magellan, you can see here, here is magellan. they come into the philippines, no, they don't set foot in australia. and they come down through the islands, borneo, australia is one of the late discoveries, one of the later discoveries. other questions. >> so st. augustine is -- wasn't the french right after that? >> it's john cabot. sorry. jacque cartier, in the 1530s, will be sailing here in the north. what cartier, and what cabot are looking for is once the europeans understand that there's something here called north america, what they really want then is what do you think? once they find -- they want a way through it. because they are still fixated on getting to the east. so jacque cartier and john cabot are looking for a water route, a water route that can get them through this. they do this as an obstacle. they are looking for a water route through north america that can get them to the pacific. is there one, by the way? >> northwest passage. >> there is a water route. you can go from the atlantic to the pacific by water. i

it is magellan. it is magellan. or his men who establish that columbus has in fact emphasize how it traordinary changed the world? years before, s known now. completely unaware of what he had accomplished, and feeling himself to be a failure. by 1500, others have come in now. spanish, the island of hispaniola, and cuba, puerto rico, more spanish are coming. you see, here, here is the een vikings. columbus had done, and people came after him. one of the things to consider that in columbus' world they had that they did not have in the world of the vikings that helped to spread information. what would be the most effective method that columbus and his people had to spread information that the vikings didn't have? what is it? not the internet. but what? what was available in 1500 that wasn't available in the year 1000? it could spread information. printing. guttenberg. remember. movable type. think about that. we think of books today. so ordinary. everything is online. the point is, now information can spread very rapid

boulevard, they cut across whatever the street is there, but anyway, they cut in there and go up through magellan and all through there, and what they are doing is running stop signs. they are speeding. it is like the whole hillside and that whole surrounding area is just becoming a hazard to children particularly, and that is my main concern, but also, just in general, and there's more accidents now happening. they may not be major accidents that make it to the media, but there's a lot of bumper and so forth things that are not being reported because the insurance companies may it that way. you do not have to go there anymore. is that me? so anyway, i have made requests to the cabin, and i was told someone would be there at a certain time. i went by there for a week, and i never a weekend i never sought a police vehicle or anything there at ninth. i was told there would be one there for a week. i'm sorry, maybe i am wrong or maybe i wasn't there at the right time. anyway, there is one of the thing that i have. it is becoming a major problem. >> your time is up. >> the road in front of police sta

the mine see magellans you for and we're on the east side of the don schwenneker bridge near the tollny can see the traffic is building a little bit since this bridge reopened at 3:00 this morning it was scheduled to reopen at 5 and it opened two hours ahead of schedule and had been closed since 10:00 on friday night to all six lanes so that workers could use some seismic retrofitting actually place the spinach and join the west side the bridge with a larger sized joint that new joint will absorb and dissipate energy showed in a skycap and the drivers harder won't notice any difference when i drive over the bridge caltrans says it was efficient steam market resulted in their early reopening it also taken advantage of the shutdown of the summer break in and ordered to these inspections also some electrical and rode made is that the latest from here frank and michelle back to. did we think we set. the key to attracting giants take away. it's a bit busy up there in fact you're dealing with a hot spot of traffic onto 42. a broken-down big rig still stuck in lanes. in a touch up the stairw

the magellan voyages. a whole episode of voyages. the pyramids. let's make your list. and any gripe about that list i have just tossed up? we all agree. major investments in human and financial capital. then i ask, what was the motivation for those? and in my list of the most expensive things we have ever done i came up with only three drivers, three, no more than three, no fewer than three. the number one driver of the mall is war. you can call a defense. that gets you agree will china. that could see them and project. the fact -- that also gets to the apollo project. it is the, i don't want to die forever. if you feel threatened and your * you will spend money without limits to not die. okay. that is kind of an obvious one in retrospect. what is next? the prospect of gaining great economic wealth. not quite as potent as the i don't want to die driver, but the geezer really powerful operating on the motivations of nations. that is what gets you the columbus wagers. columbus himself was a discover. somebody had to write the check. the people who wrote the checks it, th