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[inaudible conversations] welcome to the third mississippi book festival. Im with the department of archives and history. Have been asked to remind everyone you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media. Literary lawn party this is sponsored by the Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have a strong supporter of its literature, music and ar arts. Now in his fifth term in the u. S. House of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee and serves on the committee of energy and commerce and perhaps most pertinently as the chai...

When people talk about the future of the 22nd century on sort of like i go into a engineer mode and go well, what are you going to back cosmic rays when you fly to outer space and what he going to do about problem . Im kind of a wet blanket. But these three panelists are very wellqualified with actual facts to talk about the 22nd century and what we might anticipate. So our three speakers, going to induce an indie order adequately speak and the new get ten to 15 minutes and if they talk too long, i cut them off. So, our first speaker is david grinspoon, whos in astrobiologist which is super co...

And it could result in lives lost unless we have enforceable rules and regulations that protect the traveling public, not just the folks who may be behind the wheel but also passengers in vehicles out on the roads today. Driving continues to be one of the deadliest activities. The reason the framework issued yesterday concerned me so greatly is that it depends on voluntary selfassessment by the industry as opposed to mandatory rules. It was termed by one report even less burdensome than the voluntary one issued under the obama administration. The net effect would be to leave enforcement virtua...

Here, so here we go. Phones off. You know how i am about phones. Okay. All right. Here we go. So the topic today is life in this morning is life in the 22nd century. And, you know im an engineer. I see a phone on back there. Turn off that light, or a computer or something. Thank you. You know, when people talk about the future of the 22nd century, im sort of like, i go into my engineer mode and go, well, what are you going to do about cosmic rays when you fly to outer space and what about the time problem . Im kind of a wet blanket. But these three panelists are very well qualified with actual...

Here before. You all know the history of the historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school. Ere 1853 Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the minor school for colored girls the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought...