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I did have a clear idea of what i wanted the symposium to be. A blend of wellknown speakers. Blended with excellent lesserknown speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. I stumbled on a title and a gimmick using the year 2020. As a way of providing hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. With that concept in mind, i want to introduce our first speaker ...

Including some turtles. Thats right. Your tax dollars actually paid for a study that put turtles on treadmills. So here we have our turtles on a treadmill. To no ones surprise, it turns out that turtles are really, really slow. Okay. Thats what our tax dollars went to. In fact, this wasteful study found that turtles moved at nearly the same pace as dead turtles on a treadmill. Arent you glad that washington bureaucrats used your hard earned dollars to conduct this study . Good grief, folks. Now ...

State university. We are very grateful not only to have one of the mentors of kennesaws tom scotto over here, but david parker is a good representative from my department. Thank you, david, for coming. And thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. Because we had actually planned for him to come to a Different Event some time ago and the weather got in the way. This time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have Ste...

Good morning im phillip mena. And im cori coffin a judge has handed down the fate of roger stone, but will it stick, or will President Trump intervene . Longtime adviser and friend to the president was sentenced to just over three years behind bars for obstructing a and the oner is a movie from congressional investigation of south korea. What the hell was that all russias 2016 election meddling. The judge avoided any direct about . We got enough problems with references to the elephant in the ro...

Chair mar good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, february 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and supervisor raphael mandelman, who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. ...

American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him. cheers and applause announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight happy new fear plus stephen welcomes jane fonda tan france and musical guest Miranda Lambert featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen oh, come on oh, got a spring in my step thats right cheers and applause Whoo Whoo W...

Reporter iran has bought retaliation after a airstrike killed suleimani. The general has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers. The state department accused suleimani of a bruising violent protest in baghdad. President trump ordered the strikes, secretary of state mike pompeo defended the president s decision. The risk of doing nothing was enormous. Also, highly risky, doing nothing in this region shows weakness. It emboldens iran. Reporter the u. S. Embassy issued a travel...

Phenomenal job again, alex, billington. Is cruising around yesterday, ill 4, getting my meds come over the counter guess what i saw . Hearts, lots of hearts but valentines day, i noticed that. Caught me off guard i saw the red and i thought his Christmas Decorations no hearts everywhere. Pressure on delivering come valentines day . They just made a lot of money they did well. Keep it going. I got in and got up quickly. Maybe you did i dont know. Start loading up. For the calendar believe it is a...

How did investors and markets react to all of this dire political theater by moving to new record heights, the house of representatives in the midst of it all, all the drama also passed President Trumps usmca, the new trade agreement with canada and mexico. 1. 3 trillion worth in a matter of fact, in the midst of all the political turmoil the radical dems aversion for more than three years, President Trump succeeded in delivering another Major Campaign promise. Continuing to balance and make rec...

The very beginning what was known as a hot topic. Its nicknamed, tiger division. The commanding was a superb leader. Carried out over, march and shoot where his words. No man had more pride in his troops and no general with more fear than his men. I am john drew devereaux, a Company Commander in the 10th Armored Division in world war ii. We had a marvelous spirit in our division. I think it was due to the training we got from the general art Division Commander in the states. He was killed in an ...