When Elbow won the Mercury Prize in 2008 for their fourth studio album
- " The Seldom Seen Kid"
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Sanford Goldberg examines the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world: through what they say ('testimonial knowledge') or through their salient silences. He argues that this sort of knowledge poses a challenge to some cherished "individualistic" assumptions in traditional theories of knowledge. ...

Eleven promos by REM, the biggest 'little' rock band in the world, culled from their latest albums ' Automatic for the People' & ' Monster'. Highlights include singer Michael Stipe hitching a ride in drummer Bill Berry's truck during ' Man On the Moon', the all-human-life-is-here sweep across a traffic jam which accompanies the weepie ' Everybody Hurts' & the Japanese karaoke of ' Crush with Eyeliner'. ...

Visual document of REM's ' Green' world tour, which saw the band make the transition from college radio darlings to the biggest 'alternative' rock band in the world. Each song is treated in a distinct manner, from the mismatching of sound & image during ' Turn You Inside Out', through the rollercoaster layered montage of ' It's The End of the World As We Know It', to the fetishising slo-mo black & white close ups of Pete Buck's guitar on ' The One I Love'. ...

The Rhine represented the last major geographical barrier to the Allied advance into Germany. But, the Ludendorff bridge at Remagen
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