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Congress. The house will debate more than two dozen bills including those to reauthorize the peace corps, increase penalties for Human Trafficking and bills regarding historic parks. Youre watching live coverage here on cspan. The prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben will you pray with me. Sovereign god as the world turns its attention to the final tributes of a great queen, we pray your blessing over the leaders of this country. Each day as we renew our oath to support and defend its constitution signed 235 years ago, renew in us our most sacred duty to maintain a viable...

Paralyzed some of the most heavily Populated Areas of this country. The stats are coming in and they are impressive. Worst hit. Hamden, where they got an astonishing 40 inches. Portland, they got nearly 32 inches from this one and to give you a sense of the powers the winds were as strong as a category 1 hurricane with gusts up to 83 miles an hour on the cape. Thats cape cod. And speaking of massachusetts, thats where meteorologist ginger zee is this morning. She is in boston. Hey, ginger, good morning. Good morning, to you, dan. Boston was one of the areas hardest hit and recordmaking here. I...

Daily life literally revolved around it. As in many medieval towns, the western gates of the cathedral formed one sid of a great opeuare. In the middle ages this was the place where the townspeople could meet the farmers and produce of the countryside could be bought and sold. Here, too, they could mingle with tinkers and peddlers, salt sellers dealers in relics, and the whole gallery of nefarious characters who thronged the roads of christendom at that time. The important rituals of peoples lives centered in the church. In the church, the infant was baptized, the young were married. And praye...

And the whole gallery of nefarious characters who thronged the roads of christendom at that time. The important rituals of peoples lives centered in the church. In the church, the infant was baptized, the young were married. And prays were offered for the souls of the dead. The tremendous outpouring of skill, labor, and faith represented in the age of gothic cathedrals needs to be understood in light of the great changes happening in western europe between 1100 and 1300. The most important of these was a dramatic population boom. As europe grew more stable and more prosperous, men and women se...

In 1194, the church was again burned down, leaving only the great west gate, the western towers, and the ancient crypt. Miraculously, their most sacred relic, the tunic of the virgin mary, survived intact in the crypt, to the joy of the people. Even more miraculously, the entire church was rebuilt in 27 years. That is the church that we can still see today. What the cathedral meant to the people who lived in these streets in the 13th century is very different from what it means today. Then the cathedral was the center of Spiritual Life and the focus of civic pride. Daily life literally revolve...