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Today's Current Links--March 15-16, 2021

For an email notice that the latest links have been uploaded send and email with your email address. to  jbsolock1@gmail.com =============== Today's Gems Comedy BBC Comedy Greats Fawlty Towers FUNNIEST MOMENTS: The Staff   Charlie Berens (comedy) When Friends Help Remodel, 5 Stages Rainer Hersch Fan Channel (comedy) INCREDIBLE đź“˝MOVIE MUSIC put against THE WRONG MOVIES!!! | Rainer Hersch Orkestra --- Culture and Science Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Maya Astronomy and Mathematics—Yesterday and Today This 75-minute teacher webinar focused on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Ancestral calendars are relevant today to millions of Maya communities in Mesoamerica, who us their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics to time ceremonies and to plan their agricultural cycle. The content in the webinar connects to the Living Maya Time online resource ( http://maya.nmai.si.edu/ ​), featuring videos of solar alignments with

Today's Current Links--March 12, 2021

 For an email notice that the latest links have been uploaded send and email with your email address. to  jbsolock1@gmail.com =============== Today's Gem Film National Film Board of Canada Documentary, new release with Cree subtitiles. nĂ®pawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (Cree Version) (English with Cree subtitles)  (2019, directed by Tasha Hubbard) (1 hour 38 minutes) Context : More information about Tasha Hubbard (University of Alberta Native Studies Department) This film won the best Canadian feature documentary award at the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, as well as the Discovery Award from the 2019 Director's Guild of Canada. ===============   Agence France Press PHOTO - The week in 10 pictures (6 - 12 March) ARTE (France/Germany) Joan Baez : How Sweet the Sound (French with some English) ARTE CONCERT (France/Germany) Salome @ Atelier im AUFBAU HAUS, Berlin (United We Stream) - ARTE Concert (electronic music) Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Today's Current Links--March 11, 2021

For an email notice that the latest links have been uploaded send and email with your email address. to  jbsolock1@gmail.com =============== Today's Gems Music Short concert in memory of Covid-19 victims. Orchestre symphonique de MontrĂ©al Vigneault et Debussy en mĂ©moire des victimes de la COVID 19 - Kent Nagano, OSM Sports NRL (Australian National Rugby League) ( Rugby League v Rugby Union ) (Ninh explains) Melbourne Storm v South Sydney Rabbitohs Match Highlights | Round 1, 2021 Context:  NRL information Context : Match article, with links to video and play-by-play Context : More information about Cameron Smith, who retired from Melbourne after 18 seasons. ( Sydney Morning Herald ) This was the Opening Match of the 2021 NRL season. The NRL offers the best domestic Rugby League on the planet. Australia is a perpetual powerhouse in International Rugby League and those players come from this league.  =============== Aljazeera English Lebanon: A State in Collapse? | People and Power W

Today's Links--March 10, 2021

 For an email notice that the latest links have been uploaded send and email with your email address. to  jbsolock1@gmail.com =============== Today's Gems Music If it ain't Baroque... France Musique Scarlatti Play List, by Luca Gugliemi (Harpsichord), 18 short pieces at present Context : More on Domenico Scarlatti (Baroque.org) Sports Cricket in a nutshell, as we follow two International Series,  1. A Test series between International newcomer Afghanistan v Zimbabwe (played at Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (winning team has to get 20 wickets (outs)--5 day limit, 90 overs (540 "pitches") per day, maximum 2,700 "pitches" in the match. If the team with more runs doesn't get 20 outs, the match is a draw. 6 hours per day, maximum 30 hours. About the length of 5 baseball doubleheaders. Matches end as wins, losses, ties, or draws. 2. A One Day International Series between West Indies and Sri Lanka (played in Antigua in the West Indies--usually series ar