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has faced scandal, war. adultery. >> it would have been far easy to have had two wives. >> and tragedy. >> diana, the princess of wales, has died at the age of 36. >> they would do whatever it takes to survive. >> we are here to celebrate six decades of the queens reign. >> duty, power and sacrifice. ♪ ♪ the windors . ♪ ♪ 1911, the future of the british monarchy rests on the shoulders of a teenage boy. prince edward. ♪ ♪ he is the eldest son of king george v and his wife, queen mary. on his father's death, edward would reign over britain and the vast empire. edward is o...

Thank you for all of the questions, thank you so much to all of you for being here. [applause] and now more from the printers row lit fest in chicago. Thanks so much for joining us today. This session is entitled Neil Steinberg, every goddamn day t highly selective, definitely opinionated, and alternatingly humorous and heartbreaking Historical Tour of chicago. In conversation with sherman thomas. oh, yeah, lets give it up. [applause] neils book will be available for sale and sunk at the book sales and signing tent on your map is marked n. N. , nancy nancy, or neil neil. Neil steinberg is a da...

With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners well explore the citys history and literary community, beginning with author pat oneill on the history of irish immigrants and how they helped build kansas city in what it is today. One of my Favorite Places in the whole cold is browns market run by john and john mcclain and cary brown. And they start the business in the late 1880s. Irish style. The oldest continual Retail Operation in west of the mississippi, maybe in the whole world. But browns is kind of our community center. One of those great Little Corner Neighborhood Grocery stores where peop...

Brother, johner pendergrast who came to kansas city in the 1880s and got started establishing this machine in the first ward of kansas city which was in the Industrial City by the river. There were many, there was an irish community, Africanamerican Community it was diverse. There were a lot of workingclass people. Andpendergast had saloons he went and built this machine that was based on favors that helped people get jobs in exchange for fouts, helping people through giving them loans that you did not have to get a formal rank loan and jim would loan the money, settle gambling debts, given mo...

Viewers. The political machine boss of 1925 to 1939. Om the political machine got its start from toms older brother, jim pendergast, who came to kansas city in the 1880s and got started establishing this machine in the first ward of kansas city, which was in the industrial west bottoms down by the river. An irish committee, africanamerican community. Very diverse. Lots of workingclass people, saloon. Pendergast had a this machine that was based on favors, basically helping people get jobs in exchange for votes, helping people through giving them loans that they did not have to get a jim wouldk...