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Stores with reduced capacity could mean a 40minute wait. The National Retail federation on its website predicts online sales will be capturing 20 to 30 of the holiday market, up from last year. There are no corporate parties and reduced inventory and fewer employees are in many stores according to consumer expert and San Francisco State University marketing professor. The projections are that because the consumer demand has been suppressed so far, starting with today, which is black friday and t...

Dangerous lurking off our coasts and hardly anyone suspects that theres a problem. Weapons of war that have been deteriorating for decades. These are ticking time bombs. This threat on the ocean floor is known only to a few experts. Its a race against time. But is this a race that we can win. Here at the polish port of good didnt you know a team of experts is getting their Research Vessel ready for an expedition. The crew includes hydrographers biologists and divers from the Marine Institute and...

Lurking off our coasts and hardly anyone suspects that theres a problem. Weapons of war that have been deteriorating for decades. These are ticking time bombs. This threat on the ocean floor is known only to a few experts. Its a race against time. But is this a race that we can win. Here at the polish port of good didnt you know a team of experts is getting the Research Vessel ready for an expedition. The crew includes hydrographers biologists and divers from the Marine Institute and the nearby ...

All right. Welcome to another evening lecture with francis Tavern Museum. Remember, if you are joining us virtually if you have any questions during the lecture, you can submit those to the chat or the q a. I know last month there were some issues with the chat, so the q a is always open and you can let me know about issues there. As a reminder, we will be recording this lecture so it will be sent to everyone who registered. If you want to share it with someone or watch it again. Now the views o...

I have been the director since 2015, january. What is the value of an oral history . Well, for us we try to make it accessible to the cadets so they can use it for their research but all of our videos and interviews are open source so anyone in america can get online and look at our interviews and hopefully learn something about our history from them. As an historian what is the place oral history holds in the overall study of history . Oral historyies help add detail. If you are writing a paper...

Cspan. Org citiestour. In 1974. 4 took place smoke and was off its most place in the world tab or hosted worlds fair. It was the first environmental worlds fair, the first to use an environment. Or wasve its 1972 the first birthday. Was a great consciousness around the world about environmentalism. It became arguably the accession obsession of what drove people to create a world fair and a series of behaviors that corresponded to a better consciousness of the environment. Right now, we are in th...

You have stood at this point in the story . You have heard that the loyalist critique is, you have heard people try to remain neutral, from fervent revolutionaries. We want you to feel like that maybe you had a choice and the outcome was still quite uncertain. We have on display these large lumps here in the case on loan to us from the New York Historical society, fragments of the original statute that stood there at the bowling green. It was composed of guilt lets, about 4000 pounds of lead in ...

For the next hour, an history tv exclusive, our cities tour visited spokane, washington, to learn more about its unique history and literary life. Or six years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. Can watch more of our visits on cspan. Org slash citiestour. Thing about bing crosby, is legacy and memory was that he was well balanced. He was not needing for fame. Even seek it. It totally surprised him. In s often mentioned today gener...

Honored guests, we are gathered to celebrate the achievements of some 350 men and women from 14 nations that served in the fine arts and a archives session. We now know the Monuments Men. Only six are still living. Two were una able to travel. 175 family members of Monuments Men since passed are with us. As early as 1942, george 120u9, the leader of the Monuments Men in europe and established their operation in post war japan argued for preservation officers during war to safeguard these things ...

Owitz talked about how they were designed and awarded. Welcome toernoon, our friends from the cspan audience. What that means for our audience, during the questionandanswer period, please wait for your question until the microphone gets the read so everyone can hear. David callan, im president of the museum of american finance. I am joined by the chair, john herzog. 220 is a bond from about years ago, signed by none other than the father of our country, George Washington. This is George Washingt...