Society was thrilled when when moving pictures with sound was invented, and yet we can still be entertained with no sound at all. Marcel Marceau called it the “art of…
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Barbershop quartet harmony has a long history, but we’re not sure where it originated. It was popular back in the early 1900s and it’s still a favorite today, at least…
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Just about anybody can sing and dance, but not many can bend their bodies into pretzels and look like they’re having fun entertaining their audience. In the mid-1940s, the Ross…
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Every summer, hundreds of climbers try to climb the big mountain. Some reach the summit, but others die trying. Modern technology allows you to get a great feel for what…
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The realism now possible in video is nothing short of phenomenal. Whatever we can imagine can be made real on film, a huge change from “moving pictures” in the 1910s…
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Memorization can be difficult. Repetition in a song can ease the pain of learning, but even then, we’d like to make the process easier. This British school teacher may be…
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Many authors dream of writing with precision, which is what might have inspired a Swiss watchmaker in the 1700s to build The Writer, a mechanical boy who writes with a…
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When the sky is clear and the wind is calm, people often say, “Isn’t it a beautiful day?” When referring to God’s creation, maybe we should say, “Breath-taking.” If you…
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Who in the world would associate the appearance of fresh guacamole with something explosive? How about a softball with a hardball core that could be sliced and diced? Pesfilm.com put…
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