Pictures of the United States.

**Daco Celtic** · 05-18-2020, 10:57 PM

**The Lawspeaker** · 05-19-2020, 12:37 AM

Missouri played a significant role in both the pre-history and history of early European settlement of North America. But when it applied for statehood in 1818, it represented the pressing challenges facing the United States. This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As photographs of actual events are sometimes not available, photographs of similar objects and events are used for illustration. The episode relates events that occurred during a period of conflict. All information is provided within historical context and is intended for educational purposes. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

**The Lawspeaker** · 05-31-2020, 07:04 AM

Giant Hubs Episode 4: UPS Worldport - A look behind the scenes of the world’s largest automated package handling facility. What does it take to deliver millions of packages and documents every day right in time? You need a Giant Hub: UPS Worldport in Louisville is a technological marvel. It is the largest automated package handling facility in the world, and the center point of UPS’s worldwide air network. More than 300 flights arrive and depart daily and the hub with its 250 kilometers conveyors has a troughput of 500.000 packages per hour. Roughly two million packages a day increasing to more than four million during the peak season. 10 pm. The night rush hour begins. When frontline supervisor Tyler Sawvell and his crew unload and load the aircrafts on the ground – guys like Terry Rigdon in the general operation center control every flight activity of the cargoplanes. The world’s leading logistics group UPS relys on their one airline. With its 244 aircrafts, UPS Airlines is one of the biggest worldwide. Terry Rigdon’s goal is to get every aircraft with its cargo to their right destination – on schedule. But in this night, bad weather causes a lot of trouble and delays for the whole crew at Worldport. Due to thunderstorms the whole area have been put on an operations ban for 30 minutes. That means the outbound crew are not alowed to work. They can not unload any airplane. So they can’t feed the hub. Are they able to recover lost time to get a very special package with a gastank from triumph motorcycle to his customer in Seattle overnight?

**The Lawspeaker** · 06-10-2020, 03:32 PM

This week in the first of the months Patreon selections we take a look at the tour than put the USN on the map, the voyage of the Great White Fleet.

**The Lawspeaker** · 06-10-2020, 06:50 PM

Economics correspondent Paul Solman profiles Chris Martenson, a former science professional who gave up his large home and high-status job for life in rural Massachusetts. From there he began expressing his deep dissatisfaction with the way the U.S. economy works and garnered a growing following on his website, Peak Prosperity.

**The Lawspeaker** · 06-11-2020, 06:44 PM

The Maple Guild in Island Pond, Vermont produces 1 million bottles of maple syrup each year. It takes about 44 gallons of sap to make just 1 gallon of syrup. The Maple Guild pioneered a method called Steam-Crafting, which speeds up the production process.

**The Lawspeaker** · 06-12-2020, 08:24 PM

Cabot Creamery in Vermont is a 100-year-old creamery that's been awarded the world's best cheese. The cooperative is made up of 800 family farms across New England who send their milk to the Cabot factory to be made into 130 million pounds of cheese a year. They've won awards for their cheddar cheese.