Stumble ThisThe story of the number one is the story of Western civilization. Terry Jones (of Monty Python's Flying Circus) goes on a humor-filled journey to recount the amazing tale behind the world's simplest number. Using computer graphics, "One" is brought to life, in all his various guises. One's story reveals how celebrated civilizations in history were achieved, where our modern numbers came from and how the invention of zero changed the world forever; and saved us from having to use Roman numerals today.
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music: he explains maths in music and plays a pot duetpolitics: contains a lot of poilitical history
comedy: it's Terry Jones (of Monty Python?!)
cute: the CGI animated numbersgeek: it's a historical documentary on numbers?!
music was intended for music videos/live performances (i think), typically including the name of the song/performer in the title, tags, or comments. otherwise damned near every single video here would be tagged with a 'music' tag.
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