Up next, the National Portrait gallery senior curator wendy wick reaves, talks about amateur depictions of George Washington. Instead of focusing on portraits drawn from life, she explores the lesserknown unless accurate and less accurate images of washington that circulated in the 18th century. George Washingtons Mount Vernon hosted this 50 minute event. Good afternoon. My name is elizabeth stock known to many people here as betty. Together with my husband stanley scott, i am in a serious enthusiast for George Washington of many varieties, including portraiture. We have collected all of our adult lives as were several members of our families, before us, and they acquired a number of surveyor drawings medallions, coins, rare books, stamps and metals, as well as documents on the subject of George Washington and his time. We have been active supporters of mount vernon for several decades and are members of the connoisseurs society. This lively group is dedicated to supporting the acquisi
The entire globe of the world. Well, first of all, the domino theory was nonsense when it was articulated in it turned out to be nonsense in fact. No other countries fell to communist rule is because vietnam fell. Our theory about why we were going into the war reflected a disastrous lack of understanding about the anticolonial attitudes of the vietnamese people. They had thought the french for decades and then the japanese. They wanted selfrule. Fdr opposed supported french imperialists. The failure to understand that communism wasnt monolithic was also an Extraordinary Part of the ignorance that motivated the actions of the United States. The idea that china and vietnam were like this was ridiculous. Anybody who knew anything about history, which excludes top people in the u. S. Government, at least at that time, china and vietnam had thought many wars over the centuries and just a few years after the vietnam war ended, china and vietnam fought another war. I was there at the time. I
Sterns parasites. That is what is going to get you. Germs and parasites. My First Cousins son died tragic day from essential the flu. This is my first cousin once removed. Apparently, the virus had the right genes to attack his jeans. When you have sex, you have a new site team, a new mixture. So people studied these top notes and they found that the ones who reproduce sexually than the ones who reproduce on their own. Wait, theres more. And these populations with flooding and so on, river ponds get isolated and dry up in the river flows again, in between, some of the fish will have sex with other fish sometimes they will have sex on their own, asexually. Those face, the ones in between, sometimes days, sometimes that have an intermediate number of infections. In other words, the explanation provided by evolution made a prediction in the prediction is extraordinary and sato, but there it is. How else would you explain it . To mr. Ham and his followers, this is something we want. We wan
People over the years had found in canada there was clearly a fossil marsh. A place that used to be a swamp dried out and they found all sorts of happy swamp fossils there, ferns and animals and fish that were recognized. People realized with the age of the rocks as computed by traditional scientists this would be a reasonable place to look for in animal, a fossil of an animal that lived there. They found several specimens. They made a prediction this animal would be found and it was found. So far it cannot make predictions and show results. Here is an externally one that i find remarkable. There are certain fish that have them are remarkable ability to have sex with other fish, traditional fish sex and they can have sex with themselves. One of the old questions in life science, everybody, one of the chin strokers is why does any organism whether you are and ash tree or ec jelly, a squid, apartment, why does anyone have sex . There are more bacteria in your tummy right now than there a
Two things. Submittedt budget was march 4. How long do you think it will did Something Back to congress after that date . Question is, is you can have a lot of under noticed stuff in novemberdecember saying you stabilize the debt. You need 2 trillion longterm. To reduce the to prerecession levels. Trillion over 10 years. It is very similar to what old simpson was saying in bow lessimpson was saying. Walk us through the overview of how much progress was made in the budget. On your first question, it takes about a month to produce estimates of the president s budget. But that time frame varies depending on what the policy proposals are, how from the lawyer or unfamiliar they are to us. And depending on the release of underlying data. So we use a lot of data that comes out with the president s budget separate from his proposals, but data is very important in updating our baseline. We will not make any precise predictions, but in the past it was about a month. I dont i cant speak directly