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百年之前，一系列的连锁巨变摧毁了多数的地球文明，将世界带入了无尽的黑暗时期。剩余的幸存者试图回到过去改变引起这一切毁灭事件的进程。。立志当人类历史上第一位宇航员的丹•米尔顿•普雷斯科特（比尔•艾德华斯 Bill Edwards 饰）驾驶代号Y-12的宇宙飞船前往太空，在进入外太空的一刹那，他因为过于兴奋而忽略了总部的命令，最终导致飞船失控。飞船坠入大气层，与总部失去联系。不久，国防部的人找到飞船残骸，而惹出祸端的丹却在女友处潇洒快活。 丹的特立独行给国防部高层留下极深的印象，他们顶住各方压力，仍然决定派遣丹驾驶Y-13再次前往太空。当达到600’000尺的高度时，丹的老毛病再次复发。他不顾总部的命令，直线冲入外太空。结果飞船失控，受到宇宙粉尘袭击，最终爆炸。国防部找到飞船遗骸，却未见到丹的身影。随后不久，一个恐怖嗜血的生物开始在城市中出没……。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）。
