Addition to being chilly and highly controlled, its also within several hundred yards walk from this spot are for me probably 95 of the documents i will read in my working life. For a scholar or someone who has studied its once you are standing here you have to contemplate your mortality because theres so much that you could. And in fact peter, a book that could be so important to me could just be 15 yards down here on the right but unless i know its there i will never see it. And so everyone who comes and looks at this collection take that challenge. Theres an infinity of doors and pathways you can go down in your research and the challenge is to resist all of those opportunities or almost all of them and just take the ones that really matter to you. I presume there are cameras at this point besides a cspan camera. There are. I will turn on the light here. We controlled temperature and humidity. One of the challenges for rare materials is that we need to keep them dry and thats one of
Geneva and they eventually found in favor of the United States to the tune of 15. 5 million. But that was only for the alabama, with the alabama did and also what the shenandoah the ships the shenandoah tech after melbourne. Their british would not admit to any complicity for the ships before melbourne because when the shenandoah left great written, she was a registered british merchantmen and she was sold and commissioned with outside or just territory so they werent liable for the good since they did resupplied and prepare her in melbourne, they admitted no liability for ships dock after that. Wow. I want to remind everybody that these gentlemen will be selling these wonderful books immediately following. Lets give them a round of applause. [applause] thanks for coming. I hope you enjoyed it. [inaudible conversations] the idea of money is very basic and weve gotten away from it and policymakers today know less about money, Monetary Policy than they did 100 years ago. Since the early
They had a big idea that the original sources would be of value to everyone in perpetuity, so they collected those materials and brought them here as a gift to the nation. Why washington dc . It is an international city, our capitol. So in addition to putting this marvelous collection here they created this remarkable building which has the 1st north american to the theater with a beautiful great hall that we are in and another beautiful who are the folgers . President of standard oil and he made his fortune as an oilman and then while he was running standard oil very quietly acquired the greatest shakespeare collection in the world bar none including 82 copies of the 16,231st vote in. We would here that term throughout the store. The 1st folio is a collection of 36 plays published by two of his friends who knew him. Without that book published in 1623 we probably would not have 18 of his plays including mcbeth and 12th night and winters tale, the most studied single edition of the boo
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It is just mind boggling why that. Sis sister and brotherin law are saddened and left prevented the tragedy. I ask themselves, if i had called them that morning or the night before and asked him what he was doing, what he was up, to how he was doing, if i had any inclination, maybe i would have stopped it. The suspects died in a shootout with bliss. Officers say they found enough fire power in their home for more attacks. Investigators are looking into the possibility farooks wife radicalized him. The couple was engaged in 2013 after he traveled to saudi arabia for a religious pilgrimage. Reporter those victims of the attack ranged in age from 26 to 60. 12 of the 14 killed here were coworkers of one of the shooters. Now we do expect an update from the fbi here, and in just about a couple of hours from now, hopefully with some more information on the facebook fbi today is researching one of shooters. Back to you. Thank you, chris. We are learning more about shooting spree. As well as mo