Unrest returned to the lebanese city of tripoli on thursday after overnight clashes between Security Forces and protesters that left one man dead Security Forces fired tear gas and crowds angry at the lack of compensation for workers during the coronavirus lockdown the protests started in the city on monday and are spreading to beirut and other areas. A court in germany has found a neo nazi guilty of assassinating regional politician. In the town of castle 2 years ago and sentenced him to life in prison newco was a member of Angela Merkels c. D. U. Party and had spoken out in support of refugees. This is the news from by lynn followers on twitter and instagram at news of visit our website w dot com folks. Ask yourself who among your family and friends has taken on more responsibility more work more burden since the coronavirus emerged well the answer for most of us women its estimated that one year of the pandemic has wiped out 10 years of job gains for women in a recession that some a
Im next on American History tv. Author Donald Miller interviews Jessica Shattuck about her novel, the women in the castle. She explains how her familys connection to nazi germany influenced her work, and how her research informed her understanding of german citizens during world war ii. This when our top was part of a three Day Conference hosted by the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those of you who come here regularly, you are used to seeing the best and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the best selling authors of history books, leading professors and documentarians. But when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time that weve been doing these. Don miller, authors of masters at the air is also one of our longest standing advisers and c
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You know all a conversation with your coworkers you dont have those and you want to meet up with friends and even with strangers and people are wearing a mask you dont see this smiles in the last on their faces and so i think now more than ever isnt it really into how we use humor not just for our own kind of amusement but also to do things like manage stress in built relationships and you know all the additional good its you are youve sat in attack talk that humor has to be positive and inclusive but heres the thing isnt humor supposed to be just funny 1st and foremost sins that that like the most important thing in humor and then Everything Else. So thats true for comedy comedy is the goal is to make people laugh but we think is a little bit more broad than comedy it includes things that are funny but it can also be something thats just a little bit different or something is a little bit silly where the goal is. And our focus at least you know as a humor engineer at my organization i