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Votes for Women! @TheCrashCourse and @realjohngreen teach you about suffrage. And a lot of other stuff: https://t.co/nOVWgwxam2

Votes for Women! @TheCrashCourse and @realjohngreen teach you about suffrage. And a lot of other stuff: https://t.co/nOVWgwxam2

Historian Dan Snow finds out how one low-tech weapon system in the First World War had a huge impact: barbed wire.

This animation distils hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable individuals like David, King of Israel, and Leonardo da Vinci, from 600 BC to the present day. Using them as a proxy for skills and ideas, their map reveals intellectual hotspots and tracks how empires rise and crumble The information comes from Freebase, a Google-owned database of well-known people and places, and other catalogues of notable individuals. The visualization was created by Maximilian Schich (University of Texas at Dallas) and Mauro Martino (IBM).

Documentary on history of canada

"Quebec explains one of the reason she wants to separate is fear of losing her cultural identity. Canada and America responds."

"This documentary shares stories from First Nations war veterans of Nishnawbe Aski Nation. Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy, Veteran Ian White of Chapleau Cree First Nation, Veteran Jack Wynne of Moose Cree First Nation, Elder Isabelle Mercier and Ranger Sgt. Peter Moon remind us that our freedom should not be taken for granted "

"Whatever happened to fallout shelters? And would they have actually worked"