Long partly because professors talk to long anyway, but because the most fun of these events is to a degree of back and forth with questions and so forth. So if im too verbose, john stop it. I think the question of whether the American Century is over is one that has intrigued a lot of people both here and in china. And it is a conventional wisdom that china is going to surpass the United States and the American Century. In fact, if you look at the book by martin jock in british author, the title tells it all. Its when china ruled the world are my harvard colleague niall ferguson, the 21st century is the chinese century. And a little bit earlier this year, its about a year ago i should say the Financial Times had a headline which says that this was the year in which china had passed the United States. I thought these ideas were wrong, and part of that is whats in the book, to try to understand what the world will look like in 2041 which is 100 years after henry ruth made his famous pro
Bel air, maryland. He went to a school in sparks, maryland, run by quaker elder and a military middle and high school in catonsville, maryland run by an episcopalian priest. These are good schools. It was difficult for him. His sister said his older brothers were more intuitive but for john, he had to really force himself to learn things. It was not easy. I see all sorts of clues that he was a good auditory learner. He would listen, especially to people he respected. We know this. You can pay attention. You can learn a lot with your ears. People have made a fortune with their ears. He was very good about picking up things just by listening other people. He became an actor in his late teens. He was in richmond for two years and was popular there. I was able to discover that the roles he played more than any other role was lord gundry in our american cousin. It was not known what role he had until recently and i was glad to see that in a source. He knew that play backward and forward. Wh
His exit that got him out of the theater, it was that people were not sure what happened. It was a scene where one actor would be on stage. It was a front said. Everything was right in front of the footlights for dramatic presentation to the audience. There was not much furniture on the stage for that scene. It was a perfectly selected time to commit the crime that he did. Out the back door and down the alley. Booth was on the run from quite a while. Thomas hartman, a confederate agent, said he was surprised with his resourcefulness in heidi booth and some were ready to hand them off as a hot potato to the next person. He met his fate and garretts barn. Booth is buried in washington in 1965 1865. The body was turned over to the family and was taken to baltimore and identified by joseph, his youngest brother. Mrs. Booth was there but would not go and look at his son her sons remains. The funeral home in baltimore was right across the street from the home in baltimore theaters. There wer
Through, as i interpreted, on a modern frame, early high school. He went to a very good school in though air, maryland. He went to a school in sparks, maryland, run by quickerquaker elder and a military middle and high school run by an episcopalian priest. These are good schools. It was difficult for him. His sister said his older brothers were more intuitive but for john, he had to really force himself to learn things. It was not easy. I see all sorts of clues that he was a good auditory learner. He would listen, especially to people he respected. We know this. You can pay attention. You can learn a lot with your ears. People have made a fortune with her ears. He was very good about picking up things just by listening other people. He became an actor in his late teens. He was in richmond for two years and was popular there. I was able to discover that the roles he played more than any other role was lord gundry in our american cousin. It was not known what role he had until recently a
Their interiors are richly decorated with hieroglyphs and paintings signs and symbols that detail the necessary steps to attain immortality. Egypts power and the grandeur that came with it were wellestablished by 2500 bc when the Great Pyramids at giza were built. The sphinx was a philosophy of government set in stone. It depicted the king as fearless, cunning and brave as the lion. And as crucial to egypt as the nile itself. The king was not just a political leader but a religious leader too. In the minds of the ancient egyptians, the pharaohs power and authority as a king stretched far beyond the boundaries of his country and into the cosmos itself. After death, he would escape the earthly bounds of his tomb, board a solar boat and sail into immortality. This vision became material in objects and images founin the tombs and temples as a way of preordaining a central idea afr a perilous and carefully prescribed journey through the night, the king would become one with the sun god re.