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[ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby in tucson, arizona. Wagon trains used to pass right through here on their way to california during the gold rush, and one of the roughandready pioneers who helped settle this area left behind a very strange inheritance. Im here to get the skinny on it. My names jock taylor. In 2009, i inherited a wooden trunk full of family heirlooms going back more than a century. Now im told i could pocket a small fortune. I meet jock, a 60yearold electrical engineer, at his home here in tucson. Hi, im jamie. Im jock. I heard you have something very unusual fr...

United states botanic garden, and jim mcdaniel, board of directors, like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will have a short conversation moderated by dr. Pelle. Please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] thank you, it is an honor to be here today to speak with you about white house gardens. Both of our other panelist our named jim and both worked on white house gardens. At the end am going to let you ask questions. We are the last panel of the day and we will finish the discussion by talking about gardens that have been established and...

Im jamie colby in San Francisco today, home of the bay bombers. If you know that is the most storied franchise in roller derby, then you watch too much saturday morning tv. And if you dont know what im talking about, no worries just strap on your helmet because you are in for a rollicking good time. My name is Jim Fitzpatrick, and when one of my childhood idols died in 2006, she left me hundreds of her mementos from her roller derby career. Hi, im jamie. Hi, jamie. Nice to meet you. Im jim. Inside his house, Jim Fitzpatrick has arranged his strange inheritance into a shrine, to the woman who l...

The study of africanamerican life and history. Sandra bolzenius, what was the Womens Army Corps . The Womens Army Corps or the wac, ill be using that acronym to describe them, and members of the Womens Army Corps, it was established in 1942. The military, the army was fighting a two front war and needed more troops, so they enlisted women for the first time in its history to make sure they were able to fill the jobs that the men were leaving so they could go to the front. And there have been many books on the mistreatment of africanamerican soldiers during world war ii, but you wrote about fou...

Smoke jumping started in 1939. The reason it came about, there were fires in the middle of nowhere. They had to hike guys into the fire spread by the time they got there, it would be 1000 acres. They needed guys to get to the fires quickly. The goal of the smokejumper is to jump into wildfires. Payload range, thats the motto. They did a bunch of tests in 1939. The first fire jump was 1940. That went well. They continued from there. There are nine smokejumper bases in the western united states. They ares far north as fairbanks, alaska and through northern california. We do have some bases. We h...