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Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。Pink Kiss Natural Kiss。1959年7月的某一天，当时的外国新闻社发出了“中国一列火车在洪水中失踪”的报道？！ 可见此事的轰动程度，这究竟是怎么回事呢？出事的是沈阳开往北京的12次列车，不过它并没有消失，而是被洪水困住了！而且是前不着村后不着店地被困在了一座大桥上，一半在桥上一半在陆地上，情况十分危急！那时候车上有七百多名旅客，还有苏联外宾，怎么办？车上负责的司乘人员是一群年轻的姑娘，平均年龄21岁，最大的张敏媛也才22岁，他们大胆决定：退回沈阳，可是列车因为断电已经与上级和调度失去了联系！好在还有一位特殊的旅客作曲家李劫夫也在车上，铁路上有规定，列车长得向首长汇报。发生事以后想到首长了，李劫夫说你们要沉着，你们这么做对。就这样，列车及时后退了，列车刚刚从桥上退到陆地，刚退出五分钟，大桥就哗啦一下掉了，整个桥墩子和火车钢轨都被冲走了……这才是危险的刚刚开始，大雨在继续，洪水在上涨，沿途都是灾民，列车如何克服困难重回沈阳？。
