shark 🦈 vs 🐠 manta ray

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What Larry Ellison Doesn’t Want You to Know | ft. @Kaburbank

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Infinite magnet loop

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Trevi Fountain

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Hulme Arch, this morning

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The illusion of seeing through this tree

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It’s All Henry VIII!: A Beginner’s Guide To The Dissolution of the Monasteries

Note: Have had a couple of comments to the effect that the interpretation of Leviticus 20:21 presented here is incorrect. To clarify: this isn’t my interpretation; it’s Henry VIII’s. You’re going to have to take it up with him, I’m afraid.

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Sources:
Ackroyd, P. 2012. The History of England, Vol. 2: The Tudors.
Bailey, M. 2014. The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England.
Hornbeck II, J. P., Lahey, S. E., & Somerset, F., eds & trans. 2013. Wycliffite Spirituality.
McSheffrey, S. & Tanner, N., eds. & trans. 2003. Lollards of Coventry 1486-1522.

Music:

Tape Star
by Shane Ivers, http://www.silvermansound.com, CC-BY

Ave Maria II, S.38
by Franz Liszt
performed by Papalin, CC-BY

Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major
by Johann Sebastian Bach
performed by Paul De Bra, CC-BY

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Why is there no B# or E# note on the piano?

Check out my video on why the white notes are C major and not A major: • Why are the white notes the C Major scale?

Why is there no black note between B and C or between E and F? Well, this is a simple sounding question with a not very simple answer. You’ll need to be sitting up in your seat for this one!

My video on Microtonality: • Does western music use Microtonality?
My video on 12-tone Equal Temperament: • Why pianos and guitars aren’t really in tu…

📌This video is a revised re-upload. I originally uploaded this video in April 2022, but soon realised from the reaction in the comments that I had skimmed over a lot of detail when it came to the major scale and the tones and semitones. This was causing confusion for many viewers so I’ve now decided to replace that video with this new, updated version. I’m much happier with the explaination in this video. Sorry again for any confusion caused by the original edition. You can still view the original version if you like here: • Why are there no black notes in these gaps…

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SOURCES:
Early Music Sources – Musica Ficta: • Musica ficta!
Early Music Sources – Gregorian Chant: • Gregorian chant
Early Music Sources – Solmization: • Solmization and the Guidonian hand in the …
Early Music Sources – Modes: • Modes in the 16th and 17th centuries
Adam Neely & the tritone: • The Great Myth of the Medieval Tritone Ban
Adam Neely & the tritone (again!): • The Devil in music (an untold history of t…
The Hydraulis: • Justus Willberg plays the Hydraulis
12Tone – Why do notes have names?: • Why Do Notes Have Names?
The oldest playable organ in the world: • OLDEST PLAYABLE ORGAN IN THE WORLD Part 1 …
The Halberstadt organ:
https://second.wiki/wiki/orgel_des_do…
History of the organ: https://www.britannica.com/art/keyboa…
Cantus Firmus: http://www.estherlederberg.com/EImage…
Plainchant: https://www.britannica.com/art/mode-m…
Accidentals: https://www.britannica.com/art/accide…
History of Harmony: https://www.britannica.com/art/harmon…
The Hexachord: https://hasseproject.com/articles/hex…

0:00 Introduction
1:20 the Major scale
2:58 Microtonal notes
3:56 the history of music theory
12:23 Temperament
13:29 B# and E# exist in notation

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This photographer has spent over 9 years documenting solitary vending machines across Japan.

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Chengdu World Games opening ceremony fireworks

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