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Lover of animals, movies, and seekers of justice for the innocent. True crime writer and author of The Arkansas Hitchhike Killer: James Waybern "Red" Hall. www.facebook.com/TheArkansasHitchhikeKiller #truecrime #books
If you've never heard of #IzzyCox, give her a listen. She was the queen of murder ballads. I see there's a documentary about her now on YouTube. She was one of a kind. #singer #songs #music #murderballads youtu.be/4WfnDoiVb7k?...
Izzy Cox live : Killer From Hawaii
YouTube video by Izzy Cox
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@lotuswinnielee captures a Green Broadbill taking a bath on a humid day in the mountain forest. #AGoodPlace
Introduction: My name is Lance, I’m a Cherokee artist in South Dakota. I will share my spiritual paintings and works on this account, likes/reposts & follows are much appreciated. 🙏🏼 #art #indigenousart #artistintroduction #native #nativepride #indigenous #native #nativeamerican #painting #acrylic
Eastern Weaver 17cm Sub-Saharan Africa Diet seeds, grains, insects Male weaves a nest made of reeds, they make 20-30 different nests to impress females. they make hundreds of trips to collect the fresh grass as it is soft and east to knot. a single nest could take 15 or weeks to build.
Nothing special to see, just a bird enjoying a bath on a hot summer day. Original post
“The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.” --- Russell Baker, writer, 8/14/1925 - 1/21/2019. #quotations #quoteoftheday #cynicism
Sunflower doesn't care for your rules about where it should grow.
8/13/1859: This was on the cover of Harper's Weekly. The sketch shows wolves devouring the remains of victims of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Militant Mormons had attacked a wagon train from Arkansas, killing approximately 120 men, women, and children. #massacres #history #illustrations
8/13/1896: Butch Cassidy, Elzy Lay, and Bob Meeks robbed the bank in Montpelier, Idaho, escaping with about $7,000 in gold, silver, and currency. The building is the only bank robbed by Cassidy that still stands today. #ButchCassidy #bankrobberies #OldWest #WildWest
The Reader Railroad, aka The "Possum Trot Line," was one of the last steam engine trains in the US. It carried folks on a leisurely 23-mile ride between Reader and Waterloo Arkansas, but I loved her spirited strut in There Will Be Blood. #trains #railroads #locomotives youtu.be/H9tgJkcQecI?...
Reader Railroad Rounds the Bend
YouTube video by ReaderRail
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Close encounter with a group of moose in idaho: #AGoodPlace Source: AccuWeather
Now he wants to use your tax dollars to cover the majority of the almost $1 BILLION price tag of his vanity projects. Another broken promise on your tab. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction
The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.
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“I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.” --- Bernard Manning, comedian, 8/13/1930 – 6/18/2007. #quotations #comedians #birthdays
New bloom for my yard and I can’t remember where I bought this plant. Anyone know what kind of rose mallow this is?
On August 4, 1869, Seth C. Landon took this early photo of a baseball game between The Gunnery (a boarding school founded by Frederick Gunn) and local players from New Milford in Connecticut. No score cards were kept, so the winning team is unknown. #baseball #sports #photos #photography #history
EXCLUSIVE: A family member of a service member currently deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln shared messages with MeidasTouch detailing months without milk, meat arriving rotten, and a deployment with no end in sight.
Rotten Meat, No Milk: Troops Detail Life Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
Text messages shared with MeidasTouch by a family member of a service member currently deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln paint a bleak picture of daily
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Michigan voters sent a clear message: Data center opponents dominated the Aug. 4 primaries, with at least 14 anti data-center candidates defeating pro-data center opponents. The issue is emerging as a powerful political force across party lines.
Michigan Voters Just Sent a Resounding Message About Data Centers - Inside Climate News
In primary races for Congress, the state legislature and attorney general, data center opponents prevailed.
insideclimatenews.org
In 1951, World War II veteran Evan Charles Thomas terrorized greater Los Angeles by randomly shooting women with a .22-caliber rifle. Captured after a regional manhunt, he confessed, was convicted, & sentenced to death in 1954. The case inspired a movie titled The Sniper (1952). #truecrime #sniper
Kitten snuggling a tiny puppy: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
On August 12, 1994, Major League baseball players went on strike over team owners wanting to put a cap on players’ salaries. The strike lasted 232 days. For the 1st time in 90 years, the World Series was canceled. Neither the players’ nor the owners came out ahead. #baseball #sports #WorldSeries
Favorite movie sword fight? Alain Delon vs. Stanley Baker in 1975’s Zorro. I was the weird kid in 7th grade phys ed who, for a writing assignment, said my favorite sport was fencing. My husband tried to impress me with his past experience working at Universal Fencing. #sports #fencing #swordplay
“Chivalry may not be dead, but it’s certainly on the critical list.” --- George Hamilton, actor, 8/12/1939 - . #quotations #birthdays
This is Motley. He has been working very hard watering his flowers every day. Has what you might call a green tongue. 12/10 (IG: adventuresofmotley)
