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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 13. Stephenson - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In the series "Once Upon a Time... the Discoverers," the Maestro lets off some steam. Some two thousand years ago, Heron invented the steam machine in Alexandria, but it took two millenia to perfect the invention and put it to practical use.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Cortés sets out to conquer Mexico with his four hundred men, sixteen horses, and seven cannons. He is joined later by native forces, the Totonac warriors.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Tension is building between the Aztecs and the Spaniards, not to mention within Cortés's own ranks. Despite this, the conquistador rallies his troops to conquer Mexico.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Cortés exchanges gifts with the Aztec Emperor, Montezuma. An excellent diplomatic move on both sides!

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Cortés is negotiating with the friendly natives of Mexico with the help of his interpreter, who had been shipwrecked in a previous expedition and speaks Mayan. They are offered a young woman slave, Malintzin, who speaks Mayan and Aztec.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

November 18, 1518... Cortés, the ambitious adventurer, sets out to discover and conquer the unknown empire of Mexico at daybreak before Velasquez has a chance to stop him.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

The Aztecs are apprehensive about the arrival of the white men. It is a bad omen. Spanish conqueror Cortés is appointed Captain and will be heading toward new territories.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

The Maestro recounts the events just before Ferdinand Magellan's untimely death in 1521, only a year after he discovered the passage that would allow him to circumnavigate the globe.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

This new episode of "Il était une fois..." covers Cortés and the Aztecs. The story starts in 1519, when Ferdinand Magellan attempts to circumnavigate the earth. His ship makes it as far as Brazil.

Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 15. Bruce et les sources du Nil - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

James Bruce, the intrepid Scottish explorer, finally reaches his goal, the source of the Nile... or so he thought. After all his trouble, his exploits are not well received in England. But his legacy will live on.

Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 15. Bruce et les sources du Nil - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

After curing the queen mother's grandchildren of smallpox, James Bruce meets with the Ethiopian emperor, Tekle Haymanot, to tell him of his plans to discover the source of the Nile. But he soon finds out that he'll have to demonstrate his warrior skills if he wants to reach Lake Tana.

Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 15. Bruce et les sources du Nil - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

As James Bruce and his crew arrive in Massawa in hopes of meeting the king, they are thwarted by the king's messenger, who was ordered not to let in any foreigners. But since the royal palace is in need of a doctor, and Bruce happens to be one, he may be forced to make an exception....

Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 15. Bruce et les sources du Nil - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In the second segment of this episode of Les Explorateurs (The Explorers), James Bruce, our intrepid adventurer, encounters some pirates while trying to reach the source of the Nile.

Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 15. Bruce et les sources du Nil - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In this episode of the "Once Upon a Time" animated series on world explorers, we begin to learn the history of Cairo and the Nile River in Egypt.

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Galileo is in prison. He tries one more time to prove his theories to his inquisitor. But he finally recants during the trial saying the famous sentence: "and yet... it turns"

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Galileo faces an uncertain future. Behind the scenes are political and religious intrigues and enemies plotting his downfall. The Pope, until now sympathetic to Galileo, has a change of heart. Under pressure from all sides and insulted by his latest works, The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, portraying the Church's view through the character Simplicio (Simpleton), the pope finally sends Galileo to the Inquisition Tribunal.

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Galileo is under close scrutiny because of his Copernican views. Unfazed, he carries on his research and his teachings. Will the Inquisition bring his demise or will his powerful friends, Pope Urban VIII among them, protect him?

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Galileo is about to throw caution to the wind and reveal his startling discoveries about planet Earth.

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In part five of this episode on "The Discoverers," Galileo is warned. His belief that the Earth revolves around the sun is sacrilegious. Giordano Bruno, who claimed this fact, was burned as a heretic by the Inquisition Tribunal.

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In part four of this episode on "The Discoverers," Galileo, now a reputable scholar at the University of Padua, proceeds to make a telescope out of lenses with the help of his instrument maker, Marc'Antonio. In this cartoon, an attempt is made to explain Galileo's discoveries.

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Episode nine of this series focuses on Galileo, a prolific inventor and scientist. He discovered the principle of the simple pendulum motion, very useful in the measure of time and later in the making of clocks.

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In this video, a young Galileo gets one of his first revolutionary ideas on how to measure time. Pretty impressive for a fourteen-year-old, huh?

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

The Maestro explains how the revolutionary ideas of the early discoverers, which we now take for granted, were not always well received. Before Galileo, for example, everyone believed that the sun and all the other planets revolved around the earth!

Il était une fois: Notre Terre - 25. Technologies - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In the last segment of this Il était une fois... episode on technology, we learn more about what vertical farms can do to help the planet thrive. The first commercial vertical farm recently opened in Singapore.

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