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Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。一种不知名的致命病毒，一场突如其来的事故，曾经美丽的天堂小岛瞬间变成人间炼狱，军方重兵压境，誓要厄杀一切生物。生命，是否还有希望…… 二十一世纪初，一种神秘的病毒攻击全球，它有着非典的破坏力和禽流感的传播速度…… 没人知道这种病毒的名字，它也从来没有在地球的历史上出现过，感染者持续发热、咳嗽，医护人员毫无对策且相继感染，海滩上，医院里都躺满了因感染死去的腐烂尸体，个个死状恐怖，满身都是糜烂的皮肤，散发出刺鼻的恶臭…… 没有人可以逃出小岛，没有人能抵抗病毒、更没有人看得到生存的希望…… 美国军方大规模出动，封锁了整座天堂岛，并决定在病毒无法控制时用飞弹摧毁整座小岛，以防止病毒扩散，更为了掩饰军方不可告人的秘密生化武器计划…… 肆虐的病毒到底是人类的咎由自取还是来自恐怖份子的袭击？人类能否打赢这场毫无胜算的战役？灾难中人性的善与恶该如何取舍？电影给不了我...。A man becomes a suspect in a serial murder case after waking from a coma with no recollection of who he is。
