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Cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, everyone, welcome to the bookshop, we are happy you are here tonight to we are happy to have Megan Kate Nelson with us with her new book, the threecornered war, the union, confederacy and native people and the site for the west. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows how the civil war, the indian wars in western expansion are all interconnected, the 1860s were a time of Nati...

First debated, i rid keel skull then embraced the possibility of saving an hour of lay diagnose. No one can say for sure why were required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme . The most authoritative sources suggest was a pittsburgh industrialist, woodrow wilson, mon an horse in london, manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin. One of the caesars are the anonymous makers of japanese and chinese water clocks. Toy prisoning forward is a portrait of pock policy in ...

Special guest for this Evenings Program, katy tur and robin young who will come through this door in a minute. We are thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute. Membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you that might be visiting that institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. Its truly spectacular in the way senator kennedy envisio...

His new book spring forward the annual madness of Daylight Savings time gives us a detailed look at something we all participate in although we have little understanding about why we spring forward and fall back each year. Almost 100 years ago congress and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed and the passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight. No one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. The first to post this scheme ...

Slightly. The Chinese Markets were closed for the dragon boat festival holiday. The nikkei ended flat. Down by 4. 5 points. In europe, some of the early trading, youll see right now it looks like things are flat for the dax. In germany the cac is off, and in london stocks down by a third of a percent. Crude Oil Prices Last week were all over the map. Ended up down 50. This morning down to 49. 57. Several headlines out of europe this morning. It is the euro moving following comments by mario drag...

Alphabet. The stock which you may own in a fund or retirement account or individually initially fell by more than 3 when the Company Reported profits 28 lower than a year ago. That was largely because the company booked a 2. 7 billion fine from european regulators. Ongoing Regulatory Risk is apparently what spooked investors this afternoon. Overall, the business is clicking right along. Net revenue rose 21 to 26 billion. Clicks on ads jumped 52 compared with a year ago. Cloud revenue up smartly ...

This is on the money. Now, becky quick we begin with microchip implants a Wisconsin Technology company is offering workers the chance to toss their employee i. D. Card and forget all the passwords, in exchange theyll insert a tiny microchip under the skin would you do it . Thats todays cover story chipping in. It wasnt the Traditional Office party. Last week in wisconsin, threesquare market, a provider of selfservice break room vending machine offered to microchip its employees. More than half o...

My office by the italianAmerican Civil Rights league. The italian machine American Civil Rights league was founded by a man named joe colombo, head of the colombo crime family. I also found out something i didnt know. In the Justice Department manual, it was improper to refer to a group as the mafia. I could have been penalized. And you know they love to penalize in the justice system. Oh, yes. I was there for 20 years. I understand that. I violated a rule in the Justice Department by using the ...

Ththterror attacks, most of them under the age of 30. Youth, he said, in all its diversity. The violinist from algeria, studying music at the sorbonne. The frfrch advertising executive who oncecettended the university of north texas. The architect from germany. The romanians who immigrated to paris to find a better life and found each other. Tonight, france celebrates who they were and weeps for what they might have been. The search for the terrorists widened today, and Elizabeth Palmer is follo...

That dont leave his mind. The faces of the 129 killed in the terror attacks, most of them under the age of 30, youth, he said, in all its diversity. The violinist from algeria, studying music at the sor bon. The french advertising executive who once attended the university of north texas. The architect from germany. The romanians who immigrated to paris to find a better life and found each other. Tonight, france celebrate who they were and weeps for what they might have been. The search for the ...