The liberation of auschwitz. Predicting the weather is imperfect science and we know that after last nights warning of a historic blizzard across the northeast, in new york subways were shut down and schools closed and drivers stay off the road and it created more of a nuisance and that state of emergency and it was a glancing blow for the big apple and new england took a direct hit and power out to 33,000 homes. The cost of preparing the damage expected to add up to between 500 million and a billion dollars. Tom ackerman has more from boston. Boston streets and a city scape in swirling white sustained winds of up to 70 Miles Per Hour and steady snowfall qualified winter storm juno as a full pledged blizzard in new york and long island and communities in massachusetts and rhode island were particularly hard hit by wave surges. Along a 250 mile east coast corridor schools, workplaces and government offices were shut down. But the storm failed to live up to the worst expectations by midd
Situation is getting critical. Some 1500 people from syria and african crisis regions are in the area ready to cross the english channel. The ferry from calais stops in dover over 25 times a day. Anyone approaching the port area of the frenchtown, these young men like this at the motorway exit. Some 1500 refugees a day try to climb aboard trucks to smuggle themselves into britain. In the end, we Truck Drivers are the one to get into trouble, especially with customs officials. We have to pay hefty fines if they find one of them. Our loads often get damage, and the french bullies take no action at all against the migrants. And the French Police take no action at all against the migrants will stop the more refugees appear. Many drivers have observed them using even riskier methods. They open truck doors in broad daylight when the drivers stopped briefly in traffic jams. The migrants desperation is stronger than any fear of injury. I have tried several times, but without success. Maybe it
She is led by the voices of st. Catherine, st. Margaret, and st. Michael who instructed her to acquire a horse, soldiers clothing with armor, and an army and drive the english out of france. So her actions are based on her faith in her voices. Shaw was a codirector for the first london production in 1924 with Sybil Thorndike in the title role, and he reminded her that joan was a sturdy, independent 19yearold woman, not a sweet angelic little girl. The story of joan is fascinating. She was a village girl born in the early 1400s, a warrior in her teens and was accused of heresy and witchcraft because she would not deny her visions and voices and consequently was convicted and burned at the stake. Almost 500 years later, joan was canonized by the church. Shakespeare, bertolt brecht, Maxwell Anderson and jean anouilh all have dramatized the joan story, each reflecting a personal point of view and interest. To meet the challenge of that role required a special actress. Our guest is that spe
It is not a biography in the sense that you can turn to the play for an accurate reporting of the facts, rather shaw selected the facts which suited his purpose. He approaches joan, his protagonist, historically, but develops the character mainly in terms of ideological clashes. Primarily, shaw is interested in joan as someone who imposes her ideas on history. She is led by the voices of st. Catherine, st. Margaret, and st. Michael who instructed her to acquire a horse, soldiers clothing with armor, and an army and drive the english out of france. So her actions are based on her faith in her voices. Shaw was a codirector for the first london production in 1924 with Sybil Thorndike in the title role, and he reminded her that joan was a sturdy, independent 19yearold woman, not a sweet angelic little girl. The story of joan is fascinating. She was a village girl born in the early 1400s, a warrior in her teens and was accused of heresy and witchcraft because she would not deny her visions
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