Modern Marvels: The Real National Treasure – Full Episode (S16, E18) | History
Modern Marvels: The Real National Treasure – Full Episode (S16, E18) | History
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Where in Washington D.C. is the nation’s most incredible treasure chest? It’s a library unlike any other in the world–the U.S. Library of Congress, in Season 16, Episode 18, “The Real National Treasure”. #ModernMarvels
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I just wish history would go back to these type of shows to play. No it’s just dumb reality shows
The lying samurai counterintuitively weigh because event mainly knock on a bizarre mist. late, enormous stitch
Well this is just a waste of time and money.. honestly who cares about a mans diary ? We got miillions of homeless, drug addicted, and starving ppl..
So you’re telling me they take care of movies better than the moon landing data…..wtf
Love my LOC, Retired from there.
I never knew US government was horders
How did they seriously not mention the Waldseemüller map?!? It’s the most important map in the collection!
3:41 why is this hilarious? Is he daring someone to steal
But how long for cds?
that torch is fire!
Stratovarius was witchcraft. His family was from a long line of cult practice.
I don’t think of the Smithsonian as a museum…they choose what goes in and not what’s actually factually available.
At 16:43, do you think they made her cover her mouth with the book or maybe she did it herself? Looks like she’s missing both fronts up top. That’s a shame.
A member of the New England delegation was unaware of who Thomas Jefferson was? Could that possibly be true?
What a beautiful waste of money we all paying for that
I thought this was a minecraft build 😂😂😂
They have a Holy Bible, rewritten by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson thought that God needed help explaining who our masters are.
Another book, called Morals and Dogma. But that book isnt recommended reading for the common citizen. Lucifer was so misunderstood.
Just use stone tablets again
what’s most cringey is the lack of use of gloves. Our hands carry so many bacteria, oils, etc that damage a book. It’s horrifying knowing these limited volumes are being handled by people who are not taking any preventative measures at all to the aging process. I’d be ecstatic if the originals were remastered in original forms for public consumption. More hands could reach them and be preserving the original for future generations. That would be the intelligible approach, but I could be mistaken.
I watch this to go to bed
15:15 … RIP James Hadley Billington
America was the first in powered flight…which makes me very proud of my once great country…
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Imagine if just one book gets miss-filed. It might never be found….
Cool I guess but when I think of my debt and the countries debt it seems like a good place to trim some fat
Why don’t we talk about a real subject that is the greatest thing in the World. Why aren’t we talking about God the Eternal Father and his existence throughout time. Well lets hear about your experience. Has ANYONE EVER HAD A EXPERIENCE with God the Eternal Father or Savior Jesus Christ since throughout their life??? I don’t understand why more people don’t talk about him or his value in their lives. Very few women and men have seen or felt the presense or image of the Heavenly Father or Savior in our lives soo WHY IS THAT???
Really and u lost all the coverage of the moon landing lol. Nice
A giant Jukebox that retrieves tapes for playback…there had to have been a better way to do that, even back in 2009. Just digitize them and store them as video files. Seems simple but i know it’s a daunting task and the storage back then would not have been cheap
Do a video about the people who clean the building.
This was fantastic to watch.
How long before a good majority of that stuff is locked away forever, since little by little they’re trying to erase our history.
By far my favorite episode as it provides us with a detailed description of where we can inquire as to the who, what, where, how, and when of just about everything we wish to learn about.
Rescuing the United States culture, well… you’d better hurry
When I was a todler I scribbled on a picture that my dad submitted to congress. He always told his friends I’m the youngest person to have my writings in the library of congress 🙂
Did you put cassettes on dvd?
Put hunter bidens laptop here so it doesnt get lost
Very informative
Watching this is 2022. Please don’t preserve twitter. Some thing should die.
Absolutely amazing. I hope to go there someday
I hope my name and picture never gets put into the Library of Congress
Digitized
2:21
Where do they keep Joe Bidens brain that died in 2014.
Hollywood has no place in American History! Hollywood is "FAKE"! Why should that be part of American History? They are actors and not elected from Americans!!! Wake UP! (They are "Playing a Roll!)
Wonderful documentary.
It’s fun to remember a time when CDs were peak technology
Treasure indeed. Imagine if the library of Alexandria could have been saved.
One of the things on my bucket list is to spend a few days exploring the Library of Congress. In my next life, I want to be the librarian of Congress.
What a beautiful Masterpiece of architecture. I wish I had visited it back on my last trip to DC
You’d think they’d have run out of storage room a long time ago…