it was performed for the king of versailles in 1864 and apparently he loved it.hurch, not so much. he rewrote the play, and it is the one that we know today, the text that has been translated into countless languages. for the first time, something close to the original version of tartouffe is to be staged here. it has been re-created through the pains breaking work -- painstaking work of theater historians. he has experience with working with the actors and with moliere's work as well, so this is a theatrical first. >> the biting comedy often forms students introduction to drama. these students are versing from three plays, including tartuffe. >> i think that it is very accessible, the text is not a barrier, in fact. we communicate not only with the use othe text, but also with our bodies. >> [speaki french] >> in moliere's theater, the place of women is extremely important. moliere had a very strong vision of women's freedom and a way of speaking about it which is very singular, interesting in the context of everything that is happening in the current climate. i

president woodrow wilson and senate majority leader henry cabot lodge over ratification of the 1919 versailles treaty, which ended world war ii. my name is gavin kleespies and i am the director of programs exhibitions and community partnerships for the massachusetts historical society, and i'm happy to welcome you to this evening's program. this is our second in-person program since march of 2020. tonight we'll hear about one of the most consequential battles in american diplomatic history the struggle between president woodrow wilson and senate majority leader henry cabot lodge over the league of nations our speaker this evening is patricia o'toole. i'm inso tool is a former professor in the school of arts at columbia university. she is a fellow of the society of american historians and a member of the presidential historial historical commission at the new york historical society. she has published five books including biographies of theodore roosevelt and henry adams the second of which was a final for the pulitzer prize the national book critic circle award in the los angeles times book to

it recounts the struggles between woodrow wilson and senate majority leader lodge over the 1919 versaillesaty which ended world war i and created the league of nations. watch american history tv every weekend and find a full schedule on your program guide. then watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. ♪ >> can human genes be patented and owned? george contrary stack -- tackles that sentence. sunday, the professor tells a story of the 2013 supreme court chase that challenged biotech company's rights to patent human genes. >> i didn't think the case had a huge chance of success when it was first brought, but as it rolled on year after years through different appeals and machinations, it became increasingly clear there was something important going on here. by the time and got to the supreme court, i knew this was going to be a very important landmark case and one that i definitely wanted to tell the story of. >> the author of the genome defense, sunday night on q and a. you can listenal

on wednesday, a courtney of versailles deemed that mandate excessive, disproportionate and inappropriate fringed moment of personal freedom. all of this is likely to cause a headache for the mack on administration as it struggles to control new waves of the pandemic inch day bringing new condemnation of its management with just weeks now before the 2022 presidential elections. charlotte gibbon ski, r t amsterdam. global smoking numbers are done and having a cigarette is prohibited, as you know, in most public places, especially in the western world. so how are prophets still being posted by big tobacco? we delve deeper into the doctor, the shortest. ah, less than one year ago, the 17 year old from detroit underwent a double lung transplant. previously, daniel had assumed that the cigarettes were harmless, at least that's what he had always heard. i didn't think it was dangerous. i thought the worst that had happened was me getting addicted to nicotine, which at the time it didn't seem like a big deal to me because i was just a kid does doing stupid things. but yeah, i mean, the only real

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and it's not the only court to take a stance on wednesday, a courtney of versailles deemed that mandate excessive, disproportionate and inappropriate friend shipment of personal freedom. all of this is likely to cause a headache for the mack on administration as it struggles to control new waves of the pandemic each day, bringing new condemnation of its management with just weeks now before the 2022 presidential elections. charlotte dba ski, ot amsterdam. all right, roughly hoffer to the program here on this friday here in moscow. still to come here, taking a job, a job biden's vaccine mandate plans. the u. s. supreme court blocks the move claiming the president does not have the authority of that story. and many more, right after a very short ah, we have recently, of course, or the un started the united states, talking about human rights talking about press freedom. if you're gonna talk to tube, you don't want to walk. in other words, she's got to be consistent. you, cassandra, on the one hand, we believe in press freedom, but on the other hand, we're going to richmond. i don't think y

it was seen as a palace of versailles like project.y are saying it was used as security for a financing transaction worth $520 million, the developer over the weekend trying to assure the market this weekend and play down this issue. they say this project is not going to impact the financial position of evergrande or operations or the debt restructuring process but this move is seen as one of the most significant actions yet taken by any international player in this ongoing evergrande crisis. just last week evergrande on a call with creditors asking them to refrain from taking hostile enforcement actions to recover their debt. potentially a new development, evergrande saying they are seeking legal advice to protect the rights of this project and they are in active talks with lenders right now. shery: what is february looking like in terms of bond payments. >> it is not as bad as january, but there are concerns that continue to swirl over the ability to raise funds. what we are hearing, stressed builders phase $467 million of bond payme

expansion of light from the time it was piles of higher in a cave to the millions of candles at versailles to whale oil to kerosene to finally electricity, and then light emitting diodes, whatever -- >> but -- >> measured by the amount of time a worker had to spend two by the light to illuminate a room. economic progress was a hundred thousand times more rapid than is usually estimated in that particular, in that field. so we were missing, during the industrial revolution we missed light, and i think missed intellectual, in the current ai revolution we are missing mind. >> that's fascinating. >> and measured by the number of hours it takes a worker to earn the money to purchase the goods and services that sustain his life. this continues to be, a golden age of capitalism with the technological progress as fast as ever and with increasing the quality. because poor people benefit more from the expansion of the hours of their day to do other things than rich people already just have to spend a few minutes to earn their food and clothing and whatever. and so as technology advances, it benefits

several inches of rain on the state causing this flooding in the middle of the state near the town of versailles of the states with the fewest natural sdaft sers is still recovering from the tornadoes from a couple of weeks ago. this major system is causing major snow and flight cancellations in parts of the midwest, as well. in colorado, thousands could be without homes after a devastating wildfire ripped through boulder count pep the fire which is uncharacteristic for this time of year was fueled with dry winds and dry conditions for months' long drought not to mention warm temperatures. thousands forced to evacuate the area. nbc's steve paterson has one story how the fire hit while they were with their kids in a chuck e. cheese. >> out the window, the smoke was thickening. >> as jason fletcher in colorado for the holidays. >> cassidy! >> shot this video, he was at a chuck e. cheese with his wife and family. >> i saw flames and that's when i yelled flames! i see fire! with the fire approaching dangerously close to the restaurant, parents gathered children. with winds so strong, for a moment th

that she finds the most obnoxious is the one about his primary residence, which he referred to as versailless that the value of his property was -- this is an apartment, mind you, $327 million. and he valued it at $10,900 per square foot, which of course would mean that the apartment is 30,000 square feet. in fact, as ed points out in the article, it is not 30,000 square feet. it's 11,000 square feet and not only is he the developer, not only does he reside in it, but his name is on the building. it goes to show you how corrupt his mind is when you have somebody who won't even tell you how big his apartment is and literally expands it in his head by three times. >> i'm almost at a loss for words, which you know is pretty rare as i'm -- 13 times, 20 times the value. it's extraordinary in these really small periods of time as well. >> didn't donald once say that he knows real estate? he's the best real estate purchaser in the planet, and the answer is true, if of course you make up your own valuations on your properties, of course. >> yeah. point well taken. when it comes to tish james, though

it's actually a flooded field near the town of versailles, which is in the middle of the state. couple of weeks ago, parts of kentucky devastated by record breaking tornados and this is not what the state needs right now to recover. nbc meteorologist michelle grossman is joining us now. not a good situation kentucky is in right now. across the country, you've seen devastating weather from that, images of that to the wildfires in colorado. walk us through, michelle, the latest here, what you're seeing. >> yeah, hi there, yasmin. we are looking at so much. i mean, pretty much every state has an alert. we're looking at spring-like weather, we're looking at severe weather, winter weather, and we're looking at bitterly cold temperatures, so let's start with the radar because the immediate threat is for that flash flooding that we're seeing and you mentioned it. we were together on december 10th talking about the aftermath of that historic tornado outbreak, and you have to imagine those sirens going off because we have had tornado warnings already today, that sparks that fear. we have

inches of rain on the state, causing this flooding in the middle of the state near the town of versaillesis typically one of the states with the fewest natural disasters, is still recovering from the record-breaking tornados that swept through a couple weeks ago. this same system, it's causing major snow and flight cancellations in other parts of the midwest as well. in colorado, thousands could be without homes after a devastating wildfire ripped through boulder county. the fire which is uncharacteristic for this time of year was fueled by strong winds and dry conditions from months-long drought, not to mention warm temperatures. thousands forced to evacuate the area. nbc's steve patterson has one family's shocking story of how the fire hit while they were with their kids at a chuck e. cheese. >> reporter: out the window, the smoke was thickening. >> this is crazy. this is chuck e. cheese. >> reporter: as jason fletcher, in colorado for the holidays, shot this video, he was at a chuck e. cheese with his wife and family. >> i saw flames and that's when i yelled, flames. i see fire. >> rep

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giving a detailed account of the last hours of the world war noted that the peace treaty signed it versailles in 1919 was now in shreds. quote a germany humble to the dust has rubbed the dirt out of her eyes and flung it in former enemy faces. today the reich has more german-speaking territory in europe than she had before 1914 a germany disarmed to the stage of military impotence is again the best armed nation in the world. thousands of rifle carrying veterans took to the streets not to commemorate the armistice but to demand that the government of france prepared a defend itself against the german invasion that many frenchmen then saw as inevitable. and they were right us in a year later on september 1 1939 germany invaded poland and world war ii began. were related military and civilian casualties. exceeded 50 million that's two and a half times the total of world war. i where were two was and remains the deadliest war in history? armistice day became veterans day in 1954 when congress decided that the day should honor all veterans not the moment that ended world war i when i was growing u

president woodrow wilson and senate majority leader henry cabot lodge over ratification of the 1919 versailles treaty, which ended world war ii. my name is gavin kleespies and i am the director of programs exhibitions and community partnerships for the massachusetts historical society, and i'm happy to welcome you to this evening's program. this is our second in-person program since march of 2020. tonight we'll hear about one of the most consequential battles in american diplomatic history

president woodrow wilson and senate majority leader henry cabot lodge over ratification of the 1919 versailles treaty which ended world war i and created the league of nations. find a full schedule on your program guide or visit cspan dot org slash history. and now it's time for lectures and history and opportunity for you to join students in college classrooms on topics ranging from the american revolution tonight 11 next saint joseph's university professor katherine sibley teaches a class about african-american women who were writers and artists during the early civil rights era. thank you so much for joining my class today at saint joseph's university. today. we're going to explore five women who use their writing and singing to create a better future for black people in our country polymari billie holiday lorraine hansberry, nina simone and anne moody. why choose these five women you may ask as writers their work highlights a significant element of the civil rights movement, and it also broadens the more well-known narrative on the key participants from this time. some of these women parti

got some of the details -- they are actually seizing land where evergrande had planned to build a versailleike mansion, a castle. evergrande is saying if there is any residual value left over on those assets that it will prioritize -- some offshore affairs. however, i think more brought-- more broadly, the bondholders, $20 million -- $20 billion in offshore bonds there will be more of these types of claims that come out of the would and from a bondholders point of view, ultima you want all of those assets being rooted in the broader restructuring rather than going to pay off creditors. haslinda: rebecca, interns and bond payments, who was looking for february -- in terms of bond payments? there was a slew of payments due in january. rebecca: well, february does look a little bit easier for some of china's most stressed developers. there are bond dealers just under 500 millions for maturities in various coupons. it does look like we may see less stress events in february and, of course, on the other hand we have also seen an improvement in asset sales and alternative access to channels of fu

it recounts the struggle between wilson and henry cabot lodge over the 1919 versailles treaty, which ended world war i and created the league of nations. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturday on c-span2. and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. >> c-spanshop.org is c-span's collection of apparel, books, home decor, and accessories. there's something for every c-span fan, and every purchase helps support our nonprofit operations. shop now or any time at c-spanshop.org. >>> and now, the u.s. supreme court hears oral argument in a case challenging a texas death row inmate's religious rights. this is about 90 minutes. >> we'll hear argument next today in case 215592, ramirez versus collier. mr. kretzer. >> mr. chief justice and may it please the court. across texas's 572 executions

president woodrow wilson and senate majority leader henry cabot lodge over ratification of the 1919 versailles treaty which ended world war i and created the league of nations. find a full schedule on your program guide or visit cspan dot org slash history. and now it's time for lectures and history and opportunity for you to join students in college classrooms on topics ranging from the american revolution tonight 11 next saint joseph's university professor katherine sibley teaches a class about african-american women who were writers and artists during the early civil rights era. thank you so much for joining

it recounts the struggle between wilson and the senate majority leader over the 1919 versailles treaty world war i and created the league of nations. exploring the american story. watch american history tv, saturday on c-span2. find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at c-span.org/history. >>

it recounts the struggles between woodrow wilson and senate majority leader lodge over the 1919 versaillesh ended world war i and created the league of nations. watch american history tv every weekend and find a full schedule on your program guide. then watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. ♪ >> can human genes be patented and owned? george contrary stack -- tackles that sentence. sunday, the professor tells a story of the 2013 supreme court chase that challenged biotech company's rights to patent human genes. >> i didn't think the case had a huge chance of success when it was first brought, but as it rolled on year after years through different appeals and machinations, it became increasingly clear there was something important going on here. by the time and got to the supreme court, i knew this was going to be a very important landmark case and one that i definitely wanted to tell the story of. >> the author of the genome defense, sunday night on q and a. you can listen to all of our q&a and other podcasts on our c-span now a -- app. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are