Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:—
“I am great OZYMANDIAS,” saith the stone,
“The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
“The wonders of my hand.”— The City’s gone,—
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro’ the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
-Horace Smith’s Ozymandias
CORRECTIONS
7:33 – World Population figure should be 0.27%
8:08 – Digital Voice Recorder should be Sony PCM
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BOOKS
A Brief History Of Diaries by Alexandra Johnson
http://goo.gl/gEaxcQ
Documenting Individual Identity by Caplan and Torpey
http://goo.gl/1e68Wi
LINKS
Humai – Human Resurrection Through AI
http://humaitech.com
Christopher Columbus XX
http://www.thepanamadigest.com/2010/03/christopher-columbus-in-panama-for-tourism-project/
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15283071
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-09/local/me-191_1_christopher-columbus
http://www.ejercito.mde.es/gl/unidades/Toledo/acinf/Noticias/2014/140318.html
Cylinder Seals In Mesopotamia
http://goo.gl/0Ly7oH
http://goo.gl/f3j1zx
http://goo.gl/ztFP7I
http://goo.gl/8Ewf88
http://goo.gl/ylVr2D
Cylinder Seal of Ibni-Sharrum by Denis Pitzsalis
https://goo.gl/hyBqIF
Social Group Size Predicts the Evolution Of Identity
http://goo.gl/yzSdMq
Seikilos Epitaph Performed by Marcus Harvey
https://goo.gl/A7QQiT
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
https://goo.gl/c3jRLG
Literacy – Our World In Data
http://goo.gl/isb4A6
Probate Records
https://goo.gl/FDhT4I
Diaries
http://goo.gl/V09l6
Venus Tan-Tan & Berekhat Ram
http://goo.gl/u0rt7
Paul Revere Probate Record
http://goo.gl/97z89K
Alexander Graham Bell’s Ear Phonautograph
http://goo.gl/jAHFHb
http://goo.gl/xghDYu
Luca Landucci
https://goo.gl/hTnI0l
On The Execution Of Friar Girolamo Savonarola
http://goo.gl/WHq8um
Marcus Aurelius – The Meditations
http://goo.gl/7aQs6
American Indian Oral Tradition Painting
Buffalo Bill Center of the West / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY
The Republic Of Letters
http://goo.gl/jPidq
http://goo.gl/M39odJ
Library Of Congress
https://goo.gl/xgRHHV
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Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber
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Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media
VFX by Eric Langlay
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Additional Animation by Lulu Jiang
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Production Assistant Michael Watson
Tweets by MichaelDWatson1
Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi and Jared Tuttle
http://jaypellizzi.com/
Outro Song: Block Out The Sun by Paul Russel
Special Thanks To Ryan Bond, Noah Tesch, Kathleen Kuiper And The Folks At Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/
Special Thanks To The Morgan Library & Museum
http://www.themorgan.org/
Special Thanks To Chris From Zanzibar Land For Creating The Vsauce Cylinder Seal
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Special Thanks To Expert Mesopotamia Joshua J. Mark
http://www.ancient.eu/user/JPryst/
Special Thanks To You.