Okay, everyone. So good evening, everyone. Good evening. Welcome to health center. I only hospital and the annual benjamin drive emancipation day celebration. My name is Sharita Thompson and i work with marion brown. For the last eight. Heres hoping to organize an annual to celebrate and recognize d. C. Emancipation act becoming law on april 16th of 1862 and a free of a little over 3000 slave persons held in the district along in the series was named in honor of Benjamin Drummond, who was born around 1843 in nassau, new york. Drummond, a 24 year old black slave owner, was the first patient admitted to naval hospital, now known as the old vic. The hospital, when it opened on october 1st in 1866. Drummond was initially in assassins while serving on the u. S. Morning light. He was actually shot in the leg. He would receive care for that in. A naval hospital, orleans, on december six, 1864, joining in the navy and came to be a patient in this building on october first of 1866, when he when
Relatively strong in the wake of the election. Lets get a check of the u. S. Market reaction to those numbers in general. Abigail doolittle has the latest. A little tiny bit of green. Abigail a little bit of green but not a lot of action. Withow, s p and nasdaq small gains and losses. Slightly higher. What is stunning is the lack of movement on the russell 3000. The opening volume with 53 below the 20 day average. Not a lot of action today. We are seeing a little bit of movement on the vix. Its up over the last two days. Gate,feared jake fear with stocks at alltime highs. It is perhaps starting to thats we have to watch. We look at 5474. This may suggest the complacency in the year could reverse. This is a year today charts of the vix. It has been very volatile spiking a various macro events including the brexit and the u. S. Election, then going right back down as investors are eisen about the future. Hitting the bottoming levels here ahead but it could suggest they could be a big spi
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Theorian bane of historian that your special feel that you love so much, when you mention it to other people day, they have never heard of it. They dont know who those people were or that this happened. I do not have that problem, because everyone is heard of the puritans. Say the. Tents to anyone in america, they know who you are talking about. The problem is what they know about who you are talking about. If you type puritans into a Search Engine as i did or if you mention the puritans to people, this is what they imagine. Fiendish punishers. We all read the scarlet letter. People who like to put people and the stocks and humiliate them publicly. We think of their religion as extreme and a little bit more like a clut,ult, a harsh, unforgiving religion. And, of course, we cannot get away from the witch trials. Anne hutchinson and the witch trials. Those are the first things people think of. Our imagination runs away with us on that one. Often wondered why this is, why the puritans hav
I dont have that problem because everyone has heard of the puritans. Puritans to anyone. If you type puritans into a Search Engine or mention it to people, this is what they imagine. We all read the Scarlet Letter and we think of puritans as people who liked to put people in the stocks and humiliate them publicly. We think of their religion as extreme and more like a cult, a harsh, unforgiving religion. And, of course, you cant it away from the witch trials. And hutchinson and the witch trials, those are the first things people think of. Our imagination runs away with us on that one. Why thisten wondered is. Why do that your urgent have such a negative reputation . I think there are two reasons. First of all, in the early 1800s, after the war of 1812, which most americans felt like we had one and we were feeling kind of stable and strong as a nation, there was a lot of looking back to the founding. To look back to the puritans. In the first half of the 19th century, there was a lot of