The department of paleobiology at the Smithsonians National museum of Natural History has received a speech in from harvard university. Previously, he as Vice President arch and at the Royal Ontario Museum in toronto and was a professor of zoology at the university of toronto. From 2004 to 2009, cancer served as associate director for research and collections at the National Museum of natural. He published extensively on dinosaurs and other extinct vertebrates. Hes done a lot of media appearances with america and europe, and with that, please join in welcoming our very own monsters. Okay. Good evening. Its my pleasure to talk to you today about one of the strangest episodes in the history of science in the united, the infamous bone wars. This happened during the 19th century, and it seemed for many years my paleontology had sort of a dark shadow over it because thought this was really a science for very strange people. But the thing was that over time we realized that in fact these bon
The department of paleobiology at the Smithsonians National museum of Natural History has received a speech in from harvard university. Previously, he as Vice President arch and at the Royal Ontario Museum in toronto and was a professor of zoology at the university of toronto. From 2004 to 2009, cancer served as associate director for research and collections at the National Museum of natural. He published extensively on dinosaurs and other extinct vertebrates. Hes done a lot of media appearances with america and europe, and with that, please join in welcoming our very own monsters. Okay. Good evening. Its my pleasure to talk to you today about one of the strangest episodes in the history of science in the united, the infamous bone wars. This happened during the 19th century, and it seemed for many years my paleontology had sort of a dark shadow over it because thought this was really a science for very strange people. But the thing was that over time we realized that in fact these bon
In the fields of flanders, because of the munitions, and one presumes because of death, those grounds then were disturbed, and those poppies began to grow. And so, the poppies then grew in amongst what is the killing fields. And so, then the poem in flanders field, was written. It began popularity in 1919 after the war in britain and then soon in the United States. Poppies began being sold as remembrance to raise funds for wounded veterans. When you come into the National World war i museum and memorial, as you mentioned, theres a bridge that takes you into the main galleries under which this glass bridge is a beautiful field of poppies, red poppies of flanders field. There are 9,000 blooms, each representing 1,000 combatant deaths. Its really an architectural masterpiece, i think, of the museum, very striking for visitors. Whats interesting is to see how Different Countries respond to that. Americans, theyre moved by the poem, theyre moved by the experience. Europeans or people from t
I like to call the hearing to order. And id like to recognize the chairman of the committee for a statement. Thank you senator burns. Senator casey members of the committee. How to think senator burr for chairing the hearing today and senator casey for serving as Ranking Member at senator murrays request. Theyre both been leaders. Senator per was the original author of the first passage of the pandemic. He helps protect us from the full range of Public Health threats. Natural disasters and outbreaks of net the disease. Then in 2013, senators bring caseys led the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards act. Many can be contributed to that time including senators and see in bennett, war, hatch, roberts, and others. Now it needs to be reauthorized for second time. Todays hearing is the second weve have the sheer. Last week we heard from the administration on recommendations of advance including from the assistant secretary of preparedness and response the senators for the
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Members of the committee i call this hearing on agriculture and forestry to order todays marks the ninth hearing this your dedicated to stakeholders all around the country country, programs are working as we work towards a formal. This includes taking look and spending requests and proposals and do not have day budget baseline. As i said the committee must be mindful of a very tough budgetary impairment that we have to face while it is a principal duty to ensure the next farm bill provides our producers with the necessary tools and resources to feed a growing and hungry world with the responsibilities dont stop there the farm bill needs to support businesses with schools. Said and that is what the farmers and ranchers call home. We had the opportunity to hear from a number of stakeholders. Into the witness is a apologize. Looking at the electric cooperative. And then with an affordable and Reliable Energy. And with the commodities. The roll Telec