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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）。纽约的中国城，华人黑帮林立。华人警官陈力（周润发饰）依靠勾结黑帮势力、平衡各帮间谍利益关系而战绩彪炳，步步高升。然而这平静的一切却忽然被打破了。中国城内新来了一帮主要成员来自福建的黑帮分子，自称“龙帮”。他们和旧有的帮派之间展开了激烈的地盘争夺战，愈演愈烈，即使陈力也无法出面摆平。 这种局面引起了纽约警局的注意，派出了年轻有为的警官丹尼（马克•沃尔伯格 Mark Wahlberg 饰）调查中国城的黑帮。当各派黑帮贿赂正直的丹尼失败后，他们决定除掉他。左右为难的陈力，会眼睁睁看着自己的同伴遇害吗？。After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.。
