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• Police-involved shooting injures 2 in Lawndale

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  Chicago police officials were investigating a police-involved shooting that left two people wounded in the Lawndale neighborhood this evening. The incident happened at about 9:30 p.m. near the 1800 block of South Pulaski Road and was being investigated by the Independent Review Authority which probes shootings ...
  9 hours ago

• Debtors Prison Slang

  
  Page in History — Authority: 123
  I though this post by CJCairns at History on the Web was interesting because the slang made no sense to me.Heres a sample:17th and 18th Criminal Slang.Buttock & file: Pickpocket-whore.Rats: Public nuisances, i.e drunks, street walkers and stray children.Milkens: Burglars.Autem Divers: Church pickpockets.Rufflers: ...
  4 days ago

• Visord (by Walt Whitman)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 151
  Visord by Walt Whitman A mask, a perpetual disguiser of herself, Concealing her face, concealing her form, Changes and transformations every hour, every moment, Falling upon her even when she sleeps. * * * [from the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass ] To read other Whitman selections in the ...
  5 days ago

• There is a grey thing that lives in the tree-tops (by Stephen Crane)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 151
  Stephen Crane, 1871-1900 There is a grey thing that lives in the tree-tops None know the horror of its sight Save those who meet death in the wilderness But one is enabled to see To see branches move at its passing To hear at times the wail of black laughter And to come often upon mystic places Places where the ...
  6 days ago

• Sinking of the Queen of the Pacific

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 141
  The narrow gauge Pacific Coast Railroad served San Luis Obispo to Los Olivios and connected to steamer service at Port Harford. Photo courtesy Point San Luis Lighthouse KeepersMay 1, 1888The Queen of the Pacific was in trouble. At at 2:45 a.m. the crew notified Captain E. Andrews the vessel was 15 miles from ...
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• The Truth About BMI Body Fat And Health

  
  Weight Loss Tips — Authority: 138
  Though one of the most popular tools used today to determine whether someone is at a healthy weight or not is the BMI, body fat and lean muscle tissue don’t figure into the equation. This has led many experts to…
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• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 11/19/09

  
  Gemini Moon — Authority: 108
  The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. ...
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• Point San Luis Lighthouse

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 141
  Point San Luis Lighthouse Feb. 22, 1894. From the left, oil house, lighthouse, fog horn, residence. Volunteers at the Point San Luis Lighthouse have been working hard to restore their over century old treasure.A story by Tribune reporter David Sneed outlines their efforts to date.The county’s other lighthouse, ...
  1 week ago

• 1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On this date in 1803, the famous German bandit “Schinderhannes” and 19 others of his gang were efficiently guillotined in French-occupied Rhineland. Schinderhannes with mistress Juliana Blasius and their child. As low-born as they come, Johannes Bückler ( English Wikipedia link | German ) hailed from a ...
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• History timeline

  
  Tokyo Five — Authority: 123
  By no ways a complete list, but here is a timeline of some highlights of world history. Japan-related dates are written in red . 1281: Mongolia was conquering most of Asia. As the Mongolian Navy was heading to Japan to invade, a giant typhoon sunk their entire fleet. Thus saving Japan. That typhoon was called ...
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• The Historical Bigfoot

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 162
  Product DescriptionThe Historical Bigfoot covers sightings of Wild Men, Gorillas, Yahoos, and What-Is-It’s, from the early 1800s to the 1940s. Before the term “Bigfoot” was coined to signify an unknown species of North American primate, sightings of towering bipedal apes were reported throughout the continent, ...
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• Sandercock Transfer & Storage

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 141
  Fred Sandercock was part of the mounted party who escorted President William McKinley on his visit to San Luis Obispo.Looking back on names mentioned in the columns of the Tribune and Telegram newspapers the name Sandercock appears early and often. Before the Secret Service assumed lead responsibility for presidential ...
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• Still Crazy (for Velazquez) After All These Years

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 155
  Still Crazy (for Velazquez) After All These Years -1.0 5 2009-11-19 21:12:57 Kevin Callahan Velazquez, Portrait of A Man, the pink in the lower left shows the thinness of the paint, as that is the original ground showing through. The frame is a 17th Century Spanish frame from the collection of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Biographia Literaria - Chapter VIII (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 151
  Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter VIII [of XXII]                                                      [To read other chapters, click here .] The system of Dualism introduced by Des Cartes--Refined first by Spinoza and ...
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• Biographia Literaria - Chapter VII (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 151
  Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter VII [of XXII]                                                      [To read other chapters, click here .] Of the necessary consequences of the Hartleian Theory--Of the original mistake or ...
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• Biographia Literaria - Chapter VI (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 151
  Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter VI [of XXII]                                                      [To read other chapters, click here .] That Hartleys system, as far as it differs from that of Aristotle, is neither ...
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• Biographia Literaria - Chapter V (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 151
  Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter V [of XXII]                                                      [To read other chapters, click here .] On the law of Association-- Its history traced from Aristotle to Hartley. There ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wolves rode icebergs to travel to Falkland Islands, say biologists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 16 (ANI): A team of biologists has solved the mystery contemplated by Charles Darwin in 1835 about how a wolf-like species got on the Falkland Islands, determining that it might have come to the islands on icebergs.When Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in ...
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• Paraskevidekatriaphobia & Friday the 13th superstitions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New York, Nov 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the phobia of fear of the day when it is Friday also and the date is 13th. Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of good or extreme bad luck. In the Gregorian [...]
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• Biographia Literaria - Chapter IV (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 151
  Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter IV [of XXII]                                                 [To read other chapters, click here .] The Lyrical Ballads with the Preface--Mr. Wordsworths earlier poems--On fancy and imagination-- ...
  3 weeks ago

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