the grand cascades central feature is the gilded samson fountain. the water jets from the lion smell shoots twenty one meters up into the sky. the samson fountain commemorates russia's victory over sweetening the decisive battle of poltava leading to victory in the great north. since then the image of samson has not only symbolized peter the great and the russian army but also the victory in world war two. since you believe in september nineteenth forty one the germans began their nine hundred day scenes of leningrad the authorities took whatever valuables they could from the palace to st isaac's cathedral these figures on the cascade were buried in the park but the samson weighs three and a half tons it was simply too heavy to move when german soldiers took pictures here in the one nine hundred forty three samson was still present when our troops liberated peter hall from the samson was gone. when peterhof was seized by the nazis it was almost completely demolished the occupying forces took away the major bronze statues and led best reliefs of the

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he loved the stories of david and goliath, samson and of the conquest in book of judges, and he had thought he would become a farmer until the british recruited him as a military scout for their forces, and he found his element there. the british assigned him to the yorkshire rifles battalion that was protecting the british petroleum pipeline that went across palestine up to the ports of the med, and the locals kept blowing up the pipeline, protesting british policies for jewish immigration to the holy lambed. and the british were determined to put an end to it. and the british commander was a heavy drinker and brass-colored whiskers, and he instructed diane to go to the local arab chieftain with an ultimatum. he said, tell that bastard that if there's any further sabotage of these pipelines, i'll blow up his house. and if there continue to be sabotage, i'll blow up every house in his village. well, when that didn't put an end to it, diane suggested there might be a more subtle way to deal with, to win arab cooperation, and the british officer wheeled on him and said i didn't come here to t

it's pretty much opted for the samson strategy, if you will.country, he's destroyed it. he's destroyed aleppo and the battle for damascus as begun. >> i noticed a nuance, a difference in what the president said about syria and its chemical weapons stockpiles back in august during the campaign and what he said today at the national defense university here in washington today. as you just heard, he said, if you make the tragic mistake, referring to bashar al assad, of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. listen to how he phrased that back in august. >> sure. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change my calculus. that would change my equation. >> so then he said if they're utilized but also if they're just being moved around, that would be a red line. am i reading too much into these nuances or do you see a significant difference what