and in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. you could send messages over mountain ranges. there are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. i talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70's and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of -- a little bit of architecture but they couldn't tell what they were. and they decided they are just not going to put them in the reports because they didn't have a name for these until he decided to go up to one and he dug into it and there he found a carved stone bowl with a carved stone lid set into it. and he opened it up and it was full of pieces of turquoise and that's when he looked around and thought, wait a minute, there's something going on around here.

every butte top, you are going it look down on this desert and see these bold lines coming across the desert and you know that line goes somewhere. you get on it, you stay on it, and it will lead you to what are called great houses, up it 3 acres in size. these great houses are often aligned in a certain way so that at certain times of year, say summer solstice, light comes through certain windows. i have sat in these at different times of the year and watched this light show start at sunrise where lights start appearing on the walls all around me and you realize this is how you tell time out in this landscape. this is the way they did calendars. this is the way they understood the larger sphere, the moving of the heavens, was by setting up structures that could receive the light in certain ways. i mean, it's happening everywhere. i was just in salt lake city and i took a walk downtown and i saw a pillar that had been built in the last 4 years that a big block of sandstone that i recognized. it was probably wingate sandstone that had been hauled up there from about 200, 250 miles away

annexed by paris in 1860, the hilly, warren-like neighborhood of narrow streets climbed to the top of a butteon the city's northern edge. montmartre clung to the vestiges of its agricultural past. hillside vineyards produced wine for its cafés. its windmills still turned in lautrec's day, a favorite subject of artists including vincent van gogh who also painted the view of paris from his window in 1886. cheap rents had attracted young artists for years-- edgar degas and auguste renoir rented studios there, livingnd working cheeko jowl with the poor and working classes. in the early 1880s, paris was still recovering from the impact of the french defeat in the franco-prussian war of 1870. honoré daumier chronicled to the shame and anger that followed the surrender. the new regime, the third republic, failed to establish public order and suspended civil liberties. paris erupted. led by radicals, the city elected an alternative government-- the paris commune-- that drove the politicians of the third republic to versailles. already ravaged by prussian artillery fire, paris paid a terrible price fo

annexed by paris in 1860, the hilly, warren-like neighborhood of narrow streets climbed to the top of a butte the city's northern edge. montmartre clung to the vestiges of its agricultural past. hillside vineyards produced wine for its cafés. its windmills still turned in lautrec's day, a favorite subject of artists including vincent van gogh who also painted the view of paris from his window in 1886. cheap rents had attracted young artists for years-- edgar degas and auguste renoir rented studios there, livind working co jowl with the poor and working classes. in the early 1880s, paris was still recovering from the impact of the french defeat in the franco-prussian war of 1870. honoré daumier chronicled to the shame and anger that followed the surrender. the new regime, the third republic, failed to establish public order and suspended civil liberties. paris erupted. led by radicals, the city elected an alternative government-- the paris commune-- that drove the politicians of the third republic to versailles. already ravaged by prussian artillery fire, paris paid a terrible price for its sh

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the showbiz countdown, bumbling brad, the butt of jokes, the brand new must see hysterical spoofs of brad pitt's awkward chanel ad. tonight we counting down the toprom snl to conan and housewives horror. is kyle richards really electrifying her face to look more beautiful? is this scary or spectacular in we'll ask katie featherston, the star of the nation's number one movie, "paranormal activity 4" is right here. "showbiz tonight" continues right now. welcome back to "showbiz tonight." thanks for watching. tonight the showbiz countdown. bumbling brad? ever since we first saw brad's commercial for chanel, his luck and fortune would have it there's been a ton of spoofs and parodies coming out of the woodwork. tonight we're counting down the top three bumbling brad contenders. but first the original. >> every journey ends but we go on. the world turns and we turn with it. plans disappear, dreams take over but wherever i go, there you are. my luck, my fate, my fortune chanel no 5. you would think brad could pull it off but few people think he did. tonight the countdown of bumbling brad. number three. i couldn't wait for "saturday night live" to get a

just picked up, is a notice being circulated by a top obama campaign official to fellow democrats tonight that says two things. number one, we got our buttstime. it uses slightly harsher word. secondly says, tonight is ours. significant because it suggests that the democrats are admitting they didn't get it done last time, but raising expectations that tonight vice president biden is going to make it right. >> bill: okay. on the other side, paul ryan. what are you hearing? >> they did nine mock rehearsals with ted olson, the famous lawyer who argued so many cases in front of the supreme court. also in a very talented prosecutor and attorney spent hours watching joe biden's former videotaped debate performances. he learned biden's gestures. he learned biden's ability to be very bomb pastic and loud on the stump and then suddenly go to a dramatic whisper. the romney campaign was constantly buffeting ryan with these types of examples of biden's debate skills trying to prep him for it. and one of the things that the romney campaign continues to say over and over again is that the format in which the candidates are seated next to each other is

these two studios butt up against what we call the spin room, where we'll see surrogates and the tops that will come after the debate and try to tell us why they think their candidate won. >> fascinating. mark preston is in denver right now. hey, mark, the candidates will have one final walk through before they take to the stage tonight. right? >> reporter: yeah, they certainly will. what's really interesting, carol, is that this is taking place in the important state of colorado, where there's nine electoral votes on the line. the first presidential debate here at the university of den r denver, but also happens to be in a state that they are fighting very hard for. >> mark preston, thanks for a look backstage. it's fascinating. the debate begins at 7:00 pm eastern. be sure to join us. >>> preaching politics from the pulpit. why they are daring the irs to interfere. that's next. so we invented a wg you can feel. introducing the all-new cadillac xts. available with a patented safety alert seat. when there's danger you might not see, you're warned by a pulse in the seat. it's technolo

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