mitchell: the whole argonne was about 34 miles, which is quite large. allison: many of the rows are similar today, if you go to the battlefields and drive along them, you can follow closely maps that were created in the 1920's and 1930's. it is interesting to compare those landscapes. susan: so much as the american civil war battles are preserved, the world war i battlefields are preserved in france? allison: yes and no. in the american sectors, they are a lot less traveled and a lot less visitors, so it is more untouched. in other sectors where the french and british had a famous battle, they are preserved a little bit more in ways that are familiar with the torah spot. aswe are familiar with tourist spots. would you agree, mitch? mitchell: i would. the american battle monuments commission has done a good job of turning a battlefield into a civil war type battlefield, where they have markers and artillery guns, city can get a sense. but by and large if you visit the battlefields today, you have to use your imagination. and a good map to find out where t

cpt was assembled in the end in the argonne forest site. we got an email from a friend of ours at the university of chicago saying he thinks you may have discovered one of the original bricks and he wants to have it tested. >> and the bricks weigh 20 pounds. these are big bricks, so they are not insignificant in size and when the construction company on the job and the physicists started building it, they got the help incident incidentally from some very strong kids in chicago that were from the neighborhood backyards, these were basically immigrant kids who help them all the bricks and this was 25 feet high and it was big. >> and it was unheated in december in chicago. >> >> the draft went back and forth. sometimes it was primarily physics, i would probably write the first draft because it was primarily politics. fermi would probably write the first draft. it all went back and forth between us. so that's the way it was. at least that's the way i remember it. >> that's accurate. >> how did the u.s. and italian fascist to head up this project

so the pile was known as cp one, cd2 was assembled in the end and increased in the argonne forest site. there are still, we just got an email from a friend of ours at the university of chicago saying he thinks he may have discovered one of the original bricks and he wants to have it tested. >> the bricks weighed 20 pounds. these are three bricks so they are not insignificant in size and when the construction company basically faked out on the job and the physicists in the building got the help incidentally of some very strong kids in chicago that were from the neighborhood of the backyards, these were basically immigrant kids who helped them all the bricks and it took a high-paying, this is 25 feet high and it was big. so. >> and it was unheated in december in chicago. >> any questions? >> could you stand up please? >> you've written rebooked before this and this was the first time the two of you collaborated, how do you deal with who's going to write what? >> i got to write the sexy parts. >> no, i think you are asking gino, why don't you talk about it theni'll give you my perspective

their lives ended in places called belleau wood, the argonne, omaha beach, salerno, and halfway aroundhe world on guadalcanal, tarawa, pork chop hill, the chosin reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called vietnam. under one such marker lies a young man, martin treptow, who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to france with the famed rainbow division. there, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. we're told that on his body was found a diary. on the flyleaf under the heading, my pledge, he had written these words, "america must win this war. therefore i will work, i will save, i will sacrifice, i will endure, i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone." the crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind that martin and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. it does require, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great

their lives ended in places ,alled the argonne, omaha beach and halfway around the world, pork chop hill, the chosen reservoir, and in 100 rice paddies and jungles in a place called vietnam. under one such marker, lies a young man, martin trip tell, who left his job in a small-town barber shop in 1917 to go to france with the famed rainbow division. front, hehe western was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. wasre told that on his body found a diary. headinglyleaf under the "my pledge," he had written these words -- america must win this war. therefore, i will work, i will save, i will sacrifice, i will indoor -- i will fight cheerfully, and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone. todayisis we are facing does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that martin, and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. it does require our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves, and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds. to believe that together, with god's help, we can and will resol

their lives ended in places called belleau wood, the argonne, omaha beach, salerno, and halfway aroundhe world on guadalcanal, tarawa, pork chop hill, the chosin reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called vietnam. under one such marker lies a young man, martin treptow, who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to france with the famed rainbow division. there, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. we're told that on his body was found a diary. on the flyleaf under the heading, "my pledge," he had written these words, "america must win this war. therefore i will work, i will save, i will sacrifice, i will endure, i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone." the crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that martin treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. it does require, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our cap

that was cp one, cp two was developed and increased in the argonne forest site. there are still, we just got an email from a friend of ours at the university of chicago saying he thinks he may have discovered one of the original bricks that they tested . >> the bricks weigh 20 pounds. these are big bricks, graphite bricks area so they are not insignificant in size and when the construction company basically faked out on the job and the physicists , they got the help incidentally from very strong kids in chicago that were from the neighborhood of the backyards, basically these immigrant kids who help them all the bricks and the high things, 25 feet high and it was big so. >> and it was unheated except for chicago. >> could you stand up please? >> so you've written three books before this and this was the first time the two of you collaborated, how did you know who wasgoing to write what ? >> i got to write the sexy parts. >> i think you are asking gino, i'll give you my perspective.>> the drafts went back and forth, sometimes if it was primarily physics, i would wr

he was involved in the planning of the highly successful 47-day muse-argonne offensive that led german surrender in november 1918. he learned many important lessons and caught the eye of the american visionary force, general jack pershing, who made e camp after d germany's defeat. he was with pershing's four years after the war. of course the open warfare and the high maneuverability of the armies in the summer and fall of 1918 was very different from the static trench warfare for the four years before the americans arrived in the spring of 1918. the lessons that marshall learned from the great war were very different from the ones that churchill and brooke and have, whose experiences comprised mainly static trench warfare, had taken away from the same conflict. belgium.h, i was in that was where winston churchill was stationed for four months in the beginning of 1916. throughout that period, the trench lines stayed totally static. it did not move at all. people were getting killed pretty much every day, but they were not moving at all. you don't get that in the second world war. you d

the clean energy race. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. christopher crane, president and ceo of exelon corporation and dr. peter littlewood, director of argonne national laboratory for a conversation with mr. steve levine. >> good morning. in a time of great change in the world in the united states come in the world, it says that the transformation that is going on in electrification in electricity in transportation and in our electric grid is bigger and more profound than any. today were going to try to take that apart. i want to open up right away. chris, i'm going to start with you. when we're talking about a transformation of the grid, the grit of the 21st first century which is the mantra that we hear is going to be much different from now now, what are we talkig about? what is the problem and what kind of a solution are we looking for? >> let me say where we've come from in the very short period. technology is morphing and changing a becoming available faster than it ever has in our industry. up to a couple of years ago we did know if your power was on unless you called us. monitoring on a distribution system was very limited. it was ba

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