The spanish in 1756. Its a place where you and your family can stroll through the grounds, talk with knowledgeable interpreters about the world of spain and its effect on the appalachain over time. In 1528, vaa rez landed in the t tampa bay area. He was looking to gather the riches that the natives, the spaniards had found in what they called the new world. That they were hoping for gold, we might think, or other valuables. That they could take back to europe. A it happened in latin america. The aztec empire. They thought north america should have those resources as well. By the time you got to tallahassee, he thought better of the expedition. He thought he missed the simply ship and they decide d theb at that point to build some crude ships like rafts and try to find their way back to new spain. Which is present day mexico. That was really the first europeans that were well documented in the area. The next person to try it was her nan doe desoto. Its really from that expedition that w
The cold war, including a talk about the u. S. Army special forces attachment in per lynn and films from that era including the 1962 film a road to the wall. All week starting at 8 00 eastern on cspan 3. Saturday night at 8 00 eastern, women who have been the victims of Sexual Harassment and abuse tell their stories. Here is gretchen karlsson. You told me a couple experiences you had before. You had couple experiences that were pretty disgusting. Yeah, right. Unfortunately this isnt my first day on the rodeo. It was my first day as miss america. My resume of being a concert violinist, valedictorian, et cetera, i was just dumb. I had build thick skin a lot during that year. I started meeting with Television Executives because i realized this was a career i wanted to try and one executive was so nice to me all day long. He made so many phone calls for me and we went out to dinner and i thought, wow, this is going to be a great beginning for me. When we got into the backseat of the car se
Roger williams was it founder of rhode island and also the founder of the First Baptist church in america. Williams was born in london around 160 thr3. Were not sure of which because his birth records were burned up in the great london fire. He became a chapel for one of the great pureten lords. But because he was a puriten. He fled to england, arrived in at boston in february of 1631. This is a radical idea at this time. Every country had had a state church. They all had their own state supported churches. The taxes of the people paid for it ministers and the buildings and you had to go to church or theyd fine you. Williams said the state has no role whatsoever to play in religion. Eeventually he was put on trial and convicted of sedition and ha hauracy and was going to ship back to england before he could die. So he fled through it winter around february of 1636 and walked down from what is today salem where he was then taken in by izhad friends, the wompa indians. The following spri
Was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. We recommend that you approve this resolution. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions . We will move on to Public Comment. Anyone wishing to comment on item 10 . Okay. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. So moved. Motion by supervisor tang. We can take it without objection. Madam clerk call item 11. Item 11 requisition of the Real Property at 490 south van ness, the Purchase Price of 18,500,000. Okay. We have the Mayors Office of housing here. Hello. The res before you is approve the acquisition of Real Property at 490 south van ness from the south van ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and Maurice Casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of 18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. There will be a deduction of transfer
Electronic devices, complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will be on the july 28 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you madam clerk. Lets get rolling here. We have a number of items here and at the end we have two hearings and please call item 1. Item 1 hearing hearing to consider the release of reserved funds, Arts Commission to build out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committee has allocated a historic amount for the Art Collection and afford us to the opportunity to properly store the citys civic Art Collection and by