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You can read faster than i can talk so i wont read the slides. I want you to see beautiful places i love. They are history and parks and recreation and National Resources and frankly the lungs of the city are largely these forts and the parks. So there we start. As frank said the city was unprotected down below. This is Fort Washington. If you havent been there, you should go. Its quite different from the forts that were built during the civil war. After bull run, lincoln knew the city was vulne...

Military history professor Christopher Gabel discusses the importance of railroads and Steam Powered locomotives to the union and confederate armies and explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacys powerful Railroad System broke down as the war progressed. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this hourlong event. Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for being here. Folks, you know when we look back at the onset of the am...

Advantage for the north, maybe that statistic is not really important either. Its whether or not the railroads actually were that significant in the conduct and outcome of the civil war. And if the answer to that question is no, we can save a lot of time here tonight. Ok. Well, this is the game changer right here. Water turns to steam and expands 1600 well so what . People have known this for thousands of years. Ok . Well, in the 1820s somebody figured out how to take that expansion and turn it ...

Now called the Karnataka Legislature Institute, this is a place where elected representatives can relax and rejuvenate and walk in wearing traditional Indian clothes, including dhoti --- the pride of southern India

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At first sight, off Jayamahal Road, the palace's Tudor-style towers, crenellations, and fortifications, complete with creepers climbing the walls, would not seem out of place in an English countryside.

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we begin in eastern contra costa county. >> reporter: imagine having coffee on your waterfront deck, you look ought on the distance and see -- out distance and see a funnel crowd dropping from the sky. it happened to one guy here today, and he showed us the photo evidence to prove it. >> hear what i thought was thunder. curious, i go outside to look. >> reporter: carlos grabbed his compact camera. >> and this is what i see. >> reporter: in eight minutes, carlos snapped 11 pictures. >> ...

. . of the virginia hospital center, do you remember the first time you wanted to be a doctor? >> i think so, my stepfather was a surgeon, i wanted to be like my stepfather. from age seven, when we came into my life, i wanted to copy him. it got more serious in high school, i dislocated my hip from a skiing accident. and had to be in a hospital with a pin in my knee and traction, and had a lot of time to lay up and observe people, and i think i decided then i was going to do it. >> whe...