Discovery Channel - Ancient Rome- Part1: Rise of the Roman Empire
Documentary |Discovery Channel - Ancient Rome- Part1: Rise of the Roman Empire | 700MB
Two thousand years ago, one civilisation held the entire Western world in its grasp. From Northern Europe to Africa and the Middle East. It imposed laws, ideas and a single language. Rome was the super power of the ancient world. Indeed later super powers never stopped learning the lessons of her spectacular rise and fall. Rome truly was a colossal empire. During the rise of the Roman Empire, it was not always easy to separate virtue from vice, or hero from villain. Indeed, all too often, they were one and the same. Rome was still an adolescent discovering who it wanted to be, and its dream of greatness was a prlude to a nightmare. It was not for another 100 years that the state would mature and commit to one enduring view of itself. It would be the army, more than any other force that was destined to shape Rome's lasting identity.
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17.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - Octopus: The Ultimate Guide
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - Octopus: The Ultimate Guide | 700MB
Eight legs, three hearts, and a wealth of suction cups - the octopus is one of nature's most curious creations. Color-blind, it still can mimic multicolored backgrounds, and even use color to communicate. Shy and retiring, these cephalopods are hard to find and study, but Ultimate Guide: Octopus reveals their secrets, with amazing, up-close footage of a creature that prefers not to be seen.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - Mummies: The Ultimate Guide
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - Mummies: The Ultimate Guide | 700MB
The Earth is giving up its secrets: Mummies, people immortalized by ancient science or nature's whim, bodies that have hardly decomposed. Each one is an archaeological bonanza no matter how incomplete. Anthropologists pick over them inch by inch for the information they contain. Their preserved remains give us clues across millennia, silent witnesses that speak through their clothes, skin, and fingernails, telling us truths about the past, and giving up secrets long forgotten... and what they are saying could help shape the future.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - Human Body: The Ultimate Guide
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - Human Body: The Ultimate Guide | 700MB
It is riddled with holes, yet contains 15 gallons of water and a pint of hydrochloric acid. It has more protein than 70 pounds of peanuts. It has enough carbon to fill a thousand pencils, and enough phosphorous for 3,000 match heads. What sounds like a collection of chemicals in a leaky bag is the most complex structure on our planet, and 400,000 of them are born every day. The one thing we all have in common is the amazing machine we all inhabit... the human body. In the course of its life, it will breathe ten million balloons worth of air. It will process 30 tons of food. And it will secrete 17 gallons of tears. But humans rarely stop to think about the amazing technology behind even the most mundane action, the technology we will explore in this episode of The Ultimate Guide.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - Great Apes: The Ultimate Guide
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - Great Apes: The Ultimate Guide | 700MB
The great apes - ingenious, clever, perceptive - are the closest thing humans have to living relatives. These thoughtful and creative tool users continue to surprise researchers with their exhibitions of self-awareness and an apparent ability to reach into the minds of others. Explore the striking physical features, evolution, social structure, habitat, and communication skills of the great apes.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - Extreme Weather: The Ultimate Guide
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - Extreme Weather: The Ultimate Guide | 700MB
Sun, wind, and rain are basic to life, but sometimes the weather is more than just that. Sometimes it's stronger, violent. The wind becomes a tornado, the rain a hurricane. The Earth's atmosphere, for a moment, makes it uninhabitable. And there's nothing we can do about extreme weather but try to predict it, prepare for it and hope that it never happens here.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - The Original Vampire
Documentary | Discovery Channdel The Original Vampire | 700MB
It annoys us, it attacks us and it makes us itch. But, more than that, of all the great hunters and predators that stalk the planet, it is the one that has taken more human lives than any other: the mosquito. But it is an unwitting killer. Each year, all around the world, 700 Million people are infected with mosquito-borne illnesses... 3 million of them die. And the numbers are rising, the diseases are adapting and evolving. We are caught in a battle against the mosquito, a race against time to learn more about this formidable foe, this enemy with a thirst for blood.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - The Lost Mummy of Imhotep
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - The Lost Mummy of Imhotep | 800MB
The Lost Mummy of Imhotep uncovers what may be Egypt's fabled city of the dead and the legendary Imhotep, buried beneath the sands of Saqqara. At the dawn of Egyptian civilization, Imhotep built the first pyramid, became legendary as a physician and governed the greatest state on earth. The ancients made him a god, and Hollywood made him "The Mummy." But few realize that the character was based on one of the most important figures in all of ancient history, a man historians have called the world's "first known genius." For some archaeologists, Imhotep's lost burial site has been the Holy Grail of Egyptology. Now, at long last, Polish archaeologist Karol Mysliwiec may indeed have found him.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - The Hidden History of Egypt
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - The Hidden History of Egypt | 700MB
What did the Egyptians do when they weren't building pyramids, and just what are hieroglyphics about? Terry Jones - of Monty Python fame - learns that Egyptian women were on equal footing with men in all aspects of society, including wages and property ownership. Paper, papyrus, originated in Egypt, allowing for the development of the sciences, art and literature.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - The Brain: Our Universe Within - Evolution
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - The Brain: Our Universe Within - Evolution | 700MB
From a remote corner of Western Asia comes a story of the rise of consciousness in the human brain. In northern Iraq, beyond its rivers and rocky slopes, lie the plains where a remarkable group of human fossils rested undisturbed for sixty thousand years. Today, the American anthropologist who discovered those bones returns, worried that ethnic wars have put the excavation site in jeopardy. Forty years ago, Doctor Ralph Selecki, then at Columbia University, explored the caves at Shanidar where he unearthed an image of ancient man that profoundly changed the way we saw our ancestors.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - The Battle of Chernobyl
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - The Battle of Chernobyl | 1500MB
On April 26,1986 at 1:24am, a rainbow-colored flame shot 1,000 meters high into the Ukrainian sky. The fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had just exploded. The battle of Chernobyl had begun. For eight months, 800,000 young soldiers, miners and even civilians from all corners of the Soviet Union worked to try and "liquidate" the radioactivity, build a "sarcophagus" around the ruined reactor, and above all, to save the world from a second explosion. Provoked by a terrific chain reaction, a second nuclear explosion ten times more powerful than Hiroshima, threatened at any moment to wipe out not only the entire Ukraine, but half of Europe as well.
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16.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - Understanding : Magnetism
Documentary | Discovery Channdel Understanding - Magnetism | 900MB
Without magnetism, we would not have music as we know and experience it today; we would not have computers, motor vehicles, compasses, or MRI scans. Magnetism literally shapes our modern-day world. Learn how magnetic forces were first discovered and how magnetism affects both humans and other animals. Explore the role of magnetism in computers, audio recording, medicine, travel and its importance in your daily life.
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15.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - Tsunami: The Race for Survival
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - Tsunami: The Race for Survival | 700MB
The Indian Ocean tsunami was nature at its most awesome - horrifying and destructive. In Thailand, beach resorts were transformed instantly from sun?drenched slices of paradise to total devastation.
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15.03.2009
Discovery Channdel Titanic: Untold Stories
Documentary | Discovery Channdel Titanic: Untold Stories | 700MB
n the dark waters of the North Atlantic, the great passenger liner, R.M.S. Titanic, came to a violent and mysterious end. Each of her passengers were unwitting players in a harrowing drama: the builder who pronounced her dead; the brave men who fought to save her; thousands of people struggling for their lives. Now, for the first time, a prominent Titanic historian will retell her tragic tale from the ship's actual decks. Haunting locations will take us back to pivotal moments during the epic disaster. Newly discovered artifacts will help to piece together Titanic's untold stories. It's a moment in history we're still striving to understand, yet impossible to forget.
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15.03.2009
Discovery Channdel - Tiny Perfect Predators: Mantids and Dragonflies
Documentary | Discovery Channdel - Tiny Perfect Predators: Mantids and Dragonflies | 700MB
In nature, to eat is to survive, and predators come in a variety of shapes and sizes. There are far more insect predators than any other, with over nine hundred thousand recorded species and millions undiscovered. Among the most fascinating are the incredible Mantids and the spectacular Dragonflies, longtime survivors and tiny perfect predators.
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