I want to explain in advance at this in writing, weve examined various disasters from different perspectives, first of all, the psychological and physical problems that jamestown, disaster sermons and responses to fires hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the dawn and party and root to california, irish immigrants flaming the potato famine in the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism, johnston flood of 1889 the impact of the triangle shirt lays factory in new york city and disaster arts that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So today we are discussing david oceans Pulitzer Prizewinning book, polio an american story, you all received questions that i posted and i am really interested in this topic, because i also teach someone are in the 19 fifties and of course that is one so much of this book takes place and i think just looking at polio really reveals so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting though, i wan
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. John cleese, star of a. P. Bio, actor Glenn Howerton an allnew closer look. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth hey, everyone its day two back in an empty studio and while things arent normal, they are getting closer. For example, today two different tourists asked me if jimmy fallon was as nice as he seems. So, lets get to the news. According to audiotapes from a series of interviews with Journalist Bob Woodward released today, President Trump said six months ago that the coronavirus was airborne and, quote, more dangerous than even your strenuous flu, and that he intended to play it down listen to this i wanted to always play it down i still like playing it down yes because i dont want to create a panic seth well, good job with that this countrys never been more chill. A lot of people arent even moving americas as cool as a cucumber right now. Sure, were stealing toilet paper every time we go into a starb
From moscow whats your to international with me. Thanks for joining us this hour. Our top Level Exchange of accusations that is raising the stakes over the sudden and so far unexplained illness of Prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny kremlin spokesman to be through. All allegations of state involvement in the case as unacceptable and absurd in their very nature or the german spokesman spin asked if they will scrap the north stream to gas pipeline project with russia as arties peeta all of the reports. The German Government press briefing the lunchtime press briefing wrapped up on monday putted with with questions about north stream 2 i think just about every other question made reference to the Multi National Infrastructure Project the message coming out of the German Government is that as it stands at the moment north stream 2 is an economic project and its own connected to the no valley case starts as it stands however that could change depending on how things develop
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