet Pod, Homily and Arrietty Clock - those tiny people who live under your floorboards. They exist by 'borrowing' everyday items from you that you wouldn't even miss! You will never know they're there unless they're careless and let you see them one day. That's why their lives are filled with danger and great adventures. So the next time you notice a doll's teacup missing or an old...
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English
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In his garden at Giverny, Monet created a vast canvas to research his landscape paintings. He had a Japanese bridge built over the pond, which he covered with water lilies. Anxious to render every variation of light over the bridge, water, foliage, and flowers consistent with the season and time of day, Monet worked simultaneously on several canvases and returned to them again and again. This program explores the 54 versions of Water Lilies from various...
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English
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“Land of the Eagle” turns the clock back to reveal the continent as it used to be hundreds of years ago, seen through the eyes of Native Americans and white settlers. Through their writings and diaries, Peter Crawford's award-winning series recreates the landscapes and wildlife of North America at the time when the first Europeans came to this 'new world’. This film explores the Sonora Desert of Arizona, where plants and animals have adapted...
56) Round Planet
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Yellowstone National Park is a spectacular landscape and a diverse habitat which supports an array of wildlife. But this serene habitat also holds a dark secret: it sits atop a super-volcano that could 'blow' at any minute. This episode follows the park's residents; the beavers, otters, elks and bison that are oblivious to this ticking time bomb, thriving in this land of extremes. Our narrator, esteemed naturalist Armstrong Wedgewood (actor Matt Lucas)...
Series
Life after people volume Season 1
Pub. Date
[2011], c2009
Language
English
Description
This program theorizes about what would happen if people disappeared from Earth. We consider what will happen to Manhattan's Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge, and Roosevelt Island Tramway, all created of steel and concrete. The fates of Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Federal Reserve's gold, and domesticated animals, such as horses, are also examined. The ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada, abandoned 90 years ago, is also discussed....
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island paradise. Known as the “Islands of Sacred Earth,” the territory of American Samoa is one of the United States’ most remote outposts. Its waters are home to stunningly beautiful coral reefs, including two of the world’s oldest and largest coral colonies on record. Many of these sites are protected inside America’s only National Marine Sanctuary and National Park south of the equator.Coral...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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From lake life to winter recreation, fall colors and family traditions, Waushara County is a quintessential Wisconsin destination. Host Mariah Haberman dives into the year-round recreation and deep-rooted family traditions that have kept visitors coming to this area for decades. Lake life is a huge draw to Waushara County, and many families have been coming to this area for generations to reconnect and relax with a weekend at the lake. With nearly...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Creator Julian Fellowes brings the top PBS drama of all time to its climactic sixth and final chapter. The fates of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, are discovered as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world.
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