Fishpond, to welcome the balloon of the snowfall. There, the beautiful purple iris and of course the pansies, and the digitalis, the foxglove about to bloom. So, what a pleasant occasion, and particularly to welcome our friend, mr. Steve light, to be with us again, to welcome your questions forward. So, without any further comment, as i have a few moments before i continue my walk through the garden, and i think gardens is the most pleasant subject to attend to today, i ask for the first question, mr. Light, if you will. Yes, thank you, president jefferson. We do have a number of questions for you today related to the theme of gardening. The first question is, have you always loved gardening . Thomas jefferson oh, you asked me if i have always loved gardening . Well, i assure you that you cannot be born out here in the wilderness and the forest primeval without an early, early love of all of natures wonders, the great abundance, and to realize to cut out what pleases us and plant accor
Of the carolina inn. They had an auction of town lots. So, they understood that there needed to be a town to support it for businesses, places for people to live. They were, in essence, born on the same day. The university was chartered in 1789. The ground broke for the first building in 1793, and about a year and half later, 1795, the university opened. They had events on campus here. No student showed up. It took another few weeks before the First Student arrived. He came 100 miles off the coast of North Carolina. He was the entire student body for about two weeks before more students drifted onto campus. For the first century, it was a school for white men only. It was only in the 1890s that women were admitted to the university, and the university did not allow africanamericans and other students of color until the 1970s. It is really impossible to talk about the University Without talking about slavery. Slave labor was involved in all of the buildings. The earliest building, the o
Rep. Price my district is in the triangle area of north carolina, i am in three counties. The county where i live is orange county, which has chapel hill in hillsboro. Then there is a narrow strip of durham county, to 80 of the people in the district to wake county. My district is best known as a diverse and growing district economically, demographically. We like to say the new south, and by that, we not only refer to shedding some of the negative aspects of our history, but really charting a new course. The Research Triangle story is pretty familiar and pretty well internalized around here. Around 60 years ago, a group of leaders in business and education and government had this vision that these wornout fields out in the area between durham and raleigh might be a new source for industry, especially for hightech enterprise, Research Related enterprise. So the Research Triangle was born. And it wasnt an immediate success. Ibm, though, became the anchor tenant. And pretty soon it blosso
Carolina basketball started in 1910. Inwon its first championship 1957 with an undefeated citizen season. North carolina wins the championship. It has won seven National Championships, six ncaa tournament championships, coaches of the year, olympians,. Nd a lot of great nba players 52 have been drafted out of the first round into the nba. We are standing in the Carolina Basketball Museum which is in the building immediately adjacent to the center where they play their home games. , our legendary hall of fame basketball coach donated his entire collection of basketball memorabilia which was quite extensive to the university and this Basketball Museum is the one place that houses all of that history. We decided to start off with how the uniforms have evolved. People get a kick out of the number 10 jersey, lenny roosevelt who was the player when we won the championship, people are stunned to see that there is red and the carolina jersey. Frank maguire was the coach at the time and Frank M
Also feel that the fact that i its a fear is losing its status as a museum i mean coming a mosque again makes us muslims feel extremely happy. Thats filled existing mosques 1st i do not want to speak about i as a fear i think is politics. The decision is good because its taking the decision we are turkish and we live in turkey. Decision to turn it into a mosque is like a race in 1000 years of history in my opinion. This is the awakening of the mosque that was opened by sultan for the rights of muslims and islam once again. Also on the day remembering europes worst atrocity since the 2nd world war d. W. Speaks with survivors of the shrub and its a massacre and when i put 2 tanks facing each other and people had to walk for then they started charging people they took them and then shot them right in front of me they were like family to me. A turkish president obama has announced istanbuls world famous highest the field will be reopened for muslim worship hes declaration about his country