Cool Hunting Video Presents: The International Banana Museum
There are many interesting and odd things to be found of the shores of the dying Salton Sea in southern California but maybe one of the most unique is the International Banana Museum. Recently transplanted from Culver City, the museum occupies a squat building on the side of the Highway 111 in Mecca, CA, a relatively short drive south from Palm Springs. Housing the largest collection of banana paraphernalia in the world, the museum is a fascinating catalog of all the different ways the iconic fruit can take shape. For our latest video we stopped in and spoke to Fred Banana Mon Garbutt, who owns the collection and curates this curious collection.
International Banana Museum
Great Outdoors visits the International Banana Museum in North Shore, California, 98775 Highway 111 along the Salton Sea.
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The International Banana Museum
One of the strangest museums in the country has to be the International Banana Museum in Mecca, California, dedicated to preserving kitschy memorabilia containing the slender yellow fruit. Among its 17,000 items, you'll find everything from a Michael Jackson banana to a petrified banana from the 1970s. Take a fun one-minute tour in this installment of Off The Beaten Path.
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After 5 Jazz and Blues Festival 2008
During a magical time of American creativity, a new musical form captivated the world. The music was called jazz, and Denver's Five Points was the Jazz Mecca of the American West. From the Roaring 20's to the mid-1950's, Denver proudly proclaimed its place among the stellar jazz cities.
The Five Points was the place to be, featuring legendary performers like Louie Armstrong, Billie Holliday, Duke Ellington, and Nat King Cole. Nightclubs, social clubs, hotels, and restaurants served hot jazz to the avant-garde crowds that migrated along the trendy spots on Welton Street.
To celebrate the cultural legacy of the Five Points and to share with visitors its storied past, a select business group will host a premier music festival in Downtown Denver's Historic Five Points District during the week of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
The annual festival will continue an eight year tradition in which an elite jazz concert has been hosted in Denver's Five Points. The much anticipated festival has featured internationally celebrated musicians like Hugh Masekela, Jonathan Butler, and Alex Bugnon.
The festival will bring back the excitement and electrifying performances for which Denver's legendary Five Points was famous. Negotiations are currently underway to secure a stellar Jazz, Blues, and Old School lineup.
An historic event will occur in Denver when for the first time in our nation's history a woman or person of color is nominated to compete for the presidency of the United States. Share this momentous and festive event in Downtown Denver's Historic Five Points.
Video credits: Pamela Williams 2007, Hugh Masakela 2002, Norman Brown 2001, Alex Bugnon 2007, Soul School 2007, Music Background -- Marcus Miller Funny, All She Needs is Love, Dizzy Gillespie -- Tour De Force
Animal Care and Well-Being at the Academy | California Academy of Sciences
Biologists in the Steinhart Aquarium use enrichment and training to keep animals—like penguins, stingrays, and macaws—healthy and engaged. It also helps the animals communicate and connect with their caregivers.
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Tourist Development Council Public Meeting - 12/18/19
Tourist Development Council Meeting - 12/18/19
Timeline of the name Palestine | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of the name Palestine
00:03:20 1 Historical references
00:03:30 1.1 Ancient period
00:03:39 1.1.1 Egyptian period
00:04:39 1.1.2 Assyrian period
00:06:26 1.2 Classical antiquity
00:06:35 1.2.1 Persian (Achaemenid) Empire period
00:08:36 1.2.2 Hellenic kingdoms (Ptolemaic/Seleucid/Hasmonean) period
00:09:27 1.2.3 Roman Jerusalem period
00:16:06 1.2.4 Roman Aelia Capitolina period
00:24:55 1.3 Late Antiquity period
00:25:04 1.3.1 Late Roman Empire (Byzantine) period
00:35:59 1.4 Middle Ages
00:36:07 1.4.1 Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates period
00:42:25 1.4.2 Fatimid Caliphate period
00:44:47 1.4.3 Crusaders period
00:46:15 1.4.4 Ayyubid and Mamluk periods
00:52:21 1.5 Early modern period
00:52:30 1.5.1 Early Ottoman period
01:16:22 1.6 Modern period
01:16:31 1.6.1 Late Ottoman period
01:58:46 1.6.2 Formation of the British Mandate
02:03:59 2 Biblical references
02:08:56 3 Etymological considerations
02:09:36 4 See also
02:09:57 5 Bibliography
02:18:07 6 Notes
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This article presents a list of notable historical references to the name Palestine as a place name in the Middle East throughout the history of the region, including its cognates such as Filastin and Palaestina.
The term Peleset (transliterated from hieroglyphs as P-r-s-t) is found in five inscriptions referring to a neighboring people or land starting from circa 1150 BC during the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. The first known mention is at the temple at Medinet Habu which refers to the Peleset among those who fought with Egypt in Ramesses III's reign, and the last known is 300 years later on Padiiset's Statue. The Assyrians called the same region Palashtu/Palastu or Pilistu, beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in c. 800 BC through to an Esarhaddon treaty more than a century later. Neither the Egyptian nor the Assyrian sources provided clear regional boundaries for the term.The first appearance of the term Palestine was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece when Herodotus wrote of a district of Syria, called Palaistinê between Phoenicia and Egypt in The Histories. Herodotus was describing the coastal region, but is also considered to have applied the term to the inland region such as the Judean mountains and the Jordan Rift Valley. Later Greek writers such as Aristotle, Polemon and Pausanias also used the word, which was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Plutarch as well as Roman Judean writers Philo of Alexandria and Josephus. The word was never used in an official context during the Hellenistic period, and is not found on any Hellenistic coin or inscription, first coming into official use in the early second century AD. It has been contended that in the first century authors still associated the term with the southern coastal region.In 135 AD, the Greek Syria Palaestina was used in naming a new Roman province from the merger of Roman Syria and Roman Judaea after the Roman authorities crushed the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Circumstantial evidence links Hadrian to the renaming of the province, which took place around the same time as Jerusalem was refounded as Aelia Capitolina, but the precise date of the change in province name is uncertain. The common view that the name change was intended sever the connection of the Jews to their historical homeland is disputed.During the Byzantine period c. 390, the imperial province of Syria Palaestina was reorganized into: Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda, and Palaestina Salutaris. Following the Muslim conquest, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration generally continued to be used in Arabic. The use of the name Palestine became common in Early Modern English, was used in English and Arabic during the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem. In the 20th century the name was used by the British to refer to Mandatory Palestine, a mandate from the former O ...
After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula, Panel I
In the Arabian Peninsula, public spaces are often most used after darkness falls, and the temperature along with it. This symposium explores typologies of nocturnal landscapes common in the Arabian Peninsula and in locales with similar hot climates. During this interdisciplinary event, we will ask who uses night-time landscapes and public spaces, what activities are peculiar to the night, and, ultimately, how to design for life after dark. Organized by Gareth Doherty, assistant professor of landscape architecture, and William Granara, director, Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Supported by the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture.
jessica Care moore: We Want Our Bodies Back
Native Detroiter jessica Care moore is a playwright, author, activist, musician, performance artist, and institution-builder. A five-time Showtime at the Apollo winner and returning star of the HBO Series Def Poetry Jam, moore’s forthcoming collection of poems and visual art installation, We Want Our Bodies Back, honors the life of Sandra Bland. Moore has performed readings for audiences around the globe and has received numerous awards, including a 2016 Kresge Arts Fellowship; the 2013 Alain Locke Award from the Detroit Institute of Arts; and the 2015 Great Expectations NAACP Award. Her poetry and voice is prominently featured in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History. Additionally, moore is the CEO of Moore Black Press, a publishing company dedicated to preserving the new generation of writers and poets, and Executive Producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, a movement showcasing the music and stories of Black women who build institutions around their craft.
Supported by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
History of Western civilization | Wikipedia audio article
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History of Western civilization
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Western civilization traces its roots back to Europe and the Mediterranean. It is linked to the Roman Empire and with Medieval Western Christendom which emerged from the Middle Ages to experience such transformative episodes as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, scientific revolution, and the development of liberal democracy. The civilizations of Classical Greece and Ancient Rome are considered seminal periods in Western history; a few cultural contributions also emerged from the pagan peoples of pre-Christian Europe, such as the Celts and Germans, as well as some significant religious contributions derived from Judaism and Hellenistic Judaism stemming back to Second Temple Judea, Galilee, and the early Jewish diaspora; and some other Middle Eastern influences. Christianity and Roman Catholicism has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization, which throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture. (There were Christians outside of the West, such as China, India, Russia, Byzantium and the Middle East). Western civilization has spread to produce the dominant cultures of modern Americas and Oceania, and has had immense global influence in recent centuries in many ways.
Following the 5th century Fall of Rome, Western Europe entered the Middle Ages, during which period the Catholic Church filled the power vacuum left in the West by the fall of the Western Roman Empire, while the Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire) endured in the East for centuries, becoming a Hellenic Eastern contrast to the Latin West. By the 12th century, Western Europe was experiencing a flowering of art and learning, propelled by the construction of cathedrals and the establishment of medieval universities. Christian unity was shattered by the Reformation from the 16th century. A merchant class grew out of city states, initially in the Italian peninsula (see Italian city-states), and Europe experienced the Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century, heralding an age of technological and artistic advance and ushering in the Age of Discovery which saw the rise of such global European Empires as those of Spain and Portugal.
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th century. Under the influence of the Enlightenment, the Age of Revolution emerged from the United States and France as part of the transformation of the West into its industrialised, democratised modern form. The lands of North and South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand became first part of European Empires and then home to new Western nations, while Africa and Asia were largely carved up between Western powers. Laboratories of Western democracy were founded in Britain's colonies in Australasia from the mid-19th centuries, while South America largely created new autocracies. In the 20th century, absolute monarchy disappeared from Europe, and despite episodes of Fascism and Communism, by the close of the century, virtually all of Europe was electing its leaders democratically. Most Western nations were heavily involved in the First and Second World Wars and protracted Cold War. World War II saw Fascism defeated in Europe, and the emergence of the United States and Soviet Union as rival global powers and a new East-West political contrast.
Other than in Russia, the European Empires disintegrated after World War II and civil rights movements and widescale multi-ethnic, multi-faith migrations to Europe, the Americas and Oceania lowered the earlier predominance of ethnic Europeans in Western culture. European nations moved towards greater economic and political co-operation through the European Union. The Cold War ended around 1990 with the collapse of Soviet imposed Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the 21st century, the Western World retains significant global economic power and influ ...
LitTV with Chris Carlsson
In this broadcast Kelly Long interviews writer, editor and historian Chris Carlsson about the numerous upheavals and changes in history and present of the Mission District in San Francisco
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LitTV is a series of video documents in collaboration with San Francisco Bay Area teens, exploring connections between fire and knowledge, showcasing some of the unique features and personalities that make up the San Francisco Public Library, and the vital role that librarians play in their communities. It is produced by the artist Minerva Cuevas for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Public Knowledge initiative.
Fire was the early form of shared public knowledge that triggered civilization. Throughout human history, fire has been crucially connected to social upheaval and physical change. Today, public libraries not only store and share a valuable resource: information, but they nurture community in rapidly changing cities.
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Chris Carlsson, is a writer, San Francisco historian, “professor,” bicyclist, tour guide, blogger, photographer, book and magazine designer. He’s lived in San Francisco since 1978 and has been self-employed in various capacities since the early 1980s. He has written two books (After the Deluge, Nowtopia) edited six books, (Reclaiming San Francisco, The Political Edge, Bad Attitude, Critical Mass: Bicycling’s Defiant Celebration, Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco, 1968-78 and Shift Happens! Critical Mass at 20), and co-authored the expanded second edition of Vanished Waters: The History of San Francisco’s Mission Bay. He helped co-found Critical Mass in September, 1992, and has ridden with Critical Mass rides in a dozen cities on three continents since then. His book Nowtopia, along with his role in Critical Mass, has propelled him into extended world travels since 2002, and he has had three of his books translated and published in Italy and one in Brazil. His frequent public appearances are well-represented online at Youtube and in various radio and audio archives. He has directed Shaping San Francisco since its inception in the mid-1990s, and continues to be co-director of the archive of San Francisco history at FoundSF.org. He also conducts award-winning bicycle history tours and walking tours a dozen times a year, and hosts an ongoing Public Talks series in San Francisco. Since 2011 he has been a “road scholar” in his capacity as an adjunct professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and most recently, the University of San Francisco.
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Public Knowledge is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library. The project has been made possible in part by a major Public Humanities Projects, Community Conversations grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in Public Knowledge do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.