America
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 1 comment
America is an American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972. They reached a peak i...
Patty Hearst
posted over 3 years ago, updated 22 minutes later | 0 comments
PATTY HEARST TIME LINE
04 Feb 1974 ~ Kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, CA, by the urban gorilla group Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The SLA tried to trade her for jailed members, but failed. Then ransom demands ended in the Hearst fam...
04 Feb 1974 ~ Kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, CA, by the urban gorilla group Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The SLA tried to trade her for jailed members, but failed. Then ransom demands ended in the Hearst fam...
TOBY TODAY
posted over 4 years ago, updated 7 minutes later | 3 comments
Toby, who is 5 years old now, is one of the silliest dogs I have ever shared my life with.
Lately he has taken to stealing one of my socks, coming up to me to be sure I see he has it, then shakes it like crazy.
He wants me to gasp, demand to know ...
Lately he has taken to stealing one of my socks, coming up to me to be sure I see he has it, then shakes it like crazy.
He wants me to gasp, demand to know ...
Jim Bridger, Mountainman
posted over 4 years ago, updated 19 days later | 3 comments
James "Jim" Bridger (March, 1804 – July 17, 1881), my granny’s first cousin 22 times removed, was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1840. He w...
JANE ADDAMS
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the ch...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty...
The Killing {Assisination?} of Jesse James
posted over 4 years ago, updated 4 minutes later | 0 comments
The James~Younger Gang seldom strayed f...
General Tom Thumb
posted over 4 years ago, updated 5 minutes later | 0 comments
General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (Jan. 4 1838 – July 15 1883), a midget who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.
He was born in Bridgeport, CT to parents of medium height and was quite a large bab...
He was born in Bridgeport, CT to parents of medium height and was quite a large bab...
The Incorruptible Sister Bernadette
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As the story goes, Bernadette Soubirous saw visions of the Virgin Mary 18 times. The Virgin told her to dig into the dirt with her hands, and when she did, water came up from a spring known as Lourdes. To this day it still flows, and thousands of ...
