The u. S. Senate is about to gavel in. They are going to work on a judicial nomination with a confirmation vote scheduled for 5 30 for 5 30 p. M. Eastern. Republicans leader Mitch Mcconnell may introduce the republican covid19 recovery plan. Live now to the senate floor. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal lord god, we again thank you for the life and legacy of representative john robert lewis. Lord, accept our gratitude for his ethical congruence that motivated him to find a moral way to get in the way. Were grateful that his passion for freedom summoned our nation to embrace our best hopes and not our worst fears. Inspired by his exemplary pilgrimage, may our lawmakers strive to live with such integrity that they will stand on the right side of history. Lord, help our senators to strive to see you more clearly, to love you more dearly, and to follow you more nearly day by d
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Photographs, she recreates Mister Hoovers final trip to his west branch, iowa, childhood home. Todays presentation is called hoovers last trip home. Our speaker, lynn smith, the audiovisual archivist at the hoover president ial library and museum since november of 2000 whose previous Work Experience includes serving as Department Supervisor at the university of denver and archivist for the u. S. Forest service in montana. She is a certified archivist and holds a ba in history from the university of northern colorado, masters in history from Colorado State university and ml i asked from the university of denver. She chaired the society of american archivists in and professional conduct, workshops on ethics in midwest Archives Society of rocky mount archives. In her career she has been president of the society of rocky mount archivists, secretary of the academy of certified archivists and the midwest archives conference so she has collected some great photos and audio files and shared wi
Depicted. He is a fellow with but the library of congress and the u. S. Capital Historical Society. This is about an hour. William welcome to the u. S. Capital Historical Society lunchtime lecture series. My name is william digiacomantonio im the chief of , stories here at the society. It is great to see everyone here. Our speaker today is a guy named matthew restall. I want to read his title, because it is ponderous. Not like matthew. I do know what to leave anything out. He is the edwin earl sparks professor of latin American History and director of latin american studies at penn state. Oxford, ucla,d at and has published numerous books on the spanish conquest. Some of you might recognize his name and some of the themes he will be touching on from our last dome, where he has an article on how montezuma keeps inrendered in different ways the art of the capital. From his various titles and the subjects of his books you might and for correctly that he is an art historian, but this is a
Pyrenees. That faces the susquehanna river out towards state street. You walk into the center and the rotunda opens before you. The rotunda rises about 272 feet up to the top where the statute of commonwealth states. Its 24 karat gold leafing throughout. What actually shows an aloe gorical figure with a sense of realism. To have the allo gorical figure depicted in the mural. So its kind of blast furnaces, you know, pennsylvania iron steel industry. And then presided over by the roman god of the forge. The spirit of religious liberty has allo gorical angels leading to the new world. Which represents pennsylvania as a bastion of religious freedom. Revealing the treasures of the earth. And industrial wealth of the commonwealth. And the spirit of light actually has oil dairices with Angels Holding flames up above it. As you go up further, you have a railing. Then you have these large eightfoot tall windows that rise up. As you go up, there will be the lantern which is about 270 feet in the