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APPRAISER: Today, you brought us a Carnegie Medal awarded

to your grandfather.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: How did he win this medal?

GUEST: In 1927, he was driving down the road in northern

Iowa, and he happened to see a bunch of people standing in a field for some reason.

And when he went over, he found that a baby had fallen down a well.

And the baby had fallen down, I believe, ten or 15 feet to a ledge.

And the other people there were either too big or not inclined to go down there, because

the walls were collapsing as they were standing around it.

My grandfather stood five feet three inches tall, so he was able to strip down to just

about his underwear, I suppose, and they tied a rope around him, and sent him down the well.

In the meantime, that baby had slipped down another...

I believe it was another 30 feet down onto another ledge, right beside where the water

was.

So Grandpa had to go down almost 40, 50 feet to get to that baby.

Tied a rope around him.

They hauled the baby back up safely, squalling all the way, of course.

Grandpa said the most scared he was was down at the bottom of that well, because it was

caving in.

Looking at that hole up there, he said it was just the size of a quarter.

They finally pulled him out, and the baby was saved.

GUEST: So he essentially risked his life to save

the baby's life.

APPRAISER: Yeah, most definitely.

GUEST: It was several years later when the baby's

mother, Mrs. Venema, heard about the Carnegie Medal for Heroism, and asked his permission

to put him in for this medal, which she did.

And it took about a four-year process total for him to actually receive the Carnegie Medal.

APPRAISER: He rescued the 18-month-old in 1927, and he

received the medal in 1931, this medal.

GUEST: Right, yes.

APPRAISER: Did he receive anything else?

GUEST: With this, kind of the height of the Depression,

he received a cashier's check for $1,000.

I remember him saying when he got the check, he took it to the bank to deposit it, and

all the tellers passed it around and looked at it, because they'd never seen a check that

big before.

APPRAISER: Andrew Carnegie is known by many faces.

Of course he was a steel magnate.

He came over from Scotland, made his fortune.

He was also considered by some to be one of the major members of the Gilded Age.

But nonetheless, very, very wealthy, largely thanks to his steel company, which he ended

up selling to J.P. Morgan.

But there was another side to Andrew Carnegie.

He was a tremendous philanthropist.

He gave a lot of money to institutions, largely for education.

But he was always intrigued by the concept of heroism.

There was a tremendous disaster in Harwick, Pennsylvania.

You know, it's coal mining country, near Pittsburgh.

In 1904, there was an explosion which killed 181 people, including two people, a mining

engineer and a responder, a rescuer, who went to try to save these people, and they died.

So, in response to this, for the two people who died, he established the Carnegie Hero

Fund Commission.

And their entire mission is to recognize and reward civilians who commit extraordinary

acts of heroism.

GUEST: Oh.

APPRAISER: So from 1904 to 2014, the Carnegie Foundation

has awarded 9,600 medals to heroes, and they've also awarded over $35 million in grants.

And you see this has been awarded to Edward Malloy.

So, Carnegie's definition of a hero-- a civilian who knowingly risks his or her own life to

an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the life of another person.

So this was a lifelong passion for him.

It's said by many to be the only fund that he ever set up on his own out of his own heart.

There's also a phrase that goes around this bronze medal, and it says, "Greater love hath

no man than this-- that a man lay down his life for his friends."

This is your grandfather, correct?

This is Mr. Malloy.

GUEST: Yep.

APPRAISER: This is your father?

GUEST: Yep.

APPRAISER: This is...

GUEST: Donald Venema.

APPRAISER: And he was the 18-month-old who was rescued.

J. and E. Caldwell made this medal, and they were considered by many to be equal to Tiffany

in being able to produce high-level silver and bronze products.

You can't find one for sale.

As you might imagine, why would a hero want to sell, or why would the family of a hero

want to sell the medal?

But in thinking about what it might cost to reproduce a medal in bronze today, I would

probably insure it for about $4,000.

GUEST: Oh, okay, all right.

APPRAISER: But really, at the end of the day, you cannot

put a price on heroism.

GUEST: Yeah, I can't imagine the circumstances that

I would sell that medal.

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Deputy Secretary Sullivan At Reception in Support of United States' Bid to Host 2023 World's Fair - Duration: 10:39.

MS NAUERT: Hi.

Good afternoon.

Welcome, everyone, to the State Department.

And if I may have your attention for just a moment, please.

Isn't this such a beautiful center?

It is incredible.

Often, I walk through this center on my way in to work and it's pretty sparsely populated,

so it's wonderful to see so many people in here this afternoon.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

I want to extend a special welcome to our many distinguished guests, including the Diplomatic

Corps and those from the great state of Minnesota.

Where are all the Minnesotans here?

(Applause.)

Raise your hand if you're from Minnesota.

You're from Minnesota, you're from Minnesota, you're from – my husband's from Minnesota.

(Laughter.)

We have a lot of great folks there.

Do you all know how nice Minnesotans are?

You've heard it?

You've heard "Minnesota nice?"

Let me tell you how nice these folks are.

I would go running sometimes in Minnesota with my husband in the middle of winter – January,

February – and we'd be on along for a run, and it's maybe 15 degrees outside,

Fahrenheit, and people would smile and they would say hello at you.

In the middle of winter while you're running.

So we hope that you will consider Minnesota.

We are big fans of it certainly here at the State Department.

I would like to acknowledge the U.S. Diplomacy Center for allowing us to use this space today.

It is a beautiful pavilion.

It was completed last January and funded with private donations as part of a private-public

partnership.

It will be home to the first museum and educational center telling the story of U.S. diplomacy

and also American's diplomats.

We're here today to highlight the strong national support enjoyed by Minnesota-USA

bid to host Expo 2023 and to inspire member-states of the Bureau of International Expositions

to vote for the U.S. bid on November the 15th.

Please, mark your calendars.

We would love your vote.

(Applause.)

Thank you.

The Minnesota-USA project is private-public partnership that started more than two years

ago and is a part of our global campaign to bring a World's Fair back to the United

States.

We would love to see that.

I would like to thank the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy

for coordinating the State Department's efforts and putting today's event together.

I know they have been hard at work at this.

An initiative of this magnitude requires a true champion to advocate on its behalf.

Our Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan is here, and he has embraced this task and

is working tirelessly to mobilize not only the department but the entire U.S.

Government in support of the Minnesota-USA bid.

Deputy Secretary Sullivan is a native of Boston with decades of experience in both private

legal practice and public service, including positions at the Defense Department and also

Commerce Department.

His ties to diplomacy and the State Department started long before he was sworn in as deputy

secretary.

His uncle served as a Foreign Service officer for more than 30 years, and we all know how

important our Foreign Service officers are to the work that we do here every day.

As Deputy Secretary of State, he serves as principal advisor to Secretary Tillerson,

providing guidance and firsthand assistance to the Secretary in the formulation of conduct

of U.S. foreign policy.

We're honored that he is with us here today and that he is such a strong advocate for

Minnesota-USA's bid to host Expo 2023.

Please join me in welcoming Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, and he is a terrific

guy if you've not had a chance to meet him.

(Applause.)

Sir.

Thank you.

DEPUTY SECRETARY SULLIVAN: Thank you, Heather, for that kind introduction.

I have one qualification to Heather's remarks: I am from Boston and grew up as a hockey player,

a hockey coach, a hockey fan, so I've spent a lot of time both in my youth and then when

I was coaching my children's youth hockey teams in Minnesota – Brainerd, Red Wing,

Winona, Rochester – I've been all over the state, been in many of your hockey rinks,

tournaments, summer hockey camps, and Minnesotans, as Heather said, are just the most wonderful,

sweetest persons, except when they hop over the boards to take a shift in a hockey game

and then they're pretty nasty.

(Laughter.)

So I can speak from personal experience on that.

But I'm delighted to see so many people here to support this bid and all of those

who have played an instrumental role in the United States bid for Expo 2023.

I want to recognize the foreign diplomatic corps are present this afternoon, as many

of the foreign ambassadors who are here.

Thanks to all of you for being here and for standing behind this important cause.

Four months ago, I met with many of you at the department as one of my first public appearances

as Deputy Secretary of State, at which time I spoke about the United States initial efforts

to bring the World's Fair back here to our country.

I'm thrilled to report that since that time, the U.S. proposal has advanced to the final

round.

Our teams have been very busy highlighting why the United States, and more particularly

Minnesota, is the ideal location with the perfect theme for that state – health and

wellness – to host the World's Fair or Expo in 2023.

As Heather mentioned, the expo is a public-private partnership, one that's driven by grassroots

efforts of the Minnesota World's Fair Bid Committee under the dedicated leadership of

the committee president and chief executive officer, Mark Ritchie.

Thank you, Mark, for all your work.

Many of you know Mark, who is the former Minnesota secretary of state, and in a moment he'll

provide us with the latest update on the bid, including details on the recent announcement

of the proposed expo site in Minnesota.

Before Mark comes up here, I'd like to highlight the impressive work done thus far to effectively

mobilize international support for this important commercial and diplomatic initiative.

I want to thank our terrific Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tom Shannon, who himself

is a Minnesota native, and his colleagues from the regional bureaus present here today

for their diplomatic engagement in support of the expo.

Many have moved mountains to get us here to this point.

In May, Congress passed legislation by unanimous consent authorizing the United States to rejoin

the Bureau of International Expositions, or BIE, which is the Paris-based organization

that governs participation in the World's Fair.

Secretary Tillerson then signed the treaty accession documents that were deposited in

Paris.

Thank you to the Minnesota congressional delegation, as well as the leaders of the House Foreign

Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for getting this legislation passed.

You'll hear later in the program from two members of the Minnesota delegation that are

with us today: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and U.S. Representative Tom Emmer.

Thanks to all of you for your help in getting us to where we are today.

In June, the Bureau of International Exposition's general assembly voted to advance the U.S.

bid to the final round that will be held in Paris on November 15th.

Earlier this month, the United States once again became a voting member of the Bureau

of International Expositions, and I look forward personally to traveling to Paris next month

to cast the U.S. vote in support of this expo, the first in more than 15 years.

(Applause.)

My colleagues in the United States and around the world, including my former colleagues

and friends from the Department of Commerce, have spoken to you and representatives in

your capital about the Minnesota-USA bid.

There is strong federal support for this public-private partnership in what would be the first World's

Fair that'd take place in the United States in almost 40 years.

BIE delegates have attended U.S.-hosted expo events in Paris, Brussels, and London, and

many of your consuls general in the United States have attended expo events in Minnesota

and Chicago as well.

I understand that several of you will join Deputy Chief of Protocol Cam Henderson in

the Office of the Chief of Protocol's Experience America trip to Minnesota in the near future.

For those ambassadors or charges who have not yet signed up for the trip, please speak

with protocol today before you leave.

It's not too late to join.

We want you to experience Minnesota as we seek to bring the world there in 2023.

We can all agree that there's something inspiring about a World's Fair, a time when

the world comes together to celebrate, explore, and discover the promises and opportunities

of new technologies and partnerships; in this case, to focus on the increasingly important

areas of health and wellness.

Minnesota, home to some amazing medical technology companies and a region regularly ranked as

one of the healthiest metropolitan regions as a – regions in the country, is an ideal

location for such an expo.

The Smithsonian's American History Museum even included Minnesota's Medical Alley

as one of the featured regions in their current exhibition, Places of Innovation.

I still fondly remember my experience as a child when my parents took me to the New York

World's Fair in Queens in 1964.

For those of you who have not been to the Queens Museum in New York City, there's

a great World's Fair exhibit that captures that time and experience through a fantastic

scale model of the city.

It's really something to see.

If you haven't been to a World's Fair yet – and I stress "yet" – I hope

that we will have the opportunity to come together in Minnesota in 2023 for the Healthy

People, Healthy Planet Expo.

However, in order for that to happen, we need your support, and we need your vote on November

15 in Paris at the BIE general assembly.

So again, I thank you all for coming this afternoon and appreciate your ongoing efforts

to make the 2023 expo in Minnesota a reality.

Thanks very much.

(Applause.)

For more infomation >> Deputy Secretary Sullivan At Reception in Support of United States' Bid to Host 2023 World's Fair - Duration: 10:39.

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How well you know American states? GuessWhat - Duration: 1:07.

So, how much do you know about USA?

Welcome to Guess What. So rules are simple you'll

get 10 seconds to answer the question. And 10 seconds because

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YEAH! So here's your question

How many states in the United States have letters

'IN' consecutively in their name?

Your options are

A : Six (6)

B: Nine (9)

c : Eleven (11)

or d : Fourteen (14)

Your time starts now!

Time's up! and here's your correct answer.

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