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Short trip, but another planet. do they speak a different language here or something? >> judith: yes, it's a different dialect. >> anthony: it's not an accent. the actual words are different. >> judith: yes. >> heinz: the words are different, the spelling is different, and also the meaning of some words. >> anthony: and the beer. most importantly the beer is different. >> heinz: and the beer. yes. in cologne we have a pale beer, a light beer, and here we have really dark beer. >> anthony: right. >> heinz: it's called alt. but it's not "old" as the word alt means. >> anthony: right. >> heinz: i...

Tonight, a century-old new year's tradition in the black church will come to the nation's capital. they held watch night services in 1862 as they awaited president lincoln's signing of the emancipation proclamation. tonight they gather in washington for a revival poor people's campaign, watch night service. two of those leaders are joining me now. reverend dr. liz theo harris, co director of the center for rights, religious and social justice. thank you both for being here. reverend theo harris, i start with you. what message -- i'm sorry, what does a policy agenda that centers motrality and j...

Tho thorndike tweeted -- fun fact the first irs deadline was june 30, 1862. nobody paid because no federal sagtcy existed to collect. one month later, republican president abraham lincoln signed the second revenue act of 1862 which created the office of commissioner of the internal revenue. within six months, what was then called the bureau of internal revenue had nearly 4,000 employees. and that year collected more than $39 million in taxes. joe klein joins us next. i'm mary ellen,

It was her service in the civil war that won her the congressional medal of honor. when the war broke out, mary went to washington to request to enlist as an army surgeon. her request was denied. she then volunteered in a makeshift hospital in washington with 100 severely wounded soldiers. mary kept requesting formal appointments as an army surgeon and kept getting rejected. in 1862, she set off to the battlefield herself and offered her services there as a volunteer. the army surgeons she worked with supported her appeal to washington for a formal appointment but she was again denied. newspap...

But i like to dunk my cookies. it reports four of the cookies have 140 calories, compared with 160-calories for three of the regular oreos. the tips are set to hit stores next week. on this day in 1862, samuel clemens started writing under a more famous name, mark twain. he worked many odd jobs before he picked up the pen. he prospected for minds, helped out on a river boat, and crew members used the term mark twain when they measured the department. it meant 12 feet. he later wrote a series of american classics centered around the mississippi featuring young troublemakers tom sawyer and huc...