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The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic books by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The Adventures of Tintin was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, and has been published in more than 70 languages. The comic books have also been adapted to television, theatre, and film. The Adventures of Tintin appeared for the first time on January 10, 1929, in Le Petit Vingtième, the youth section of Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.

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The Allure Of The Adventures Of Tintin appeared first on Witnify.

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In this audio reaching, Spanish director Luis Buñuel talks about working with artist Salvador Dalí on the 1929 silent surrealist short film, “Un Chien Andalou.” He describes the intense and long process of coming up with the images that would be in the film with the help of Dalí. The film was financed by Buñuel’s mother. Buñuel describes his nerves before the ultimately well-received opening of “Un Chien Andalou,” which was attended by many well-known people such as Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau.

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Making ‘Un Chien Andalou’ & Buñuel’s Entry into the Surrealist Clique appeared first on Witnify.

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One of the landmark American legal cases of the twentieth century, the Scopes Monkey trial was one in which teacher John Thomas Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, a law which forbade the teaching of human evolution in any state-funded school. The highly publicized trial gained national attention and highlighted the divide in American views on the role of religion in education. 

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George Seldes, an American investigative journalist, describes in a thorough interview the significant moments in his career, including his interviews and chance encounters with figures such as Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Lenin.

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Meeting Lenin and Hitler: An Interview with George Seldes appeared first on Witnify.

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In an old newsreel, a reporter outlines the basic facts of the Scopes Monkey Trial and talks about how the trial attracted a lot of publicity. The Scopes Trial took place in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee and revolved around the topic of evolution versus creationism. A substitute teacher named John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in a state-funded school, which violated Tennessee’s Butler Act at the time. The trial was staged to attract publicity to the evolution versus creationism debate and big-name lawyers such as Williams Jennings Bryan, a three-time presidential candidate, and Clarence Darrow came to Tennessee to participate in this infamous trial.

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Eloise Reed, resident of Dayton, Tennessee and present during the Scopes Trial of 1925, explains the face-off that occurred between defense attorney Clarence Darrow and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan. Darrow, a well-known criminal lawyer and agnostic, called Bryan–a fundamentalist Christian and leader of the Democratic Party–to the witness stand during the trial in order to denounce his beliefs and defend the rights of people to teach evolutionary theory. Reed, along with other historians and experts, explain the tensions and harsh exchanges between the two as Bryan fought to defend the Bible and Darrow fought to discredit Bryan’s anti-evolution beliefs.

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David Menton, a creation scientist with a Ph.D in cell biology, analyzes the significance of the 1925 Scopes Trial, also known as the “Monkey Trial.” John Scopes, a teacher from a small town in Tennessee, was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution in a state where laws had prohibited evolutionary teachings. In this video, Menton explains various aspects of the trial, including the strategies of the defense attorney, the prosecutor and the underlying cultural issues that accompanied this trial.

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In the only commercial recording of Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, the baseball legends prove that they should stick to their day jobs. They may be reading from a comedy script but their athletic talent does not seem to extend to the comedic domain. Despite its awkward jokes and stories, the recording offers a rare chance to hear the voices of two of the most famous players in baseball when they were young.

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A Baseball Legend, Not a Standup Act appeared first on Witnify.

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Lawrence Meinwald traveled to America from Poland in 1920 and tearfully recalls seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time. Sara Milanow Rovner when she arrived from Poland in 1925 describes how a young Russian man upon seeing the Statue of Liberty said, “Here’s the beautiful lady! I was waiting all my life to get here–to see her…You see how she’s welcoming us?” He began to cry and so did she. When Lillian Galletta immigrated to the U.S. in 1928 from Italy, she remembers being in the Ellis Island building and her joy when she was finally reunited with her father: “We were so happy to be together. And he said, ‘We’re all together now. We’ll never be apart again.’”

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Seeing the Statue of Liberty appeared first on Witnify.