At 5 30. House leaders have hand delivered the articles of impeachment. The senate will accept them tomorrow. The house voted to appoint seven managers that will act as prosecutors in the trial. We will have more on the south bay congresswoman included neck group coming up at 6 00. In Northern California woman who survived been stuck in the snow for days is now in the hospital. A Helicopter Team found the woman around noon today. She had been missing since last thursday. Investigators believe there is a link between two home robberies on different sides of the bay. A vehicle in a case in san leandro matched a Home Invasion robbery in San Francisco hours later. Two men are under arrest. Suspects have been arrested in Mountain View for a string of robberies all things to alert witnesses who wasted no time calling 911. Both suspects are Mountain View residents. Soon after they were seen leaving the area of another burglary. They quickly spotted the suspects car and made the arrests. The 4
Its my pleasure to welcome today a professor Gregory Irwin of the revolution through world war ii. Its one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia that we can be close neighbors to professor irwin, whose work on the british army ands the American Revolution is extensive and nuanced and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications. In the development of our core exhibition, professor irwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways weighing the promise of the proclamation announced by general clinton in 17 which offered somewhat vaguely protection and freedom of run aways who made their way to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians particularly of American History in this period. It became a really imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with showing and people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. One was to demonstrate their agency to capture t
Military historian Gregory Erwin talks about challenges the british army faced in adapting to north american terrain and battle tactics during the revolutionary war. The museum of the American Revolution, Pritzker Museum and the richard vann has foundation cohosts this event as part of a threeday international conference. My name is philip mead, director of Curatorial Affairs on the American Revolution, and it is my pleasure to welcome today to welcome to welcome today ,resident Gregory Urwin professor of American History from the revolution through world war ii. A longtimerwin is friend of this museum project. Thene of it is one of great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to the professor, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications , and the development of our core exhibition. Professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story weighinged runways, the promis
You open your book in 1930, what was happening that day . On october the fourth, 1930, a 777 foot long airship, the largest thing that had ever flown, larger than the titanic by volume was about to take off on a trip from london to india. As part of a scheme hatched by the British Empire to connect the farflung pieces of the empire, it was a moonshot. A scheme you call it, one of your chapters is titled is dreams and imperial vision . S. C. Gwynne a nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they were fundamentally sound that could be improved. Part of what i am riding a
Latest his majestys airship the life and tragic death of the Worlds Largest flying machine. You open your book in 1930, what was happening that day . On october the fourth, 1930, a 777 foot long airship, the largest thing that had ever flown, larger than the titanic by volume was about to take off on a trip from london to india. As part of a scheme hatched by the British Empire to connect the farflung pieces of the empire, it was a moonshot. A scheme you call it, one of your chapters is titled is dreams and imperial vision . S. C. Gwynne a nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the ear