sm on earth. While the latest imaging techniques guide the viewer through veins, down fallopian tubes and around the brain, this groundbreaking series also explores the human drama born of this microscopic world. Presented by Robert Winston, a medical scientist and leading commentator on medical matters, The Human Body takes you into one of the most alien worlds imaginable…
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皇家邮轮卢西塔尼亚号(RMS Lusitania),是一艘英国豪华客船,1915年5月7日在爱尔兰外海被德国潜艇U-20击沉,造成共1198人死亡。由於伤亡者中包括大量美国人,卢西塔尼亚号的沉没同齐默曼电报事件一道成为美国参加一战的导火索。
卢西塔尼亚号(1907---1915),长239.8米,宽26.9米,载客2165人,隶属于英国卡纳德航运公司。
由来: 美国历史上最著名的富翁,朱利厄斯·皮尔庞特·摩根,在20世纪初产生了垄断横渡大西洋航线的念头。他组织了一条“国际商船队”(IMM),一家一家地购买感兴趣的轮船公司。1902年,他出资买下了英国最大的白星轮船公司。英国国会感到这是大英帝国的耻辱,决定捍卫另外一家大公司——卡纳德轮船公司。同年,英国**与卡纳德公司签定了为期20年的合同,每年向卡纳德提供15万英镑的资助。并且鼓励卡纳德建造两艘当时...
Just weeks after VE day, Britain's great war leader Winston Churchill found himself in another battle: to be elected Prime Minister. He was confident of victory – just reward for his leadership of the country through the dark days of WWII. But what happened next many still can’t understand. In one of the greatest election defeats of all time, Churchill was humiliated at the pol...
Fighting the Red Baron follows two modern-day, elite Red Arrows pilots as they take on the challenges that faced the aviators of World War I, in order to find out how aerial warfare changed forever in just four years.
In 1914, when WWI began, the aeroplane was so new that the British had never used it in battle before. Eager recruits, some as young as 17, rushed to join the Bri...