Sunday, December 24, 2017
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, add-free, on Wondry Plus. |
| 0:04.0 | They seem to want to destroy everything Christian. |
| 0:15.0 | Exactly. To delete our history, even here the statue of Virgin Mary, they destroyed it. |
| 0:22.0 | The monastery, according to historians, had amassed a collection of manuscripts dating back to the 12th century. |
| 0:29.0 | This kind of containers. |
| 0:32.0 | As ISIS was closing in, the resident monks hid the texts in these barrels, which they entombed behind a fake wall. |
| 0:40.0 | And ISIS never found it? |
| 0:42.0 | No, because... |
| 0:43.0 | For two years. |
| 0:44.0 | Exactly, because the monks more intelligent the ISIS. |
| 0:50.0 | The most captivating story in baseball this off-season involves a player who is yet to take his first swing. |
| 0:56.0 | Or for that matter, his first pitch in a major league game. |
| 1:00.0 | Choheo Tani, a prodigious hitter, end-fear-some-pitcher in Japan, announced his ambitions to take his dual talents to the major. |
| 1:08.0 | Not since Babe Ruth has a sports scene, anything like it. Watch this. |
| 1:13.0 | Batting lead off, O'Tani hits a home run on the first pitch of the game. |
| 1:18.0 | Then he throws eight shut-out innings, striking out ten opposing batters with a hundred mile an hour fastball. |
| 1:24.0 | That's a comic book character. Nobody does that. Who does that? |
| 1:30.0 | 60 Minutes is constantly on the lookout for places we've never been before. |
| 1:34.0 | So, when our late colleague Bob Simon heard about a magical place in the Hebrides Islands off the coast of Scotland, known for making some of the great whiskeys in the world, |
| 1:43.0 | well, the story spoke to it. |
| 1:46.0 | Cheers. |
| 1:48.0 | We get literally thousands upon thousands of single malt tourists coming here. |
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