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“Mommy, the building is on fire, there's smoke coming through the walls. I can't breathe. I love you, Mommy, goodbye.”
Veronique Bowers to her Mother Daphne, calling from the Towers minutes before the collapse, 9:05 AM 9/11/2001

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"Are you guys ready? Let's roll!"
Todd Beamer UA Flight 93 - 9:58 a.m - 9/11/2001​
 
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The first "Talkie"

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When the film “The Jazz Singer” was released on October 6, 1927, it was the end of one era and the dawn of another. While not a “talkie” in the true sense, it sounded the death knell for the silent picture. You see, despite being known as the first talking picture, “The Jazz Singer” is really nothing more than a silent movie interspersed with a few musical numbers, some improvised lines from the film’s oft’ misinterpreted star Al Jolson and a bit of scripted dialogue.


 
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injinji said:
We go to town so seldom, we always try to eat when we do. I do get to-go pork chops at our local diner once a week, but when there is fried catfish on a buffet. . . . . . . . . Actually they (the Oaks in Marianna) have catfish on the buffet everyday, but they only have cheese grits on Friday.
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I'm being nosey and searched for "marianna" lol I've been looking for local cultivators, if you are one. Are you still around that area?
 
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...and this is why it's important to remember historical events and their place in our collective memory, :roll::

"The error was especially embarrassing considering that Spicer was a United States Navy Reserve public affairs officer and currently holds the rank of Commander."

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Sean Spicer Apologizes for Mixing Up D-Day and Pearl Harbor

The former White House press secretary was blasted for thinking the Allies storming the beaches at Normandy was "a day that will live in infamy"
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On This Day In History, Dec. 30, 1968, Led Zeppelin Was Recorded Live For First Time At Gonzaga University



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Led Zeppelin, one of the most celebrated and influential bands in rock ‘n’ roll history, was recorded live before a dazed and confused audience for the first time on this day in history, Dec. 30, 1968.

“The show took place at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and saw them opening for Vanilla Fudge,” writes Canadian entertainment site Exclaim!

“Led Zep were so unknown at the time that ads for the gig billed them as ‘Len Zefflin.'”

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On this day in history, Dec. 30, 1968, Led Zeppelin was recorded live for first time at Gonzaga University - Verve times

Led Zeppelin, one of the most celebrated and influential bands in rock ‘n’ roll history, was recorded live before a dazed and confused audience for the first time on this day in history, Dec. 30, 1968. “The show took place at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and saw them opening for...
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On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has caused tens of thousands of deaths on both sides and instigated Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. About 8 million Ukrainians were displaced within their country by June, and more than 8 million fled the country by February 2023.
 
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"On March 1, 2022, Felicity Ace was reported to have capsized and sunk. A Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) spokesperson said that the ship developed a 45-degree list to starboard and unexpectedly capsized at approximately 9 am local time about 220 mi (350 km) off the Azores in rough seas. MOL was unable to confirm if any oil pollution had occurred. The Portuguese Navy said that oily residue and wreckage was visible at the surface, the water was about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deep at the sinking site, and that naval forces would continue to monitor the area."


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These Are All The Cars That Sank On The Felicity Ace

Sure, hundreds of Bentleys and Porsches died, but what about that 1996 Prelude?
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injinji

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BarnBuster said:

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has caused tens of thousands of deaths on both sides and instigated Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. About 8 million Ukrainians were displaced within their country by June, and more than 8 million fled the country by February 2023.
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It's been bad for Ukraine, but great for the rest of the world. Each and every week Russia is losing 5K soldiers. Every two weeks they match what we lost in 20 years of two wars. So don't expect us to try to end this thing anytime soon. The longer they keep weakening themselves, the longer we will let them.
 
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"It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today," the band wrote on Facebook. "Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing it pretty, like he always does. Please keep Dale, Mary, Annie and the entire Rossington family in your prayers and respect the family's privacy at this difficult time."

 
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"Shortly after midnight on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency medical technician, is shot and killed by police in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment after officers busted through her door with a battering ram.

Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, both of whom had no criminal records, had been asleep in bed. Walker, who later stated he feared an intruder had broken in, used his legally owned gun to fire one shot, which wounded Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly in the leg. Mattingly and officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, all white and in plainclothes, returned fire, blindly shooting 32 times in the dark, striking Taylor six times.

According to The New York Times, Louisville police had received a court-approved no-knock warrant to search the apartment for signs of drug trafficking while investigating Taylor's ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover. Those orders were changed to "knock and announce" before the raid, the newspaper reports. The police involved stated they complied with the warrant, but Walker said he heard no such announcement.

"Somebody kicked in the door, shot my girlfriend," Walker told a dispatcher in a call to 911.

The three officers were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. Walker was arrested for attempted murder of a police officer, a charge that was dropped May 22, as the FBI, Department of Justice and Kentucky attorney general began their own investigations, according to the Times. No drugs were found in the apartment.

Following an internal investigation, Hankison was fired by the Louisville Metro Police Department June 23 for violating procedure and was indicted by a grand jury on September 23 on three counts of wanton endangerment, as bullets he fired entered a neighboring apartment with people inside. He pleaded not guilty; in March of 2022, he was acquitted on all three counts. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron told the grand jury that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in returning fire. No charges were brought against either man.

Following Taylor's death and subsequent national protests, including a viral social media campaign with the hashtag #SayHerName and outcries from civil rights activists and political leaders, no-knock warrants were banned in Louisville in an ordinance known as “Breonna’s Law.” The city also agreed to pay her family a historic $12 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit settlement. Following a two-year investigation, the Justice Department found a pattern of discriminatory and abusive practices in the Louisville Metro Police Department."

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Breonna Taylor’s Life Was Changing. Then the Police Came to Her Door. (Published 2020)

An ex-boyfriend’s run-ins with the law entangled her even as she tried to move on. Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings help explain how she landed in the middle of a deadly drug raid.
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"The close-knit Mexican American communities of Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop were located on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles. The residents were forcefully evicted and the villages destroyed in the 1950s to make way for the Dodger Stadium."

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May 8, 1959: Aurora Vargas is carried by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies during eviction from a house in Chavez Ravine. The photo was taken by Los Angeles Mirror-News photographer Hugh Arnott. (Hugh Arnott / Los Angeles Times Archive/UCLA)​

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The Land Beneath This Stadium Once Was Theirs. They Want It Back.

Dodger Stadium is the home to the seven-time world champion Los Angeles Dodgers. But in the 1950s, the land around it belonged to families who are now seeking reparations for what they lost.
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Chávez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story - Zinn Education Project

Film. By Jordan Mechner. 2004. 26 minutes. A documentary about the politics and economics of land in the United States, based on the story of a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
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Photos: These Latino families were forced out of their homes for a rich man’s baseball stadium

The Chavez Ravine standoff lasted for 10 years, but ended badly
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In a Sacramento, California, courtroom on January 22, 1998, Theodore J. Kaczynski pleads guilty to all federal charges against him, acknowledging his responsibility for a 17-year campaign of package bombings attributed to the “Unabomber.”

Born in 1942, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He worked as an assistant mathematics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, but abruptly quit in 1969. In the early 1970s, Kaczynski began living as a recluse in western Montana, in a 10-by-12 foot cabin without heat, electricity or running water. From this isolated location, he began the bombing campaign that would kill three people and injure more than 20 others.

The primary targets were universities, but he also placed a bomb on an American Airlines flight in 1979 and sent one to the home of the president of United Airlines in 1980. After federal investigators set up the UNABOM Task Force (the name came from the words “university and airline bombing”), the media dubbed the culprit the “Unabomber.” The bombs left little physical evidence, and the only eyewitness found in the case could describe the suspect only as a man in hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses (depicted in an infamous 1987 police sketch).

In 1995, the Washington Post (in collaboration with the New York Times) published a 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto written by a person claiming to be the Unabomber. Recognizing elements of his brother’s writings, David Kaczynski went to authorities with his suspicions, and Ted Kaczynski was arrested in April 1996. In his cabin, federal investigators found ample evidence linking him to the bombings, including bomb parts, journal entries and drafts of the manifesto.

Kaczynski was arraigned in Sacramento and charged with bombings in 1985, 1993 and 1995 that killed two people and maimed two others. (A bombing in New Jersey in 1994 also resulted in the victim’s death.) Despite his lawyers’ efforts, Kaczynski rejected an insanity plea. After attempting suicide in his jail cell in early 1998, Kaczynski appealed to U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. to allow him to represent himself, and agreed to undergo psychiatric evaluation. A court-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, and Judge Burrell ruled that Kaczynski could not defend himself. The psychiatrist’s verdict helped prosecutors and defense reach a plea bargain, which allowed prosecutors to avoid arguing for the death penalty for a mentally ill defendant.

On January 22, 1998, Kaczynski accepted a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole in return for a plea of guilty to all federal charges; he also gave up the right to appeal any rulings in the case. Though Kaczynski later attempted to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing that it had been involuntary, Judge Burrell denied the request, and a federal appeals court upheld the ruling. Kaczynski was remanded to a maximum-security prison in Colorado, where he is serving his life sentence.
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