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Natural history and this very special graduation ceremony. Im richard curran, the smithsonians distinguished scholar and ambassador at large. First and foremost, i like to extend the welcome to our colleagues and friends from the u. S. Army, distinguished leaders, and, of course, our officer our graduates and their rightly proud and maybe families. Id like to welcome distinguished guests from the Monuments Men and women foundation, including members of the board and relatives of the world. Two m...

On behalf of the Smithsonian Institution and its secretary, lonnie bunch, id like to welcome you all to the next Smithsonians National museum of Natural History and this very special graduation ceremony. Im richard curran, the smithsonians distinguished scholar and ambassador at large. First and foremost, i like to extend the welcome to our colleagues and friends from the u. S. Army, distinguished leaders, and, of course, our officer our graduates and their rightly proud and maybe families. Id l...

Institution and its secretary, lonnie bunch, id like to welcome you all to the next Smithsonians National museum of Natural History and this very special graduation ceremony. Im richard curran, the smithsonians distinguished scholar and ambassador at large. First and foremost, i like to extend the welcome to our colleagues and friends from the u. S. Army, distinguished leaders, and, of course, our officer our graduates and their rightly proud and maybe families. Id like to welcome distinguished ...

Gave it the privileged position as there are religion of the land. This was a big occasion the tenth anniversary. All of the bishops were summoned and mussolinis own representatives with a bear. The kings son would either. The world would be watching. It was a speech that the pope saw as his last opportunity to get out a dramatic message. The killy rots a. I dont know how to work this. One button which doesnt seem to do anything. Im just going to show you a couple of images to illustrate. That i...

Theres much more over there on the counter. She will be signing here at the table to my left. This was fascinating. Please give her a pig hand. A big hand. [applause] thank you. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook be. Com booktv. Heres a look at some books that are being published this week. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and w...

Content. Next a Panel Discussion about robert edsels the Monuments Men about recovering and protecting european cultural artifacts that the nazis stole during world war ii. This is about an hour and 30 minutes. [applause] [inaudible conversations] there we go. Okay. Roberts second book is entitled the Monuments Men allied heroes, nazi thieves, and the greatest Treasure Hunt in history. This panel tonight will discuss those allied heroes the monuments named, the nazi thievebut not thethieves and ...

Specifically the art museum in berlin which is one of the areas things to go through in the world room by room. There is no provenance attached to any of those works of art. It is just artists, title, thats it. You dont know if it came from prussian state. You dont know which state or municipal gallery it came from. You dont know anything then thats the principle artist. Museum of germany. It is very very weird. Comments . Let me just contrast that with france. France had this socalled Art Colle...

Interviewed and answered questions about his book which is now a major motion picture. In the book, he tells the story until al lied classes i started asking friends in europe and they said you live here, you should know. And it evolved this way having out of questions i could not seen at the beginning writing three books about it. Now a feature film and the foundation continuing the work. It has been a privilege to represent these heroes. And it has been an amazing experience. Why did you move ...

You have a book here, any thought of conducting a tour . The m t the Monument Foundation did that and is doing that. We call it in the footsteps of the Monuments Men and its something we are going to be doing to italy in 2015 and also to europe so people can follow the story as they took place in italy and also in the Monuments Men. We had on humans accompany us when we were on the trip last year and one of the stops we made was at the cemetery to the grave of the monuments officer who was one o...

He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human ...