His undergraduate work was done where my father and my brother attended that school at the same time, and randy has turned into one of our great modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is that he minds the resources of the president ial libraries. He has come here to the Carter Library and has gone through and found a very interesting document that other people have not seen before and he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that he is also mind the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And in addition to that on top of his Research Skills come he , he is an excellent writer. Ive had the privilege of reading many of his books including the one thats just come out. And i can tell you that as much as i followed the subjects and have done my own research there were many points i came across new information and said wow , that really explains whats going on. So if you want to
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Just south of daytona beach. Im here to meet a retiree who had a curious relic hidden among the rafters of her home in West Virginia. When her grandson finds it, hes convinced its a valuable piece of history. My name is betty bland. For more than a century, a strange inheritance collected dust in the attic. My husband and i thought it was worthless, until our grandson john surprised us all. Im john buell. I knew my greatgreatgrandfather was a Famous Artist renowned for his epic murals of texas battles. I had no idea id end up solving a mystery surrounding one of them. I meet betty and john at the family home, where they explain that the benefactor in this strange inheritance tale is born in belfast, ireland, in 1836. His name is Harry Mcardle. As a child, harrys a whiz with a paintbrush or sketch pad. Would we describe him as a prodigy . I mean, probably. He was a very prolific painter. As a teenager, he immigrates to america and attends the Maryland Institute of the arts, where he cre
So advanced, so many tipping points may have been passed, that some of the severe consequence of warming may now be inevitable. Among the cited consequence, rising sea levels that displace hundreds of millions of people from coastal areas. Increased numbers of destructive storms. Devastated fish stocks and even reduced supplies of drinking water. The report is the gloomyest prediction thursday far of the u. N. Panel that warns if global emission ands Greenhouse Gases are not reduced, the consequence will be even worse. Margaret . Thanks. At the u. N. Today, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg blasted World Leaders for inaction to stop climate change. In her speech, thunberg warned politicians they are failing to protect the planet. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you social media lit up over this shot of thunberg glaring at President Trump as he arrived at the u. N. Well be back. Whos
Is filled with extraordinary, great creativity, and engaging almost all of the themes and some themes subthemes we have dealt with in the past 40 years in filmmaking. Race, gender, commerce, we came off our vietnam series and a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican tutors or were heavily influenced by africanAmerican Music. The music itself over the decades has had very few africanamerican stars, it has is not an island nation separated by water from Everything Else. It is connected to jazz and the blues and rhythm and blues. With rhythm and it is the parent of rock n roll and is connected to folk, rock