Transatlantic shipping. His classes about 50 minutes. Class is about 50 minutes. All right,oombs good day, gentlemen. We have talked about up to this point, the development of a regional basis of the different colonies of english america. What i want to do today is take a step back, more of an imperial approach and talk about the maturation of the english empire. You might be curious about the date. Hopefully the reason for that will become clear over the course of this lecture. As a point of the part sure, most people may think about english america, mainland north america, Something Like this image is what comes to mind. As we talked about it with respect to the other empires in north america, maps are discursive. There are more assertions of claims of territory. Small little clusters of settlements, you can barely see it. There is a dark patch around chesapeake day. A scattering of dots along the atlantic coast. Each one represents 200 people. In other words, the colonies in english
The decades. In the 1970s the country went through a political crisis with watergate, a rising Unemployment Rate and an Energy Crisis fueled by gas shortages. To escape these pressures of reality, we turned to the movies and they gave us plenty to distract. Here on through the decades, were going to spend the hour looking at some of our favorite offerings from hollywood in the 70s. From the uplifting tale of an unlikely boxing hero to the terrifying depiction of a young girl possessed by the devil. But we begin on the dance floor in the year 1977. Like Rebel Without a cause and the graduate, saturday night fever captured a moment in young angst and brought it to the big screen. John travoltas unforgettable dance moves combined with the bee gees soundtrack took disco mainstream along with a wave of platform shoes, wide lapels and neon lights. Its new. It has a little bit of the new disco craze in it,and it has a guy named John Travolta. At the time John Travolta was alread a star on tel
The collapse paving the way for shells buyout ofb g group. This is a huge one. Around 70 billion. Coming up well look at which companies in the energy patch could be the next takeover target. Also here come the earnings. Alcoa ready to kick off the parade. Ceo Klaus Kleinfeld will be here exclusively just moments after the aluminum giants results are released. Thats coming up just after the ringing of the closing bell. And Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of multiple charges in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing. He could now face the Death Penalty. Well have the latest coming up. By the way, i should point out, as soon as any members of the jury maybe some of the attorneys come out before the press, we will be going there live to boston with all of that. So well keep you up to date on this story as well. Pardon the interruption as we do so. The dow is up 11 points. 17,886 is the level. Look at that russell rebounding nicely from its weak session yesterday. It dragged all the in
And the next head of the secret intelligence service, otherwise known as mi6, has been named as Richard Moore currently political director at the Foreign Office. So, theres some curry for your boys. Laughter. And the prince and the podcast Prince William discusses football and Mental Health with peter crouch. Welcome to bbc news. Four tech giants and their executives are being put under the spotlight in the united states, defending themselves against accusations they are too powerful and that their Business Practices are anti competitive. Jeff bezos from amazon, tim cook from apple, Mark Zuckerberg from facebook, and Sundar Pichai from google are all due to being grilled in Congress Following a 13 month investigation by us lawmakers. Well bring that to you live. Thats the scene they are in washington, and theyll actually be doing this hearing by teleconference, of course, because of social distancing guidelines. In some people obviously in the room too wearing masks. They wont be appea
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