Invented over centuries as different groups of people from the americas, europe, and africa converged and combined his experiences. Why rum . What is interesting about rum is it is ubiquitous. It is something, we look at the example of George Washingtons mount vernon, everybody is drinking rum. It is served on washingtons table. Martha washington says rum may always be had. It is being imported from a distillery locally in alexandria, virginia and also from the caribbean. It is having an internal economy bringing in workers who get their wages in rum. Enslaved people receive rum for anything from childbirth to rescuing a cow. It is one of these moments where you can see how different groups of people we dont always think of interacting around an item part of everyday life. Where and when is it invented . I argue in the book it is invented in barbados in the early to mid17th century when europeans from england and scotland and native people from south america and africans arrived in bar
Festival taking place in the citys inner harbor. Then on saturday, september 24, book tv is live from the National Book festival at the Washington Convention center in the nations capital. Coverage includes talk from Pulitzer Prize winners and gordon read and joby warwick as well as your phone calls for authors bob word word, congressman john lewis and others. For more information about the book fairs and festivals book tv will be covering and to watch previous ethical coverage, click the book tv tab at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversation] okay, lots more if i can have your attention please. Can everybody hear me in the back back there . If youre in the back and if anybody is standing we also have the monitors on tonight. Theres a monitor in the cafc and also a monitor by one of the registers next to you so if anybody wants to get a slightly better view you can go to the cafc or that monitor out there. Im dana kelly. Pleasure to have youall here. Always a pleasure to have mary roach b
And one manufacturers own cold air and change some of this over mix with some sleep weve been saying that as well as numerous reports of sleet to parts of Virginia Beach chesapeake announced a North Carolina as well especially on the pembroke section of Virginia Beach airport sports story now towards the oceanfront some sleet likely mixing in here even as reports from ocean view if you sleep palette mixing and continues down here across eastern parts of North Carolina around hartford and down across the outer banks now this rain and sleet will continue to spin as this area of low pressure moves off the coast line by nine oclock still dealing with the two coastal areas as we head towards Eleven Oclock and into tomorrow morning things will start to clear out and look for partly sunny day tomorrow but another chance for some Winter Weather by monday night and tuesday ill have details on that in the seventy forecasts coming up a few Minutes Police are looking for the person or people respo
Doctor pulls his own weapon and shoots back. When they told me i didnt believe it at first. The doctor and the accused shooter are injured an woman is dead. We have Live Team Coverage of what weve learned about all three of them tonight. We begin with developing story in delaware county. A shooting on the campus of mercy fitzgerald hospital investigators say a patient walked into a Doctors Office this afternoon. Pulled a gun and started firing. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. We have Live Team Coverage of the shooting that left a caseworker dead an doctor injured. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson explains what happened and drew dickman has more on the suspec suspected gunman. We begin with shawnette live in darby brrr row. Reporter the doctor has been identified as lee silverm silverman. He suffered a graze wound to the head at this hour were told he is giving statements to investigators. Now, we also know the caseworker killed is 53 year old theresa hunt. Why this patient allegedl
Million in aid to gaza, which is controlled by that terrorist group hamas. Andrew mcar thi, building the political case for obamas impeachment, senator cruz went a step further a couple hours ago saying he wanted to put a hold on all state department nominees until the white house answers his questions which zero in on whether they had a hand in the faas decision and whether this is in effect a boycott of israel. Is it the right move . Its absolutely the right move. Its certainly the right move for him to use what leverage he has to get answers out of the white house. And the substantive move underneath it. What you say the White House Administration should not be sending john kerry over there. They should not be demanding a ceasefire. They should be letting israel do what its doing because we need israel to win. Yes. Hamas is not only israels enemy, its part of the global jihad. Its our enemy. And for those who actually care about peace in the middle east who want to have a twostate s