Like as possible. To those of you joining us the first time putting a work in welcome and an invitation to explore the wide range of programs we have available here. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phones or anything else thatt might make noise during the program. Take you for doing that. We are thrilled tonight to welcome a claimed historian mary beth norton. Author of five books and coeditor of several others and her textbook, a people and nation, survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and is sold more than 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and was a 2018 president of the american historical association. She is the mary [inaudible] Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book, 1774, is available for purchase and signing following the program. So now, please join me in welcoming marybeth norton. [applause] it is nice to be here. I want to make sure that the quicker is the clicker on . It doesnt seem to be. Oh, there is spi
You cant see it but these children have poison in their blood the director of the Primary School in center they pasco in peru says learning and concentration difficulties are usually the 1st sign to this one is when they sneeze the blood often comes out of their noses. They struggle to Pay Attention for longer stretches of time so. Im sure that students lead in their blood and that. The school is right next to a gigantic open cast mine. The crater dominates the town of set of a possible. The Global Economy is hungry for wrong materials. But this comes at a high cost 1. 00 that many south americans have to pay. Some even with their lives. Saturday pasco is a town in the heart of the peruvian andes and peru and the sight of a huge open cast mine extracting zinc silver and lead for global markets. The mine is now owned by a swiss commodities giant Glencore Glencore recently paid several 100000000. 00 for it but the people who live here pay any even higher price said today pasco lies at an
Historian mary beth norton. She is the author of five books and coeditor of several others in your textbooks in a survey of u. S. History and been published in ten additions and sold more than 500,000 copies. Norton is a price finalist and. She is married professor of American History at cornell university. Her new book, 1774, year of revolution, available for purchase following the program. So now, please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause]. Mary is really nice to be here. I want to make sure that the microphone is on. It does not seem to be. Hope there is pretty great. I want to show you the cover of the book because that little bottle on it, is famous here in colonial historian. I dont know if anybody recognizes this but it is in the collection of the massachusetts historical tidy. It claims on the label which is impossible read, that it contains t picked up from bostons harbor. The day after the tea party. So there is a quite wellknown object in the colonial america.
Argentina ahead of the official return of the peronist. Breaking news from new zealand within the past hour or so weve learned that police there are launching a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of several people in a volcanic eruption at least 5 people were killed 8 others still missing are presumed dead whilst on white Island Police have suggested its unlikely that theyll be any more survivors 31 people are injured and some of those have got severe. We can never say 100 percent but i would strongly suggest that there is no one that has survived on the island so well look into. It if theres anyone criminally responsible for the deaths and injuries its an its early days yet so weve just kind of to work through the evidence talk to people and conduct the investigation. And jessica washington is our correspondent in all cleansed with more on what could amount to a criminal investigation. The information about this criminal investigation is still unclear
Investigation into the deaths and injuries of victims on the white island volcano. But 1st new reports from the us say the democrats in the lower house of congress have decided to present 2 articles of impeachment in their bid to remove President Trump from office this follows what was expected to be the last public hearing before the articles are announced more now from mike hanna in washington. At an evening function the speaker of the house nancy pelosi refused to confirm that articles of impeachment against President Trump had been agreed upon earlier she met with the chairman of the house committees to decide exactly what these articles were going to be a formal announcement as to these articles is expected in the course of tuesday however various agencies including Associated Press and the Washington Post report that the democrats have agreed on 2 articles of impeachment one on abuse of power the other on obstruction of congress now if these are indeed the articles that will be i