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. >> we are at the southwest florida museum of history and in a similar in now is our agricultural exhibitwe highlight the three c's which is citrus, cattle and cane. those are the three big industries within agriculture that it really made florida what it is today. interesting, although those were richard brought over by the spanish. the cattle was brought over as a food source for the settlement of florida. citrus and cane were later brought over as cash crops. the cattle establish itself is almost -- the early american settlers who came down here to herd the cattle, they were free roaming. so the florida cowboy or what we call the florida cracker would herd the cattle once a year during season we are bringing them to market but other than that they just kind of rome to the state. they adopted a very well to our environment. the florida scrub cattle that you see behind me here now was a species that was predominate here all the way up into the mid-1900s. and was very hearty, was able to withstand most of the cold in the winter town, the heat and humidity that we have a but also did very
. >> we are at the southwest florida museum of history and in a similar in now is our agricultural exhibitwe highlight the three c's which is citrus, cattle and cane. those are the three big industries within agriculture that it really made florida what it is today. interesting, although those were richard brought over by the spanish. the cattle was brought over as a food source for the settlement of florida. citrus and cane were later brought over as cash crops. the cattle establish...
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including a stop at southwest florida museum of history. saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2 and sunday at 2:00 on c-span 3. >> next a discussion about russia's annexation of crimea. and how it could affect u.s. foreign policy in the region. from the brookings institution, this is just over an hour and a alf. >> hi. welcome to brookings and thanks for coming this morning. at brookings, we like to think and we like to tell our supporters that our unique strength is our ability to use our breadth of analysts to integrate insights from various regions and emerge with a global picture that can inform the uniquely global concerns of u.s. foreign policy. and in our view, the crisis in ukraine is an episode which merits that type of analysis. and in part through its effects on u.s. foreign policy. we think it has the potential to have some impacts throughout the world. people are already asking what the crisis in ukraine means for u.s. efforts in -- to make peace in syria, for u.s. efforts to denuclearize iran and most relevantly given that the pr
including a stop at southwest florida museum of history. saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2 and sunday at 2:00 on c-span 3. >> next a discussion about russia's annexation of crimea. and how it could affect u.s. foreign policy in the region. from the brookings institution, this is just over an hour and a alf. >> hi. welcome to brookings and thanks for coming this morning. at brookings, we like to think and we like to tell our supporters that our unique strength is our ability to use...
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including a stop at southwest florida museum of history. today at noon eastern on c-span2 and sunday at 2:00 on c-span3. catholic university professor amy binder 11 talked-about his book "the conservative turn: lionel trilling, whittaker chambers, and the lessons of anti-communism" about the impact of lionel trilling and whittaker chambers on the modern conservative movement. this was recorded at catholic university of america in washington d.c. as part of our college series. >> professor michael kimmage who was lionel trilling? >> guest: a preeminent literary critic of the 1940s 50s and 60s, born to a family of jewish immigrants from poland, educated in new york public schools and spent his education and professional life at columbia university, was a literary critic of a kind one could hardly imagine today in less cents he had absolutely enormous readership at the highest level of esteem from his colleagues from feller scholars and writers but also was able to engage a very large public. he was also associated with the word liberalism in
including a stop at southwest florida museum of history. today at noon eastern on c-span2 and sunday at 2:00 on c-span3. catholic university professor amy binder 11 talked-about his book "the conservative turn: lionel trilling, whittaker chambers, and the lessons of anti-communism" about the impact of lionel trilling and whittaker chambers on the modern conservative movement. this was recorded at catholic university of america in washington d.c. as part of our college series. >>...
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take a look at the history and literary life of fort myers florida, including a stop at southwest florida museumf history. today at noon eastern on c-span 2 and sunday at 2:00 on c-span 3. "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now, annie snider from e and e daily, a reporter, here to talk about the changes in the clean water act. welcome. guest: thank you. host: can we start with the clean water act itself and the scope it has over water? >> that's a very good question. guest: the last seven or so years there's been a lot of confusion around that and there were a lot of confusing supreme court decisions that threw into question which waters get protection under the clean water act. so everybody at this point agrees big rivers and the streams and creeks that flow into them should get protection and pretty much everyone agrees the wetlands should get protection but there are other types of water streams that flow during certain parts of the year or maybe in response to rainfall, there's been a lot of questions around and there's actually a lot of those streams, particularly in the west.
take a look at the history and literary life of fort myers florida, including a stop at southwest florida museumf history. today at noon eastern on c-span 2 and sunday at 2:00 on c-span 3. "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now, annie snider from e and e daily, a reporter, here to talk about the changes in the clean water act. welcome. guest: thank you. host: can we start with the clean water act itself and the scope it has over water? >> that's a very good...