The painting is being exhibited under stringent security measures, particularly temperaturecontrolled case. Nearly 10,000 people filed by mona lisa the first day, making her by far the most popular hostess in washington. Everybody wants to meet the new girl in town. Next, stephen hood discusses his book on the military career, personal life, and legacy of general John Bell Hood. The author is a distant relative of the general. He analyzes his actions at divingauga and antietam, into records recently released by hood descendents. He said many controversial acts are clarified or redeemed through examination of the documents. Atlantant is from the cyclorama museum. It is about an hour and ordered five minutes. 45 minutes. For coming. I was in atlanta in january. I am going to be able to vote down here if i keep showing up. In West Virginia you could, probably. To mention a couple of people that are here. My beloved cousin, barbara hopkins, and her husband, mark, are here. They are from hu
West. We cannot live without one another and yet our nationalistic ideologies encourage us to focus too narrowly on the nation and that is particularly true in the middle east where the nationstates set up by the british and the french 100 years ago were arbitrary, bizarre and put together a whole lot of incompatible peoples and told them to create a nation. Very difficult to do. All this set up to fail. And also they are modern and very successful in their economic handling of all the oil that they have been acquiring from their travels. I wish i knew. I got into this, this skyped of kind of study not because i am filled with religious affilation but because i am filled with dread as i look at where we are going. There is an even in our circle tolerance western world there is a lot of bigotry that reminds me of the bigotry in europe in the 1930s and 40s that ended in the concentration camps. And i feel terribly we are not going back to Community Fear and we are into our cell phones, c
Minutes. Thank you all for coming. Will beny mentioned, i able to vote down here if i keep showing up. [laughter] in West Virginia, you could. Mention a couple people who were here. My beloved cousin, barbara hopkins, and her husband mark are here. They are from huntington and moved to atlanta about 10 years ago. And general hoods greatgranddaughter, mary hood perlman, and her husband skip from asheville, North Carolina are here. I will embarrass her and make her raise her hand. [applause] her grandfather was oswald could hoodod, one of the 11 children who we will talk about later. As anthony mentioned, i wrote a was on hood, and it originally to be titled history vs. John bell hood. what i did, and i will be talking about this in a few minutes, i was a little bit distressed at a lot of things that have been written about hood, especially around the 1970s on. I decided to write a book that would really expose a lot of the myth and legends about him that you read about, and actually use
The clock from what will be a popeless moment. We keep these live pictures up and want to bring in christian who is in roam watching all of this. We are waiting for the moment. We are waiting for the doors to close. Indeed we are. What is so amazing is the fact that the crowd is still there and waiting for that last possible second to see the clock tick eight here in rome. That means that the pope is no longer the pope. What was extraordinary in the message he did from the window, he declared his papacy over a full 2 1 2 hours over his retirement. He said i am no longer the pope. That was at 5 30 local time. He was eager to get that done. I am joined by john allen. This is an extraordinary moment. None of us have seen us before and neither have ouran set offers. What are we going to see in the next few moments . Whats going to happen is at that magic hour that rolls around and the papacy ends and the empty chair begins, you will see the doors close and its happening as we speak. Their
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