of course, the big controversy here in the west came with julius caesar started a new calendar in 40 bce. this was great until 1500 when people noticed the seasons were beginning to get a little bit out of sync and so the good pope gregory convened a group of people and they deliberated and they looked at the skies and they said they discovered that there was an 11-day gap. >> oh-oh. so what happened. >> caesar had added 11 minutes to the 365 days, and if you multiply 1 minutes1 minutes by 1500 yards, they come up short. and there's good german lutherans agreed to this 60 or 70 years later and the japanese not until the 1700s, and parts of slovenia are still arguing about t so the orthodox and catholic have different observances of easter and that's why it goes back to good pope gregory and julius caesar. >> okay. with all that in mind we are in the season of lent and lent, i want to remind people beings comes from an anglo saxon word which means spring. so i think of lent as the church's springtime, and it's a time to focus on those faith practices that help us grow in our faith. so

it goes back to good pope gregory and julius caesar. >> okay. with all that in mind, we are in the season of lent and lent i want to remind people comes from a word which means spring. i think of lent as the church's springtime. it's a time to focus on faith practices that help us grow in our faith. so the church encourages and invites people to focus on practices such as prayer, service to the poor, worship, reflection on scripture, those kind of basic, back to basic faith practices that help our faith grow, in essence springtime, we want our faith to he grow. it's this intensive 40 days of preparation, yes, to easter, but also a time of simple living, back to basics. our eating is simpler. we've had fat tuesday. the fat's been removed out of our diet, presumably, and now we go back to simple living and being more mindful of god and god's gifts in our lives. >> for instance, at saint mark's, what do you do leading up to easter from holy week? >> during the season of lent we have mid-week services. we add services mid-week on wednesdays. we also

the reign of julius caesar, who ruled around the time of christ, marked the turning point between thethe republic, designed to rule a small city-state, found itself trying to rule most of europe. something new and stronger was needed. caesar established a no-nonsense, more-disciplined government, became dictator for life, and, for good measure, had a month named in his honor, july. the powerful elites of the republic found all this change just too radical. in an attempt to save the republic and their political power, a faction of roman senators assassinated caesar. his body was burned on this spot in 44 b.c. the citizens of rome gathered here, in the heart of the forum, to hear mark antony say, in shakespeare's words, "friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. i've come to bury caesar, not to praise him." but the republic was finished, and rome became the grand capital of a grand empire. the via sacra, or sacred way, was the main street of ancient rome. it stretched from the arch of septimius severus to the arch of titus. rome's various triumphal arches, named after the emperors

over 2,500 years ago, long before anybody had heard of julius caesar, and back when rome was still just small town, the etruscan civilization flourished in this part of italy. etruscan tombs are scattered all over the countryside, located both on good maps and on signposts. we're dropping in on a farm to visit the tomb of the hescanas family. this tomb, cut out of solid tufa rock, was discovered by the farmer's grandfather. what little we know about the etruscans we've learned mostly from their fresco-covered tombs. [ speaking italian ] the farmer tells me that this tomb dates back to about 350 b.c. [ speaking italian ] the entire family was buried in several sarcophagi in this tomb. -[ speaking italian ] steves: we can read the family name, spelled what we would call backwards -- "hescanas." the faint but still readable frescos take us back to the funeral ritual. signor hescanas rides the chariot into the afterlife. it's a pre-christian judgment day as a divine magistrate deliberates his case. a heavenly chamber orchestra provides music as women in fine gowns and jewelry dance. the mot

>> yes, that is julius caesar. >> do think if they had been eyes of march they would have an assassination or something. >> is that double standard, tom? i should tweet about it. >> no, this is doubly won of the most dangerous things that they've done because they could get a paper cut and they would cry over that. the postcard are lucky some of them. looks like they got a child class to break to the president. a lot of coloring and things. for now for now. that means -- the makes no sense. and if trump is it going to his mailbox, more of these outside on pennsylvania avenue to the mailbox, more of these things, i were to our richard the host dixon when i was a kid. he was the president at the time. >> and i wrote and i got a postcard back from him that was just stamped richard m nixon. so even been is a kid i knew it was bs. >> help me, henry. he is on to me. >> he's not even going to know they got to the white house. >> they talk about conservative media having something to talk about. it is send their head. >> you're getting an hour ahead. >> in our meeting last week. how do we screw a

through the carolinas and what joe johnston says is one of the most impressive military feats since julius caesar. in fact, what happens is, a figure from sherman's past reappears. guess who that is? that is craig's hero, joe johnston. now, craig pointed out that jefferson davis had fired johnston just before the fall of atlanta, and he also pointed out that now davis had to swallow his pride and bring johnston back. why would he do that? well, he had no choice. after george h. thomas destroyed john bell hood and his army of tennessee at nashville in december, 1864, there is no confederate general left to attle sherman except for joseph e. johnson. so johnston takes over what is left of the confederate army in the carolinas, and he gives sherman, as we heard, a momentary scare at bentonville. hen he had to fall back before the surging yankees. well, sherman felt that he had done the right thing. he believed that his destructive war was a more direct way to get to the desired end of ending this civil war, defeating the confederacy, restoring the union. he certainly did not want to get back into th

[ laughter ] in this day in history, julius caesar was stabbed by his own senators.if i were trump i'd watch out for -- eh, he'll be fine. [ laughter ] according to a new report from the department of health and human services, 2017 has marked the first ever decline in signups for obamacare. because frankly, it seems like obama don't. [ laug ] today was justice ruth bader ginsburg's 84th birthday. i don't know how she celebrated, but i hope it was carefully. [ laughter and applause ] stay safe out there. according to politico, white house staffers are scared of the hostile environment around the west wing. and terrified of the thing that's been lurking around the east wing. [ laughter ] "can i come to the west wing father?" [ laughter ] the lottery for free tickets to president trump's first white house easter egg roll is launching tomorrow. but heads up, parents, the bunnies have changed. [ laughter and applause ] "there's an egg. there's an egg." according to a new study, four in five elementary students in oklahoma city cannot read a clock. four in five is also wh