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This video, one of a series entitled Civil War Journal, contains personal stories of four of the battles in the War Between the States.

The tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.

A series of essays analyzing questions or dilemmas relating to social issues.

Includes Catherine I, Anna Ioannovna, Anna Leopol'dovna, Elizabeth and Catherine the Great.

Describes what goes on during the "Crucible Event," the 54 grueling hours that complete the process of turning recruits into Marines.

Legendary nineteenth-century London judge Sir Joh Fielding returns in this fourth mystery. John Fielding was the founder of London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, as well as a magistrate of keen intellect, fairness and uncommon detective ability. When a crime was committed, he often took it upon himself to solve it. What made this all the more remarkable was that he was blind.

The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.