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i mean, he also visited rome and spoke to italians, he visited ireland, he spoke to the irish. he was not well at the time. he was arthritic. he was he had gout. and when he came home, he was kind of on his last legs. some people believe that if he had been a little more vigorous. he might have spoken out sooner against the york city draft riots as. it was he spoke, i think, on the third day from the balcony of old st patrick's cathedral and begged his irish brethren to stop fighting because not because they were wrong, particularly, but because the union army was on its way to shoot them down. so i deal with it in the book and it's a great question. he is a fascinating figure in american kind of neglected they call them dagger john which indicates what tough guy he was but just check to see paul do you have a question from zoom attendees. to that question that we were not able to hear from? most republicans? of course here on c-span, one? you know, a lot of you remember the rose garden since the start of may two. since my my mom's family were in germany. i have to make a comme
i mean, he also visited rome and spoke to italians, he visited ireland, he spoke to the irish. he was not well at the time. he was arthritic. he was he had gout. and when he came home, he was kind of on his last legs. some people believe that if he had been a little more vigorous. he might have spoken out sooner against the york city draft riots as. it was he spoke, i think, on the third day from the balcony of old st patrick's cathedral and begged his irish brethren to stop fighting because...
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aiken frank aiken, who was the censor chief in the republic of ireland. that republic of ireland was a neutral country, also had very strict rules. is it a catholic country? so the censors were meant to remove books which were in that general tendency. so most the british main publishers fell foul of this at some. but frank aiken was a member of. the edmund de villiers v in a foyle party, many of whom, if not german sympathy abuses, were distinctly anti british. so he had to very difficult balancing act to maintain neutrality. so he put people like frank king into high sounding jobs with probably weren't all that important. so he the chief censor and this meant that the irish times had to send all its book reviews to frank and many of them were disallowed or butchered. and this was particularly the case with this book by john of the biggles books, and this is his female hero created the for the war time quarrels of the wife and this came back completely disallowed so the very pro-british of the times are in smiley biding his time and then submitted exactl
aiken frank aiken, who was the censor chief in the republic of ireland. that republic of ireland was a neutral country, also had very strict rules. is it a catholic country? so the censors were meant to remove books which were in that general tendency. so most the british main publishers fell foul of this at some. but frank aiken was a member of. the edmund de villiers v in a foyle party, many of whom, if not german sympathy abuses, were distinctly anti british. so he had to very difficult...
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i had noticed we had traveled to ireland after the 2008 collapse and they had generally the same type of collapse, a much smaller country. only about 6 million people. and yet the national list every bank except one. they had seven national banks nationalized six. they left the seventh, they restructured all of the mortgages on the houses. so nobody lost the house and the banks. they've now re privatized six banks, i believe. how did that happen. that's really a great example. and because when they when they bailed out the banks they nationalized them and they had strings attached, they said, okay, you have to stop doing what you're doing. you have to instead use the money that we're investing in. you to help make the households whole. we did none of that when we when the the obama administration bailed out general motors, they put all kinds of strings. they said they the key executives had to leave, the unions had to give back massive givebacks and they had to change their policies. they did nothing like that with the banks. and so that's the difference. one another observation i bel
i had noticed we had traveled to ireland after the 2008 collapse and they had generally the same type of collapse, a much smaller country. only about 6 million people. and yet the national list every bank except one. they had seven national banks nationalized six. they left the seventh, they restructured all of the mortgages on the houses. so nobody lost the house and the banks. they've now re privatized six banks, i believe. how did that happen. that's really a great example. and because when...
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european participle, we see that the strongest connections are to participants in great britain and ireland. and so this can tell us something about those ancestral origins of where these individuals got their ancestry from in africa. and then for those who have european ancestry, where that european ancestry traces back to, i want to highlight what this means when we think about just one specific attacked an individual. we can do this for every individual. but i think it's nice to to just focus on one story. so this is the individual from burial 35. she's actually an individual that the catoctin furnace historical society did a facial reconstruction of. so you can see what she likely looked like here on the left. we know from morphological analysis that she was about 30 to 35 years old and genetically we confirmed she's female and we also found that she is a member of genetic family d this is not that surprising that she had a relative. she was actually buried with an infant who we confirmed genetically was her son and her brother was, also buried elsewhere in the cemetery. so we're gettin
european participle, we see that the strongest connections are to participants in great britain and ireland. and so this can tell us something about those ancestral origins of where these individuals got their ancestry from in africa. and then for those who have european ancestry, where that european ancestry traces back to, i want to highlight what this means when we think about just one specific attacked an individual. we can do this for every individual. but i think it's nice to to just...
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so are there's a big happening in the uk, scotland, wales, ireland germany, throughout europe actually too they call it rewilding. they're because river restoration was, a big push in deer in the eu and also in great britain. so a lot of work returning beavers last summer beavers were seen in an area of west london and the mayor of london was down there on on you know bbc news talking how exciting it was and of talking about how much restoration be happening. so, you know, they just as concerned about flooding and dealing with that as we are urban flooding is a huge and again there's much that can happen beavers are just you so weird and quirky and extraordinary i mean they they seem be remarkably adaptive at moving into places where you wouldn't think they could be and then they're they are, you know, their beaver thing. so that's kind of fun about beavers. in fact, there were beavers in the i think a couple of years ago, they the toronto subways maybe was not so fun but walked into a toronto subway stop and everybody had to stop we got pizza rat, they got subway beaver. well, we shou
so are there's a big happening in the uk, scotland, wales, ireland germany, throughout europe actually too they call it rewilding. they're because river restoration was, a big push in deer in the eu and also in great britain. so a lot of work returning beavers last summer beavers were seen in an area of west london and the mayor of london was down there on on you know bbc news talking how exciting it was and of talking about how much restoration be happening. so, you know, they just as...
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bangladesh, belgium, bolivia, brazil, cambodia, chile, colombia, egypt, ghana, india, indonesia, iraq, ireland, the islamic republic of iran, israel, jordan, kuwait, lebanon, liechtenstein, libya, malaysia, maldives, mexico, morocco, nicaragua, nigeria, norway, pakistan, panama, peru of the philippines, poland, portugal, qatar, saudi arabia, south africa, spain, syrian arab republic, thailand, tunisia, turkey, uganda, the united arab emirates, venezuela and vietnam to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. i propose that the council invites special representatives of the presidents of the observer state of palestine participate in the meeting in accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard. there being no objection, it is so decided. on behalf of the council, i welcome his excellency. in accordance with rule 39 of the council's provisional rules of procedure, i also invite the following individuals to participate in this meeting. his excellency, the chair of the committee on the exercise of inalienable rights of the palestinian people. his
bangladesh, belgium, bolivia, brazil, cambodia, chile, colombia, egypt, ghana, india, indonesia, iraq, ireland, the islamic republic of iran, israel, jordan, kuwait, lebanon, liechtenstein, libya, malaysia, maldives, mexico, morocco, nicaragua, nigeria, norway, pakistan, panama, peru of the philippines, poland, portugal, qatar, saudi arabia, south africa, spain, syrian arab republic, thailand, tunisia, turkey, uganda, the united arab emirates, venezuela and vietnam to participate in this...
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so i said, there are 16 essays that came from as far afield as sweden ireland and germany, a lot from france, half were in french, half were in latin. wow. there were a number of kind of crazy religious explanations. and when i say crazy or crazy because they they were not related directly to the bible but somebody is own interpretation of the bible mixed in with a little bit of climate science or a little of the anatomy, but the religious some of the religious ideas, which are actually quite included, the idea that maybe there was a black adam to begin with, maybe god was disappointed with africans and made them mark them for their sins. moral perversity, maybe blackness was a gift from to protect people from the sun. there are a lot of religious explanations that were actually submitted and that's one of the categories is sort of the religious arts the religious approach answering that question, even though you're saying a lot of those explanations were highly speculative, imaginative and very, very personal interpretations of of sacred texts. yeah. and i think it's important to not
so i said, there are 16 essays that came from as far afield as sweden ireland and germany, a lot from france, half were in french, half were in latin. wow. there were a number of kind of crazy religious explanations. and when i say crazy or crazy because they they were not related directly to the bible but somebody is own interpretation of the bible mixed in with a little bit of climate science or a little of the anatomy, but the religious some of the religious ideas, which are actually quite...
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if i got that right diane and is already a bestseller there in ireland where column is from which is a very exciting it's and it's just come out in the u.s. in march but diane not everyone was convinced that this was worth writing. so can you talk a little about the start of that and how the two of you first came together? sure. colm and i was strangers at an odd column, first heard of jim's story after. jim was murdered because someone sent him a picture of our reading the great world. and so that piqued and columns oh that piqued column's curiosity and so but i never he he generously reached out to us but i never received the so it was really just three years ago on a zoom regarding one of his other novels a paragon at marquette university. yes. and i was to that and that's how i met colin. and then he came to visit and we became good friends and and he very generously offered to help write it. so the extraordinary thing is that um yeah i felt a kinship with jim now i feel that he sits on my shoulder as we travel around and talk this book but um, you know, when i went and talked wi
if i got that right diane and is already a bestseller there in ireland where column is from which is a very exciting it's and it's just come out in the u.s. in march but diane not everyone was convinced that this was worth writing. so can you talk a little about the start of that and how the two of you first came together? sure. colm and i was strangers at an odd column, first heard of jim's story after. jim was murdered because someone sent him a picture of our reading the great world. and so...
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they were mostly immigrants from great britain, ireland, holland and germany. all but one of the marines was recruited from philadelphia. their average age was 25 and a half years old, with the youngest being 18 and the oldest being 40. their average height was five foot six, with the shortest marine five three and a half inches and the tallest being six foot. and the marines brought a wealth of background and experience to their unit. they included carpenters, masons, barbers, bakers, cabinet makers, coopers jewelers, brass founders, tailors, butchers, painters, wool climbers, millers, servants, and a single doctor. so the american fleet set sail on its inaugural cruise on january. fourth 1776. in all the fleet at this time consisted of seven ships armed with 110 cannons manned by 680 sailors and 234 marines. now, hopkins, the admiral, had two sets of orders when he set sail. he opened up the first set of orders, and it basically told him what the congress has expectations of the good order and discipline of the fleet would be and how they were to perform thei
they were mostly immigrants from great britain, ireland, holland and germany. all but one of the marines was recruited from philadelphia. their average age was 25 and a half years old, with the youngest being 18 and the oldest being 40. their average height was five foot six, with the shortest marine five three and a half inches and the tallest being six foot. and the marines brought a wealth of background and experience to their unit. they included carpenters, masons, barbers, bakers, cabinet...
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1880s, where there is a continued immigration from traditional places, whether it's whether it's from ireland, from germany, from. but then there is a huge wave of so-called new immigrants coming from southern and eastern europe on top of immigration. and that, of course, is causing some backlash and a rise of nativist and indeed is quite possible that this is not just targeted at european immigrants, but it's targeted at perhaps immigrant who might be sympathetic stick to the central powers to germany to austria-hungary, to turkey. and so this is a call to immigrants. but to those people in particular to assimilate to the united states, to embrace the role, the purpose of the war. as wilson has laid out, to do their patriot duty. and so the purpose, of course, is to conserve and to use less wheat. but again, students need to step back and say, why is that important? well, it's because it's in the context of this huge war with tens of millions of soldiers and the united states is playing an invaluable role in providing goods and in particularly providing farm goods, food for not just our sold
1880s, where there is a continued immigration from traditional places, whether it's whether it's from ireland, from germany, from. but then there is a huge wave of so-called new immigrants coming from southern and eastern europe on top of immigration. and that, of course, is causing some backlash and a rise of nativist and indeed is quite possible that this is not just targeted at european immigrants, but it's targeted at perhaps immigrant who might be sympathetic stick to the central powers to...
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we'd have irelands on a number, more around 200. and initially that's guiding our mobilization process that that victory plan and that number divisions. so, gentlemen isn't necessarily directly involved in developing the victory plan, but it absolutely has a huge influence over his job because he's the person for bringing these recruits in and forming them into divisions and getting trained and ready to go to the front. it's not that long after we're in the war in mid 42 where we had this huge manpower crisis, 330,000 personnel short of what we to meet our troop bases for that. so already in 1944, we're we're looking at some somewhere around 20 to 25 divisions fewer production than we hoped we would be able to do. and so this this causes the shift, as you mentioned, to the 90 division gamble. we actually end up making, i think it's 89 divisions or 90 divisions and 88 of them actually make it to the front. so a drastic difference which kind of leads us into the replacement program as opposed to having two divisions for every one at t
we'd have irelands on a number, more around 200. and initially that's guiding our mobilization process that that victory plan and that number divisions. so, gentlemen isn't necessarily directly involved in developing the victory plan, but it absolutely has a huge influence over his job because he's the person for bringing these recruits in and forming them into divisions and getting trained and ready to go to the front. it's not that long after we're in the war in mid 42 where we had this huge...