An entity in trouble to turn it around because that is what i spent the first 20 years of my career doing, and i thought the country needed the same thing. Lynchburg was named for its founder, john lynch. It had a rich manufacturing history as well as civil war ties to the nearby sandusky and the nearby Appomattox Courthouse. This painting tells a unique story. There is damage to the painting and the tradition passed to the family is that this painting was fanned allies by Union Soldiers during their occupation at the civil war battle. Writtenind some accounts of the vandalism that took place during the battle. For the next 90 minutes, we will feature the citys local history beginning with poplar history beginning with Poplar Forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. What you see behind me is jeffersons most infamous, perfect work of architecture. Poplar forest. That was his villa retreat that he started building when president. It is not known very much because jefferson kept it a se
Sandusky, which served as Union Headquarters during the battle of lynchburg. To the house was central 1864 civil war battle of lynchburg. While the battle raged all around the house, the union used this as its headquarters. Lets take a look at how this house got its name. The house was built in 1808 by a young man named Charles Johnston. Life as a business merchant, stockbroker, clerk. When he was a young man, he went to kentucky. That was his goal to accompany to survey his loss some land that his boss had bought. They bought a boat and picked up some passengers. They travel down the ohio river with the goal of reaching kentucky. Along the way, they had been warned about hostile native american indians. They were careful to stay in the middle of the ohio river. Two men came to the banks of the river screaming help us. They decided to go to the bank to try to aid these two white men. It had been but a decoy. They were led into a trap. They were instantly attacked by 40 or 50 indians. T
Cspan is in lynchburg, virginia learning about local history. Next, historic sandusky during the battle of lynchburg. House was central to the 1864 civil war battle at lynchburg. While the battle raged, the union use this as its headquarters. Lets take a look at how it got its name. It was built by Charles Johnston, who grew up in the richmond a hand petersburg area. He entered Business Life as a merchant, stock worker, clerk. When he was about 20yearsold he went to kentucky to accompany his boss through the ohio territory through the state of kentucky to survey some land his boss bought. But went to the ohio river, a boat, picked up six passengers and traveled down the ohio river with the goal of reaching kentucky. They were warned about hostile native american indians. They were careful to stay in the middle of the ohio river. At one point to white men came to the banks of the river and us andhelp us, save they went to the bank to say them. It was a decoy. Byy were instantly attacked
Youre welcome to the pulse live in london. Our top story. Chinas secondquarter gdp beat estimates. Rising 7 from a year earlier. 7 , a, im always a skeptic. Coming in bang in line with what they wanted to achieve. What are these numbers . Andy you are right to be skeptic. It is a bit like last year. We had a slow start to the year. And a slow first couple months, but now it has picked up again. Exports being better. Consumers are back into the game. House prices recovered. It was enough to get gdp up to that 7 figure. Ill gveive your one anecdote. Cinema sales boomed, which gives an indication that the high street is actually spending a bit. Manus a take away from that is buy popcorn. Does it mean where in for a better second half . These numbers are better than the market hoped for. It depends on whether there is more rate cuts and more support given by this administration. Enda it does. One wild card we have is the stock market. We know the story about the huge gains in june. Then we
From one year ago. Investors are waiting to hear what janet yellen has to say about Interest Rates and other things. A couple hours from now, the fed share goes to the capital for the first two day of testimony on Monetary Policy. It will probably last week, they said it would probably best to raise interest but they may not raise until early next year. You can watch it live starting at 10 00 eastern time on Bloomberg Television. The Prime Minister of greece is counting on opposition parties to come to his rescue. The Greek Parliament is in session and set to vote much later today on a deal that would be to another bailout. Matt Alexis Tsipras faces a revolt amongst members of his own party. Obviously, he does not like tax hikes from his television address yesterday that they have already committed to the reforms. Tsipras said greece was left with only two options. We were made to go against the most powerful people in europe and we had two things on the table. First, specific request