GALWAY & LIMERICK, IRELAND TREADMILL SCENERY DVD
Take a 60 minute Virtual Walk through the cities of Galway and Limerick in Ireland. Your 60 minute Virtual Walk begins outside the Kennedy Park in Galway walking towards Williams Gate. You pass through busy Shop Street, crowded with shoppers then walk towards Bridge Street where you turn right and enter a greenway that follows the River Corrib. From time to time you pause to take in the beautiful scenery that surrounds you then, continuing on, you walk along Newtownsmith Street. The next section of your Galway walk takes you through Buttermilk Walk and then through Buttermilk Lane, then through an indoor shopping mall before returning to busy Shop Street. But this time, we take a left down High Street past numerous Irish pubs and cross Father Griffin Road and come to Galway Bay and on to The Long Walk - a street that parallels Galway Bay and where the Galway section of your walk ends.
The Limerick section of the walk begins beside scenic George's Quay and then passes the Mariners' Memorial beside the Shannon River. The 60 minute walk next takes you to Limerick's Peoples' Park, the city's principal park. Next, you experience Limerick's shopping district, not quite as busy as Galway's streets. You'll follow O'Connell Street and pass a statue honoring a rugby player and a hurler. And after pausing to view Limerick's historic Treaty Stone, your 60 minute Virtual Walk ends near Thomond Bridge. Filmed in Widescreen.
Morgan & The Nedrows Mariner's Hymn (Heartland)
Hill Folx + 1
Jutland - song by Les Sullivan, sung by Knot
The background of this song is the battle of Jutland, fought between British and German Navies in 1916. The stories told here concern just three out of 9000 seamen who lost their lives on both sides.
The questions of glory, pride, and sacrifice are merely a pretext to highlight the sense of heartbreak, universally shared by those left behind, waiting for their loved ones, bound away, never to return.
Les Sullivan is a singer-songwriter, author of many great songs cherished and sung worldwide in various languages, in which historical events make us ponder on the humanistic aspects of the times of war and turmoil; on the feelings we all share irrespective of the times and places, on how much alike we all are.
More about Les at: howlingtoad.webs.com
Knot is Iweta and Witek, who first met over 25 years ago, in an Irish music band, back in Poland.
Singing and playing together over the years, not only did they borrow from their beloved Irish repertoire, but they also garnered various songs from many often quite distant places and genres that resonated with them for many reasons.
Living in Ireland now, they are frequent visitors to traditional music sessions, where they share their music in a minimalistic, acoustic setting. Additionally, when recording Witek also likes to make use of his instrumental arsenal to complete the stories with sounds from all over the world.
witekkulczycki.com/projekty/knot
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the We're Here, a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience.
Chapter 1 - 00:00
Chapter 2 - 28:17
Chapter 3 - 1:06:04
Chapter 4 - 1:48:53
Chapter 5 - 2:22:53
Chapter 6 - 2:54:16
Chapter 7 - 3:13:36
Chapter 8 - 3:30:31
Chapter 9 - 4:15:26
Chapter 10 - 5:05:05
Read by Mark F. Smith (
Christopher Columbus | Wikipedia audio article
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Christopher Columbus (; before 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. He led the first European expeditions to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, initiating the permanent European colonization of the Americas. Columbus discovered the viable sailing route to the Americas, a continent which was not then known to the Old World. While what he thought he had discovered was a route to the Far East, he is credited with the opening of the Americas for conquest and settlement by Europeans.
Columbus's early life is somewhat obscure, but scholars generally agree that he was born in the Republic of Genoa and spoke a dialect of Ligurian as his first language. He went to sea at a young age and travelled widely, as far north as the British Isles (and possibly Iceland) and as far south as what is now Ghana. He married a Portuguese woman and was based in Lisbon for several years, but later took a Spanish mistress; he had one son with each woman. Though largely self-educated, Columbus was widely read in geography, astronomy, and history. He formulated a plan to seek a western sea passage to the East Indies, hoping to profit from the lucrative spice trade.
After years of lobbying, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain agreed to sponsor a journey west, in the name of the Crown of Castile. Columbus left Spain in August 1492 with three ships, and after a stopover in the Canary Islands made landfall in the Americas on 12 October (now celebrated as Columbus Day). His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani; its exact location is uncertain. Columbus subsequently visited Cuba and Hispaniola, establishing a colony in what is now Haiti – the first European settlement in the Americas since the Norse colonies almost 500 years earlier. He arrived back in Spain in early 1493, bringing a number of captive natives with him. Word of his discoveries soon spread throughout Europe.
Columbus would make three further voyages to the New World, exploring the Lesser Antilles in 1493, Trinidad and the northern coast of South America in 1498, and the eastern coast of Central America in 1502. Many of the names he gave to geographical features – particularly islands – are still in use. He continued to seek a passage to the East Indies, and the extent to which he was aware that the Americas were a wholly separate landmass is uncertain; he gave the name indios (Indians) to the indigenous peoples he encountered. Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and removal from Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits that he and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.
Columbus's expeditions inaugurated a period of exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for centuries, helping create the modern Western world. The transfers between the Old World and New World that followed his first voyage are known as the Columbian exchange, and the period of human habitation in the Americas prior to his arrival is known as the Pre-Columbian era. Columbus's legacy continues to be debated. He was widely venerated in the centuries after his death, but public perceptions have changed as recent scholars have given attention to negative aspects of his life, such as his role in the extinction of the Taíno people, his promotion of slavery, and allegations of tyranny towards Spanish colonists. Many landmarks and institutions in the Western Hemisphere bear his name, including the country of Colombia.