We used to ask ourselves that question. First we discussed the medium of the object. We wanted photographs, paintings, documents, relics, and then we wanted to represent every year of the civil war, 1851 to 1865. By the time we sifted through the criteria, we thought we had 50 objects out there that met those requirements. It was truly an embarrassment and it was hard to whittle them down, for sure. [laughter] that is definitely true. Tonight we will be discussing two objects that are considered technology during the civil war. You can see the images of those. We have one from 1861 and a half model of the monitor of 1862. Lets consider the two part object. This is in the papers of Alexander Robert chisholm, bert born in 1834, died 1910. He was a stockbroker, a merchant, a railroad investor, and he died during the gilded age in new york city where he had grown up. Theis youth, he served on confederate side of the civil war. Can you tell us about his background . Carolina born in south ,
This hour. Yousef first, european governments this week agreed to assemble a Naval Mission to provide safe passage for ships through the persian gulf. That is after iran seized a British Oil Tanker in the region. The act was condemned by the the u. K. Foreign secretary jeremy hunt, but defended by his iranian counterpart. Under international law, iran had no right to obstruct the ships passage, let alone bored her. Board her. It was an act of state piracy which the house will have no hesitation in condemning. Even more worryingly, this incident was a flagrant breach of the principle of free navigation on which the Global Trading system and World Economy the u. K. Ship had turned off it signaling for more than the time that it was allowed to do so. It was passing through the wrong channels, endangering the safety and security of shipping and navigation in the strait of hormuz, for which we are responsible. Yousef we have more with our executive editor for the middle east. Reporter we do
We have a feed through from the chinese economy to the rest of the world through chinese investment, particularly Property Investment and infrastructure investment, and the news on that front is not quite so positive yet. We are still seeing relatively sluggish investment in those areas. A lot of the recent improvement has actually come from the consumer sector, which is a good thing for chinas economy, where we are seeing some rebalancing away from investment, but in terms of chinese demand for what the rest of the world produces, it is not quite as positive a development. Having said that, despite the continued weakness in the property sector, there were some green shoots in the data today. I think we could see a bit of relief for the Housing Market over the next few quarters and that definitely will be a positive for the rest of the world as well. Todays gdp news comes as president xi hosts an anniversary belt and road forum in beijing. The meeting celebrates ten years of president
Push out rate hikes, but says he is confident in the eurozones recovery u. S. Equities stage a laterally after House Republicans give their stamp of approval to the tax overhaul, sending it to the senate ecb president mario draghi is still delivering the keynote address in frankfurt lets listen back in moving into positive territory in all major euro area economies. Demand for loans by firms, which at this time last year were still negative in several vulnerable countries, is now positive across the whole euro area the other trend is the growing resilience in the Financial Sector the total capital ratio of banks has increased by more than 170 basis points since early 2015 the return on equity has risen from 4. 4 at end of 2015 to 7. 1 at the start of this year, even as leverage ratios have declined all banks have benefited from the upward trend in returns and assets since the start of our Monetary Policy easing in 2014 though in some cases they were starting from low levels clearly thi
According to people friendly with the matter, they have had discussions about a potential acquisition or joint venture. Verizon is interested in aol technology that deals with the automated buying and selling of ads online and wants to expand its mobile video offerings. New Republican Congress goes to work in washington today. First thing on the to do list, keeping the fight in the family. John faces the challenge to his leadership from two house republicans, one from texas and one from florida have announced they will run for speaker. Their chances are slim. They would need to find 30 republicans were willing to vote against john boehner. In florida, samesex marriages are now legal. The dan was originally set to expire today, but couples in miamidade council got an announcement when the judge cleared the way for samesex weddings to begin a day early. They are now legal in 36 states and the district of columbia. Katy perry is rehearsing for the super bowl starting today. You will be up