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February 2023

Celtic Woman – SNL

>>> MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD, BRINGING THE SOUND OF THE EMERALD ISLE TO PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS NEAR YOU. AND THIS SUMMER, YOUR GIRLS ARE BACK WITH A BRAND NEW TOUR THAT WILL LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS. IT’S CELTIC WOMAN. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> WITNESS THE CULTURAL EVENT YOUR GOD MOTHER DESCRIBED AS PERFECTION. ♪♪ ♪ WAIT UNTIL THE SAILOR COMES ♪ >> THESE FLAT IRON MAIDENS BRING YOU ONE THE SEXUAL EYE CONTENT JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME. >> WE LOVE IT. THE GIRLS DOING THE SONG, IF I HAD TO DESCRIBE IT IN ONE WORD, I WOULD SAY IRELAND. >> ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND THE MUSIC WASN’T BAD EITHER. >> I’LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I THOUGHT I HAD PURCHASED TICKETS TO A BOSTON CELTICS GAME.

I WAS VERY CONFUSED FOR THE FIRST COUPLE MINUTES BUT THEY WERE TWIRLING. I GOT TO SAY I LOVED THAT. >> WITNESS IRISH CULTURE THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE ENJOYED, IN OHIO. >> TOP OF THE EVENING TO YOU. >> THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US. I’M SAOIRSE. >> I’M MARY. >> AND I’M FAITH. >> AND WE ARE CELTIC WOMEN. IF YOU LIKE RIVER DANCE BUT WISH THEY COULD MOVE THEIR ARMS, YOU’LL LOVE US. >> CAN EIGHT DEEP-CUT GAELIC BATTLE SONGS. ♪♪ >> SOME LOOSELY AUTHENTIC ORIGINALS. ♪ GO DOWN TO THE CASTLE, WE’LL SEE YOU AT THE CASTLE ♪ >> AND A RANDOM ASSORTMENT OF NOT GAELIC SONGS THAT THE AUDIENCE JUST KIND OF WANTS TO HEAR. ♪ SWEET HOME ALABAMA LORD I’M COMING HOME TO YOU ♪ >> GENUINELY THE MOST FUN I’VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE.

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I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT SAYS ABOUT ME, BUT IT’S TRUE. >> WELL, IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE THEY SANG THE SAME SONG 20 TIMES. YOU KNOW IT WAS A GREAT SONG. >> HORNY PONYTAIL DUDES. WHO PLAYS 100 GIANT DRUMS. AND WHO COULD FORGET THIS CHICK? KIND OF A RUNNING VIOLIN GIRL. LOOK AT HER GO! SHE’S DOING IT. YOU LOVE IT! ONE TINY ISLAND. BIG SOUND. FOUR IRISH ELSAS. TAKE YOUR GRANDMA AND WATCH THE POPULAR GIRLS FROM YOUR HIGH SCHOOL GET ABSOLUTELY RAILED BY THE IDEA OF IRELAND. ♪ I HEAR THE DRUMS ♪ ♪ I SIT ON THE BAGPIPES AND GIVE IT A BLOW ♪ ♪♪ >> CELTIC WOMAN, THE LION KING. TICKETS NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE. YOU HAVE TO COME. .

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African Lion 🦁 | Amazing Animals

NARRATOR: AND NOW
IT’S TIME FOR SOME MORE
“AMAZING ANIMALS”! NUMBER 333… THE AMAZING AFRICAN LION! AHH GOOD MORNING OR
IS IT GOOD AFTERNOON?
LION: WHO CARES? I’M LION-DOWN ANYWAY!! HA-HA-HA-OHHH THAT WAS TIRING. NARRATOR: THIS
IS THE AFRICAN LION,
“KING OF THE JUNGLE!” WHICH IS ODD BECAUSE
THEY DON’T LIVE IN JUNGLES.
LION: HUH? NARRATOR: TODAY YOU CAN FIND
LIONS IN A SMALL REGION OF
INDIA BUT MOSTLY IN AFRICA
IN A FEW PLACES SOUTH OF
THE SAHARA DESERT. LION: YEAH,
‘KING OF THE DESERT’ DOESN’T SOUND
QUITE SO GOOD… NARRATOR: LIONS ARE THE
ONLY CATS TO LIVE TOGETHER
IN BIG FAMILY
GROUPS CALLED PRIDES.
LIONESS: HANK, HANK! LION: WHAT? LIONESS: WATCH THE
KIDS, I’M GOING TO WORK! LION: KEEP YOUR TAIL ON! NARRATOR: MOST OF THE
PRIDE IS MADE UP OF LIONESSES
THEY DO MOST OF THE HUNTING… LIONESSES ARE EXCELLENT
STEALTH PREDATORS.
AND VERY LOVING MUMS. CUB: MUM, WHEN I GROW UP
I WANT TO BE A CUB REPORTER… LIONESS: OHH… HE’S DEFINITELY YOUR SON! LION: STOP BEING SO CATTY! NARRATOR: AND WHAT
DOES THE MALE LION DO?
HE HAS A BIG HAIRY MANE! AND UH… UGH, THAT! LION: I GUESS YOU
COULD SAY I HAVE THE UH…

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“ROAR” TALENT? NARRATOR: PHEW, YES! THE ROAR IS VERY IMPORTANT,
WARNING OFF OTHER LIONS IN
THEIR TERRITORY AND IT
KEEPS EVERYONE TOGETHER.
LION: WHERE’D EVERYBODY GO? NARRATOR: DID YOU KNOW
THAT LIONS LOVE “FAST FOOD?”
LION: DON’T FORGET THE FRIES!! NARRATOR: THEY MIGHT BE BIG,
FEROCIOUS PUSSYCAT PREDATORS
BUT THE AFRICAN LION IS
UNDOUBTEDLY AN AMAZING ANIMAL!
.

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Hommage à David Bowie – “Space Oddity” – Gail Ann Dorsey & Matthieu Chedid – C à vous – 08/06/2022

ground control to major time ground control to major times your protein tablets and also put your headgear on ground control to major community beginning countdown engines on check ignition as well as might god” s love be with you this is ground control to significant.
tom you” ve truly made the tomb and also the papers desire to recognize that tee shirts you use and now it” s time to leave the capsule if you risk this is major tom to ground control.
i” m stepping through the door as well as i” m drifting in the most strange means and also the stars look very different today for right here in my being in my tin can much above the world planet earth is blue as well as there” s nothing i can do oh.

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Jnr Choi, Sam Tompkins – TO THE MOON (Official Music Video)

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Africa’s Elephant Queen | Kenya

TIM NOONAN: This is Tsavo, Kenya’s largest
national park, 11,000 square kilometres big, home to the largest land animals on earth. It’s a privilege to see the herds of African
elephants roaming free. But these baby elephants almost didn’t make
it. They’re all orphans. And in this orphanage near Nairobi, they’re
being taught the skills they’ll need if they’re to have any chance of returning to the wild. Dame Daphne Sheldrick: Elephants have all
the same emotions as humans and that we’ve learned over 50 years. They can read your heart and your mind, they
really can. They can. TIM NOONAN: Some of these youngsters will
soon be ready to be released into the national park. Thanks in no small way to the woman they call
the ‘Elephant Mother’ – Dame Daphne Sheldrick. Dame Daphne Sheldrick: All the elephants that
we’ve saved, not one of them would have lived without us. TIM NOONAN: Dame Daphne was born in Kenya
to English parents.

She has raised two daughters and 130 orphaned
elephants and counting. They really are like babies, aren’t they? Dame Daphne Sheldrick: They really are, yes. But, you know, it’s very important that they
sleep soundly at night. And you know that there are no tummy aches,
no problems. It’s very important to keep tabs on what goes
in the front end and what comes out of the back.

TIM NOONAN: Dame Daphne’s love affair with
elephants began when she worked as a warden with her husband, David, in Tsavo National
Park. When David died of a heart attack in 1977
she opened a centre in his name to protect the baby elephants. TIM NOONAN: Why are these elephants being
orphaned? Dame Daphne Sheldrick: Mainly it’s poaching
for ivory, it’s the ivory trade. And as long as there is a demand for ivory,
particularly in the Far East, there’s going to be people in Africa that will be killing
elephants for money. The wild animal trade is as big as the drugs
trade and the arms trade now. TIM NOONAN: As many as 35,000 elephants every
year, 100 a day, are killed for the ivory trade. This is the heartbreaking scene being played
out all too often – a mother’s leg has been shattered by a poacher’s gun, and her baby
refuses to leave her side.

She knows only that she has to protect her
dying mother. The rescuers from Daphne’s orphanage have
come to try to save the baby. TIM NOONAN: If you didn’t step in, how long
would they survive? Dame Daphne Sheldrick: Probably two weeks,
max. TIM NOONAN: The mother cannot be helped and
will have to be euthanised. Her baby is starving and exhausted but still
fights to stay with her mum. She’s eventually flown back to Daphne’s orphanage
where for the first time since her mother was shot by poachers, she drinks milk. (SLURPS) Dame Daphne Sheldrick: The way to turn them
around is to bring the other orphans that are already settled in the nursery around
them, and they can see the reaction that the other orphans have with their keepers. TIM NOONAN: You become their father, you become
their mother, you become their best friend.

Edwin: We become everything to them. TIM NOONAN: Head keeper Edwin leads a team
of 50 elephant handlers. Edwin: If you don’t love them, then you have
a lot of problems with them. Especially elephants because elephants are
very intelligent animals. They can reason like we do. They can figure what is in your mind and they
can tell if you are thinking negative or positive about them and that can make them become your
friends or your enemies.

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So you need to have a positive heart, you
need to love them so that you can become a keeper. That is the most important thing. TIM NOONAN: Caring for a baby elephant is
a full-time job. The keepers sleep in the same shelter as the
orphans. And before dawn, the day begins again. Good morning. Somebody’s already awake. One by one, the little elephants rush to join
the other kids. The morning routine starts with brekky in
the bush. But one of the orphans is proving to be a
handful for one of the keepers – Amos. Amos: That one…..is a very naughty one. TIM NOONAN: He’s the troublemaker? Amos: The keepers give him a nickname. We call him ‘al-Qaeda’ because he’s in trouble
all the time, pushing others down. TIM NOONAN: You call him al-Qaeda? Amos: Yeah.

TIM NOONAN: A vital ingredient in the healing
process is milk. C’mon. For years, Daphne struggled to get the milk
formula right. Dame Daphne Sheldrick: They cannot digest
the fat of cow’s milk. And actually, the nearest thing to the fat
in elephant’s milk – and it’s not perfect – is coconut. And it took a long time to actually figure
that out. TIM NOONAN: And if the milk feeding time at
the orphanage is any guide… (GROWLS) ..Daphne’s milk hits the spot. (ALL GROWL) (KEEPERS TALK) TIM NOONAN: You thirsty, mate? You’re walking them into this truck here,
disguised.

What’s the purpose of it? Edwin: The purpose of this is to get them
used to getting in the truck and feeding them from there. So that one morning, when they’re ready, we
take them in and we close the doors and we start our journey to Tsavo where we’re introducing
them back into the wild. TIM NOONAN: Today, three of Daphne’s orphans
are going to be released. It’s a 4-hour drive to the Tsavo National
Park. This is their new home – thousands of square
kilometres of wilderness, a second chance at life.

And while there’s no way of knowing whether
or not they’ll survive down there, this time, it’s nature’s call. But first, they arrive at a halfway house. A transition stop where they’re introduced
to a herd of other elephants who were also saved. (GROWLS) (TRUMPETS) This moment here is what it’s all about. Every single one of these elephants were orphans
rescued from almost certain death. (ALL GROWL AND TRUMPET) OK, bye-bye. Dame Daphne Sheldrick: We’ve had quite a lot
of critics that say, “This is a bunny-hugging thing, “you’re a lot of bunny huggers.” You know, that’s what they throw at you all
the time.

And I say to them, “It’s better to be a bunny
hugger than a butcher.” TIM NOONAN: The orphan elephants may be free
but for the next few years they will rarely stray from the safety of this watering hole. The hope is that they’ll eventually find wild
elephants to live with. But incredibly, while we were there, nature
pitched in to help. A wild herd – including several large bulls
– finds the orphans. (GROWLS) The return to the wild is a step closer. At the end of the day, what’s in it for you? Dame Daphne Sheldrick: The satisfaction of
knowing that you’ve actually raised a herd of elephants. And to see them playing and happy and living
their normal wild life again back where they rightfully belong, that’s the joyful part
of it. (TRUMPETS) You can’t just abandon them, that’s not an
option. So for better or worse
we’ll be around.

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Bring It!: Learning the African Dance (Season 1 Flashback) | Lifetime

– OK, y’all, these are the
formations for the African dance. You do not know the intro,
but you’re about to learn it. The African dance showcases
the versatility of the team. OK, everybody get down. You’re going to be on your
knees, hands in .. Step out with your left knee. hands up jazz. 1, 2, head, and head. Lean head, down
hip, pop, 7, and 8. The African dance is a
mixture of tribal movements. It has ballet style. It has passes. It has . It has pique turns. It has a lot of leaps and jumps.

Lean and head. Lean and head. Why are you up here– you’re
up here rolling your neck. You dip your whole body. Get your booty out there. You’re up like this. Sit down. Do it again. The Prancing Tigerettes are one
of the Dancing Dolls’ biggest rivalries, so I want them to
dance as if President Obama is about to hit the
building, and they’re giving a million dollars
away to the best dance team. Let’s try it with music
and see if you can do it. Get down. They need to always be on their
toes and ready for whatever. Sometimes I’m having cuts,
and I’m not even telling them that I’m having cuts. You don’t know what
I’m going to do. Make sure you’re ready for
whatever at any given time. OK, y’all ready? Here comes the music. Crystianna, I say
that’s too loud. I shouldn’t be talking to you. Come on, Crystianna, where
are you supposed to be? they
hard or too soft. Come on, Sunjai, . It looks really awful. When you dance, you
need to breathe, because as soon as you
start to shut down, you can guarantee the judges
are looking right in your face.

I mean, I scream,
and I yell a lot. A lot. Anytime there are ever mistakes,
that one person that makes a mistake, the judge
is going to follow you around the floor the
whole time to see, oh, she’s going
to mess up again. Oh, she’s out of breath. Oh, she’s on the wrong foot. And they’re going to– the
whole squad loses points because of that one person. It has to be no
mistakes on the floor. Name a football coach
that doesn’t yell. Name a basketball coach
that doesn’t yell. You know, I watch the Eagles
coach all the time scream and go crazy from the sidelines. And I’m like, yeah,
get their butt. That’s right. Y’all can not get out there
and just give it away. Y’all be pissed off
about last week. I’m still mad. African dance is what we need to
go ahead and have cuts on right now. Every time she has
cuts, Miss Dianna yells.

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So it’s kind of like
you’ve got to take what she giving
you about it and be like, next time dance harder. When I call your name, these
are the folks, the 20, to have made cuts for right now. Let me see Maya Hayes,
,, Kayla, Camryn, Makalah, Crystianna, Tamia,
,, Shakayla, Sydney, Caitlyn, Tiara,
Ken’Janae, Makaya, Brianna Jones, Jayden,
Brianna Williams, Shakira Gatlin, and Sunjai. Not everybody’s
doing African dance, so she made the cut for that,
and I’m just being so proud, but I want to be even
more prouder when Sunjai make cuts for stand battle. kill
this .. Energy, energy, energy,
energy the entire time. the Dancing Dolls. All right, y’all! Slow down. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I didn’t make ,,
but I am excited about the African dance. We’re going to have probably
one of the best creative dance routines, because
I’m sure people down there are not expecting
what we’re going to do. All right, ladies! When all of them
rush to stage with those red and white feathers,
I was like, don’t talk. You know, nobody speak,
because right now the girls are ready to do it.

It was amazing. Everything was perfect. Sunjai was out there. You know, I couldn’t
take my eyes off her. She did an awesome job. I just felt like I was
going to jump up and cry. I was happy that I
got to get up there and do it with the rest of the
girls, go up there and compete. With our creative
dance, we actually did something different. You went back to African
dance, mother land.

What you do? Pray for Tigerettes. Snap those heads, baby! That’s what I’m talking about! The routine was
just beautiful. Everything flowed perfectly. I mean, it was just great. .

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What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials – Brian A. Pavlac

You’ve been accused of a crime
you did not commit. It’s impossible to prove your innocence. If you insist that you’re innocent anyway, you’ll likely be found guilty
and executed. But if you confess, apologize,
and implicate others for good measure, you’ll go free. Do you give a false confession—
or risk a public hanging? This was the choice facing
those accused of witchcraft in the village of Salem, Massachusetts
between February 1692 and May 1693. They were the victims of paranoia
about the supernatural, misdirected religious fervor— and a justice system that valued
repentance over truth. Salem was settled in 1626 by Puritans,
a group of English protestants. Life was strict and isolated
for the people of Salem. Battles with their
Native American neighbors and groups of French settlers
were commonplace. People feared starvation and disease, and relations between villagers
were strained. To make matters worse, 1692 brought
one of the coldest winters on record. That winter, two cousins, 9 year old Betty Parris and
11 year old Abigail Williams started behaving very strangely. A physician found nothing
physically wrong — but diagnosed the girls
as under “an evil hand.” Puritans believed that the Devil wreaked
havoc in the world through human agents, or witches, who blighted nature,
conjured fiendish apparitions, and tormented children.

As news swept through the village,
the symptoms appeared to spread. Accounts describe 12 so-called
“afflicted” girls contorting their bodies, having fits,
and complaining of prickling skin. Four of the girls soon accused three
local women of tormenting them. All three of the accused were considered
outsiders in some way. On February 29th,
the authorities arrested Sarah Good, a poor pregnant mother
of a young daughter, Sarah Osbourne,
who had long been absent from church and was suing the family
of one of her accusers, and Tituba, an enslaved woman
in Betty Parris’s home known by her first name only. Tituba denied harming the girls at first.

But then she confessed to practicing
witchcraft on the Devil’s orders, and charged Good and Osbourne
with having forced her. Osbourne and Good both
maintained their innocence. Osbourne died in prison, while Good’s
husband turned against her in court, testifying that she “was a witch
or would be one very quickly.” Good’s 4 year old daughter
was imprisoned and eventually gave testimony
against her mother. Meanwhile, Good gave birth in jail. Her baby died, and she was convicted
and hanged shortly thereafter. Tituba was held in custody until May,
and then released.

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These three victims were
just the beginning. As accusations multiplied,
others, like Tituba, made false confession to save themselves. The authorities even reportedly
told one accused witch that she would be hanged if she did not
confess, and freed if she did. They were not particularly interested
in thoroughly investigating the charges— in keeping with their Church’s teachings,
they preferred that the accused confessed, asked for forgiveness, and promised
not to engage in more witchcraft.

The court accepted all kinds
of dubious evidence, including so-called “spectral evidence” in which the girls began raving when
supposedly touched by invisible ghosts. Complicating matters further,
many of the jurors in the trials were relatives of the accusers,
compromising their objectivity. Those who dared to speak out,
such as Judge Nathanial Saltonstall, came under suspicion. By the spring of 1693,
over a hundred people had been imprisoned, and 14 women
and 6 men had been executed. By this time, accusations were starting
to spread beyond Salem to neighboring communities, and even
the most powerful figures were targets.

When his own wife was accused, the governor of Massachusetts colony
suspended the trials. Sentences were amended,
prisoners released, and arrests stopped. Some have speculated that the girls
were suffering from hallucinations caused by fungus; or a condition that caused
swelling of the brain. But ultimately, the reason
for their behavior is unknown. What we do know is that adults
accepted wild accusations by children as hard evidence. Today, the Salem Witch Trials remain
a cautionary tale of the dangers of groupthink
and scapegoating, and the power of fear
to manipulate human perception..

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These Fake Beards Will Save an African Child’s Life – Key & Peele

What does it take
to save a child in Africa? To save them
from the violence? To save them from becoming
a child soldier? What if I told you
that all it took was just one beard? For the price
of one costume beard, you can save a child
from becoming another statistic, another warlord’s pawn. Be safe. That’s right. Just one beard. And for a little more,
you can get him a cane. We are here for the children! ♪ ♪ These are all old people. We are wasting our time. Wait! ♪ ♪ Go, go! ♪ ♪ Call today. ♪ ♪.

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Elephant Shows Rhino Who’s Boss!

Watch two of Africa’s Big 5 come face to face in an ancient rival standoff… Captured by 34-year-old Joe Gregory, while on a safari vacation. Joe gives his account to LatestSightings.com: “We embarked on our afternoon game drive and were driving around the marshy wetlands.” “We encountered a herd of elephant and a crash of rhinos – it was here where the standoff began.” “It was amazing to see & be a part of the standoff where a young elephant bull in musth showed this male white rhino who was boss.” “We could all physically feel the testosterone aura which surrounded the battlefield of these 2 ancient rivals.” “The sighting ended in a stalemate with no winner.” “I would, however, say, the balancing act of the branch and the elephant “throwing” the branch at the rhino was a somewhat cheeky ending to the tussle.”

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