Parties, fireworks, and in lots of cases, layers of clothing. It was freezing across the country. In las vegas there was a spectacular Fireworks Show over the strip. Several casinos took part in the coordinated show that lit up the night sky. And overseas thousands gathered to watch the fireworks display in the belgian capital of brussels. Here in new york city there were millions watching the ball drop at times square. There was unprecedented security and near record cold. Wendy gillette has that story. Reporter a massive crowd raised a bonechilling cold to say hello in times square to 2018. By the time the ball dopped, the temperature had fallen to just 10 degrees. Not since 1917 had new york rung in the new year in such frigid conditions. Bucket list. Definitely. We always watch it on tv. So we figured, why not. I think we picked the wrong year. Its super cold. Reporter security was tight, roads were closed, bags were searched, and extra police were deployed to keep the crowds. Unde
Track but will bring us a chance of snowfall wednesday night into thursday. We will talk about those chances. This isnt even the coldest, of the air, even colder air is arriving, as we head into friday, and i will let you know what to expect in your full forecast in a few. Come on in, see new a bit. Bitter cold weather put todays mummer parade almost there philadelphia but show went on as planned were performedders and spectators, taking the harsh conditions in stride. Eyewitness news reports leash a nieves is a path Convention Center where part two of the festivities is taking center stage, alycia. Reporter those in the fancy brigade are getting ready to perform here inside the Convention Center. I will get out in the limb and say this is the best part of the day. I will tell you why. It is warmest part of the day. Im still wearing my hat, jacket still that you go out from hanging out on the parade route with so many parade go ers. It was an awesome experience but it was in fact a, bo
My excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. I was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very earliest 19th century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction to opium. Sidebar, he blamed it all on his many years of School Teaching in virginia, which i think we can all appreciate that. He wrote that there is a disheartening and monotonous drudgery in teaching that silently but fatally saps his constitution, big numbs his faculties, and converts the fuel of enthusiasm into melancholy. Opium was the solution, and who can disagree . In writing about his laudanum habit i found it necessary to rethink my own ideas about addiction. He and his contemporaries spoke of opium as his demon, acknowledging its addictive qualities, they also tended to say that his real problem was melancholy itself. Since the publication of the alcohol at republic in 1979, scholars have explored the extent to which 19th century americans wrestled with addictiv
Welcome, and thank you for coming to the roundtable, with the unwieldy and yet highly evocative title drugs, alcohol, and the gendered and racial experience of addiction in the early republic. I am carolyn eastman, and im pleased to inform you that the subject of this roundtable proved evocative enough that cspan is filming us right now. A fact that gives me an additional opportunity to remind my excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. I was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction to opium. He blamed it all on his many years of School Teaching in virginia, which i think we can all appreciate that. He wrote that there is a disheartening and monotonous drudgery in teaching that silently but fatally saps his constitution, big numbs his faculties, and converts the fuel of enthusiasm into melancholy. Opium was the solution, and who can disagree . In writing about his laudanum hab
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