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I have been keeping track of videos I want to watch a few times to memorize a few new words. RUSSIAN SPEECH: Yuri Gagarin (with Russian and English subtitles) Russian language videos on YouTube.

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Viking queen exhumed to solve mystery

September 10, 2007

I found this clip about Viking history at clipmarks today from the original Yahoo link . clipped from news.yahoo.com SLAGEN, Norway (Reuters) - Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife. "We will do DNA tests to try to find out. I don't know of any Viking skeletons that have been analyzed as we plan to do," Egil Mikkelsen, director of Oslo 's Museum of Cultural History, told Reuters at the graveside. A servant might have been the victim of a ritual killing, perhaps her throat slit to accompany her queen to an afterlife in Valhalla. In one Danish Viking grave, for instance, an old man lying by a younger man had been decapitated. The archaeologists placed a Norwegian 20 crown coin -- dated 2007 and with a picture of the prow of the Oseberg ship on one side -- in the sarcophagus to show any future generations when the...

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6 Reasons We’ll Pay You To Teach Us vs. Learn It Free Online

February 24, 2015

For people with books, videos, or other how-to programs for sale online, this video is a positive reminder about not worrying about free videos on YouTube and information on the Internet. I'm going to compare this to my search for information on learning languages... First of all, I do buy resources to learn languages. But almost every thing I buy isn't quite good enough. Pimsleur is great for repetition and pronunciation and getting us talking. But, the entire program is entirely too expensive considering that the literacy component is completely missing. In an online world with worldwide social networks and a global economy, we Pimsleur still wants nearly $1000 course without any written component is beyond me. I don't mean this to be a negative review. I've been learning from Pimsleur too. But, only because I take the time to figure out what the words are and look for more information on grammar and such. By the way, wanting to save money I borrowed the Pimsl...