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The 1918 flu pandemic altered American Life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful. College classes were held outside, sports were canceled, asks or challenged as unamerican, and fines imposed on those who refuse to wear them. Next, Christopher Mcknight nichols recounts how the country experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs the Oregon University center for humanities. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 that my friend christopher nichols. Hes ....
Im sorry kelly welcome to the program votes are still being counted in several key swing states at this hour in the u. S. Election democratic challenger joe biden is leading the quest to secure 270 Electoral College votes that would take him to the white house the Associated Press agency says that biden has taken arizona and puts him at 264 votes although other News Agencies have yet to call it now as Donald Trumps potential path back to the white house narrows he is claiming fraud and has launched legal action in 3 states to have the vote count stopped. Racked. Up frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and take trump. Pastors demanding every vote be counted. In other cities like here in seattle a similar story. In portland a sign that many here ha ....
And i know that theres a lot of excitement as there ought be for this evenings conversations so thank you for taking time to be here. Were so delighted to have professor margaret macmillen with us today. Thank you for traveling to be a part of this important conversation, and who else to help us with that is better equipped than margaret macmillen and a professor of history at oxford, at the university of toronto. Serves in many varied roles. A trustee of the university and more recently at the Imperial War Museum. Might i offer that we are second only here at the National World war i museum and memorial to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting in 1917 and we began collecting in 1920. And were further delighted that theyre having their world war ii galleries reinstalled by the galle ....
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. What a day. A terrific event that weve had so far and thank you for being with us and i know theres a lot of excitement and thank you for taking time to be here. We are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillin with us, and it really is a delight. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us in this important conversation and who else but to help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillin an emeritus professor at oxford and professor of history in toronto. She serves in a varied role and more recently at the Imperial War Museum. May i offer that we are second only here at the National World war i museum to the Imperial War Museum in terms o ....
Red that is a quarter of global infections. California is reporting its biggest daily jump yet. Tech wins praise from washington. For their stance on user data in hong kong. Futures kicking off trading slightly higher by two tents of 1 . We have another tech rally. The rest of the market was more subdued. The nasdaq ended at a record high. The s p 500 saw many stocks down but we have gained enough to push it to a onemonth high. Megacaps pulling the gauge higher, despite the fact that the pandemic sensitive sectors Like Airlines sank. The dollar fell against the g10 peers. Look at oil. It is unchanged. Through the entire month, we have seen wti trading within a tight range of two dollars. It is still hanging around the fourmonth high. We got a report showing that stockpiles rose by more than 5 Million Barrels last week. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian market. ....