and lots of hamlet. it seems that the tragedies and the histories were most often quoted, and most often read. they knew the comedies less, although john adams was a great, great fan of the comedies and of all shakespeare, really. so, shakespeare just gave them a shared language that they could use to strengthen their arguments. and sometimes, they quoted shakespeare verbatim. sometimes, they kind of forced the quotations to suit their arguments, but shakespeare had good rhetorical value. and a quotation from shakespeare was an added strength to your argument. one of my favorite quotations, and this is not from the constitutional convention, but from someone who was on the committee to draft the declaration of independence, robert livingston, said, "i would rather have one speech from shakespeare than a thousand books of harrington or sidney or adams." jeffrey: that's a striking sentiment, especially when you realize, as you note in your book, that jefferson, when he's writing the declaration, says that

i will give him an answering quotation from hamlet. he then quoted from the scene which ophelia's brother expresses his exaggerated grief of her death by leaping into ophelia's grieve. millson said, do you come here to wine, leaping into her grave? i'll rant as well as thou. the most notable example of the use of shakespeare in congress occurred in 1830 during the famous debate between senators robert hain of south carolina and daniel webster of massachusetts. it was the first major debate about the relationship between the northern and southern states. after which webster gave a speech about public lands policy, han arghain argued that was a smoke screen. webster's real problem, hain said, was the disintegration of a coalition that webster hoped to establish between the north and west against the south. evoking a scene from mcbeth in which the ghost of the murdered person appears to lady mcbeth, but is invisible to the others who are sitting with them at a banquet table. senator hain asked, has the gentleman's tempered fancy been dist

hamlet got the third shot afterwards.ncine: it's amazing that a person from coventry called william shakespere, got the second shot of the vaccine. hour, up in the next gabriela santos, j.p. morgan asset management global market strategist. we will talk to her about emerging markets and treasuries. sick :00 a.m. in new york, 11:00 a.m. in london, -- 6:00 a.m. in new york, 11:00 a.m. in london, and this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: this is bloomberg surveillance. japan's softbank is debating a new plan to go private, the plan calling for gradually buying back shares until thunder masayoshi's son has a big enough stake. then he could squeeze out the remaining investors. softbank is not commenting. elon musk is tired of being taken for granted, so he is moving from california to texas. billionaire cofounder of tesla told the wall street journal that california has become complacent with its status as an economic giant and is taking too much for granted. tesla is headquartered in northern california, but musk is building a factory

hamlet is, of course, a great deal more than a man who cannot make up his mind. the same point of overemphasis and restriction is relative to critical analyses of appalachians and appalachia. however. to repeat, this book, instead of being a critical analysis is a presentation of the voices of the women themselves. you, the readers, have the opportunity to respond to them in your own emotional and intellectual insights. as the title suggests the voices of these women worth the listening. furthermore their voices are worth listening through several reasons. if for no other reason they are worth listening to because they are the voices of really interesting, very complex human beings whose lives have been lived off the beaten path. there are people you don't meet every day or if you did meet them you couldn't guess the roads they have traveled. for me personally when i heard the stories of the lives of these three women i was really blown away. i could hardly believe what i was hearing but they were true nevertheless. they were forthright. deeply personal revelatio

hamlet walks through the ruins of a form a mosque. that was the minaret as big as the one at the amenia destroyed the mosque was very big that is what they have done to it it is in complete ruins. on the edge of the rubble lies the former headquarters of the emini and troops here now it's on the sciri control and it is the victors who wants to set the rules now . as all presidents said the armenians can live together with us in our country as citizens of our country under our flag with possible it's possible. but living together is not an option at the moment the battlefield is still there it is a truce not peace. now with covert 19 rolling out live events artists across europe about to get creative to keep performing but as they say all the world's a stage in brussels has set out to prove just that. a curtain raiser of a different kind in the belgian capital brussels circus performers are adapting to the times with restrictions making a regular circus visit impossible these artists are bringing the stage to the street. i think that n

hamlet to hamlet, crash between frank gore and damon arnett. neither player returned. and the late first half, jets up 13-10, looking for more. sam darnold, picked off for mullen, his second pick of the season. nedense had no big one. answer for how to cover darren waller. on this play, no interest in tackling him either. his second touchdown, vegas up 17-13, and 13 catches, 200 yards. raiders are up 24-21. carr to henry rudd, first down, but he fumbles that football and comes out of nowhere to get that ball. in for the score. he would have 104 yards rushing, new york will bring the sink as they go for roads and henry ruggs is all alone. jackpot. are you kidding me? raiders will escape from new york. they keep their playoff hope alive. >> it is always going through your mind earlier in the game, and what was going through your mind as they went on. >> and my dad was not going to be happy, knowing that his birthday is tomorrow. and of course, you know, he is watching and i had to make those plays, you know, to make him proud. >> still a became behind, but two out of the

hamlet is of course, a great deal morehan a man who could not make up his mind. in the same point of overemphasis and restrictions is a relative t critil analyses of appalachians and of appalachia. however, to repeat, this book instead of being a ctical analysis is a presentation of the lives of these or the voices of these women themselves. any the leader readers, have te opportunity to respond to them in your own emotionalnd intellectual insights. and as the title suggests, the voices of these women are certainly worth to listening to afraid furthermore,heir voices are worth listening for several reons. and for no other reason, there worth listening to becse they are the voices of really intesting and very complex human bngs. whose lives have been lived off the beaten path. they are people that you don't meet every day or if he did meet them you probably could not even guess the roads they have traveled. for me personally, i heard the stories of the lives of these three women, i was really blo away. i can hardly believe what i was hearing. they were true nonhel

sergeant morris was leading one of three groups of south vietnamese fighters into a little known hamletchi lang. they were supposed to inspect, then clear the area. >> we moved on out of the village through the tree line, and by the time we got to the tree line, the whole world opened up. >> hundreds of people firing thousands of rounds. soledad: captain tommy daniels and team sergeant ronald hagen were ambushed by vietcong who had been hiding in bunkers. >> i got a call telling me that the team sergeant was dead, and i asked morris, do you know where hagen is, and he said, yes, i do. i'll lead us in there. soledad: morris took two volunteers and crossed enemy lines to get sergeant hagen's body. pushed back by a barrage of enemy fire, he was shot. >> i had to get to the body. so i said i was going in. soledad: what morris did next is not just a heroic war story, it was a moment of valor defined. morris singe handedly destroyed the enemy force that had his battalion pinned down. in the fog of gunfire, he had been shot two more times. he didn't stop. >> you take every effort you can to re

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hamlet walks through the ruins of a mosque. that was the minaret as big as the one at the destroyed it the mosque was very big that is what they have done to it it is in complete ruins. on the edge of the rubble lies the former headquarters of the a 1000000 troops here now it's on the syria control and it is the victors who wants to set the rules now. as our president said the armenians can live together with us in our country as citizens of our country under our flag with our passports. but living together is not an option at the moment the battlefield is still there it is a truce not peace. now some football news for you the champions league group stages will draw to a close this week and for a german club are. a win over manchester united on tuesday would guarantee a spot in the knockouts leipsic our last season's semifinalists but lost to the english team 5 nil in the reverse a fixture lapse they hear a coach should julia not go smile on said his team have managed to recover from the bitter defeat and are ready for united a

after that turkey decided to buy as for hamlet defense system also the s.g. 100 models that are being used by greece and thought any opposition by the nato and by the united states for decision i do not think that this problem is on the s 400 system because when you take a look at the past declarations and also james jeffrey statements in a couple of weeks you can easily understand because they say that. turkey is one of the united states allies in the good all days when it comes to now turkey is creating lots of initiate of see in the middle east and also in the mediterranean independently so be sure to take those steps abilities from the handoff to turkish government this is there really should that we should maybe discuss and other issue is that. my colleague from united states clearly stated that the turks and by k.g.b. just fighting iceland let me remind you that turkey is the contrie who often all that is basis for the on the ice and government more than $26.00 the 7 countries and 30 is the only country. i suspect in this on horses on the ground all of them came by and rock on o

estranged husband has shot dead three police officers called by his wife to her house in the french hamletopened fire on the officers, before setting the building alight. he was later found dead in his car. here in the uk a former head of immunisation at the department of health has urged the government to consider giving as many people as possible an initial dose of a coronavirus vaccine, rather than preserving stocks so there's enough for second jabs. the pfizer biontech and oxford university astrazeneca vaccines both require two doses to be fully effective. katharine da costa reports. more than half a million people have so far received their first dose of the pfizer biontech vaccine, but with concern about a new variant of the spreading 50—70% more quickly, there have been calls to speed up the roll—out of vaccines by giving more people one dose rather than to. dose rather than two. given the circumstances we are facing, with the rapidly expanding number of cases, spreading through the country, we have to do what we can to save as many lives as we possibly can as quickly as we can. the

joining me now is professor sir sam everington, who has also been a gp in tower hamlets since 1989 andse, particularly bad where i am in tower hamlets on the east end of london, and we have christmas on the horizon, which everyone thinks is bound to make it even worse. 0ur biggest fear, of course, is that the hospitals and the health service will be put under such pressure, and in fact at the end of last week, we we re in fact at the end of last week, we were talking about having to reduce the amount of elective, that's the normal work would be doing in the nhs, to cope with notjust of this rise in covid, but the covid vaccination, which we start tomorrow in tower hamlets as gps, the flu vaccination, which we are now doing to the 65—year—olds, and a very large number of backlog of treatment from the first wave. looking at pictures of picadilly circus and a rather empty london but when you talk about a capacity of 95%, what does that look like? itjust means there is no spare space, do you know what i mean? you are really working at extremis, and the only way to maintain therefore covid,

with a grab for power that ignited a civil war that would burn for centuries, on king claudius and hamlet who seize powered, and mcbeth whose decision empowered him to his own destruction. on lear who urged him on until he had lost all power. we hear in the second inaugural, and this is the lesson we should take from shakespeare in tragedy. like arthenians, we may be tempted to think that fate is on our side, that our checks and balances will counteract any serious threats to our system of government, that it can't happen here. but tragedy teaches otherwise. liberal democracy is not guaranteed, it's fragile. without constant attention, including those of us in congress, we could lose everything. that is why it is important that shakespeare is in our midst, why we should read, or even better, watch. king king lear, richard ii or mcbeth. all of this brings me back to the folds of the library. in the west garden is a statue of puck, the mischievous spirit from "a mid summsummer's night dream." he's facing the capitol. at the base of the statue says, oh what fools these mortals be. it's a rem

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shakespeare rhymes in 1920's, maybe, involving -- there was some sort of feud over who performed hamlet better, an american actor or a well-known british actor. there was rioting in the streets, which lead to death. an associate of cody's was part of the whole thing. tremendous fervor around theater then and spectacle. i don't know if that exactly answers your question. there was just a real hunger for it. >> wait for the usher. they are right across the aisle. >> i look forward to reading your book. i think a question from earlier is the question of cultural cleansing. the issue of never said or documented, but an administration who set out to .xterminate the opening of the west by whites. i wonder if you could address that from your vantage point of knowing the native american? yeah, i get into that in great detail in my book. i think something important to keep in mind is that, first of all, buffalo bill and sitting strange,ed the commercially driven alliance, but across a vast chasm to do so. here were these two superstars coming together and i'm not saying it was a lovefest, but sy

being thus past the vast ocean in a sea of troubles, this is of course similar to shakespeare who has hamlet asked whether tis nobler to take arms against a sea of troubles. is there any possibility robert asks that bradford knew of shakespeare or was this just a common metaphor at the time? >> i think it's very likely that he knew of the works of shakespeare. bradford is an interesting person because he did not have any education beyond the home and presumably a local grammar school. he is not one of the puritans, for instance, who went to either oxford or cambridge universities. but he was always very interested in what we would call self-education and he read extensively. we can tell from the inventory at his death he had a very large collection of books. and then, of course, as robert mentioned, there are frequent mentions in his writings that indicate a familiarity with a great number of works. i would suggest two things, that if robert is interested in this he might do. david luther, l-u-p-h-e-r, has written a recent book on classical influences, or evidences in the records of plymouth

hamlet's mother was not going to end up living a long life in a nice retirement home.ust knew hamlet was not going to reign in a peaceful way. this is the climax, i hope. let's be clear. it's only december 24th. so there's, what? 26 days to go. i think we have to be very vigilant about this, because this could -- it certainly, the beginning of the end, but it's still not all the way to the end yet for what he could do. one of the phrases i think we have to retire is not since nixon, or excepting nixon, comma. nixon declined to pardon bob halderman and john ehrlichman in august of late, in the term, august of 1974, and that was before presumably nix hadn't any idea he would be pardoned. so these were potential witnesses against him. which is an interesting element here. right? what the president's done is basically take and kind an elemental crime drama and brought it to life. where he has used all of his power to protect himself and those who put their own interests and very possibly the interests of a foreign power who let's not let this slip by in the holiday swirl,

on a real note, i'm healthy af, but you all should check out my new play hamlet, now that would be sick smells like drake, to which gwyneth paltrow replied, uh, call me when it smells like drake's vagina. quarantine-while, oreo is releasing a lady gaga-inspired pink and green cook can kiss. okay, as much as i love her, lady gaga's oreos will never replace pat benatar's hydro g! quarantine-while, i have already brought you news of the mysterious appearance of this upon lot in the utah desert last week and events so potentially paradigm shifting for the human race that i need to update you in my newest month literature themed meanwhile subsegment, mon-while, mon-while, the original utah desert monolith, is gone-olith. over the weekend we learned that the mysterious monolith was removed on friday evening. a photographer of the scene saw four member arrive as if out of nowhere to dismantle it saying leave no trace, this is our mission. clearly government agents working for the department of fun-stomping. come on, guys. just let us have this! we didn't have a chance to see if it shot out bea

hamlet walks through the ruins of a mosque. that was the minaret as big as the one at.roy did the mosque was burned that is what they have done to it it is in complete ruins. on the edge of the rubble lies the former headquarters of the emini and troops here now it's on the sciri control and it is the victors who wants to set the rules now. as all presidents said the armenians can live together with us in our country as citizens of our country under our flag with our passports. but living together is not an option at the moment the battlefield is still there it is a truce not peace. they're watching to stick around they're coming up next is business news with rob. thank you so much for. that people for you on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch. via let's go to. my coming from a poor family to become president. challenges are. incredible story. south africa's economy fights back after one of the world's toughest lock downs pushed the country deeper into recession it's just seen a 66 percent quarterly. also on the program. prepared for delivery around the world

hamlet walks through the ruins of a mosque. that was the minaret as big as the one at the amenia destroyed it the mosque was very big that is what they have done to it it is in complete ruins. on the edge of the rubble lies the former headquarters of the a 1000000 troops here now it's on the sciri control and it is the victors who wants to set the rules now. president said the armenians can live together with us in our country as citizens of our country under our flag with our passports. but living together is not an option at the moment the battlefield is still there it is a truce not peace. more stories now from around the world vote counting has begun and ghana us presidential and parliamentary elections results expected by wednesday it is said to be a tight race between incumbent nonna a coup for idol and his longtime rival john muhammad diana is considered one of the most politically stable countries in africa but the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the country into economic crisis. chuck yeager the american air force pil

nicole is in germany to learn german and why not play with hamlet simple online on your mobile and free to suffer for d w z e learning course nico speak german made easy. songs i saw as big eyes and i knew he was sadly no longer with us at the end of it when you get. so r.h. you have to think about why why are we one of the chosen few that battled through many. many v $81982.00 qualifying for the belgian grand prix at those old us circuit is even nerve and his ferrari right behind driving a macho. for the filter never do so he flew across the track with his helmet already missing things on straight into the safety fencing thinking the force infringes functorial . up a loser and i stopped my car and ran over songs on the go and then i saw his big eyes and i knew he was sadly no longer with us a broken neck and it was awful because. i gently pulled down his balaclava and then the doctors and helpers started arriving lots of but all. countries for me i knew his family his kids before that we've been friends in monaco we lived pretty close to each other and it was just terrible fits for the

enemy rised and right in the middle of his presidency he would break out with a long soliloquy by hamlet claudeus or one thereof great shakespearean tragedies and even on april 9th, 1865, when lee was surrendering to grant in an maddox and lincoln was on a boat going from virginia to washington. he had been visiting grant and everybody around him was cheering, isn't this wonderful, it's great and i guess today we would have said mission accomplished in a big banner but the lincoln said i'd rather talk but shakespeare. rather talk about shakespeare. long fellow and they said what? and he spent several hours discussing poetry from shakespeare and longfellow and others about death and his mind was on the 750,000 americans who died in civil war. that's where his mind was. it wasn't, hey, mission accomplished, or i'm the greatest or whatever like that. i'm the leader here. he was thinking about those who had died. it's quite moving and i think that's -- part of where his democracy comes from and his ability to identify with really people of all classes and all backgrounds . >> to watch the pr

a small hamlet tucked between the catskills and pocono mountains. they didn't need to look for long. >> it was the "big red house is" as she called it. >> reporter: katherine's brother michael and sister-in-law joanne said she worked hard to make the big red house a home. >> growing up, we lived in apartments. this was a space of her own. >> she was thrilled to have five acres or ten acres of property, and she loved it there. >> the perfect place for the perfectly matched couple. they seemed meant for each other right from the start. >> i liked her from the first moment. she was effervescent, very funny, very opinionated. and i really liked that in her. >> reporter: you really saw into the future the first time you saw her. >> yes. we ended up getting married i think seven months later. >> reporter: two years after that, their first child, natalie, was born. >> it was very special. >> reporter: katherine's mom, christina, was ever the proud grandmother. >> natalie looks so much like her mom. so much like her mom. >> reporter: what was it lightning t

, you are in real trouble. out the questions are on hamlet, you are in realtrouble.hat businesses willjust say, "look, money will find a way." or other being optimistic? i worry that they are. y2k was a very, very specific problem with a clearly defined solution that was solved by dedicated it professionals working sometimes through the night to get it done. this is very different, it is not an event, it is a process. and you have ongoing change for weeks, if not months afterwards, as companies adjust to what the new normal might look like. businesses out there can rightfully turn around and say, "we would love to prepare, but we don't know how." yes, i think thatis but we don't know how." yes, i think that is an entirely fair point. it would be entirely more helpful if they were able to do things like access the basic systems that they will need to be able to use so that they can practice to see what it is that they need to be able to do and work out what information they need to pull out from their own systems to pull out from their own systems to make the right de

let's just say no one will forget that adorable owl >>> in the hamlet of west oneonta, new york, there'sar's giant norway spruce was first spot by a rockefeller employee on the front lawn of the dick family home >> they found us about four or so years ago it was only 71 feet tall once it grew a few more feet, the christmas call came. >> we were more than honored to donate it and hopefully we bring some joy into some people's lives this season. >> a season like no other. harkening back to 1931 whe construction workers raised the unofficial first tree on rockefeller plaza. it became a symbol of hope and started an annual tradition. but is this 11-ton spruce went up after its 200-mile journey to new york city, so did some unflattering comments on social media. some comparing it to the charlie brown christmas tree because of its shaggy appearance. >> yes, there was a lot of social commentary online about the tree and how it's, you know, looking a little scraggly. somebody tweeted, i thought it was really funny, like in 2020 form the rockefeller christmas tree tried to cut its own hair. >> th

have monitored this and it appears what happened was a call sometime around midnight in this small hamlet this man. one police officer instantly was killed. 0ne was injured. and then, the man appears to have set light to the house, fired on more officers, killed two more police officers. what we know now is the woman has been rescued, and taken away. there are armed police units at the scene. and the operation to arrest the man thought to be responsible is ongoing. still very much a live situation. thanks. we will be talking about the possible return to school in the new year ina possible return to school in the new year in a couple of minutes and how it seems to be changing. we will chat about that. here's carol with the weather. you are being sent wonderful photographs this morning. the weather watchers always do us proud and a lovely photograph of a christmas tree. today, the weather is rather mixed. heavy rain especially across england and wales but in scotland and northern ireland it is quieter. early cloud will tend to break and you will see sunshine, also showers in the north and w

additional testing are a parking in dagenham, hackney and the city, haven, newham, redbridge, tower hamletsx burros receiving additional testing are southend, basildon, ca nvey receiving additional testing are southend, basildon, canvey island, harlow, brentwood, southend, i have already mentioned, i think there is some repetition in this list... harlow, brentwood. .. some repetition in this list... harlow, brentwood... and then in kent, an additional two mobile testing units deployed tomorrow, with a further ten arriving at the weekend. so, certainlya with a further ten arriving at the weekend. so, certainly a sense of a ramping up of the response in those three areas. london, essex and kent. to try to deal with the rise in transmissions, particularly for schools and teaching staff. we will bring you more on that detail as we get it. non—essential shops across much of western scotland including glasgow are reopening for the first time in three weeks. retailers in the 11 council areas that had been been under the country's toughest lockdown rules were also able to welcome customers this mor