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"This Academy Award winner reveals the contentious origins of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and tells the inspiring story of its creator, a 21-year-old Yale architecture student. Beating out some of the most prestigious architecture films from around the world, Lin's plan was selected from over 1,000 different designs, a giant victory for such a young and unknown artist. But little did Maya Lin know that her battle was just beginning. In Washington...

"The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. Monica Furlong presents writings by and about eleven of these Christian mystics who lived and worked between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries." "They are Heloise, the abbess whose letters to her former lover Abelard are a treasure of medieval literature; Christina of Markyate, the hermit whose early life was characterized...

In part 1 of this tool kit for Visions of Earth series, eight different different scientists show and describe their field work and geoscience research. Developed by the American Geosciences Institute, this program provides an essential and well-tested tool for teaching and learning about our planet. Produced by American Geosciences Institute.

Photographs by Paul Strand gathered from public and private collections, with an introduction to his growth as artist and personal forces that combined to influence his art.

Travel from Corfu to Crete, Meteora to Mikonos, the Peloponnese, Rhodes, Santorini, Thessaloniki, and many other glorious destinations along the way.