All the gardens are covered by rose leaves, mountains have put on their dress. The years ago a poet sang praises of spring among the mountains. Today the people of iran still look to their mountains for the precious water for the high plains on which most of the people live. Often rivers flowing down disappear in the great deserts of ironic of iran. Turkey, iraq, saudi arabia, pakistan, and north the soviet union lies beyond the mountains. Iran new greatness in the days when it was known as persia. In this vast throne room, king darius ruled over the first great empire in history. , the roomd columns for the many royal lives and a sculptured stairway were among the marbles here. Among the marbles here. Among the marvles here. Seated on his is throne receiving tribute. From europe, africa, and asia came men bearing gifts. Bracelets shaped like horseshoes and small horses from what is today arabia. This was taxed a 25 centuries ago. There were sheep from what is today turkey, there were
Both parties are parties of spending and borrowing. It is difficult to see what is going to break. Thank you. [applause] announcer interested in American History tv . Visit our website. You can view our tv schedule, preview upcoming programs, and watch college lectures, using tours, films, and more. Cspan. Org history. Tv, week American History the railamerica, brings you archival films that provide content for todays Public Affairs issues. All the gardens are covered by rose leaves, mountains have put on their dress. 1000 years ago a poet sang the praises of spring among the mountains of persia. Today the people of iran still look to their mountains for the precious water for the high plains on which most of the people live. Too often rivers flowing down disappear in the great deserts of iran. Turkey, iraq, saudi arabia, pakistan, and north the soviet union lies beyond the mountains. Iran knew greatness in the days when it was known as persia. In this vast throne room, king darius rul
Track. We have a fairly large campus, full security and maintenance apartment. We have when we have training going on we are open 365 busy year for training. We recently did our dirt surface here in keeneland. We have highly engineered dirt. We are fortunate that we have a great surface and the trainers that are in our service love it. You have a lot of traders that treat this as their home base. And they ship to those other racetracks to run in those other races and then come back here. Trainers love to come back here. Every morning, you see some of the best horses in the world working out. You see those famous trainers. There are so many people because of the horse farms who can live anywhere in the world which used to live here because of what they are able to do here locally. Keeneland is a fun and social atmosphere, much like an sec football game. You have tailgating early in the morning. Our races do not start until 1 00. People start piling in around noon. On our larger saturday
Palace gate way. From his palace, shah abbas ruled a reborn, expanding persia. He built roads and bridges. But even his empire finally crumbled. Centuries later reza shaw group to power. Land reforms change of old patterns and bring hope to the people. His palace is typical of the architecture of modern tehran. Former rulers lived in the rose garden palace. In its mirrored throne room is one of the worlds most fabulous objects, the peacock throne. This golden seat of state was designed so the occupant sat cross legged with his back against a bolster crusted with pearls and rubies in gold settings. It was brought persia 200 years ago. Above is the jeweled peacock. Tehran is the capital of iran located in the north. Tehran is a modern city with roots in the past. The great muslim religious college is one of the intellectual centers of the islamic world. These young men are studying to become mullahs religious leaders. A woman wearing the enveloping shroud is a reminder that, even here in
John (Jack) Carter Van Straaten, age 81, succumbed to chronic heart disease on August 28, 2022 in Tucson, AZ. He was born April 8, 1941 in Minneapolis, MN to Jessica and John Van Straaten. He was raised partly in St. Paul, then lived in Faribault, MN, part of the class of 1959. He attended Macalester College, making life-long friends, graduating in economics and political science in 1963.