Stuck in Katmandu
Stuck in Katmandu
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Stuck in Katmandu
Captain "Razor" Kane Fisher, son of legendary treasure hunter Mel Fisher, sets out with a team offbeat marauders to find the next motherload. Over $4,000,000,000 in sunken treasure is what Kane Fisher seeks to find from just one legendary shipwreck.
The remarkable story of the great 'lost' British composer and musician Basil Kirchin who died penniless in 2005. Kirchin scored many classic films in the 1960s including Primitive London, The Shuttered Room, I Start Counting, Negatives and The Abominable Dr Phibes. His subsequent two albums,…
The Bible refers to Abraham as Abraham the "Ibri" or "Hebrew". But who are the Hebrews and what role does the this tribe play in the socio-political world of the time? Dr. Neiman paints a detailed portrait of the world in which Abraham's story takes place.
Dr. Neiman examines the similarities and differences between the Biblical story of the flood and the earlier Babylonian tradition on which it was based, while also theorizing about the nature of the disaster that may have led to the story's creation. After providing historical context to the story…
Chapters IV and V of Genesis are often stumbling blocks to those who try to read the Bible. Dr. Neiman transforms these dry chapters on the genealogies of man into fascinating accounts of the pagan origins and ancient king lists that the writers of the bible drew on in order to craft these chapters.
Dr. David Neiman interprets the story of the Garden of Eden and the creation of man and woman, all the while explaining the rationality and historical context of these most significant chapters of the Bible.
The author of the first chapter of Genesis uses strong polemic language to starkly contrast Israelite cosmology with the pervasive pagan cosmologies of the first millennium B.C.E. While the Canaanites, Greeks and Babylonians turned natural phenomena into a multitude of gods and goddesses, the Israelite…
Dr. Neiman covers the reigns of Hatshepsut through Haremhab. Egypt became a great economic and military power and wealth accumulated among a new class of Egyptian - the middle class. The growing power of this merchant class ignited revolutions in art and culture known as the Amarna Age.
To understand Egypt you must understand the nature of the Nile river. The Nile shaped the culture and development of Egypt. Dr. Neiman analyzes ancient Egyptian sculpture, painting and architecture. Dr. Neiman tells of the Hyksos rulers, whose reign was overthrown my the Theban princes who established…
The golden age of arcades may have been in the 80s, but decades later arcades are back and bigger than ever in the arcade bar. Arcade bars have been spreading across the globe; transporting old school gamers back to their childhood while bringing in a new generation of players. It's Cheers for nerds,…
Dr. David Neiman takes us from the Agricultural Revolution to the Ceramic Age, and then the Bronze. This lecture outlines the rise of the earliest civilizations in the West including Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia and Phoenicia. The development of cities allows for the diversification and specialization of…