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Park. My name is ranger smith and ill be with you this afternoon for the second of our mid winter talks, this one specifically on james at appomattox. Yet is famous quote of not of theborn the battle wilderness, 1864. He reports back to richmond and suggests he is ready to come back from active duty but that at least with the army of northern virginia, lee might want a more vigorous person. Is mostly recovering from his wounds. He will never recover the use of his right arm. Of the bullet exitin...

Joining me here to talk about i think this quite important topic are three fantastic historians, all of whom study politics and power in American History. Professor beverly gage of young university. Professor dirk of duke university. And professor michael j. Allen of northwestern university. Im going to set the stage for with four or five minutes of introductory remarks and will introduce each panelist individually before they speak for just 15, 20 minutes apiece. And then we will open the floor...

Thursday in parliament. Hello, and welcome to thursday in parliament. Coming up the government confirms its to try again to call an early general election. A minister says the date wont be shifted to after brexit day. What i can assure the house about is that the date will be set in the date will be stuck to. And the date will be stuck to. But labour remains sceptical. We simply will not vote for a general election unless and until an extension of article 50 has been secured guaranteeing this co...

To push australia past 250. His third tonne of the season. Only don bradman has more. And we are all thrilled and we are all thrilled and nick miller has the weather. We have rain and High Pressure building infor we have rain and High Pressure building in for the weekend, to settle things down. Briefly. I have your full forecast coming up. See your full forecast coming up. See you in half an hour. See you in half an hour. Thanks nick, also coming up on afternoon live. Away from the drama of west...

Well be live on the us east coast as Hurricane Dorian brings flooding. Meanwhile in the bahamas, the situation is desperate. Record breaking winds and massive storm surges flipped cars and even shipping containers far onto the land. But all around here is an area that is been totally leveled. Thats been totally leveled. And facebook launches a dating service in the us well be live in new york to hear all about it. If youre confused by brexit, if youre struggling to keep up with all the developme...

The atlantic and pick up on two tropical systems. Hurricane dorian, thatis tropical systems. Hurricane dorian, that is the forecast track along the eastern seaboard and Tropical Storm gabriel, more out into the mid atlantic. Gabriel, more out into the mid atla ntic. If we gabriel, more out into the mid atlantic. If we move things through to tuesday we can pick up roughly where there. The low the re m na nts of roughly where there. The low the remnants of dorian, this little load the remnants of ...

Republican candidates apart from few headtohead explosions that we could have done without, there was more agreement on issues than disagreement, energy, inflation, over regulation, wokeness. China warnings. Biggest division was probably over ukraine. You could be unfair. And say there were no magical moments lines, but you know they are hard to come by, here is one memorable line from Ronald Reagan to remind everyone of what a memorable line sounds like. Governor reagan is against such a propos...

At Kensington Palace that introduced prince harrys bride to be Meghan Markle to the worlds media. Thats in the royal review, 2017. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The universities minister, jojohnson, will use a speech today to warn that academic institutions must protect free speech. Hell say students must be able to both hear and challenge controversial views during their years of study. Some universities and student groups have refused entry to speakers, as Edward Curwen reports. Time s...

Public service by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. And now the Senate Foreign Relations Committee assessing u. S. Strategy in afghanistan among the witnesses deputy secretary of state John Sullivan discussing the role of neighboring pakistan and randall slieber outlining the military role in training. This is about two hours. Well come to order and we thank those in attendance rolling out the new strategy. Reiterated our commitment...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Margaret Spellings, president of the george w. Bush president ial center. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as the announcer said i am Margaret Spellings the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on...