Growth of the u. S. Beef industry. The Watkins Museum of history and lawrence kansas hosted this event. Good evening everyone. Welcome to our latest book chat at the watkins. I am will hickox. I thank you for joining us tonight. Im starting to sound like a broken record before every event, but these days, when there are so many options for things to do with our free time, and you can just sit on your couch every evening. It is very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. We really appreciate it. I know that the staff of the bookstore appreciates it as well. I will introduce tonights guest speaker. James sherow is University Distinguished professor at the department of history at kansas state university. He specializes in researching and teaching environmental history. Kansas history. North American Indian history and the history of the American West. Professor sherow sherow has written six books and numerous articles. It is a familiar re
Tgsds and here, here is the thing that shaped the trade more than anything else altogether. This tick, a lovely little creature, and then it harbored a three micron large protozoan, a tiny Little Critter inside the belly of this tick. Now, this tick thrived in the southern regions of the United States, in the southern portions of texas but also in mississippi and louisiana, georgia, florida, and what this tick would do, it latches on to the cattle. It would latch onto deer and horses as well, and then it would release this protozoan into the bloodstream of the cattle. In the south, the long horns and the cherokee cattle both developed immunities to this tick. The mothers milk gave those calves enough immunity where they could survive. They would be they would be touched by this disease, but they would survive it and grow into adulthood. This protozoan, when it got into the bloodstream of an animal that wasnt protected by the antibodies that its mother had given it, it would directly at
It is wednesday, may 6th. Of course, youre never more than seven minutes away from the accuweather forecast. Heres mike. I am just now seeing what youre doing. What do you call that . Sizzle. For the forecast. Just a little, not too much. I was going to say, you could do that while im doing the forecast but everybody would Pay Attention to you. Im kidding. Lets talk about the forecast. You can see the winds have calmed down considerably and theyll be back especially around the bay shoreline and the afternoon hours and high clouds quickly exiting ask the moon is down and now we just have to wait for the sunshine and sizzling temperatures. How hot it gets today. 49 to 52. Not bad this morning. Look at the 60s along the coast all day today while we hit the low to mid 70s around our bay and inland and 79 to 85 and this is just the beginning. More 80s and 90s coming up tomorrow and ill have that coming up next. Heres reggie. Also coming up tomorrow, mike, Governor Newsom expected to give us
Across south korea the birth rate is plummeting. As families move to the cities rural towns are losing their residents and their schools. Out in. Change to meet in those in the she means cutting. But some communities are trying new ways to keep their classrooms open so you believe it oh not at all i only offer all the all take me one no one east meets the grandmothers finally fulfilling their dreams for an education while helping save korea schools. Its the start of a new school day but 65 year old part killing soon is not your typical 2nd grader. Were this time. That out had their own end. And. Was. Yeah one big battle going home again you know. Shes one of 3 grandmothers and rolled in the 2nd grade at bangor in Primary School nestled in the picture rest farmlands near the city of pyong chang. But this is a school in crisis at its peak there were close to 700 students here today there are only 22. The grandmas share a classroom with just 28 year olds there simply arent enough children
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