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American history tv on cspan 3. This is a portrait of kentuckys henry clay, known to us as n our history books as the great compromiser. During his 49year political career, clay served as secretary of state, speaker of the house, and as a u. S. Senator. And he was a contender. Making five president ial bids, including the election of 1824, is 1832 against Andrew Jackson and 1844 when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight we are on locations in ashland, henry clays home in lexington, kentucky and...

Cover if that is what you hear. We do have pop up thunderstorms in the forecast. Storms are heading right into cleveland right now with heavier downpours. There is some lightening that we have had reported at well, erie, pennsylvania, buffalo new york getting those storms. Yes, scheduled to arrive this afternoon and this evening. Nothing in our area right now. In fact it is a gorgeous sunrise that just happened at 10 05. A little breeze out of the south. Not much. Temperatures in the 60s to the ...

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 piec...

Theyre part of the original collection here in fact, and we were provided those during the period where we were destroying those launch vehicles in both russia and here. We have another call from steve in new york. Steve, go ahead, please. Caller hello, general . Is anybody on the other end there . Yes, we are. We can hear you. Caller hello . Go ahead, steve. Hello. Caller you know, when columbus sailed for america, he didnt know it at the time, but Queen Isabella funded his expedition. And they...

Take three months to start back in the old days. Even took two or three days when we first started doing it by air because they flew by day and then took the train at night and flew by day and took the train. So the range speed pay load and the capabilities and safety, safety is a really major portion of this entire program. Youre going to keep it for a few more minutes and then show our audience some of the artifacts and exhibits here at the museum but let me get a call joining us from oregon. ...

Technology itself. This is what is the exciting tool for me, taking on that. To share that with visitors. You can watch this or any other programming, you can go to cspan. Org histo cspan. Org history. We are back live outside this stadium on the National Mall, president gerald ford did kated his museum. A america by hair of our earlierest day with air transportation and mail carers through the 1950s. It is all here. I want to sherianne argument that was nor Washington Post this week on the spea...

What impacted that have on you . Ms. Isenberg she was a very unusual person. She came to the university of wisconsin. She had to create a space for us in History Program and that she was someone who was very aware not only of gender and class and racial issues in all the things she wrote about but i think she imparted to me that you also have to understand the politics of academia and the way in which politics in general, we like to believe in america that we are free agents and we are able to s...

You said she had a way of demystifying ideologies. What impact did that have on you . Ms. Isenberg she was a very unusual person. She came to the university of wisconsin to set up the womens History Program. She had to create a space for us in the History Program and she was someone who was very aware not only of gender and class and racial issues and all the things she wrote about, but i think she imparted to me that you also have to understand the politics of academia and the way in which poli...

You can get the details from the report. It will highlight the key groups, and the top two groups oceans and tropical and subTropical Forests were more than half of the species of concern. If we look at the next ones, coast, arid lands, granted, not a lot of species are on the list, but some are showing some decline. To highlight what we have done in this report is not just where are the problems, but what are some of the Key Solutions we need to work on. Not all of these solutions are easy. If ...

Former langley historian. He spent some time year before we set him to jpl, and then our last panelist, glenn bugos, currently with ames. And with that, lets go to dr. Bill barry. Hes going to moderate our panel and begin give us the beginnings of some great stories. Thanks, bill. [applause] bill thanks, walt. Good afternoon, everybody. This is a great opportunity, what happened 40 years ago today and tomorrow. I would imagine that 40 years ago today, the 19th of july, 1976, there was a lot of n...