Want to capture, you take it off of your wrist and it is simple. It will expand and be as easy as gesturing. It is completely autonomous. There is no remote required. There is a direction and it will stay close. If you throw it, it will go further away. It is completely autonomous. David cameron takes questions from the house of commons, followed by an election preview. After that, a Senate Hearing on treatment for alzheimers. David cameron answered questions from members of the coalition ahead of the general election. Cameron announced his next turn would be his last. This is 35 minutes. Thank you mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker i know the whole house will wish to join me in offering our deepest condolences to the family and friends of all those killed in yesterdays airbus crash in france. It is heart breaking to hear about the schoolchildren, the baby, the families whose lives have been brought to an end. As the foreign there were british nationals involved. Three have been identified. The
Throughout the rest of 1914, he was deeply troubled. But by may he is head over heels in love with a woman named edith. A 40something widow in washington, d. C. It is not clear yet whether she is going to fall in love with him back. He is writing passionate love letters to her by the dozens at this point. This is the context, war and passion. Brian you start out by saying this i first started reading about the lusitania on a whim. What was the whim . Erik when i look for the next idea, it is always a difficult time. A good friend of mine coined a term to describe it, she says that is when i am in the dark country of no ideas. When i am in that country, i always try to just read. If something occurs to me i will start looking into it. The lusitania had always been on my back burner, but i had always been reluctant to think about doing a book about it because it seems to me it is almost like, too obvious a story, too much low hanging fruit. A lot of times i want an idea that is complex e
Way toward the lounge. What are you talking about . Erik this was the night before the lusitania was torpedoed. The next day, the ship was going to enter the socalled zone of war declared by the german navy. The water surrounding the u. K. Had been designated as a zone of war. The night before, captain turner was going into the lounge to talk to passengers during the intermission for the nightly talent show, one of the features of transatlantic voyages. He had some sobering news, but also some comforting news. He wanted to, first let everyone know that they were entering the war zone the next day, but the good news was that he said that they would be comfortably under the protection of the british navy. The royal navy. Brian and where they . Erik no, it turns out they werent at all. Brian and this is 1915 . What is going on in the world . Erik what is going on in the world is war. America is not in the war. The war broke out in august of 1914 and very quickly the war has proven to the
Property. And it went to court and went to lord mansfield, famous jurist, who ruled that slavery so odious, that was the term that he used, that it cannot be tolerated on english soil. Crucially, it could be tolerated in the colonies. But thats another story. [laughter] but not on english soil. And the United States, the founders of the country were almost all slave owners. And they could see the handwriting on the wall. If the colonies remained under british rule, probably these laws would apply here, and theyd lose their property. That was surely a significant element of the revolution. And it runs right to the present. I mean, right to this moment the civil war is still being fought. Simply take a look at the electoral maps. Say the map of the election in 2012, red states and blue states. Its almost identical to the civil war. Its the confederacy, can which now call themselves republicans shifted names [laughter] and the rest which was the north. A large part of the motivation behin
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] for more information about the author visit his website, john ferling. Com. In 1905 the worlds first practical airplane, this was the third and final experimental airplane the right brothers built and it survives as the second oldest of their airplanes today. This airplane which warble white considered the first practical airplane was constructed and flown in six years time between the time that they build their tight and the succekite and the particular airplane. This was two years after their flight in kittyhawk. The right flyer in kittyhawk flew four times, four times on one historic day. There were four important flights and they very much for proof of concept of power heavier than air flight but the airplane behind me, the 1905 wright flyer iii was capable of repeated take offs and landings, repeated flights not just of a few seconds at but time but upwards of 40 minutes by october of 1905 and this airplane can fly graceful circl