Converged and kind of combined cultures and experiences. And why rum . Prof. Smith i think what is really interesting about rum, its so ubiquitous. Washington, george mount vernon, everyone is bringing rum. It is served on washingtons table. Martha washington said in a letter to the house manager that rum may always be had, imported from a distillery locally in alexandria, virginia, but also from the caribbean. Part of the economy, bringing in hired workers to get some of their wages in rum, and people who received rum for anything from childbirth to getting a cow out of the mire. Its one of these moments where you can see how different groups of people who you dont always think of in conjunction with each other interact around an item thats part of everyday life. When and where is it invented . Prof. Smith i argue in the book that rum was initially invented in barbados, in the early to mid17th century, when europeans from england and scotland as well as native people from south americ
Months after surveyors landing, men were leaving the earth to land on the ocean of storms. Charles pete conrad, richard crew ofalan dean, the apollo 12, the second manned landing on the face of the moon. Their target, the site of surveyor three. 4, 3, 2,1, 0. Apollo 12 lifted off in the driving rain. In. He program is clear. This babys really going. 36 seconds later, lightning struck the spacecraft. Dont know what happened here. Showing your hit by lightning. Disconnecting. A and b out. We had a couple cardiac arrest down here, too. Tell you one thing looking good. They space and on earth, checked systems to make sure the lightning caused no damage that would endanger the mission. The time for commitment neared, to send apollo 12 to the moon. Translator injection, trans lunar injection, tli. Apollo houston, the good word is you are ready for tli. We are ready. We didnt expect anything else. We didnt train for anything else. You Better Believe it. Burn looks good. Off, apollones cut 12
Preceding that happy occasion, the 52 underwent over 14 months of anxiety, uncertainty and fates were manipulated by the iranians. Here to describe some of the events from those months is air force colonel thomas schaefer, the senior ranking military hostage who was performing duty as Defense Attache at the time of the takeover. Col. Schaefer thank you, claude. It is indeed a pleasure to be here today with you, for me to tell you about my experience, to share with you some of the major items that i have gone through to possibly help you in a future situation. Either as a hostage or captive. You probably would ask, how does one cope with this type of experience . First of all, initially after it happened, as we were taken captive, i forgot, purposely, i forgot about how it happened. I got rid of that, accepted the fact that i was a captive and did not dwell on it. One must be disciplined in this type of a situation, in this environment, to establish a schedule purposely to take us up ev
Migration issues at the u. S. mexico border. Its about an hour and 15 minutes. Advocates, students in the audience. And we are looking forward to a robust discussion among our three expert panelists and a very strong question and answer period. My name is anna gallagher, executive director of the catholic Legal Immigration network. We are an Affiliate Organization with over 370 members in 49 states across the United States. I always like to say were sort of a sleeping giant. Were a quiet organization. Folks may not know our name as quickly as they know the aclu or other organizations. However, we do a lot of the groundwork to support and represent low income immigrants across the United States. We do we help build their programs. We train them. We do advocacy. We also have religious Immigration Services division, which represents and helps bring sisters, brothers, priests, clergy to work in immigrant communities in the United States. And in the last year we added our litigation. Weave
To help these communities. This is an hour 20 minutes. Is this on . Can you hear me . Excellent. Welcome back. While youre all walking in and settling down thank you. I just wanted to say a couple words about what we do here at georgetown in this field before i welcome my panel and introduce everybody. Im andy. I direct the asylum films here. We represent Asylum Seekers in deportation hearings. Actually handle a case from beginning to end for Asylum Seekers all over the world. My colleague is here, as well, who i work with. Dina, is dina here . May be at some point. We have three lauries each semester and 12 students. The clinic has been doing this for, i guess, 24 years. I think phil started the asylum part of this in 1995. We also have courses on immigration and refugee law as well as we started last year to send volunteers to texas, to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children, to help prepare the women for credible fear in