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All right, welcome to Arts and Ideas in the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore.
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This is day number five of our new school year.
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This day saw the first full formal school meeting using school meeting teams,
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and I think it went very well.
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We had a number of items on the agenda, some rule approvals and changes
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related to some COVID-19, in particular the ability to bring out electronic devices outside,
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which was a little bit of an oversight on our part.
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We also got approval for various things, including, most importantly, this podcast.
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We also got ourselves J.C. Clerk, Declan.
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He stepped up and looks really promising for a great J.C. Clerk for the month of September.
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All right, the day is a little on the cold side, but it's very pleasant.
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Just hanging out here underneath the tent, another beautiful, gorgeous day.
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I don't know if you can hear it, but there's some weed whacking going on.
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It's weed whacking to make the gaga bit actually accessible for playing gaga.
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All right, let's see, what else happened?
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Well, let's see, tomorrow we've got an exciting online activity.
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If you're there, Josh, what do we got going on tomorrow?
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Well, thanks, James.
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So, yes, tomorrow we are going to have the first history seminar lecture of the year.
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This is an online activity that I am organizing based around my historical obsession with the bicycle.
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So over the summer we had some lectures and discussions about bicycle history.
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And on deck for tomorrow is going to be a discussion of the introduction of the pedal bicycle to America.
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So we're going to talk a little bit about the context of that exciting import from France of the bicycle
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and a little bit about the American context of what was going on in the middle of the 19th century in the United States.
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So talk about every historian's favorite topic, the American Civil War.
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If you can, please show up at 1 p.m. on our Discord.
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I believe there will also be a little bit on Revolution Haiti.
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I completely forgot to mention the highlight of tomorrow's lecture,
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which is actually one of the participants over the summer of our history seminar is going to be doing their first presentation.
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So Declan is going to give a -- to start off our meeting is going to give a presentation on the Haitian Revolution.
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We had previously talked about the American, the French, and the sort of revolutions in the Spanish colonies
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and talked a little bit about the Haitian Revolution.
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Declan has done more research and put together a presentation about what his findings are.
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Cool.
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All right.
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So that seems like an exciting thing to check out tomorrow.
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What was it at 1 p.m.?
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It is starting at 1 p.m.
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And it will be posted on Discord?
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The discussion will probably be happening there.
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We have a text channel in Discord.
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However, we are going to be -- and there will be a link, but I think it's going to be a Zoom link to do our video chat and presentation.
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So a little bit complicated in terms of getting online, but it has proven to be the most successful combination so far.
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All right.
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Sounds great.
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So that's here for day five of Arts and Ideas.
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Looking forward to day six.
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And really, it's a beautiful day.
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Good day to be outside.
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Hope to see you all around again soon.
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Bye-bye.