Explore our nations past on American History tv, every weekend on cspan3. The Cuyahoga River as most think of it. The brown stream that meets lake erie. An industrial waterway, its banks populated by steel mills and factories. Its channel filled with ships and tugs. The Cuyahoga River as it reaches lake erie after a 100 mile at which timing and turning journey from its head waters is an exhausted stream. Abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling megalopolis of clevelandakron would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio. And so man came and continued coming. Until today nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply and as a
Contains in consistencies and scientists have found out. Where home but studied Mining Technology now researchers there are working on new ways of extracting metals. He wanted to see the world in its entirety at a time when european saw themselves as a period to other peoples and cultures aleksandr from home but sought personal contact his famous expedition to the americas revealed to him how everything was connected. Multifaceted scientist explorer humanist humboldt is considered one of the last minute. Alexander from whom boyd was born in berlin at 1769 growing up in a palace outside the city he was fascinated by rocks plants and insects from an early age after attending university and working as a. Government mine inspector he set off for the americas in 171009. 00 it was a dream come true for a naturalist for 4 months we slept in the forests so rounded by crocodiles boas and jackie was eating nothing more than rice ants manioc and on occasion monkeys he wrote of the hardships and e
I would like to say a couple words about the revolution and the history of intelligence. This is one subject that is vastly underrepresented in historical literature. Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. Even at the college level, we do not delve into the importance of intelligence during the american revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of the british over the americans, the british at almost every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been battle colonies didas the colon not. The americans had a small Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, that we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not actually support independence. Less than half of continental americans support independence. Thousands fought for the british. And many of
Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of they had every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been bottle battle tested. Had a smalls Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not support independence. Less than half of continental support independence. Thousands fought for the british. Others wanted to be left alone. Thats not to mention the british soldiers in the native americans. The british have be worlds greatest economy. We had no central bank. We had a very hard time raising money. So, how did we win . Its not that after he got his masters, he served in the United States marine corps and then joined the cia. Today hes a cia Operations Officer. From 1969 to 20
The city keeps going down. 66, 64, 62. So not above average this week. Remember last week . A roaring wind cranked up. Bringing a cooler pattern. 50s and 60s to the north. 53, napa. A lot of 50s. Marin county, to the russian river. And calistoga, 51. A low cloud deck marches up the coast. As it does, making a good push inland. It will burn off later today. Helped along by a system coming into the Pacific Northwest. This will give you a good cooldown. 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. 7 01 a. M. Looking at the monitor. I would say that i would avoid 101 driving to San Francisco airport. Northbound 101 from places like san mateo. And driving up from belmont because of the crush on northbound 101 near peninsula. If you are driving up the peninsula and you dont need to be on 101, take 280. You will save yourself aggravation. San mateo bridge affected by this. All the sensors are red. That is why because of this big mess. You may not want to do that. Northbound 101, clearing an accident at ellis. That