From the united states, canada, mexico, jamaica, peru, [inaudible] guatemala, argentina brazil, coaster rica [inaudible] and probably even pasadena. [laughter] thank you. My pleasure. Thank you everyone for joining us for this evenings event. My name is kim sutton and im the host of the event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out the lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting. One of our many Upcoming Events we are looking forward to is tiffany in conversation with ellie about the new book say it louder black voters, white anarchists seen saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. Please remember to follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram. Tonight we welcome leonard and rob paulson. Leonard received his phd in the theoretical civics from the university of california berkeley, was an Alexander Von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute and was on the faculty of California Institute of technology. His previous books include the bestsellers the gran
Working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the time, where people wrote to one another about science, food, culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. We invite you to stay with us for questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. We have a couple of questions we may be able to do during the presentation. The majority of the questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. Please put your questions in and i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much for the work you have done to put this together and welcome to the platform. Chuck welcome, everyone. I am really happy to pull this off. Imaginative tell an story. So let your minds go. This is not a straightforward narrative. We will touch a lot of points. The point of departure for me came with the publication of my book. It is my b
Congress and that early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the uscs society team for five years, prior to that he was 27 years working on the First Congress program. And so he has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the times, where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation, and i will work through the questions and we have a couple of questions, we may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation but the majority of our questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. So please put your questions in and ill try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much, chuck, for the work youve done to put this together and welcome to the platform. W
Historical society provided video of this event. Is the enoch girl scholars series. We thought we would start with our own. One of the nations finest scholars on the First Congress. That early time in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have him as part of our society team. He was 20 seven years working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation. Using primary sources, letters of the time, where people wrote to one another about science, food, culture. The back and forth that made early days in washington. Usinvite you to stay with for questions and answers. Will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. Questionscouple of during the presentation. The majority will calm at the conclusion. Andse put your questions in i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move away. Thank you very much. For the work you have done to put this together. Welcome to the platform. Welcome, everyone. I am very gl
Im nick spicer thanks for joining Us Saudi Arabia has temporarily halted Oil Production at 2 facilities after they were attacked by yemeni rebels iran back to the fighters say they used 10 drones in a strike which caused saudi arabias Oil Production to be cut in half one of the targets is the Worlds Largest Oil Processing plant in cake located east of the capital riyadh blazes also broke out in the countrys 2nd Largest Oil Field in her race the fires have been brought under control and there were no injuries reported. Porter ole al soccer has been following the story for us only tell me the saudis have cut production by about a half they say what does this mean for saudi arabia and for the world. Theres a saudi arabia is losing 6000000 barrels of crude oil a day to put that into context the world consumes more than 100000000 barrels so that is a large chunk saudi arabia is the biggest oil exporter in the world and well have to wait and see when the markets open on monday but this is li