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January 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

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A 23-year-old mother was lauded as a ‘hero’ and ‘wonder woman’ for using her body to shield her infant daughter from a hail storm

It all happened when Fiona Simpson was driving back from a coffeeshop with her daughter and grandmother. “I wasn’t driving very fast because I couldn’t see very well… I couldn’t see in front of me, I couldn’t even see the line on the road,” Simpson told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Seeing the storm aggravating, she pulled over her vehicle to wait until it becomes a little favourable to drive again. However, it only escalated and it started to hail — blowing out a back-seat window of her car and putting her infant in danger, she informed The Project.

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January 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

“The Most Perfectly Developed Man in the World” – 1906

On January 16, 1904, the first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The competition was promoted by Bernarr Macfadden, the publisher of the original bodybuilding magazines such as Health & Strength. The winner was Al Treloar, who was declared “The Most Perfectly Developed Man in the World”.

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January 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

The KKK used to run a youth group called the Klu Klux Kiddies

They were the children of the Ku Klux Klan, and their baptism included more than a promise to God. Along with their vows to raise religious children, their parents dedicated their children to “the principles and ideals of Americanism.” To an outsider, that promise might sound like a patriotic one. But to the KKK, it meant dedicating the children to a lifetime upholding segregation, bigotry, and the violent suppression of anyone who was not a white Protestant.

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January 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

RIP Jerry

“It was late at night. I had just gotten off of work making airplane parts near LAX. I went to a nearby bus stop and I don’t remember what happened after that. I woke up in a hospital bed with half my face gone. I didn’t know what to think because I had no idea what had happened.

I didn’t become an angry person after I found out that I’d been shot. There wasn’t anything that I could do. I had accepted what happened and I’ve been on these streets ever since. It can be tough out here, but I’m still getting around. I try not to hang out here on Skid Row much because of all the crime and drugs. People try to steal from me, so I come to do my business and leave.

I don’t have anger in me. What good would that do me? What’s done is done. I can’t control any of that, so I try to focus on the things that I can control. I’m just grateful to be alive. I’m gonna keep going.”

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January 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

Johnny Cash Shaking Hands with Glen Sherley, Folsom Prison, 1968

Johnny Cash shakes hands with Glen Sherley, the inmate who wrote and recorded the song “Greystone Chapel” that Cash performed during his famous Folsom Prison concert. The previous evening a copy of Sherley’s recording made its way into the hands of the country legend by way of a Folsom minister. As soon as Johnny Cash heard it he stayed up all night, learning the song.

The night before I was going to record at Folsom prison, I got to the motel and a preacher friend of mine brought me a tape of a song called “Greystone Chapel.” He said a convict had written it about the chapel at Folsom. I listened to it one time and I said, “I’ve got to do this in the show tomorrow.” So I stayed up and learned it, and the next day the preacher had him in the front row. I announced, “This song was written by Glen Sherley.” It was a terrible, terrible thing to point him out among all those cons, but I didn’t think about that then. Everybody just had a fit, screaming and carrying on.

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January 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

Eduard Bloch

Eduard Bloch, Hitler’s childhood doctor, and a Jew. When Hitler’s mother couldn’t afford cancer treatment, Bloch reduced his prices. Teenage Adolf declared undying gratitude, and when Austria was annexed, Hitler kept his word and granted the doctor special protection by the Gestapo

Even after the two had parted ways after Klara’s death, Adolf continued to keep in touch with Bloch by sending him postcards. Some of those were even personally hand-painted by Adolf himself.

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January 8, 2021 Leave a Comment

lady guitar prison

(photo: Shane Speal)

“Lady”, an electric guitar built illegally by an inmate in a Pennsylvania State prison

This guitar came to life inside the 126-year-old jail that is so massive, it’s known locally as “The Wall.” Junior Ben had a broken guitar neck to start with. The heavy body was hand-carved from Pennsylvanian walnut and oak with white-painted binding. The hand-stamped brass truss rod cover has the word, “LADY,” a tribute to B.B. King’s “Lucille.”

All the wiring was smuggled in from the prison shops or pulled out of headphone jacks. All the knobs are spaced very closely together, a necessary step in order to keep wiring to a minimum.

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January 7, 2021 Leave a Comment

During the four years of the Civil War, Ft. Stevens was the closest the confederates got to Washington. During the siege on the US Capitol building, supporters of Donald Trump paraded the confederate battle flag through the Capitol.

The portrait on the wall is of 19th century Vermont Senator Justin Morrill, one of the founders of the Republican Party. After the Civil War, he served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, requiring southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment before they’d be readmitted into the United States.

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January 6, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Former NFL DB Myron Rolle now treating COVID-19 as a neurosurgery resident

He earned his bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science in just 2 1/2 years, he earned one of the 32 Rhodes Scholarships awarded every year, and he took a year off from football after the 2008 season to study at Oxford University and earn a Masters of Science Degree in Medical Anthropology. Selected by the Titans in the sixth round of the 2010 draft. In 2017, Rolle was accepted into the Harvard Medical School neurosurgery program.

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January 5, 2021 Leave a Comment

B-17 Ball Turret Gunner

While anyone who flew on a B-17 bomber during World War II had a pretty dangerous job, the ball turret gunner was undoubtedly put in the most-precarious position.

“You literally had your knees up to your chest and in between you had the machine guns,” said Gary Lewi, spokesman for the American Airpower Museum based at Republic Airport. “You really had to have pretty tough nerves to be in there.”

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