The Amazing History of [all things]... CANALS.

The Grand Canal. The Canal of the Pharaoh's, The canals of the United Kingdom, the United States PLUS the Suez and Panama Canals. Evolution of canals during the industrial revolution...

#History

#Canals

#Suez

#Egypt

#Panama

#Industrial Revolution

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Look at Theravāda & Mahāyāna Buddhism... Expansion of Buddhism from the Mauryan Empire - now modern Bihar including Bodh Gaya, Patiputra, Patna and beyond. Look at the impact of Guptas, Ashoka, Kushans and Kaniska, the Greco-Indians, Sri Lanka, China, Tibetian Buddhism, Japan, Korea, Vietnam. Cambodia, Indonesia, The Malays, Thailand and others.

#History

#Buddhism

#Bihar

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Life of the Buddha. Siddartha Gothma. Teachings of the Buddha in Bihar... Magadh... in Both Gaya. We look at the Middle Way, The Four Noble truths, Noble eightfold paths, the four Dhyanas, the three marks of existence, the five aggregates of clinging, dependent origin, Karma, Nirvana.

#Buddhism

#Buddha

#Bihar

#Rajgir

#Bodh Gaya

#History

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This episode looks at the landscape in the age right before the advent of Buddhism in ancient Bihar. In Magadha. The political and historical context of Vedic and Jain philosophy sets the stage to understand Buddhist beliefs.

We look at the Vedas including the Rigveda, Upanishads, Mahavir Jain and what informed ancient Hindu dharma.

#History

#Dharma

#Karma

#Jain

#Hindu

#Buddhist

#Bihar

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Enlightenment. The European Age of Reason....

Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Cesare Beccaria, Denis Diderot, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Hugo Grotius, Baruch Spinoza...

#Enlightenment,

#Age of Reason,

#Europe,

#History

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Quick 30-min history of the Congo Basin region. From Pre-history to 2021... includes the Buntu expansion, the Kingdom of the Kongo or Congo and the European intervention in the form of Belgium's Leopold II.

#Congo

#History

#PreHistory

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Edo Era Japan>>>> ...

1603-1868,

Tokugawa,

Sengoku,

Meji,

Ukiyo,

Floating World,

#Japan

#Edo

#History

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Mutually Assured Destruction..... MAD... >>>

USSR,

USA,

Nuclear Near Misses,

Cold War,

#History;

#Cold War;

#MAD;

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How to understand decision making and decision-makers.

The History

The Science

The nonsense

#History

#Science

#Decision

#Game Theory

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The United Kingdom,

England,

Scotland,

Wales,

Ireland,

Northern Ireland,

The Republic of Ireland,

The British Isles,

The Romans,

Empire,

English,

Culture

#British

#History

#United Kingdom

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