History of England
The territory that now constitutes England, a country within the United Kingdom, was inhabited by ancient humans more than 800,000 years ago as the discovery of flint tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk has revealed. The earliest evidence for early modern humans in North West Europe is a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, which was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. Continuous human habitation dates to around 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last glacial period. The region has numerous remains from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age, such as Stonehenge and Avebury. In the Iron Age, England, like all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, was inhabited by the Celtic people known as the Britons, but also by some Belgae tribes in the south east. In AD 43 the Roman conquest of Britain began; the Romans maintained control of their province of Britannia through to the 5th century.
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00:03:37 1 History
00:03:46 1.1 Early radio years
00:05:54 1.1.1 Turnaround: Paley's first year
00:10:19 1.1.2 CBS takes on the Red and the Blue (1930s)
00:15:45 1.1.3 CBS launches an independent news division
00:22:34 1.1.4 Panic: iThe War of the Worlds/i radio broadcast
00:23:52 1.1.5 CBS recruits Edmund A. Chester
00:25:30 1.1.6 Zenith of network radio (1940s)
00:35:12 1.1.7 Prime time radio gives way to television (1950s)
00:39:01 1.1.8 CBS's radio programming after 1972
00:41:53 1.2 Television years: expansion and growth
00:53:28 1.2.1 Programming (1945–1970)
00:57:10 1.2.2 Programming: Rural purge and success in the 1970s and early-mid 1980s (1971–86)
01:02:59 1.2.3 Programming: Tiffany Network in distress (1986–2002)
01:11:43 1.2.4 Programming: Return to first place and rivalry with Fox (2002–present)
01:19:43 1.2.5 CBS television news operations
01:25:16 1.2.6 Color technology (1953–1967)
01:31:34 2 Conglomerate
01:35:45 2.1 Columbia Records
01:37:39 2.2 Publishing
01:39:10 2.3 CBS Musical Instruments division
01:40:45 2.4 Film production
01:42:52 2.5 Home video
01:43:38 2.6 Gabriel Toys
01:44:32 2.7 New owners
01:45:30 2.7.1 Westinghouse Electric Corporation
01:54:30 2.7.2 Viacom
01:55:28 2.7.3 CBS Corporation and CBS Studios
01:58:40 3 Programming
02:01:59 3.1 Daytime
02:05:30 3.2 Children's programming
02:10:10 3.3 Specials
02:10:19 3.3.1 Animated primetime holiday specials
02:13:42 3.3.2 Classical music specials
02:16:50 3.3.3 iCinderella/i
02:18:25 3.3.4 National Geographic
02:19:59 3.3.5 Other notable specials
02:23:07 4 Stations
02:25:59 5 Related services
02:26:08 5.1 Video-on-demand services
02:28:26 5.1.1 CBS All Access
02:30:33 5.2 CBS HD
02:34:20 6 Brand identity
02:34:30 6.1 Logos
02:37:57 6.2 Image campaigns
02:38:06 6.2.1 1980s
02:42:26 6.2.2 1990s
02:44:01 6.2.3 2000s
02:45:29 6.3 Promos
02:46:36 7 International broadcasts
02:47:03 7.1 Canada
02:48:30 7.2 Bermuda
02:48:50 7.3 Mexico
02:49:32 7.4 Europe
02:49:52 7.4.1 United Kingdom
02:51:04 7.5 Australia
02:52:10 7.6 Asia
02:52:18 7.6.1 Guam
02:53:06 7.6.2 Hong Kong
02:53:41 7.6.3 Philippines
02:54:47 7.6.4 India
02:55:16 7.6.5 Israel
02:55:47 8 Controversies
02:55:56 8.1 Brown & Williamson interview
02:56:43 8.2 Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show incident
02:58:26 8.3 Killian documents controversy
03:00:07 8.4 Hopper controversy
03:02:10 8.5 Harassment allegations
03:03:16 9 Presidents of CBS Entertainment
03:03:27 10 See also
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CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television and radio network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major production facilities and operations in New York City (at the CBS Broadcast Center) and Los Angeles (at CBS Television City and the CBS Studio Center).
CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the company's iconic symbol, in use since 1951. It has also been called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in a former Tiffany & Co. building in New York City in 1950.The network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paley's guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, and eventually one of the Big Three American broadcast television networks. In 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc ...
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00:02:23 1 Early life (1819–1846)
00:02:35 1.1 Genealogy
00:04:04 1.2 Childhood and education
00:05:47 1.3 Travel
00:07:39 1.4 First publications of Ruskin
00:08:55 1.5 Oxford
00:11:16 1.6 iModern Painters I/i (1843)
00:14:04 1.7 1845 tour and iModern Painters II/i (1846)
00:16:16 2 Middle life (1847–1869)
00:16:28 2.1 Marriage to Effie Gray
00:17:52 2.2 Architecture
00:18:49 2.3 iThe Stones of Venice/i
00:21:30 2.4 The Pre-Raphaelites
00:26:20 2.5 Ruskin and education
00:28:31 2.6 iModern Painters III/i and iIV/i
00:29:24 2.7 Public lecturer
00:31:08 2.8 Turner Bequest
00:32:18 2.9 Religious unconversion
00:33:22 2.10 Social critic and reformer: iUnto This Last/i
00:39:51 2.11 Lectures in the 1860s
00:41:44 3 Later life (1869–1900)
00:41:56 3.1 Oxford's first Slade Professor of Fine Art
00:45:16 3.2 iFors Clavigera/i and the Whistler libel case
00:46:52 3.3 The Guild of St George
00:50:10 3.4 Rose La Touche
00:52:00 3.5 Travel guides
00:53:19 3.6 Return to belief
00:54:18 3.7 Final writings
00:56:10 3.8 Brantwood
00:58:45 3.9 Personal appearance
00:59:51 4 Legacy
01:00:00 4.1 International
01:01:36 4.2 Art, architecture and literature
01:02:41 4.3 Craft and conservation
01:03:11 4.4 Society and education
01:05:00 4.5 Politics and economics
01:06:01 4.6 Ruskin in the 21st-century
01:08:58 5 Theory and criticism
01:10:17 5.1 Art and design criticism
01:16:46 5.2 Historic preservation
01:18:21 5.3 Social theory
01:20:22 6 Controversies
01:20:31 6.1 Turner's erotic drawings
01:21:13 6.2 Sexuality
01:25:49 6.3 Common law of business balance
01:28:02 7 Definitions
01:30:25 8 Fictional portrayals
01:34:49 9 Paintings
01:34:58 10 Select bibliography
01:35:32 10.1 Works by Ruskin
01:44:23 10.2 Selected diaries and letters
01:45:53 10.3 Selected editions of Ruskin still in print
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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.
The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.
He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability and craft.
Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal role of the artist is truth to nature. From the 1850s, he championed the Pre-Raphaelites who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. Unto This Last (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, published under the title Fors Clavigera (1871–1884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society. As a result, he founded the Guild ...
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