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How are you . How are you . [applause] do you want to watch this program again . Visit booktv. Org to watch anything you see here online. Type the name of the book or author at the top of the page and click on the hour glass. You can share anything on facebook or twitter by clicking on the share box at the bottom of the page. All top authors and books available at booktv. Org. Good afternoon and welcome to sight and sound. I am the associate director of studies here. It is my pleasure to announce a discussion between myself and edward lucas and his book cyberphobia. It hold as great interest for the audience. One is our own personal security of your computer and bank account and other things. The second thing he deals with is the massive Security Issues involved of all that you can imagine and how cyber can affect the nations census, utilities and Security Systems of all kinds and i think we have seen many examples. Mr. Lucas is a Senior Editor at the columnist. He has a long career in
I remember a senator to rows behind me miss lynch, i dont want to get in the way of your confirmation. Ill talk to dr. Holder. The senator about three rows behind me said, reverend al also moment. I said, yes, it is. He said, for he is present to put his hand on lincolns bible and dr. Kings bible, he said its an aweinspiring moment. I said, yes, it is. I said, dont be confused. He said, what do you mean . I said, they are two identical bibles. Same amount of books, same amount of verses, same amount of chapters. There wasnt no difference in the bibles. The difference was lincolns bible had been on the mental place in the white house. Heads of states and captains of industry and men of military used to look at that bible, but dr. Kings bible didnt come that way. Dr. Kings bible came through the backwoods of georgia through the buying you bayous of mississippi. If you open up the inside, when he went to jail, they would check his bible and then send it through the necessary institutional
The first landgrant for galveston started out in the 1830s. It went to a man and his investors. They had someone come in and lay out the plots for the city of galveston and began selling lots in the galveston was officially 1830s. Founded as a city in 1839. What is attractive about galveston, it was a natural harbor, and it was the only one between veracruz mexico, and mobile, alabama. There was this natural affinity to bring in goods and people into galveston that could go into texas and the middle part of the united states. Thats what brought it. It was really the industry, the availability of the port, the easy access from the gulf of mexico, and it really created an entire community. That followed for 100 years. As the 19th Century Maritime world changed, the ships became larger, and their cargo became much larger. What became particularly important for galveston that it was bringing in the costs from all of the cotton from the central part of the state and other states around us a
There was a nash a natural entity to bring in goods and people to go into texas and the middle part of the United States. The industry. The availability of ports and the easy access from the gulf of mexico. And it really created an entire community that followed for 100 years. As the 19th Century Maritime world changed, the ships became larger and their cargo became much larger. But what became important for galveston is that it was bringing in all of the cotton from the central part of the state and some of the other states around us and shipping it out of here. So, as that shipping became so important they needed to get bigger vessels in here, and closer into the harbor in order to load them up with this cargo, cotton. By the late 19th century, cotton was the largest and most common thing shipped out of the port of galveston. And it was the thing that created the wealth for the city and the wealth of the state of texas for a long time. Oil really was not it was a 20th century activit