Once you begin walking on the pier you dont realize that youre only a block away from downtown. You realize youre over the ocean, at the beach, and some completely unique environment that really is not part of the city. The pier is among the last great the book is santa monica pier a century on the last ier. Peei the story has this wonderful arc. Ups and downs, almost ends and then the Community Rallies to save it and it has to go through growing pains. Meets Natural Disaster and it grows again so its a wonderful up and down story from fishing pier to Amusement Park pier, and its been the home to many, many interesting stories. The santa monica Municipal Pier opened on september 9, 1909. If you write numerically, its 9909. Opened Public Utilities to run sewage into the ocean. Thats what it was built for. A very specific purpose. It did open as being distinct and unique in the fact that it was the first ever entirely concrete pier built on the west coast of the United States, with the c
Important humanitarian decision. And he deserves every bit of the credit that weve heard here today. That said, we have to be realistic and say that doesnt solve all the problems and the fact it create some. Then on the civil war,. Whatever i did in academe should also have some dimension that reached out to people who are just interested in the era the way i have been when i was growing up and seemed there should be more bridges between academia and the public than are. Are. One of the key places where that can happen i knew also from experience was at battlefields where you can make a connection to the past in the way that you cant. Sunday at 4 p. M. Eastern on reel america the 1967 film testament of truth details civilian injuries and deaths caused by u. S. Bombing in north vietnam. I used to come home from school for happy with all my close father, grandmother and grandfather. There were 15 of them including an unborn baby had been killed. Only i am left. Even little babies, innoce
Racist. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [ applause ] that sounds nice, doesnt it. Beautiful. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Terrific talent. Please sit down. Please. I want to welcome everyone to the white house. We are very excited to be hosting our third annual made in america showcase. Its all about made in america. We just started this. And this is my third already. And i just went around and saw these incredible companies that make everything from the thaad missiles to beautiful boats. And i said, how would that boat do against the thaad missile . And it wasnt a good answer. The boat has a problem. And thats okay. I want to say the engineering insight you know. We have incredible things. Im going to look. I saw some yesterday. Incredible things made in the usa. We are here today to celebrate and support the most incredible products in the world. And this is just a very representative sampling because we are making more product here than we ever
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Placed on each others goods as agreed between the 2 leaders after they met on the sidelines of the g 20 summit in japan last month but some numbers to unpick here for the u. S. President donald trump was long complained of unfair trade practices by the chinese and the fact that the United States has a large trade deficit with china even though exports from china to the United States are down the trade surplus that the chinese have with the United States grew in the month of june to almost 30000000000. 00 so no doubt that will be discussed if those negotiations face to face negotiations do restart as expected possibly in china within the next couple of weeks one of the most concerning numbers for the overall chinese economy to be released is that imports from all countries a down 7. 3 percent and that is being blamed on weak domestic demand. Well the weather is next and then the feud between 2 asian neighbors thats threatening the worlds tack industry. And these ones for britain artwork