Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by definition because i put words in their mouth. My job is to tell you a story and not just do a textbook or names dates places facts and figures but to put you in the hands of the characters to tell you the story the way they would tell i
Interpreters out on the street of old city philadelphia, and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of this event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way. To show that for many of the people who remain in the city that winter, this was an occupation, but maybe it was a liberation from many in their perspective. They read about in the period being liberated from the tyrannical usurpation of an arbitrary congress, which is maybe something we could all aspire to. laughs so we do this with Living History Program in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways, to encounter the real things of history, to have a Human Experience and connect with it, and one way that we bring it to life is with Living History Programming, with first person programming like some of you might have witnessed in our new theatrical programme where richard st. George stormed into the room, guns blazing in the spring of perhaps 1798, at the end of his
After several days of declining figures the number of new corona virus infections in china has risen again really 2000 more people are reported infected on sunday the virus is down claimed 1770 lives on chinas mainland forcing some cities to tighten controls even further than a city with more than 2500 cases of the virus has gone into complete lockdown it comes as the u. S. Has begun evacuating hundreds of people from the diamond princess cruise ship and japan 14 of those evacuated were put and containment on the flight to the United States after they were confirmed to have the virus and in hong kong theres been reports of panic buying and one instance Armed Robbers stole hundreds of toilet paper rolls store clark joins us now from hong kong so sara what else can you tell us about these 14 confirmed cases of u. S. Citizens having run a virus. This is an extraordinary and unfortunate situation as you mentioned the American Government sent through an aircraft to rescue those american cit
Lets just get you right up to speed with what we know 2 leading militia commanders one iranian one iraqi have been killed in a u. S. Airstrike about 1. 51. 6 kilometers outside the bag that International Airport they were near an area where there was an antiterrorism unit an antiterrorism building was within a secure compound there the key casualty there is custom in the money killed by u. S. Forces people have been demonstrating their support of what has happened the joy at what has happened inside Baghdads Tahrir square lets just play you that video and give you a sense of the atmosphere right now in the iraqi capital back that. Was the the. The and. It. Was. And you have been watching pictures there of people in baghdad stuff or is square celebrating the killing of Senior Iranian commanded. By u. S. Forces on stan grant here in doha of course taking over this breaking coverage live coverage of this strike by American Forces inside iraq now weve had information confirmation from the
In kenyan landslides. And how Climate Change is affecting the golden glow of a World Heritage site in the west pacific. But 1st to hong kong where the passion for change is translating into record numbers of people turning out for local elections the polls taking place after months of increasingly violent protests against the prey beijing government is now 3 oclock in the afternoon in hong kong and so far more than one and a half 1000000 people have already said ballots will get a an update from sarah clarke in just a minute 1st so lets see her report on how election day is unfolding. As polls open to the people lined up around 4000000 who bridge the divide in hong kongs District Council elections after months of citywide on raw. Just the people want their voices heard im curious after youve been sick my grief and i think for a teenage years. Hes battery nowadays and all his friends and a people on the change will be high profile and he can have different opinions isnt that what is imp