With that many believe it hasnt been found. We look at suez canals strategic importance to egypt. Record breaking in wickets meaning grand remain in the action. News from isil claiming responsibility for suicide bombing that targeted personnel in saudi arabia. It was a town in the south of saudi arabia, very close to the border with yemen where theres been conflict, almost a state of war for months now. Nine soldiers were injured being treated in hole hospitals. Isil becoming increasingly active in saudi arabia. Well examine why later. Its claimed responsibility for a Suicide Attack on a shia mosque in may which killed 21 people. Explosions in the last few hours. We have this report. This is where the attack took place, a suicide bomber managed to get into this mosque in the southern city, blowing himself up and killing police trainees. The governor of the province visited the injured in a nearby hospital. Fighters from the Islamic State of iraq and the levant claimed responsibility fo
Details the florida intercoastal waterway. William it wasnt it was built for anybody and everybody. Sailors, a lot of sailboats chargers steelers there were four principal investors in the waterway and they were all key businessmen in cain augustine. Saint augustine. They included dr. John wescott who was a medical doctor, a mineralogist, a surveyor. He was everything. In fact, in 1855, he was surveyor general of the whole state of florida. When it came to picking out where the best parcels of land would be in florida, dr. Wescott would know they needed about 100,000 in capital. Dr. Wescott put in 49,000 which in 1881 was a huge sum of money. And the other three put in the balance, 51,000. Back then, in order to get a corporation or to get permission to do something, to do almost anything, you had to get a charter from the state legislature. And in 1881, dr. Wescott was well known. It had always been his dream especially after having been surveyor general, it had always been his dream
Night, kennedy and lincoln are sort of bookends, where i soon i assume everyone knows about who lincoln was and who kennedy was. I wont talk much about kennedy and did not talk about lincoln. I assume most people dont know much about garfield and mckinley, so we will talk more about garfield and mckinley more than the actual assassinations. The assassination of lincoln by john wilkes booze and of kennedy by lee harvey oswald, we were in they were able to get away from the scene of the murder all sorts of conspiracy theories cropped up. Who did it, did they get away and did we get the right guy . In the cases of garfield and mckinley, they caught the guy right away. There was no question. Charles the toe was was captured right after shooting garfield and leon was grabbed immediately after shooting mckinley. They both freely admitted they did it, so there was no question about that. Today, we will look at William Mckinley. Mckinley is a figure who is neglected in american history. Garfie
Good afternoon and welcome. Mark on may 22, 1971 the crowd assembled on the university of texas grounds to dedicate this library. 2100 antiwar protesters were kept from interrupting the proceedings by a phalanx of highway patrolman. Chance of no more war carried by high winds and accompanied by the pounding of trashcan lids were clearly heard. By former president Lyndon Johnson and his assembled guests including president nixon. It was an apt metaphor. The vietnam war had filtered into the administrations of both johnson and nixon. When johnson took his turn at the podium he proclaimed it is all here. The story of our time. With the bark off. There is no record of mistake or an unpleasantness or criticism that is not included in the files here. Accordingly, he wanted us to learn from them to build a better america. Two years ago, the lbj president ial library hosted the historic civil rights summit to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lbj had cha
Hes going to go ahead and start pulling us in. Back then what they would do is theyd have their mules kecked to their boat and the mules would be walking on the tow path and they would be the ones that would actually pull us in. We wouldnt have any of the crew members actually doing any of that work. What would happen is once we were completely inside of the lock we would close the two downstream gates which well pass on our way in and what that allows us to do is that allows us to make a sealed, tight area so no water can exit out so that we can actually raise water in that area and this system was actually created by a man way past our time. His name was leonardo da vinci. He created a lot of the things and a lot of those things didnt really work and this was something we decided was a good idea. We did a few modifications to his drawing that he had in a sketch book, but most of it is all the same. And so what happens is this is one side of the lock door that we have here and so with