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We and millions around the world were captivated by the apparent re-discovery of this spectacular bird in the Cache River area of Arkansas l...

What a Wonderful World Department The best Bloody Mary's in the world are those made at the News Cafe. I am Benjamin Harris.

On August 18, 1966 an ecstatic nineteen year old girl pinned a Red Guard armband onto an approving Mao Zedong. The occasion was the first m...

On Song Binbin China's Cultural Revolution, one of the 20th centuries greatest catostrophes, began in the late spring and summer of 1966...

Today is November 22 A very bad day and the start of a very bad weekend forty-three years ago.

Murder Case Photographs- #26 (1955) This is the best quality photograph in this series. Enlarge it to see the detail. It is there both in t...

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Murder Case Photographs- #25 1958 All that one knows about the cases from which these photographs are taken is what is in the Clerk's of...

Murder Case Photographs-#24 (1953) This scene is the inside of an African-American bar (note the Joe Louis and the Caucasian - if...

Bo Schembechler Dies If this minnow of a website can commemorate Milton Friedman's death, it is not too hooty-tooty to commemorate the...

Milton Friedman Died Today

Interlude Thought I would lighten up this page a little, filled as it is with all these morbid posts on morbid topics like crime and Islam a...

Miss November On Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali By now the entire world knows about Sheik al Hilali's comments that western-dressed women ar...

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Clifford Geertz Died Today The preeminent cultural anthrolpologist of his time, the erudite, humorous, and lyrical writer, a consummate Amer...

This is Islam in its own words "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside...without proper cover and the cats come to eat it....

Murder Case Photographs- #23, Then and Now (1955) PUBLIC OCCURRENCES

Murder Case Photographs- #23, Then and Now (2006) The photo at far left is looking at the exact spot in the same direction as in the 1955 ...

(1954) There was some trouble here at this homey-looking bar back in 1954. Big trouble, a murder. This photograph was actually marked by a w...

Murder Case Photographs- #21 , Then and Now 1954 The hous...

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On Irag and Bush This started as a war blog and probably half of the articles here are on the war and related issues. However we have not as...

This is Public Occurrences. "This blog gives me a headache." An entry by the webmaster of another site on this site.

On North Korea The proximate cause of the current crisis is President Bush's inclusion of the DPRK in his Axis of Evil speech,* now di...

Often Wrong, Always Certain In college tackle football next weekend the University of Pittsburgh "Panthers" will defeat the Rutger...

Murder Case Photographs- #20 1955 Is it impossible to take an ugly photograph in black and white? Consider the subject matter of this photo...

"Since the objective of Islam is a decisive declaration of man's freedom, not merely on the philosophical plane but also in the ac...

Murder Case Photographs- #19, The Rockland Palace, Then and Now. 1952 There was a vibrant African-American cultural life here in 1952 even ...

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To the Nations of the World Please rename yourselves in a more distinctive manner. What is the difference between Slovenia and Slovakia? Bet...