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Ministers National Battlefield park. A 5000 acre park. Mr. Bias has a masters degree in applied anthropology. As you imagine, he might has a long career in the National Park service. He was a legislative coordinator for the National Park service. He was project manager for the rehabilitation of arlington house. He worked at the National Battlefield, George Washington memorial parkway, Great Falls Park and hes going to be, as you just heard, the topic of his top today is unprecedented discovery. Field hospital barrios on earth. Please welcome mr. Bies. Okay, well im really looking forward to sharing this unprecedented story with everyone here. Again, i have the great privilege and early humble privilege of being the superintendent of 5000 acres of some of americas most hallowed grounds. Most everybody here is going to know this, but i feel the obligatory 30 seconds of why Manassas Battlefield is an important place. We preserve the scenes of not just one, but two incredibly significant c
Tackled in public anger builds as protesters in belarus vent their anger at president looker sanka calling for him to step down. And welcoming back to wrists with open arms how brazil is trying to recover from billions of dollars lost because of coronavirus. Its taken 15 years and now a un backed court is delivering a verdict relating to the assassination of former lebanese Prime Minister rafiq hariri he and 21 others were blown up in a massive car bomb attack in 2005 the 4 defendants are not in courts theyre members of the armed Group Hezbollah which has repeatedly denied involvement in the attack speaking a short time ago the Trial Chamber judge said the prosecutions case relied heavily on evidence from mobile phone networks. The successful attack on mr hariri was carefully planned and implemented the 6 core red Network Mobile users were responsible for mr hariri as mota on the 14th affair be 2005 the yellow blue and red mobile Network Mobile uses observed mr hariri and his convoys m
A. Result that is satisfying. Also ahead on this program ali and is gather again to demand the resignation of the president after reports of a military mutiny. No protests and strikes in belarus where pressure is mounting on the president Alexander Lukashenko over his disputed reelection. If you think things cannot possibly get worse trust me they can and they will if we dont make a change in this election and the former u. S. 1st Lady Michelle obama declares the President Donald Trump is in over his head during a plea for voters to back joe biden. Tribunals has convicted a member of hezbollah over the assassination of the former lebanese Prime Minister rafik hariri the killing in 2005 set the stage for years of confrontation between rival Political Forces judges in the hague were found. Guilty of committing terrorist acts and of homicide the. Bought the explosives and coordinated surveillance on hariri beforehand the 3 other members of hezbollah were acquitted because of a lack of evi
Ii. And professor urwin is a long time friend of this museum project. It is one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to professor urwin, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive, and nuanced, and is always inspiring of our exhibits, and publications, and the development of our core exhibition, professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways, weighing the promise of the phillipsburg proclamation, announced by general clinton in 1779, which offered somewhat vaguely protection and perhaps freedom of run aways who made their way through to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians, particularly of africanAmerican History in this period, it became a really an imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with our tableau in showing people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. And one was t