they are right at the louvre. it is on one end. you can see that in the distance there. the general neighborhood of this book is very much the same today as it was then. that of course is the glass pyramid in the center of the vast court yard of the louvre. there is the pedestrian bridge, a wonderful bridge for people made of iron as it was originally. it is a favorite place to gather, to walk along the river today still. the palais royal -- that is the place concord. it is hard for me to say. if i were to walk with you around that section of paris, i could show you an amazing number of places that are just the same as they were then where these people all were and stayed. my wife and i say at the hotel de louvre, which is at the foots of the avenue of the opera. if you have a picture of the avenue of the opera, it was in the back end sheet of the book. it is taken from what is called the pizarro room, which is where he did a number of his paintings, and looking straight up the avenue toward the opera house. that looks exactly the same today as it did then. this is looki

morse and morse's painting of the gallery of the louvre during the horrific cholera epidemic and what they went through and the friendship that developed as a part of the consequence. >> we have a lot of print history around elihu washburne but i wanted to ask you about the french republics and how many republics there were in your seven years you wrote about. >> i don't understand your question. >> there have been five french republics. i wrote down the dates. >> i think there were two. second and third. >> one between -- the first one is between 1792 and 1804 and the second one, the empire -- you get lost. >> yes. >> in the story. and the second republic was 1848-1852. the third one was 1870 all the way to 1940. >> yes, the three. >> and what happened in france in the 1800's, what was the overall story, what went on in that country? >> well, you went from a king, he was a so-called citizen king, louis philippe who got power by a coup d'etat and then he was thrown out by an uprising and escaped with his wife and their lives and lived out the rest of his life in europe -- in england.

vying for control of the louvre chair. ok now to our special series of reports from our. home a salvage team travels to the planet's most constant to look into whether humans are getting the penguins into a flop. the penguins of antarctica truly fascinating creatures to watch but are they in trouble from a manmade threat. back in one thousand nine hundred two british pilots in the falklands discovered a phenomenon as they flew over penguin colonies they said the birds would topple over as they lifted their heads to watch the planes fly by then penguins by the thousands were left on their backs on able to write themselves but is this story true well i think it's something that's why do you know monks the public i think generally regarded it wants anyone that knows anything about as big a bit of a myth to be honest and i thought it was me. as for the second part of the tale a special person had to be employed to turn the birds right side up after they fell otherwise they would die one german ornithologist spoke to claimed that this indeed was her dry place lets out to look

wonderful, every single painting in the louvre but what a reminder first of all i got to say, mike, this is totally -- think about it. i also hope it is the beginning of a series because it's so thrilling to have every single painting in the louvre beautifully produced. wonderful and it comes with a cd-rom. awesome, awesome, awesome. i adore books about art, and one of favorite writers about art is robert hughes. and robert hughes has a new book coming from random house, rome. now, we've all heard it and tells everyone to know about australia and the fatal shore. his last book was brilliant, moving, and exquisite biography. this book actually once again it's going to filter his own experience in rome and history and art of roma in his own style. i'm thrilled that i can't wait to read it. please, please send it to me. then you've got -- [laughter] please. i know everybody in this room has read on the nature of things. show of hands. this book, i love him because he's such a brilliant sympathizer. he manages to pull so many elements of history, art, philosophy, religion, culture all togeth

and this library by a man best known for his louvre pyramid in paris.inesses and houses of worship hopped on the modernist bandwagon as well. one of columbus most distinctive landmarks is north christian church. you may not know the designer but you might recognize his handiwork in the st. louis gateway arch. even his space age tune ill chair which lookeded quite at home on the starship enterprise. the shares look very much at home in the house he designed for the miller family in 1953. will miller grew up here and says his father's philosophy is visible all across columbus. >> he felt that excellence ought to be pursued in everything you do. so if you were going to make a diesel engine, it should be the best possible diesel engine. if you're going to be part of a community, you should work to make it to be the best community it could. if you build your own house, it should be the best house you could possibly try to design. >> osgood: that spirit endures to this day, seven years after mr. miller's death. a standout small town by design. ordinarily you