Young infants have a vicelike grip, used to cling on to mom for dear life. As they get older, they get bolder and take more risks. Those that survive spend a lot of time traveling, yet experienced adults know exactly where to find seasonal foods in d

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February 17th, 1957, hiding out in the Cuban jungle, a small band of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro contends with the constant threat of army ambushes and traitors in their mist. But thanks in part to Che Guevara's ruthlessness, the group is slo

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In Cairo, a muezzin calls faithful Muslims to prayer. Its the same call that sounds five times a day every day in cities across the world. Nearly a quarter of the people on earth respond to it, bound together by the enduring spirit of Islam. ''God is

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A hero to some, a monster to others. He hoped to start a Third World War. The CIA and the American Special Forces conspired to bring him down. His death enshrouded in mystery, his body secretly buried in an unmarked grave, but the man may have hoped

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Beethoven died in Vienna on March 26th , 1827, at the age of 56,in this room in the house of the Black-Robed Spaniards. The very end of his life, his health got even worse than it normally was . His intestines started to swell, the condition was drop

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Money was also the motivation for writing the late string quartets. Prince Gelatin Commission Wattznard regarded it as the greatest music Beethoven ever wrote. To many contemporaries, this strange music was a definite proof that the composer had lost

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The first sketches for the opening movement of the Ninth Symphony date from 1816. But the intensive work was done in this house in Baden 17 years later. Over 600 pages of sketches survive. Beethoven had asked whether the Philharmonic Society of Londo

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This sonata Hammerklavier Op 106 is widely accepted as one of the greatest works by Beethoven. Its, it always presented in my mind that this perhaps signified his graduation from telling us about his material experience and going into the world of to

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Married Love is the subtitle of the opera Fidelio. A woman disguises herself as a man in order to rescue her husband from prison. It's perhaps not too fantastic or surrealistic to think that his obsession with the Fidelio theme which after all he wen

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On July 5th, 1812, Beethoven arrived in Teplitz from Prague, and over three days wrote a passionate love letter. My angel, my all, my very self, only a few words todayCan our love endure except through sacrifices? Through not demanding everything? Ca

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Immediately after the concert with Napoleon once again threatening to invade Vienna, Beethoven began another colossal work with military themes. For the first time, Beethoven did not play at the premiere, he was too deaf. He never finished another pi

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In Alta Gracia, Ernesto meets Calica Ferre. The boys and girls would gather around to dance, but Ernesto was a really bad dancer. He had a bad ear. We'd be playing one style of music and he'd be dancing to another. The adolescent Ernesto was known fo

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The Cubans also have their eyes on Africa, particularly on what had been the former Belgian Congo. The Congo lay at the heart of Africa. It could be a kind of motor or heart for socialist revolution which could radiate outward and liberate the hemisp

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Fidel urges Che to abandon the mission and bring his fighters home. Their retreat from the Congo was ignominious, thats how hideous himself described it. They just barely escaped with their lives. Admitting defeat, Che holds up at the embassy in Tanz

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March 19th 1967, Che and his men are joined by a few old acquaintances. They include French Marxist Rgis Debray, and two long-time supporters of the revolution artist Ciro Bustos and the former East Germans spy and suspected KGB operative named Tania

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I got on top of the washer to get a good angle, kneeled a bit and took one of the best pictures circulating in the world, I'm told. That evening, Felix meets with the top brass of the Bolivian army. One of the generals is concerned people may not bel

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Colonel Zantano returns to La Higuera. Felix talks to him about reversing the order. There are orders from your commander to eliminate this prisoner. The order from my government is to try to give him a life at all cost. We have helicopters and mobil

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October 8th, 1967, after 11 months on the run, Che Guevaras dreams of revolution have come to a bloody end in the Bolivian jungles. We knew Che have been taken prisoner, we planned an escape to get out and report what had occurred, the truth about Bo

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He could hardly walk. Che wants to link up with the group to make their way towards the Andes for their final escape. Only days apart, both groups begin to move separately towards the Rio Grande. On August 31, Joaquin's column gets there first. And t

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For three years, the Muslim army held out against staggering odds. As word of the fighting spread, other Bedouin tribes saw God's hand in Muhammad's victories. One by one the peoples of the desert began to join in his struggle. The Muslim army grew a

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