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You promote books and reading. You live with books. And you are involved with the study of books. And i said, thats true. We also promote books through events such as tonights. This is part of our books and beyond author series. Its where we focus on authors who have written new books that have Something Special to do with the library of congress. And in this case, as our speaker will tell you, there is a direct connection with the library and with an archive. And when i wrote the press release,...

Welcome to the library of congress. Im john kohl, director of the center in the book for the library of congress. I was talking to our speaker earlier tonight and described what i was doing. She said, you have a wonderful job. You promote books and reading. You live with books. And you are involved with the study of books. And i said, thats true. We also promote books through events such as tonights. This is part of our books and beyond author series. Its where we focus on authors who have writt...

After hurricane matthew, officials worried about complete failure. At it last inspection in 2013, the dam was classified as high hazard and in poor condition. The state deq have been trying to get the dams owners to fix it but the firm went bankrupt and the dam was sold the new owners, resetting the clock on enforcement action. They had to go through the process again. Reporter size in the concrete spillway, which had eroded. We were getting to the point of getting that corrected when we had the...

Author, harry katz. Usually when we do a slideshow with these presentations, we are timing the talk or talking directly to the content of the slides. There are so many good slides today, harry and i decided to use them as wallpaper. We will run a slideshow, there 30 secondssumably for each side. There are about 70 slides. We may be referencing the slides occasionally, but we will be talking about the book in general. As you see the slides, if you have any questions, feel free to ask us at the en...

According to the preface, he didnt take notes and then he lost the first two he got burned up and still wrote it. If you read the book it has enormous detail about the sand a dunes and what happened on the day of the movement. I dont know how he could possibly remember all of it. Its some of the most elegant writing ive ever read, so i read at night to go to sleep and i read a little bit of the seven pillars of wisdom and after zonkars of wisdom and after you have enough airplane time to read . ...

Said that is kind of a valid peemack. A valid point. You only have this one example. Literally thats all i could find any spent weeks combing through the records and digging in looking and those with aa little examples that were cited that were written down. Who knows what was really going on. Okay. Good evening. Ii enjoyed the excerpt. One of the things that jumped out at me was the officer who said to paul, some of these guys or whatever, these guys are never going to like you because you are ...

Said that is kind of a valid peemack. A valid point. You only have this one example. Literally thats all i could find any spent weeks combing through the records and digging in looking and those with aa little examples that were cited that were written down. Who knows what was really going on. Okay. Good evening. Ii enjoyed the excerpt. One of the things that jumped out at me was the officer who said to paul, some of these guys or whatever, these guys are never going to like you because you are ...

There is 110 local support for pullman being designated as a National Park site. We have over 15,000 people in their support, as well as 150 community, building, and labor say that pullman to should be the 402nd National Park site. With the loudest voice are once recognized. There are people that say they want pullman to be hundred second National Park site. We could pull together. 402 is a brilliant campaign, but we have to fight for it. I wanted to thank the panel. Leaaron foley, sandra washin...

An hour thanks so much for joining us. These are treasures. We should support them any way we can. No one is getting out of here until every copy is sold. Founding rivals, James Madison versus james monroe, the bill of rights in that saved a nation. For those of you who showed up of ee the lead guitarist kiss, i regret to inform you that that was last night. As important as this project has become to my life, i can scarcely remember the first i learned about this historic congressional race pres...

In 1935. So what the plan is i will talk a little about the history of the game and open it up to question and answer so i am not just hamming and you can get insight on hopefully what you think is useful. Most people are familiar with the red hotels greenhouses and mr. Monopoly. Most people saying Parker Brothers. The idea is at americas darkest hour he makes this game and puts the houses on atlanta boulevard for a happier time. You can see the monopoly patton looks like what we know as monopol...