Ambassador to libya. I had the honor to serve as the envoy to the libyan revolution and i was thrilled to watch the libyan people stand up and demand their rights. Now im excited to return to libya to continue the great work weve started, building a Solid Partnership between the United States and libya to help you the libyan people achieve your goals. Right now im in washington, preparing for my assignment. As i walk around the monuments and memorials commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an english teacher in morocco two years and quickly
My name is chris stevens, im the new u. S. Ambassador to libya. I had the honor to serve as the envoy to the libyan revolution and i was thrilled to watch the libyan people stand up and demand their rights. Now im excited to return to libya to continue the great work weve started, building a Solid Partnership between the United States and libya to help you the libyan people achieve your goals. Right now im in washington, preparing for my assignment. As i walk around the monuments and memorials commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an engli
My name is chris stevens, im the new u. S. Ambassador to libya. I had the honor to serve as the envoy to the libyan revolution and i was thrilled to watch the libyan people stand up and demand their rights. Now im excited to return to libya to continue the great work weve started, building a Solid Partnership between the United States and libya to help you the libyan people achieve your goals. Right now im in washington, preparing for my assignment. As i walk around the monuments and memorials commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an engli
One of them carved these images of the funeral procession which transported his body back to burgundy. Clothed in the habit of a carthusian monk, philips embalmed body was sealed in a lead coffin and carried in a funeral cortege whh took nearly seven weeks to wind the 250 miles from brussels to dijon. Accompanied by his sons, his chaplains, and members of his royal court, the hearse was drawn by six horses in black with the blue banners of burgundy fluttering at its corners. At dijon, it was received not only by the weeping clergy, but by 100 chosen townspeople and 100 poor, also clad in black at the dukes expense. As with the other great royal and ducal rituals of the later middle ages, death itself could be turned into public theater. Philips tomb itself lay just outside dijon at the carthusian monastery of champmol. It took nearly 30 years to complete and was finished in 1414. Three sculptors worked on it. Among them was a forgotten genius of european art, the man who conceived this
My name is chris stevens, im the new u. S. Ambassador to libya. I had the honor to serve as the envoy to the libyan revolution and i was thrilled to watch the libyan people stand up and demand their rights. Now im excited to return to libya to continue the great work weve started, building a Solid Partnership between the United States and libya to help you the libyan people achieve your goals. Right now im in washington, preparing for my assignment. As i walk around the monuments and memorials commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an engli