Thank you for your patience. Were delighted to be gathered here today. I dont want to slow is down, but i do want to make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our oldtimers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience, so were delighted be that as well. Those who have never been here before i want to give you a sense of this institution which has been around for a very long time, 154 years, and we are Historical Society that prides ourselves on being very, very accessible to people. We have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all. We encourage you to come and explore it. We have exhibitions which you may have got an glimpse of right behind the wall, history of abolition in brooklyn, called in pursuit of freedom. Theres an exhibition i want to make sure that you pick up this brochure on
You all so much for your patience. We are delighted to be gathered here today. I dont want to slow us down, but i do want to make sure you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at the Historical Society for the first time . Welcome to the institution has been around for a long time, 154 heres comin, and we are a histl society that prides herself on being very accessible to people. We have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all. Periods behind the wall of history. It is an exhibition about the prospect parprospect park and iy downstairs, so theres a lot going on and you should come back and explore and perhaps most importantly for those of you that are interested in Public Programs such as this one i want to make sure that you pick up this brochure on your way back. It is chalk full of incredibly interesting programs and a whole series about womens suffrage coming up soon. Take a look. Dont miss any of the great
I dont want to slow us down, but i do want make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our full timers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience so we are delighted by that as well. For those of you who have never been here before, i want to give you a sense of this institution which has been around for very long time am a 154 years and we are a Historical Society that prides ourselves on being very assessable to people, we have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all and we encourage you to come explore. We have exhibitions which you may have gotten a glimpse of ray behind this wall, history of abolition in brooklyn called in pursuit of freedom, theres an expedition about Jackie Robinson and baseball world series season, upstairs and an exhibition about the Prospect Park and its histo
1. 855. We begin with facebook with the social media giant honing a Developers Conference this hour. The stock right now is currently down 1. 9 but it is nonetheless, still sitting around alltime highs. Julia borstein is live at the big event in san francisco. Julia. Thats right, mandy. Mark zuckerberg is about to take the stage. He will be addressing the 2,500 developers who are gathered here in san francisco, and there are two main topics that he is expected to make big news on. Messenger is facebooks standalone messeninging app, and he announced he will be turning it into a platform. That means that developers will be able to build other apps on top of the platform very similar to what weve seen with the line app, which is a popular messaging app in asia. That means people will be able to buy things, buy movie tickets, and do various things including read content, watch videos without actually leaving the messenger app. Big news there as well as an Ad Technology as facebook looks to
YEREVAN, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS. Member of Parliament Vilen Gabrielyan from the ruling Civil Contract party presented a new gun control bill seeking to introduce new regulations on sale and use of firearms.