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Little Big Shots - Baby Boxing Twins (Episode Highlight) - Duration: 4:47.
All right. Come on, man. Let's go.
-Let me see a little bit. -One, two.
One, two, three. One, two, three.
Oh, yeah. Come on. Come on, boy.
-Yeah. -One, two, three.
Yeah, come on, boy. Yeah.
One, two, three, four.
Ohh. Nice. Yeah.
Let's go, boy. Yeah.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. That's nice.
Touch him. Come on, baby. Let him have something.
Touch. That's point.
Yeah! [ Mumbles indistinctly ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah!
I like that, man. Let me see that.
Let me see that. Ta-ta-ta, ta.
Ta, ta. Let me take this watch off, man.
Let me get some of that. Let's go.
No, no. Oh, where you going to?
Oh, I don't need no gloves.
These gloves ain't going to fit, man.
-No, these -- -They do.
They ain't going to fit me.
Look at my hands?
What you doing?
Messing around with me.
I'm the champ.
The champ is here!
The champ is here!
Ooh! Let's go. Come on, man. Let me get loose.
Let me go. Hold tight, hold tight, hold tight.
Let me slip on over here.
Come on, man. Let me get nice with it.
[ Stuttering ]
Come on, man. Let me get some.
[ Stuttering, grunting ]
Swing at my head. Swing at my head.
Yo!
I was nice. Used to be nice. I used to be nice.
Boy, I'm so tired right now.
[ Laughter ]
Boy.
Come lay down on the coach if you're sleepy.
[ Laughter ]
Boy, come on over here.
I want to see you do something else, too.
So, fellas, check this out.
We got us a little gym over here.
Let's go on and do a little work.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Okay, fellas. So what we going to do first?
-The pull-up bar. -We going to do pull-ups.
Come on. Let's go.
Here. Let's turn around this way.
-Can't reach it. -You can't reach it?
Lift me up.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-You doing it wrong. -Huh?
You got your feet on the ground. You cheated.
I didn't have my feet on the ground.
-Yes, you did. -If you was on your bar --
You had your feet on the ground.
-You get on your bar. -You was doing it like this.
I was not doing like that.
You stay on your bar.
[ Laughter ]
Okay, so what we doing next?
The jump rope.
[ Sighs ] Boy.
You not tired now.
We doing 20.
-You doing 20. -You, too.
20 seconds.
-Yeah, my rope too short. -Ready,
-set, go. -Go.
[ Both counting ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
15, 14, 13, 12, 11,
10, 9, 8, 7,
6, 5, 4, 3,
2, 1.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Here, come on over here and let me show you something.
Let me show you what this is right here.
[ Panting ] Sit down over here.
That right there, see, this is where you get --
Put in some serious work. Oh, don't look bored.
This is where you get educated about the game of boxing.
Unh-unh. This is where you sit down on a bench.
And you get lazy.
You get lazy? Yeah, you get lazy on the bench.
That's why I brought you over here,
so you could see what it's like.
-I'm not getting lazy! -So you don't get lazy.
This is where lazy people sit.
Then if you're saying this is where lazy people sit,
you're sitting on it. You're lazy.
I'm not lazy. I'm -- I'm coaching.
[ Laughter ]
I'm coaching. Here, man. They told me --
I bet you going to sit down now.
Now -- Uh-huh.
Now, if you sit down, you get ice cream.
I done.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, that's what I thought.
One more time, for Daniel and Steven!
[ Cheers and applause ]
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37 Ikea Furniture Upgrade (Remake) - Duration: 14:41.
Upgrade your Ikea furniture to make elegant pieces for your home.
If you want a fun DIY project or you just want a little upgrade, check out these tricks
for customizing your Ikea furniture.
This is 37 Smart Ikea Furniture Upgrade Remakes.
Number 1.
Lack shelf with wood stain and miter saw.
You can turn your regular Ikea shelf into a modern and expensive looking shelf using
a little wood stain and a miter saw.
This is a quick and simple upgrade you'll be proud of.
2.
Swap out the legs of any Ikea sofa.
Another simple upgrade, just replace those standard Ikea legs with more modern or funky
legs, according to the theme of your room.
Feel free to match up the legs with other furniture in the room for a classier look.
3.
Add a crown molding to the top of a Billy bookcase.
The bookcase everyone loves—now turn it into something unique for your home.
Add some crown molding for a little extra class.
4.
Spray paint an Ekby shelf bracket.
One quick and simple hack to making your furniture look more expensive is to redo simple things
like spray paint the supporting bracket for your Ekby shelves.
Use a metallic silver or gold for a more modern look, or something flat for a different kind
of look.
5.
Add legs to an Expedit shelving unit.
Looking for a quick project to make a big difference?
Easy—just add your choice of modern table legs to your Expedit shelving unit, and voila!
Instant upgrade.
6.
Add brass corners to a Lack table.
Here's an instant fix for a common piece of furniture.
Many people have those handy little Lack tables either as side tables, nightstands, or coffee
tables.
Upgrade them to something a bit fancier by adding some brass corners to the edge.
Check out the brass corners on Amazon and the Lack table on Ikea.
Or to a Lack coffee table as well.
Get creative.
You can add brass corners to many tables, but this one especially since it fits perfectly.
This project will be a quick Saturday morning project!
7.
Make your own plant mosaic coffee table.
In this quick and easy DIY project, you can easily learn how to make a truly unique table.
After measuring and cutting the center out of your table, you can remove the internal
textured cardboard.
Put some clear plastic down in the center of the open box and fill it with dirt or mulch
filler.
Then you can trim away the edges of the plastic.
Once your "flower box" is in place with dirt, feel free to add any plants you like.
Toss in some candles for added interest.
And for the final product, layer some interesting plastic tiles to the edge of the table using
glue.
You'll come away with a really unique coffee table that will impress your friends.
8.
DIY - IKEA small side table.
Here's a great way to add an interesting piece to any bedroom.
Beginning with a standard Lack table, you will first sand and paint the top of the original
Lack table in whatever color you like.
While the top is drying, assemble the base of the stand and, using tape, mark off any
areas you'd like to paint in a creative pattern.
Next, you'll assemble a simple base for the table using wood and a drill.
After painting the base, use a ruler to center the smaller base on the bottom of the original
table.
Secure your base, then flip it over and re-assemble the top of the table using the hardware it
came with.
Instant new table!
9.
Cover the Klubbo coffee table with marble contact paper.
Here's a great way to use marble contact paper.
Using the direction with the contact paper, you can use adhesive to fasten the paper to
the top of your Klubbo coffee table.
This project leaves you with an expensive looking table that replicates a marble finish.
10.
Diy hideaway litter box.
Tired of seeing your cat's ugly litter box?
It can be an eyesore for any home.
Hide it away like in this video by using a Lack table with tension rods.
You can buy some cheap material of your choice to make the curtains with, which will require
some basic sewing as seen here.
Two small tension rods will do if your table is in a corner.
When you've assembled the curtains, place them on the rods and then put the rods between
the legs of the exposed sides of the table.
The curtains also work to contain the smell of the litter box to keep your living space
smelling fresh and clean.
Plus, your cat will love the privacy!
11.
A genius Ikea kitchen cabinets hack.
Ikea has done it—they've put out a product that instantly upgrades your furniture!
Pop these plastic hole fillers into the empty shelf holes that you're not using to come
away with a clean looking finish.
12.
Replace cheap casters.
A quick and simple hack for your standard table with cheap casters.
Replace them with these brass casters for a classy look.
13.
Paint a Norden sideboard.
For a great piece of elegant furniture, check out this tutorial on how to make your very
own!
It's easy assembly...and you can paint it any color you like, although this passionfruit
color is our favorite.
14.
Floating kitchen cabinets with painted wooden planks.
This tutorial explains how to make really unique floating cabinets with a modern look.
The gold knobs really make these cabinets look modern and chic.
15.
Turn cheap Norrlida frames into cork boards.
Using a little paint and some tape (and of course your trusty measuring tape), you can
turn your Norrlida frames into an interesting cork board to hang your reminders on.
16.
Gold spray paint and faux marble your Vittsjö nesting coffee table.
Upgrade your layered Vittsjö nesting tables by using some gold spray paint and faux marble
finish.
This marble finish makes your table look expensive and elegant.
17.
Paint and add a decorative drawer to your Rast nightstand.
This DIY project is easy to do using this quick tutorial.
You can add this awesome drawer pull for an instant upgrade to your Rast nightstand.
18.
Sew together two Rens sheepskin rugs.
This one is super easy and self-explanatory.
Using two Rens sheepskin rugs from Ikea, simply sew them together to make one large and exotic
rug.
19.
Lay an Ikea kitchen cabinet frame and add a wooden plank.
Add any kind of wooden plank you want to an Ikea kitchen cabinet frame.
This ensure you can get creative and make this project your own by decorating the top
wooden plank any way you like.
20.
Turn a Hemnes dresser into a campaign dresser.
Want to turn your Hemnes dresser into something a little chicer?
Try this idea.
Tip: Use a drill bit to create pilot holes in the front of the drawer.
This is very, very important.
If you skip this step, then you risk splitting the wood.
21.
Nail some leather pulls to a boring Malm dresser.
Leather pulls are the perfect touch to upgrade any old dresser.
Maybe your dresser is like the Malm, pretty standard.
No sweat upgrade with these fancy leather pulls.
Or add them to a set of Bestas.
22.
Use a vintage belt to hang the Bondis wall clock.
Need a new use for your skinny belts from H&M?
Use them to frame your Bondis wall clock for a modern twist on clock décor to keep your
home up to date.
23.
Create a built-in bookshelf wall by mixing together Billy and Besta.
Everyone has a Billy bookshelf these days.
It's the shelf that never goes out of style.
But instead of just being the standard shelf make it into a classy and sophisticated combo
with the Besta from Ikea.
24.
Add tufting to your sofa cushions.
It's amazing how much a simple tufting can add to your sofa or Karlstand cushions.
Try it out in this quick DIY project for some majorly upgraded sofa cushions.
It will add elegance to your living space.
25.
Wrap the cord of the Foto pendant, add three-ply jute twine.
Just by using some three-ply twine, you can instantly upgrade your Foto pendant lamp from
Ikea.
This is such a simple project...it could take minutes and you have a new and interesting
lamp to show off to visitors.
26.
Silver-leaf inside oversize shade.
Use this oversized but handy lamp shade to make a gorgeous cover for your light.
Place it over a floor lamp or just over the hanging kitchen light fixture for a fancy
upgrade.
27.
Turn a Hemnes shoe cabinet to a new faux library catalog.
Old shoe cabinet need an upgrade?
Use this guide to turn your old Hemnes shoe cabinet into an amazingly elegant library
catalog.
You can use it for anything you like, but on the outside, the library catalog is a classy
element to your foyer.
28.
Make a Bekväm foot stool less mainstream.
These simple Bekväm foot stools are unique ways to add a little something to your home.
It's a simple piece, but with some simple editing using paint, you can quickly upgrade
it into something much more interesting and still useful.
29.
Turn a the Kallax into a mid-century console.
Your simple but useful Kallax shelf can be made into a really chic and modern looking
console for your living space.
Place it in a bedroom or living room for some modern flare.
30.
Or cover it with paint sticks.
Cover your shelves or fasten them together using different colored paint sticks.
This one is really simple and fun because you can arrange the paint sticks in any desired
pattern for a surface of your choice.
31.
Customize a Förhöja cart look for your kitchen.
With this project, you'll transform your simple but sleek Förhöja cart into something
greater and more elegant.
32.
Remove the wrinkles from your IKEA slipcovers.
Here's a simple hack for your slip covers that will make all the difference before your
guests arrive.
And, you'll be using, wait for it... warm tap water.
Yep, that's it.
Follow this guide on how to get rid of those pesky wrinkles.
33.
Transform a Tarva dresser to a new kitchen sideboard.
Turn your old Tarva dresser into something greater.
In this DIY project, your standard Tarva will be transformed into a modern and expensive
looking dresser or even a kitchen sideboard!
34.
Turn an Antonius laundry hamper frame into a new nightstand.
it requires Antonius laundry stands, wood cuts, hammering, gluing, and little bit weight
lifting.
Warning: IKEA's product dimension is not always accurate.
Check link to know more about that.
35.
New storage boxes.
Redo your Ikea storage boxes by dressing them up in something more interesting.
You can add a new color to the metal corners or add some painted textures like in this
example where they've added black polka dots.
36.
Cover a Malm dresser O'verlays.
Take a normal dresser and make it extra special by adding some interesting piping using paint.
Measure off the areas you'd like to paint and then get to it!
This leaves you with a much more interesting dresser.
And last, 37.
Turn a Grundtal mirror to a Restoration Hardware-worthy one.
Grundtal mirrors are great quality, but they're also really simple.
If you want to make yours look fancier for a sleek look, check out this guide on how
to upgrade your mirror.
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Jellyfish - Duration: 10:42.
[Kelsey Jacobson:] Hi! I'm Kelsey from Morgantown West Virginia,
my plant is probably not going to make it, and this is WhatImDoingRightNow.
[ Mechanism whirring ]
[ Kelsey makes stretching noises ]
[Kelsey Cote:] Well, good morning vlog. I'm in Arizona now.
Michael asked me to film some stuff for you guys to see while I was here.
Welcome to the first day of my vacation.
[Michael Aranda:] Today is a special day. [Katelyn Salem:] Yes it is.
[Michael:] Why is today a special day? [Katelyn:] Mmm, cause it's your last day at Complexly!
[Michael:] It's my last day at Complexly
as an official full time employee. [Katelyn:] Ooohh.
It's exciting. [Michael:] I guess I'm not gonna be anything unofficial.
I'm going to become an official contractor of Complexly, starting Monday.
Today I'm starting my day off with a meeting with a guy who is interested
in employing Synema Studios to produce some advertisement video stuff.
After that, I'm going to be at Complexly to shoot an episode of SciShow Quiz Show…
Two episodes of SciShow Quiz Show I think. [Katelyn:] Two.
[Michael:] And then, uh, I've gotta work on some Crash Course Sociology.
For Crash Course Film Criticism, which I'm hosting, tonight we're watching Citizen Kane.
Every Friday for the next, like, 15 Fridays we are watching a movie
that's going to be a part of Crash Course Film Criticism so that we can critique it.
[Katelyn:] What are the other parts of Crash Course Film?
[Michael:] There's Crash Course Film History, which is being hosted by Craig Benzine.
There's Crash Course Film Production, which is being hosted by Lily Gladstone.
And then Crash Course Film Criticism, which is being hosted by moi.
[Katelyn:] Who is Lily Gladstone?
[Michael:] She's a Montanan… I think she is Blackfeet?
But she's been spending a lot of time in Los Angeles recently.
[Katelyn:] (Laughing) I was gonna say, does she need a job?
But it sounds like she does not need a job. [Michael:] She does not need a job.
When we were working on pre-production for Kate Tectonics,
Lily was one of the people that I reached out to about using Native music in Kate Tectonics,
Because we wanted to make sure that the native music we were using
was appropriate since we're talking about geology in Montana.
Montana's history goes back further than just the European influence that came in, obviously.
We wanted to honour the fact that before the colonists came into this land,
(Laughing) it belonged to somebody else.
So that's why there's, like, there's pictures of a local, uh, tribe leader from this area on the Kate Tectonics set.
[Katelyn:] Uh, pause and tell me where you're– [Michael:] I guess I need to figure out where we're going.
[Katelyn:] I just... [Michael:] There's Mr. Toddly.
Hello Mr. Todd!
Montana Technology Center!
I've been here before.
[Kelsey:] I'm out of bed now and I'm going to go on a run.
I don't know if Michael's mention this but we're training for the Missoula marathon
and the half marathon,
and so Michael's doing the marathon and I've never run more than actually like
a mile in my life.
(Chuckling) And so he convinced me to do the half marathon.
I've actually had some foot pain, so I'm becoming less hopeful
for actually completing it as I run more miles.
The most I did was five, and then I actually couldn't walk without pain for a few days.
We'll see how it goes, hopefully if I just take it slow
it'll be doable but um, I'm going to go run right now.
[Michael:] Today's my last day in this a little office,
so I've started collecting stuff into piles that I can move over the course of the day.
[Michael:] (Faux Southern accent) I'm ready for that SciShow Quiz Show!
I'm ready!
[Caitlin Hofmeister:] We're gonna prep! [Michael:] (Still using accent) Y'all Ready?
[Bill Mead:] (Unenthused) Yes. [Michael:] Ok.
[Caitlin:] Nicole wins! Hank forfeits! [Nichole Sweeney:] I win!
[Michael:] Hank forfeits!
This is us preparing for SciShow Quiz Show.
[ Stefan hits a button with his head ] [Stefan Chin:] Ow!
[ Sarah Laughs ]
[Michael:] Sarah Meismer is Hank. [ Sound of a button clicking with each press]
[Stefan:] Off! Off! [Sarah Meismer:] It's got to be harder.
There.
[Michael:] Is the answer A or B? [Stefan:] C. There is always a C.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Not unless it's True or False. [Sarah:] Unless it's True or False.
[Sarah:] But which is...is it True A or True B? [ Stefan Laughs ]
[Stefan:] True is always A. [Sarah:] I don't know.
[Stefan:] Unless it's B. [Sarah:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Ceri was working on the script for this last night, and I told her that I thought it would be funny if, for the intro
I say, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, welcome to SciShow Quiz Show, the only quiz show where
all the answers are B," and all the answers are actually B all the way though,
[ Stefan Laughs ] [Michael:] to see if they believe me or not.
[Stefan:] If they pick up on it. [Caitlin:] But at the end it's D.
[Michael:] Ooh...Tricky! [Stefan:] Oh yeah, and the last one should be different.
[Bill:] Or it should be about Bees. [Stefan:] About Bees!
[Caitlin:] (excitedly) Yes! [Sarah:] (excitedly) Yes!
[Stefan:] Holy sh** can we rewrite it? [Sarah:] Yeah, have Ceri write a whole new script.
[Michael:] Hi Rachael. [Rachel Calderon Navarro:] Hi.
[Michael:] Welcome to SciShow Quiz Show.
If you get nervous at any point in time, remember that there's a cat, right there, little kitty.
[Rachel:] I saw that. [ Hank gasps ]
I was looking at that while — [Hank Green:] I have never seen that kitty before. Is that new?
[Kelsey:] I did two miles and I don't know what it is about the heat,
but the sun just sucks the energy out of you, so two miles felt like four miles.
and uh, I decided to quit.
And now I'm going to uh, hang out in this nice pool in this nice, uh, warm water and get tan.
[Michael:] All done filming SciShow Quiz Show.
[ Feet clunking on the stairs ]
[ People talking in the background ]
[Matthew Gaydos:] Hey... it's that guy! [Everyone:] (excitedly) Hey!
[Michael:] You're cutting off the good parts! [Caitlin:] Oh, here you go. Them for you!
[Michael:] Oh thanks. [Caitlin Laughs]
[Michael:] Hank this is from your favourite person, Aristotle. [Hank:] I know… He's a (inaudible)
[Michael Laughs]
[Michael:] Oh wow. So many things!
Hank, when I moved out here, I was, like, one of eight. And now–
[Stefan:] Ah! Goodbye! [Michael:] There's so many people!
[Michael:] We've got some cheesecake with strawberries that Caitlin Hofmeister cut up,
some whipped cream, some Martinelli's and Cock 'n Bull. Mmmm.
So these are both unopened but this one is lower than that one. Weird.
[Valerie:] The Cock 'n Bull elves took a little sip. [ People giggling ]
[Stefan:] What are the Cock 'n Bull elves?
[Michael:] There's a gift right here. This is a... gift opening video.
[Unwrapping sounds] Ooooh.
Oh? [Hank:] Oh wow!
[Michael:] Wow. Thank you. This is cool. [Hank:] That is cool.
[Kelsey:] Now that I've had to try and film things I realize how difficult it is to find things that are interesting to film.
I was like I'm going to go on a run. I went on a run.
Now I'm going to go in the pool. I went in the pool.
My vacation is not that interesting, it's just me sitting in different places, uh, in the sun.
[Michael:] We're about to watch Citizen Kane, which I've never seen.
I think this movie gets voted, like, best movie ever made a lot by film critics.
[Todd Williams:] They-they-they say that. [Michael:] Okay, I'm ready.
[Kelsey:] Right now we're about to go drive to the aquarium.
Hopefully I can get a lot of cool fishes for you guys to see, and maybe touch some starfish or something.
I know, like, some of them have like the touch pools.
[Kelsey:] We made it!
[Kelsey:] So, uh, we just got our tickets checked in and the guy asked if it was our first time, we said yes,
and then he said, "Oh! Then you need to go to the bathroom first,
there's fish in there." So, we'll see.
[ Children exclaiming excitedly ]
[Kelsey:] So, in place of where of where a mirror would be in front of the sinks they just have, uh, fish!
[ Upbeat synth beat ]
[Kelsey:] So we just got done with the aquarium, uh, I thought that it was very fun.
Mom did you like it? [Ann Cote:] Loved it!
[Kelsey:] Loved it? What was your favorite thing?
[Ann:] Jellyfish. [Kelsey:] Jellyfish.
[Ann:] And the sea otters, and the sea lions.
[Kelsey:] I would say probably the sea lions and the jellyfish were my favorite, um–
[Ann:] But there were no seahorses.
[Kelsey:] Ahhh that's true!
My mom's favourite is, uh, a seahorse.
They have options for you to feed penguins
and, like, put a scuba set on and go walk with all the fishes and pet them I assume.
So, hopefully I can do that next time, um...
they also have a dolphin enclosure where you can swim with dolphins.
And I've swam with dolphins before in Mexico, but like...
I assume they let you do a lot more in Mexico with the dolphins than they do here so–
[Ann:] It's because they've been drinking tequila.
[Michael:] We just finished watching Citizen Kane,
I have four percent battery left on my phone.
Uh, I just started the next vlog rendering.
Uh, I sent an email to the apartment complex that we live in
saying that we're definitely moving out in 30 days, so that's official now.
I think now I'm going home, leaving the office, the final time as an employee of Complexly.
[Katelyn:] Huzzah!
[ Uplifting music ]
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Antiques Uncovered Episode 3: Ceremony - Duration: 59:00.
Antiques - what do we really know about them,
apart from being beautiful to look at,
exquisitely made and often hugely valuable?
It looks like a sort of encrustation of brilliance
to wear on your finger.
But why were they made in the first place and who were they made for?
Jet was this mysterious material.
It's actually a form of fossilised wood.
Whether from a mediaeval castle or an auction house...
In the room now at 340...
..antiques unlock a fascinating history
of the way we lived, then and now.
I'm now a liberated, voting, emancipated woman.
I'm historian Dr Lucy Worsley
and I'm going to uncover the stories
behind some of these remarkable objects.
CHEERING
'I'm antiques expert Mark Hill
'and I'll be looking at why some items have become priceless
'while others are the collectibles of tomorrow.
'Along the way we'll meet the people who preserved them.
'The highly-skilled craftspeople who still make them...'
So 34% of your diamond - poof! Gone!
Yes. To get to the finished product.
'..and the passionate people who collect them.'
The artists used to chop up hair and mix it with the paint.
That's quite incredible.
'We're going to put antiques in their historical and social context.
'This time we're looking at objects associated with ceremonies,
'from private ones like weddings and funerals,
'to the public events of royal coronations
'and the Olympic Games.'
We've come to Hever Castle in Kent.
It dates from the 13th century
and was later the childhood home of Anne Boleyn.
Now, castles like this aren't just for defending yourself,
they're also for hosting big ceremonial occasions
like jousting tournaments.
Yes, and we still hold enormous ceremonies
to celebrate public events today.
I'm thinking of coronations or, most notably, the Olympic Games.
I suppose this applies to our private lives too, doesn't it?
We get these rituals of passage at births, deaths and marriages,
and they're all marked by ceremonies.
And the most popular ceremony is still marriage,
although I'm not quite sure poor old Anne Boleyn would agree.
Their marriage may not have ended well,
but when Henry VIII was courting Anne Boleyn,
he made frequent visits to Hever Castle and lavished her
with gifts of jewellery.
And antique jewels, obviously, are now highly sought after.
SJ Phillips is an antique jewellery dealer on Bond Street in London.
Trading since 1869,
it is still run by the original owner's great-grandsons.
BELL RINGS
Whoa! Jewels, very nice!
The rings they have on sale tell a fascinating story
of how the jewellery associated with love and marriage has changed over time.
In many ways, the circle or the ring, represents love without end.
Obviously there are no ends in a circle and it's portable,
visible and can be personalised,
so it's really not surprising that the ring has been
at the core of marriage for centuries.
This one's brilliant because it has a secret surprise hidden inside.
It's got a little poem. It says,
"Hearts content cannot repent."
It's known as a poesy ring, poesy being a word then for poetry.
So this is a 17th century gold ring
and a gentleman would give this to a lady
as a little token of his affections.
The tradition of wearing a wedding ring on the fourth finger
goes back thousands of years.
There was a Roman medical idea
that there was a vein that ran all the way from that finger
to the heart and I'm brandishing my right hand
because that was more significant.
Then people realised it was impractical to have your ring
on the hand that you're going to use, so you move it to the left.
- Have you seen these before? - This is a brilliant little thing, isn't it?
- Quite ingenious. - It's a pair of hands
which makes it a fede ring.
- Mani in fede. - Exactly.
Hands in trust.
Hands in trust and the two hands clasp each other
and can be unclasped if you slide the two parts of the ring apart.
Isn't that brilliant?
This is actually an early 19th century one.
It's a long tradition of ring design that the two hands clasped together.
But the modern engagement would seem incomplete to most of us
unless accompanied by a diamond.
This is my favourite so far. I do like this one.
It's from the 17th century, which is my favourite century.
And it's got a sort of...
Oh, it's just so luxurious.
It's like an encrustation of brilliance to wear on your finger, don't you think?
I do rather, and of course
diamonds extend that entire sort of love enduring.
They're a solid, hard, durable rock
and one that's been associated with royalty and nobility for centuries.
Well, the word's adamantine. It means in Latin invincible,
indomitable, goes on forever.
So that's the symbolism of diamonds as a gem, I suppose.
If you like that one, what do you think of this rather brash little number?
I like that one too. Yes, yes, I'll have that.
1920s, 1930s, good Art Deco period piece.
I can imagine wearing that on a liner crossing the Atlantic,
sipping a cocktail in the bar!
So, if you're a nervous young man coming into this shop,
what are the different prices?
Our 17th century poesy ring is worth about £3,000.
Our early 19th century fede ring...
- The secret double ring with the hands. - Absolutely.
That's worth between £3,000-£5,000.
We're ramping up the prices
with our beautiful 17th century rose cut diamond ring,
which is worth around £70,000.
But I would have to sell my apartment to buy this.
£180,000. You have good taste.
SHE CHUCKLES
It is amazing, that one. I love it.
Hatton Garden in London
has been the centre of England's diamond industry since the mediaeval period.
There are still some expert diamond cutters
who use traditional methods that have changed little in hundreds of years.
Come on down. I'll show you where it all takes place.
'Gary's family have been cutting diamonds since 1890.'
This is the centre of operations.
This is our little cubbyhole where we hide out from the world.
And we've just got a stone here which...
A stone? That's enormous!
It's 36 carat. Just bought that in South Africa about three weeks ago.
- That's absolutely huge. It's got a yellow tinge to it. - Well, yes.
It's unusually yellow.
It's what they call a fancy yellow or a fancy intense yellow diamond.
'The job of the diamond cutter,
'is to get the highest yield from the rough rock.
'To help him do this, he uses a 3D scanner to build a digital model.'
And there it is.
'Most rocks are cut in half to make two diamonds,
'and the vital decision of where to place this cut
'is still down to human expertise.'
See, what I can do here now,
is I can actually place a line on the stone
where we think we're going to saw the stone into two.
'Once the design of the two diamonds has been chosen,
'the computer then fits both parts inside the rock.'
Oh, my goodness! I see.
- But they're so small. - It's not small.
But there's so much... Perhaps I should rephrase that.
There's so much wastage on the outside, by the looks of it,
because they're hiding right inside it.
- I've got to tell you, that, actually, is a phenomenal yield by our standards. - Really?
Normally we get wastage of over 50%.
- But this stone is going to give us a yield of... - 66%.
66%, which is exceptionally high.
So what happens to all this excess material?
Is that just cut away and used for smaller, tiny diamonds?
No, no, that is just ground away. That goes into the air.
- So 34% of your diamond - poof! Gone! - Yes. To get to the finished product.
'The rough diamond is clasped inside the cutting machine,
'which uses a paper-thin metal disc to slice through the rock.
'It can take days or even weeks, to cut through a diamond,
'as too much pressure could cause it to shatter.'
What do you use to cut it? It looks like it's a sort of steel or iron.
- That's a very, very thin phosphor bronze disc. - OK.
Why phosphor bronze? Because it's absorbent on the end.
- And what do you need to absorb into it? - Diamonds. Diamond powder.
- The only thing that can cut a diamond is a diamond. - Correct.
- The hardest material known to us. - Yes.
A small amount of diamond paste mixed with a little oil,
that's placed on this little bit of leather
and we just place it on the roller.
And then we just put this onto the tip of the phosphor bronze disc.
And you see it just spinning round.
It's just taking the diamond powder off there.
And that will carry on slicing through the stone.
The most skilled part of diamond cutting is known as polishing,
and uses a machine that was first invented in Germany during the 15th century.
This scaife has a spinning abrasive turntable
which gives the diamond its final sparkle.
And, again, we put diamond powder inside this plate.
So basically you have a plate of diamond,
with the diamond which we're polishing being lowered onto it.
So this is where the diamond becomes a diamond that we would recognise,
- bought from a jewellers, or set into a ring. - Yes.
This is the final process where we break the facets down.
So the facet is the flat plane that's cut at an angle
all the way round the diamond?
Yes, to get the full refraction on the diamond.
The majority are cut into a design known as brilliant diamonds,
which have 58 facets.
The skill of polishing is to get the angles of the different facets perfectly aligned.
- There's still an enormous amount of experience. - Of course.
We've been doing it for over 40 years each,
so you get to see and know an awful lot by your own...
Even just by looking, you can tell things are wrong or right.
- 40 years! - Yeah, over 40 years. Gary and I started this together.
But I'm still down the bottom and he's still at the top.
- We'll meet in the middle one of these days. - Oh, I don't think so.
So you can see, this has got all the full 58 facets on it.
It really is stunning, isn't it?
What factors do you use to appraise a diamond?
We use the four C's - colour, cut, clarity and carat weight,
which determine the value of the stone.
So the carat term, which you see in jewellers across the land, that's actually the weight.
That's the weight, yes.
A carat was actually taken from a carob bean.
They're fairly uniform weight, so in the bush in Africa
when they were valuing diamonds in the old days,
they'd be weighed against one of those.
- That's how the word carat came about. - From carob beans? - From carob beans.
70% of engagement rings sold today now contain a diamond,
thanks partly to a highly successful diamond marketing campaign
in the 1930s.
But the ring isn't the only part of the marriage ceremony that's changed over time.
The custom of having a special dress just for your wedding
is also relatively new.
It wasn't until the 19th century
that wealthy brides started to choose light-coloured dresses to be worn only once, on the wedding day.
It was when Queen Victoria wore white
for her marriage to Prince Albert that it really took off.
Antique and vintage clothes have become increasingly popular in recent years,
and I've come to Dalston in east London to meet Meg Andrews.
She's been selling antique dresses for 25 years.
Lucy, this is my studio.
Ooh! It's Aladdin's cave!
Who are your clients, Meg?
What kind of people are buying your dresses?
I'm selling to museums and I sell to collectors, here and abroad.
And people who would just like an item of Victorian or 18th century,
just to perhaps frame or put in a case in their rooms.
Beautiful wedding dress.
1840s, similar to Queen Victoria's,
worth around £500.
Queen Victoria really set the trend, didn't she,
for the very simple, white wedding dress that survives till today?
Yes. Sometimes people wore white dresses before that,
but yes, she set the fashion.
- How would she have accessorised it? - This is a Honiton lace wedding veil.
Oh, look at this.
She would have worn all Honiton lace. She was trying to encourage...
- British industry! - Exactly, exactly.
Do you know an extraordinary thing about the lace on Victoria's dress?
She actually commissioned it before proposing to Albert.
- Oh, did she? - Yes! - Oh, right.
Of course it's her prerogative to propose because she's going to be the Queen.
I guess she didn't have it in mind, necessarily, as a wedding dress
and that indicates to me that people
weren't so hung up about wedding dresses as a special thing at that time
- because before that they would've just worn their very best dress. - Yes, they would.
And not necessarily white, just a really smart dress
- that you could go on wearing and using afterwards. - That's right.
And also, not with Victoria, but people who were less well-off,
they would've worn the dress as an evening dress
and accessorised it slightly differently.
Do you think that it's sort of the modern wedding industry
that's encouraged the idea that you wear it JUST for one day?
- It's quite a disposable fashion thing to do in a sense. - Yes, very.
What a waste when you've spent thousands on the dress
and thought and thought about it and looked and looked.
Victorian brides would have to go to painful lengths to acquire
the fashionable figure of the period.
What I find quite interesting about the dress
is that it was VERY restrictive. For instance,
this has whale bone or baleen
which was from the roof of the mouth of the whale.
Whale bone's a remarkable material, isn't it?
- It can twist and bend. - It's very pliable, sort of elastic.
- Sucking you in. - Yes.
And so not only did she have the whale bones here,
the shoulders were quite low
and the sleeves were very tight,
so you had very little movement.
When we talk about women's liberation,
we often mean politically, economically,
but actually physically as well! Clothes like this restrict.
- They keep you in your place, don't they? - Very much so.
Collectors aren't just interested in Victorian dresses.
Vintage clothes from the 1920s are incredibly popular,
especially cos you can still wear them.
Lovely!
I am wearing my dream dress.
It looks really good.
- So it's 1925 this, is it? - Yes.
Now, this truly was somebody's wedding dress!
Yes, then she would have worn it for evenings.
She'd have got a lot of wear out of that.
There's a real change in style here in so many ways,
not least in ease of movement.
I'm now a liberated, voting, emancipated woman.
But also, at THIS period, weddings had to take place in the morning,
that was the rule, and that's why we still call it the wedding breakfast
because it took place in the morning.
By the 20th century they could take place in the afternoon,
shading on into the evening,
so the style of dresses reflects later times of day as well.
- This is definitely an evening dress. - For dancing, yes.
You can do the Charleston in this dress.
You can have a wild old time!
This wedding dress also reflects one of the most dynamic styles of the time -
Art Deco.
Symmetrical lines and geometric patterns are classic features
of a style that emerged from the age of jazz.
This modern look originated at
the Paris International Exhibition Of Decorative Arts in 1925
and used bright colours contrasting with chrome and silver.
This 1920s wedding ring also demonstrates
the angular style of Art Deco.
After a wedding, the next major ceremonial event
is traditionally the welcome given to a newborn child.
Gifts to celebrate a birth date back millennia...
..but the traditional silver cup has its origins in the 1600s.
This looks nice. Have you had this before?
It looks a little like porridge
but I don't feel that I'd be the sort of person who'd be having this.
No, this is a special alcoholic sort of porridge.
It's got beer, it's got grain, it's got spices and sugar in it.
- And do you know when you eat/drink it? - Mm-hmm?
Eugh!
Just after you've given birth!
Yes, this would bring you back to life, I'm quite sure,
but that was its point, wasn't it?
It's a way of reviving a half-dead mother after she's just had
an arduous Tudor labour without any painkillers, basically.
Traditionally caudle was served in one of these little caudle cups.
Later they become known as porringers for slurping your porridge out of.
And this is a very cute little 17th century one, isn't it?
It is and this one, very small, dating from 1640, is a functional one
and would've been used by a mother to perhaps even feed her child.
It's made out of pewter which is a metal alloy
made up primarily of tin.
This one is 60 years later, also pewter.
It's much bigger and grander and fancier
and it is still possible that somebody would
slurp their porridge out of it but it also has
more of the qualities of a decorative, commemorative piece.
As they're associated with the birth of a child and christenings,
they become the gift that godparents often give to their godchildren
to mark the occasion of the birth.
Early pieces like this, particularly connected to a very popular subject
like childbirth will naturally be of great interest.
Something like this is worth £450, thereabout.
And a piece like that would fetch somewhere around £1,000-£1,200.
Pewter has been made in Britain since the Middle Ages.
Compared to silver, pewter was relatively cheap and was very popular
until mass-produced glassware became available in the 19th century.
I've come to A E Williams, a family-run pewter factory
in Birmingham which has been handcrafting pewter since 1779.
Steve Johnson is the great-great-great-great-grandson
of the original owner.
What you're looking at here is the largest collection
of antique moulds in the world today.
As you can see we've got everything from candlestick moulds
to goblet moulds to tankard moulds.
It's amazing. When you say antique, do you mean really antique?
Are they old moulds or new?
Well, if you have a look at antique pewter,
these are the moulds that actually made the pewter
so these are older than the antiques.
So you've got 18th century, 19th century...?
Just behind you there are some large plate moulds,
- one dated 1729, the other dated 1762. - Good Lord.
So these have been in continuous use for hundreds of years?
- Even today. - So you still use those today?
- Yep, yep. - Do you have any porringers? - Yes, we do.
Here's an old mould here.
- It's probably a couple of hundred years old. - What's it made of?
That's cast iron.
So this would've been used to make porringers in the 18th, 19th century?
Absolutely.
Pewter is made from 90% tin
while small amounts of copper and antimony help it to harden.
It melts at 240 degrees, which is low for metal,
meaning it hardens very quickly.
- Do you want to have a go? - I would LOVE to have a go.
- I'll get a ladle of metal for you. - Thank you. Oh, it's heavy, actually!
You forget. You sort of imagine it to be like water.
- Do I just go for it? - That's right.
- Here we go. - Straight in, Mark.
OK. There we go.
- And even when it's filling up and it comes out, keep it running in. - OK.
That gets rid of all the impurities out of it.
- And that's great. - That's it? - Yep.
If you keep your eye down there,
you can see that that's set now.
- That quick? - Yep.
We want to keep it moving, so if you grab the pillar there,
and get this mallet. When you pull that back, if you hit...
That bit? I'm notoriously bad at sport. Stand well back!
- You have to be relatively tough with it. - Just a bit.
- If you tilt that back towards you. - There it is! - There you go!
- Nothing happens... Oh! - There you go.
I've made part of a porringer.
And that looks pretty good to me.
- Excellent. Thank you very much! - There you go.
Once the porringer has cooled down, it needs to be turned
which involves shaving the rough edges
to create a smooth, shiny surface.
This is the most skilled part of creating pewter
and John Morris has been turning pewter for over 30 years.
Want to try?
I'll give it a go. Bye-bye, bowl!
Oh, there it is!
- Go further down the bowl. - Oh, yes!
It's not the beautiful sort of flow that you had.
- You're getting there. What you need is confidence. - Yes.
MARK CHUCKLES
Oh.
- That's quite good, that is. - Is that all right? - Yes.
This is much, much harder than it looks.
The handle is then soldered onto the porringer before the maker's mark
is hand-stamped onto the finished item.
- Oh! - Lovely.
Hey-hey! And there we go,
- my finished porringer! - Very good, that.
First attempt.
In the same way that gifts are often given to welcome a new life into the world,
the passing of a life is marked by its own rituals.
The average life expectancy in Victorian Britain was the late 30s.
With death so present, mourning was a normal part of life.
For married women, Victorian society's expectations
were especially strict if your husband died.
Widows were required to withdraw from public life, wear black,
veil their heads and cover mirrors with black drapes.
There was even special jewellery made to suit the occasion.
I've been one year and 11 months in black now
and I'm desperate to wear coloured clothes again!
Only one month to go. Two years and you'll be able to free yourself.
Then two years are up. Actually, I won't.
Then I'll be in half-mourning for my Victorian late husband
and that means grey or lavender or mauve for another six months.
And thank goodness I don't work for Queen Victoria because if I was in her household
I would've been in half-mourning for the rest of her life.
How many years was it? After Albert died in 1861
she spent pretty much most of her life in mourning.
She went into black for the rest of her life.
This wasn't uncommon for Victorian mothers who, if you think about it,
probably experienced quite a lot of infant mortality.
Probably they'd lost a lot of their children along the way.
It's almost a cliche to say it
but the Victorians had this CULT of mourning.
They were very comfortable talking about death and mourning
which we're not at all today. We're uncomfortable with it.
The Victorians had a hang-up about talking about sex.
They were very reticent about that and the opposite today.
I sort of feel rather sorry for you. You have to amass this enormous, complex clothing
whereas I just don this simple band.
Well, there also seems to be a bit of an imbalance between male mourning and female mourning.
I'm supposed to mourn my husband for two-and-a-half years,
but if you had a wife, you could get away with only mourning her for three months!
Well, I've got to go out and do some work to earn money
to buy all of this garb and this fantastic necklace that you have,
which is made out of perhaps the most popular material
of the Victorian period for mourning, which is jet.
Jet was this mysterious material,
only washed up on a particular part of the coastline
where you find the town of Whitby.
It's actually a form of fossilised wood,
so I suppose in a way very similar to coal.
Very popular from the 1860s to the 1880s.
The industry in Whitby became so thriving and popular
that 1,000 people were employed there.
It was said that in Whitby even the dogs are black.
Absolutely, it was worn slightly earlier than the 1860s.
In fact, when George IV died in 1830
there was a decree that jet will be the ornament.
Certainly Victoria took this up with a great passion,
as did ladies who could afford it.
It was a very expensive material and widely imitated.
The values then and now really depend on how well-worked they are.
The more skill that went into it from the craftsman side of it,
that raised the value.
A piece like this today would fetch around £600,
if you had to buy it from a dealer.
Now, there's one problem with jet.
Some people said that it was a bit too shiny
to wear in the first year of mourning,
but as I've now officially reached the second year,
I think I can put this on.
I think I can help you with that, if you will allow me.
Just plunge me a little bit further into gloom.
Black jet was not the only jewellery worn in mourning.
In a time before photography, people still wanted
a tangible reminder of their lost loved ones.
'I've come to North London to meet Anne Louise Luthi.
'Over the past 20 years, she has become a major collector
'of hair jewellery,
'and now owns over 250 items.'
This is probably the earliest piece and that has platted hair.
On the back, turn it over, and you will see that it says
"my father and my husband".
So this is the hair of two people?
That's the hair of two people,
probably at the end of the 17th century.
The idea was to commemorate people,
and the only part of the body you can use after death is hair.
What else could you do, in a way?
- You could have a portrait or miniature. - That was more expensive.
- There was no photography, either. - No, not until the middle of the 19th century.
Absolutely.
So this was the way that people commemorated the loved ones.
By keeping them literally close,
- by taking a part of their body to wear close to them. - Yes.
This one looks much more decorative.
What we have here is a lady cradling her child,
near an urn on a pedestal,
and it says "JC OBT", so died "July 21st 1785,
"aged two years and seven months.
"Not lost, but gone before." There it is.
And the idea that she would be reunited with her child...
- How sweet. - ..when she herself died.
It's terribly touching, isn't it?
If you look closely here at the bottom, that's where the hair is.
And also, the artists who did these miniatures
used to chop up hair and mix it with the paint.
That's quite incredible.
It's also interesting that this is a pin,
so it would have been pinned close, physically, to her heart.
'In the 19th century,
'hair jewellery stopped being worn only for mourning,
'and became fashionable in its own right.'
The most valuable of all was white hair.
And then, you can see...
- Why was that? - I suppose because it was beautiful.
You can see the butterfly there.
There you get a beautiful hair bouquet.
Didn't people find it rather squeamish and strange
to wear hair that wasn't connected to you or your family?
Not really, no, because it was a material.
It wasn't necessarily thought of as being associated with a particular person.
Wearing hair jewellery may seem slightly macabre to us now,
but in the past, the ceremonial marking of death
was much more part of everyday life.
Even executions were once ceremonial events,
carried out in public until the mid-19th century.
One of history's most shocking executions
was the beheading of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII,
on the 19th May, 1536.
It was the first execution of a Queen of England.
This is what you might call a ceremonial sword.
Certainly not for use on the battlefield.
It's a German beheading sword of about 1750.
And it's got a picture on it
that shows exactly how you use it.
He's lifting it up right over the head,
and he comes down with a great big swoosh,
and takes the head off.
This was the privilege given to Anne Boleyn, in 1536.
Because she was the queen,
she wasn't going to be beheaded with the axe, like everybody else.
A special French swordsman was brought over,
to give her a nice, clean ending.
Actually, your sword is better than mine,
because yours has a point on the end of it.
Tell me a bit more about your rapier.
Nice and light. Very nimble. Long.
As you say, with this very sharp point.
This was all about the art of swordsmanship.
With this rather fine hand guard, here.
It was made in Britain in the early 17th century
and is a rather fine example.
I think it would be creepy to collect a beheading sword like this.
I think it would show that you're slightly disturbed.
There's a certain... Not romance, I suppose,
but there's a certain gory interest in it, isn't there?
These are quite collectible today.
Something like this could fetch a couple of thousand.
Similarly, my rather fine rapier.
Anything from £2,000 to £10,000 or so,
depending on the date, the quality of it, and who made it.
Though there is considerably less demand for swords these days,
there are still a few people making them, using traditional methods
that have been practised by blacksmiths for centuries.
Simon Fearnhamm specialises in making historical swords,
as well as repairing antiques, at his factory
in the Essex countryside.
Simon, tell us what you are doing.
At the moment, I'm drawing the metal down,
thinning it off, tapering it, shaping it.
So you're making the sword longer and thinner?
Longer and thinner, and giving it the right shape.
What metal are you using there?
This is a carbon spring steel.
What kind of sword are you making?
This is based on an original tomb effigy carving in Westminster Abbey.
The sword of Sir Giles Daubeney.
Nice medieval sword.
Do you know how to use a sword yourself
so that you can tell if you've made a good one?
- I've played with swords. - You've played with swords?!
I've been making swords for 30-odd years, so yes.
I've handled a lot of original medieval swords,
so you get a good feel for the heft of the sword,
- and how it should feel. - What does "the heft" mean?
It's the balance in the hand.
If you use it for hours on end, you want something
that doesn't put too much strain on your arms.
Ooh, look at that!
'Forging is the first stage of making a sword
'and it requires considerable skill.'
- OK. - Strike while the iron's hot. Come on. - Oh, yeah, yeah.
Am I making any difference there?
Ooh, look. You can see it.
- You're putting a bend on it. - MARK LAUGHS
- You don't want that, do you? - I'll straighten it out in a minute.
So it's curved up at the end now? That's not right, is it?
- I'll put it into the forge... - Did I do that? Oops. - Just a little bit.
Once Simon has forged the sword,
the next stage is to grind it down to a sharp edge,
something that was historically done by hand,
but is now helped by modern technology.
Eventually this piece of metal will become a sword,
like this.
So that is ground?
- The very, very beginnings, yeah. - It's hot!
The very beginnings of a rough grind.
What's the next stage to get it looking like that?
Hours more of the rough grinding,
and getting all the lines and everything all true.
- And then days on the sanding and finishing... - Days?
Days.
So this is your nearly complete, double-handed broadsword.
- A replica of Sir Giles Daubeney's, from the 15th century? - Yeah.
Can I ask how much it would cost?
With scabbard, the sword itself is around £6,000.
£6,000 is a lot of money,
but if you were looking for a scarce, historical sword,
from centuries ago,
- it's a fraction of the cost. - Definitely.
A sword with provenance, that sort of style,
tens, even hundreds of thousands of pounds, depending on who owned it.
These days, swords are mainly used for ceremonial purposes,
notably when the Queen bestows knighthoods.
And when a new monarch is crowned,
a number of swords are carried in the coronation procession.
So Westminster Abbey's been used for coronations
since William the Conqueror, in 1066,
right up to 1953, last time round with the current Queen.
You think it's all about the moment when the King or Queen is anointed,
becomes crowned, starts their official job.
But really, the whole point of it is the spectacle.
Traditionally, the coronation was preceded by a procession from the Tower of London,
all through the city, lined with cheering crowds.
For over 300 years,
people have been buying mementos of these royal events.
By the time Edward VII was crowned in 1902,
after the death of Queen Victoria,
royal memorabilia had become incredibly popular,
and remains an inexpensive way to own a piece of history.
This is from the coronation of Edward VII,
but, ha-ha-ha, it's got the wrong date on it, hasn't it?
June 26th, 1902.
When it was supposed to be but then the poor guy got appendicitis
- and he couldn't show up, so they had to put the whole thing back. - It went back to August 9th.
What a lot of people don't realise,
ceramics like these were produced many months - if not a year - in advance.
As soon as the date was announced, the ceramics industry swung into gear,
and started producing vast quantities of these things.
When it was announced that he had appendicitis,
and the coronation would be postponed to August 9th,
quite a lot of these were already in existence,
which means they only had a little bit of time to catch up with the correct date.
Consequently, the ones with the wrong date are very common,
the ones with the correct date are much rarer.
That's worth probably around £30.
And what about my mug here?
Probably about the same as the tea you're going to put in it.
Aw, but it has sentimental value.
When Charles II was restored to the throne,
after the Commonwealth in 1660,
he rode a wave of affection for the monarchy.
The occasion saw the first pieces of mass market royal memorabilia
being produced.
Pretty much every royal event since has been marked with souvenirs.
I'm meeting Steven Jackson,
who's collected so many royally-related items
that he's built a mini museum in his back garden.
Oh, my goodness!
- You like royal memorabilia, don't you?! - Yes, yes!
How did you get started on this subject matter, then?
I was left by my grandfather quite a little collection.
I've always been fascinated by history
and the two go together.
How many pieces have you got now?
Oh, well. Ceramics, around about 8,000.
8,000 ceramics. And then you've also got textile items.
Oh, yes, there's textiles...
- Biscuit tins, box of matches. - Yeah.
The Royal Family usually stand for stability and continuity,
but sometimes royal memorabilia can reflect times of rapid change
and uncertainty.
So this is your Edward VIII cabinet.
All the people making commemorative goods must have been pretty pleased,
in 1936 and 1937, because we've got two kings coming along very quickly, haven't we?
They started to sell commemoratives for Edward in the September.
Harrods and Selfridges were full of them.
So this is a little plate that was planned to be
for the coronation of Edward VIII,
which was planned to be in May, 1937.
But, in the event, he abdicated to get married to Mrs Simpson.
He abdicated on December 11th and then, of course,
the manufacturers with things left over...
"What are we going to do with all of our unsold stock?"
They added very quickly,
"acceded the throne and abdicated," with the date on.
I like that. That's quick thinking. That's waste not, want not.
I think that, as a collector, you're quite unusual.
You're not really looking for quality, high-end, beautiful stuff,
are you?
You're interested in things that are quite cheap and mass-produced.
Well, if it isn't mass-produced,
invariably, it's not a commemorative.
- That's the definition? - That's the secret to the whole subject.
It had to be mass-produced, for people at large.
I guess items like this, although cheap and cheerful,
represented a significant investment for normal people.
- They were engaged in the life of the nation. - Yes, they were.
Why do you think people have the urge
to get these tangible memory items?
I think it's a point of reference in their own lives.
There's a great expression from Macaulay, the great Victorian historian,
who, when he was examining a mug at the factory,
described them as,
"Reflections of men's souls. A window into men's minds."
- That is so poetic and lovely. - It was a lovely expression.
You may think it's a little piece of junk but, actually, no.
This will mean a lot to a lot of people who were alive in 1936.
King George VI, who succeeded Edward after the abdication,
saw Britain through the Second World War.
On 29th July, 1948, he attended the opening ceremony
of the 14th Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium.
It was only the second time
the modern Games had been held in Britain,
and it would be the last until 2012.
The differences between then and now are startling.
The 2012 Games is estimated to be costing at least £12 billion,
while in 1948, they cost a modest £750,000.
There were great hopes for Britain in the first post-war Games.
But in the end, we only achieved gold medals in one event.
'The rowing.'
- There we go. - One, two, three. Slow down.
One, two, three, four.
Why have you got your legs crossed?
- Hm? - Why have you got your legs crossed? - I always cross my legs.
SHE LAUGHS
All the time.
- What, when you're rowing? - Yes.
HE LAUGHS
We're recreating the 1948 coxless pairs at the Olympic Games.
Gold for Britain.
One of three medals that the rowing team won in what they called the make-do-and-mend Games.
Because it was after the war, they were a bit short of money
and everybody had to bodge things together.
- They had the rowing events down at Henley. - Yes.
The winners of the coxless pairs were called John Wilson and William Laurie.
You've heard of Mr Laurie because he was the dad of Hugh Laurie, the actor.
What I can't believe is that the athletes
had to get through their training on 2,600 calories a day. That's what you got in your ration.
I think the ration itself was one piece of bacon, an egg, and a small bit of cheese.
But once they had been selected for the team that went up,
they got 3,400 calories a day,
which is the same as a docker got. That was the ration for dockers, people doing heavy work.
But today the athletes eat 8,000 calories a day.
'Sports-related antiques are extremely popular.
'And we have a rare 1948 Olympic medal.'
This is a bronze medal, is it?
Yes, bronze, silver and gold - the medals that we know today -
were first awarded in that combination in 1904.
Were they true gold, true silver?
Well, the last time true gold medals were awarded was in 1912.
What? Since then it's been a bit of a swizz and they haven't been gold?!
I don't necessarily think so! It's still the event, the taking part,
that's the important part, not the medal itself.
It has a rather lovely design of athletes lifting each other up.
Have you noticed they're all naked?
To take part in the original Olympic Games, you had to be naked.
The ancient Greek word for that is "gymnos",
and that leads us to have our term today, "gymnasium".
- Stretch your arms out, put your back into it. - I'm still no good at this.
It's just as well I wasn't in that Olympics team.
SHE LAUGHS
The Austerity Games was the second time
Britain had hosted the Olympics.
The first time, in 1908, we came top of the medal table,
winning 56 golds.
But female athletes didn't get much of a look-in.
At the 1908 Olympic Games,
there were 2,000 competitors. Only 37 of them were women.
But one won gold for Britain, in the archery.
And, quite amazingly, she was 53 years old.
'Her name was Queenie Newall.
'In an attempt to step into her shoes,
'I'm having a longbow lesson with the archer Maggie Woolf.'
Aim towards the top of the target, and away. Go!
- Woo! - Nearly!
Not bad. Good for a first shot.
'We're using traditional longbows,
'but Maggie's brought along an antique
'to point out one noticeable difference from those used today.'
The bow that they would have used in 1908 is pure yew.
This one is pre-First World War.
This is the outer wood of the yew,
and the soft belly wood of the yew,
so it's got a nice flex and spring.
The yew contains all the elements one needs in a good shooting bow.
But it's a bit dangerous. Isn't it poisonous, yew wood?
Yes. All parts of the yew are poisonous.
A lot of bowyers went slightly crazy.
It caused some problem in the brain.
So I don't think they had a very long life, making these bows.
'Joining our archery lesson is the Olympic historian Rebecca Jenkins,
'author of the book on the 1908 Games.'
- Let it go. - Oh!
What did the main organiser of the Games think about the female athletes?
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, whose idea it was to revive the Games,
was a Parisian aristocrat.
He thought that ladies performing in public before strangers was really...
He said something along the lines of,
"Impractical, uninteresting, anaesthetic, and incorrect."
Therefore, he really didn't want women to be involved.
Drawing back to the eye. Keep drawing. More, more, more.
BOTH: Yay!
- Yeah, you got it. - You're getting good, you know.
The thing I really like about Queenie is she was 53 years old.
And she was a gold medal winner at that age.
The point about archery is you can look like a lady and still excel at your sport.
You don't have to be 24 and be able to jump very high.
And they all had to be wearing proper clothes, long skirts.
ladies are supposed to be private creatures,
so you appear properly dressed.
So there's no way they could take part in the swimming,
because the rules said you must wear a skirt.
Exactly. They wouldn't even dream of having women swimmers by 1908.
They did come in in 1912, but you're in Sweden by that point.
- I think it was the Scandinavian influence. - They're more liberated in Scandinavia!
They seemed much more egalitarian about the idea of the healthy body.
Long reach forward. Back to your cheek.
- ALL: Oh! - Look at that.
- In the red! In the red! - That is absolutely fantastic.
Just outside the gold.
I can see you taking this sport up seriously.
Antique bows and medals are just some of the collectible items
associated with popular sports memorabilia.
'In the Cotswolds, Manfred Schotten sells antique golf clubs,
'tennis rackets,
'cricket bats, and other highly sought-after sports items.
'Even this Victorian golf ball is worth around £5,000.
'But there are cheaper ways to own a piece of sporting history.'
If you haven't got thousands of pounds
to splash out on an Olympic medal,
why not consider some of the paperwork,
known as ephemera, that was produced around the Games?
Something like this, the London Olympic Games programme,
is a brilliant place to start.
This can fetch up to around £70 or so,
and it's crammed with information.
Everything from events, to athletes, to photographs.
There's really everything you need to know about the Games,
including some rather interesting information about restaurants.
These were known as the Austerity Games in 1948.
I find this particularly fascinating.
We're told that, "Eating in the West End at present
"is not a matter about which Londoners feel particularly happy.
"Visitors from abroad are likely to be even less content.
"But the food situation is one that must be accepted
"as an inevitable result of the nation's economic position."
The contents are fascinating,
but what really does it for me is this fantastic cover.
If you can look for colourful artwork
that really sums up the design ethics of the day,
that really adds to the appeal and, in many cases, the value as well.
Three years after the 1948 Olympics,
Britain was ready to put austerity and the war behind it.
A ceremonial event for the nation
would focus people's attention on a brighter future.
The Festival Of Britain of 1951 was intended to celebrate British design,
and to cheer everybody up after the war and the recovery.
The director of the festival described it as a tonic for the nation.
It was based here on the South Bank,
and its centrepiece was the Royal Festival Hall.
8.5 million people attended the exhibition on the South Bank.
Many of the designs on display were ultra-modern in style,
including the chairs for the terrace.
- Hello. - Hello.
You're sitting on one of the chairs that they actually used
on the terrace at the festival, aren't you?
That's it. This is a reproduction of the antelope chair,
which was designed for this very purpose.
It was placed outside the Royal Festival Hall,
so you could sit and enjoy the festival and the river.
It's such a 1950s-looking thing, isn't it?
It is, and it sums up so much of what the festival was about.
After the disasters and privations of World War Two,
this was all about our positive future,
which was meant to be delivered with technology.
If you look at the form and structure of it,
with these ball feet,
and these cylindrical steel rods,
it's almost like a molecular model that you might find in a school or a scientific laboratory.
At this time, of course, you had interest in microscopes,
cells, molecules, and that's all reflected in this chair.
It also launched a new colour palette, as well,
which was so much more vibrant and positive
than the austerity of utility furniture.
It's a beautiful chair that speaks so much for the period.
Do you think it's called the antelope because it looks like
it could go boing on its springy little legs?
It does have a certain lightness of form, I suppose.
This whole look launched a new look on the high street.
It really was, in its own way, a trendsetter.
This one's a reproduction, so it's brand new,
but vintage examples depending on condition and date
can cost you anything from £80 to £500.
The Festival of Britain had been staged
exactly 100 years after another ceremonial event.
To many, it represented the pinnacle of Britain's power and influence
across the world.
On 1st May, 1851,
Queen Victoria attended the opening ceremony
at the Great Exhibition of the Industrial Nations in Hyde Park.
The brainchild of Prince Albert,
the exhibition was housed in a massive iron glasshouse
designed by Joseph Paxton.
Amazingly, it was a temporary structure,
and was pulled down after only six months.
'But to this day, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
'remains as a permanent memorial to the exhibition.'
So up there is a picture of the Great Exhibition of 1851,
and there's Queen Victoria,
giving out the prizes for best exhibit.
They had 13,000 exhibits,
the fruits of industry from all over the world,
- brought to this massive greenhouse up there. - Absolutely.
This building was built after the exhibition closed,
to house many of the objects.
It was known then as the South Kensington Museum,
but it's much more familiar to us today as the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Fair enough as it was Prince Albert who was really behind this.
The Great Exhibition was hugely successful.
It made over £16 million, in today's money.
And they used it to buy land
all up and down Exhibition Road, here in South Kensington.
So the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Science Museum and Imperial College
were all built on the profits of the Great Exhibition.
This part of town became known, in homage to Prince Albert, as Albertopolis.
This is the book of the show, is it?
Effectively, yes. It's a special edition of The Art Journal.
The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue.
This showed many of the best things exhibited in the exhibition itself.
It's all very much in the sort of latest tastes.
It's all very Victorian, very ornate. Look at something like this.
Statues, other fountains...
- And some shoes. - These are funny. Look.
"Mr J Sparkes Hall of London exhibits many improvements
"in modern boots and shoes, together with a curious series
"of well-executed facsimiles of ancient ones."
Here we've got a display of shoes.
Look, it's a shoe of vulcanised India rubber.
Rubber had only just appeared.
Also in the exhibition, it was used to make
a more comfortable pair of false teeth, in which you could yawn.
They had a new spring mechanism
that made them a lot more comfortable.
This book is actually quite a collectible piece,
as well as a fascinating guide to the exhibition
and Victorian tastes of the time.
It's worth between £200 and £400, in really nice condition.
The original catalogues can fetch an awful lot more,
up to around £12,000 or so.
But it's the objects that commemorated the exhibition,
the souvenirs, if you like,
that really form the backbone of the market.
Ceramics, glass. All manner of different pieces were produced
to satisfy the desires of those six million people who visited
to remember and to commemorate their visit.
Although the exhibition was temporary,
the glasshouse was rebuilt in an area of London
now known as Crystal Palace,
where it remained until it was destroyed by a fire in 1936.
But it is antiques from the original 1851 exhibition
that are some of the most sought-after items at this auction in Macclesfield.
Pictures, vases,
even pot lids, that commemorate the exhibition,
are all going under the hammer.
£65, gentlemen, again.
This ornate silver fish knife and fork set
is one of the more unusual items.
551. Fabulous pair of cased fish servers, there.
£280. Here with me at £280.
£300. £320. £340, I'm out.
At £340 stands at the back now.
At £340. With us in the room now at 340.
But there's one particular piece
that has really grabbed my attention.
For me, this has enormous appeal
as a souvenir of the Great Exhibition.
For a start, it has this fantastic painting on glass,
of the Crystal Palace itself.
Open it up, and you discover it's a tea caddy.
So it's functional as well as decorative.
It's also made from papier-mache,
which was a very popular material for making all manner of items,
from small pieces of furniture, such as tables,
to tea caddies and even perhaps pen boxes and trays.
This would have been an ideal souvenir for the middle class visitor
to the Great Exhibition.
A rather exceptional Victorian papier-mache tea caddy.
Great Exhibition, 1851. Interest, as you'd imagine.
The tea caddy is estimated to go for £150.
£320, I'm bid. 340. 360. 380.
400. 420.
But there are several interested bidders both in the room and online.
Still on the internet.
At £540.
At 540.
Are you sure, online?
We give you it at 540. The best is online now.
£540 was a fantastic price for that.
And the reason? It was in fantastic condition.
Papier-mache can be very easily damaged.
If it's dropped, the glass would break.
Even the insides of the tea caddy compartments
were still lined with their tinfoil.
An absolutely fantastic buy for whoever was lucky enough to get it.
Many of these items on sale are not of great intrinsic value.
Like inexpensively-produced royal ceramics, they prove
you don't need deep pockets to own a piece of ceremonial history.
Antiques associated with weddings and funerals
give us a fascinating insight
into how we've changed the way we mark personal milestones.
Today, many of these objects look like they no longer have a function,
but actually they do.
Their purpose is to commemorate an event,
and to give us something to remember it by.
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ONE WAY (Pocket Film - Prix du public) - Duration: 4:00.
ONE WAY
Hey Antony!
What?! It's an ice ball and you didn't even react!
Wait for me!
Antony!
Hey! How are you doing?
Yeah... But!
But?!
Nevermind.. it's not important
Okay then!
Did you work on the physic project?
Arh! I have a terrible headache
You seem okay
My nose hurts so bad!
Ehhh Antony!
What?
Your nose!!!
I'll go the the washroom to clean this out..
Are you sure you'll be okay?
Yeah! Thanks a lot
Okay! I have to do my chemistry homework. See you later!
Bye
The day started well..
Hey! Would you give me the anwsers to the chemistry homework?
Yeah sure!
Thanks
Yo Eric
Hey wait!
Were going in wich class?
Move over!
Oh shit! Are you okay man!
What just happen?
I don't know
Julian just hit him with the door..!
Okay Antony. You just woke up, you've been inconsius for a few hours!
Were doing a little brain scan.
Lay on you're back and don't move
We have good news, you're brain scan is normal. The only thing i can find is a broken nose!
I don't know how to explain it. I feel the pain before any accident..!
With the results and what you're saying.
I honestly think you should see a psychologist.
So if
You're living with sort of an offset in your life..?
Exactly
and the more time passes, the more the offset is intense!
Listen Antony, I feel like this situation is making you anxious..
I suggest that we could have a psycological meeting next week.
To talk more about your situation.
Is it okay for you?
Okay.. thanks
I don't know why i'm still talking to you..
You only wan't some attention
You're so stupid
Maniac
William
What do you wan't?!
Hello!?!
Antony!?
ONE WAY
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Senior citizens, children enjoy Easter egg hunt at Sunrise of Poland - Duration: 0:35.
Easter is next Sunday-- but
easter egg hunts have already
started in the
Valley. Sunrise of Poland
senior living center
had one today. There was a
special breakfast and a
chance to meet the easter bunny.
Organizers say little events
like this can
have a big impact on local
families.
"YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH IT
MEANS TO THE RESIDENTS TO SEE
ALL THE CHILDREN RUNNING AROUND
AND LOOKING FOR EASTER EGGS, AND
THERE'S PETS HERE, WE HAVE DOGS,
IT'S A HUGE FAMILY EVENT. AND
IT'S LIKE HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF
EASTER IN THEIR HOME."
Austintown and Campbell had
easter eggs hunts today too.
For a full list of upcoming
Easter Egg Hunts, you can go to
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Creepypastas With MARKOSIS #10 - Duration: 19:03.
I don't know how to properly tell this story, my mind is jumbled all over the place, and
I have been shaking for the past few hours.
Everything has gone to shit, and I don't know who else to tell this to.
Maybe just telling you guys what happened tonight will help me calm, I don't know, something
is trembling inside of me.
Now, I'm going to be honest, I used to think this place a was bullshit, honest to God bullshit.
I never believed in ghosts, in demons, in spiritual, not at all.
But after last night, man, I don't even know any more.
Let me just explain what happened.
I work as a nurse at a hospital, a nice old place in a nice city (hiding details for privacy
of course).
Now, it's rooted in a metropolis, not some backwoods small town, which worries me even
more.
Either way, I'm was happy at the job, it was difficult and stressful, but I found it rewarding,
helping people no matter what.
That was always my philosophy, "help people, no matter what."
This belief carried me through getting my degree, through the tough early years, through
everything.
I just wanted to help people, and that was what led me to my big mistake.
Now, I'm one of only a few male nurses at the hospital, and while it rarely affects
me in any serious way, there are few examples of patients that are more comfortable being
around a man than a woman.
When these people came, I was almost always assigned to them, giving them just a slight
boost in comfort.
Well, yesterday I had one of those cases.
This boy comes in with this mother and father, both slightly backwards, hard religious folks.
All three of them are dressed in raggedy clothes, the fathers t-shirt has a massive stain on
the tip of its blue edges, the mother's makeup is creased and messy, signifying a long, brutal
day.
As for the kid, the kid was dying; he was young, 8, short for his age with thin brown
hair and an obviously malnourished body.
He was keened over, not saying a word or making eye contact with anything, it was harrowing,
but we kept on as it was our duty.
Now normally, with cases of malnourishment, it is the fault of the parents.
Sometimes they simply do not have the resources (but that couldn't be the case, the father
was a very fat man, so they couldn't have been without food), or it was intentional
(yet, by the emotional response of the parents, it didn't seem to be so).
The mother was sobbing from the moment she walked into the hospital, yelling that her
"Baby was dying!
My Baby is dying!", the father had a similar nervous expression, but hid it, let his wife
do the significant talking.
As they swarmed, the child was hunched over in a small wheelchair, cold dead skin and
focusless eyes staring ahead on a tilted head, almost seemingly in rigamortus already.
Now, nothing phased me anymore, I had been a nurse long enough that even a case like
this, a dying child who probably had been malnourished for weeks, maybe months, would
be frightening, but I kept on, I had other patients.
I left the lobby and left the screeching mother, but could not escape the vision.
As I left for a nearby hallway I turned for one last glance, and just by my sheer placement,
the kid, ridged, cold, was staring directly at me.
He had not moved, it just was...
Something to note.
I paid no attention and moved on.
I was working with another patient, an older lady with a broken leg when a fellow nurse,
Melissa, walked in.
"David."
She called me by my first name, we had a friendly, casual relationship, "we need you to look
over someone else right now."
"I'm already with--" "You're the only man available.
Right now."
Melissa told me, practically an order, and I understood the call.
I turned back to the older lady and apologized, I was needed elsewhere.
In a few seconds I was walking out the door.
"Who exactly?"
Pining, I watched Melissa's face, she seemed, troubled.
"This kid that came in, just a few minutes ago--" "Malnourished?
Brown hair?"
"Yeah."
Melissa nodded along, it was slightly jarring, the thought of the eye contact stayed with
me, and I couldn't shake it.
"Only wants a male nurse, I don't know why, but something about this case just worries
me."
Melissa continued, reaching the room.
"Relax..."
I assured.
"Probably religious nutjobs and a diabetic child, we'll raise his blood sugar, call Child
Protection, and be done with it."
"I don't know, just something--" We reached the room, number 145, and I gave a deep breath
and walked in, leaving Melissa to herself.
I walked in clutching a deep folder, ready to make a bold entrance to a family, making
small-talk, reassuring and...
The door creaked open slowly, oddly, and I was entranced into the room, lit only with
the pale, crystalline lights at the top of the roof.
In the room, dim, pale with only blue beds changing the white demeanor and decoration,
was the child.
Only the child.
I stopped, slightly confused, before I adapted.
"Hi!"
I told the child, he was in his wheelchair, his only signs of life were slow swivels of
his neck to my position.
Something felt wrong, and I should've listened.
I should have sprinted out of that room with maximum speed, vowing to never return, stomping
out all thought of helping whatever the Hell that boy was.
But, it was against my philosophy, I help people, no matter how I feel.
And believe me, my stomach was in knots.
"Where are your parents, buddy?"
I asked the boy, shaking my writing hand slightly.
I didn't expect an answer until I saw his mouth open just enough to form a whistle.
"Gone."
"Gone?
Where did they--" "Gone."
The boy swiveled his neck to the right, resting on the other side, I saw perilous bruise marks,
wrapping all around the left side of his neck.
"Do you know where they've gone to?"
The boy didn't speak, and I took it as a queue to begin again, I walked up to him, all the
while beginning to feel very, I don't know how to describe it, but, cold.
Not a shivering cold but a drainless cold, the type of cold that fills you in, like a
cold shower on a cold night.
Everything just freezes, blood tingles.
"Well, m-- mr.
Let me just take a look at you, r-r-real quick and I'll...."
I couldn't make out a sentence, just staring at the lifeless body, the bruise marks, the
motionlessness, it all pointed towards something beyond the realm of, well, living.
As I stood closer, I could tell he was ice cold, without any heat within him, almost
impossible.
I should've known, I should've known, I don't know why I'm such an idiot, but I didn't leave,
I kept looking over at him.
I made notes of the marks on his body, his temperature (53 degrees fahrenheit, impossible).
After a few minutes I needed to inspect more, and I asked the child to take off his shirt.
"I need to record any incidents of violence."
I was shivering now, it was a warm day in a desert state, but somehow I was shivering,
my entire body chilling up.
I could hardly take a full breath without looking down, composing myself.
But I will not be unprofessional, I have this job, I have my philosophies for a reason,
and I will not be-- The boy lifts up his shirt, and directly over his heart, a blood-red entrapment,
an entrance to his body.
Beyond the pale while skin, this red hole inside of his, an inch wide, serrated and
jagged, horrifying.
I stared at it, not knowing what to make out of it.
Was it a bullet hole?
It looked like it?
Was it a stab wound?
Anything was possible, but improbable because of one thing, there was no blood coming out
of the raw wound.
I jumped back at the conclusion, and immediately contained myself at the start of the door.
Barely focusing, nearly falling over, I was deathly afraid and cold, which was the perfect
time for the child to speak once again, his words ringing in my ear even now.
"You will be perfect."
Suddenly, this swarming, shifting feeling inside of me, my organs were bending and breaking,
everything being twisted in knots.
I felt to the ground in absolute fear, vomit appearing from my nose and mouth, but this
thickness surrounding the upper portion of my body.
Behind, the boy stands, somehow, watching me vomit and daze around in complete horror,
I do not see him but I hear him, walking all so slowly, his light-up sneaker clit-clat
on the hard floor and I sense his presence.
I turn around, feeling as if I'm about to cough up a frog, unable to breath (strangulation,
now that I look back, and from the bruises on my neck).
Behind me, the boy, clit-clatting pulls out the tiniest knife you'd ever see, and begins
to walk.
I believe I'm alive for one reason, and one reason only.
Just as the boy, knife in hand, walks towards me with aggression the door opened, the heat
reemerged, the strangulation ended, and the boy was sitting at the wheel chair again,
limp, dead, not bleeding.
The only different thing was me, lying on the ground, screaming in agony and terror,
as the head doctor stared.
"Mr. Lewis, what's the matter--" I didn't give him time to complete the sentence, I
started to run, faster than I ever have before.
I left my job early, and I'll probably get fired, but I don't care.
I don't think I'm ever going to go back to that hospital again, I can't, something is
wrong, that boy, that feeling, the bloodlessness, those words; "you will be perfect."
It's been 30 hours, and I am far too terrorized to sleep, I haven't left my home, to worried
of that boy, of what he was planning to do.
I am currently on the last of the alcohol that is in my house, something to calm my
nerves, but I doubt they'll ever be calm.
I just gotta pray, pray that whatever that was, it won't come for me.
But I'm not a fool, and as it said, I am perfect.
My name is Beck, and I work part time as a janitor at a (smallish) university as part
of a work study program.
While I'm definitely not going to miss having to mop up puke or clean toilets, there are
some parts of the job that I will miss when I graduate.
As someone with social anxiety being able to do my job without being required to wait
on someone or talk with customers is a major relief.
I also love being able to see the building in a whole different light when I work night
shifts.
While the university has a minimum of fifty different janitors on payroll at any given
time, there's usually about 15 of them that are willing to work night shifts, and only
5 of them (of which I am included) will work in Jackson Hall.
While the building isn't exactly hard to clean (in fact, since most classes are out by 5
the day crew gets most of the rooms clean by the time my shift starts) it makes up for
it in having the highest number of shit related emergencies.
In short, Jackson Hall has the worst plumbing on campus.
Apparently the plumbing hasn't been updated since they replaced the lead pipes sometime
in the 70s because it got too expensive after the building was listed as a historical site.
I've also heard rumors that they just really don't want to spend extra money on anything
not associated with athletics, but it's not really my business.
Despite it's reputation as clogged toilet central, a night where I have to break out
a plunger is fairly rare.
The actual suction per flush for the building is pretty weak, so most "clogs" can be fixed
by just taking the time to flush it again.
The issue is that most students won't spend an extra minute in the bathroom to do this,
which means that by the time I get to it, it's gotten stained to the point that I have
to actually find a toilet brush.
A couple of months ago I notified administration of the issue, and they gave me the OK to start
hanging signs in the bathrooms reminding students to check to see if the toilet actually flushed.
It seemed to work for about a week, at which point my signs disappeared and the toilet
issue got to the point where I was certain the day crew was fucking with me.
However they assured me that they clean the toilet right before they get off work.
This is where things get... interesting.
There are really only two classes in Jackson Hall that let out after 5pm, and neither of
them have enough students to leave shredded shit and toilet paper in every toilet in the
building, even if there were doing it on purpose.
The building actually locks down about an hour after the last class ends, so there is
no way someone could come in and fuck everything up unless they were hiding in a closet somewhere
and waiting for everyone to go home; especially considering that the day crew would wind up
in the exact same situation when the building was unlocked in the morning.
This wasn't an unheard of, which is why I decided the best course of action was to spend
the night in the bathrooms after I clocked out.
This turned out to be a horrible mistake.
I had started to doze off, and was awoken sometime around 3am by the toilet I was sitting
on shaking violently.
This particular toilet was actually broken, which was why I had chosen it as the spot
for my stakeout.
I had closed the lid before sitting down because while I was hoping that whatever frat was
behind the prank would leave the toilet that had been marinating in shit for well over
a week in favor of the others, I wasn't desensitized enough to actually sit on the rim.
I jumped out of the stall because I was terrified that the toilet was going to explode, but
instead the lid slowly lifted itself up.
I was astonished to see dozens of pairs of glowing eyes starring at me under the lid,
and even mores stunned when whatever was inside started making birdlike chirping noises.
I suddenly realized that I was in over my head when these chirps were answered by a
chorus of louder, deeper chirps coming from inside the other stalls.
I just managed to lock myself in the janitor's closet when they got to the door and started
slamming themselves against it.
I know that these things will have to give up sooner or later, mainly because none of
the day crew has ever seen one, and their shift starts in about two to three hours.
I'm just hoping that they won't figure out about the hole in the ceiling before then.
Hi.
I guess before I begin this story, I need to introduce myself.
My name is Chloe.
I live in the Southern United States.
I used to love Creepypastas and scaring myself.
I used to take joy in doing very risky things.
I need help.
I did something I should have never done.
I opened a door that I can never close.
I found a 'game' called 'Hide and Seek Alone'.
It's a simple ritual, I guess that is the true word for it, that lets a spirit inhabit
a doll.
Then you can play hide and seek with it.
I began researching how to do the ritual, and found the instructions.
I would tell you the instructions myself, but I want you to stay away from this thing.
Whatever you do, don't do this.
I used a doll that has some significance to me.
It's an American Girl doll from when I was about 9.
They're limbed dolls that cost over one hundred dollars.
I had named my doll Maria.
She had been my best friend through every crisis I had.
She and I used to be inseparable.
Keyword here is used to.
Since I had a TV in my room, it was no surprise that I decided I would hide in there.
I would use a knife, since I couldn't figure out anything else to use.
I began the game at 3 am by saying "Maria is the first it.
Maria is the first it.
Maria is the first it."
Then I went back to my hiding spot, turning on the TV and counting to ten.
Then I went back to Maria and stabbed her with the knife, telling her three times that
I was it.
The game only lasted about 10 minutes.
I got too scared, even though nothing happened.
No flashing on the TV, no doll wandering around.
So I took my salt water, then found Maria still in the bathtub.
I spat the salt water and poured the rest of the cup on it.
I said I win three times.
I took Maria out of the tub water, dried her off and put her on the doll bed my grandfather
gave her.
There was no point at the time to do as the ritual said – burn and discard the doll.
I mean, the spirit/doll hadn't even left the bathtub.
I doubted that the ritual even worked.
Oh, but it worked.
God, it worked…
And I was so stupid enough to not protect myself.
I turned off the TV and went to bed.
That was about 3:30 am.
I woke up startled at 5:30 am.
I was paralyzed in bed.
The TV was on.
It was… flashing weird colors.
Yellow, blue, red.
Blue, yellow, red.
Red, yellow, blue.
And it would repeat.
But sometimes, there was darkness.
And I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck come up.
I wanted to jerk the covers over my head.
Red.
I saw a shadow creeping up onto the bed.
Yellow.
I saw that blonde hair.
Blue.
Maria was on my bed.
I wanted to scream.
I…
I can't explain how I felt.
As I stared into her eyes, I felt there was a malice in them.
Like she was plotting to kill me.
For the first time in ten years, I prayed.
I prayed to anything and anyone who would listen.
But it didn't help.
I felt a searing pain in my left leg.
I screamed in agony.
Between my teary eyes, I couldn't see Maria on the bed.
But I saw the knife that was deeply embedded in my leg.
My mom came in, worried, as I laid there screaming.
I was happy for once to be living with my mother.
She pulled me straight of bed and took me to the hospital.
The knife had gone through my whole leg.
I almost died from losing so much blood.
The doctors and my mom kept asking me, begging me to know what happened.
All I could manage to say was 'Maria… doll… kill..' or something like that.
The doctors thought I was insane from blood loss or something.
No one believed me.
Mom had to convince them not to take me to the mental wing or something.
And here I am, in the hospital.
My left leg hurts nearly all the time.
My mom brought me a few things to keep happy and sane.
Or that's what she told herself she was doing.
She brought Maria.
When she brought that damned thing into the room, I started to cry.
They thought it was just because I had loved Maria so much…
Mom put Maria on the bed beside me.
I pushed Maria off.
Mom picked it up again and placed it back on the bed, not understanding the torment
it was causing me.
I just decided to let the thing that wanted to kill me sit beside me.
I had no choice.
Thankfully my mom also brought my laptop and gave me the hospital's internet.
Please help me.
I know that this might as well be the only place I can go in order to get the help I
need.
I'm lying here in the hospital bed, next to my would be murderer.
I need to rid myself of it.
I need it to die.
If an evil spirit can die.
How can I convince everyone that I'm NOT insane?
The doctors say that it is going to be a while before I can walk by myself.
I'm about to be given some sleep medication.
Doctors say I NEED to sleep.
I don't WANT to sleep.
I know if I sleep, Maria the doll will kill me.
Maybe she won't kill me here.
Maybe she'll wait until I'm home again.
That's my only hope for now.
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「難波八坂神社」で運気をアップ！ - Duration: 2:34.
Hello, this is Riyo Mori
Now I'm at Nambayasaka Shrine
located south of Namba
in downtown Osaka
There are shrines and temples in Japan
as 2 types of religions but
you know the difference between them?
From India
Places related to Buddism is "temple"
Ancient Japanese gods being enshrined
is "shrine"
"torii gate" is shrine's symbol
Now let's go
At shrine, we purify our mind
and body before praying
The water pours out automatically
I heard that there is something
very unique in this shrine
What on earth is it?
It seems an ordinary shrine
Wow, what's that?
To improve the luck
please come visit this shrine
won't you?
Well, good bye for now
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A ÚLTIMA LÁGRIMA - Giliard e Tamires - Duration: 5:28.
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[ENG SUB] [강남스타일] 방탄소년단 #스트릿패션 #스쿨룩 || BTS #StreetFashion #SchoolLook - Duration: 1:30.
-BTS's clothes are "Street Fashion" Style~
KN: Ah, street fashion
KN: Oh, did they film an ad?? They did film an ad
KN: This is BTS. So kind of like a freedom, a sense of freedom.
KN: Clothes that I usually wear have a similar feel (to BTS's clothes)
KN: Why are you laughing ?? Hey, who just laughed??!
KN: Oh stylist hyung..
KN: This one looks like a school uniform.
KN: Didnt they (BTS) start out with a school uniform concept on music shows? Right?? //Referring to Boy in Love era//
[BTS's '상남자' (Boy in Luv) from 2014] //A song that stole girls' hearts with its tough lyrics and school-look style~//
KN: Yeah, this is what they looked like when I first saw them, this school uniform feel.
KN: I thought they looked very cool wearing school uniforms~
KN: I think school uniforms suits this group well
KN: I still look a lot like a highschool student when I wear a school uniform, even though Im 31 (years old)
KN: Its seems like no one is believing me; I really like school uniforms
-Do you remember any style of school uniforms from Japan?? //Note: Kangnam was born in Tokyo, Japan, so thats why he would know these things ^^ //
KN: If there was someone with an unbuttoned shirt, I'd think that student was scary
KN: Also, students from other schools would start fights if you had your shirt unbuttoned, to see who was stronger
KN: That is why I always have my shirt buttoned //LOL stay safe kiddos, button your shirts//
KN: Ive never EVER unbuttoned my shirt.
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Clash Of Clans Remix | Angamaly Diaries Malayalam - Duration: 2:27.
This mango right
grind it with stone
then take out the mango seed
after that add salt and chilly, then eat
it is super
Friday Film House Presents Who bashed you?
those guys from palliyangadi
thats why we pick a stone from inside
oly then, there will be sparking
spark
Do...do nainaa Do nainaa parinde Bhar gayi udaa... Do...do naina...
Nainon me kwabom ke kashti ravaa Mushkil hua dil ko khaamosh rakhna Ke ab kya kare hum...bathaa... Do...do nainaa Do nainaa parinde keh
Do nainaa parinde kehte hai kya Do...do nainaa Inki naadaaniyom ki hai daastha Mushkil hua dil ko khaamosh rakhna Ke ab kya kare hum... bathaa Do..do nainaa Do nainaa parinthe Bhar gayi udaa...
even after we caused this much trouble in Angamali
is there, is there?
written by chemban vinod jose. However it won't be like the life we imagined from now on
beat him
we can solve this for 35,00,000 rupees 35 lakhs
this is business
we sell it for the price we receive profit
you sell for the price you like
what?
I am confident
we have many who can play
I have told you many times, not to come to me
we just need to eat few meat and lead a happy life and go on like this
just carry on like this
du dunaina du na na parinta
ishkarawa
du dunana
Thank You for Watching - Trendz Gamer
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Angel Egg and the Dust - Duration: 5:21.
"I will wipe from the earth man whom I have created
man and beast, crawling creature and bird of the air as well
for I regret that I made them
I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights
and I will wipe from the ground every living thing I have made
and after seven days I will cause the waters of the flood to fall on the earth."
and afther seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
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ONE WAY (Pocket Film - Prix du public) - Duration: 4:00.ONE WAY
Hey Antony!
What?! It's an ice ball and you didn't even react!
Wait for me!
Antony!
Hey! How are you doing?
Yeah... But!
But?!
Nevermind.. it's not important
Okay then!
Did you work on the physic project?
Arh! I have a terrible headache
You seem okay
My nose hurts so bad!
Ehhh Antony!
What?
Your nose!!!
I'll go the the washroom to clean this out..
Are you sure you'll be okay?
Yeah! Thanks a lot
Okay! I have to do my chemistry homework. See you later!
Bye
The day started well..
Hey! Would you give me the anwsers to the chemistry homework?
Yeah sure!
Thanks
Yo Eric
Hey wait!
Were going in wich class?
Move over!
Oh shit! Are you okay man!
What just happen?
I don't know
Julian just hit him with the door..!
Okay Antony. You just woke up, you've been inconsius for a few hours!
Were doing a little brain scan.
Lay on you're back and don't move
We have good news, you're brain scan is normal. The only thing i can find is a broken nose!
I don't know how to explain it. I feel the pain before any accident..!
With the results and what you're saying.
I honestly think you should see a psychologist.
So if
You're living with sort of an offset in your life..?
Exactly
and the more time passes, the more the offset is intense!
Listen Antony, I feel like this situation is making you anxious..
I suggest that we could have a psycological meeting next week.
To talk more about your situation.
Is it okay for you?
Okay.. thanks
I don't know why i'm still talking to you..
You only wan't some attention
You're so stupid
Maniac
William
What do you wan't?!
Hello!?!
Antony!?
ONE WAY
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Pierre-Yves McSween et Dominique Anglade sur les primes des hauts dirigeants de Bombardier à TLMEP - Duration: 17:21.
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Ariane Moffatt enceinte parle de son nouvel album ''Le petit spectacle'' à TLMEP - Duration: 16:46.
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Clash Of Clans Remix | Angamaly Diaries Malayalam - Duration: 2:27.This mango right
grind it with stone
then take out the mango seed
after that add salt and chilly, then eat
it is super
Friday Film House Presents Who bashed you?
those guys from palliyangadi
thats why we pick a stone from inside
oly then, there will be sparking
spark
Do...do nainaa Do nainaa parinde Bhar gayi udaa... Do...do naina...
Nainon me kwabom ke kashti ravaa Mushkil hua dil ko khaamosh rakhna Ke ab kya kare hum...bathaa... Do...do nainaa Do nainaa parinde keh
Do nainaa parinde kehte hai kya Do...do nainaa Inki naadaaniyom ki hai daastha Mushkil hua dil ko khaamosh rakhna Ke ab kya kare hum... bathaa Do..do nainaa Do nainaa parinthe Bhar gayi udaa...
even after we caused this much trouble in Angamali
is there, is there?
written by chemban vinod jose. However it won't be like the life we imagined from now on
beat him
we can solve this for 35,00,000 rupees 35 lakhs
this is business
we sell it for the price we receive profit
you sell for the price you like
what?
I am confident
we have many who can play
I have told you many times, not to come to me
we just need to eat few meat and lead a happy life and go on like this
just carry on like this
du dunaina du na na parinta
ishkarawa
du dunana
Thank You for Watching - Trendz Gamer
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Angel Egg and the Dust - Duration: 5:21."I will wipe from the earth man whom I have created
man and beast, crawling creature and bird of the air as well
for I regret that I made them
I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights
and I will wipe from the ground every living thing I have made
and after seven days I will cause the waters of the flood to fall on the earth."
and afther seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
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Does DNA influence our Character? | Demetra Jiova - #AskDemetra Series(5B) - Duration: 4:57.
That's a very vast area of science and
there's been so many, you know, different
ideas and different experiments. What I
know and what I've learned from the
recently experiments that are done
-actually mostly in Russia- is that yes,
there is a part of DNA actually
almost ten percent of it, that's so far
we knew, cares all the genes that, you know,
have all the information to create a
physical body and in there we have the
genes about specific diseases or
specific, you know, ways of reaction and
some people thought even patterns of
character. Now the new idea is the ninety
percent of DNA, that for many-many
years we consider it to be junk,
literally, I know it's funny but that
is actually a scientific term. Scientists
have named that ninety percent of DNA,
"Junk DNA", because they thought it does
nothing.
Recent research shows that, that is not
absolutely true, but we know for a fact
that, that ninety percent plays a huge
role, and many-many people when they
combine science, they combine the new
research and DNA and they combine what we
call spirituality, they truly believe
and they actually, you know, refer to this
idea of Akashic records, so what are the
Akashic records? Supposedly if we believe
the fact that the soul comes and you
know, reincarnates and whenever one dies
and death is just another way of,
you know, passing through one experience to
another experience and we also actually
agree with the new indications that
there is this thing that we call past
lives, future lives and also the fact that
all of them, probably are happening
simultaneously, because we know
Quantum physic-ally that time is not linear in
the above dimensions and some people
are going to say: dimensions and linearity what are you
talking about?
Let's just say that scientifically, Quantum
Physic-ally we do know that in this
creation: All That Is as I call it, we
already know there are eleven dimensions,
right? The equations solved that. We
experience only four of them, as you know,
human beings. What we call "reality", what
we experienced as human beings
as our environment around us,
right now: the table, you talking to me,
the sunlight coming through the windows
and all this experience or everything
I do, say, or you feel,
we call that our human experience,
scientifically that is called fourth
dimension, right? Because, just to give one
small, you know, piece of information,
scientifically it means: the three
dimensions of space -that's why many
times we go to the movies and we see 3D
movies, right? So it includes that idea of
three dimensions of space plus time,
because every one of us experience our
life with the passing of time, right now
you understood that a second ago you
asked me something and now it's a second
later, so you realize that you
perceive your life as past-present and future.
That's called: "linearity of time", now
scientifically without going too deep
right now at this moment, we do know in
the above dimensions that exist, that we
know exist but we don't have a, you know,
experimental sensation of it, we do know
in those above dimensions from the fifth
dimension and above, time is not linear.
Someone might say, what does that mean? It means, somehow which is hard
for our brain to grasp, time is always "Now",
so you experience the past, the present
and the future in a sense: Now. And that's a
huge discussion here that we can
actually enter very soon, but let's put
that out because I really want to go
back to the initial question of DNA, so
in a sense people believe there are parts of
DNA that actually pass through your
parents and your ancestors some
biological traits and in there sometimes
they might affect your experience or
your mood, for example if I am in pain, I'm going
to be a little bit, you know, cranky. That
is not really my character though, even
though it seems to affect how I react
it's not really my character. My
character, my personality is the
combination of those convictions we were
talking about, is actually the EGO and in
that sense,
the EGO is not connected with the DNA.
So if your parents are in a certain way
and most of us have heard the idea: Oh,
you look like your father or you act like your
father or you act like your mother, all that..
That's really not true, that's actually
another conviction: If you believe, because
your father and mother were a certain way,
you are going to be a certain way, yes then you
are going to act that way
but not because it was
in your DNA, it's because you believe it
and then we go back into that idea of: If I believe it,
then the universe will prove me right
et cetera, et cetera. So it's a vast subject
here..., right?
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