英国BBC电视台耗时5年制作的纪录片《冰冻地球》于近期推出。这部耗资巨大的纪录片用镜头真实的展现了正在逐渐溶解的地球两极,以及生活在这里的各种生物,片中种种景象让人叹为观止。
纪录片的解说员大卫·艾登堡爵士称,这可能是人类在地球气候产生剧烈变化前欣赏到这一景象的最后的机会了。现年85岁的艾登堡爵士说,“这部纪录片捕捉了此前从未记录下来的很多行为和现象。随着时间的流逝,这些影像将会变得越来越珍贵,因为这很可能是我们最后的机会去记录下这些珍贵的场景。虽然在我们到达前的数百年甚至几千年前,地球两极的景象非常壮观,但是最近一个世纪以来,很多变化已经超过了人们的认识。”。Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.。