Mali west africa the old town of jenny on the banks of the river niger people come here from all around to buy to sell and to pray. In the rainy season the river floods and jenny is left stranded an island in a vast expanse of water. To. Be long roads lead to jenny people will tell you. And mali merchants their customers and pilgrims all make the journey here this ancient Trading Center in the heart of the country is famous for its market and for its mosque. This is in earlier times described jennie as large prosperous and happy a floor she center for trade and crafts the most beautiful town in the sahara god from his heaven must surely have smiled on jenny which remains to this day a jewel of the niger valley. Human settlement here dates back to before the time of christ at one time the area was home to the bozo people who fished the rivers and grew grain crops on the banks in the ninth century the settlement grew into a town under the influence of the normal who were sharp witted tra
Forest University Professors david lubin shares images from his book. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan 3. Each weaker, american artifacts takes to you museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. Now we visit the newseum in washington, d. C. To mark the 150th anniversary of lincolns assassination. The New York Herald special Edition Published on april 15th and 14th, 1865 show how the news unfolded after the first Associated Press report that the president had been shot. Im the cure rater and direct or collections here at the museum and we are in our new exhibit called president lincoln is dead. This exhibit has a really sort of tight focus on seven additions of the New York Herald, which was the most widely circulated newspaper of the time that were published in the 18 hours immediately following lincolns assassination. So it is the minute by minute story of the news as it happened, as people were getting it in this country about the
Exactly what leads me to want to write a book because their pain in the to do. Its finding if i look back on it is finding an interesting person in a situation that will allow me to explore interesting ideas. What almost always happens is i have lots of little projects stumbling along, magazine pieces of things im investigating. Become so interesting that i think wow, such a good story, have an obligation to tell it. Thats when it becomes a book. In terms of if you asked me to go to a class of students and give them a formula to how to write a good story, i went on how to begin. Host when did you decide you wanted to make be an arthur. My career path is something on the bottom of the tv screen that says to not try this at home. Is an art history major what i first wanted to do was be an art historian. I stumbled out of college and linda by accident on wall street. I got that job very accidentally without a great deal of intention. While i was working on my princeton thesis. It was effe
Back to you. All right, sabina, thanks. Now on to your fox 29 Weather Authority. Tonight police have just reopened center city street after ice started falling from a building. I tell you pedestrians there were scrambling to run for cov cover. This all happening on 12th and market streets earlier this evening. Detours for president s for several hours after the melting ice started dropping everywhere. Market street back open tonight. Taking a live look now at trenton. It really was a cold one. But that wont be the case tomorrow. Temperatures are rising. Lets get over to meteorologist Scott Williams for all the details. Yeah, wild weather weve been having, scott. I mean keep that seat belt on though the roller coaster ride will continue. The High Temperature today only freezing. 32 degrees. Some clouds are going to be rolling in. So obscuring that full snow moon later on tonight. But as we look at ultimate doppler it looks like light snow is trying to move in. The atmosphere is relative
Say goodbye to a man who is being remembered as a hero. One of lieutenant steven floyds final acts was saving his fellow Corrections Officers when inmates took over at a delaware prison last week. Good evening everyone, im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. It was the first chance for the public to say goodbye to the 16 year veteran. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose has more for us tonight from dover. Reporter Law Enforcement from across the region and several states came to pay tribute to lieutenant steven floyd, delawares first corrections officer killed in the line of duty. He saved a lot of people. I think that needs to be recognized. Reporter sacrifice honore honored. Hundreds gathering in Delaware State University for the public viewing for lieutenant steven floyd. The 47yearold corrections officer was killed during a prison up riding at the james t. Vaughn correctional facility in smyrna, delaware, last week. Good brother thats gone too soon. Reporter floyd was prisoners took him and thr