Expanders. Continue the tour and learn more about world war ii battalion eight stations. Unday at 6 00. N american artifacts tv and American History tv on the road, with the support of the buckeye broadband cable partners. Visit notable locations. In about 15 minutes, the battle of Fallen Timbers and its native american removal in the west. Later, we learn how toledo became known as the glass capital of the world. We begin with the toledo war. The toledo war goes back to 1787 and a northwest ordinance that established the area that by state andcame establish in order that started at the bottom of Lake Michigan iran east to lake erie. The strip of land formed was called the toledo strip. It was formed by two different surveys and that was a wedgeshaped strip five miles knows theat we indiana border today. Eight miles wide by the time it reaches lake erie. It is a pie shaped, 454 square mile edge that became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan really started to wrangle over. Point bo
Solar. We have Heritage Companies and part of americas rising sun. Right here, berthed in this community, we are not the capital city. We have had to earn our way forward, largely through private enterprise with a heavy industrial tilt. We see a number of Industrial Companies rising, our Port Authority has been involved, so much of this was the largest gap discovery on the continent here in ohio and western pennsylvania. We are seeing a transformation in the economy, due to natural that upthe movement of into this region. We serve the Steel Industry here. Without this region of america, we could not go to war, nor serve the vast automotive and railroad industry, which is part of our heritage here. This is the largest watershed that drains into the great lakes. You are right near lake erie, the southernmost of the great lakes, and we are sitting alongside the mommy river m awmee river, which drains into the great lakes. I will tell you the redevelopment of wrong the riverfront would not
Invented over centuries as different groups of people from the americas, europe, and africa converged and combined his experiences. Why rum . What is interesting about rum is it is ubiquitous. It is something, we look at the example of George Washingtons mount vernon, everybody is drinking rum. It is served on washingtons table. Martha washington says rum may always be had. It is being imported from a distillery locally in alexandria, virginia and also from the caribbean. It is having an internal economy bringing in workers who get their wages in rum. Enslaved people receive rum for anything from childbirth to rescuing a cow. It is one of these moments where you can see how different groups of people we dont always think of interacting around an item part of everyday life. Where and when is it invented . I argue in the book it is invented in barbados in the early to mid17th century when europeans from england and scotland and native people from south america and africans arrived in bar
Democrats 202 5853880, and independents, all others, 202 5853882. You can send us a tweet. Or you can go to facebook. Com, or send us an email. Before the house acted on their border legislation last week president obama held a News Conference on friday, and this is what he had to say about executive action. We all agree that theres a problem that needs to be solved in a portion of our southern border. And we even agree on most of the solutions. But instead of working together, instead of focusing on the 80 where there is agreement between democrats and republicans, between the administration and congress, House Republicans as we speak are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable versions of a bill that they already know is going nowhere. That cant pass the senate, and that if it were to pass the senate, i would veto. They know it. Theyre not even trying to solve the problem. This is a message bill that they couldnt quite pull off yesterday so they made it more extreme so maybe t
Fascism. Ohio, democratic caller. Our last caller. Say imi would like to looking at their ratings and they are low because congress is slow because it is impractical nowadays. When the Founding Fathers made america, they were not thinking about population as large as it is now. Basically, there are way too many viewpoints for congress to laws or denyo pass others. We have the technology now where we can actually direct democracy. People have ipads in the internet. If we just voted online or Something Like that, dont have the infrastructure all laid out, but i feel like that to be a much more effective way to an effective government and more satisfied people. Host we will leave it there. Thank you for the calls this morning. That is it for todays washington journal. Has live coverage of the senate. Here on cspan, the Senate Finance subcommittee on Social Security and pensions, and family policy is about to start a hearing on the role of Social Security, defined benefits, and private ret