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Viewpoints – Placecloud
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Cultural researchers talk about the hidden stories of the places around you.
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Thames Barrier – Holding Back the Sea
4w ago00:05:46Tap to summarizeDiocese of London United Kingdom Holding the North Sea at bay to protect London from flooding, the Thames Barrier is an extraordinary feat of engineering. It is also constantly under threat, in a world where time and tide are slowly, inexorably, winning. How long can it hold? Nobody knows.
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A Line Through Time: The Prime Meridian, Greenwich
Mar 1900:05:38Tap to summarizeDiocese of London United Kingdom Standing at the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, this short audio viewpoint explores the line from which global time and longitude are measured. It explains how and why this point was fixed here, and considers how Britain’s drive to measure the world continues to shape how we locate ourselves within it.
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Para um pedaço de carne macio
Jan 900:05:49Tap to summarizeThe Hague The Netherlands O Portão dos Prisioneiros, aqui em Haia, foi usada de 1420 até 1828 para abrigar pessoas que haviam cometido crimes graves enquanto aguardavam a sentença. Desde então, já foi sede de um clube literário, de um museu e de uma galeria de arte. É também o local onde, a única vez na história mundial, um primeiro-ministro foi comido pelo seu próprio povo.
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Voor een mals stukje vlees
Jan 900:07:08Tap to summarizeThe Hague The Netherlands De Gevangenenpoort, hier in Den Haag, werd van 1420 tot 1828 gebruikt om mensen op te sluiten die ernstige misdrijven hadden gepleegd terwijl zij op hun vonnis wachtten. Vervolgens heeft het gebouw onderdak geboden aan een literaire club, een museum, en een kunstgalerie. Het is ook de plek waar, de enige keer in de wereldgeschiedenis, een minister-president door zijn eigen volk werd opgegeten.
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It looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys
Jan 900:06:49Tap to summarizeThe Hague The Netherlands The Gevangenenpoort, Prisoner’s Gate, here in The Hague, from 1420 until 1828, was used for housing people who had committed serious crimes while they awaited sentencing. It has since then been home to a literary club, a museum, and an art gallery. It’s also the location where, the only time in world history, a prime minister was eaten by his people.
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A verdadeira Amazon pode se levantar, por favor?
Jan 900:10:17Tap to summarizeTerme T rkiye Encontramo-nos a poucos quilômetros da pequena cidade de Terme, nas margens meridionais do Mar Negro, na Turquia. Logo à frente, vemos uma estátua de uma guerreira amazona, erguendo arco e flecha.
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Amazones, en Amazones
Jan 900:12:58Tap to summarizeTerme T rkiye We bevinden ons hier een paar kilometer buiten het stadje Terme, aan de zuidelijke oevers van de Zwarte Zee, in Turkije. Recht voor ons zien we een standbeeld van een Amazone krijger, met gespannen pijl en boog.
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Will the real Amazon please stand up?
Jan 800:11:50Tap to summarizeTerme T rkiye We find ourselves a few kilometers outside of the small town of Terme, on the southern shores of the Black Sea, in Turkey. Just ahead, we can see a statue of an Amazonian warrior, raising a bow and arrow.
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As origens contestadas de Fortaleza
Jun 1800:05:58Tap to summarizeFortaleza Brazil O estado brasileiro do Ceará é uma das regiões mais pobres do Brasil. O PIB per capita é apenas um terço do das pessoas no estado de São Paulo, e nem mesmo um quinto do que se vê na região do Distrito Federal, ao redor da capital Brasília.
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De betwiste oorsprong van Fortaleza
Jun 1800:06:16Tap to summarizeFortaleza Brazil De Braziliaanse deelstaat Ceará is een van de armere regio’s van het land. Het BBP per hoofd van de bevolking bedraagt slechts een derde van dat van de inwoners van de deelstaat São Paulo, en nog niet eens een vijfde van dat van de regio rond de hoofdstad Brasília.
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