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A practical guide to selecting the right gear for your horse riding journey.This video provides essential guidance on choosing horses and the necessary equipment for riding. It is designed for those considering a purchase, offering expert-led instructions…
A pragmatic governor turned Egypt into a stable, independent power during the Abbasid decline.Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid rose from a turbulent military career to found a dynasty in Egypt. While other regional strongmen chased the crumbling caliphal throne in Baghdad, al…
A prank on a trucker turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse.In the 2001 thriller Joy Ride, two brothers make the mistake of taunting a mysterious truck driver over a CB radio. What begins as a cruel joke quickly escalates into a relentless…
A prank-fueled road trip leads three teenagers to an unexpected punk rock dreamThree Kansas City teens embark on a chaotic journey to Los Angeles, convinced they are slated to perform alongside Green Day on New Year's Eve. What begins as a misguided adventur…
A precision ballet: the docking of Soyuz TMA-13MWatch the delicate six-hour journey as the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft approaches and latches onto the International Space Station.
A precision drone strike on Saudi oil infrastructure briefly paralyzed global energy marketsOn September 14, 2019, a swarm of drones and cruise missiles struck two critical Saudi Aramco facilities. The attack slashed Saudi oil production by half, representing five percen…
A precision strike that missed its target by 440 metersOn May 7, 1999, a US B-2 Spirit dropped five GPS-guided bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. The intended target was a Yugoslav weapons importer located 440 meters south. The…
A precision tool designed to simplify seedling extraction and seed sowing in module traysGardening efficiency often hinges on the smallest details, particularly when handling fragile seedlings. Charles Dowding has collaborated with Containerwise to develop a specializ…
A predator with a surprising appetite: the blood-thirsty giant tortoiseStep into a world where one of the most notorious predators is actually a giant tortoise. This video explores the unexpected and blood-thirsty nature of this reptile.
A predator's intervention: when a lion protects a pregnant hyenaWatch a rare moment of unexpected tension as a pregnant hyena named Tandala attempts to scavenge from a wild dog pack, only to find herself caught in the middle of a high-stakes c…
A predator's mid-air strike: the Steller's Sea Eagle huntsWitness the immense power of the Steller's Sea Eagle as it targets nesting Kittiwakes. This rare footage captures a high-stakes moment of predation in the natural world.
A pregnant teenager finds refuge in a Walmart in this 2000 romantic dramaDirected by Matt Williams and based on Billie Letts' 1995 novel, Where the Heart Is follows Novalee Nation, a 17-year-old abandoned at an Oklahoma Walmart. Her secret life inside …
A prehistoric forest remnant survives on a volcanic island in the Atlantic OceanOnce widespread across Europe, the ancient laurissilva laurel forest was nearly lost to centuries of clearing and agriculture. Today, this rare ecosystem persists on Madeira, offe…
A prehistoric giant wētā survived on a single island for centuriesThe Little Barrier giant wētā is one of the world's heaviest insects, a flightless relic that once roamed New Zealand's mainland. Now restricted to a tiny island, this nocturnal n…
A prehistoric graveyard hidden behind a New Jersey hardware storeIn Mantua Township, a community is racing against development to preserve a massive prehistoric site. This video explores how residents are working with geologists to solve a 66-m…
A prehistoric lake once swallowed the heart of Morris CountyBefore it was a hub of New Jersey suburbs, much of this county sat beneath Glacial Lake Passaic. This massive body of water was trapped by glacial debris, creating a landscape tha…
A prehistoric masterpiece hidden in plain sight on an English hillsideFor over 3,000 years, this massive chalk figure has survived the elements. Once thought to be a medieval creation, advanced testing has revealed a much older, more mysterious orig…
A prehistoric sea floor carved by ice now defines England's most iconic limestone valleyDovedale is a dramatic limestone gorge in the Peak District, shaped by ancient glaciers and millions of years of geological history. Beyond its natural beauty, this valley has ser…
A Premier League winger who lost millions to gambling and found a new pathKeith Gillespie was a standout winger for Manchester United and Newcastle United, celebrated for his crossing ability during the nineties. Yet, behind the high-profile matches and…
A premise is the bedrock of every argument, but do you know how to spot one?Every argument rests on premises—propositions offered to support a conclusion. Whether you are navigating legal disputes, scientific inquiry, or everyday debates, identifying thes…
A prequel exploring the justice of a soul before the main storyBefore Frisk ever fell, a child named Clover entered the Underground. This fan-made prequel to Undertale explores a different path, following a human with a yellow soul. Through c…
A prequel to the 1979 classic, Alien: Earth explores humanity's desperate quest for immortality.Set two years before the original film, this television series reimagines the franchise's mythology. It follows a group of prototype hybrids created from terminally ill children w…
A prequel where the hero's ultimate sacrifice was hidden as a dreamBefore the famous Keyblade War, a secret conflict reshaped the world. In the prequel Kingdom Hearts χ, players join factions to hoard light, only to discover that the war's devast…
A prequel where three friends are fractured by a shadowBefore the first Kingdom Hearts, three apprentices were forged in fire and darkness. This 2010 prequel explores how a quest to save the worlds tore apart a trio of friends, introd…
A President's Vision for Modern Peru Ended in a Brutal, Fiery CoupJosé Balta transformed Peru through ambitious infrastructure and foreign debt, only to be assassinated by his own cabinet. While he successfully modernized the nation’s railways a…
A presidential daughter seeks normalcy in a film that struggled to find its ownReleased in 2004, First Daughter follows a sheltered presidential child attempting to navigate college life away from the White House. Despite a premise centered on breaking free …
A presidential retirement plan goes sideways in the small-town comedy Welcome to MooseportWhen a former US president retires to a quiet Maine town to dodge his divorce, he finds himself in an unexpected mayoral race against a local plumber. This 2004 political satire, …
A Presidential Tour of the Kennedy Space CenterEven after a launch delay, President Obama visited the Kennedy Space Center to tour orbital facilities and meet with astronauts. This look behind the scenes explores the logistica…
A presidential visit for the crews of Discovery and the ISSDiscover how President Obama and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spent time with the astronauts of the International Space Station's Expedition 26 and the space shuttle Discover…- A pressure cooker, a stolen car, and a very complicated corpseWhen a gangster accidentally wanders into the wrong house, a middle-class family finds themselves transporting a dead body in a trolley suitcase. What begins as a chaotic accident…
A pressure-sensing channel helps immune cells react to tissue stiffnessResearchers studying macrophages, immune cells involved in infection and wound healing, found that a stretch-sensitive channel called Piezo1 lets these cells sense how stiff their…
A prestigious literary adaptation that became one of cinema's most notorious box-office bombsWhen Warner Bros. adapted Donna Tartt’s acclaimed novel The Goldfinch, they assembled a powerhouse team including director John Crowley and cinematographer Roger Deakins. Despite …
A pretender is not always a fraud, but someone claiming a disputed royal title.The term pretender carries no inherent pejorative meaning, despite its modern association with imposters. Historically, it describes a legitimate descendant of a deposed monarchy …
A preview of the critical 2019 IPBES report on biodiversityBrit Garner joins SciShow to break down the May 2019 preview of the IPBES report, exploring the significance of these findings for global biodiversity.
A priceless Modigliani masterpiece is hidden in plain sight on a man’s backIn the 1968 comedy Le tatoué, a greedy art dealer discovers a rare Modigliani tattoo on the back of an eccentric soldier. His desperate, absurd attempts to acquire the skin—and th…
A priest and a detective navigate the moral decay of 1940s Los Angeles.True Confessions, a 1981 neo-noir drama, explores the fractured relationship between two brothers: a pragmatic monsignor and a cynical homicide detective. Loosely inspired by the …
A priest named this mold after a holy water sprinklerPeering through a microscope in 1729, the Italian priest Pier Antonio Micheli saw spore heads shaped like the aspergillum used to scatter holy water, and named the genus Aspergill…
A priest turned president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide remains a polarizing figure in Haitian history.Jean-Bertrand Aristide rose from poverty to become Haiti's first democratically elected leader, championing liberation theology and the poor. Yet, his career was marked by two sep…
A priest was burned alive for a demonic conspiracy that may have been a political hit.In 1634, the Kingdom of France witnessed a notorious witchcraft trial in Loudun. After Ursuline nuns claimed they were possessed by demons like Asmodai, a charismatic priest named…
A priest-mathematician built stone domes that seem to float on lightGuarino Guarini was a Theatine priest who taught philosophy and theology, yet he designed domes in Turin so daring that they look like lace held up by nothing. He wanted buildings…- A prime is any number of dots that refuses to form a rectangleLine up six dots and they fit neatly into two rows of three. Try the same with five or seven and nothing works except a single line. That is the essence of a prime: a whole number…
A prince finds his dull life transformed by a fiancée acting like a villainess.Cecil, a prince with a hereditary mental disorder, finds himself bored until his fiancée, Bertia, begins acting like the villainess of an otome game. While he initially dismisses …
A Prince of Orange who nearly seized Amsterdam and died at twenty-fourWilliam II of Orange served as Stadtholder for only three years, yet his brief rule was defined by intense conflict. He clashed with powerful Dutch regents over military spending …- A Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Who Shaped the Outcome of the Waterloo CampaignPrince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a pivotal military commander whose strategic decisions at Quatre Bras and Waterloo altered the course of European history. Beyond the b…
A prince shopped for a faith, then married an emperor's sisterAccording to the medieval chronicle, Grand Prince Vladimir sent envoys to compare religions before choosing Byzantine Christianity. He then seized Chersonesus in Crimea and demand…
A princess who nearly became Britain's oldest monarch died just weeks before her crown.Sophia of Hanover was the granddaughter of King James VI and I, yet she spent most of her life in exile. By 1701, the Act of Settlement named her heir to the British throne. She w…
A princess who refused to marry Henry VIII and became a master European diplomat.Christina of Denmark was a high-stakes political pawn who transformed herself into a sovereign power broker. After surviving a childhood in exile and a brief, tragic marriage to t…
A Princeton student gambles his tuition on a rigged website, then travels to Costa Rica.Richie Furst, a former Wall Street hopeful turned Princeton student, loses his tuition money to a rigged online poker site. He travels to Costa Rica to confront the site's owner, …
A principled statistical framework for identifying patterns in complex datasetsResearchers who study cluster analysis found that most common methods rely on intuitive heuristics rather than systematic statistical guidance. This lack of structure makes it dif…
A prison cell becomes a stage for Nazi propaganda and unlikely human connectionIn a Brazilian prison, a revolutionary and a gay man forge an unexpected bond through the retelling of a fictional Nazi film. This 1985 drama, based on Manuel Puig’s novel, defied…
A prison inmate becomes a drug kingpin in this high-stakes case of mistaken identityIn the 2007 action film The Death and Life of Bobby Z, a convict named Tim Kearney is forced into a dangerous charade. Recruited by a federal agent to impersonate a notorious drug…
A prisoner-of-war camp once sat on this award-winning airportMilwaukee Mitchell International Airport is now a global leader in aviation excellence, but its grounds hold a darker history. During World War II, the site served as a detention …
A prisoner's letter from the depths: Oscar Wilde's final, haunting masterpiece of spiritual growthWritten in the isolation of Reading Gaol, De Profundis was Oscar Wilde's long, cathartic letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. While Wilde was imprisoned for gross indecency b…
A prisoner's life, a nation's tragedy, and a bureaucratic mix-upSarabjit Singh spent 22 years in a Pakistani prison for crimes India claims he never committed. His story is a labyrinth of mistaken identity, failed mercy appeals, and a bizarre …
A pristine asteroid sample is now helping scientists decode the origins of lifeNASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023, now being studied at the Natural History Museum. These space-borne materials contain the fundamen…
A private billionaire once owned the busiest international border crossing in North AmericaThe Ambassador Bridge, a massive suspension span connecting Detroit and Windsor, has long served as a vital artery for continental commerce. Yet, for decades, this critical piece …
A private collection built on the motto: "only the best"In the heart of Lisbon, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses a collection so curated that it feels like a masterclass in selection. From ancient Mesopotamian artifacts to the int…
A private company once governed a massive territory spanning over one-third of modern Canada.For two centuries, the Hudson's Bay Company operated as the absolute authority over Rupert's Land, a vast wilderness stretching from the Atlantic to the Rockies. This corporate-ru…
A private company once tried to buy one-third of New Zealand for halfpennies.The New Zealand Company aimed to build a perfect English society in the Southern Hemisphere. By using aggressive land-buying tactics and grandiose advertising, they attempted to o…
A private eye faces a mystery of mind-bending geometric riddlesFollow Private Eye Manny Brot as he navigates a surreal night involving a mysterious woman, a mountain encounter, and complex mathematical puzzles. This animation explores the int…