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a man whose ideas changed the world but also divided it. will event is he today and what influence does he have on politics and general culture. on the two hundredth anniversary of his birth the documentary marks and his ears do w. . bush. still have you on board again some fantastic photos to the list as this has what's coming up that today so. colorful a british artist gives a black and white photos in uganda. listen to this in a dining out in the spanish capital madrid.
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arms classical as ukrainian losers and placed on the sex assault. we could us today so with that back in time and the past photos were only in black and white spots jordan law it's images brings some added to it as i said to them as in color to black and white photos has been around for a long time but with today's technology the british photographer can add a new level of realism is that his book the paper machine coloring the past is the perfect truth. the eiffel tower wasn't always grey when it was completed one hundred thirty years ago it was an elegant phoenician read. this nine hundred forty s. black and white snapshot really comes alive with a splash of color and it shows us so just by the taj mahal. under specter of perhaps the most famous native american sitting bull is now available in color.
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these old photos have had color added to them retroactively. the person behind the digital reconstruction is thirty four year old jordan lloyd a british photographer and history fan. for many people his history is a very black and white it's an abstract concept that you only learn about in school through these sort of books and things like that but all of a sudden when you see something in color you can relate to it a lot more. this photo archive in the british county of kent is one of jordan sources of inspiration it contains an estimated five million black and white photos gleaned across global history it's a real treasure trove for jordan. only three original print exists for most of the photos and for some there's only a negative. once jordan chooses an interesting picture to work on he has it digitized by the archive this photo from one nine hundred fifty three years of
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nelson's column a landmark in london's famous trafalgar square. good images hard lots of recognize. elements so when we're looking at things like buildings and especially when we're looking at older cities like london berlin so forth a lot of these older buildings still remain in some form or they might to be made of the same material the same story in the same brick and so a lot of those elements can be identified again looking at color photography of the time or even paintings and actually then just matching it up. sometimes he also has a stroke of luck this bus for instance is a successful model to the bus in the photo and counters like this help him piece together the evidence whenever possible jordan likes to gauge the original setting he sure this photo must have been taken here sixty five years ago directly on trafalgar square. finding the right location also helps in recreate the colors.
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you can usually look at the original photograph and look at the weather conditions and think ok it's a similar weather condition to where this photo was taken and i'll be looking at things like shadows or be looking at the time of day and this is really helpful when i'm on location because when i get the exact view i can usually tell what time of day it is as well so in this particular project offer what's really interesting is that it's taken at midday but in the fog in the small in the pollution is so much that it appears like it's night time. now jordan has to piece the puzzle together with the help of many reference photos he uses them to make his digital palette. colorization is painstaking one of the trickier pictures can take him several weeks. there are more than eight hundred different layers of color in this photo we'll then. when you looking
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at the reference images the red in the reference image that you might have might not necessarily be the exact same shade of red because you you you put it in and then it doesn't quite look doesn't look quite right with the atmosphere in the background and so therefore you have to then change that shade of red or whatever it needs to be just as the background atmosphere or you might have lighting or something that changes the color because you know color often changes with materials with lighting conditions and so forth jordan has come a rise several hundred shows has its customers include private individuals publishers and museums as well as music labels he's also released a book containing many of his photos replicating the colors exactly the way they were back then is almost impossible even for him. when you're looking at any photograph. and you don't know anything about
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a point everything is guesswork and the whole point of doing this really deep or very befall to call historical research is you want to try and eliminate as much of the guesswork possible and so a good goal for me is if i think i can identify more than ninety percent of the things in that particular photograph or i think i've got it right then it's good enough. george of lloyd isn't trying to rewrite history but to expand upon it with his work he hopes to bring the stories behind the photos back to life. always stay in the past and next forward because my colleague meghan they also made it back in time she went to the words of allegedly oldest rest and there's a prenup the book team is ok didn't the status kept the time i did it it opened and seventeen twenty five tastes changed a lot over the decade so how could
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a restaurant survive for so many years met i went to find out what's so special about it. madrid's famous person my or squares almost four hundred years old it bore witness to bull fights and trials during the spanish inquisition now though it serves as a popular gathering place so i'm standing on madrid central square plus on my you are now this place is bustling with activity it's filled with restaurants and cafes and souvenirs it's. has been redefined in the around some by your many of the corridors and cobblestone streets also date back centuries there are hidden gems lurking around every corner the only one holds a very special title. so here we are at the oldest restaurant in the world do you know the team that means the nephew fourteen in spanish and the teens were the original owners of this establishment which at first were. and in it was
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a french couple who started it so let's go inside and see what we discover. the gonzalez family took over the restaurant in the one nine hundred thirty s. now in its third generation antonio gonzales is the managing director family tradition here is keep the decor of the restaurant reflects both the present owners personal touch as well as the original style. in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the guinness book of world records designated bo teen the oldest restaurant in the world for very specific reasons the group is that they must be given the same name. working at the same place i stopped working since the beginning we are completely in. the restaurant opens daily at one pm but before that the staff are busy making all the preparations for the lunch crowds fourteen is famous for its traditional spanish dishes. and the rare but if. so tell me
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about the specialty of this house we've been. specialty of the house as roast suckling pig. it's just what you need to a very traditional dish and we prepare it in this oven so this is a very special look and because it dates back to the seventeen twenty five it's an original we all are growing in. the style of. one floor below the kitchen antonio tells me that this dining room is even older than the restaurant dating back to fifteen eighty it leads down to a cave which boasts a long history the one you hear is for display only since the room produces too much more share. these. words are used maybe but since we are talking time center for the phrase the bridge from the sun to do you think old buildings and they see the old see through madrid the first. arriving in our structure when others are back. stairs it's time for lunch traditional roast second
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pig is of course on the menu surviving long time each having your son sheds after forty years of protein he's also become a permanent fixture here he tells me one suckling pig can serve up to five people. one particular guest used to eat here quite regularly and that is the american writer ernest hemingway in fact he like this restaurant so much that he wrote about it in this book the sun also rises and also one of the other books death in the afternoon and tony what do you know about hemingway's time here she was ready for me to her to roast beef rolled up home here in between you going to try to produce one was. no good results then my grandfather told him they're still keeping bright you could buy you know myself. i have to read this famous passage from the second to last page of hemingway's book because he mentions
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exactly this dish he says we lunched upstairs. is one of the best restaurants in the world we had roast young suckling pig and we drink we go. so in the spirit i guess it's time to raise our glasses and say salute and to the next few hundred years of business. so if you think about the saxophone you think about zest music right in the eighty's most of the songs that accompanied by the instruments in today's music it's not used that all but now it's a lender's young lady wants to put that instrument back in the spotlight a c.s. had to give up combines the saxophone was clever pick a music success even long and classic in twenty sixteen the biggest goal is to establish the saxophone as a solo instrument and the concert hall. she has everything
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a young classical music star needs sensational tell. her. instrument she's mastered like almost no one. except. this is a prime sex if it's definitely a real saxophone a soprano i don't shock should invented of course the tenor sax which everyone knows from jazz then there's the baritone the bass a d. from the contribution saxophone you need to stand on the chance to play that one. vocal was born in crimea was rediscovered the classical saxophone. the instrument was invented in the nineteenth century for romantic music and military. her brother gave it to her as a present she was chang but she never dream of using it to.
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the side to be playing the piano for four years lovely classical pieces by beethoven and bach and i really like the music i got the saxophone when i was ten and it was more in my x. than felt more natural i loved all the sound was made it's there is soon if you blow hard and you feel that when you question though it seems much closer to the human voice when does funny show. feelingly and mention his team it. was or was already at the top of her game by the age of twenty seven performing all over the world she started in moscow cars and amber and was living out her parents' training they wanted to become use it even her father a football player but their dreams were stymied by the up peoples in their home country ukraine. i think we came here in two thousand and four cheering the orange revolution it was so unsettled hawkers my parents decided to leave for the future
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of me and my sister that germany is a great country especially for music my parents couldn't study all make music and i wanted to study it but there were no music schools in my city what is the best so they had to give up and start on the music should is about it so you can see our friends. here at the end of the morning in hamburg she performs pieces by the georgian composer gear country. it's the instruments rich versatility that really fascinates or. classic classical music is so precise the sound must be focused and beautiful so you could compare it to the violin rapid bowing on the violin with rapid air flow on the sax. with jazz.
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just angeles jazz it's a different feeling you're always laidback you come in a bit later that i remembered then but if you tried at home it's a little like opera singing where you have to have clean classical tone and this is a moment you see. yourself as. soon as always testing for different elements or projects combine classical up with chavez and improvisation with classical goes back to the beginnings of music and delves into the works of your hands of oxygen. she thinks you did love the saxophone. it's out of balance but is so universal that his music does you could also from a technical point of view finding the sounds enjoy in
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a state improving your musicality and getting into the flow of investment i think you become a better person when you play but it's in the city now. in twenty sixteen house if i tell you vote was given germany's major classical music award the echo classic turkish and. right now she's performing over germany and we can expect to see and hear much more from her. spring is in full swing now here in the in perth said whether to go by bike to the office that's healthy and also good for the environment however for many people cycling is lots more than just getting someone to be a bicycle has become a lifestyle project you can see lots of different bikes on the streets but and today's hostile we show you some of the more i can.
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find bicycles for europe which are guaranteed to make you look twice. the spike is totally new even if at first glance it looks like its predecessors from the nineteenth century but these here modern reconstructions are number five the standard high wheel sweden's pair all of people builds and sells the penny farthings which cost one thousand five hundred euros upwards and all the most practical vehicles are getting on and off is a challenge. with a little practice you can fold this bike up in under ten seconds its inventor says it's the most compact folding bike in the world it weighs just eight kilos and it's number four on our list it can be stored and transported practically anywhere on the seat is attached to the handlebar stem so you ride in a standing position. on. this
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bike doesn't have any saddle of told to harm by it requires full physical effort since you steer it by shifting your weight. goes to this balance challenge on two wheels want to get the hang of it and by compazine incredible maneuverability. the name half by comes from the fact that it's ball gary an inventor started off by cutting a bike. bed bike to transport tourists in cozy comfort to all the most important. tractions in the german capital and it's number two on our list of unusual bikes and how a long trip costs forty five euros. a spy kids see the benefits are boring but gets you from a to b. much faster below beefy times an electric motor powered by a treadmill which means that even a naturally walking pace will send you sailing past other cyclists but no keep
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a child's hand brakes but just standing still on the treadmill will also bring it to a gradual stop. number one bicycle maybe in europe but sure to turn heads. want to know more about european lifestyle and culture visit euro max on facebook. you'll find highlights from our programs. three hundred sixty degree videos of the most beautiful places in europe and snapshots taken by our reporters take an exclusive look behind the scenes at how the program is produced and follow us on facebook live. we love it when fans visit our facebook page and give us their feedback visit d.w. euro max on facebook.
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in our current series rio visiting the ten most popular lent lives in europe according to instagram and you can also find out more about them on our instagram account in the meantime we've already reached face the close to roam the world famous and see theater dates back to the year eighty a.d. today it's a must see wearing when you visit the ten caps or row. in ancient times the colosseum in rome was the world's biggest amphitheater with seating for fifty thousand dictators through its eighty entrances they could all reach their feet within fifteen minutes local residents the channel pitney news website gives detailed information on admission fees on special events. it's not what order started for instance all through the summer after dinner it
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will open four times a month for a special nighttime tour called the moon over the coliseum. and it'll be really wonderful and impressive because it will be a little. more of a just feel. the interior is just as impressive the arena is a vast oval the emperor and senators sat down below and the ordinary citizens up above animals and prisoners were kept in the hype machine and the underground system of tunnels the oval form was intended to keep the fighters and animals from ensconcing themselves in corners every free citizen of rome had free admission to the coliseum which helped make the bloodthirsty games even more popular. rome still has its gladiators and centurions performers in costume for tourists to grab the ability or much your part and you know the majority of gladiators who
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didn't achieve fame and glory in the games that were held here met their deaths in this place while some were killed by wild animals like lions. it was but you have another fact that's been handed down to the moment in the first months after the opening of the flavian at the theater as it was called them over fifteen hundred animals died and it would mean the chimp was shot by anybody to come to see him stands near the roman forum in ancient. the hub of the capital social life the arch of constantine is right next door. for rome itself the coliseum is far more than just a tourist attraction. when the city of rome celebrates the anniversary of its founding on april the twenty first. a procession of romans in costume party heads from the circus maximus to the coliseum. of course so it represents both modern and ancient rome and. about six
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million people visit this landmark every year. i think it's a lot larger than i expected it really is the gem of the city this kind of buildings is very impressive if you mention the time that they build it in. this is my first time in this magnificent eternal city though i love europe in general and italy in particular. many euro max viewers have also been to the colosseum and sent in their souvenir photos. on the north of souvenirs of blooming. they're a little ahead gladiator. models of the building. times pictures to hang on the wall. in a cafe nearby. the latest batch of inquiries.
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during spring and summer around one to one and a half hours and people contact me daily. so i have a lot to do with all these inquiries coming in by e-mail. because. science knows i've also got a facebook page where even more people write it. i mean there's a facebook about your part to deliver all day most talk about admissions going to me and how to get student old group tickets and organize their trips just you need a rest with a rope. even nowadays the coliseum serves as a model for a renos the world over but that can only ever be won a region. and that can also be just one overage in a tell all but a minute of it could be yours because we're giving away this many this and here
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