2024-04-22 03:50:00
Kenneth Clark looks at the Dark Ages. Travelling from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen unraveling how European ideas and art survived this period.
2024-04-22 04:40:00
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2024-04-22 06:30:00
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2024-04-22 07:30:00
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2024-04-22 10:30:00
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2024-04-22 11:30:00
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2024-04-22 14:30:00
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2024-04-22 15:30:00
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2024-04-22 18:30:00
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2024-04-22 19:30:00
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2024-04-22 19:58:00
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2024-04-22 20:00:00
Coverage of the evening session on day three of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre.
2024-04-22 22:00:00
Alex `The Hurricane' Higgins helped transform snooker from a game played in the backrooms of working men's clubs to a national sporting obsession. Interest in the sport had been growing thanks to the new possibilities of colour broadcasting.
2024-04-22 23:00:00
Kenneth Clark traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century, from its earliest manifestations at the Abbey of Cluny to the building of Chartres Cathedral. The continent had emerged from the Dark Ages.
2024-04-22 23:50:00
The Gothic world is exemplified by chivalry, courtly love, Dante's poetry, Giotto's painting and the emergence of woman as an ideal.
2024-04-23 00:40:00
The 1890's was the decade when science, entertainment, art and morality collide, and the Victorians have to make sense of it all. Actor Paul McGann discovers how the works of HG Wells, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde were shaped by fears of moral, social and racial degeneration. Paul, seated in Wells's Time Machine, sees how the author's prophecies of a future in which humanity has decayed and degenerated highlighted the fears of the British Empire.
2024-04-23 01:40:00
When Bonnie Prince Charlie arrives in Scotland to regain the crown of his ancestors the clans are called upon to rise in armed revolt for him. Many do, and they invade England. But others oppose him and join the British to fight against the rebels.
2024-04-23 02:40:00
Vanessa Engle looks at a strange cult, which came to light in 2013, when a sensational news story broke about three women emerging from a small flat in Brixton in South London after decades in captivity.
2024-04-23 03:40:00
Alex `The Hurricane' Higgins helped transform snooker from a game played in the backrooms of working men's clubs to a national sporting obsession. Interest in the sport had been growing thanks to the new possibilities of colour broadcasting.
2024-04-23 04:40:00
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2024-04-23 06:30:00
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2024-04-23 07:30:00
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2024-04-23 10:30:00
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2024-04-23 11:30:00
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2024-04-23 14:30:00
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2024-04-23 15:30:00
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2024-04-23 18:30:00
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2024-04-23 19:30:00
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2024-04-23 19:58:00
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2024-04-23 20:00:00
Coverage of the evening session on day four of the 2024 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre.
2024-04-23 22:00:00
Though snooker was firmly established on TV screens by the early 80s, the game's money-spinning potential had not yet been realised. One of the first to spot a business opportunity was savvy Essex-based sports promoter Barry Hearn, who had recently taken a young hopeful called Steve Davis under his wing.
2024-04-23 23:00:00
Following the construction workers of Crossrail as they battle to finish the final stages of the new Elizabeth Line underground railway beneath the streets of London. Costing over fifteen billion pounds and stretching 120km across the capital, this extraordinary construction project is one of the biggest in Europe and one of the most ambitious engineering feats in Britain since the time of Brunel.
2024-04-24 00:00:00
On 4 October 1957, Soviet scientists launched Sputnik 1, a beach-ball-sized, radio-transmitting aluminium alloy sphere, into orbit. The Soviet Union's accomplishment signalled a dramatic technological advantage.
2024-04-24 00:50:00
Under von Braun's leadership, America's technology finally seemed to be catching up with the Soviet Union's. On 5 May 1961, von Braun's Redstone rocket successfully launched American navy test pilot Alan Shepard 116 vertical miles up into space.
2024-04-24 01:40:00
Kenneth Clark traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th century, from its earliest manifestations at Cluny Abbey to the building of Chartres Cathedral as the continent emerged from the Early Middle Ages.
2024-04-24 02:30:00
In the 13th century, the Gothic world was exemplified by chivalry, courtly love, Dante's poetry, Giotto's painting, and the emergence of women as an ideal rather than chattel.
2024-04-24 03:20:00
Though snooker was firmly established on TV screens by the early 80s, the game's money-spinning potential had not yet been realised. One of the first to spot a business opportunity was savvy Essex-based sports promoter Barry Hearn, who had recently taken a young hopeful called Steve Davis under his wing.
2024-04-24 04:20:00
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2024-04-24 06:30:00
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2024-04-24 10:30:00
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2024-04-24 14:30:00
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2024-04-24 18:30:00
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2024-04-24 19:58:00
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2024-04-24 20:00:00
Coverage of the evening session on day five of the 2024 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre.
2024-04-24 22:00:00
By the mid-80s snooker was the biggest sport in the country but two distinct camps had emerged amongst the players. On one side were Barry Hearn's `Matchroom Mob', including Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis: clean-living, utterly professional and family friendly. In sharp contrast was a group that included Alex Higgins, Jimmy White and Kirk Stevens, who all embraced a more rock and roll lifestyle.
2024-04-24 23:00:00
On 18 November 1910, a violent struggle occurs in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police, and the events go down in history as Black Friday.
2024-04-25 00:15:00
The campaign grows. Suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
2024-04-25 01:30:00
In 1914, war is declared, and women still do not have the vote. However, Sylvia Pankhurst fights on.
2024-04-25 02:45:00
Michael Parkinson in conversation with Paul Daniels, William Rushton and Engelbert Humperdinck.
2024-04-25 03:50:00
By the mid-80s snooker was the biggest sport in the country but two distinct camps had emerged amongst the players. On one side were Barry Hearn's `Matchroom Mob', including Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis: clean-living, utterly professional and family friendly. In sharp contrast was a group that included Alex Higgins, Jimmy White and Kirk Stevens, who all embraced a more rock and roll lifestyle.
2024-04-25 04:50:00
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2024-04-25 06:30:00
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2024-04-25 07:30:00
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2024-04-25 11:30:00
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2024-04-25 15:30:00
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2024-04-25 19:30:00
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2024-04-25 19:58:00
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2024-04-25 20:00:00
Coverage of the evening session on day six of the 2024 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre.
2024-04-25 22:00:00
Steve Davis goes back to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield to celebrate 40 years of the Snooker World Championships. If the walls of this famous regional theatre could talk they would tell tales of tears, triumphs, laughter and top-class sport.
2024-04-25 23:00:00
Journalist Martin Sixsmith helps Philomena Lee search for her long-lost son, who was taken from her by nuns in an Irish convent and sold into adoption when she was an unwed teenager.
2024-04-26 00:30:00
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. While trying to expose the truth, he soon finds himself risking his future, his family and his own life.
2024-04-26 02:30:00
Following the construction workers of Crossrail as they battle to finish the final stages of the new Elizabeth Line underground railway beneath the streets of London. Costing over fifteen billion pounds and stretching 120km across the capital, this extraordinary construction project is one of the biggest in Europe and one of the most ambitious engineering feats in Britain since the time of Brunel.
2024-04-26 03:30:00
Steve Davis goes back to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield to celebrate 40 years of the Snooker World Championships. If the walls of this famous regional theatre could talk they would tell tales of tears, triumphs, laughter and top-class sport.
2024-04-26 04:30:00
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2024-04-26 06:30:00
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2024-04-26 10:30:00
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2024-04-26 14:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-04-26 18:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-04-26 19:58:00
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2024-04-26 20:00:00
Coverage of the evening session on day seven of the 2024 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre.
2024-04-26 22:00:00
Performances by Sandie Shaw & The Smiths, Phil Collins, Belle & The Devotions, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Duran Duran, Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Flying Pickets, Lionel Richie, and The Pointer Sisters.
2024-04-26 22:30:00
Steve Wright presents performances by Smokie, Paul McCartney, The Cure, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Sky, Sad Café, Cockney Rejects, Bad Manners, David Essex, The Undertones, Johnny Logan, Blondie, and a dance sequence by Legs and Co.
2024-04-26 23:00:00
From the Union Chapel in Islington, a performance by world music guru David Byrne. Featuring classic Talking Heads numbers, songs from his solo album Look into the Eyeball, excerpts from the opera `La Traviata', and more.
2024-04-27 00:00:00
The lead singer of Talking Heads, David Byrne, talks about the band's imaginative videos.
2024-04-27 00:30:00
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic archive performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and many more.
2024-04-27 01:30:00
Christine and the Queens introduces his 6 Music Festival performance at Victoria Warehouse, Manchester. Christine and the Queens is a renowned French singer-songwriter, known for his poignant electronic pop music and his ability to juggle English and French in his lyrics. In the nine years following his debut, Chaleur Humaine, he has constantly pushed boundaries. Chris's headline set at this year's 6 Music Festival is the global premiere of his brand new live show.
2024-04-27 02:00:00
Born in 1941, Eric Burdon was, along with his band The Animals, one of the most important standard bearers of the British Invasion of America, right after The Beatles and ahead of The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks. Their 1964 interpretation of `House of the Rising Sun' was a global hit and inspired Bob Dylan (who recorded an acoustic version on his first album) to go electric and hit the stage from then on backed by a rock band.
2024-04-27 03:00:00
From the Union Chapel in Islington, a performance by world music guru David Byrne. Featuring classic Talking Heads numbers, songs from his solo album Look into the Eyeball, excerpts from the opera `La Traviata', and more.
2024-04-27 04:00:00
Performances by Sandie Shaw & The Smiths, Phil Collins, Belle & The Devotions, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Duran Duran, Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Flying Pickets, Lionel Richie, and The Pointer Sisters.
2024-04-27 04:30:00
Steve Wright presents performances by Smokie, Paul McCartney, The Cure, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Sky, Sad Café, Cockney Rejects, Bad Manners, David Essex, The Undertones, Johnny Logan, Blondie, and a dance sequence by Legs and Co.
2024-04-27 05:00:00
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2024-04-27 06:30:00
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2024-04-27 07:30:00
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2024-04-27 11:30:00
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2024-04-27 15:30:00
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2024-04-27 19:30:00
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2024-04-27 19:58:00
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2024-04-27 20:00:00
On the Isle of Wight Nick Crane discovers a tunnel in the cliff. Sarah Beynon examines dung beetles in cow pats on Ramsey Island, and sees Chuffs feeding on them. Up in Yorkshire, Nick Crane examines the receding cliffs and sees a massive WWII defensive structure now lying on the beach.He visits Aldeburgh, which is under threat from the sea, where many houses have already been condemned due to sea erosion. At Lyme Regis Cassie Newland examines old rubbish revealed from the old dump.
2024-04-27 20:25:00
Rick Stein heads to southern Spain and the historic city of Cadiz. Rick is captivated by its narrow winding streets as he walks in the footsteps of the ancient Phoenician and Arab traders whose influence on the city can still be seen today.
2024-04-27 21:25:00
Coverage of the eighth day of the World Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre.
2024-04-27 23:00:00
Montalbano grapples with the murder of Carmelo Catalanotti, the leader of an amateur dramatics company whose devotion to Catalanotti and his peculiar take on theatre borders on fanaticism. His assailant stabbed him in the chest, but without leaving a trace of blood. Might the key to discovering the identity of the killer be bound up in Catalanotti's disturbing conception of the stage? The final episode of the Montalbano saga. In Italian with English subtitles.
2024-04-28 00:55:00
A music documentary that celebrates the legacy of Ronnie Scott and his world-famous jazz club. Featuring previously unseen and unheard performances as well as interviews with some of the most iconic figures in music, the film explores the club's 60-year history and shines a light on the uncompromising men and women who both built it and who took to its stage.
2024-04-28 02:40:00
Rick Stein heads to southern Spain and the historic city of Cadiz. Rick is captivated by its narrow winding streets as he walks in the footsteps of the ancient Phoenician and Arab traders whose influence on the city can still be seen today.
2024-04-28 03:40:00
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2024-04-28 06:30:00
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2024-04-28 10:30:00
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2024-04-28 14:30:00
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2024-04-28 18:30:00
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2024-04-28 19:58:00
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2024-04-28 20:00:00
Rick Stein visits the city of Thessaloniki revered as the gourmet capital of Greece and birthplace to possibly the greatest warrior general that ever lived, Alexander the Great.
2024-04-28 21:00:00
Coverage of the evening session on day nine of the 2024 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
2024-04-28 23:00:00
A look back at the 1985 World Championship Snooker final. At its peak, over 18 and a half million people sat glued to their sets as Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor battled past midnight to a final and deciding black ball.
2024-04-29 00:00:00
One man transfixed television viewers during snooker's golden age - his name was Alex `Hurricane' Higgins. This poignant documentary charts the life of snooker's first genius, from his early days growing up in Belfast to his climb to the top of the sport as two-time world champion. Contributors include Jimmy White, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Dennis Taylor, Steve Davis, and members of the Higgins family.
2024-04-29 01:00:00
Psychotherapist Philippa Perry time-travels back to the 1890's to explore how the late Victorian passion for science co-exists with a deeply held belief in the paranormal. Using a collection of rare and restored Victorian films from the BFI National Archive, she shows how the latest media innovations made use of contemporary ideas of ghosts and the afterlife, and how this `new media' anticipated today's networked world.
2024-04-29 02:00:00
Dr Fern Riddell is a young historian and author who goes back to the archives to challenge more traditional historical views of Victorian society. Her investigation into a sensational Victorian High Court trial, which took place in 1877, begins to shed new light on the `no sex please, we are British' cliché often associated with Victorian England.
2024-04-29 02:30:00
Rick Stein visits the city of Thessaloniki revered as the gourmet capital of Greece and birthplace to possibly the greatest warrior general that ever lived, Alexander the Great.
2024-04-29 03:30:00
A look back at the 1985 World Championship Snooker final. At its peak, over 18 and a half million people sat glued to their sets as Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor battled past midnight to a final and deciding black ball.
2024-04-29 04:30:00
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2024-04-29 06:30:00
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2024-04-29 07:30:00
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2024-04-29 11:30:00
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2024-04-29 15:30:00
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2024-04-29 19:30:00
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2024-04-29 19:58:00
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2024-04-29 20:00:00
From tropical rainforest to the Great Barrier Reef, Michael Portillo navigates his way by rail through Queensland, Australia, with the aid of his 1913 Bradshaw's Guide. Inching his way across the Stony Creek Bridge on the Kuranda Scenic Railway, he marvels at the engineering expertise of the 1890s, when the line was built, and the magnificent scenery 300 metres below him.
2024-04-29 21:00:00
Coverage of the evening session on day ten of the 2024 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
2024-04-29 23:00:00
The early 15th century marked the emergence of the modern world, one that no longer saw itself as deferential servants of God but as its own creators, with or without God's blessing.
2024-04-29 23:50:00
Rome's power was renewed with the advent of Pope Julius II in the year 1500, as he helped inspire Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante, while Leonardo da Vinci presents a cold view of humanity.
2024-04-30 00:40:00
Harlem-born artist, author and activist Faith Ringgold, painted some of the most truthful and empowering representations of African Americans during the 60's and 70's civil rights and women's movements.
2024-04-30 01:50:00
From tropical rainforest to the Great Barrier Reef, Michael Portillo navigates his way by rail through Queensland, Australia, with the aid of his 1913 Bradshaw's Guide. Inching his way across the Stony Creek Bridge on the Kuranda Scenic Railway, he marvels at the engineering expertise of the 1890s, when the line was built, and the magnificent scenery 300 metres below him.
2024-04-30 02:50:00
Dr Fern Riddell is a young historian and author who goes back to the archives to challenge more traditional historical views of Victorian society. Her investigation into a sensational Victorian High Court trial, which took place in 1877, begins to shed new light on the `no sex please, we are British' cliché often associated with Victorian England.
2024-04-30 03:20:00
Steve Davis goes back to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield to celebrate 40 years of the Snooker World Championships. If the walls of this famous regional theatre could talk they would tell tales of tears, triumphs, laughter and top-class sport.
2024-04-30 04:20:00
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2024-04-30 06:30:00
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2024-04-30 10:30:00
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2024-04-30 14:30:00
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2024-04-30 18:30:00
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2024-04-30 19:58:00
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2024-04-30 20:00:00
Michael Portillo is on the eastern coast of Australia travelling from the coal mines of Newcastle, New South Wales, to Queensland's modern state capital, Brisbane. Along the way, he crosses the mighty Hawkesbury River to admire magnificent scenery, tends to an injured koala, gets some tips from an Aussie rugby legend and rides a solar-powered train.
2024-04-30 21:00:00
Coverage of the evening session on day eleven of the 2024 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
2024-04-30 23:00:00
Project Manager, Lih Ling Highe, leads the installation of thousands of kilometres of vital power cables through the largest station on the Elizabeth Line: Tottenham Court Road. Tottenham Court Road is also expected to be one of the busiest underground stations attracting 200,000 passengers a day. If the cables are damaged or incorrectly wired, the station cannot be switched on and the project will be delayed once more.
2024-05-01 00:00:00
Cold War tensions persisted, as rumours circulated that the Soviets were preparing to send an unmanned spacecraft to the Moon. NASA quickly developed the Gemini program, sending astronauts into orbit around the Earth to practice.
2024-05-01 00:50:00
In the aftermath of the deadly Apollo 1 fire, NASA faced harsh scrutiny. The horror of the first casualties at Cape Kennedy led Americans to increasingly question the very premise of landing a man on the Moon.
2024-05-01 01:40:00
The early 15th century marked the emergence of the modern world, one that no longer saw itself as deferential servants of God but as its own creators, with or without God's blessing.