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The tranquil, beautiful, interesting and serene Kew Gardens is an ambient paradise, where one can clear their mind, and feel attuned to nature from around the world.
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The smallest waterlily in the world can be seen at 3.32 minutes in the video. It is so cute!
❀ 250 year old UNESCO world heritage Kew Gardens in London holds the worlds largest collection of living plants (from around the world, including the worlds smallest waterlily), maintained by over 650 scientists. Kew Gardens covers an area of 121 hectares, and holds the worlds largest library of plant books and drawings.
✿ Kew Gardens official website.
❀ More information about Kew, London.
✿ Kew holds 4 grade I listed buildings and 36 grade II listed structures!
❀ The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to as Kew Gardens, comprises 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in Richmond upon Thames in southwest London, England.
✿ The director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is responsible for the world's largest collection of living plants. The organisation employs more than 650 scientists and other staff.
❀ The living collections include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants, while the herbarium, which is one of the largest in the world, has over seven million preserved plant specimens.
✿ The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. The Kew site includes four Grade I listed buildings and 36 Grade II listed structures in an internationally significant landscape.
❀ The elegant Temperate House and Palm House Conservatories at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, are made from hand-blown glass Ornate wrought-iron spiral staircases are within the palatial conservatories.
✿ A Japanese Gateway features in the Japanese Gardens, a Chinese Pagoda Temple and Mediterranean Villa's also feature amongst the range of architecture within Kew's beautiful landscape and gardens.
❀ The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is an internationally important botanical research and education institution with 700 staff and an income of £56 million for the year ended 31 March 2008, as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost two million visits in that year.
✿ Created in 1759, the gardens celebrated their 250th anniversary in 2009.
❀ The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the brand name Kew are also used as umbrella terms for the institution that runs both the gardens at Kew and Wakehurst Place gardens in Sussex.
✿ The 400 year old Chelsea Physic Gardens in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, The Horticultural and Garden Museum, Hampton Court Palace Gardens (all in London) are also seeing.
❀ The annual Chelsea Flower Show (each May) is the garden equivalent of a designer catwalk fashion show, with celebrities, royalty and the Prince of Monaco often attending this event. Garden designers from around the world design innovative and creative gardens, whilst new floral collections are displayed each year. It's held in the Royal Hospital grounds in Chelsea, West London.
❀ Compton Acres in Bournemouth (which also has award winning public gardens in the town centre, including the Winter Gardens), and the Eden Project in Cornwall are beautiful gardens too.
♪♫ Chopin - Nocturne (Meditation Masters).
Symposium on Ancient Oman (afternoon)
Afternoon session of an all-day symposium, Ancient Oman: Archaeological Digs and Historical Discoveries in the Sultanate of Oman. The symposium was sponsored in partnership with the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.
Speaker Biography: Krista Lewis is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas and director of the Land of Frankincense Archaeological Project.
Speaker Biography: Joy McCorriston is professor of anthropology at Ohio State University and director of the ASOM Project (Ancient Socioecological systems in Oman).
Speaker Biography: Michael Harrower is associate professor of archaeology at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Archaeological Water Histories of Oman Project.
Speaker Biography: Nathan Reigner is a research fellow at the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.
Speaker Biography: Christopher Thornton is senior director of cultural heritage for the National Geographic Society and director of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat in Oman.
Speaker Biography: Eric Staples is assistant professor of history at al-Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.
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Christopher Monckton - A Personal Inquiry - Just Right 242
Lord Christopher Monckton was interviewed by Robert Vaughan on March 20, 2012.
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Topics include: how has education and journalism changed since he left school, what is the solution to the Islamification of the West, and his motivation to take on climate change proponents, philosophy, the Conservative Party of Britain, and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).
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Informal 09/27/11 Session - Norfolk City Council
03:13 NORFOLK SHARX PRO SOCCER - Presenter: Marcie Laumann, President, CEO
19:22 COUNCIL INTERESTS AND ISSUES
68:10 HAPPENINGS AT THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM - Presenter: Bill Hennessey, Director of Chrysler Museum of Art
95:05 GENERAL PLAN UPDATE PART 3 - Presenter: Frank Duke, Director of Planning & Community Development
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Great Englishwomen Audiobook by M.B. Synge | Audiobook with Subtitles
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the education and living conditions of the poor. Some were great painters, poets, and writers. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)
Great Englishwomen
M. B. SYNGE
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00:00:20 | 01 - Queen Bertha
00:10:54 | 02 - Maude the Good
00:18:38 | 03 - Eleanor of Aquitane
00:34:40 | 04 - Philippa of Hainault
00:47:11 | 05 - Margaret of Anjou
00:58:26 | 06 - The Lady Margaret
01:11:23 | 07 - Margaret Roper
01:20:44 | 08 - Lady Jane Grey
01:35:37 | 09 - Princess Elizabeth
01:48:56 | 10 - Lady Rachel Russell
02:04:34 | 11 - Angelica Kaufmann
02:17:04 |12 - Hannah More
02:27:30 | 13 - Elizabeth Fry
02:40:05 | 14 - Mary Somerville
02:56:37 | 15 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
03:12:10 | 16 - Florence Nightingale
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A Pair of Blue Eyes Audiobook by Thomas Hardy | Audiobook with Subtitles | Part 2
The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with whom she shares a country background. Henry Knight is the respectable, established, older man who represents London society. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Queens | Wikipedia audio article
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Queens
00:02:21 1 History
00:02:30 1.1 Colonial and post-colonial history
00:07:22 1.2 Incorporation as borough
00:10:13 2 Geography
00:11:47 2.1 Borough scapes
00:11:56 2.2 Climate
00:14:24 2.3 Adjacent counties
00:14:44 3 Neighborhoods
00:19:23 4 Demographics
00:19:32 4.1 Population estimates
00:22:15 4.2 Ethnic groups
00:31:44 5 Culture
00:34:07 5.1 Languages
00:36:10 5.2 Food
00:36:40 6 Government
00:39:36 7 Economy
00:42:22 8 Sports
00:43:42 9 New York City Designated Landmarks
00:43:53 10 Transportation
00:44:14 10.1 Airports
00:45:55 10.2 Public transportation
00:48:07 10.2.1 Water transit
00:50:47 10.3 Roads
00:50:55 10.3.1 Highways
00:51:58 10.3.2 Streets
00:55:55 10.3.3 Bridges and tunnels
00:57:36 10.4 Education
00:57:44 10.5 Elementary and secondary education
00:58:57 10.6 Postsecondary institutions
01:01:35 10.7 Queens Library
01:02:43 11 Notable people
01:04:51 12 See also
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Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City. It is geographically adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the southwestern end of Long Island and to Nassau County farther east on Long Island; in addition, Queens shares water borders with the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population (after Brooklyn), with a census-estimated 2,358,582 residents in 2017, approximately 48% of them foreign-born. Queens County also is the second-most populous county in the U.S. state of New York, behind the neighboring borough of Brooklyn, which is coterminous with Kings County. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated county among New York City's boroughs, as well as in the United States. If each of New York City's boroughs were an independent city, Queens also would be the nation's fourth most populous, after Los Angeles in California, Chicago in Illinois and Brooklyn. Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.Queens was established in 1683 as one of the original 12 counties of New York. The settlement was presumably named for the English queen Catherine of Braganza (1638–1705). Queens became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898, and from 1683 until 1899, the County of Queens included what is now Nassau County.
Queens has the most diversified economy of the five boroughs of New York City. It is home to John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both among the world's busiest, which in turn makes the airspace above Queens among the busiest in the United States. Landmarks in Queens include Flushing Meadows–Corona Park; Citi Field, home to the New York Mets baseball team; the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, site of the US Open tennis tournament; Kaufman Astoria Studios; Silvercup Studios; and Aqueduct Racetrack. The borough has diverse housing, ranging from high-rise apartment buildings in the urban areas of western and central Queens, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing, Astoria, and Long Island City, to somewhat more suburban neighborhoods in the eastern part of the borough, including Little Neck, Douglaston, and Bayside.