And welcome to the aljazeera news hour live from my headquarters in doha the Elizabeth Braun im coming up in the next sixty minutes with the u. N. General assembly set to vote on a resolution critical of the u. S. Stance on President Trump issues a warning. Divided. On thursday in an election many horror of spain secession crisis. Polands president finds to curb Judicial Independence triggering a possible confrontation with the e. U. I first last. And the Un Special Envoy is told to stay out of myanmar. U. S. President donald trump has threatened to cut off Financial Aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft United Nations resolution against his decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Says the way Member States vote will be noted the one hundred ninety three we have a body will hold of rare Emergency Special session on thursday at the request of our been muslim countries mike hanna reports from the u. N. Security Council Staff pose with
Saint augustine. It was built for a very particular reason. Spain decided they had to build the stone fortification in Saint Augustine to ensure their foothold on the florida territory. They were concerned about england encroaching and pushing them out of the area and they saw florida as important in helping to defend their hold on the caribbean and central south america. They started construction in 1672 so you have 23 years worth of construction and the biggest reason for all that time is only about 175 people were working on the project at any one time. All the stone had to be quarried from the island across the bay and shipped across a no mechanical stuff, no metal barges, it was all manmade stuff. Brute force and ignorance played a part and add to that the fact that really they are dealing with very simple machines building these ramps and pulleys and things like that. Spain always wanted to have stone fortifications here. All the way back to the late 16th century. 15 80s or so th
Panel discussion. You are gathered here today to hear the story of the closing days of the civil war. The university of virginia has a small chapter in its story. For three days in march, 1865, the city of charlottesville at the university were occupied by union forces. Uva law Professor John miner wrote in his diary that he feared general sheridans men would destroy the university. His fears were not unfounded. Only a month later, union troops did indeed burn the university of alabama whose campus was designed on the model of Thomas Jeffersons academic village. Fortunately, this university had a measure of protection that alabama would not have. The uva administrators had long attempted to distance the university from the civil war conflict even seeking exemptions for military service for uva students. When the union troops arrived on march 3, local officials surrendered the town and University Leaders including faculty chair socrates molfin request a protection for the university usi
Blooded. Soon there would be questions for a mother and daughter. It was another shock. The mystery of the murdered major. Hello and welcome to dateline extra. This story involves a husband and wife. He was attacked in the middle of the night, police launched an investigation that would reveal eyebrow raising secrets, secrets that might hold the key to murder. Heres keith morrison. Reporter the wind in the Northern Prairie howls around the grave markers. The final resting spot for a few dozen veterans, many of whom died in combat. This is where he is resting now. Major David Shannon who lost his life in 2002. His mother shirley comes here to visit and his sister brenda too when shes in town. Oh, how they worried that war might put him here. Except war didnt. There never was a thought back then about what could happen far from combat. What did happen . All those strange things down south in north carolina. Fayetteville is an old town, steeped in revolutionary and civil war history, smac
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