In southeast asia. Sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern. While congress is in recess, American History tv will be in prime time monday through friday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, featuring events from watergate. All weekend on American History tv, we are featuring Historic Sites and local historians from cities across america. These are highlights from cspans 2014 city to her. Stop atdeo from all our cspan. Org localcontent. Photographer Lauren Irving retraced john freeman trip to photograph oregon campus. What makes this different from doing Historical Research is that sometimes the writing in the journal is so precise and welldescribed that i can find characteristics of location studies right in the journal. So i end up trying to capture that on film. I am trying to incorporate things in the images that are described in the journal. In late may of 1843, the expedition left westport, which is near kansas city now. And went along what is now the oregon trail. His job was to map the oregon
Must be expert riders willing to risk death the daily. Wage is 25 a week, which is a large sum of money for the time period. But of course, risking death daily comes with this type of occupation. The telegraph comes across the prairie and often times the is stretchede across the sagebrush because there were very few trees even to this day across much of the expanse of the planes. With the telegraph laid out across the prairie, annals would run through it. Native americans learned the talking wireman more white people coming down the prairie. They would use it for ornamented accessories or jewelry, etc. The story of the trails ends with the Continental Railroad bringing in mass populations very rapidly through the western United States. It also begins a new chapter with the modern highway that we now have today. I hope visitors take away from the Interpretive Center here in appreciation of the people that settled the american west. They were not large people. They were tough people with
Did you make any commitments . We are above 2 . We are one of only four countries. Estonia, greece, and britain in the european union, and america, four out of 28. We have stayed above 2 even at a time when we have one of the biggest budget deficits anywhere in the world. I think that is important. I think it is worth looking at what the declaration says pretty what is remarkable is there has always been the 2 pledge in nato, but it has never been set out as clearly as this. It is very clear what has been signed up to. It makes a differentiation. It says those meeting 2 should aim to continue. Some year after year have not been spending 2 . It says allies whose current proportion of gdp spent is below on this level will default any aim toward [indiscernible] an aim to move toward the 2 within a decade. I would argue theres a lot that has been achieved. Proper Training Missions that will go to countries like jordan and georgia and iraq. Here an important breakthrough in terms of getting
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