And north korea. And so its great honor to have todays presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. So the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john and sarah, when john is the coauthor with sarah of the book that were going to be discussing this afternoon . He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967. He in vietnam on board swift boat. So he was in what was then called the brown water navy, right. Going up to the the the the rivers, the the deltas of the mekong right and probably mostly in south the southern part of south vietnam. He was decorated, of course, for his service there. He then went to university of Texas Law School finished theres the top graduate. He
Steel constructions documented by photographer who put out. Now are you sitting comfortably on a couch an arm chair or maybe a stool and how does that make you feel because chez can be much more than just a piece of furniture for instance they can be an expression of power the bigger the office chair the bigger the boss a mantra that would also apply to thrones the vittra Design Museum in the southwestern corner of germany examined the correlation between seats and rulers the exhibition takes us from the historical journey of seating from the thrones of egyptian pharaohs to the modern day office chair. Sitting down and yet standing above everyone else throne makes it possible. For thousands of years its in body the power of the few. And thats not all. Research suggests the very first chair in the archetype of film that we know today like this one with four legs a seat in a back rest really came into being as a throne for the egyptian pharaoh. Hangs a should know shes behind the exhibit
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Only the whine of mosquitoes mars the tranquility of this idyllic spot amid the rolling forests and blue lakes of eastern Finland, on the European Union's longest border with Russia. But Finnish authorities fear the peace and quiet of places like Hoilola could soon be shattered by the arrival of large numbers of asylum seekers - part of what Helsinki sees as a "hybrid war" being waged by Russia against the West. Finland is deploying more border guard patrols, drones and electronic detectors and is building fences along sections of the border.
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