Buzkashi is described at length in Episode 2, " The Harvest of the Seasons ", of the documentary The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski.

"( Bronowski, 1973, The Ascent of Man, p. 360 )

* Jacob Bronowski – The Ascent of Man

* Jacob Bronowski – The Ascent of Man

The Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first transmitted in 1973, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski.

The book of the series, The Ascent of Man: A Personal View, is an almost word-for-word transcript from the television episodes, diverging from Bronowski's original narration only where the lack of images might make its meaning unclear.

The Ascent of Man was originally broadcast on BBC in 1974.

Charlie Brooker praises Bronowski and The Ascent of Man on his BBC Four programme, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.

* Book review of Ascent of Man

* The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski-review ( 15 April 2011 )

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He is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book.

" However Bronowski is best remembered for his thirteen part series The Ascent of Man ( 1973 ), a documentary about the history of human beings through scientific endeavour.

During the making of The Ascent of Man, Bronowski was interviewed by the popular British chat show host Michael Parkinson.

In 1973 the physicist Jacob Bronowski produced The Ascent of Man, which summarised a magnificent thirteen part BBC television series about all the ways in which humans have moulded the Earth and its future.

1973 The Ascent of Man, BBC Publications, London

During the course of the series Attenborough, following the format established by Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man ( both series which he designed and produced as director of BBC2 ), travels the globe in order to trace the story of the evolution of life on the planet.

On August 14, 1997, Kesey appeared with the Merry Pranksters at a Phish concert during a performance of the song " Colonel Forbin's Ascent " from the album The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday.

The different remit of BBC2 allowed its first controller, Sir David Attenborough to commission the first heavyweight documentaries and documentary series such as Civilisation, The Ascent of Man and Horizon.

Watts Towers were highlighted in the 1973 television series, The Ascent of Man and shown in the episode, The Grain in the Stone – Tools, and the development of architecture and sculpture.

The term goes back to Henry Drummond, a 19th century evangelist lecturer, from his Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man.

* Henry Drummond, The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man, Glasgow: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904 ( Chapter 10, containing the relevant text ).

* Jacob Bronowski from " The Ascent Of Man "

It had been his intention to reserve them for mature revision, but an attempted piracy compelled him to hasten their publication, and they appeared in 1894 under the title of The Ascent of Man.

Also Stafford was at this time publishing material about the history and mythology of Glorantha in non-game form as books such as King of Sartar and The Glorious ( Re ) Ascent of Yelm.

One book commonly read during Great Lent, particularly by monastics, is The Ladder of Divine Ascent, which was written in about the seventh century by St. John of the Ladder when he was the Hegumen ( Abbot ) of St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.

However, Liberty was not interested in sports ownership at the time ( though it has since bought the Atlanta Braves ), and made the deal contingent upon Ascent selling the Avalanche and Nuggets.

However, a group of Ascent shareholders sued, claiming that the sale price was several million dollars too low.

However, Liberty was not interested in sports ownership at the time ( though it has since bought the Atlanta Braves ), and made the deal contingent upon Ascent selling the Avalanche and Nuggets.

However, a group of Ascent shareholders sued, claiming that the sale price was several million dollars too low.

The Voskhod programme (,, Ascent or Dawn ) was the second Soviet human spaceflight project.

On missions where the payload was not built into the Agena, and instead separated after launch, the Agena was known as an Ascent Agena.

It was launched in February 1955 and the bike won its first race, the Mount Fuji Ascent Race, in July 1955.

He was Ascent and Orbit CAPCOM with the Mission Control Team for those flights.

Hammond was also assigned as Lead Ascent / Entry CAPCOM for missions STS-73 through STS-78.

Phillips was the Ascent / Entry Flight engineer and was the intravehicular activity coordinator during two space walks.

A re-creation in 1993 by poet Kim Taplin and companions resulted in the travelogue Three Women in a Boat The book was also referenced in the 1956 parody novel on mountaineering, The Ascent of Rum Doodle, where the head porter Bing is said to spend " much of his leisure immersed in a Yogistani translation of Three men in a boat ".

Here the Ladder of Divine Ascent was written by Saint John Climacus ( c. 600 ), a work of such importance that many Orthodox monasteries to this day read it publicly either during the Divine Services or in Trapeza during Great Lent.

Eli (, " Ascent ";, Ḗli ;, عالي ) was, according to the Books of Samuel, a Jewish High Priest of Shiloh.

She was interred in Finchley cemetery, under a handsome monument erected by her firm friend, Dr. Louis Mond, to whose generosity is also to be ascribed the reissue since her death of ' The Ascent of Man ,' with an introduction by Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1899 ) and the publication of ' The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind ' ( a selection edited by Arthur Symons, with a memoir by Dr. Garnett, 1900, 8vo ).

* 2002: Liberty Livewire was renamed Ascent Media Group.

* 2005: Ascent Media Group was spun off from owner, Liberty Media, into Discovery Holding Company.

* 2008: What had previously existed as the " Creative Sound Services " division of Ascent Media Group was spun off from Discovery Holding Company to create CSS Studios, LLC, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications.