Geneva and they eventually found in favor of the United States to the tune of 15. 5 million. But that was only for the alabama, with the alabama did and also what the shenandoah the ships the shenandoah tech after melbourne. Their british would not admit to any complicity for the ships before melbourne because when the shenandoah left great written, she was a registered british merchantmen and she was sold and commissioned with outside or just territory so they werent liable for the good since they did resupplied and prepare her in melbourne, they admitted no liability for ships dock after that. Wow. I want to remind everybody that these gentlemen will be selling these wonderful books immediately following. Lets give them a round of applause. [applause] thanks for coming. I hope you enjoyed it. [inaudible conversations] the idea of money is very basic and weve gotten away from it and policymakers today know less about money, Monetary Policy than they did 100 years ago. Since the early
They had a big idea that the original sources would be of value to everyone in perpetuity, so they collected those materials and brought them here as a gift to the nation. Why washington dc . It is an international city, our capitol. So in addition to putting this marvelous collection here they created this remarkable building which has the 1st north american to the theater with a beautiful great hall that we are in and another beautiful who are the folgers . President of standard oil and he made his fortune as an oilman and then while he was running standard oil very quietly acquired the greatest shakespeare collection in the world bar none including 82 copies of the 16,231st vote in. We would here that term throughout the store. The 1st folio is a collection of 36 plays published by two of his friends who knew him. Without that book published in 1623 we probably would not have 18 of his plays including mcbeth and 12th night and winters tale, the most studied single edition of the boo
Even if your letter doesnt get in, they count the number of letters from a particular perspective, and they will publish letters from that perspective. So it means, it means demonstrating, it means First Amendment protected activity, it means going to the trone base, Hancock Drone base and protesting in upstate new york, it means going to outside i know its not convenient, but if you have the opportunity going to Creech Air Force base where the drones take off outside of las vegas. It means working in any way you can, organizing and pressuring the government. Thats the only way that this is going to stop. Well, i think that is a wonderful question and a comment to end our discussion because, again, when i before i read this book, i mean, ive gotten another book on drones, and i hadnt, you know, there are drones and things that are going on out there, somebody else is doing it, doesnt affect me. But then when you say what are we doing with these drones, what is happening and what is bei
Said it was a lightness of that man, this was a persontoperson familiar connections to shakespeare. We would say this has real authority. So if annie correct. How many worldwide . 233. If somebody would buy them, what would it cost them . There are very few in private hands and complete can go for somewhere 5 and 6 million. So its a very valuable book. And currently you have going around the country in. We do. One of the things that realizes that it matters when you come facetoface. Its whats happening now and the response has been just remendous. Someone proposed marriage successfully on the occasion of the first visit in oklahoma. Someone jazz funeral for new orleans. A great indy rock band thats doing a concert. So the way people react are very different and weve been inspired by the fact that people want to see this book face to face. What else do you have . A smaller version of a shakespeare play. Folio means that a single sheet of paper has been printed on one side and then the o
Really i wanted to take the story of beyond desegregation which occurred in 1963. The idea cover that in the first chapter. I wanted to take you to the rest of the 60s because while we desegregated in 1963 did not integrate. That took a long time even going beyond 1970. Its a ne in the spirit of the University Went in a new direction. Once segregation was out of the way, once all the energy that had gone to trying to maintain and actually illegal and certainly immoral way of doing things, after all that energy could be sent in another direction, the university of alabama begin to turn itself away from being a regional Football Party school and turn itself towards becoming a Major National academic institution. Thats what it has become but it was a long journey in the 1960s sent us in that direction. There were a lot of changes going on at the beginning of the 60s but really it stems from 1956. The first effort of desegregation which failed horribly. Accompanied by riots. Lucy was a stu