And in this case, I want to hopefully convince you that, in fact, it turns out that smuggling and anti-smuggling crusades were absolutely essential to the very founding , and development, and expansion of the country, so much so that there's this great irony, which today,America is the world's foremost anti-smuggling policing superpower, yet founded and owes much of its
America is the world's foremost anti-smuggling policing superpower, yet founded and owes much of its founding and development, I would argue, to smuggling, smuggling interests, and so forth.And an interesting angle for me is I teach at Brown University in Rhode Island.
I, my parents gave me all these books about the composers. As I went through life, it has been biography that has been most stimulating for me. I read, during 2006, the lives of the Founding Fathers, a series of really great biographies: Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Franklin. And it really convinced me of this belief that I have that what seems impossible one day later on seems inevitable because when you read their biographies; there is no earthy reason the United States of America should have ever come into being. With a third
the last book I wrote was called the island at the center of the world it came out in 2004 and it was about the Dutch founding of Manhattan of the Dutch colony of New Netherland which was based on Manhattan with the capital of New Amsterdam and the argument that I made in that book was that
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There was the Berlin blockage and the famous airlift, obviously. There was the founding of the two German states-- Western Germany found itself first, trying to represent the entirety of Germany. And then East Germans said no.
I didn't mention this. This is "The Founding " in Monterrey-- the great painting called "The Founding ." The painting is 1877, but the event was 1700-- 1770, sorry,
create that through our stories. Whether it's the founding of the country in the Revolution or the Founding Fathers or or-or-or-or-- whatever our individual points of view are about national identity is based on stories and our interpretation of those stories.
We've never practiced isolationism. From the founding of the Republic, from the moment that we secured independence from Great Britain, successive generations of American leaders have been engaged in an effort to expand American power and to increase American prosperity.
This is not to say that this was a wonderfully placid era. The American founding sometimes, I fear, is a little bit like a historical antidepressant. We don't like what's going on now, so we read about the founding , and we feel slightly better about the country.
So, here we come to 2008, the fateful year. A landmark year in the history of the automobile business in America. I mean, someone some years from now is gonna talk about the 100th anniversary of the founding of Google as a landmark year. But 2008 was the 100th anniversary of both the Model T Ford and of the founding of General Motors. But in the middle of September, Wall Street collapsed. Wall Street collapsed, Merrill Lynch was sold, Lehman Brothers went out of business. Car sales collapsed, too. In fact, for the first nine months of that
I'll fast forward for a second. I pulled this from the Google founding principles. And right at the heart of what Google talks about, and what I think gives you such endurance, is this structure, this third paragraph down,
so that when the treaty is signed, her bottles arrive first beating out the competition. You have to go back to the founding .
Rakuten, which is now the third largest e-commerce marketplace in the world, with operations in over 12 countries across Europe, the Americas, and in Asia. He's been president since its founding . In 2001, became chairman.
I start with the epic of Gilgamesh only to show that there is a lot of economic thinking in ancient myth. You can go down any basic three founding cultures that we have in Europe and America, which is the Old Testament, the Greeks, Christianity, and the Sumerian mythology, which was a founding inspiration for a lot of the Greeks and a lot of the Hebrews.
many ways and so, this will serve as a blueprint and a challenge for the future, we think. John Adams: I look back at the founding of NRDC and I think about Stephen Duggan, now long gone, and James Marshall, Bob Marshall's brother, who was a great wilderness person, and James Marshall was a great environmentalist from the Adirondacks and helped write the state law that protects the Adirondacks and the Catskills; the Forever Wild clauses; and
work that matters he's the founding or senior partner of box of crayons and founding member I make up my own title
yes Stephen previous book was about the Dutch founding of of Manhattan of New Amsterdam and I've been living in Amsterdam I'm
And that dates all the way back to our founding , where exhibits started off as props, as experiments that you actually get your hands on.
That is of course the year from the founding of the city of Rome, the legendary founding of the city of Rome anyway in 753 BC.
and curated a major historical exhibition-- "A Woman's Perspective: Founding and Early Women Members of the Guild of Boston Artists 1914 to 1945."
But I would also argue increasingly by immigration law enforcement. But it goes all the way back to the founding . So in a country that was allergic to the very idea of creating a strong federal policing apparatus, there was
Hence, the founding of Made.com, where I did see-- I hate copycats, but I did feel I'd had that idea.
Revolution, friends of our Founding Fathers and a founder of the insurance industry.
situation in South Sudan and with the um founding of the Republic of South Sudan just this week um John's work and his
And I think that whenever the country has done big things from the founding of the country through the Civil Rights Movement, it's been citizens in the lead.
at least be a little bit more popular than King George at the founding .
Constitution Center in Philadelphia where you can hang out with all of the Founding Fathers.
and the Constitution makers, the Founding Fathers of the United States. There is no other episode in history when such a galaxy of liberal-minded, well-educated, deeply committed,
I mean, the people who wrote the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, had two attitudes towards parties--
in these terrible circumstances and how people survive by serving others, and applying that in the founding of The Mission Continues.
The American founding sometimes, I fear, is a little bit like a historical antidepressant. We don't like what's going on now, so we read about the founding , and we feel slightly better about the country. Partisanship has been an intrinsic element of the American experience.
conservative democratic financiers including the DuPont family. The League had announced as its two founding
It's always true. I mean, the founding of our own country comes from these entrepreneurs.
original sin, certainly, in the founding of the state of Israel, and we should be clear about that.
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By the time we got there, they were studying the founding of the state of Israel so we were inabout-- we were in the 1940's by then-- late 1940's and a little before that.
End of WWII, prehistory, then the founding of the state.
line at the end, okay? The founding of the first town, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the invention of the printing press, the birth
Has Cheezburger actually came here and talked to you guys about a year ago about the founding of I Can Has Cheezburger. And they can tell you about how it just went
And I think it's a bit ironic, because certainly in the US, a lot of the founding of the US industrial economy
By the Julian calendars, we're actually nine days before the Kalends of May in the year 2768 from the founding of the city, ab urbe condita.
Land shares were central, as I show in chapter one, to the founding of the Republican Party-- founding of the Republican Party--
So one of the big things that led us to this research was, we were involved in the founding of the Stanford
He has taught at the Claremont Colleges, Georgetown University, and Westmont College. Greg is here today to talk about his most recent work, "Journey to the Sun, Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California," an authoritative and incisive biography of the man who founded California's missions.
Thomas Jefferson, who I think we can all agree, is one of the more foundry of the Founding Fathers and therefore someone we should probably listen to, said to the world back then that
I've found in a movement, in Pakistan, mirroring my founding of Islamist movements.
to their religious beliefs that they came here to practice and believe in. But nevertheless, it's a cornerstone of American belief. And when I look back at the Founding Fathers,
and Heaven forefend, if there is a Heaven. But our Founding Fathers, for the most part,
travels, called "Asia Grace." I first met Kevin when I was five or six, when my dad took over the role of editor from him at the Whole Earth Review and Kevin Kelly was a founding