A warm welcome to our 21. 00 this time from weimar for a special edition devoted to the good to medal every year since 955. 00 germanys go to institute on those luminaries whove made outstanding contributions to International Cultural exchange well the theme of this years awards is the burden and benefits of contradiction which simply put is in treating us to avoid black and white thinking and to engage in the kind of debate that encourages a more profound reflection well its certainly evocative of the work of the 1st of our 3 go to medal recipients british author ian mckeown and because he. Currently sitting out the pandemic at his residence in the cotswolds west of london we conducted this interview with him over skype. Mckeown has a keen eye for detail little escapes him hes interested in every aspect of the Human Experience the murky depths of our souls our political debates the latest developments in science his insatiable curiosity as reflected in his nomination as a. Highly enga
On ten occasions disney sea and has the honor of hosting restitution ceremonies where painting or other artifacts stolen by the nazis and their collaborators have been returned to the rightful owner. [applause] thank you. Some of you were with us last year. With the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york here and we presented with a red one of stolen from a grandfather by the nazis. It was very moving event and we are proud to build on that with this series. We hope youll join us for the next event in this series. That will be recovering nazis looted art. They will discuss several cases and provide an overview of the ethical and legal issues involved in recovering Nazi Looted Art. We hope youll join us for the programmer that will be october 17 at 7 p. M. Tonight we welcome mary lane from the author of hitlers last hostages a fascinating new study of art the trace the roots of hitlers obsession with art and how its your decision of the perfect nazis did the author
From cbs news bay area, this is the afternoon edition. Hopeful news amid more looming violence in the mideast. What we are learning about the two u. S. Hostages justreleased in the military actions that could be looming. Im elizabeth cook. We are getting new details out of the middle east where hamas has just released two american hostages, two out of the more 200 people taken nearly 2 weeks ago when hamas attacked. Meanwhile, it appears a ground assault by israel into gaza could happen at any moment. Israeli tanks are positioned near the border in President Biden is set to ask congress for roughly 100 billion in emergency spending, including assistance for israel. Tina kraus begins coverage from tel aviv. Reporter secretary of state Antony Blinken confirms hamas has released two u. S. Hostages, the mother and daughter, judith tai and Natalie Shoshana Raanan were held for two weeks. The women were abducted along with about 200 others when hamas attacked israel october 7. Our position i
Inquisitive person, receptive to everything new, as we have already said, he wanted to see everything with his own eyes and learn everything. He became the first ruler of russia to leave the territory of his state; he was especially interested in shipbuilding. The embassy stayed the longest in holland. Amsterdam was completely different from russian cities, and made a huge impression on the tsar. Peter worked for some time as a carpenter in the dutch. This is true , then peter went to england, where he continued to study, worked at the shipyard, went to museums, visited the grenwich observatory, and is believed to have met isaac newton. Already returning from the Great Embassy to moscow, peter met with the saxon electorate augustus the strong, and he suggested to him a new direction of foreign policy, swedish. They agreed on a military alliance, peter made peace with the turks. And declared war on sweden. The main goal of the northern war, which began in 1700 and lasted 21 years, was a
Studies institute. I began our institute back in 1995. The institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the enola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the Smithsonian Institution but got canceled. This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequence of the atomic bombing. This was in 1995, the 50th anniversary. The smithsonian a civic got canceled. The museum in hiroshima and nagasaki asked to bring some of those artifacts to American University and do an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. While we were planning this, the museum, and your shame and nagasaki, asked that we would bring some of the artifacts to the American University. That was the first time that the abombma and nagasaki museums didnt exhibit as an japan. They have been doing it ever since. This is the 20th anniversary of our exhibit and the 70th anniversary of the actual bombing. We decided to do it again at American Univ