The selection and presentation of library of congress for fiction is one of my favorite responsibilities the product is this Great Institution an opportunity to honor the novelist for short story writers to interview books from the most recent novels and short story collections past prizewinners include luminaries Toni Morrison it is my distinct honor and pleasure to award the prize this year to one of our nations most gifted writers someone Time Magazine the longest largest recipient and only one of four writers in history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice i am talking about none other than none other than colson whitehea whiteheads most recent novel, the nickel boys won this years pulitzer as did his 2016 novel the underground railroad. Colson has an extraordinary ability to write about historical events and transform them into meaningful events of today the rewriter of literary fiction whose works are best sellers a testament to his talent to communicate to everyone wh
Thank you very much. I love the enthusiasm of the postal lunch crowd. Its very exciting. Well, i am and honored and humbled to be here. To have invited to been invited to speak amongst this really incredible assembly of speakers and all of you attending and to share some the history and highlights of the society of the cincinnati collections. I have to say that throughout the past two days, ive each night back to my hotel room and because in a conversation with someone or listening to someones presentation, someone said something very smart, very insightful. And i went back and thought, i need to sort of see this differently. Im thinking about this, about our collections differently and its relationship to these other topics. So you all been sort of inspiration already. So thank you for that. So society of cincinnatis collections documenting revolutionary war and its legacy are of the broad scope of my talk today. We did begin acquiring in 1783, which is the the society was founded. So
, but they dont have the ability to turn this expression into a commercial product and put it on the market. This fund can help these products, which are at levels of, for example, one, two or three, become technological readiness. To be able to products value to the market means that you pay or give Financial Assistance for better commercialization, we are obliged to do what we are obliged to do according to the strategic document of the elites, one of the very important and key measures. This discussion is actually about creating platforms that are not for the activities of academic companies, elite communities , that we can secure credit for , and in fact, in Risk Management for research projects, they can cross the valley of death that these companies have. Well, naturally, this requires a fund, which was mentioned in the same strategic document in the past, which is the Risk Research Development Fund acceptable the name was given to the elites , it was never formed, we are now try
Television Companies Support cspan2 as a public service. Moderator for today dr. Stephanie w mcdaniels is a longtime friend of the festival having served on the board of directors for many years she is a professor of english and dean of the graduate school at the jackson state university. Dr. Mcdaniels. [applause] its all yours. Of course, i cant sit down yet. I just want to remind yall whenever if you want to ask questions you will need to come to the microphone at the podium right there and no matter how loud your teacher voice is, try not we dont want you to shout itou from your seat, okay, because as we said we are filming this. Now. Great, thank you, thank you guys for coming. [applause] thank you for joining was the autobiography panel and at this time i have the pleasure of introducing our 3 distinguished panelists and their great work. First we have miariam, native of augusta, georgia, University Distinguished professor of english at the university of cay aand founding director
Cowling, what i mean is that theres a tight figtting metal covering and allows the air to flow over more efficiently. So, mark burket of the spanish Swiss Company has designed a very important series of automobile engines in the prewar era. He adapts this to the aeronautical application by taking two of his inline four engines, makes it into a v8, and what he does thats very unique is instead of having separate cylinders attached to the crank case, he casts a row of cylinders out of a solid piece of aluminum. And he has cooling packagssages those aluminum blocks that allows improved cooling and more power. So instead of a rotary engine, you know, doing 110, 120 horsepower, youre looking at 200 or 220 horsepower with these engines by the time theyre introduced in the spad xii. Theres always a technological pushpull over the western front in world war i, in which the germans have an advantage with their thick air foiled tubular steel fuselaged aircraft like the folker d 7 that you can se