NATO Secretary General's monthly press briefing - 11 April 2011 (w/subtitles) Part 2/2 Video Clips. Duration : 26.15 Mins.
On 11 April 2011, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen briefed the press on the latest events in Libya and on the upcoming Foreign Ministers' meeting, to be held in Berlin on 14-15 April 2011.
Artist-song: Adam K And Soha-Twilight________ Ako se neko nekad zapitao ZASTO Milo Djukanovic vlada vec bezmalo 20 godina???...Video objasnjava pravi razlog zbog cega i koga!!! Milo Đukanović (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Мило Ђукановић) (born 15 February 1962) is the Prime Minister of Montenegro, currently in his 6th term. Đukanović served three consecutive terms as Prime Minister from 1991 to 1998 (19911993, 19931996, and 19961998); he was then President of Montenegro from 1998 to 2002 and Prime Minister again from 2003 to 2006. Although he chose to step down in late 2006, he returned to office as Prime Minister in February 2008. His coalition won the 2009 early election with an absolute majority, securing him a sixth term in office. Đukanović is also the long-term President of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, originally the Montenegrin branch of the Yugoslavian Communist Party, governing Montenegro ever since the introduction of multiparty politics. He is controversial for his role in the 1990s, very high continuous level of influence in Montenegrin political life, and the ongoing criminal investigation by the Italian authorities.For years Milo Đukanović has been accused of personal and political ties to wide spread tobacco smuggling in Montenegro throughout the 1990s. According to a 240-page internal report compiled in 1997 by the Guardia di Finanza (Italian Border/Customs Police and Financial Police, is also a Military Police Corp), Montenegro was part of ...
2. Absolutism and the State Video Clips. Duration : 45.20 Mins.
European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202) The rise of absolutism in Europe must be understood in the context of insecurity attending the religious wars of the first half of the seventeenth century, and the Thirty Years' War in particular. Faced with the unprecedented brutality and devastation of these conflicts, European nobles and landowners were increasingly willing to surrender their independence to the authority of a single, all-powerful monarch in return for guaranteed protection. Among the consequences of this consolidation of state power were the formation of large standing armies and bureaucratic systems, the curtailment of municipal privileges, and the birth of international law. 00:00 - Chapter 1. The Rise of Absolutism in the Continental States of Europe 11:26 - Chapter 2. Reaction against War: Absolutism as Reassertion of Order 21:56 - Chapter 3. The Shape of Government in an Absolute State: Nobles and Bureaucrats 26:50 - Chapter 4. The Arm of the Absolute State: The Rise of Large Standing Armies 34:58 - Chapter 5. Representations of the Absolutism in Art and Literature Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2008.
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Henry VIII's Lost Palaces (part5/8) Tube. Duration : 10.02 Mins.
The year 1509 saw the accession to the throne of Henry VIII, a man who would change the face of Britain and the religious and political map of Europe forever. Henry was the first monarch to title himself 'Majesty' - and his reign was nothing if not majestic. Over the next 38 years he would embark on a campaign of courtly magnificence, splendour and pleasure the like of which had never been seen before. By the end of his reign, Henry owned 55 royal properties - more than any other English monarch ever had before or would again. His passion for palace-building was legendary, and fundamentally changed the way monarchs were expected to live. Building these palaces was like embarking on a Tudor Grand Designs. The changing political aspirations of the Tudors were played out in the buildings they designed, and Henry VIII's palaces were a bold statement: he was physically sweeping away the old medieval kingdom and laying the foundations for the Britain we know today. At the heart of this story are five very important and very special buildings. But these palaces aren't simply a lesson in architectural history. They are the key to understanding the inner workings of one of the most powerful men this country has ever seen. Henry's palaces are a self-portrait in bricks and mortar. From his first, Beaulieu in Essex, to sprawling Whitehall Palace in London, and the pocket-sized Nonsuch Palace in Surrey, we can see how Henry changed as a person. These buildings tell us how the sporty ...
HalynaMyroslava"Dissolution"/ГалинаМирослава"Розчинення" Video Clips. Duration : 1.32 Mins.
Used the pictures of Oleksa Hryschenko or Alexis Grischenko (Олекса або Олексій Грищенко), a Ukrainian and French painter and art theorist. He was born in Krolevets, Northern Ukraine(now Sumy region), April 2, 1883 and died in Vence, France on January 28, 1977 Gritchenko studied philology and biology at the universities of Kiev(Kyiv), St Petersburg and Moscow before turning to art. He studied painting in Moscow and established close ties with the collectors Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. In 1911, he visited Paris where he became an enthusiast of modern art, especially Cubist painting. After a trip to Italy in 1913-14, he blended with his study of early Italian Renaissance painters, creating a style that brought together the cosmopolitan and urbane with the orthodoxy of the Byzantine legacy of sacred art. Gritchenko devoted his theoretical work to the subject of Byzantine art and its links with modern art, and to an analysis of the formal and stylistic properties of Byzantine painting in terms of modernist tendencies and practice. He published several books and articles, the most important of which were his studies on the icon in relation to Western art, and also took part in contemporary discussions on various aspects of modern art. After the 1917 revolution, Gritchenko became a professor at the Free Art Studios (Svomas) in Moscow and a member of the Commission for the Preservation of Historic Monuments. In 1919, he was offered the directorship of the Tretyakov Gallery ...
