alexander graham bell was at the centennial exposition and introducing his telephone. and i should add that one of the people in the audience for alexander graham bell was don pedro, who was the emperor of brazil at the time, and in fact, was much more popular than the american president at the time, who was u.s. grant. one thing i try to do in this book is explore the difference between liars and legends. this book is filled with liars, with the possible exception of the author. it's also filled with legends again, with the possible exception of the author. i think there's a big difference between the two. alive is is basically an untruth. it's the anti truth. but a legend is is sort of an amalgam. it's it's based on facts. it has lies sprinkled into our gross exaggerations. and what comes out of the legend and what sometimes comes out of a legend is the truth. i'll give you an example. but first i want to say that why we need legends. we seem to have an innate need as humans to have to have legends. and perhaps it's because we want to have a commonality of purpose. w

the this image was produced for philadelphia centennial exposition. well, we know card, but we know from the stamp on it that it was distributed at the centennial exposition. yeah, so it seems that you know one one way to tap into to veterans as a consumer group is to at this at this scientific expo that is that is meant to validate and valorize the nations kind of achievements to talk about the ways in which northerners and southerners white northerners and southerners could come back together again around and earlier national heritage of of the war. so there's there's humor in and they're all kind of i i what about the british soldier? i don't i don't know what to make. you know, why is he involved in this? yeah, i guess that's right. it's reconciliation for the revolutionary era. so it's the centennial right of the yeah, and if they made they made up once, you know, they could make up again and and newspapers. you know that we're talking about the meaning of this exhibition. we're saying we really hope the south comes and it would be an act of good

pamela: it happened at the philadelphia centennial exposition-and it caused a sensation when the judgeseds of artists entered in competition. >> he went up to get his award, and they were a little taken aback, and said, this can't be right, he is a black man. they wanted to take it away. and there were white artists that came in and said, no, he is getting his award. and he did. pamela: bannister's certificate is one of the art club's most prized possessions. the art club is currently bestowing its own honor to edward bannister. this is a miniature of what will soon be a public fixture in market square, near the rhode island school of design. >> and the wonderful thing about this sculpture is that it's not a monument. he's not standing on a pedestal, looking down at people. he's actually sitting on a bench, kind of waiting for people to sit next to him. he has a sketchpad in hand, and on the sketchpad is a sketch of his wife, christiana carteaux. pamela: the sculpture is being cast life-size in bronze. it is the finishing touch, but a man whose talent and tenacity broke down barriers an

centennial anniversary is unconditional. e, it turned out to be bright and saturated thanks to our cooperation with regular partners of our restoration projects. pao gazprom for those who could not visit the expositionpreserving the history, as well as sections of the restorers on the portal of the virtual russian museum. also at the event. presentation of the collection of reports of the scientific-practical conference, non -rodov readings and multimedia game 100 years were held restorations in the russian museum. applications artifact the best thing for today is beyond some neighbors, others bleat from morning to evening, and the third work instead of alarm clocks 12 code, one, sheep geese. turkeys at 4:00 am. i was smashed, the goat's rooster began to knock on the battery with the horns of birds and rabbits. we moved to an apartment building. kostroma, together with the hostess, after the fire, someone burns well, then a neighbor called me and said that my house was on fire. do you think that they wanted to set you on fire, alive with this house, they will be taken in a car get up with roosters and suffer from a similar yard neighbor's nuzhka. i have a tip on a large shipment of drugs. i do not p