Map tracing Dr. David Livingstone’s route from Victoria Falls to Luanda in present-day Angola, then from Luanda to Quelimane, Mozambique facing the Indian Ocean. In dramatization, Dr. David Livingstone writes a letter.
American youth chant and hold Anti-Trump signs while marching along Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, New York City the day after Donald Trump is elected as the President of the United States in 2016. A young man leads the chanting and the march. Protesters chant “Donald Trump, go away! Racist! Sexist! Anti-Gay!” and “We reject the president elect!”, ‘WE ARE THE POPULAR VOTE!” and ”TELL ME WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE? THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE”. Protesters hold various signs such as LGBT symbols and Anti-Trump messages that read “Not my president”, “pussy grabs back”, “My vote matters”, “Love trumps hate”, “I REJECT TRUMP”, and “For every human being, FIGHT the HATE”.
Animated map showing Burma Road, a road linking Yunnan, China to Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). Aerial view of the Burma Road. Part of the Burma Road on hillside. Chinese laborers clear away rocks. Laborers use pickaxes for digging rocks. Laborers working on Burma road use sledgehammer to chip away rocks. Chinese laborers’ children smash small stones while playing nearby. Chinese laborers working on Burma Road in mountain slope. Film narration by Ronald Reagan (future United States president).
View of Apollo astronaut (probably Gene Cernan) bunny hopping on the moon while Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Harrison Schmitt sings a few bars of "The Fountain in the Park" but with alternate words "I Was Strolling on the Moon One Day" as Gene Cernan joins in. On April 23, 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke approach a house rock at the edge of North Ray crater. Charlie Duke exclaims, "Look at the size of that rock!" Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt holds a moon rock while Gene Cernan says, “We hope that this will be a symbol of what our feelings are, what the feelings of the Apollo Program are, and a symbol of mankind; that we can live in peace and harmony in the future.” Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard and Ed Mitchell setting up the United States flag on the moon. View of the earth from space, on the the moon, as astronaut Harrison Schmitt comments, "This glow represented to all of us, I think, not only home but a very fragile place that we have come back and felt that needed not only protection but understanding"
Funeral of the heir presumptive of the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War 1. Arriving in Trieste (now in present-day Italy), Roman Catholic priests bless coffins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin, the Duchess of Hohenburg. Austrian officers observe as priests fling holy water onto couple’s coffins. Austrian guards unload a coffin from a funeral horse-drawn carriage. Austrian guards of the 7th Uhlans and 4th Dragoons march alongside funeral carriages of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Countess Sophie in Vienna, to be buried in their family crypt at Artstetten Castle in Artstetten-Pöbring, Lower Austria. Brief shot of Franz Joseph I of Austria.
A nuclear missile launches likely at the Semipalatinsk Test Site (present day Kazakhstan) in the Soviet Union. A nuclear missile takes off, launching vertically upwards to the sky.
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