Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
Dave murphy has accuweather. Karen rogers hopefully a very different day when it comes to the traffic. Its a pretty good election day. You have to bundle up if youre headed out early. We have clear skies across the region clouds even farther off the coast than before and the stuff out to the west you might get a little bit that of later in the day and tonight but generally speaking a fair amount of sunshine today. Were Still Holding the low 40s in philadelphia. Down to the freezing mark in allentown. 32 in reading. 33 in wilmington, 35 in trenton so cold to start out across the region and even philadelphia may dip down into the upper 30s briefly. But as we go into the afternoon, things do improve big time also winds not really much of a factor. Weve got a lot of calm winds. On your way to the polls this morning expect it to be chilly. In philadelphia we may still be holding 40 but a lot of suburbs virtually all of them will be in the 30s at 7 oclock so if youre voting early its going t
They had a big idea that the original sources would be of value to everyone in perpetuity, so they collected those materials and brought them here as a gift to the nation. Why washington dc . It is an international city, our capitol. So in addition to putting this marvelous collection here they created this remarkable building which has the 1st north american to the theater with a beautiful great hall that we are in and another beautiful who are the folgers . President of standard oil and he made his fortune as an oilman and then while he was running standard oil very quietly acquired the greatest shakespeare collection in the world bar none including 82 copies of the 16,231st vote in. We would here that term throughout the store. The 1st folio is a collection of 36 plays published by two of his friends who knew him. Without that book published in 1623 we probably would not have 18 of his plays including mcbeth and 12th night and winters tale, the most studied single edition of the boo
Watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. Michael witmore, what is the Folger Shakespeare library . It was greater in 1932 by Henry Clay Folger and his wife. They had a big idea which is the original sources for shakespeare and his world would be of value to everyone in perpetuity. So they collected those materials and they put them. Two blocks away from this capital as akin to the nation. Y. Washington, d. C. . They felt it was an international city. Its our capital and that this was really a truly national and international asset. In addition to putting this marvelous collection here, they created this remarkable building which housed the First North American tudor theater, beautiful great although were in which is on hampton corporate another medieval reading the. Mr. Folger was president of standard oil, and he made his fortune as an oilman. Hed been while he was running standard oil very quietly acquired the greatest shakespeare collection in the world, bar none. Includi
The nominee on the other side ends up being donald trump, i think the potential is that he ends up making that case for her. And that certainly has been if you look at the polls in recent, like, the last sort of swing states, the last five states that voted last week, she won all five in a surprise sweep that even her own campaign wasnt expecting, and a lot of that was based off women moving much more towards hillary and away from the republican primaries, frankly. But, i dont know, well have to see if she can actually make that case. It hasnt been made yet. But i think the bottom line too is if you are willing to go for the jet ski, how are you going to pay for it in and theres nothing that, you know, outlines things from an Economic Policy standpoint that connect all those dots in bernies case. What about the macro, second part of the question, does the millennial expectation of equality have implications for the larger push for women, are they going to be giving up more than the old