Silent. And heri Herbie Herbie hancock w to rock. We begin with the broad expansion of the u. S. Military mission in iraq. The u. S. Authorized an additional 1500 noncombat troops. That would double the number of fighters sent to combat the push against i. S. I. L. Paul beban has the story. Will pay big in the campaign to defeat i. S. I. L. That money would go towards what the president is calling the iraq train and equip fund. The plan doubles the number of troops on the ground there from 1400 to nearly 3,000. But the pentagon stresses this is not a combat mission. It is to advise the iraqi army and kurdish fighters on the front lines of the battle. Theyve reached a point where they need additional help and guidance. Particularly in areas like ann anbar. Providing high level guidance, others would be spread against 12 smaller scamps throughout the country, working with 9 iraqi and three kurdish brigades that number somewhere between 15 and 30,000 troops. The americans would begin depl
Visits museums and historic places. Founded in 1923, the museum of the city of new yorks collection contains nearly 750,000 objects. We visited to learn about the exhibit, gilded new york. I am one of the cocurators of gilded new york, being shown at the museum of the city of new york. The show opened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. In this beautiful jewel box of a gallery, we have assembled a variety of objects that help the public to appreciate what life was like for the 1 in the original gilded age that followed the civil war from the 1880s through about 1910. That period was characterized by great wealth. Kind of like the dot com people of our era. In those days, the money came from various industries, mining, railroads, smelting iron, and also the rise of the modern corporation. All of those businesses yielded enormous wealth at the same time there was mass immigration, a time when new york was unified by all of its boroughs and the total population was over 3.
Of gilded new york, being shown at the museum of the city of new york. The show opened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. In this beautiful jewel box of a gallery, we have assembled a variety of objects that help the public to appreciate what life was like for the 1 in the original gilded age that followed the civil war from the 1880s through about 1910. That period was characterized by great wealth. Kind of like the. Com people of our own era. Dot com people of our era. In those days, the money came from various industries, mining, railroads, smelting iron, and also the rise of the modern corporation. All of those businesses yielded enormous wealth at the same time there was mass immigration, a time when new york was unified by all of its boroughs and the total population was over 3. 5 million people. With that mixture of people, the lower classes, the rising upper class, there was this desire to set oneself apart from the teeming masses. And so, this. 1 of people deci
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