Deliver us. Deliver us from the plague. From hunger. From war. This is been the cry of mankind through all time. Blinded by ignorance, he lashed out against the black plague. And so with maddened efforts to stem prejudice and intolerance which too often resulted in cruel and vicious treatment of those suffering from contagious diseases. Despite the raging panic of ignorance, scientists of many nations went to work, painfully belabored to bring such light of knowledge, using every means of communication to share their findings with each other. It was the dutchman who, with research health, provided scientists everywhere with a new and powerful version of the microscope. Now at last the hidden enemy could be examined under the probing searchlight of science. The hunt was on for contagious diseases and their causes wherever they existed. In italy, a scientist pioneered the work on the origin and growth of microscopic organisms. He proved that fermentation did not take place in sealed cont
Market. So well be talking about that tonight. And what i want to do is set the stage for the bread riots, give you an idea for the conditions under which it occurred, and then ill talk about the riot itself and then ill end with the aftermath of the riot. I have a slight up here of robert keen. He wrote some insightful things. I want to share something from his diary. On march 7, this is what he said. He was an official in the War Department. And he said flour in the city is 30, but butchers are closing their stalls. Pound. 1. 25 per then he said the scheduled prices, which are often 50 below the market or neighborhood price. Price schedule he is talking about is basically the government prices that farmers had to abide by when they sold goods to the army. So, the farmers resent these prices. Corn, and meet, as meat, as soon as they were brought to towns, there was a surplus. Unless the secretary changes his policy and buys in the market for the best price. And then he concluded there
First explained the meaning behind the exhibit title and hints that a story beyond just two years of service and fighting over there. Actually exactly we returned fighting the African American experience in world war i the key to that title is number one you dont see the word military military. It is not just about soldiers. It is about civilians. Men and women. Soldiers and civilians. Young and old. White and black. That is that is the long title. The short title, we return fighting, speaks to what happened after the war and how africanamericans used world war i as a transformative event for them, just like it was a transformative event throughout the globe. We explore that story throughout this hour of washington journal, day five of museum week on washington journal with our friends at America History tv, cspan3. Throughout the segment we invite viewers to join us phone lines split up regionally. This morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. If you are
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Mission to build, resupply, and do research on the International Space station. 10 and a half minutes later, you are now in space, and the things that you dropped are floating, the dust particles and things. You are still strapped in, and when the engines cut off, because you are accelerating in the stop, you feel like youre tumbling forward. I was like, whats going on here . Under the seat belt, i push off my back and flitted to videotape back to the planet flew to the window to videotape the planet. This thing is falling and we are trying to see any marks on it, seeing if something had hit our vehicle, like what happened to the columbia accident. , do this thing and im like ok, and i see the caribbean. The colors of the ocean are so dramatic and blue. I almost need a new definition of blue to describe what im looking at. And we are going around the planet every 90 minutes and seeing the sunrise and sunset every five minutes. Im like, wow, this is space. Back at the planet, you see th