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The National WorldWar Ii Museum hosted the event. Well, greetings, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to see you all here and it is always great to see i dont want to say so many probably all are familiar faces and we saw most of you in november and we hope to see most of you again in november and in between in september for our memory conference. As steven is said, unfortunately dr. Stoller tried his best, slipped on the way and caught his balance. But all three flights from berlington, vermont, were cancelled to get him here yesterday. And while we are disappointed, he is even more disappointed that he couldnt make it back down here and present. But i can tell you that we are very fortunate in this great city of new orleans to have one of the leading scholars in this field in gunther bischof here to fill the breach and enlighten us with the first panel of the day. Gunth ....
Place at a crimean resort in ukraine. This talk is part of a World War Ii Museum symposium marking the 75th anniversary of the yalta talks between winston churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. For our next event, it is more or less the key note of the day because it is the talk on the yalta conference, although all of the sessions will be wonderful. We have Serhii Plokhii here, the director of the ukrainian history and director of Research Institute at harvard. As i mentioned this morning, he has been on our list for a long time and we finally found the time to bring him down here to enlighten us. His titles include the last empire, thethe cossack myth, ....
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is matt miller. I service the president and ceo here at the national War One Museum immemorial it is my pleasure to welcome you here to what i think its going to be an extraordinary couple of days to thing together and learn at the symposium. We are delighted to be house need networking with so many partners to create yet another, i think, exceptional opportunity for us. Whilst you are here, i hope that you take time to spend some time in the galleries. The special exhibition, piece 1919, certainly fits with this theme and he will enjoy that as well as our main galleries where we are preparing for the opening of a new exhibition this week on the vietnam war, 1945, 1975. That is not open until next weekend so its a teaser for you. But we invite those of you who are able to come back through the next several months 30 memorial day weekend of next year to come back and take in really quite ....
Good afternoon, everyone. Joining uso much for for the American Civil War symposium. Ordinary people, extraordinary times. T up on our roster where she received the 2016 great teacher award. She taught previously at the state of at the university of new york in the state of albany. She received her phd studying under dr. And dr. Gallagher. Dr. Taylor is a member of the board of editors of the journal of southern history and advisor editor for the civil war monitor magazine and coeditor of the university of Georgia Press is on civil war series. Her current book project of the manyy thousands of men and women and children who fled slavery during the civil war and examined how their day to day experiences shaped the way emancipation unfolded in the United States. Book derived from her dissertation provided family in the c ....
To engage in risky behavior since they dont expect to become pregnant. Mother nature provided precisely what fire crews battling californias largest wildfire needed. Yep, rain. A light but steady rain fell east of sacramento yesterday allowing firefighters to make big gains against the socalled king fire. Its already burned about 150 square miles. But now they say the blaze is more than half contained. And fewer than 300 structures are still being threatened. That number was about 12,000 just about 24 hours ago. Heres a look at the weather. Mostly suddenny and dry except for scattered storms in the Pacific Northwest. Stretching into nevada, idaho, utah and arizona. Some heavy raun in south texas and lingering showers across parts of florida. Todays temperatures will range from the mid70s to 80s. Cooler mid60s in the northwest. And positively summerlike in the southwest where the mercury will climb to 100 degrees. Now to my favo ....