PENSACOLA, Fla. — A sheriff in the Florida Panhandle says six to eight people were involved in the slaying of a wealthy Florida couple known for adopting 12 children with developmental disabilities and other problems.
Escambia County Sh…
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Largest Skinny Dip Across North America: 317 Naked People Set Record In The Hamptons
July 13th, 2009 |
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In an attempt to help set a record, 317 people got naked and splashed in a giant swimming pool over the weekend at White Tail Resort.
The people at the nudist resort in Southampton County were part of what’s billed as “The Largest Skinny Dip …
Dean Baker: The Washington Post (a.k.a. Fox on 15th Street) Wants 15 Million People to Be Unemployed
July 12th, 2009 |
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The Washington Post, which gained worldwide fame for its effort to sell corporate lobbyists access to its reporters and Obama administration officials, wants 15 million…
China Earthquake Displaces 250,000 People
July 11th, 2009 |
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GUANTUNXIANG, China — Thousands camped in tents in southwestern China on Saturday after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake destroyed thousands of homes, killed one person and injured 320, state media reported.
At the epicenter of Thursday’s qua…
Swine Flu Kills People Whose Bodies Are Highly Stressed
July 10th, 2009 |
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The World Health Organization states:The majority of those who died were pregnant, had asthma, diabetes or other chronic diseases…Moreover, extremely obese people are susceptible. As Bloomberg writes:Scientists don’t yet know whether extremely ove…
Ron Paul: “The American People Are Going to Demand … Honest Money – It’s Happened Many Times in History”
July 9th, 2009 |
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Ron Paul said: When we discover what’s really going on, I think the American people are going to demand the next step, they’re going to demand honest money – it’s happened many times in history.From a brief study of the history of currency, I t…
July 2, 1982: Up, Up and Away With 42 Balloons
July 2nd, 2009 |
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1982: Frustrated in his dream of becoming an Air Force pilot, a southern California truck driver gets himself airborne anyway with the help of a lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. Airborne, as in 16,000 feet worth of airborne.
Poor eyesight put the kibosh on Larry Walters‘ top-gun dreams, but the man was determined to [...]
July 1: A Television Trifecta
July 1st, 2009 |
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July 1: It’s a triple anniversary, a signal day in television history. The Federal Communications Commission was established this day in 1934. At the FCC’s behest, the NTSC television standard went into effect exactly seven years later. And that same day, a New York City station telecast the first legal TV commercial.
1934: The Federal Communications [...]
June 25, 1876: Was Custer Outgunned at Little Bighorn?
June 25th, 2009 |
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1876: An advance regiment of cavalrymen under the command of George Armstrong Custer is killed to a man on a sun-parched ridge near the Little Bighorn River by a combined force of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
Tactical blunders and faulty intelligence work contributed heavily to one of the worst defeats ever sustained by the [...]
June 24, 1993: Concert Goes Live on NetJune 24, 2000: President Goes Live on Net
June 24th, 2009 |
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June 24: It’s the anniversary of two internet milestones: The geek band Severe Tire Damage performs the first live net concert on this date in 1993, and exactly seven years later Bill Clinton delivers the president’s weekend “radio address” by web for the first time.
1993: The internet was moving from military to mainstream, and [...]
June 19, 1964: Twilight Zone Fades Into Twilight Zone
June 19th, 2009 |
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1964: The final episode of the iconic thriller anthology, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, airs on CBS after a five-season run.
Though recognized to this day as a giant of science fiction, horror and suspense, Serling and his creative output could easily have been snuffed out by the Japanese army during World War II. The New [...]
June 16, 1959: George Reeves, Superman, Felled by Speeding Bullet
June 16th, 2009 |
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1959: Los Angeles police arrive at the home of 45-year-old actor George Reeves, famous for his role as TV’s Superman, and find him naked and dead of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled as a suicide, Reeves’ death inspires a series of conspiracy theories and the interpretive biopic Hollywoodland, as well as [...]