Hear from thell Plimoth Patuxet deputy executive director Richard Pickering told and about the origins of the mayflower compact. I Plimoth Patuxet deputy am executive director Richard Pickering. Themter by the name gives the name pilgrim fathers. They are still called this today. We as americans tend to call them pilgrims. The reason that this is cited is because William Bradford refers to them as pilgrims. Pilgrims,p but lowercase. We need to remember that they did not have a group identity. They were a heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how do people sound in colonial england. The first few ships that will follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plaintiff they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely did you hear anybody speak english other than your own dialect or accent. Begine what it is like to aboard a ship we are trying to figure out what is she saying to be echo we are accustomed to watching tel
Roll nonkosher all survives an explosive crash. Im on me and use of welcome to the show. United nations says that more than 40 people have been killed in a brutal massacre, and nigeria, motorcyclists are said to have gunned down civilians in villages and towns in the Northeastern State of borno. Un has described it as a heinous and senseless act. No one has admitted carrying out the killings, but the militant Group Boko Haram has attacked the area in recent years. The victims of a gruesome massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. The point reports say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents, unmeasured bikes. While they were harvesting rice, someone shot others with their throats cut. It is that there were 6 of us in the bush. Then we headed back into the village. We were shocked when we got there. I got to move, we found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. Then we went through a nearby village called good though. We met so many people fleeing from our
Next we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington d. C. Where we will take a boat ride, to learn the history of the chesapeake and ohio canal. I would like to introduce myself, my name is chris andrea, and i am a seasonal park ranger heres. I think were going to, cast off here shortly, but we will go ahead and start and give you a brief history, about here on the canal, and its called the chesapeake and ohio canal, and it doesnt go all the way up to chesapeake bay, our the ohio river, which was the intention of the canal we started building it in basically july 4th, of 18 hundreds and 28. And the west was up in ohio, and pennsylvania at that time, and we wanted connect pittsburgh to the chesapeake bay. So what we did, was we started making this, canal and we tried earlier and it was George Washingtons dream to use the Potomac River to transport goods, and back then it would seem as a reasonable thing to do too he had a canal system built while using a system of locks but it did not
Initially and eventually it went up to over 600000000 to keep the Company Alive nucleus suddenly looked like a just just a dead end area to work in and these are often very very well qualified very smart people felt that they you know theyve made a terrible career choice and their whole life and you know in a sense been wasted big atom had never looked so vulnerable i know we moved in in germany if we didnt these movements and the Ecological Movement discovered the parliaments as a part of when the green party formed the government with the center left social democrats in 1998 it looked like time was up for new clear power and the year 2000 the red green government decided to phase out Nuclear Power when a time when 100 homes are in the lead we started a process of negotiation with the companies about the maximum lifespan of each plant which until then had been on a limited. Run we wanted to limit them to enable a phased shutdown for. And that meant that once all the existing reactors
Them pilgrims. The reason the word is cited is that William Bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry referred to them as pilgrims. Not uppercase, big p, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on a journey for religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard ship with people that you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Because