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This article is from Virology Journal , volume 11 . Abstract Background: The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last decade and has helped to shed light on viral evolution. This study describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of Samba virus (SMBV), a novel giant virus belonging to the Mimivirus genus, which was isolated from the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. We also report the isolation of an SMBV-associated virophage named Rio Negro (RNV), which is the first Mimivirus virophage to be isolated in the Americas. Methods/results: Based on a phylogenetic analysis, SMBV belongs to group A of the putative Megavirales order, possibly a new virus related to Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV). SMBV is the largest virus isolated in Brazil, with an average particle diameter about 574 nm. The SMBV genome contains 938 ORFs, of which nine are ORFans. The 1,213.6 kb SMBV genome is one of the largest genome of any group A Mimivirus described to date. Electron microscopy showed RNV particle accumulation near SMBV and APMV factories resulting in the production of defective SMBV and APMV particles and decreasing the infectivity of these two viruses by several logs. Conclusion: This discovery expands our knowledge of Mimiviridae evolution and ecology.

This article is from Virology Journal , volume 11 . Abstract Background: The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last decade and has helped to shed light on viral evolution. This study describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of Samba virus (SMBV), a novel giant virus belonging to the Mimivirus genus, which was isolated from the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. We also report the isolation of an SMBV-associated virophage named Rio Negro (RNV), which is the first Mimivirus virophage to be isolated in the Americas. Methods/results: Based on a phylogenetic analysis, SMBV belongs to group A of the putative Megavirales order, possibly a new virus related to Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV). SMBV is the largest virus isolated in Brazil, with an average particle diameter about 574 nm. The SMBV genome contains 938 ORFs, of which nine are ORFans. The 1,213.6 kb SMBV genome is one of the largest genome of any group A Mimivirus described to date. Electron microscopy showed RNV particle accumulation near SMBV and APMV factories resulting in the production of defective SMBV and APMV particles and decreasing the infectivity of these two viruses by several logs. Conclusion: This discovery expands our knowledge of Mimiviridae evolution and ecology.

This article is from Virology Journal , volume 11 . Abstract Background: The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last decade and has helped to shed light on viral evolution. This study describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of Samba virus (SMBV), a novel giant virus belonging to the Mimivirus genus, which was isolated from the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. We also report the isolation of an SMBV-associated virophage named Rio Negro (RNV), which is the first Mimivirus virophage to be isolated in the Americas. Methods/results: Based on a phylogenetic analysis, SMBV belongs to group A of the putative Megavirales order, possibly a new virus related to Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV). SMBV is the largest virus isolated in Brazil, with an average particle diameter about 574 nm. The SMBV genome contains 938 ORFs, of which nine are ORFans. The 1,213.6 kb SMBV genome is one of the largest genome of any group A Mimivirus described to date. Electron microscopy showed RNV particle accumulation near SMBV and APMV factories resulting in the production of defective SMBV and APMV particles and decreasing the infectivity of these two viruses by several logs. Conclusion: This discovery expands our knowledge of Mimiviridae evolution and ecology.

This article is from Virology Journal , volume 11 . Abstract Background: The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last decade and has helped to shed light on viral evolution. This study describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of Samba virus (SMBV), a novel giant virus belonging to the Mimivirus genus, which was isolated from the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. We also report the isolation of an SMBV-associated virophage named Rio Negro (RNV), which is the first Mimivirus virophage to be isolated in the Americas. Methods/results: Based on a phylogenetic analysis, SMBV belongs to group A of the putative Megavirales order, possibly a new virus related to Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV). SMBV is the largest virus isolated in Brazil, with an average particle diameter about 574 nm. The SMBV genome contains 938 ORFs, of which nine are ORFans. The 1,213.6 kb SMBV genome is one of the largest genome of any group A Mimivirus described to date. Electron microscopy showed RNV particle accumulation near SMBV and APMV factories resulting in the production of defective SMBV and APMV particles and decreasing the infectivity of these two viruses by several logs. Conclusion: This discovery expands our knowledge of Mimiviridae evolution and ecology.

This article is from Virology Journal , volume 11 . Abstract Background: The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last decade and has helped to shed light on viral evolution. This study describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of Samba virus (SMBV), a novel giant virus belonging to the Mimivirus genus, which was isolated from the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. We also report the isolation of an SMBV-associated virophage named Rio Negro (RNV), which is the first Mimivirus virophage to be isolated in the Americas. Methods/results: Based on a phylogenetic analysis, SMBV belongs to group A of the putative Megavirales order, possibly a new virus related to Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV). SMBV is the largest virus isolated in Brazil, with an average particle diameter about 574 nm. The SMBV genome contains 938 ORFs, of which nine are ORFans. The 1,213.6 kb SMBV genome is one of the largest genome of any group A Mimivirus described to date. Electron microscopy showed RNV particle accumulation near SMBV and APMV factories resulting in the production of defective SMBV and APMV particles and decreasing the infectivity of these two viruses by several logs. Conclusion: This discovery expands our knowledge of Mimiviridae evolution and ecology.

This article is from Virology Journal , volume 11 . Abstract Background: The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last decade and has helped to shed light on viral evolution. This study describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of Samba virus (SMBV), a novel giant virus belonging to the Mimivirus genus, which was isolated from the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. We also report the isolation of an SMBV-associated virophage named Rio Negro (RNV), which is the first Mimivirus virophage to be isolated in the Americas. Methods/results: Based on a phylogenetic analysis, SMBV belongs to group A of the putative Megavirales order, possibly a new virus related to Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV). SMBV is the largest virus isolated in Brazil, with an average particle diameter about 574 nm. The SMBV genome contains 938 ORFs, of which nine are ORFans. The 1,213.6 kb SMBV genome is one of the largest genome of any group A Mimivirus described to date. Electron microscopy showed RNV particle accumulation near SMBV and APMV factories resulting in the production of defective SMBV and APMV particles and decreasing the infectivity of these two viruses by several logs. Conclusion: This discovery expands our knowledge of Mimiviridae evolution and ecology.

This article is from Virology Journal , volume 11 . Abstract Background: The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last decade and has helped to shed light on viral evolution. This study describe the discovery, isolation and characterization of Samba virus (SMBV), a novel giant virus belonging to the Mimivirus genus, which was isolated from the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. We also report the isolation of an SMBV-associated virophage named Rio Negro (RNV), which is the first Mimivirus virophage to be isolated in the Americas. Methods/results: Based on a phylogenetic analysis, SMBV belongs to group A of the putative Megavirales order, possibly a new virus related to Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV). SMBV is the largest virus isolated in Brazil, with an average particle diameter about 574 nm. The SMBV genome contains 938 ORFs, of which nine are ORFans. The 1,213.6 kb SMBV genome is one of the largest genome of any group A Mimivirus described to date. Electron microscopy showed RNV particle accumulation near SMBV and APMV factories resulting in the production of defective SMBV and APMV particles and decreasing the infectivity of these two viruses by several logs. Conclusion: This discovery expands our knowledge of Mimiviridae evolution and ecology.

This black and white adventure film is part of the “Bold Journey” program broadcast by ABC Television in the late 1950s. This episode titled “Amazon to Belem” covers an epic journey made by adventurer Eric Pavel and his wife from the Andes in Argentina, down the Amazon River through Brazil. The episode was released on October 6, 1958. Belém is the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará, and is a port city and gateway to Brazil’s lower Amazon region. Eric Pavel was a filmmaker best known for his movie "Three Worlds of Peru." The film begins with actor Jack Douglas introducing the program featuring Eric Pavel, who made the journey across the Amazon River with his wife (00:06). The start of the river in the Andes Mountain range (00:18). Jaguars swimming through the river (00:24). The flesh-eating Piranha fish (00:27). Primitive tribes of Hebrew Indians live along the Amazon River (00:29). Jack Douglas interviews Eric Pavel about the upcoming episode in a studio (00:31). Pavel and his wife aboard an Argentine Air Force Plane, and they fly over the jungle (02:19). They land high in the Andes Mountains (02:53) and continue their journey in a four-wheel drive (03:17). They start the sail across the river in dugout canoes (03:29). The nature alongside the Amazon River is inhabited by many exotic animals such as macaw parrots (03:40), poisonous rattlesnakes (03:55), flat-headed snakes (04:05), leafcutter ants (04:17), centipedes (04:38), and two-toed sloths (04:43). The canoe travels up smaller tributaries (04:54), and people of a Hebrew Indian tribe greets them on the riverbank (05:14). The people of the tribe wear unique face paint and sticks through their ears and chins (05:32). The elder council discusses to make a discussion (06:05). The journey down the river continues (06:21) decorated by special trees, plants, and flower only found in this jungle (06:30). They pass through a small town, and local women wash their clothes in the river while conversing and smoking cigars (07:14). Local men wash gold found in the river (07:30). Rubber is tapped from rubber trees (08:03) and coagulated to form rubber balls (08:22), and finally it is transported by canoes (08:42). A tribe member catches a crocodile by hand (09:00) and catches Piranha fish using a spear (09:48). They pass by a trading post for crocodile skin, fish, sugar, and alcohol, built on a raft on the river (10:26). The children of the tribes sail in smaller dugout canoes (11:28). The canoes are built by burning out a wooden log (11:40). Cattle can cross the river during dry season (12:40). Piranhas eat dead cattle and left behind is only the skeleton (12:46). Some tribes fish for Piranha using bow and arrow (14:07), and they grill them over a fire before eating them (14:18). An American missionary is living with a Hebrew Indian tribe with his wife and children (14:26). In the area lives emus, (14:36), monkeys (14:48), iguanas (15:03), spotted leopards (15:14), and tarantulas (15:46). Pavel and his wife continue their journey on horses (16:23). Another Indian tribe use macaw parrots as watchdogs (16:48), and owls as a pet (17:03). The women of the tribe comb their hair and wash themselves and their children (17:22). They work with an Amazon spinning wheel and homegrown cotton to make clothes and decorations (17:44). With tied hair, lower-lip piercings, body paint and feathers, the people of the tribe are ready for a celebration (18:17). Two men wrestle wearing duck feather stuck to their arms and legs using tar (19:10). They eat special celebratory foods like maniac and mango soup (19:58). Carved figures present the people of the tribe (20:24). A Garza bird stands in water (20:36). They pass through the city of Manaus (21:08) where traders sell bread, milk, and meat from canoes (21:08), and a boat functions as a floating coffee shop (21:20). The Amazon Theatre is the Opera House in Manaus (21:24). In the zoological garden, Pavel is holding non-poisonous snakes (21:31). They arrive to their final destination, the city of Belem (21:51). Jack Douglas interviews Pavel in the studio to summarize the journey across the Amazon River (22:09). Scenes from the following episode of the Bold Journey Program covering Siberia (24:14). Jack Douglas makes an outro (24:55). The film was produced by Julian Lesser and edited by Bill O’Hara with Leon Barsha as editorial supervisor. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? 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A commercial about saving the Amazon Rainforest. Aired in Brazil.

In Brazil assassinations of activists are common. They protest mining, dams and big agriculture companies devastating the Amazon rainforest and denying poor landless workers their livelihoods. In March 2017, Waldomiro Costa Pereira was assassinated in his hospital room while recovering from a prior assassination attempt in Para state. Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça, who directs Brazil's Network for Social Justice and Human Rights. She is professor in the international relations dept. at University of Rio De Janeiro. Editor of Human Rights in Brazil . See article by Ricardo Martinez, "It opens the floodgate:  Brazil is handing over the Amazon rainforest to mining companies and big agriculture" at https://news.vice.com/story/brazil-is-handing-over-the-amazon-rainforest-to-mining-companies-and-big-agriculture See "Land rights activist shot dead in Brazilian Amazon hospital. Assailants stormed hospital to gun down Waldomiro Costa Pereira. Brazil saw 61 killings of land rights campaigners last year" at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/21/brazil-land-rights-activist-shot-dead-amazon-hospital --- Radio interview by John Grebe, first aired live on Sounds of Dissent on WZBC 90.3 FM Boston on March 25, 2017. Sounds of Dissent has aired since 1998 on WZBC 90.3 FM in Greater Boston. Catch us every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Live streams linked from wzbc.org . Some interviews archived at www.SoundsOfDissent.org

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-515) and index

Everyone agrees that massive deforestation is an environmental disaster. But most of the standard solutions - scolding the Brazilians, invoking universal morality - ignore the one solution that might actually work

352 pages ; 24 cm

352 pages ; 24 cm

Kamanya believes in the shaman's wisdom about the healing properties of plants found in the Amazon rain forest and hopes one day to be a healer for his people

In Brazil assassinations of activists are common. They protest mining, dams and big agriculture companies devastating the Amazon rainforest and denying poor landless workers their livelihoods. In March 2017, Waldomiro Costa Pereira was assassinated in his hospital room while recovering from a prior assassination attempt in Para state. Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça, who directs Brazil's Network for Social Justice and Human Rights. She is professor in the international relations dept. at University of Rio De Janeiro. Editor of Human Rights in Brazil. See article by Ricardo Martinez, "It opens the floodgate:  Brazil is handing over the Amazon rainforest to mining companies and big agriculture" at https://news.vice.com/story/brazil-is-handing-over-the-amazon-rainforest-to-mining-companies-and-big-agriculture See "Land rights activist shot dead in Brazilian Amazon hospital. Assailants stormed hospital to gun down Waldomiro Costa Pereira. Brazil saw 61 killings of land rights campaigners last year" at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/21/brazil-land-rights-activist-shot-dead-amazon-hospital --- Radio interview by John Grebe, first aired live on Sounds of Dissent on WZBC 90.3 FM Boston on March 25, 2017. Sounds of Dissent has aired since 1998 on WZBC 90.3 FM in Greater Boston. Catch us every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Live streams linked from wzbc.org . Some interviews archived at www.SoundsOfDissent.org

In Brazil assassinations of activists are common. They protest mining, dams and big agriculture companies devastating the Amazon rainforest and denying poor landless workers their livelihoods. In March 2017, Waldomiro Costa Pereira was assassinated in his hospital room while recovering from a prior assassination attempt in Para state. Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça, who directs Brazil's Network for Social Justice and Human Rights. She is professor in the international relations dept. at University of Rio De Janeiro. Editor of Human Rights in Brazil. See article by Ricardo Martinez, "It opens the floodgate:  Brazil is handing over the Amazon rainforest to mining companies and big agriculture" at https://news.vice.com/story/brazil-is-handing-over-the-amazon-rainforest-to-mining-companies-and-big-agriculture See "Land rights activist shot dead in Brazilian Amazon hospital. Assailants stormed hospital to gun down Waldomiro Costa Pereira. Brazil saw 61 killings of land rights campaigners last year" at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/21/brazil-land-rights-activist-shot-dead-amazon-hospital --- Radio interview by John Grebe, first aired live on Sounds of Dissent on WZBC 90.3 FM Boston on March 25, 2017. Sounds of Dissent has aired since 1998 on WZBC 90.3 FM in Greater Boston. Catch us every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Live streams linked from wzbc.org . Some interviews archived at www.SoundsOfDissent.org

In Brazil assassinations of activists are common. They protest mining, dams and big agriculture companies devastating the Amazon rainforest and denying poor landless workers their livelihoods. In March 2017, Waldomiro Costa Pereira was assassinated in his hospital room while recovering from a prior assassination attempt in Para state. Interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça, who directs Brazil's Network for Social Justice and Human Rights. She is professor in the international relations dept. at University of Rio De Janeiro. Editor of Human Rights in Brazil. See article by Ricardo Martinez, "It opens the floodgate:  Brazil is handing over the Amazon rainforest to mining companies and big agriculture" at https://news.vice.com/story/brazil-is-handing-over-the-amazon-rainforest-to-mining-companies-and-big-agriculture See "Land rights activist shot dead in Brazilian Amazon hospital. Assailants stormed hospital to gun down Waldomiro Costa Pereira. Brazil saw 61 killings of land rights campaigners last year" at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/21/brazil-land-rights-activist-shot-dead-amazon-hospital --- Radio interview by John Grebe, first aired live on Sounds of Dissent on WZBC 90.3 FM Boston on March 25, 2017. Sounds of Dissent has aired since 1998 on WZBC 90.3 FM in Greater Boston. Catch us every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Live streams linked from wzbc.org . Some interviews archived at www.SoundsOfDissent.org

This black and white adventure film is part of the “Bold Journey” program broadcast by ABC Television in the late 1950s. This episode titled “Amazon to Belem” covers an epic journey made by adventurer Eric Pavel and his wife from the Andes in Argentina, down the Amazon River through Brazil. The episode was released on October 6, 1958. Belém is the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará, and is a port city and gateway to Brazil’s lower Amazon region. Eric Pavel was a filmmaker best known for his movie "Three Worlds of Peru." The film begins with actor Jack Douglas introducing the program featuring Eric Pavel, who made the journey across the Amazon River with his wife (00:06). The start of the river in the Andes Mountain range (00:18). Jaguars swimming through the river (00:24). The flesh-eating Piranha fish (00:27). Primitive tribes of Hebrew Indians live along the Amazon River (00:29). Jack Douglas interviews Eric Pavel about the upcoming episode in a studio (00:31). Pavel and his wife aboard an Argentine Air Force Plane, and they fly over the jungle (02:19). They land high in the Andes Mountains (02:53) and continue their journey in a four-wheel drive (03:17). They start the sail across the river in dugout canoes (03:29). The nature alongside the Amazon River is inhabited by many exotic animals such as macaw parrots (03:40), poisonous rattlesnakes (03:55), flat-headed snakes (04:05), leafcutter ants (04:17), centipedes (04:38), and two-toed sloths (04:43). The canoe travels up smaller tributaries (04:54), and people of a Hebrew Indian tribe greets them on the riverbank (05:14). The people of the tribe wear unique face paint and sticks through their ears and chins (05:32). The elder council discusses to make a discussion (06:05). The journey down the river continues (06:21) decorated by special trees, plants, and flower only found in this jungle (06:30). They pass through a small town, and local women wash their clothes in the river while conversing and smoking cigars (07:14). Local men wash gold found in the river (07:30). Rubber is tapped from rubber trees (08:03) and coagulated to form rubber balls (08:22), and finally it is transported by canoes (08:42). A tribe member catches a crocodile by hand (09:00) and catches Piranha fish using a spear (09:48). They pass by a trading post for crocodile skin, fish, sugar, and alcohol, built on a raft on the river (10:26). The children of the tribes sail in smaller dugout canoes (11:28). The canoes are built by burning out a wooden log (11:40). Cattle can cross the river during dry season (12:40). Piranhas eat dead cattle and left behind is only the skeleton (12:46). Some tribes fish for Piranha using bow and arrow (14:07), and they grill them over a fire before eating them (14:18). An American missionary is living with a Hebrew Indian tribe with his wife and children (14:26). In the area lives emus, (14:36), monkeys (14:48), iguanas (15:03), spotted leopards (15:14), and tarantulas (15:46). Pavel and his wife continue their journey on horses (16:23). Another Indian tribe use macaw parrots as watchdogs (16:48), and owls as a pet (17:03). The women of the tribe comb their hair and wash themselves and their children (17:22). They work with an Amazon spinning wheel and homegrown cotton to make clothes and decorations (17:44). With tied hair, lower-lip piercings, body paint and feathers, the people of the tribe are ready for a celebration (18:17). Two men wrestle wearing duck feather stuck to their arms and legs using tar (19:10). They eat special celebratory foods like maniac and mango soup (19:58). Carved figures present the people of the tribe (20:24). A Garza bird stands in water (20:36). They pass through the city of Manaus (21:08) where traders sell bread, milk, and meat from canoes (21:08), and a boat functions as a floating coffee shop (21:20). The Amazon Theatre is the Opera House in Manaus (21:24). In the zoological garden, Pavel is holding non-poisonous snakes (21:31). They arrive to their final destination, the city of Belem (21:51). Jack Douglas interviews Pavel in the studio to summarize the journey across the Amazon River (22:09). Scenes from the following episode of the Bold Journey Program covering Siberia (24:14). Jack Douglas makes an outro (24:55). The film was produced by Julian Lesser and edited by Bill O’Hara with Leon Barsha as editorial supervisor. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

This black and white adventure film is part of the “Bold Journey” program broadcast by ABC Television in the late 1950s. This episode titled “Amazon to Belem” covers an epic journey made by adventurer Eric Pavel and his wife from the Andes in Argentina, down the Amazon River through Brazil. The episode was released on October 6, 1958. Belém is the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará, and is a port city and gateway to Brazil’s lower Amazon region. Eric Pavel was a filmmaker best known for his movie "Three Worlds of Peru." The film begins with actor Jack Douglas introducing the program featuring Eric Pavel, who made the journey across the Amazon River with his wife (00:06). The start of the river in the Andes Mountain range (00:18). Jaguars swimming through the river (00:24). The flesh-eating Piranha fish (00:27). Primitive tribes of Hebrew Indians live along the Amazon River (00:29). Jack Douglas interviews Eric Pavel about the upcoming episode in a studio (00:31). Pavel and his wife aboard an Argentine Air Force Plane, and they fly over the jungle (02:19). They land high in the Andes Mountains (02:53) and continue their journey in a four-wheel drive (03:17). They start the sail across the river in dugout canoes (03:29). The nature alongside the Amazon River is inhabited by many exotic animals such as macaw parrots (03:40), poisonous rattlesnakes (03:55), flat-headed snakes (04:05), leafcutter ants (04:17), centipedes (04:38), and two-toed sloths (04:43). The canoe travels up smaller tributaries (04:54), and people of a Hebrew Indian tribe greets them on the riverbank (05:14). The people of the tribe wear unique face paint and sticks through their ears and chins (05:32). The elder council discusses to make a discussion (06:05). The journey down the river continues (06:21) decorated by special trees, plants, and flower only found in this jungle (06:30). They pass through a small town, and local women wash their clothes in the river while conversing and smoking cigars (07:14). Local men wash gold found in the river (07:30). Rubber is tapped from rubber trees (08:03) and coagulated to form rubber balls (08:22), and finally it is transported by canoes (08:42). A tribe member catches a crocodile by hand (09:00) and catches Piranha fish using a spear (09:48). They pass by a trading post for crocodile skin, fish, sugar, and alcohol, built on a raft on the river (10:26). The children of the tribes sail in smaller dugout canoes (11:28). The canoes are built by burning out a wooden log (11:40). Cattle can cross the river during dry season (12:40). Piranhas eat dead cattle and left behind is only the skeleton (12:46). Some tribes fish for Piranha using bow and arrow (14:07), and they grill them over a fire before eating them (14:18). An American missionary is living with a Hebrew Indian tribe with his wife and children (14:26). In the area lives emus, (14:36), monkeys (14:48), iguanas (15:03), spotted leopards (15:14), and tarantulas (15:46). Pavel and his wife continue their journey on horses (16:23). Another Indian tribe use macaw parrots as watchdogs (16:48), and owls as a pet (17:03). The women of the tribe comb their hair and wash themselves and their children (17:22). They work with an Amazon spinning wheel and homegrown cotton to make clothes and decorations (17:44). With tied hair, lower-lip piercings, body paint and feathers, the people of the tribe are ready for a celebration (18:17). Two men wrestle wearing duck feather stuck to their arms and legs using tar (19:10). They eat special celebratory foods like maniac and mango soup (19:58). Carved figures present the people of the tribe (20:24). A Garza bird stands in water (20:36). They pass through the city of Manaus (21:08) where traders sell bread, milk, and meat from canoes (21:08), and a boat functions as a floating coffee shop (21:20). The Amazon Theatre is the Opera House in Manaus (21:24). In the zoological garden, Pavel is holding non-poisonous snakes (21:31). They arrive to their final destination, the city of Belem (21:51). Jack Douglas interviews Pavel in the studio to summarize the journey across the Amazon River (22:09). Scenes from the following episode of the Bold Journey Program covering Siberia (24:14). Jack Douglas makes an outro (24:55). The film was produced by Julian Lesser and edited by Bill O’Hara with Leon Barsha as editorial supervisor. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

This black and white adventure film is part of the “Bold Journey” program broadcast by ABC Television in the late 1950s. This episode titled “Amazon to Belem” covers an epic journey made by adventurer Eric Pavel and his wife from the Andes in Argentina, down the Amazon River through Brazil. The episode was released on October 6, 1958. Belém is the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará, and is a port city and gateway to Brazil’s lower Amazon region. Eric Pavel was a filmmaker best known for his movie "Three Worlds of Peru." The film begins with actor Jack Douglas introducing the program featuring Eric Pavel, who made the journey across the Amazon River with his wife (00:06). The start of the river in the Andes Mountain range (00:18). Jaguars swimming through the river (00:24). The flesh-eating Piranha fish (00:27). Primitive tribes of Hebrew Indians live along the Amazon River (00:29). Jack Douglas interviews Eric Pavel about the upcoming episode in a studio (00:31). Pavel and his wife aboard an Argentine Air Force Plane, and they fly over the jungle (02:19). They land high in the Andes Mountains (02:53) and continue their journey in a four-wheel drive (03:17). They start the sail across the river in dugout canoes (03:29). The nature alongside the Amazon River is inhabited by many exotic animals such as macaw parrots (03:40), poisonous rattlesnakes (03:55), flat-headed snakes (04:05), leafcutter ants (04:17), centipedes (04:38), and two-toed sloths (04:43). The canoe travels up smaller tributaries (04:54), and people of a Hebrew Indian tribe greets them on the riverbank (05:14). The people of the tribe wear unique face paint and sticks through their ears and chins (05:32). The elder council discusses to make a discussion (06:05). The journey down the river continues (06:21) decorated by special trees, plants, and flower only found in this jungle (06:30). They pass through a small town, and local women wash their clothes in the river while conversing and smoking cigars (07:14). Local men wash gold found in the river (07:30). Rubber is tapped from rubber trees (08:03) and coagulated to form rubber balls (08:22), and finally it is transported by canoes (08:42). A tribe member catches a crocodile by hand (09:00) and catches Piranha fish using a spear (09:48). They pass by a trading post for crocodile skin, fish, sugar, and alcohol, built on a raft on the river (10:26). The children of the tribes sail in smaller dugout canoes (11:28). The canoes are built by burning out a wooden log (11:40). Cattle can cross the river during dry season (12:40). Piranhas eat dead cattle and left behind is only the skeleton (12:46). Some tribes fish for Piranha using bow and arrow (14:07), and they grill them over a fire before eating them (14:18). An American missionary is living with a Hebrew Indian tribe with his wife and children (14:26). In the area lives emus, (14:36), monkeys (14:48), iguanas (15:03), spotted leopards (15:14), and tarantulas (15:46). Pavel and his wife continue their journey on horses (16:23). Another Indian tribe use macaw parrots as watchdogs (16:48), and owls as a pet (17:03). The women of the tribe comb their hair and wash themselves and their children (17:22). They work with an Amazon spinning wheel and homegrown cotton to make clothes and decorations (17:44). With tied hair, lower-lip piercings, body paint and feathers, the people of the tribe are ready for a celebration (18:17). Two men wrestle wearing duck feather stuck to their arms and legs using tar (19:10). They eat special celebratory foods like maniac and mango soup (19:58). Carved figures present the people of the tribe (20:24). A Garza bird stands in water (20:36). They pass through the city of Manaus (21:08) where traders sell bread, milk, and meat from canoes (21:08), and a boat functions as a floating coffee shop (21:20). The Amazon Theatre is the Opera House in Manaus (21:24). In the zoological garden, Pavel is holding non-poisonous snakes (21:31). They arrive to their final destination, the city of Belem (21:51). Jack Douglas interviews Pavel in the studio to summarize the journey across the Amazon River (22:09). Scenes from the following episode of the Bold Journey Program covering Siberia (24:14). Jack Douglas makes an outro (24:55). The film was produced by Julian Lesser and edited by Bill O’Hara with Leon Barsha as editorial supervisor. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of <em>To My Cat</em> by Rosamund Marriott Wilson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 19th, 2007

2Hampstead Mystery

By Arthur J. Rees and John R. Watson

A murder whodunit... <br />Location:</b> Hampstead, England. <br /><b>Victim:</b> Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot wound. <br /><b>Investigator:</b> Private Detective Crewe, a wealthy bachelor who has taken up crime detection as a hobby, because it provides intellectual challenges more satisfying even than playing twelve simultaneous boards against Russian chess champion Turgieff. <br /><b>His sidekick:</b> Joe is a fourteen year old Cockney boy, whom Crewe saved from a life of crime by hiring him as a messenger-boy and shadower. <br /><b>Other whodunit elements:</b> clues galore, suspects in abundance, an inquest, a trial, and an elegant resolution. (Summary by Maikki)

A guide for Christians to walk a godly life. Covering various practical and spiritual topics.<br /><br />This project was proof listened by Guero and Laura Victoria.

This book is an exposition of Romans 8:28: "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." It was written in 1663, one year after Thomas Watson and many other Puritan ministers were forced out of their pulpits by the Act of Uniformity. Watson's book radiates comfort in the midst of suffering. Its content is equally applicable to Christians facing trials today. (Introduction by rosea)

The poacher of these "Confessions" was no imaginary being. Following in his father's and forefather's footsteps, he learnt from an early age the practical skills of poaching and woodcraft. It was, however, Mother Nature that made old "Phil" a Poacher but she also made him a Sportsman and a Naturalist at the same time. Never did any man appear in closer sympathy with the wild creatures about him. <br> Even when about eighty years of age, there was still some of the old erectness in his carriage; some of the old fire in his eyes. As a young man he was handsome, though in later years his features were battered out of all original conception. His silvery hair still covered a lion-like head, and his tanned cheeks were hard and firm. <br> If his life had been a lawless one he had undoubtedly paid a heavy price for his wrong doings. Great as a poacher, he must have been great whatever he had been. (Confessions of a Poacher / TND)

6Mystery of the Downs

By Arthur J. Rees and John R. Watson

"The storm had descended swiftly, sweeping in suddenly from the sea, driving across the downs to the hills at high speed, blotting out the faint rays of a crescent moon and hiding the country-side beneath a pall of blackness, which was forked at intervals by flashes of lightning." - Book's opening sentence

"The Art of Divine Contentment" is an exposition by the Puritan minister Thomas Watson of the text found in Philippians 4:11: "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." It examines the nature of contentment and how to live it out in the Christian life, both by answering questions regarding problems with contentment and by giving examples of practical contentment. It is a good read for people with religious or historical interests. - Summary by J L Raimundo

A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There they meet some friendly locals, and... the story continues.<br /> The reader picked up this book at a thrift store, saw it was out of copyright, and recorded it "sight unseen". It was worth the risk. (Summary by TriciaG)

9Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story

By Samuel Greene, H. Ashton Ramsay, Eugene Winslow Watson and John Worden

The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit recounting the events in countless books. One such seminal battle was that of the USS Monitor versus the USS Merrimack, two ironclad ships, repurposed and redesigned to have a defensive advantage against conventional wooden war ships of the 19th century. The Monitor and the Merrimack faced off in a duel in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The event represented the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. “The Monitor and the Merrimac” is a unique historical account of the first-hand experiences and perspectives of soldiers on each of the two ships. - Summary by Jeffery Smith

10Witch of the Glens

By Sally Watson

The time is 1644 in Inverness Scotland. Kelpie, now a teenage girl, doesn't remember being kidnapped by Gypsies. They had kidnapped her at a very young age because her "Second Sight" that was indicated by her blue ringed eyes. Kelpie desperately wishes she were a witch and often wondered where she had come from. We follow Kelpie through a series of events that changes her life forever. - Summary by kirk202

Mr. Watson published a variety of books upon practical subjects, and of a useful nature. But his principal work was his Body of Divinity in 176 Sermons upon the Assembly’s Catechism, which did not appear till after his death. It was published in one volume folio, in 1692, accompanied with a portrait of the author by Sturt, a recommendatory Preface by the Rev. William Lorimer, and the attestation of twenty-five other ministers, of principal note in that day; and has since passed through a number of editions both in England and Scotland. - Summary by Biographical Notice