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Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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[2003]
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At the time the Roman Empire supplanted the failed Republic, the Rhine River marked Rome's northern frontier in western Europe, until Emperor Augustus tried to push the boundary east to the Elbe. This program focuses on the events during the 1st through 4th centuries and traces the movements of the Goths and the tribes of Germania. Includes the battle in the year 9 when Arminius, leader of the Germanic resistance to Roman colonization, destroyed three...
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Wandering tribes of Europe ; part 3
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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[2003]
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"When the Huns charged into the lands of the Goths and then, in the 5th century, into Europe, they started a new wave of terror and tribal relocation. This program tracks the displacement of the Visigoths to Spain and the Vandals to North Africa. Both succeeded in defeating proud and once-mighty Rome in its own capital but who would stop the hordes of Attila as they raced onwards into the Frankish Kingdom?"--FFH Web site.
7) Orphanage
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When earth needs heroes, whom will we call to valor? When mankind's enemy is beyond our worst imagination, who will be our champions? Will we pick the brightest and the toughest? Or the ones with nothing left to lose? War is an Orphanage Mankind's first alien contact tears into Earth: projectiles launched from Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, have vaporized whole cities. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrike. In a spacecraft scavenged...
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The city of Malaga is dead, but the promised eternal rest has yet to come to its inhabitants. In the Carranque camp, thirty survivors have built a shelter to keep out the dangers of the world. They fight not only to recover the city, but also the physical and mental degradation of surviving day to day after the pandemic. One of the survivors, Isabel, casts handwritten notes from the penthouse into the dead-filled streets below. But a mad priest, Father...
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What do you do when you learn your family is the one who's holding all the secrets? Secrets that could get you killed... Ella is looking forward to starting college in the fall with her best friend Josie. She's looking for a place where she can get away from her overbearing parents and two older annoying brothers. Unfortunately Ella realizes that sometimes the past comes back to haunt you. Ella soon learns that the man who terrorizes her dreams is...
10) Reborn
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Ella finally knows what she is, but now she's not so sure she knows who she is. With Jack still on the loose her parents have her confined to the house leaving Ella to feel like she's stuck in a prison. Coping with the loss of her best friend and the love of her life, Ella feels trapped in an endless cycle of torment. She feels she's doomed to lose everyone she loves. In attempt to keep her safe and help her understand her new life her parents decide...
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Freedom was only the start. The crew of the Wanderer face ever greater challenges as their journey continues. Knowing the Empire will hunt them down Jess and the others must seek help from another source.
Turning to the criminal underworld seems like their only option, but it soon threatens to end in disaster. Especially when past events return to haunt the present.
Will even the incredible Wanderer be enough to keep Jess, and those he cares about,...
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The Empire will kill him for stealing this ship… but they have to catch it first!
To the Empire the Wanderer was just another booby-trapped ship to claim, and Jess was just another worthless slave who could be sacrificed in the process.
Things didn't go to plan. Jess survived the dangers, and when he sat in the pilot's chair the ancient ship came to life for the first time in centuries.
Acting on instinct Jess seized the chance, firing up the...
13) Unforgiven
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All it took was three magical words… Tristan…is…alive. Ella knew leaving was wrong. She knew there would be consequences but what was at stake was far more important than anything she could have done if she stayed. She just had to see for herself. Ella also knows Josie's time is limited. With the help of her friends, Ella takes off and introduces herself to a foreign land. She hoped to keep her whereabouts a secret but it isn't long before her...
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Doing the right thing can bring the wrong type of attention. Now the Empire knows the amazing things the Wanderer is capable of, they want the ship for themselves. As powerful as the Wanderer is it is no match for the imperial fleet that seeks to capture it. Jess has only one option — run.
With the imperial fleet dogging his steps Jess continues to head for the Wanderer's homeworld, but in running from the Empire he is running blindly towards a...
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Trace the exact date changes were, made in church worship since the first century. These changes were mostly, led by popes who had bought their office, led armies against people rejecting them, and had illegitimate children.
Trace the protesters, since the second century and the persecution they endured, often being burned at the stake.
Discover the hymns we sing still today written by the protesters, sometimes just hours before their torturous death.
Then...
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If you would like to worship as the apostles did, this book is for you. Their worship was dynamic in its simplicity.
Do you take for granted that the founders of major Christian denominations would approve of the way your denomination worships today? Find numerous quotes from them at the beginning of each chapter on various forms of worship we engage in.
Do you take for granted that second-century apostolic fathers worshiped the same way your congregation...
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Would you like to worship as the apostles did? If so, this book is for you. It is dynamic in its simplicity and still is. Do you take for granted that the founders of major Christian denominations would approve of the way your denomination worships today? Find numerous quotes from them at the beginning of each chapter on various forms of worship we engage in.
Do you take for granted that second-century apostolic fathers worshiped the same way your...
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Dreaming of Spain: A free prequel to the upcoming Under the Spanish Stars by Alli Sinclair, February 2015
Charlotte Kavanagh is averse to risk and researches every decision she makes. Although it hasn't helped her recently with her failed romance, a job she despises and a strong feeling there is a better life out there–somewhere.
When her grandmother takes ill and requests Charlotte travels to Spain to solve a mystery, Charlotte faces a huge decision–stay...
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Hunted by a powerful Imperial fleet, his friends infected by the Taint, Jess has only one place to turn - the homeworld of his amazing ship, the Wanderer.
But his journey will reveal the origins of far more than just the Wanderer, and both the Empire and the Taint will be ready to pounce at any moment. Jess expects to learn how things started, but what he learns might also point to how everything will finish... and just how close that end may be.
20) The wanderers
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When a mistake during a circus performance reveals their true abilities, Flo and other shape-shifting orphans are forced to flee to escape the hunters who capture and kill their kind.
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