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This is Lowell Thomas inviting you to come
on another synorama adventure.
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An epic journey such as no man ever made.
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We are going on a flight around the world
in our synorama clipper.
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An air voyage to five continents in search
of the wonders of the world.
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The inspiration behind the
idea for this aerial voyage goes
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back to the days when here in
my own home in this same room.
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I first introduced to you that new
revolutionary medium of entertainment.
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Remember what I said?
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is synorama.
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And we went on that dizzy thrilling roller
coaster ride.
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Actually, it goes back even farther than
that.
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A friend of mine and in
better Fred Waller for 14
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years had been working on
his new synorama process.
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Hazard Reeves had just added revolutionary
stereophonic sound.
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Synorama was still in the laboratory.
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Nearly all the heads of the motion picture
industry saw the tests and marveled.
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But they went away saying it was too
complicated, too cumbersome, too expensive.
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But to me it seemed as though Waller and
Reeves had performed a miracle.
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It seemed to me they had something that
was perfect.
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For the sort of thing I have
been doing, ever since I was
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with Allenby when he was
driving the Turks from Palestine.
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And when I was with that most colorful
adventurer of our time, Lawrence of Arabia.
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I don't recall whether it was Lawrence who
suggested it or whether I did.
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But we talked about the ancient list of
the seven wonders of the world.
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He was an archaeologist.
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And we discussed the idea of bringing that
ancient list up to date.
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And then not long after the first world
war, I was lucky enough to be the historian.
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A man of man's first flight around the
world.
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The flight was made in a specially
designed, Douglas world cruiser.
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This is a model.
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The first circumnavigation of the globe by
air.
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A milestone in the history of man.
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Bringing fame as enduring
as the pyramids, I think, to
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these brilliant airmen
standing on either side of me.
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My candidate for the world's number one
flyer.
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Near the end of World War
II, I chased General Jimmy
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Doolittle around the globe
and failed to catch him.
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flying part of the time with General Hap
Arnold chief of the U.S.
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Air Force.
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And a few years ago, my son and I flew
around again.
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That was when we crossed the Himalayas to
enter Tibet.
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And when we got to loss
of the Rio Shangri -Law,
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we saw the portal of the
palace of the Delilama.
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Rising from the valley floor to its golden
domes.
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Two-thirds as tall as the Empire State
Building.
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What a marvelous thing it would have been
if we could have had sinner armor in
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lossa.
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But by the time we got
home and discovered
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some armor, the red
tide had rolled over Tibet.
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During all the years that I had been
spanning the oceans and flying around and
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around the world, I more and more came to
feel that the time had come when at last
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we should bring that ancient list of the
seven wonders of the world up to date.
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General Marion Cooper and I had produced
the first one.
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This is sinner armor, which broke all
entertainment records.
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So when I presented my seven wonders idea
to our Stanley Warner sinner hammer
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colleagues, they said, go ahead,
lo, let your dream come true.
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And that's the story of how and why we are
now setting forth on this odyssey.
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But before we leave, may I point out
something that you already know?
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When the Greeks formulated their original
seven wonders list, the world they knew
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was centered here in the eastern
Mediterranean.
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From this small area, western civilization
spread.
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But man now is familiar with the entire
planet.
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Do you remember what were the original
seven wonders?
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I had to look them up, too.
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There is one that you do remember the
Colossus of Rhodes.
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We are told that it stood astrayed the harbor
at Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean.
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And that it was so tall, ships could sail
between its legs.
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Another was a gorgeous temple to the
goddess Diana.
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The Greeks called her Artemis.
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It was in the ancient city of Ephesus,
where Saint Paul preached.
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Not far from Ephesus in Asia Minor was the
city of Malek Kernassus.
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When his ruler, King Massolus died,
his queen built him a tomb.
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The tomb of Massolus at Halek Kernassus.
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From which we get our word, Massolium.
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The Greeks had an important shrine at the
site of the original Olympic games.
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In it was a statue of Zeus, Jupiter to the
Romans.
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A masterpiece of ivory
and gold created by
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fittius, foremost
sculptor of ancient times.
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In the story of Julius Caesar,
you may recall reading about a great
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lighthouse at the mouth of the Nile near
the city of Alexandria.
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It was called the Pharaohs.
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And we are told that it stood there for 1
,500 years until finally destroyed by an
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earthquake in the 14th century.
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And then the sixth of which we have heard
so often, and still constantly referred to.
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The hanging gardens of Babylon.
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They are on the right.
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Legend tells us that King Nebuchadnezzar
erected the hanging gardens for his queen.
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And she was a princess from the mountains.
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And she pined for her mountains.
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And this was Nebuchadnezzar's
attempt to provide a
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substitute for her here on
the flat desert of Mesopotamia.
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The spiral tower that you see across the
river Euphrates.
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Our artist has included the tower of
Babel, along with the hanging garden.
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All six of these have two things in
common.
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They were all man-made, and they have all
long since disappeared.
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Only one of the ancient seven wonders
remains.
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High-speed modern
transportation makes it possible for
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man now to go to any
place on the planet in a hurry.
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And Cinorama gives us the feeling that we
are actually there.
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And that is why I am now
inviting you to join me in
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bringing the ancient seven
wonders list up to date.
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With this difference, we
not only are going to include
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spectacular man-made wonders,
but also the wonders of nature.
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And before we set forth on this odyssey,
let's put on seven league boots and pay
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our respects to the only one of the
ancient seven that remains.
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See that remaining ancient wonder through
the magic of Cinorama.
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The Greeks of antiquity
rated the pyramids of Egypt
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as the greatest and the
oldest of the seven wonders.
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Shall we still include the pyramids as one
of the seven wonders of the world?
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Here they are, almost unchanged in five
thousand years.
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And from the way they
look, they'll be here for
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thousands of years
after you and I are gone.
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Ah, but our point of departure is not the
Pyramids.
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Setting forth on our search, we fly away
from New York on a modern magic cart,
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taking off from the towering metropolis of
the modern world.
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Off we go for a whirl
around the globe, on our
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way to see what
strange marvels we'll find.
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Man-made wonders and wonders of nature.
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Man-happen on the right, some small
islands here in the river, in on our left,
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Long Island and
Brooklyn, four great bridges
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spanning this eastern
half of the Hudson.
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Let's give these bridges a special
farewell salute.
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Flying over Queensborough Bridge.
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Oh, under it.
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Past the United Nations Bill, while we
seek world wonders, they seek world peace.
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Surely the greatest wonder of all.
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Now three more operations.
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This one, the Williamsburg.
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Over?
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No, under again.
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The one they call the Manhattan.
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The one they are always selling to
somebody.
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The Brooklyn Bridge.
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Oldest of them all.
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So long, fair lady.
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We won't be seeing you again until we have
circled the world.
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Off we go, continent to continent.
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Wonder hunting.
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First stop South America with its all
devouring jungle.
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Of the wonders of nature, we have probably
come upon one in the remote wilderness.
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Right in the heart of South America,
near where the borders of Brazil,
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Argentina and Paraguay meet.
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One of the greatest of waterfalls.
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A series of giant cascades
with a combined rim
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twice as wide as Niagara
and half again as high.
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In fact, in the spring, the water flowing
over is twice the volume of Niagara.
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Would you put Igwazu on your list of the
seven wonders in the modern world?
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In the tropical wilderness
of South America, we also
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come upon an unexpected
wonder, a freak of nature.
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A battle between the jungle and the sands.
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The sand used from
the coast to Brazil, locked
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in a struggle with
the equatorial forest.
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An invasion of yellow thrust into the
green hell with the sands winning.
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A few years ago, a roving American pilot
named Jimmy Angel, flying over this
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immense wilderness as we are now,
was startled to behold a lost world on
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young plateau with a whole series of
waterfalls leaping toward the jungle.
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And these in Venezuela are the highest of
all the waterfalls in the world.
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20 times as high as Niagara.
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Two-thirds of a mile high.
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Angel falls named for the barn storming
adventure.
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South America, continent of file and
contrast.
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Brazil, land of seemingly endless jungle.
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And suddenly unfolding before us,
the most spectacular city in the world.
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Rio, Rio
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de Janeiro, the river of January.
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But there's no river here.
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Nor is it January all year round.
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But it was January in 1502 when the Portuguese
navigators first sighted this coast.
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As they sailed in, they
thought, well surely
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there's a river flowing
into this great harbor.
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So they called it Rio de Janeiro.
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In the distance, Sugarloaf.
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Curiously shaped rock, landmark of Rio.
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Spreading on and on with its great
suburbs.
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Each among the hills like a city in
itself.
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Now the higher up you live, the lower your
rent in Rio.
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Wealthy Brazilians prefer to be right down
on the beach.
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The poor are the high livers.
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The rich, the lower.
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A Rio paradox.
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On our left up there, a Rio slum.
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The oceanfronted Rio is a world renowned.
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A mile after mile, the Avonita.
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And have you heard of the unusual building
restrictions at Rio?
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You can't put up anything less than twelve
stories.
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Man -made cliffs along the ocean.
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Shall we include Rio as a wonder?
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Or surely it is the wonder city of the
world?
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We all know the jungle is wild, but
wildest of all is carnival time at Rio.
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Then for a complete change of mood.
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Flying through the clouds when we come
upon Corcovado.
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2,200 feet above the city.
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Crown with a wonder of sculpture.
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A hundred feet high.
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The Christ with arms outstretched as if in
blessing.
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Here we go again, continent to continent.
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South America to Asia this time.
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Over the greatest ocean of them all.
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Next up, Japan.
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Boy, oh boy.
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Then look in your eye, Pa.
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What are you thinking about?
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All those geisha girls.
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When most of us think about Japan.
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Well, we either think about cherry
blossoms.
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Or that wonder mountain.
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Fojiyama.
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Or maybe the Kamakura Buddha.
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Would you put this giant sculpture on your
list?
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Down on the Japanese farm.
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A countryside in pastel shades.
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The fish are carved.
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Bread for color.
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Some priced at $10,000 each.
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Poor fish?
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Well, hardly.
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Arriving at Tokyo Airport, our Pan
-American, the Sinerama Clipper.
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Japan, of course, depends on the great sky
roots across the vast Pacific.
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And Pan-American, itself a technological
wonder, pioneered trans-Pacific aviation.
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Greetings to Honorable GIs.
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Honorable GIs are eager to see the sights
of Japan.
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And everywhere the GIs go, the kittens are
sure to go.
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In our search for the wonders of the
world, shall we include feminine beauty?
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In a Japanese garden with music,
as it's played in Japan today.
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The wonders of this far eastern land
include many an ancient shrine,
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many a traditional ceremony, a few of
which visitors are invited to perform,
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like the ceremony of the dawn.
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The ultra-modern rickshaw that the Kooli
used to pull.
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In our tricycle rickshaw, we ride almost
into the lobby of the Takarasa Cathedral,
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where we hear the way popular music is
played in Japan nowadays.
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Note the decidedly western flame.
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Kokomo Kea-Kakan Kalamazoo, with the usual
GIs souvenirs.
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And the girls they leave behind.
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So long, young, young, so long,
could he see?
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Their search for the wonders of the world
is all.
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Goodbye, madam butterfly.
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As we fly over Southeast Asia,
we look down upon a lost empire,
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Angkor Wat and Cambodia.
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A thousand years ago, a conquering people
called the Khmerz, established a brilliant
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kingdom here, with a civilization that
originated in India.
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After many centuries, the Khmerz were
overthrown.
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And their shrines and
their cities reverted to the
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jungle, to be resurrected in
our own time, not long ago.
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And surely one of the wonders of the
world.
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Buddhist monks at a shrine long forgotten,
and only recently brought to light again.
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Religious wonder city of India,
on the Ganges, the Sacred River,
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a pilgrimage city from
time immemorial, with its
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famous gods, the landing
places along the river.
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For centuries, the great and
the rich, Maharaja and merchant
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have built shrines and
palaces here along the Ganges.
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Of temples alone, Benares has 1,500,
a wonder city of strange religion.
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A temple dance, a cobra dance.
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The deadly hooded serpent has a weird
significance.
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Strange mysticism in this performance of
the temple dancers and the cobra.
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She has come with her parents, and she
turns out to be quite a remarkable mimic.
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Any of you married couples ever have a
bridal procession like this?
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Have some gum and chum.
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India inherited much from the bridge,
including London Bridge's falling down.
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American influence too.
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And finally some Hindu music.
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Where is the bride?
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Oh, she stays at home.
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And the bridegroom?
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Ah, there he is.
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You've heard of the Benares monkey temple.
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This is it.
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Dedicated to one of the favorite Hindu
divinities.
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The monkey god, Hanuman.
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Nearly all temples in India have their
dancing girls trained from childhood,
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even here at the monkey temple.
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Motoring through Benares
or through any Indian city
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is not to be recommended
if you have a weak heart.
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Look out for the sacred cows.
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If you hit one, then you will have to go.
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For the age old feud of India between the
Mandus and the Cobra.
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Now the Mandus is not immune from the
lethal poison of the Cobra.
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So it depends on its incredible agility.
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Look, he's taking a bow.
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And the Mandus always wins.
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Arriving at the scene of an immortal
story.
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Some 300 years ago, the Great Mogos ruled
in India.
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One of them, the emperor Shah Jihan.
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And his greatest treasure was his favorite
wife.
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Mung Shah's Mahal.
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She died when she was young.
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And he and his despair
and grief determined to
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rare for her a tomb worthy
of her grace and guilt.
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As all men know, he created a masterpiece
of the Taj Mahal.
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Alas, Shah Jihan had to spend his
declining years in prison.
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He was deposed by his own son.
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But there he could look
out on the monument
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that he had erected
to the woman he loved.
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Look, and dream.
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And so we have what many today consider
the loveliest wonder of the world.
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The Taj Mahal.
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Right ahead of his style, the Himalayas,
highest mountains in the world.
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Next up, Darjeeling and a cup of tea.
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In our search for world wonders, let's
visit India's most famous mountain resort.
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Darjeeling high in the Himalayas.
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Fame, too, for that Darjeeling tea.
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To carry freight and
passengers up the Himalayan
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slopes, well, that would
seem to be a task for a giant.
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Here's our giant.
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At the curseyong station, down near the
plains.
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Don't be dead.
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He thinks he's in a wagon league.
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The meat moan joe.
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They sand the track to keep the wheels
from slippings.
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We're off on the steep climb to
Darjeeling.
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Earnest the engine, puffing and puffing.
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To get up these steep
Himalayan slopes, they
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continually have to pour
sand on the rails like that.
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The Darjeeling run is one of the toughest
that railrotors know.
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Up enormous mountains.
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Mountains that are themselves a world
wonder.
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Would you select our
Darjeeling train as one of
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the technological wonders
of the modern world?
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The world of railroading?
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Something blocking the track.
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What is it?
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Surely it can't be.
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Yes, it's an elephant, snoozy.
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Shoo, shoo.
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It'd be their wild elephants.
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It'd be their dangerous.
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Let's call a big game hunter with a high
powered rifle.
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Ah, here he comes.
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Sabu the elephant board.
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Hey, what's up?
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Guess the brakes have gone.
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That's happened before, but never quite
like this.
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Can they hit it all?
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Seems surprised at the train that runs
backwards.
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Right back where they start.
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But don't redend us, though.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Fine run.
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You're on our way to trace the wonder
story of the world.
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As told in the book, that has influenced
mankind more than any other.
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The Bible.
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Continent hopping again.
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This time to Egypt.
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With Cairo it's modern cattle.
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Where imagination takes us back to the
pharaohs.
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And to the epic story told in the book of
accidents.
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The god Abno will be run over by a camel.
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The Nile of ancient renown.
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Near the banks of which the children of
Israel were kept so long in bondage.
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In the flight of the
Israelites from Egypt, their
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way was right across what
we call the ismasa suez.
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Where today we see the suez canal,
another technological wonder.
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In Exodus we read how
Moses again and again
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repeated the pharaoh,
the command of the Lord.
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Pharaoh, let my people go.
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The arms suez, just outside Egypt, we
approach the mountain of the Ten Commands.
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Mount Sinai.
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There.
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The mountain of which the Bible says.
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And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on
the top of the mountain.
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And the Lord called Moses up to the top of
the mountain.
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And the Ten Commandments were given.
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On the Lord's slope of Mount
Sinai, an ancient monastery
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commemorating Moses
and the tablets of the Lord.
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For forty years Moses
led the children of Israel
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through the mountain
desolation of the Sinai Peninsula.
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Yes, this is the wilderness.
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We read that Aaron, brother of Moses,
was buried on Mount home.
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That summer, just below us, with the white
shrine.
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The Israelites carried long at the
southern end of the dead sea.
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The lowest spot on earth, in itself a
strange wonder of nature of the dead sea.
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More than a thousand feet below the sea
level.
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And then they journeyed on to the promised
land.
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Legend says that there in the heart of
Hebron were buried Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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Together with their wives, Sarah,
Rebekah and Lea.
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The cave of Macpiva with
the sacred tomb is beneath
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that building, inside the
rectangular enclosure.
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On to the northern end of the dead sea,
to Jericho, where the walls fell down.
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Remember how in the book of Joshua we
read, and it came to pass when the people
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heard the sound of the trumpet.
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And the people shouted with a great shout
that the wall fell down flat.
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Along the old Jericho road, recalling how
the twelve tribes of Israel won Palestine,
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and established a flourishing king.
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In the Psalms, the poet sings,
If I forget the old Jerusalem,
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let my right hand forget her cunning.
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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth.
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Three temples of ancient Israel were built
here.
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There they stood
through the centuries, until
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the last was destroyed
by the Romans in 70 AD.
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The ancient Jewish state overthrown.
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And today the mosque of Omar occupies the
site of Solomon's temple.
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If you ever hear of the stronghold of
Masada, the seed of tragic heroism in the
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Jewish revolt against Rome, the defenders
hurling themselves over the cliff,
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preferring death to surrender.
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At the bottom, the old Roman wall,
dating back to that era, of the final
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effort of ancient Israel for national
freedom.
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The green fields of modern Israel bring
the Jewish story right down to date.
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From ancient tragedy to present revival,
Israel restored.
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Zionist settlers have done wonders in the
practice of advanced agriculture.
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So here today, the color is green.
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The ancient port of Akron, one of the
great gateways to Palestine.
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After 2000 years, a Jewish state has been
restored in the old land.
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For ages, the people in exile.
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And now a host of exiles returning to
build a new nation.
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Let us tear you a moment.
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Let us recall another story.
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A story that begins at Bethlehem.
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And she brought forth her first born son,
wrapped him in swaddling clothes,
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and played him in a mage.
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Because there was no room for them in the
end.
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And the angels sang, glory to God in the
highest.
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And on earth, peace, good will toward man.
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With the church of the Natimani.
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On Nazareth, where Jesus lived in his
youth and worked as a carpenter.
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A city made immortal
by the name that has
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dominated Christendom
for nearly 2,000 years.
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Jesus of Nazareth.
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And
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the river in which the Savior was baptized
by John the Baptist.
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Over looking at the chart, the Mount of
temptation, of which we read.
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And the devil will take him up into an
exceedingly high mountain.
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And showeth him all the kingdoms of the
world and the glory of them.
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All of which Satan offered to Jesus if he
would give up the kingdom of heaven.
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The Sea of Galilee, where Jesus walked on
the walk.
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The sea in which the apostles cast their
nets.
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And the chief of the twelve was Simon Cole
Peter, a fisherman.
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The gospel story takes us to the tragic
conservation.
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Guess semony outside Jerusalem.
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Then comeeth Jesus with them to a place
Cole gets seven.
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So the gospel relays.
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The story of the agony in the garden.
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Into the city through St. Stephen's Gate,
where Stephen was stoned.
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The way pilgrims have come for centuries
to pray at the scenes named by tradition.
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And imagination can picture those events
when Jesus was led forth to be crucified.
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The Via Dolorosa.
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The way of the cross, named by tradition
as the road to Calvary.
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Where the Savior crowned with thorns
carried his cross.
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And their followed him says the gospel.
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A great company of people and of women,
which also be wailed and lamented him.
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But Jesus turning unto them said,
daughters of Jerusalem, wait not for me,
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but wait for yourselves and for your
children.
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When they were come to the place which is
called Calvary, where they crucified him.
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The story in the
minds of the pilgrims as
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they make this journey
along the Via Dolorosa.
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The church of the Holy Sepulcher,
its ancient walls ever in need of repair,
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legended as the scene of the resurrection.
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Where at Easter the cry rings out,
he is risen, he is risen.
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And finally, the Mount of Olives,
the scene of the ascension.
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Africa, dark continent of long dramatic
legend.
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Great fire mountains are just about the
most exciting of all the wonders of nature.
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And here before us in
East Africa, is the Lord of
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Volcanoes, with the rising
column of volcanic gas.
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Shall we take a look right into the
burning crater?
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Our synorama aerial cameraman,
Paul Mans, is afraid the sulfur fumes will
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cut his engines for a
forced landing in what
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could be a pit of hell
in Dante's inferno.
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Africa renowned above all for its wonders
of the animal kingdom.
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Heard of hippos on the Victoria Nile.
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The bottom is as great for river horse.
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The Greeks had a word for nearly
everything.
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These do look a bit like horses there in
the river.
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How would you like to ride a hippo?
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Africa wonderland for numbers and varieties
of huge animals, like the elephant herd.
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A monarch with a bird for a crown.
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Now a bit of drama in the elephant
country.
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For the local tribes, baby elephants are
fair game.
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They capture them,
and tame them, or try to,
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for the African elephant
is difficult to tame.
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Let's join an elephant hunt and see how
they catch them.
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The best from Jumbo.
471
01:10:15,850 --> 01:10:18,410
Here's how they tame and train a baby
elephant.
472
01:10:19,110 --> 01:10:20,710
At an elephant school.
473
01:10:38,830 --> 01:10:43,890
How do you like going to school,
baby Jumbo?
474
01:11:19,020 --> 01:11:20,140
The
475
01:11:25,690 --> 01:11:31,740
end of a perfect day in elephant country.
476
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:17,700
Still trying to call them back to the
jungle.
477
01:12:29,090 --> 01:12:31,560
African crocodiles are man-eaters.
478
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:35,760
So this is not a place where you and I can
swim and relax.
479
01:12:44,250 --> 01:12:48,090
Pink flamingos in a pastel colored cloud.
480
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:04,640
Africa has only 5 million people of
European origin, and 200 million Africans,
481
01:13:05,480 --> 01:13:07,560
like the Watusi in the Belgian Congo.
482
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:11,940
The tall people, seven footers are common
among them.
483
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:15,780
For a lofty stature, they are a wonder of
the human race.
484
01:13:16,460 --> 01:13:19,420
High-jumping the favorite sport among the
Watusi.
485
01:13:25,190 --> 01:13:26,450
Now they move it up an arch.
486
01:13:28,210 --> 01:13:31,910
That solemn character standing at the
hurdle is a seven footer.
487
01:13:41,780 --> 01:13:42,880
The
488
01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:07,320
king approaches the mowami in Royal
ceremonial cluster.
489
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:12,180
With him, his Belgian advisor,
who is of ordinary European statue.
490
01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:18,680
The Watusi are the tallest people on
earth.
491
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:22,760
King the mowami truly regal figure.
492
01:14:32,490 --> 01:14:34,630
On with the dance, says the mowami.
493
01:15:50,540 --> 01:15:52,050
His name is butero.
494
01:15:52,590 --> 01:15:53,690
He's the star.
495
01:15:54,330 --> 01:15:56,470
Tailed as the greatest dancer in Africa.
496
01:15:57,450 --> 01:16:00,530
Then the jinsky of the Watusi.
497
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:54,120
The little girls of the tribe take their
dancing seriously.
498
01:17:00,900 --> 01:17:05,420
Like grown-ups everywhere, amused by the
younger generation.
499
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:51,500
Now for a wonder name of legend and
mystery.
500
01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:53,640
Tim Buck, too.
501
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:55,620
Below us.
502
01:17:56,060 --> 01:17:59,520
Once a forbidden city, almost inaccessible
in the southern Sahara.
503
01:18:00,620 --> 01:18:02,200
The goal for high adventure.
504
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,080
The Sahara salt caravan.
505
01:18:06,580 --> 01:18:09,080
To the south, the tribal people have no
salt.
506
01:18:09,100 --> 01:18:10,260
It's a rare luxury.
507
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,500
In this part of the Sahara, there are salt
oasis.
508
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:16,799
So these camels, a
thousand of them, carry
509
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:20,141
treasure to a world
where salt is like gold.
510
01:18:29,980 --> 01:18:35,340
When we think of mighty wonders of nature,
two names always come to mind.
511
01:18:36,380 --> 01:18:40,180
Niagara Falls and Victoria Falls.
512
01:18:41,100 --> 01:18:44,480
Ah, but we are a long, long way from
honeymoon bridge.
513
01:18:45,300 --> 01:18:47,740
Where we are now flying over Rhodesian.
514
01:18:48,660 --> 01:18:52,140
We had our first thrill, so our first
wonder in South America.
515
01:18:53,020 --> 01:18:54,180
It was oophones.
516
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:56,200
Now another.
517
01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:15,100
A telltale cloud of spray heralds Victoria
Falls.
518
01:19:15,150 --> 01:19:16,640
Found by Livingston.
519
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:19,280
Before Stanley, found here.
520
01:19:19,980 --> 01:19:22,700
Wider than Niagara and twice as high.
521
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:49,260
What a challenge it is for Ciderama.
522
01:19:49,900 --> 01:19:52,700
Here with the Zambezi, punches into a
narrow canyon.
523
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:56,720
The violent impact of water raising misty
clouds.
524
01:20:54,700 --> 01:21:00,130
In the crater of an extinct volcano,
a lake that seems to mirror the dark,
525
01:21:00,290 --> 01:21:01,710
strange beauty of Africa.
526
01:21:42,770 --> 01:21:45,940
All around us now are the mountains of
Yemen.
527
01:21:46,740 --> 01:21:49,360
One of the wildest, one of the least known
parts of the world.
528
01:21:49,900 --> 01:21:53,480
And by the way, down here in these
mountains is where they first started to
529
01:21:53,481 --> 01:21:55,640
grow coffee and where they first started
to drink.
530
01:21:56,540 --> 01:21:59,180
From Africa, we have flown across to
Arabia.
531
01:22:00,440 --> 01:22:03,300
Coming in over a land of desert and
enchantment.
532
01:22:04,340 --> 01:22:07,438
Beyond these forbidding
mountains of Yemen on the coast,
533
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,000
we are heading for the
desolation of the inner desert.
534
01:22:10,750 --> 01:22:14,400
With wonders rising like pajamas out of
the Arabian Nights.
535
01:22:21,070 --> 01:22:25,570
Only a few miles ahead of us is the most
frightful of all deserts.
536
01:22:26,150 --> 01:22:32,691
The Rubal Kali, the land of emptiness,
which the Arabs themselves never penetrate.
537
01:22:40,765 --> 01:22:43,160
The empty quarter lies just beyond this
valley.
538
01:22:43,620 --> 01:22:44,720
We're rounding a cliff.
539
01:22:45,180 --> 01:22:48,160
We suddenly come upon one of the least
known wonders of the world.
540
01:22:53,575 --> 01:22:54,880
A skyscraper city.
541
01:22:55,540 --> 01:22:57,100
What could be strange?
542
01:23:01,620 --> 01:23:04,960
The city of Shiba, in a region called the
Hadrima.
543
01:23:05,500 --> 01:23:08,539
People living here in modern
looking skyscrapers, just
544
01:23:08,540 --> 01:23:11,380
as they have lived since
before the dawn of history.
545
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:18,120
From time immemorial, the local pride here
has been to erect these tall buildings.
546
01:23:24,630 --> 01:23:26,730
Why does the chicken cross the road?
547
01:23:27,330 --> 01:23:29,990
Well, because the camels are going that
way.
548
01:23:30,510 --> 01:23:31,510
Hopeful chicken.
549
01:23:38,350 --> 01:23:39,890
The city water works.
550
01:23:48,230 --> 01:23:50,130
Sayom, another skyscraper city.
551
01:23:50,810 --> 01:23:54,831
There are several in this valley, right
on the edge of the land of emptiness.
552
01:23:56,970 --> 01:24:00,430
At one time, this was the land of
frankincense and mer.
553
01:24:02,770 --> 01:24:05,510
Now, let's visit a paramount shake of the
inner desert.
554
01:24:06,170 --> 01:24:07,650
In fact, he is a sheriff.
555
01:24:08,450 --> 01:24:10,890
That means a descendant of the Prophet
Muhammad.
556
01:24:12,170 --> 01:24:15,690
Sheriff Hussain, we didn't expect such an
impressive ceremony as this.
557
01:24:15,870 --> 01:24:18,690
It's like stepping back into the pages of
the Arabian Nights.
558
01:24:19,090 --> 01:24:22,310
Thank you.
559
01:24:28,270 --> 01:24:30,840
Subordinate shakes, pay on it.
560
01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:34,840
They kiss his hand, and they kiss his
dagger.
561
01:25:06,190 --> 01:25:09,730
Now, the camel stampede, camels by the
thousands.
562
01:25:24,650 --> 01:25:27,330
This is the wealth of sheriff Hussain.
563
01:25:40,255 --> 01:25:44,470
From the Hadra Mount and the borders of
Yemen, we swing north.
564
01:25:44,471 --> 01:25:46,930
Right over in the Rubal Khan.
565
01:25:47,730 --> 01:25:49,730
Directly across the empty corner.
566
01:25:50,490 --> 01:25:52,570
The most forbidding desert honor.
567
01:25:53,490 --> 01:25:55,350
Never crossed until recently.
568
01:26:02,060 --> 01:26:06,500
And then, suddenly, we come upon a wonder
of modern technology.
569
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:10,006
Here on the face of the
desert, an oil pipeline,
570
01:26:10,007 --> 01:26:13,120
extending for hundreds
of miles across the sands.
571
01:26:20,085 --> 01:26:21,540
Why the streak of flame?
572
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:24,200
Oh, just waste gas.
573
01:26:30,310 --> 01:26:31,310
The
574
01:26:38,980 --> 01:26:42,141
better one on their camels
still traverse the ancient caravan
575
01:26:42,142 --> 01:26:45,640
trails, just as they did before
the Prophet Muhammad was born.
576
01:26:51,810 --> 01:26:54,866
But now, along the same
desert routes, come the
577
01:26:54,867 --> 01:26:57,980
air-conditioned caravans
of the American oil name.
578
01:27:00,180 --> 01:27:04,620
It may sound like a worn-out phrase to say
the old and the new.
579
01:27:05,350 --> 01:27:07,020
But how can you avoid it here?
580
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:11,280
The old tribal life and the new
technology.
581
01:27:17,460 --> 01:27:18,880
American oil raids.
582
01:27:22,420 --> 01:27:26,880
Below this desert of eastern Arabia near
the Persian Gulf, is an ocean of oil
583
01:27:26,881 --> 01:27:30,269
recently developed by
American oil mayor, bringing
584
01:27:30,270 --> 01:27:33,900
about an extraordinary
phenomenon of the modern world.
585
01:27:35,330 --> 01:27:38,660
At the Great Aramco refinery, a workday
ends.
586
01:27:51,810 --> 01:27:57,330
The Muslim worker's prey in response to
the call of the mooisin, bowing in the
587
01:27:57,530 --> 01:27:59,210
direction of the holy city of Mecca.
588
01:28:09,920 --> 01:28:15,940
The ruler of this fabulous realm of oil is
King Saul, who receives oil royalties
589
01:28:15,941 --> 01:28:22,260
amounting to a million dollars a day,
making Saul the richest man in the world.
590
01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:29,180
The American Arabian oil city of Doran on
the Persian Gulf.
591
01:28:45,940 --> 01:28:48,360
The desert falcon used for hunting.
592
01:28:49,100 --> 01:28:52,520
Young America, right in the middle of the
Arabian night.
593
01:28:58,590 --> 01:29:01,700
Take me out to the bowl game in the land
of Arabic.
594
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:08,960
And don't miss the donkey on the right.
595
01:29:15,270 --> 01:29:20,240
King Saul, in some of his 30 sons,
appeared to be baseball fans.
596
01:29:49,110 --> 01:29:52,627
Swinging west from the
desert to the song, from
597
01:29:52,628 --> 01:29:55,851
the lands of the Orient
to the Western world.
598
01:29:56,150 --> 01:30:00,050
Now we're looking down on that historic
point where Asia meets Europe.
599
01:30:01,330 --> 01:30:04,530
Istanbul, old Constantinople on the bus
for us.
600
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:07,270
The straight that divides Europe from
Asia.
601
01:30:11,810 --> 01:30:17,430
The city that lies on two continents on
the left Europe, on the right Asia.
602
01:30:29,530 --> 01:30:36,810
Mount Olympus, home of the gods of ancient
Greece, Jupiter and his thunderbolts,
603
01:30:37,210 --> 01:30:41,470
Apollo with his golden liar, Aphrodite the
goddess of love.
604
01:30:42,090 --> 01:30:44,710
Imagine them all right there on that
cloudy summit.
605
01:30:52,060 --> 01:30:57,140
The trail of Western civilization leads to
classical Greece, Athens.
606
01:30:58,380 --> 01:31:01,239
They're on the Acropolis,
the Parthenon, Temple
607
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:04,721
of the Goddess Athena,
patroness of Athens.
608
01:31:12,410 --> 01:31:16,670
The Parthenon, architectural wonder of the
world.
609
01:31:24,200 --> 01:31:26,140
Could they be Plato and Socrates?
610
01:31:27,700 --> 01:31:31,300
No, and not Demosthenes and Diogenes,
even.
611
01:31:32,660 --> 01:31:36,600
That's the military costume of the modern
Greek mountaineer.
612
01:31:44,440 --> 01:31:47,296
Along the portico of the
Parthenon, which may
613
01:31:47,316 --> 01:31:50,020
be an ancient wonder,
but it is also modern.
614
01:31:51,060 --> 01:31:56,241
Foreign Athens was born an idea that exists
today in every country where men are free.
615
01:31:56,845 --> 01:32:01,540
For it was here twenty-five hundred years
ago, that was born the ideal of democracy,
616
01:32:02,040 --> 01:32:04,160
liberty of the mind, freedom of the
spirit.
617
01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:46,680
The Isles of Greece, center of the ancient
world, reminding us how easy it is now to
618
01:32:46,681 --> 01:32:49,340
fly around the world and behold its
wonder.
619
01:32:54,080 --> 01:33:00,421
On across the Mediterranean to Naples, rival
of Rio de Janeiro as a spectacular city.
620
01:33:21,650 --> 01:33:24,590
The scene here is a wonder of long legend.
621
01:33:25,210 --> 01:33:28,180
At the entrance of the
magnificent harbor, that
622
01:33:28,280 --> 01:33:31,630
most famous volcano of
them all, mount Vesuvius.
623
01:33:32,450 --> 01:33:34,070
Fortunately, now quite.
624
01:33:34,530 --> 01:33:37,348
Not at all like it was when
it erupted in destroyed
625
01:33:37,408 --> 01:33:40,830
Pompeii, off there to the right,
nineteen hundred years ago.
626
01:33:43,330 --> 01:33:44,550
And what do we see ahead?
627
01:33:44,870 --> 01:33:50,510
Whilst the leading tower of peace and that
slanting medieval wonder that still leans.
628
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:10,020
Rome is above all, the wonder city of
historic monuments, glorious architecture,
629
01:34:10,740 --> 01:34:13,261
marvel to the fine arts
that have come down from
630
01:34:13,262 --> 01:34:15,821
antiquity from the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance.
631
01:34:17,120 --> 01:34:20,340
The modern metropolis too, this eternal
city.
632
01:34:31,670 --> 01:34:33,390
What lucky travelers we are.
633
01:34:33,391 --> 01:34:39,171
How few have had such an intimate sky view,
Saint Peter's and the Vatican as this.
634
01:34:59,120 --> 01:35:04,840
We spiral right down over the Colosseum
and arrive in Rome at an auspicious time.
635
01:35:05,380 --> 01:35:08,087
For now, the Roman Catholic
Church is celebrating the end
636
01:35:08,088 --> 01:35:11,200
of the Marian year with a
splendor of ritual and pageant.
637
01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:22,080
Colosseum still seems to proclaim the
power of the Roman Empire.
638
01:35:27,300 --> 01:35:31,500
The corridor through which the gladiators
walked on their way into the arena to
639
01:35:31,501 --> 01:35:35,830
fight and also to die before Caesar and
that cruel Roman crowd.
640
01:35:48,255 --> 01:35:52,120
In this amphitheater, the Christians were
thrown to the lions.
641
01:35:53,220 --> 01:35:57,860
Now here in this place of martyrdom,
Christian Lithily is recited.
642
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:41,610
The Roman Forum center the political life
of the Roman state.
643
01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:46,500
Here you might commune with the shades of
Cicero, Caesar, Brutus and Mark Anthony.
644
01:36:59,445 --> 01:37:03,310
Today Pope Pius XII will give a
benediction at Saint Peter's and all Rome
645
01:37:03,410 --> 01:37:07,030
is going, three pilgrims in particular.
646
01:37:16,540 --> 01:37:17,540
Bill,
647
01:37:32,910 --> 01:37:37,510
but has recovered, and in a spirit of
thanksgiving, they are taking him to
648
01:37:37,511 --> 01:37:40,350
receive the papal blessing on this day of
days.
649
01:37:40,970 --> 01:37:41,970
Oh, but they are late.
650
01:37:42,370 --> 01:37:44,090
Somebody is always late.
651
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:36,380
You'll constantly notice that obelisk in
the middle of the square.
652
01:38:37,100 --> 01:38:41,480
It was brought to Rome for me,
it nearly 2,000 years ago, brought by one
653
01:38:41,481 --> 01:38:45,369
of the Caesars, the interior
of the greatest church
654
01:38:45,370 --> 01:38:49,080
in the world, never
before in life and for film.
655
01:39:21,760 --> 01:39:27,120
Saint Peter's with Michelangelo's dome,
one of the wonders of the world,
656
01:39:27,580 --> 01:39:30,500
the largest church in all of Christendom.
657
01:42:51,060 --> 01:42:52,060
There
658
01:43:13,790 --> 01:43:18,830
is Cardinal Spelman, the Cardinal helped
arrange this filming for Cinderella,
659
01:43:19,410 --> 01:43:21,350
just arranging it with something of a
wonder.
660
01:45:46,500 --> 01:45:49,060
Too late, it's all over.
661
01:45:49,180 --> 01:45:51,500
Giovanni and Maria are sadly disappointed.
662
01:45:52,240 --> 01:45:55,480
Will the bambino have to go without the
benediction of the Pope?
663
01:45:55,980 --> 01:45:57,140
Apparently, yes.
664
01:45:57,820 --> 01:45:59,870
They're told that all
they can do now is offer
665
01:45:59,871 --> 01:46:02,681
up a prayer of thanksgiving
at the high altar.
666
01:47:00,610 --> 01:47:01,850
But here is help.
667
01:47:06,105 --> 01:47:10,070
They tell their story to a prelet,
and he informs them that the Pontiff has
668
01:47:10,071 --> 01:47:14,990
gone to Castel Gandalfo, the people
residents in the hills outside Rome.
669
01:47:15,810 --> 01:47:17,650
There he will give a special benediction.
670
01:47:18,750 --> 01:47:21,190
They can attend by getting a special
permission.
671
01:47:24,730 --> 01:47:27,350
So quickly they are on their way.
672
01:47:29,910 --> 01:47:33,758
Castel Gandalfo, the
changing of the Swiss guards
673
01:47:33,759 --> 01:47:37,031
in their uniforms
designed by Michelangelo.
674
01:48:01,570 --> 01:48:04,580
If it's easy to send
me, the change of the
675
01:48:04,581 --> 01:48:08,531
silver boss is the man
and the same in parallel.
676
01:48:56,630 --> 01:49:01,790
At the period, at the period
of sanctity, the change
677
01:49:01,791 --> 01:49:05,460
of the silver boss is the
man and the same in parallel.
678
01:49:06,170 --> 01:49:08,980
I have
679
01:50:04,690 --> 01:50:08,110
long thought about capturing the
magnificence of a papal ceremony,
680
01:50:08,870 --> 01:50:10,190
and that was it.
681
01:50:10,191 --> 01:50:12,710
Like something out of the Middle Ages.
682
01:50:13,690 --> 01:50:17,390
On this flight around the world,
we have seen many, many wonders,
683
01:50:17,870 --> 01:50:19,590
and we could go on and on.
684
01:50:20,230 --> 01:50:23,510
By the way, we may have missed your
favorite completely.
685
01:50:25,390 --> 01:50:30,130
So far we have visited four continents
with one more to go, our own.
686
01:50:30,850 --> 01:50:33,987
The wonders there may be
familiar to all of us, but how
687
01:50:33,988 --> 01:50:36,910
can our search be complete
without a look at some of that?
688
01:50:36,911 --> 01:50:43,710
So, for an epilogue, let's span the
Atlantic, and then from all that we have
689
01:50:43,711 --> 01:50:47,350
seen around the globe, let's choose our
magic seven.
690
01:50:48,010 --> 01:50:54,490
That magic seven to be selected by you,
and you, and you.
691
01:51:02,320 --> 01:51:05,240
Hail Fair Lady, here we are again.
692
01:51:05,940 --> 01:51:09,700
We've been visiting ancient lands,
and ours is a new country.
693
01:51:09,725 --> 01:51:13,342
We've seen many an
edifice of majestic masonry,
694
01:51:13,343 --> 01:51:17,560
while our tall buildings
are of structural steel.
695
01:51:19,020 --> 01:51:21,720
New York, engineered with steel.
696
01:51:23,560 --> 01:51:26,094
The Empire State tallest
of buildings, a quarter
697
01:51:26,095 --> 01:51:28,920
of a mile high, with
its 60,000 tons of steel.
698
01:51:29,300 --> 01:51:31,660
Would you include it as one of the magic
seven?
699
01:51:32,620 --> 01:51:35,220
The familiar geometrical beauty of a great
bridge.
700
01:51:38,770 --> 01:51:43,870
Ah, yes, we are at home among exploits of
engineering, such as harnessing the water
701
01:51:43,871 --> 01:51:47,234
power of the new world, like
the Hoover Dam, which holds
702
01:51:47,235 --> 01:51:50,790
back the waters of the largest
of all lakes made by man.
703
01:51:54,260 --> 01:51:58,940
Of the seven wonders of the ancient world,
only one was of practical utility,
704
01:51:59,600 --> 01:52:01,700
the lighthouse of Alexander, the fellows.
705
01:52:02,500 --> 01:52:05,100
The other six were all aesthetic in
character.
706
01:52:05,101 --> 01:52:11,060
But ours is an era of technological
wonders that are useful to man.
707
01:52:11,880 --> 01:52:14,680
Home sweet home in the technological 20th
century.
708
01:52:15,180 --> 01:52:18,680
In Texas, it means an oil well right in
your front yard.
709
01:52:32,600 --> 01:52:36,020
Ah, but in utter contrast to the
complexities of modern technology,
710
01:52:36,720 --> 01:52:42,480
ours is also a country where simplicity
has its greatest hold on man, like the
711
01:52:42,481 --> 01:52:45,400
little white church of the Protestant
tradition.
712
01:52:56,120 --> 01:52:59,620
The Sunday service of gospel, sermon,
and hands.
713
01:53:00,020 --> 01:53:02,800
The old American tradition of church and
family.
714
01:53:03,580 --> 01:53:06,520
The simplicities that are so much our own.
715
01:53:13,120 --> 01:53:14,600
Won't you join us, stranger?
716
01:53:15,180 --> 01:53:15,740
Thanks, ladies.
717
01:53:16,060 --> 01:53:17,620
Those stakes are so irresistible.
718
01:53:18,120 --> 01:53:20,336
I couldn't keep from coming over to find
out what you're doing.
719
01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:21,460
And what are you doing?
720
01:53:22,490 --> 01:53:25,800
Oh, I, we are looking for the seven
wonders in the world.
721
01:53:25,840 --> 01:53:26,840
Have you any suggestions?
722
01:53:27,320 --> 01:53:28,320
The seven wonders?
723
01:53:28,780 --> 01:53:29,260
That's easy.
724
01:53:29,740 --> 01:53:31,020
Just count them, stranger.
725
01:53:31,660 --> 01:53:33,700
There are my seven wonders of the world.
726
01:53:40,270 --> 01:53:41,270
Perhaps you're right.
727
01:53:41,730 --> 01:53:46,071
Maybe we shouldn't have bothered about the
Taj Mahal, Victoria Falls and all the rest.
728
01:53:48,550 --> 01:53:50,310
What about our natural wonders?
729
01:53:50,810 --> 01:53:52,610
Such as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
730
01:53:53,850 --> 01:53:54,850
Where
731
01:54:30,110 --> 01:54:31,270
are your falls in Africa?
732
01:54:32,330 --> 01:54:34,770
What would you now say about our own
Niagara?
733
01:54:34,771 --> 01:54:38,050
The world sentimental one.
734
01:55:10,410 --> 01:55:13,360
Would you put on your list of the magic
seven?
735
01:55:13,720 --> 01:55:15,540
The oldest living thing on earth?
736
01:55:16,280 --> 01:55:18,200
The giant sequoia of California?
737
01:55:20,340 --> 01:55:24,140
It's like standing before the spire of a
church that points to the heavens.
738
01:55:25,200 --> 01:55:29,812
Here, where man seems humble
and deep, beneath these trees
739
01:55:29,813 --> 01:55:33,500
that were alive 1,000 years
before the birth of Christ.
740
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:36,740
Three thousand years old.
741
01:55:37,460 --> 01:55:40,180
What more appropriate place to conclude
our odyssey?
65160
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