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The Assassin Richard Lawrence
Richard
Lawrence was born in England in or about 1800 and arrived in the US when he 12
or 13 years old. His father died in the District of Columbia, in the old Ward
One sector, in or about 1829.
Lawrence,
a handsome young man, was known to be sober, well spoke but shy and reserved
and by 1832, according to his family, seemed be losing his sanity. He lived
with his sister and brother-in-law for a while but after an attempt to murder
his sister for no known reason, he was arrested and later moved to a boarding
house.
Since
he made his living as a house painter, there is considerable speculation on the
possibility that exposure to the chemicals in the paint had affected Lawrence’s
mind.
On
January 30, 1835, a cold, rainy and generally miserable day Lawrence was seen
in his paint shop in Georgetown (then a part of Maryland) on the corner of
Pennsylvania and 21st Street, having a very loud argument with himself which
ended when he screamed “All right, I’ll be damned if I don’t do it”
A
few hours later went up to the Capitol building to murder President Andrew
Jackson while he attended to the wake of Rep. Warren Davis of South Carolina at
a State Funeral Service at the Capitol.
As
the frail President, leaning on his walking stick, enter the building, Lawrence
leaped out from behind a pillar near the East Portico, brandished two
single-shot brass pistols that had belonged to his father.
Lawrence
leaped out from behind the pillar and standing less than five feet from the
President fired his pistol, but it misfired. President Jackson, with Treasury
Secretary Taney on his left, had been expecting an attempt on his life, cussed
Lawrence, raised his cane and charged the assassin thrashing him.
Lawrence
stepped back, fired the other pistol, but that too misfired. (US Marshal’s
tested the pistols he used and retested them and each time they performed
flawlessly. A New York Times article calculated the chances of both of
Lawrence’s pistols misfiring to be 1 in about 125,000.) A navy Lieutenant named
Gedney, who was with Jackson, leaped on Lawrence, wrestled him to the ground
and pulled the two pistols out of his hand.
Richard
Lawrence’s act was the first instance of a President of the United States being
the target of an assassination. A few years before, Jackson had become the only
president to be physically assaulted.
On
May 6, 1833, Jackson, age 66, ill and frail, sailed on USS Cygnet to
Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he was to lay the cornerstone on a monument
near the grave of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother.
(Jackson
was rarely in good health to begin with. During his life he suffered from
smallpox,
osteomyelitis, malaria, dysentery, rheumatism, dropsy, “cholera morbus”
(widespread intestinal inflammation), amyloidosis (a waxy degeneration of body
tissues) and bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes). He also had
a
bullet
lodged inside his lungs from a duel.)
Jackson
had fired Navy lieutenant, Robert Randolph for embezzlement. During a stopover
near Alexandria, Jackson decided to entertain visitors to the boat and
Randolph, walked aboard, said nothing, walked up to President, removed his
gloves and punched him in the face. (Some say that Randolph punched the
President, some say he slapped him and other say he tweaked the President’s
nose)
Jackson,
who had been reading a book, fell back and was trapped in his chair behind the
table as Randolph was quickly held back by some of Jackson’s associates and
some of Randolph’s own friends who had boarded the steamboat with Randolph.
Jackson
angrily yelled, “What, Sir! What, Sir!”, as he scrambled to get out of his seat
and lunged for his cane. Rather than face an angry Jackson man to man, Randolph
broke lose and fled only to be run down and captured by Jacksons staff and
friends including the writer Washington Irving.
Jackson
was not seriously hurt but he was furious and embarrassed. “Had I been apprised
that Randolph stood before me” he said “I should have been prepared for him,
and I could have defended myself. No villain has ever escaped me before; and he
would not, had it not been for my confined situation.”
Jackson
declined to press charges, but Randolph was arrested anyway. By the time
Randolph went to trial for attacking Jackson, the President was retired to his
estate in
Tennessee.
In a letter to the new President Martin Van Buren, Jackson said, “I have to
this old age complied with my mother’s advice to ‘indict no man for assault and
battery or sue him for slander’, and to fine or imprison Randolph would be no
gratification." Jackson asked President Van Buren to pardon Randolph if
his assailant was found guilty for the attack.
Back
in Washington in 1836, during questioning, it quickly became clear that the
shooter Richard Lawrence was a babbling lunatic who offered no less than six
reasons to explain the shooting including his belief that he was the secret king
of England, Richard III who died in 1485 and that Jackson was his clerk. In
fact, on his first day in court, where he was defended by Francis Scott Key,
Lawrence, impeccably dressed and well spoken, rose and addressed the court with
great dignity and said "I am under the protection of my father at home.
The throne of Great Britain and the throne of this country of right belong to
me. I am superior to this tribunal. I ask you to consider whether you are safe
in your course of proceedings.” The judge respectfully reminded Lawrence that
he would be heard through his Counsel, and politely requested him to take his
seat.
When
the Jurors were called in and sworn on the bible, Lawrence rose again and
shouted "Swear on that book, but remember that I am King of England and of
this country, and will most assuredly punish you"
When
the court ordered Lawrence to sit and be silent he said, "I will not"
and remained standing until a federal marshal sat him down and stood by his
chair for the rest of the trial.
A
half a dozen doctors testified that they believed that Lawrence was insane; and
that he was unable to discriminate between right and wrong in a case connected
with his delusion; and that if the act of assaulting the President was
connected with the subject of his delusion, he was not to be considered as
morally accountable for the act. Lawrence was institutionalized at what would
become St. Elizabeth’s hospital (He was the institution's seventh inmate) until
his death in 1861.
Jackson
suspected that a circle of his political enemies orchestrated the attempt on
his life, but his suspicions were never proven. His primary suspect was his
decades-long enemy Henry Clay and Senator John C. Calhoun. Jackson told aides
that he suspected both were involved in his potential assassination and had
likely hired or convinced Lawrence to pull the trigger. Speculation grew so
severe that Calhoun made a statement on the Senate floor that he was not
connected to the attack. Jackson also suspected Senator George Poindexter of
Mississippi, (Below) who had used Lawrence to do some house painting a few
months earlier. There were several reports, by reliable witnesses, that on the
morning of the failed assassination, that Lawrence had been to Poindexter’s
house. Poindexter denied the charges but was soundly defeated for re-election
anyway.
(Foot
note on Poindexter’s interesting private life. In 1804 Poindexter married Lydia
Carter the daughter of a prominent Natchez businessman and plantation owner.
The couple had two sons , George and Albert but Poindexter publicly accused his
wife of infidelity and claimed that their second child, Albert, was the product
of an extramarital affair between his wife and their neighbor. In 1816
Poindexter married Agatha Ball Chinn, part of an old and distinguished southern
family, but had a life-long liaison with a slave woman who worked on his
plantation.)
Cheating death
On December 13, 1977, the University of Evansville team boarded a plane at the Evansville
Airport along with head coach Bobby Watson, members of his staff, a radio broadcaster and
some fans. They were on their way to Tennessee for a game against Middle Tennessee State.
The plane crashed into a hillside not long after takeoff. All
29 people on board were killed.
The only member of the Evansville team who was not on the plane
that night was David Furr, an ankle injury kept him home. Two weeks after the
crash he was killed in a car accident.
Dollar rumors
DOLLAR BILLS PRINTED IN DALLAS BEAR A "K" SIGNIFYING OR PREDICTING KENNEDY'S DEATH!!!!!!
Well no.
The inter loons have come up with a theory that states that the
Federal Reserve symbol of bills printed in Dallas, they all have the letter
"K" in them as in Kennedy, who was shot in Dallas. Each corner shows
the number 11, the month he died. Even bills printed before 1963 also have the
same lettering.
The reality is that the Dallas Reserve is the headquarters of
the 11th Federal Reserve District and has been since 1911 (three years before
Kennedy was born). "K" is the 11th letter of the alphabet.
Michael Clark Rockefeller, one of the wealthiest men in the world disappeared
Michael Clark Rockefeller, one of the wealthiest men in the
world and the fifth child of New York Governor and future U.S. Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared on or about November 19, 1961, during an
expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea (Now a
part of the Indonesian province of Papua.)
Michael was a little bit different from the other Rockefellers.
Although he attended The Buckley School, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard
(Cum Laude) He served six months as a private in the U.S. Army and held a
series of low level, low paying teaching positions.
He volunteered for an expedition for Harvard's Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology to study the Dani tribe of western Netherlands New
Guinea. On November 17, 1961, Rockefeller and Dutch anthropologist René Wassing
were in a 40-foot) dugout canoe about 3 miles from shore when their double
pontoon boat was swamped and overturned.
Their two local guides swam for help, but it was slow in coming.
After drifting for some time, early on November 19 Rockefeller said to Wassing
"I think I can make it" and swam for shore. The boat was an estimated
12 miles from the shore and its probable that Rockefeller died from exposure,
shark attack, or saltwater crocodile, exhaustion, and/or drowning.
There is also the probability that since the area was filled
with headhunting and cannibalistic tribes, that he may have been murdered as
well.
In 1969, the journalist Milt Machlin investigated Rockefeller's
disappearance and concluded that circumstantial evidence supported the idea
that he had been killed by the locals in or near the village of Otsjanep where
he likely would have arrived had he made it to shore. In 1958, several
villagers had been murdered by a Dutch patrol, providing some rationale for
revenge by the tribe against a white man.
There is a persistent story and testimony that men from Otsjanep
killed Rockefeller after he swam to shore. The tribesmen killed and ate him by
the shore. Soon afterward the villages were swept by a cholera epidemic and
the villagers believed that it was retribution for killing Rockefeller.
In 2011, Agamemnon Films released a documentary stating that
Rockefeller survived and was living among the locals.
Writer Paul Toohey claimed that in 1979, Rockefeller's mother
hired a private investigator to go to New Guinea and try to resolve the mystery
of his disappearance. She also may have offered a $250,000 reward to the
investigator that gave her proof positive that her son was alive or dead.
Whatever happened, after he left the boat, he was never seen
again. His body was never found. He was declared legally dead in 1964.No
remains or other physical proof of his death have been discovered.
Lewis Carroll as Jack the Ripper
Author and Lewis Carroll scholar Richard Wallace put out a book
called Jack the Ripper’s Light-Hearted Friend that proposes that Lewis Carroll
could have been Jack the Ripper.
Although Carroll was widely known as a gentle soul and
scholar-Mathematician, Wallace says that Carol had a nervous breakdown and as a
result developed a separate persona as Jack the ripper, Carroll’s psychotic
breakdown had come from years of abuse that he took from older boys at school
and that he took his vengeance on prostitutes.
“CROATOAN” that was carved into a tree stump on Roanoke Island (In North Carolina and not Virginia ) is the mystery of the lost colony in 1590.
Well it is and it
isn’t.
John White, the colony’s
governor had returned to England in 1587 for badly needed supplies, returning
to the oddly empty fort on August 18, 1590. England’s war with Spain delayed
his return. Among the missing was his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, the first
(documented) European born in North America.
White reported in his
diary that the word in "fayre Capital letters was graven" on one of
the palisades that had been used to build the colonist's fort on Roanoke Island,
not on a tree.
Earlier in the day's
search, White had seen the three Roman letters " CRO" carved into a
tree on the bluff of the sound shore. In neither place did the colonist
returning from England discover a cross, the secretly agreed upon a sign that the
colony, now known as the Lost Colony, was in distress.
White said he took
comfort in the fact that since no cross had been found that the entire colony,
which number about 120 persons, had come across hard times and relocated to
Croatoan, the principal town of the Croatoan (or Hatteras) Indians near Cape
Hatteras and had left the word Croatoan on the fort as had been agreed before
White left for England.
White knew that the
colonists had discussed leaving that sort of simple message for him when he
left for England in 1587, although they had then considered moving 50 miles
into the mainland rather than about 60 miles south to an isolated barrier
island.
Croatoan, White knew,
was the home of an Indian named Manteo, who made two trips to England in the
1580s and seemingly had embraced the English colonial efforts. Manteo's mother
was probably a tribal monarch of the Croatoans.
Or maybe the colonist
hadn’t left the message at all, something that needs to be considered.
Ethnologists and anthropologists believe that the word "Croatoan" may
have been a combination of two Algonquian words meaning "talk town"
or "council town." It is also likely that the colonist simply moved
their fort to another location on the island, but that location, like the
location of the original fort, is now underwater.
White was forced to return
to England, by rough seas and a lost ship's anchor, before he could mount a
search party. A later investigation by the English government concluded that
the colony had been massacred by Indians, but there is no hard evidence to
confirm that story. Further, when White arrived, there was no sign of battle or
withdrawal under duress, although the site was fortified with valuable weapons.
There were no human remains or graves in the area, suggesting that everyone was
alive when they left.
It’s possible that the
colonist tried to return to Virginia, an arduous trip in 1587, and became lost
and gave up, either being killed by hostile tribes or married into local
tribes. Modern research has still not produced the archaeological evidence to
solve the mystery.
John White later
retired to his home in County Cork in Ireland, never giving up hope that his
daughter and granddaughter were somehow still alive in the New World.
at his mother was still alive and locked up in a lunatic
asylum
Words to use and where they came from.
Abrasive means, literally,
"causing damage or wear by rubbing, grinding, or scraping."
Figuratively, it is used to describe people or things that are unpleasant or
irritating. Once upon a time, English had abrade and abrase. While abrade
remains a familiar word, abrase is rare but survives in abrasive. Both verbs
come from abrādere, meaning "to remove by rubbing" or "to scrape
off."
Sour grapes noun: Finding fault with or expressing disdain for something one cannot have. From the Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Grapes, in which a hungry fox tries to reach grapes hanging on a high vine and when unsuccessful, declares that the grapes are probably sour. Earliest documented use: 1760.
A dissatisfied customer
Mr. Goumas
Your diatribe on Amazon has promoted my book. Thank you. (“For whatever reason, people continue to be fascinated by our family tragedies”)
And thank you for buying my book, as well.
The novel clearly state’s “This is a work of
fiction”….that means “not real”, or “made up”. Did you read the book? (By the
way, you wrote “This author focuses on Ansonia, a small industrial town in
Connecticut's Lower Naugatuck Valley”…..you should have written “The author’
not “This author” and I have a name, it's in big bold letters on the book cover,
but anyway) the book isn’t about the Valley. The book is a collection of
stories about the human condition that happens in a dinner, over the course of a
day.
And why, oh why, would I engage you before writing
a piece of fiction? (“Authors don't have the courtesy to engage with us before
writing and publishing”) …and don’t use the word “Engage” when you mean “contact”.
Keep it simple and say what you mean, that’s the basis of good writing.
In your demand for privacy, you did two things
I would never do, you gave people your family name and where they lived. Now,
literally, for decades to come, the world will associate a simple faction story
with your family. Nice work.
I knew your father, your mother, your grandmother,
your brother Rocky and went to school with one of your sisters, who was beautiful
and extremely intelligent. I saw your parents several times a week at their
store, which was down the hill from us. Your parents were kind, generous, and
considerate people. I admired Rocky’s talents on the football field.
You and
I have several mutual acquaintances. I’m easily reachable. If what I write disturbs
you, why didn’t you simply contact me ……or as you so badly put it, “Engage me”,
and talk to me? After all, it's your demand that I “engage” you before writing.
What’s that saying? “Rules for ye but not for
me”
(From Amazon)
While this book was published in 2011, I was
only recently made aware of its existence. This author focuses on Ansonia, a
small industrial town in Connecticut's Lower Naugatuck Valley. In particular, I
found the author's story "Small Town Tragedy" in this collection
deeply troubling. It's a thinly-veiled telling of two real-life tragedies
experienced by my family in the late 60's-early 1970.
The portrayals of my
late father and brother are both unflattering and frankly wrong. My sister's
accidental death does not need to be relived yet again. For whatever reason,
people continue to be fascinated by our family tragedies, which is deeply
troubling to the surviving members, and authors don't
have the courtesy to engage with us before writing and publishing. I'm only
grateful that both of my parents didn't encounter this book before they passed
away.
Mark Goumas
Words to put into use
When rankle was first used in
English, it meant "to fester," and that meaning is related to French
words referring to a sore and tracing to Latin dracunculus. The Latin is from
draco, the word for a serpent and the source of English's dragon. The
transition from serpents to sores is apparently from people associating the
appearance of certain ulcers or tumors to small serpents.
Palisade comes from Latin palus, meaning "stake." The word originally applied to one of a series of stakes set in a row to form an enclosure or fortification. In time, its meaning was extended to a fence of stakes and, by association, to stretches of steep cliffs bordering a river.
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
Off-Broadway theater company BEDLAM is seeking submissions for a Spring 2022 festival of new play readings. Presented alongside our 2022 Off-Broadway mainstage production, these readings will showcase works-in-progress by artists expanding the bounds of the form, interrogating (or ignoring) the “canon,” and creating specifically theatrical work.***Flint Repertory Theatre is seeking new plays and musicals for the 2022 New Works Festival April 29 – May 1, 2022. The New Works Festival is an annual weeklong event featuring staged readings and workshops of new plays and musicals. Playwrights and composers from around the country are in residence in Flint during the process, which includes post-show audience discussions.***Bay Street Theater is seeking submissions of new full-length plays for our New Works Festival, to take place in early May 2022.We are offering an opportunity to work with directors and actors on your play, in-person. Selected plays will be provided with dramaturgical notes from our artistic leadership, rehearsal time, and a public presentation in Sag Harbor, New York, with an audience feedback session, spread over the course of several days.*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ****** MYSTERY PLAYS ***Mystery play, one of three principal kinds of vernacular drama in Europe during the Middle Ages (along with the miracle play and the morality play). The mystery plays, usually representing biblical subjects, developed from plays presented in Latin by churchmen on church premises and depicted such subjects as the Creation, Adam and Eve, the murder of Abel, and the Last Judgment.More...https://www.britannica.com/art/mystery-play***The Mysterious Disappearance of the Coventry Mystery PlaysI see in the press that Chester Cathedral has recently completed a programme of the Chester Mystery Plays. These plays are only performed every five years and they are always well received.Coventry Cathedral used to have its own series of Mystery Plays, that were performed every three years up until 2006. I was fortunate to be able to perform in the last two productions in 2003 and 2006.The Coventry Mystery Plays date back to the early Medieval Mystery Plays which were perhaps best known as the source of the Coventry Carol. Performances of the Coventry plays are first recorded in a document of 1392–3. It is very likely that the young Will Shakespeare saw them as he quotes from the Mystery Plays in some of his own plays with scenes and events from them. Various Coventry Trade Guilds would put on small plays on mobile stages around the city. The plays were mostly taken from scenes from the Bible. Each Guild would perform a scene while the other guilds were changing in preparation for the scene that they would perform. Unfortunately few records of the plays now exist but the Shearmen Guild and Tailors' Guild plays were transcribed and published by Thomas Sharp and most recent performances are loosely based on these plays, from Adam and Eve to Noah's Ark then Annunciation, Nativity, Massacre of the Innocents to Christ's Crucifixion.More...https://www.coventrysociety.org.uk/news/article/call-for-the-return-of-the-mystery-plays.html***York's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain was an Arts Festival that included a four-hour revival of the Plays, running each evening, selecting the best-known stories. This took place in the Museum Gardens, with the ruined wall of the nave of St. Mary's Abbey as a backdrop and with a large temporary grandstand for the audience. This format was used for further productions every three or four years until 1988. Whilst most of the cast were local volunteers, major roles were often taken by professionals such as Ian MacShane (Lucifer, 1963), and Christopher Timothy and Simon Ward (Christ, 1980 and 1984). York citizens are especially proud of Judi Dench playing the Virgin Mary in 1957 whilst still a York schoolgirl.The Friends of the Mystery PlaysThis organisation came about to retain the spirit of the Plays, to keep scenery and costumes and to build an archive. They continue to support all York productions.More...http://www.yorkbutchersgild.co.uk/the-mystery-plays.html***Wakefield plays, also called Towneley plays, a cycle of 32 scriptural plays, or mystery plays, of the early 15th century, which were performed during the European Middle Ages at Wakefield, a town in the north of England, as part of the summertime religious festival of Corpus Christi. The text of the plays has been preserved in the Towneley Manuscript (so called after a family that once owned it), now in the Huntington Library in California.At some time, probably in the later 14th century, the plays performed at York were transferred bodily to Wakefield and there established as a Corpus Christi cycle; six of the plays in each are virtually identical, and there are corresponding speeches here and there in others. On the whole, however, each cycle went its own way after the transfer. From a purely literary point of view, the Wakefield plays are considered superior to any other surviving cycle. In particular, the work of a talented reviser, known as the Wakefield Master, is easily recognizable for its brilliant handling of metre, language, and rhyme, and for its wit and satire. His Second Shepherds’ Play is widely considered the greatest work of medieval English drama.More...https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wakefield-plays#ref908101***Miracle Plays and MysteriesThese two names are used to designate the religious drama which developed among Christian nations at the end of the Middle Ages. It should be noted that the word "mystery" has often been applied to all Christian dramas prior to the sixteenth century, whereas it should be confined to those of the fifteenth century, which represent the great dramatic effort anterior to the Renaissance. Before this period dramatic pieces were called "plays" or "miracles". The embryonic representations, at first given in the interior of the churches, have been designated as liturgical dramas.Liturgical dramaThe origin of the medieval drama was in religion. It is true that the Church forbade the faithful during the early centuries to attend the licentious representations of decadent paganism. But once this immoral theatre had disappeared, the Church allowed and itself contributed to the gradual development of a new drama, which was not only moral, but also edifying and pious. On certain solemn feasts, such as Easter and Christmas the Office was interrupted, and the priests represented, in the presence of those assisting, the religious event which was being celebrated. At first the text of this liturgical drama was very brief, and was taken solely from the Gospel or the Office of the day. It was in prose and in Latin. But by degrees versification crept in. The earliest of such dramatic "tropes" (q.v.) of the Easter service are from England and date from the tenth century. Soon verse pervaded the entire drama, prose became the exception, and the vernacular appeared beside Latin. Thus, in the French drama of the "Wise Virgins" (first half of the twelfth century), which does little more than depict the Gospel parable of the wise and foolish virgins, the chorus employs Latin while Christ and the virgins use both Latin and French, and the angel speaks only in French. When the vernacular had completely supplanted the Latin, and individual inventiveness had at the same time asserted itself, the drama left the precincts of the Church and ceased to be liturgical without, however, losing its religious character. This evolution seems to have been accomplished in the twelfth century. With the appearance of the vernacular a development of the drama along national lines became possible. Let us first trace this development in France.More...https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10348a.htm
***Mystery plays for gamersIn the Middle Ages, ‘mystery plays’ were a popular genre of public entertainment. The performances told stories from the Bible or from the lives of saints in a spectacular fashion. One of the most popular forms told the history of the world, from Creation to the Last Judgement, across multiple stages erected in the town square, complete with wild props and fireworks. Let’s build an adventure with one of these mystery plays as its centerpiece! Because Role-playing Games (RPGs) are usually only fun when the Player Characters (PC) are interacting with something cool, not just witnessing it, we need to get the party inside the mystery play. Maybe some foreign dignitaries are in town to see the show, and the aldermen are concerned that someone is going to interrupt the play to make the city look bad. So they rope the party into providing security from inside the show. Or maybe the play contains within it an important religious or magical ritual, obfuscated by all the pageantry. Heretics or cultists have figured this out and are going to try to disrupt it. Guards will be present in force, but the PCs have to go inside the play and protect it without disrupting it. No matter your plot hook, what’s important is that the PCs have a vested interest in seeing the show performed as intended, and that someone is trying to stop that from happening. The show must go on!More...https://www.moltensulfur.com/post/2019/02/12/medieval-mystery-plays
***Hey there, I'm Mike Rugnetta. This is Crash Course Theater, and today we're going to circle up our pageant wagons and talk about the theater of the late Middle Ages, mainly mystery plays and morality plays.Judged by contemporary standards, these plays are awkward. They're episodic, kind of basic, and pretty chaotic in their mix of comedy, drama, and scripture. But some of the jokes are good, like the ones about baby-eating. But that's more Yorick's speed than mine. You really love a good morose groaner, don't you, bonehead? This guy.Mystery plays and morality plays were the first European plays to unite religious life and secular life in more than a thousand years. Whole towns pitched in to create them, and whole towns arrived to see them. Those wagon wheels paved the way for the Renaissance's theatrical explosion.Today we're going to look at The Second Shepherds' Play, written by the Wakefield Master. It may seem a little humdrum, but no Wakefield Master no Shakespeare, and no Shakespeare no Yorrick. Maybe that's okay, though.More...https://nerdfighteria.info/v/5VI3qcSuUlk/
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The Man in the Bag, Photo by Francesc Català-Roca, c. 1950
Sand Dune, Brett Weston, 1937, MoMA Photography
Cinema Entrance, Havana, 1933. Walker Evans.
Antonio Sena da Silva Lisbon Portugal 1956
Art for the Blog of It: A LECTURE ON STAINED GLASS
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As weird as this story
As weird as this story is, it’s been verified as true by newspaper accounts of the day.
In 1883 Henry Ziegland, of Honey Grove, Texas, broke off his
engagement to which his fiancée, causing the girl to take her own life.
The fiancé’s brother was so enraged that he sought revenge and
set out to kill Henry. He went out to Henry’s farm and shot him and then he
turned the gun on himself.
However, Henry didn't die. The bullet only grazed him before
landing in a tree.
Twenty years after he escaped death, Henry and his son were
cutting firewood when they decided to take down the tree with a bullet in it
but the wood was so tough it was almost impossible to split it with an ax so
they board some holes in the tree in the small amounts of dynamite.
Henry and his son stood about 50 feet back away from the tree
when they set the explosives off . The bullet was blown out of the tree with
such great force that it hit Henry in the left temple killing him instantly.
TRUE CRIME: Solved
Spc. Darlene Krashoc was a 20-year-old active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs Co when she was murdered on March 16, 1987. She had gone out for the evening with members of her unit to a local club called Shovels and was last seen leaving the club between 12:00 and 1:00 AM.
The next day her body
was found behind a Korean restaurant. She had been strangled. Investigators
were able to collect DNA that belonged to an unknown male from a wire hanger
that was used to strangle her.
In 2016 investigators
submitted DNA evidence to the US army criminal investigation lab for additional
testing. They were able to narrow down predictive traits for the suspect
including eye color hair color skin color in face shape two composite sketches
were made showing what a suspect may have looked like at 25 years old and 55
years old.
In 2019, investigators
made use of genetic genealogy by submitting the DNA they had to ancestry sites
(Ancestry.com) Forensic scientists
found people in Wisconsin and Texas who had similar DNA to the samples from the
crime scene and eventually they narrow down suspects to 58-year-old Michael
White who, in 1987, Michael lived just a few miles from the crime scene and was
also a soldier at Fort Carson.
Investigators followed
him from his house to his work and watched him drink from fast-food cup
investigators. From that cup, recovered from the trash, were then able to
gather enough DNA for testing which confirmed that his DNA matched the DNA from
the crime scene. He was arrested later that day and in 2021 he was sentenced to
life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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