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60 Minutes

Sunday, December 24, 2017

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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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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