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Dwight pitcaithley. [applause] ms. Drake dr. Pitcaithley nick promised he was not going to include the rockstar part. Thanks to nick for that wonderful introduction. Thank you that we can have a conversation that goes on for another 30 or 45 minutes. Robert and moran, who, many of you know, was a Pulitzer Prize civil war is our only felt history. History lived in the national imagination. I think thats true whether your ancestry goes back that far or not. My mostly does not. But the civil war affects ken burns, maybe its part of the dna. We think about it a lot. Every year when i teach the civil war course, the first day i give my students an exam and i ask them, in a word or phrase tell me what caused the civil war, what caused secession . Without secession there is no civil war. Everybody has an answer. Its not the same answer. But they all have an answer. Its states rights no, no, no. Its labored. No, its the tariff. General economic issues. I think its cultural differences to train
Storyteller john flashal who leads walking tours at the site where the statues are located. So you are now currently on the property of mr. Howard hankins, a Business Owner of Hamilton Road materials. Its an Industrial Recycling area. Mr. Hankins owned as much as 600 acres here and partitioned off a couple Hundred Acres to the nearby golf course. And this is a small sliver of whats remaining of the 400 acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the original president s park, a tourist site 12 miles from here that was open from 2004 until 2010. That was the home of all 42 of these sculptures. He was actually also instrumental and commissioned in 2010 to come take these sculptures when that park went bankrupt and put them in his stone crusher. So he did not have the heart to do that, thank god. And spent a considerable amount of his own money to transport every one of these one by one from that bankrupt, nonfunctional park 12 miles from here to
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Decision. Unemployed stranded and relying on handouts thailands Migrant Workers face up a carious future as the country emerges from coronavirus restrictions. So for the 1st time in decades china wont set a growth target as it works to repair an economy badly hit by the corona virus Pandemic Premier League has shange laid out of the countrys plans for the next year in his opening address to the annual National Peoples congress he also told the 3000 delegates that beijing would introduce laws to ensure National Security in hong kong the proposed new legislation which targets prodemocracy protesters in the territory empowers Mainland China to set punishments for the activities its considers subversive well agent. Browns in hong kong were going to be speaking to him in a moment 1st lets go to trina you whos been listening to that speech in beijing katrina it sounded to me as though the message from the premier as far as covert 19 was concerned was quite confident but when it came to the e