when john adams famously went to quote help benjamin franklin negotiate with the french richard palms was on board that ship serving as adam's personal bodyguard took adam's son bike thursday cured so they could meet with angela and franklin. in my book when you read it you will see so many incredible coincidences of history and you are about to hear about another one. the same time as richard palmes with john adams and anchem and franklin robert townsend's older brother solomon was there to. they know it seems hard to believe but he was there also meeting with benjamin franklin and get this and oath of allegiance to america. so solomon with this oath and hand came back in the same convoy is captain richard palmes back to america. meanwhile two years it gone by before robert found out he was in charleston and when he finds out he and brother solomon frantically write demands that they believe will care about the antislavery movement and will help them by elizabeth in new york. these letters which i discover at the east hampton library going to incredible detail about the man who helpe

it was written there that my haplogroup is the same as about benjamin franklin but on the other hand.n there that, generally speaking, most people from this group are samoyeds themselves, who live in the very north of finland. well, some kind of nonsense. thank you very much. thanks for the interesting conversation. thank you for your genome that you contributed to a common all-russian base. it's a pity that he can't, but it may be the next stage, when there will be a million genomes. i am sure that this initiative will develop 100.000. yes, a drop in the sea. here i would like to say again that what we are doing now is the basis, the core for the development of the future , there is simply not a single player in russia now who could just have such a snowball effect. someone has to blind. the first snowball, thank god for this. well, if anything, i solemnly promise that my genome will be the first opportunity is ready to give on science and there is nothing terrible in this. thank you very much you had a podcast. schloeddinger, i am its presenter grigory trasevich and co-host the cat

benjamin franklin's presence there makes a big deal. he is a magnet for other smart people to come and rub shoulders with him. >> thank you. two connected questions here. do you think that paine was a visionary thinker or more an effective communicator of others ideas? did thomas paine have any help in creating common sense, did others provide ideas or help refine it prior to publication? >> the idea that there are geniuses who sit in a room and get no external stimulation is probably false and mythical. i think all of us, our best ideas come from interacting with other people, right? that is probably to for -- true for paine as well. he was part of a radical debating club in england. his editorship of the pennsylvania magazine is a training ground for him in how to persuade people and find out what americans care about and how to write to them in a language they want to read. he sees himself as a sponge for cultural standards. he knows he is not writing in a vacuum. to come back to your question, i do think a significant portion of wha

lieve that benjamin franklin had invented the light and 12% believed that dwight d eisenhower led our war.tary in the american civil way, i put in parentheses here a bit of a bit of humor pr civil eed in 1865 and einhower was not born until 1890, right. by the way, just a bit of humor ctually said that climate change caused the cold war. okay. i maybe they thought it was funny as well. by the way, there was 2017 survey that was done by the american council of trustees and alumni. i was taken by this particular survey and they found that 43% of all college graduates do not know that the first amendment gave them guarantees, codifies freedom of speech by. the way i think this explains a lot, don't you? even as an inveterate and i am one. thank you for saying so. this is sobering. we're not on the road to we're there we are living in a time of mass historic, cultural and, constitutional, measurable illiteracy and. i think it's application is colossal. by the way. i to make religious liberty and the rights of conscience a substantial part this book because vocationally and profession full

. >> the saying is attributed to benjamin franklin. and upsetting perspective. he trained the teachers and taff here before student murdered three students and three school employees. the police department believes the training the staff received save lives. the shooter never got into a classroom. he knew some of the victims and was friends with the headmaster, who was killed. >> she is a lead from the front person. she did it right. unfortunately, it cost her her life. if you have a chance to ask her, would she do it again, i am sure she would say yes. >> the first thing they need to do if it is not safe to leave is make sure the door is locked. get windows and doors covered. get the kids out of the line of fire. >> reporter: he says the shooter fired through locked doors, but nobody inside was hurt. the children were out of the line of fire. other important lessons? be vigilant about visitors carrying backpacks. >> the amount of crap you can fit in a backpack is alarming. the first one being this guy. >> reporter: also in this relati

fun to watch, michael, benjamin franklin gets it nick cage national treasure that character knew everythingld get annoying. vik bajaj, you're last. >> well, you know, again i would go with chief of chief and conc. >> trace: who did i not get? jeff paul. >> yeah. i'm going to go with tony soprano i love the character but it would be terrifying if he showed up your door trying to do a business deal with him. >> trace: jeff paul. thank you all for doing the nightcap. vik paul kevin and lauren thank you all. you that for watching fox news at night. our condolences of the family of marlene, she passed away after battling dementia she was a great one and watched us every single night. much love to her family. aim trace gallagher in los angeles and we'll see you back here tomorrow night. dryness and frizz that keeps coming back, could be damaged hair that can't retain moisture. you need pantene's miracle rescue deep conditioner. it's filled with pro-vitamins to help hair lock in moisture, visibly repairing six months of damage in just one use, with no weigh-down. guaranteed, or your money back. fo

. >> this thing is attributed to benjamin franklin, if you plan to fail, you plan to fail. >> training staff at nashville's covenant school the year before a shooter murdered three students and three employees in a rampage this past march. the metropolitan police department believes the training the staff received saved lives. fiddler knew some of the victims and was friends with the school headmaster, dr. katherine koontz, who was killed. >> these a leader. she did it right and did what she was going to do as a leader. and unfortunately, it cost her her life. i think if you had the chance to ask her would she do it again, the answer would be yes. >> the covenant school employees follow this key training, says fiddler. >> first thing to do is make sure the doors are locked, get the window covered, and get the kids out of the line of fire. >> reporter: fiddler says the shooter fired through the locked doors of several classrooms, but nobody inside was hurt. the children were out of the line of fire. other important lessons, being vigilant about visitors carrying backpacks. >> the amount

i reminded of benjamin franklin when he was leaving the continental congress, a woman asked, mr. franklin, what type of government do we have, to which he responded, republic, if you can keep it. those words echo down to us today. a republic if we can keep it. ladies and gentlemen, this week has not been a good week for our public. we have a justice department that wants to limit free speech and free process of thought because they have a difference of opinion on election results, they will prosecute a man just because he does not share their rhetoric. if they would do that to a former president, they will do that to you. it is not good government. it is not deep -- it is not the vision of our founding fathers. as we go forward tonight, i want you to remember this, we are not a democracy. we are a constitutional republic. there is a fundamental difference between those two forms of government and not let anyone tell you otherwise. in democracy 50% plus one decides what is right and wrong constitutional republic recognize your rights come from your creator and no man and no govern

you said benjamin franklin did that ledger. d he did it in his journalism. i wrote about ben franklin once. throughout his life, it was like here's one side, here's the other, let's do the calculation. >> i city still think most americans come down on the side of not necessarily being far right or far left. they look at issues and decide based on issue by issue. >> absolutely. and most of us try to have open minds. i've changed my mind on so many different things over the course of political debate, but the technology of a fractured media where you want to grab a hard core, whether it's on your corner of the bloggosphere tend to drive people in echo chambers and those of us like most americans and trying to see all sides, we don't have a natural base now if you go back to cnn, it's hard right now because it's all trump all the time it's hard for them to get off of that it would be useful to see if you could try to do a very high value information, nonpartisan, nonideological news and that would appeal to 60% of us. >> i think th

the glass harmonica was any instrument invented by benjamin franklin. piece of music for it and dashed into the question directly -- we do not have a glass harmonica at the library of congress. i believe there is one at the smithsonian down the street. but there are a number of pieces that were written for this instrument that is as he said quite an unusual thing, and we have those pieces of music of course in the collection but not the actual instrument itself. host: do either of you know his friend eugene diana? guest: yes. i believe he was the chief of of sound recordings. longtime colleague of the division. good guy. host: while it was 1934 and it was summer time and it was the gershwins. [applause] ♪ >> ♪ summertime, living is easy ♪ [applause] ♪ in the cotton is high. ♪ your mama is so good-looking ♪ so hush little baby, don't cry, don't cry. host: nick brown, we are used to hearing billie holiday seen that but that was not billie holiday. guest: no, that was joni mitchell, our 2023 library of congress gershwin popular song honoree, a live perform

actually adams was one of it was kind of an all-star lineup of diplomats when jefferson got there benjamin franklin and john adams were already there as ambassadors as ministers to france too. so he joined them and he they had you know, adams and jefferson had worked together in the continental continental congress. they bonded even more and and he with her whole family there in paris. he visited jefferson visited adams in england and they toured some of those english gardens together, so they were very close friends. they broke apart bitterly, you know over the politics of the 1790s and then in their retirement, they rekindled the correspondence. they did not talk about slavery almost never in in the letters and i suspect it was because atoms didn't bring it up because he knew this was a painful subject. it was one that jefferson didn't have a good answer for he didn't like confrontation jefferson didn't he was a wonderful. he's a magnificent letter writer. they're almost like poetry and he was a wonderful conversation list, but he was certainly shy away from one-on-one confrontation on so adams i

we think about information warfare as an internet invention, but in fact benjamin franklin was really good at information warfare cranked out fake news literally fake news articles from his paris basement. it's different today. primarily. i would say in three ways. number one is speed. everything's moving faster. now the speed of data the speed of insight the speed of decision. so espionage has to keep pace with what decision makers need to know and when they need to know it, so everything is accelerating today. that's a really hard challenge. i think for intelligence agencies, right? the second is scale. so if we think about i have a chapter in the book about traders and counterintelligence, you know, it used to take years for people to smuggle documents out in their pants and garbage bags and all sorts of crazy ways to to try to betray their country, right but now traders can download documents millions of documents in a matter of minutes or hours or months. so this scale of espionage and particularly counterintelligence challenges is completely different and i see the third key dif

our founding fathers understood this, when benjamin franklin walked out of the constitutional conventionhe was asked. did you give us a republic or monarchy? he said a republic, if you can keep it. because they understand each generation is going to be called upon to step up and preserve freedom when it is under assault. and i am motivated for the site, because i want my kids and eventual grandkids to have the same opportunities that we have. i am also motivated because i understand that we owe a debt of gratitude to people throughout the generations who have sponsored -- fought for this country so that we can be free. i went up to washington dc and there is a particular route you can take going into reagan airport. it was flush parallel to the national mall. if you look outside the left side of the plane you saw beautiful views, up close of the lincoln memorial, the reflect people, washington monument, and perched on the hill, the beautiful u.s. capitol building. and you felt a sense of pride as an american because those symbolize the ideas that make this country unique. but i figured o

short sentences elementary and a gift for aphorism that another new england writer, benjamin franklin, would have liked. but prose is only part of a book success. it also needs marketing, distribution, buzz and behind the scenes have received expert help. a famous editor chose the title with a book called base state orations was another option. have coolidge to the white house. a businessman man used his industry contacts to secure the paper for a speedy reprint just before 1920 republican convention. this era also saw the of advertising shops and public relations firms and experts from both professions. coolidge's book in the national media and on the convention floor. one appreciative reader was a delegate from oregon who nominated coolidge for the vice presidency. i knew the man who wrote those speeches was a patriot. the delegate told reporters after the fact. coolidge's book was his campaign, and his campaign was his book. once became president, coolidge became a true celebrity. now, this era also saw the rise of new kind of national star, thanks to radio and magazines and movie

the glass harmonica was any instrument invented by benjamin franklin.for it and dashed into the question directly -- we do not have a glass harmonica at the library of congress. i believe there is one at the smithsonian down the street. but there are a number of pieces that were written for this instrument that is as he said quite an unusual thing, and we have those pieces of music of course in the collection but not the actual instrument itself. host: do either of you know his friend eugene diana? guest: yes. i believe he was the chief of of sound recordings. longtime colleague of the division. good guy. host: while it was 1934 and it was summer time and it was the gershwins. [applause] ♪ >> ♪ summertime, living is easy ♪ [applause] ♪ in the cotton is high. ♪ your mama is so good-looking ♪ so hush little baby, don't cry, don't cry. host: nick brown, we are used to hearing billie holiday seen that but that was not billie holiday. guest: no, that was joni mitchell, our 2023 library of congress gershwin popular song honoree, a live performance from consti

hi, ethan benjamin from franklin, vermont. from the latest issue of the economy. fox news spent about a year, but let's. okay, how dare you? i'm sorry glenn. it's relevant. thank you. fox news spent about a quarter much time covering drag queens and transgender people as devoted to ukraine from june 2022 to february 2023. how did calvin coolidge break to the culture wars of his day to focus on good governance? and how should that inform our politics today? thank you, professor. the short answer is it was not the culture wars were not prevalent in the 1920s as they are today. while federal had grown tenuously, usually as a result of the war and president lincoln as a result, the civil and then at war one that the pentagon far more smaller as the october age pointed out as a percent of budget. it was smaller portion of the state governments at the time, and there was federal legislation on many of the cultural issues of the day. so it really i don't know what president coolidge would and not that good of a coolidge scholars know what he would have thought on issues

but as benjamin franklin famously said , there are two certainties in life death and taxes.'ve got to say, when i saw the labour spokesman on there a few minutes ago, you know, banging on about taxation on, you know, people forget that famous note from liam byrne when we took overin from liam byrne when we took over in 2010. sorry there's no money. good luck. that's labour financial management and at the end of the day, public services, the nhs and all the rest of it has to be paid for somehow. >> i suppose the benefit here though is that the old system where there were 15 different rates of tax , i mean the rates of tax, i mean the different this is my point that's gone down to six different rates of tax now it's i mean, perhaps we'd prefer zero rates of tax, but, but, but i suppose it is simpler and frankly, we're having this discussion now about how our alcohol taxed, whereas when alcohol was taxed, whereas when we eu we wouldn't be we were in the eu we wouldn't be able a member of able to have a member of parliament like you show parliament like you on the show to say is

even benjamin franklin said that fatigue is better than a pillow is caffeine restriction, because ifve the other half. or at least love someone. yes, but in general, can a person control his dreams, for example, well, it doesn’t matter how the day went, there were positive and negative emotions. well, right there, half an hour before bedtime, or in bed already, when i lay down to think, i don’t know there. oh, the sea, here is the beach, the sea, the sun is there , the fish, will it help later, so that the sea is a dream or does not work. so it can relax the brain a little. let us suppose visualization meditation, the person really calms down. yes, another thing is that even we have such a technique as lucid dreams. this is when a person in a dream begins to understand that he is in a dream and from e, an artist turns into a director for our colleague when we shared our thoughts about dreams. he says i dream of the giants and if i dream of them, i will get sick in 3 days. here are great balloons inflate, turn into a giant, as they say here you are as a psychologist, what do you say t

even benjamin franklin said that fatigue is better than a pillow. there is such a situation.reaming. yes, a person even woke up, and then he even falls asleep again, maybe he drank some water. and what is called for the second season, the dream went on, as it were, such a situation. i usually say, there the child was frightened. i say, well, roll over to the other side. you woke up and i realized that this is a dream, roll over, and you will dream of something else, but suddenly not, suddenly the same thing, like such a situation, well, there is an even worse situation when the child jumps up, well, mom knows. decorat's eyes bulged, not understanding anything. at this moment , the so-called night. horror is when a person , uh, well, a child goes to kindergarten. or, let's say there is something like that at the second certain age, the main thing in this situation is not to wake the child at all. here. if you wake him up, he will remember this fear, he needs to be stroked on calm your head. he will stop screaming. in the morning he will wake up without remembering anything at

story that there was a debate between three of our founding fathers, doctor benjamin rush, thomas jefferson, and ben franklin and the debate was about what was the world's oldest profession? doctor rush said as a physician he said the world's oldest profession is a doctor because eve was cut out of adam's rib so it has to be the physician. thomas jefferson, who you know designed monticello, said no, the world oldest profession is the architect. after all it was the architect who brought order out of all the chaos in the universe. ben franklin said you're both wrong, the world's oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place? president reagan understood this was his famous quote, the most terrifying words in the english language i am here from the government and i'm here to help, he understood the vital role government had to play. he didn't say no government. he understood that there was a core function of government but he also understood how government could be a negative force if not applied properly. if you look at the last four or five years and the performanc

the story that there was a debate between three of the founding fathers after benjamin rush, thomas jefferson and ben franklin and at the debate was about what was the world's oldest profession. and he said as a physician the oldest profession as the doctor because eve was cut out of adam's wrists with his to be the physician. thomas jefferson designed said no, the world's oldest profession is the architect after all it's the architect who brought order out of all theiv chaos in the universe. and ben franklin said no, you are both wrong. the oldest profession is a politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place? and p president reagan understod this. he understood the vital role that government had to play. he didn't say no government and he understood that there was a core function of government but he alsorc understood how it coud be negative if not applied properly. and i and i think if you look at the last four or five years into the performances of individual states and you compare florida versus california versus those other states. we approach things much differently in florida at the

benjamin rush, thomas jefferson and ben franklin. and the debate was about what was the world's oldest profession. and dr. rush said as a physician, he said, the world's oldest professions, the doctor, because eve was cut out of adam's rib. so it has to be the physician. thomas jefferson, who, you know, design monticello said no. the world's oldest profession is the architect act after all. was the architect who brought order out of all the chaos in the universe. and ben franklin said, no, you're both wrong. the world's oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place? and president reagan understood this. his famous quote that the most terrifying words in the english language from here, from the governor government. and i'm here to help. he he understood the vital role that government had to play. he didn't say no government. and he understood that there was a core functions of government. but he also understood how government could be a negative force if not applied properly. and i think if