And august, the next is pay pourhouse arena power house arena. A little bit about this book and erica wagner. As you can tell just from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. Not most great monuments dont dont inspire great rating but this is a good exception to that. From hard crane to many otherpots and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer, david mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject, and erica wagner is right up there with all of those other writers. What she has done here with this biography of Washington Roebling is remind everyone although he whats son of a designer he was the person long with his wife who got it through, those dozen or so youres to the end and it was so years to the end and 15 years ago his father died, just up here in the heights behind you, and the young 32yearold took over and brilliantly brought it to life. A little bit about erica. She has written on many different topics. We
Historical society. He is an architectural historian who specializes in European Architecture of the 18th and 20th centuries. He is best known throughout new videohrough a series of walking tour is presented by channel 13 including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He has lectured at numerous venues, including columbia university, the Smithsonian Institute and the harvard graduate before we begin we would like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones, electronic beepers, lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. [applause] barry i dont need that. Me, i am all over the stage. It is interesting, i had some people talking to me about this lecture. I am not talking about the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. Why brooklyn needed the bridge and more so than that, new york. New york would never ever admit that they needed brooklyn but they needed it. Just in case people were not here, it was a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. In rec
He is best known throughout new york for the series of video walking tours presented by channel 13, including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He lectured at numerous vienna venues, including columbia, university of pennsylvania and smithsonian and Harvard Graduate School of planning and architecture. We always like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones and electronic beepers. Now lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. Thank you. [applause] professor lewis i dont need that. You know me. Im all over the stage. Actually it is interesting there it i had people talking to me about the lecture. Im not really talking about the the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. New york would never admit it needed brooklyn but it needed it. Again, just in case people were not here, its a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. Remember new york and Staten Island becomes a premier city by the 1820s and 180s. 1830s. 60,000 in manhattan in 1800 and
On the backs of fish and many whales, which cuts through the waters surface . The beluga doesnt have one. This whale lives far to the north where its very cold and where, more often than not, this hardy white whale finds itself swimming under arctic ice sheets. Quite frankly, a dorsal fin would get in the way or worse, scraped up, or off. So no dorsal fin. But that doesnt mean that only this individual beluga whale doesnt have one and that this other beluga whale does. No, all beluga whales have adapted to have no dorsal fin. This is not something that they decided as individuals no matter how intelligent they might be. But its something that nature decided for them, in a manner of speaking. Physical adaptations during an animals life span but over many generations, and these changes to an animals body almost always result as a response to one of three things one, factors in the animals habitat, which is where it lives. These factors include adapting to the climate as in the case of ou
Michelle, talks about u. S. Innovation. Her book is, who built that . Young Americas Foundation hosted the event at the reagan ranch at the Reagan Ranch Center in santa barbara, california. It is my privilege to introduce to you today our future speaker and share a few reflections on my experience with Young America foundation. Welcome to those watching on cspan. Young America Foundation is committed to educating and inspiring increasing Young Americans across our nation. With individual freedom, Strong National defense, free enterprise, traditional values. For students, conferences like the one we are attending today is one of Young America foundations primary means of it inspiring the next generation of leaders. As mr. Larson mentioned, it is my first time here at the reagan ranch. About four years ago when i attended my First High School conference. That is when my passion for freedom was ignited. I heard about the miracle of america. A proud and exceptional country. Founded on the