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Conservative movement woes
Conservatives Mickey Edwards and Ross Douthat discuss why they believe their movement has gone off track during the last eight years and what it means for the Republican Party. Douthat is senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly and co-author of Grand New Party, and Mickey Edwards is a former Republican Congressman and author of Reclaiming Conservatism. Also on the program, Bill Moyers introduces "Deepening the American Dream," a Web-only project at www.pbs.org/moyers that features essays and vide
Democratic Convention Analysis
What did the Democrats accomplish this week and can they deliver real change while still playing old fashioned Beltway politics? In the historic moment of the first African-American nominee for President, Bill Moyers sits down with Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and University of Pennsylvania professor of political science Adolph Reed, Jr. to discuss the promises from the DNC and expectations of Barack Obama. Also on the program, Bill Moyers speaks with political analysts Merle and Earl B
Trevor Potter and Floyd Abrams
Next week, the Supreme Court reconvenes early for a special hearing on the constitutionality of campaign finance limits for corporations. To hear the arguments, Bill Moyers sits down with Trevor Potter, president and general counsel of The Campaign legal Center and a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment attorney. And, a Bill Moyers essay on health care reform.
Perry Link on China’s Charter 08 Perry Link, professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University, speaks with Hugh Eakin about the Chinese state’s reaction to Charter 08, a document calling for increased human rights and democracy signed by thousands of Chinese citizens since its release in early December.
Alison Lurie on John Updike Alison Lurie speaks with Giles Harvey about John Updike’s life, his work, and his place in American literary history.
004 REGULA 8 LATINAE GRAMMATICES SYNTAXIS The Impact of mobile learning 044 TweenCast Episode: Young Woman Peeling Apples 048 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War 062 American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Chinese Restaurant by John S Graduate interview - Paul Rees 018 - Bellum Helveticum - Lowe Butler Walker Truman Faces New Job With Confidence 1945/04/19 Eisenhower's Presidency-Domestic Concerns Se busca un niño This episode is the Spanish translation of a “Want Ad” that Frank Crane, an American writer, published in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th-century. I think it’s pretty neat. (Se busca is the way to say “Wanted” in… 036 - BELLUM HELVETICUM - LOWE BUTLER WALKER 27 - Legacies of the Civil War CARMEN HIPPOPOTAMI (Flanders et Swann) Aequora Britanniae Subdita
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Phase one of MoLeNET (2007/08) involved 75 colleges and 18 schools, approximately 10,000 learners and 2,000 staff, in 32mobile learning projects. The Learning and Skills Council provided funding for h...
This TweenCast episode, written especially for audiences ages ten to twelve, imagines the life of a young maid in seventeenth-century Holland. Nicolaes Maes's Young Woman Peeling Apples is included in the exhibition "Vermeer's Masterpiece The Milkmaid."
October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010
Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson comments on Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow Homer paintings in the exhibition "Am
October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010
New York Times columnist Mark Bittman and restaurateur Danny Meyer discuss John Sloan's painting Chinese Restaurant, on view in the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915."
An account of what the motivating factors were which inspired this student to engage in the study of the environment at RMIT and how it led to his current employment.
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[starts with no sound, silent pictures of Truman, staff, then sound when Truman gives speech] "Early in the A.M. President Harry S. Truman leaves Blair House, his new temporary home, and briskly walks to the White House. Mathew J. Connelly, his confidential secretary, and Leonard Reinsch, his press and radio relations man, are busy at their tasks. The President nominates John W. Snyder, St. Louis banker, to become Federal Loan Administrator. Mr. Truman confers with the U.S. delegates to the fort
This video is accompanied by text. "After the war-ravaged times of the 1940s and early 1950s, Americans turned their attention to domestic concerns. President Eisenhower's strong yet pleasant demeanor was the antithesis of Truman's cold scowl and helped usher in a more friendly and family-oriented era. While the Republican accepted much of the previous administration's New Deal, he also promoted policies that nurtured the growing economy. The philosophy of the Eisenhower administration—labeled
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Professor Blight finishes his lecture series with a discussion of the legacies of the Civil War. Since the nineteenth century, Blight suggests, there have been three predominant strains of Civil War memory, which Blight defines as reconciliationist, white supremacist, and emancipationist. The war has retained a political currency throughout the years, and the ability to control the memory of the Civil War has been, and continues to be, hotly contested.
olim hippopotamus dicebat secum
prope flumen dum solus sedet:
audax tu, qui tot amas; lasciviendum
tibi cert' est, dum luna lucet.
nam summo in colle comebat comas
venusta hippopotama,
- hic hippopotamus non est 'ignoramus'
sed cantat haec voce clara
Just a bit of fun- unfortunately, I can't hold this type of tune, so I don't attempt to sing along to the tune.....if you can do a decent sung version, send me your mp3. You can find the score easily enough in midi or mp3 online.
Jubente cum primum Deo Britannia
Pelagi cavis recessibus caput extulit
Ei in manus haec charta magna tradita est;
Celestiumque omnis melos cecinit chorus:
Fluctus regas, domina regas Britannia;
Nunquam Britannus imperanti serviet.
Sua quamque gentium minus felicium
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