Quiet Please - Northern Lights
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Quiet Please - Northern Lights

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 202628 min
  • Documentary
  • Fiction & stories

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American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis

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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chapel. Quiet, Please, for today, is called Northern Life. This is a story about the temporal displacement of mass. It is also a story about

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teleportation. Do you know what those terms mean? No, I didn't think you did, but you stay right where you are, my charming friend, and you're quite likely to find out. You just stay right there and listen. I'll tell you everything you want to know. And maybe, maybe a couple of things you're not terribly anxious to know.

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Have you seen the Northern Lights? Aurora Borealis is the right name. You don't see them very often below the 50th parallel of latitude in this country, but up in northern Minnesota and Canada, upper New York, places like that.

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