Health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we have definitely thought about difficulties inherent in making a vaccine and we were pretty sure this pandemic would last a fair amount of time and we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. They were keeping things week by week in the museum. Before mid march, what were your job duties and what has changed in the last couple months . I oversee a division of historians of medicine and historians of science. When the pandemic was beginning, we were actually very deep into the planning part of it and began to think about changing our exhibits. We thought it would be important to include covid19. That meant that we needed to thinking about c
The rangers doug the rangers are one of the most famous lawenforcement organizations in the world. I would put them up with scotland yard, canadian police, the fbi, that sort of thing. They have been around longer than any state Law Enforcement organization in the united states. They have this worldwide image. That is what i am going to explore a little bit tonight. How they got this image, what this image is, but i think we all have some idea of what a texas ranger is. Maybe from tvs and movies, if nothing else. That was my first exposure to the rangers. Growing up in florida, i watched this disney show called texas john slaughter. Some of you may have seen that. The theme song was texas john slaughter, made them do what they outta, because if they didnt they would die. The lone ranger may be the most most cinematic most famous of the cinematic, tv, and radio rangers that started in 1933. Out of wxyz in detroit. The script was originally called man hunter. But then they changed it to
Central africa is not just a region of military interest. Its also rich in gold and diamond reserves along with businessmen ready to exploit them. This man for example on the left. He appears in footage shot in 2014 at a security meeting in the oval. That day he was handed what was clearly a confidential map. He refused our requests to film it and with good reason. I dont really have a clue if it was the map was addressed to the colonel of the American Armed forces. Im not saying mark feels some this is mark pearson. Apparently hes a cultural advisor. But what would a cultural advisor be doing and. That goes and why entrust a cultural advisor with an American Military map. 4 years later i looked into who mark pearson really was. Before following the American Military into the area he was employed by jim diamonds a multinational diamond operation. It boasts turnover of some 300000000 euros with mines and prospecting projects all over africa including one in the Central African republic.
A virus pandemic with a death toll much higher than its neighbors of the chief epidemiologist admitting mistakes we asked of sweden have made a deadly ever the interview generated a wave of reactions and political debate in sweden including from the leader of the opposition and the Prime Minister. Foreign minister and linda welcome to conflict zone thank you very much. You said recently that swedens trust based strategy to combat the coronavirus was working your Prime Minister also continues to maintain the strategy was the right one but to date you have nearly 5000 confirmed coronavirus deaths far higher per capita than your neighbors who imposed stricter lock downs early on with such a high death toll how can you say that your strategy is working. Well actually we have the same goals as most other governments that says to save life and health and also to keep the system in the Health Service able to cope with this very strong push on the limits and actually we manage to flatten the c
Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our john thomas certainly glad to have you its. Now the e. U. Foreign policy chief has condemned the alleged poisoning of election a volley calling it an assassination attempt the russian opposition figure is in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator in a berlin hospital 2 weeks after being airlifted from russia berlin said on wednesday that he had been poisoned with a nova choke a nerve agent russias calling for dialogue stating its still received no data from germany on the findings reporting on the International Fall out from the alleged poisoning of alexina volley heres our. Well im glad merkel speaking here in berlin alongside the swedish Prime Minister stefan levin briefly touching on alexina valmy and saying that how germany would respond to russia depended on russia right now and how it responds to those allegations that came out on wednesday as it stands moscow is far from happy with berlin at the moment in the way tha