Narration: Documentary; Travel, Tourism, Science, History, Pop Music
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James Joyce once said that he wanted to create a picture of Dublin so complete, that if the city one day disappeared, it could be reconstructed entirely from his book Ulysses. He succeeded. The spirit of James Joyce is evident everywhere in bustling booming modern Dublin. With a bit of imagination and some good walking shoes, you can virtually step into the pages of Ulysses to follow Leopold Bloom on his fictional odyssey through Dublin. The Abiogenic Theory holds that hydrocarbons were a component of the material that formed the earth through accretion of solids some 4.5 billion years ago. With increasing internal heat, liquids and gasses were liberated, and because they were less dense than the rocks, buoyancy forces drove them upward. More than a century of technological developments have made a reality of Jules Verne's fantasy. Today, submarines, large and small crisscross the deep ocean. But compared to the Nautilus in one important respect, real life subs are a bit of a disappointment. They don't have much of a view. The big military submarines don't have any windows at all. And even a scientific mini-Submersible, like the famous Alvin, has only tiny portals. Clearly this was the ultimate predator. The undisputed master of its cretaceous world...or not. One of the world's top paleontologists says the T rex was not a hunter at all. The fiercest giant of dinosaur lore was but a well-designed scavenger that had much more in common with buzzards and hyenas than with lions and tigers. The waters of the Minset river visit this lush valley to replenish the soil and color the land. Yellow citrus, green vegetables, blueberries and ruby red fruit checkerboard the landscape in brilliant hues. Farmers who have tended this land for generations move from field to field, inspecting the size, calculating weight and measuring progress. Over 50 of the hamlets are soon infiltrated and easily taken over by the Viet Cong, who kill or intimidate village leaders. As a result, Diem orders bombing raids against suspected Viet Cong controlled hamlets. The airstrikes by the South Vietnamese Air Force are supported by U. S. Pilots who also conduct some of the bombings. By the mid-sixties, the Beatles, who had initially been turned down by every record label in town, ruled over Abbey Road Studios. They'd use whatever instruments were around, fight for the padlock to be taken off the fridge so they'd still have access to it in the wee hours of the morning, and record whenever the inspiration struck, working on individual songs, tracks or even simple riffs for as long as it took to get the sound just right.