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a collection of videos i found interesting on the interwebs

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On February 22, 1984, Carol Ann Vetter touched her 12-year-old son's hand for the first time. David Vetter had spent his entire life inside a sterile isolator, with a protective layer of plastic shielding him from the world around him. Afflicted with a rare hereditary disease, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), David was defenseless against any germs. Now, his doctors were gambling on an experimental procedure to free him from his isolation -- but David would live only two weeks in the outside world before succumbing to infection.

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a tv special on locked in syndrome, 

Locked-in syndrome (LIS) is a condition in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for the eyes.

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Doctors Of Death

In the 1930s, Japan's notorious UNIT 731 carried out brutal experiments on the population of recently-invaded Manchuria. Whole villages and towns were deliberately infected with plague, and sufferers were dissected alive.

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"Private Life of a Masterpiece" Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

"Little Dancer of Fourteen Years" is a sculpture by Edgar Degas of a young dance student named Marie van Goethem. The sculpture was originally made in wax before it was cast in 1922 in bronze.

"Little Dancer of Fourteen Years" is made from wax, an unusual choice of material for a sculpture of this time, dressed in a cotton skirt with a hair ribbon, sitting on a wooden base.

The relationship between Marie van Goethem and Edgar Degas is one of debate. It was usual in 1880 for the 'Petits Rats' of the Opera of Paris to seek protectors from among the wealthy visitors at the back door of the opera.

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Horror Stories

A high school student is kidnapped by a killer and has her life on the line. To survive, she tells him the scariest stories she knows; 

starting with Don't Answer to the Door, a story of eerie things happening in a house with a brother and sister who are waiting for their mother, 

Endless Flight in which a flight attendant and a serial killer is left alone in an airplane up in the air, 

Secret Recipe a cruel 2012 version of a folktale in which two stepsisters fight to marry a rich man, and 

Ambulance on the Death Zone in which the survivors in a city filled with a deadly zombie virus suspect each other of being infected while riding together in an ambulance.

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Nightmare in Manchuria

Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.

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National Geographic: The Girl in the Glass Casket

Rosalia Lombardo was an Italian child born in 1918 in Palermo, Sicily. She died of pneumonia on December 6, 1920. Rosalia’s father, General Lombardo, was sorely grieved upon her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to preserve her. Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

Thanks to Salafia’s embalming techniques, the body was well preserved. X-rays of the body show that all the organs are remarkably intact. Rosalia Lombardo’s body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the catacomb’s tour and is encased in a glass covered coffin, placed on a marble pedestal. A 2009 National Geographic photograph of Rosalia Lombardo shows the mummy is beginning to show signs of decomposition, most notably discoloration. To address these issues the mummy was moved to a new drier spot in the catacombs, and her original coffin was placed in a hermetically sealed glass enclosure with nitrogen gas to prevent decay. The mummy is one of the best preserved bodies in the catacombs.

Recently, the mummification techniques used by Salafia were discovered in a handwritten memoir of Salafia’s. Salafia replaced the girl’s blood with a liquid made of formalin to kill bacteria, alcohol to dry the body, glycerin to keep her from overdrying, salicylic acid to kill fungi, and zinc salts to give her body rigidity. Accordingly, the formula’s composition is “one part glycerin, one part formalin saturated with both zinc sulfate and chloride, and one part of an alcohol solution saturated with salicylic acid.” [wiki]

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GENOCIDE CRIME: Bloody Organ Harvesting in China 

Award winning documentary by NTD Television about shocking, state-sponsored practice of organ harvesting in China.

It's hard to imagine that a regime more brutal and evil than the one in Nazi Germany could exist today. 

Since assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the deaths of 70-80 million Chinese (more than the death toll of the two World Wars combined). 

Now this most horrific regime in the history of mankind is butchering its people like pigs for their organs. 

Lured by the promise of financial and economical gains government and politicians around the world, big corporations and corrupt individuals, are willing to turn a blind eye to the gruesome reality and human tragedy in China.

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Climbing Everest with a Mountain on My Back: The Sherpa's Story

BBC full documentary 2013

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Mt. Everest - The David Sharp Controversy 

David Sharp (15 February 1972 – 15 May 2006) was an English mountaineer and Cho Oyu summiter[1] who died near the summit of Mount Everest.[2] His death caused controversy and debate, because he was passed by a number of other climbers heading to and returning from the summit during his solo attempt with no support or team

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BBC Life Savers 

There's a revolution happening in the way life-threatening injuries are being treated across the country. This series follows every step of the groundbreaking 'chain of survival' for life-threatening injuries, designed to save hundreds of extra lives every year.

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Teenage Japanese Killers

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Life Without Pain

Do you think a pain-free life sounds great? Think again. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN is an exploration into the day-to-day lives of three children who literally feel no pain. Three-year-old Gabby from Minnesota, 7-year-old Miriam from Norway and 10-year-old Jamilah from Germany have a genetic defect so rare that it is shared by just one hundred people in the world.  Their parents must watch their every move, but even their vigilance hasn’t shielded the girls from many serious, life-altering injuries.  As we follow these families coping with this enormous challenge, we learn that pain is really a gift that no one wants, but none of us can do without.

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E-Mail Order Bride 

In the United States, as many as 16,000 marriages each year result from international marriage agencies, or mail order bride brokers. E-mail Order Bride provides a rare, intimate glimpse into the quirky, and sometimes dangerous, business of arranging marriages across thousands of miles and cultural borders.

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The Family That Walks on All Fours 

Gripping film about a family of human "quadrupeds", who were touted by a Turkish scientist as evidence of "backwards evolution". 

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Secrets of the Dead III: Tragedy at the Pole 

In November 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a British team began a 900-mile trek across Antarctica to reach the South Pole. They reached the Pole in January 1912, but a month behind Roald Amundsen's Norwegians. On the return trip, Scott and his four companions perished, and their legacy has been debated ever since. Meteorological data, diaries, and accounts by survivors re-create the sights, sounds, legends, and ferocious weather.