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Hear from thell Plimoth Patuxet deputy executive director Richard Pickering told and about the origins of the mayflower compact. I Plimoth Patuxet deputy am executive director Richard Pickering. Themter by the name gives the name pilgrim fathers. They are still called this today. We as americans tend to call them pilgrims. The reason that this is cited is because William Bradford refers to them as pilgrims. Pilgrims,p but lowercase. We need to remember that they did not have a group identity. They were a heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how do people sound in colonial england. The first few ships that will follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect r ....
Them pilgrims. The reason the word is cited is that William Bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry referred to them as pilgrims. Not uppercase, big p, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on a journey for religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard ship with people that you are ....
I. Welcome to the program tensions are rising in tanzania ahead of wednesdays parliamentary and president ial elections in Major Opposition Party is accusing police of shooting dead at least 9 people in the island region of a head of the poll the u. N. Has called on all political leaders to refrain from violence president is seeking the 2nd 5 year term is spotty a child my child or c. C. M. Has held power for decades his time in office has seen rapid Economic Growth but also down on the opposition and on political dissent. Rallying his supporters before the election incumbent john magaw is running on a condom. That until recently was growing fast but i ask you my fellow tanzania to vote for me on the 28th i want to bring new changes to tanzania you were all witnesses that in my 1st term in power i have brought a lot of changes to this country. Yeah. But economic reco ....
California not far from l. A. At least 90000 people evacuated as high winds and dry conditions create whats being called the most dangerous fire conditions this year. And german chancellor Angela Merkel is going to really planning to announce strict new voices to slow the surge of coronavirus daily cheeses in germany are expected to take 20 down to 6 by weeks end. Welcome to the show we began with the widening backlash against french president and. Anger and the muslim world is growing over a controversial comments he made about islam following the brutal murder of a french teacher since then massive anti france rallies have been taking place across moslem lunch already countries with protesters calling for a boycott of french goods. The target of their anger is clear. Here in pakistan protesters in karate and islamabad accuse the french president of attacking islam. For asking the behavior of the french government is actually an i ....