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
Our cspan cities tour takes American History tv on the road to feature the history of cities across america. Here is the recent program. We are here at the carmel mission, otherwise known as send carlos san carlos. It was established as part of the colonization of the coast. The original founding was 1770, after which the site moved. The initial mission was Asian Mission of upper california began in 1769 with the establishment of san diego mission. That particular site was not the prime objective. Wasas monterey, because it centrally located and as a result we get a joint military. Nd religious exposition the commander was accompanied by the fryer, who came to the monterey bay to establish the first site. June 3, 1770. Was bornnipero serra in a place that had been conquered by the muslims. And so when you visit the site, it is surrounded by military bastions that date all the way back to the roman conquest. You have islamic and other traditions that are all represented. And one could a
We are here at the carmel mission, otherwise known as san carlos. It was established as part of the colonization of the coast. The original founding was 1770, after which the site moved. The initial mission was Asian Mission of upper california began in 1769 with the establishment of san diego mission. That particular site was not the prime objective. It was monterey, because it was centrally located and as a result we get a joint military and religious exposition. The commander was accompanied by the fryer, who came to the monterey bay to establish the first site. On june 3, 1770. Father Junipero Serra was born in a place that had been conquered by the muslims. And so when you visit the site, it is surrounded by military bastions that date all the way back to the roman conquest. You have islamic and other traditions that are all represented. And one could argue that there was a very conservative friend in so far as the catholic religious beliefs, which serra was inspired to bring to t
Camps of building all the Cancer Hospital and airfields in the United States and the pentagon. I became one of the five to the bossofficers of the pentagon job. He supervised 40 or 50 architects, and a great big team of general contractors. Our job was trying to stay on top of all that. When the contract was finished, the general picked me up and i went to the manhattan district, it was a very quiet, very secretive project. Secretive, it so was five or 10 years after the war that i began telling people what i really should have told them at the outset. After the war, i went into the Construction Business on my own. I worked at that for 50 years. Built about 800 buildings. If one of them was leaning, we would go profit up. Trying and keep it from collapsing. We quit that just recently, i do for the general contracting work. At the time we had 250 people on the payroll. Most of the time it was more like 70 or 80. We built churches and hospitals, whatever came along. Schools, lots of scho