Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | Appleton (#702)
[Latest Airdate: April 26, 2018]
[Original Airdate: January 18, 2018]
As John said, if the Fox Valley were a state, Appleton would be the capital. Not only is it the largest of the cities in the Fox Valley, Appleton's a large city - period! Energetic, busy, vibrant, loaded with friendly, smart people - it's our kind of place.
This is the first - and only - time we'll ever say, John got to: shoot the Bratzooka at a Timber Rattlers baseball game; fence with a medieval long sword champion; sit in a 3 million dollar private jet; turn and open a 100 year Fox Lock by hand, all by himself!
Yes, John gets special access so you may not get to do those things, but you can eat and marvel like John did at Lombardi's Restaurant. You can shop at Eco Candle and Urban Evolutions. You can stroll the beautiful grounds of Lawrence University, have Henry shine your shoes, and eat the best comfort food ever at the Cozy Corner Café. And, of course, at the Houdini Museum at the Castle, everyone can escape (Get it? Escape? Like Houdini... Ha!).
From now on, in the Around the Corner book, A is for Appleton!
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Hong Kong in the Shadow of China with Richard Bush
Unresolved questions about Hong Kong’s political future, long hidden beneath the surface of the territory’s bustling commercial activity, burst to the forefront in 2014 in response to proposed electoral reforms. Since then the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong has developed into a significant challenge to Beijing’s vision for the former British colony. The Umbrella Movement, the 2015 “Fishball Revolution,” and the recent LegCo oath-taking controversy, which have drawn a lot of media attention, mark the entry of a new generation of political actors, more idealistic and committed to the realization of full electoral democracy than their elders; they also reflect popular resentment long in the making. Since the territory’s reversion to China almost 20 years ago (in 1997), economic inequality has grown, community-police relations have deteriorated, and some worry that they are losing control of their own cultural and political destiny.
An expert on China’s relations with its neighbors, Richard Bush is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and is director of its Center for East Asia Policy Studies. In his new book, Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan, Dr. Bush examines both the immediate and long term causes of Hong Kong’s demonstrations, and analyzes the emergence of a pro-democracy movement galvanized by millennials’ activism. He explores the options available to Hong Kong and China, as well as what they must do to ensure both economic competitiveness and good governance. On December 7, 2016, Dr. Bush discussed his book, the Hong Kong protests, and their implications for U.S policy with the National Committee in New York City.
Bio:
Richard Bush is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, director of its Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and holder of the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He joined Brookings in 2002, after serving almost five years as the chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the mechanism through which the United States Government conducts relations with Taiwan in the absence of diplomatic relations.
Dr. Bush began his career in 1977 with the China Council of the Asia Society. From July 1983 to June 1995, he worked on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, first on the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs (chair, Steve Solarz), and then the full committee (chair, Lee Hamilton). In July 1995, he became national intelligence officer for East Asia and a member of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which coordinates the analytic work of the intelligence committee. He left the NIC in September 1997 to become head of the AIT.
Dr. Bush received his undergraduate education at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He did his graduate work in political science at Columbia University, receiving an M.A. in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1978. He is the author of a number of articles on U.S. relations with China and Taiwan, as well as several books, including At Cross Purposes (2004), a book of essays on the history of America’s relations with Taiwan; Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait (2005); Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations (2010); and Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations (2013). He is also the co-author of A War Like No Other: The Truth About China’s Challenge to America (2007).
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The Hearthstone Historic House Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin Drone Video
The Hearthstone Historic House Museum is a historic home in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States that has been converted into a museum. On September 30, 1882, it became the first residence in the US powered by a centrally located hydroelectric station using the Edison system.
At that time, the house was the residence of Henry James Rogers, a paper company executive and entrepreneur. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1974. The house was previously known as the Henry J. Rogers House.
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Summary of Significance
The Henry J. and Cremora Rogers House is significant at the national level in the area of Engineering
as the first house in the United States to be incandescently illuminated by a hydroelectric powered
Western Edison Electric Light Company dynamo power station and an Edison Electric System. It
remains a rare glimpse into the early techniques used in residential electrification. The first power
station in the United States became operational twenty-six days earlier on Pearl Street in New York
City, but it was powered by steam.
The house is also significant at the statewide level as an exceptional example of Queen Anne style
residential architecture. This house is one of the few residences in the state exhibiting an elite level of
exterior design and richness of interior design and finishes. This house shares company with other
exceptional Queen Anne homes in Wisconsin that have already been listed in the National Register at
the statewide level of significance
including the Frank Chenoweth House in Monroe, Green County;
the Shearer-Cristy House in Waupaca, Waupaca County; and the Havilah Babcock House in Neenah, Winnebago County, which was also designed by architect William Waters.
And finally, the house is locally significant for its association with Henry J. Rogers, an entrepreneur
and visionary who not only brought electrification technology to Wisconsin but shaped the city of
Appleton through his paper mills, his work bringing gas and water services to the citizens of Appleton, and his contributions to establishing an electric street railway to the city. Henry Rogers lived in the
house during the time he made his contributions in manufacturing and by establishing the first
hydroelectric power station to be used in residential electrification; his house being the first residence
to benefit from this new source of power.
Period of Significance
The period of significance is 1881 through 1891. The first date is the year in which the house was
built and the period of significance ends in 1891, the year in which the Rogers family sold the house.
The house was electrified in 1882. The Rogers house retains an extremely high degree of integrity
both on the exterior and the interior of the building.
Brief History of Appleton, Wisconsin
A more developed history of the city of Appleton is included in the Appleton Intensive Survey Report
completed in 1992, a copy of which is available at the Historic Preservation-Public History Division of
the Wisconsin Historical Society. What follows is a history of the community in the context of how it
relates to this house and to Henry Rogers.
Outagamie County was officially formed on February 17, 1851, with land set apart from Brown
County. Outagamie County is relatively flat and in 1850 was heavily timbered with maple, elm, ash,
and hickory. In 1853, the population numbered nearly 4,000 settlers who had migrated from New
England and New York. Several rivers intersect the county: the Fox River to the southeast, the Wolf
River to the west, and Duck Creek to the northeast. The Fox River played an important role in the
development of Appleton as a manufacturing center.
Prior to the formation of Outagamie County, Amos A. Lawrence made a generous donation of $10,000
to the Wisconsin Methodist Episcopal Conference in 184 7 for the building of a university. The
monies were contingent upon the Methodist Church raising a matching amount.3 The fundraising
efforts of the church were successful and the incorporation of The Lawrence Institute of Wisconsin
took place on January 17, 1847. The site selected for the university was nearly in the center of the
Green Bay Mission District of the Methodist Church on the Fox River between Lake Winnebago and
Green Bay. The land was owned by Amos A. Lawrence. The History of Northern Wisconsin,
published in 1881, stated: It is doubtful whether there ever would have been an Appleton had there not
been a University. Construction of the university began on July 3, 1859, with the building of the preparatory building. Prior to the establishment of the university, there had only been one settler who
located in the area of what would become Appleton. 4
The Appleton Village Plat was laid out in 1848 by Elder Sampson, Reeder Smith, Joel S. Wright and
Henry Blood.
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Historian Franklin Knight of Johns Hopkins University lectured on the history of rum, one of Latin America's most popular spirits.
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British contribution to the Manhattan Project | Wikipedia audio article
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Britain contributed to the Manhattan Project by helping initiate the effort to build the first atomic bombs in the United States during World War II, and helped carry it through to completion in August 1945 by supplying crucial expertise. Following the discovery of nuclear fission in uranium, scientists Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch at the University of Birmingham calculated, in March 1940, that the critical mass of a metallic sphere of pure uranium-235 was as little as 1 to 10 kilograms (2.2 to 22.0 lb), and would explode with the power of thousands of tons of dynamite. The Frisch–Peierls memorandum prompted Britain to create an atomic bomb project, known as Tube Alloys. Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist working in Britain, was instrumental in making the results of the British MAUD Report known in the United States in 1941 by a visit in person. Initially the British project was larger and more advanced, but after the United States entered the war, the American project soon outstripped and dwarfed its British counterpart. The British government then decided to shelve its own nuclear ambitions, and participate in the American project.
In August 1943, the prime minister, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Quebec Agreement, which provided for cooperation between the two countries. The Quebec Agreement established the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust to coordinate the efforts of the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The subsequent Hyde Park Agreement in September 1944 extended this cooperation to the postwar period. A British Mission led by Wallace Akers assisted in the development of gaseous diffusion technology in New York. Britain also produced the powdered nickel required by the gaseous diffusion process. Another mission, led by Oliphant who acted as deputy director at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, assisted with the electromagnetic separation process. As head of the British Mission to the Los Alamos Laboratory, James Chadwick led a multinational team of distinguished scientists that included Sir Geoffrey Taylor, James Tuck, Niels Bohr, Peierls, Frisch, and Klaus Fuchs, who was later revealed to be a Soviet atomic spy. Four members of the British Mission became group leaders at Los Alamos. William Penney observed the bombing of Nagasaki and participated in the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946.
Cooperation ended with the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, known as the McMahon Act, and Ernest Titterton, the last British government employee, left Los Alamos on 12 April 1947. Britain then proceeded with High Explosive Research, its own nuclear weapons programme, and became the third country to test an independently developed nuclear weapon in October 1952.
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With the great inventions of the Industrial Revolution in the 17th century, productivity rose dramatically -- and the innovations behind it spread like wildfire. But not so in education. In those early years, education was controlled by parents, but Horace Mann championed efforts to put education into the hands of state-appointed experts and state-trained teachers. And so, universal public education in America was born. The documentary flashes forward to East Los Angeles, and a modern story of what happened when Jaime Escalante, a gifted math teacher at Garfield High, and the educational excellence he created in the classroom became the basis of the Hollywood movie, Stand and Deliver. Finally, Coulson travels to Seoul, South Korea, where college-bound students eagerly enroll in after school tutoring programs called “Hagwons.” Students and administrators tell us how well it works, and one professor declares he makes more than a million dollars in salary every year.
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When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, statesmen invariably call for a new Bretton Woods to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The very name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry. Benn Steil will bring the saga to life, and talk about some of its lessons for understanding today's central economic issues.
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Pope Leo X | Wikipedia audio article
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Pope Leo X (11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521), born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, was Pope from 9 March 1513 to his death in 1521.The second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of the Florentine Republic, he was elevated to the cardinalate in 1489. Following the death of Pope Julius II, Giovanni was elected pope after securing the backing of the younger members of the Sacred College. Early on in his rule he oversaw the closing sessions of the Fifth Council of the Lateran, but struggled to implement the reforms agreed. In 1517 he led a costly war that succeeded in securing his nephew as Duke of Urbino, but which reduced papal finances.
In Protestant circles, Leo is associated with granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica, a practice that was soon challenged by Martin Luther's 95 Theses, following his visit to Rome in 1511. He refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the demands of what would become the Protestant Reformation, and his Papal Bull of 1520, Exsurge Domine, condemned Martin Luther's condemnatory stance, rendering ongoing communication difficult. Notwithstanding these divisions, he granted establishment to the Oratory of Divine Love.
He borrowed and spent money without circumspection. A significant patron of the arts, upon election Leo is alleged to have said, Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it. Under his reign, progress was made on the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica and artists such as Raphael decorated the Vatican rooms. Leo also reorganised the Roman University, and promoted the study of literature, poetry and antiquities. He died in 1521 and is buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome. He was the last pope not to have been in priestly orders at the time of his election to the papacy.
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Sun Prairie Jazz Fest -- SPHS Jazz I -- Two of 3 videos -- February 15, 2014
Sun Prairie High School Jazz I performs its second of three songs during the performance portion of the Sun Prairie Jazz Fest, an Essentially Ellington Regional Jazz Fest held Feb. 15, 2014 in the Performing Arts Center at Sun Prairie High School, 888 Grove St. SPHS Jazz I Director Steve Sveum also introduces the final SPHS number.
Jazz bands from all over Wisconsin -- including Appleton Xavier, Mount Horeb, Waunakee, New London and Fond du Lac -- participated in the festival, which included jazz instruction from clinicians regarding various instruments.
Slavery and Global Public History Conference: Concluding Roundtable
Saturday, Session 4
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David W. Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University
Anthony Bogues, Director, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Brown University
Marcia Chatelain, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
Martin Hall, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, University of Cape Town
Richard Rabinowitz, President, American History Workshop
Moderator: Roquinaldo Ferreira, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, and Vasco da Gama Associate Professor of Early Modern Portuguese History, Brown University
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Alumni College 2017: Barry Machado's The Presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - An Overview
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