Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appalachian mountains. Our first president , george washington, happened to be a canal engineer, had an idea. That idea was to create a transcontinental water
Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
Appomattox courthouse village is famous because its where general lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to you lessees to Ulysses S Grant bringing about an end or the beginning of the end to the American Civil War. This little town has a lot of history for its size. Today, we would like to talk a little bit about why appomattox courthouse is so famous. Wed like to spend more time talking about some Untold Stories. ,he courthouse is a village complete with a tavern, stores, lawyers offices and homes. The town was not more than 140 people in 1865. Its an unlikely place for two large military forces to meet. Army of Northern Virginia and general grants multiple army forces with about 63,000 men, about 95,000 soldiers total within a six mile rate is of here. Unlikely because its not were either army wanted to be. Its where they ended up. As fate would have it for generally, his army was practically surrounded here by general grants forces and on the morning of palm sunday, april 9,
How are you doing . Pretty good. Welcome. Thank you. Were very happy to have a chance to talk to you today. Um, can you tell me a little bit about your childhood . Im interested because it seems like your independent, fighting spirit seemed to emerge early. Perhaps earlier than for most. Yes. I spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. However, i was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wattela, georgia, which is considered middle georgia and not that far from augusta, georgia. After that, i went to with my family to st. Augustine, florida, and thats where i came of age as a teenager. I came by my activism very early. I always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i dont know exactly where i got that from, but the idea of segregation and things that white people could do and black people could not do, i understood very early, maybe as early as 7, 8 years old that there was s
Sole that theyre real louboutins. But the sparkliness of it . I dont know. Im going with fake sparkles. So my insiders are telling me this is actually an instagram filter and not just reflection off the glitter pumps. So in that respect, its a fake video because there is an instagram filter on the shoes. Thats what my insiders are saying so i got to go with them on this one. But the glitter louboutin is real, right . Thats right. Here we go with video number three. You can see him handing it off. You can see the Slight Movement of i had hand. Thats a great stunt, but it was set up. You would react to a skateboarder coming out of nowhere and landing in front of you. Youd be like, whoa. What are you doing . Yeah, yeah. Totally set up. The guy with the beer was in on it. Yeah. So this was caught on camera in london south bank. A professional skateboarder. Its a complete setup. You can see the guy standing there ahead of time. But this clip definitely went viral. My friends are sending thi