I am pleased to welcome you to the third of four lectures that comprise ourselves or men lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Before we begin the evenings program, i am commanded, not asked, im commanded to ask you to turn off your electronics. Cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonya sotomayor. She has been enormously generous in giving up her time to the society when we call upon her to help us, and i want to thank her for taking time off during a very busy time in the life of the court. Sonya sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york, june 25, 1954. She earned a ba in 1976 from princeton. She earned a jd from yale law school, where she served as an editor of the yale law journal. She then was an assistant District Attorney in the N
One german officer suggested quote bombing london would cause panic in the population, rendering it doubtful that the work could be continued. And another said that if we do is frightful, then make frightful as germanys salvation. That word would be taken up in the British Press like in america to symbolize germanys actions that year of 1915. However, the officer failed to convince the kaiser tasha wilhelm. Why . Because his feeling for british relations, this british cousins were highly ambivalent. He didnt wish to either kill them or destroy their palaces or indeed damage many of the landmarks of which he was fond. He considered that to quote indiscriminate bombing is bad when it means and kills old women and children. He went on if one could set fire to london in 30 paces then perhaps it would give way to something fine and powerful. All the flies, he said, should be concentrated on that city. What about poison gas . The debate here was less expensive. I think part of because it was
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, my name is matt and i serve as the president of the World War One Museum and memorial. We are delighted to welcome you to this really, i think, what is going to be an energizing conversation this evening. We are thankful and welcome to the museum and memorial. If you are unfamiliar with the museum welcome. If you are not familiar we are glad you are here. We are hoping you take time to come back and spend time at the galleries and in the park with the memorial. The museum was assigned by congress as the national museum. The memorial was only given the defender of last year in 2014. That is a reason to celebrate. The English Speakers were at a 60 mile bike ride on sunday. I stopped at a school and one of the students asked if i speak british in australia. We live in a world that was birthed hundred years ago. The world was forever changed by the 20th century world war one and we live in that shadow still experiencing its affect and induring impact to
We are glad you are here again and my hope is that you will take some time to spend some time in the galleries and spend time with the pack in the memorial. In the National Museum for world war i the memorial was honored in december of 2014. Its honored by both the United States National Museum and memorial. Its in the prestige that comes from the Congress Actually passed something. [laughter] that might be the most distinguished action of the bicameral bipartisan bill. We are also pleased to welcome the speaking union and are grateful for the generous support for the fund of the project. Im especially pleased to English Speaking union cosponsors on a 60kilometer by craig on sunday when i stopped at a break at a school where we were having a drink one of the students asked me if they spoke british and australian. [laughter] then it was 100 years ago the world was forever changed by the catastrophe of the 21st century world war i and we lived in the shadow experiencing its effect to thi