Being a dancer is easy because you just have yourself to think about and when youre a teacher you have so many concerns for your students. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill republicans who will run the next congress talked up their todo list today. House Speaker John Boehner also issued a warning to president obama especially on immigration. There is a bipartisan majority in the house and senate to take some of these issues out of obamacare. We need to put them on the president s desk and let him choose. Ifill well
Because you just have yourself to think about and when youre a teacher you have so many concerns for your students. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill republicans who will run the next congress talked up their todo list today. House Speaker John Boehner also issued a warning to president obama especially on immigration. There is a bipartisan majority in the house and senate to take some of these issues out of obamacare. We need to put them on the president s desk and let him choose. Ifill well have more on todays eve
Because you just have yourself to think about and when youre a teacher you have so many concerns for your students. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill republicans who will run the next congress talked up their todo list today. House Speaker John Boehner also issued a warning to president obama especially on immigration. There is a bipartisan majority in the house and senate to take some of these issues out of obamacare. We need to put them on the president s desk and let him choose. Ifill well have more on todays eve
Flourished from the third to the ninth century in a far flung collection of citystates. At palenque, tonina, bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings, to find out their capitals, their seats of power. And through this, we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial
At palenque, tonina bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings to find out their capitals their seats of power. And through this we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial wake of hernan cortes. Their discoveries included the ruins at copan. But interest in the st