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Climate Change: In Our Backyard
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:45

Using close-to-home examples, the views of leading scientists come alive as they show how climate change can affect almost every aspect of our lives - and in turn, how we affect the climate.

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Climatic changes
Ecology/Energy

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The Forgotten Episode
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:01:08

The Penobscot disaster is usually regarded as the worst American Naval disaster with the exception of Pearl Harbor. But the Penobscot campaign simply is a forgotten episode in most American histories.

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Penobscot Disaster
History - Revolutionary War
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

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Bioinvasion
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03

As human activity silently globalizes our world, our modern day ecology is under onslaught from spreading alien organisms. These plants and animals are capable of moving aggressively into a habitat and monopolizing resources to the detriment of other species. Can scientists help us win the war against this bio-invasion?

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Invasive species
Ecology

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Power Lines
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:46



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Hydroelectric power plants
Rivers
Water Power

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People of the dawn
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:37

The first and longest lasting period of Maine’s history is the world of the Native American, stretching from the retreat of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years to the present. People of the Dawn tells the story of the dynamic people who’ve inhabited the landscape of Maine.

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Native Americans
Canoes and canoeing
Maliseet Tribe
Micmac Tribe
Penobscot Tribe
Passamaquoddy Tribe
Wabanaki Tribe

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The Frontier Wars
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:27:01

Land disputes, tensions about resource allocation and European wars combined to trigger intense strife and armed conflict between Maine's English, French and Native populations. The Frontier Wars were a series of six wars spanning nearly a century that devastated populations in Maine, and had a permanent and chilling effect on the relations between English settlers and Native Americans.

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Natural resources
Land Disputes
Native Americans
History - Colonial Period

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Intro - The Penobscot Expedition and the Revolution
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Penobscot Disaster
History - Revolutionary War
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

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The Consequences-separate Maine
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:01:22

The Penobscot expedition was pivotal in the movement to separate Maine from Massachusetts, largely because it was a military and financial disaster, which meant Massachusetts could no longer protect Maine from the British.

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Penobscot Expedition, 1779
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
History - Revolutionary War

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Destructiveness of ice
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:00:28

The winters in Maine are particularly destructive to the Penobscot disaster site.

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Penobscot Expedition, 1779
History - Revolutionary War
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

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Spring
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03

Because spring comes so late to northern New England, things have to happen quickly and profusely. Spring is the time of year that wildlife and plants come to life again and get right to the business of creating new life.

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Spring -- New England
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England
Ecology/Energy

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