That certainly makes American tactics in our little freedom fight with the British seem perfectly civilized.

I had an ancestor that was killed in it, he was on neither side, he was camping near by and went over to complain about the noise!
Max.

 

I had a few too, both against the Spanish in Florida from Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine marauding up into English Territory in Georgia and later throwing the English out of Georgia (they were Scots who had no loyalty to the Union Jack who had been brought in to settle/defend Oglethorpes lands in the new territories).

 

Here's a nice story about a young boy who made his own T-shirt for a "show your colors" day at school. Apparently, most of the other kids had officially marketed logo shirts. He made his own on a piece of paper pinned to his shirt according to the story. (Some of my relatives are UT grads.)

https://www.foxnews.com/us/universi...hip-bullied-student-who-designed-school-shirt

 

This is a heartwarming story, about how one (or two) people can change a life.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/boy-bu...y-receives-new-clothes-from-students/29025052

 

This is a heartwarming story, about how one (or two) people can change a life.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/boy-bu...y-receives-new-clothes-from-students/29025052

Made my day!

 

https://www.kptv.com/news/heritage-...d.html#tncms-source=block-contextual-fallback

 

A $10M detour:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/detour-le...8973&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_twopack_hed

The lucky winner chose to receive his prize with a one-time payment of $6,500,000, before taxes, according to the lottery.

 

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/09/2...ng-trnd/index.html?r=https://edition.cnn.com/

Typically positioned behind the front desk, he was now the hotel's chef, maintenance man, room service attendant and any other vacant position that needed filling, even when his experience was lacking.

 

Finally rid of this monster.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...20956.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=Feed

 

Finally rid of this monster.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...20956.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=Feed

The death penalty had largely stopped in the country until Gary Gilmore, didn't mean they wouldn't sit on the death row but they stopped killing them. I personally agree, he was criminally insane, caught and convicted. I believe at that point he has nothing to offer society we've gathered enough data on these people to know you have a hard time keeping them away from other prisoners or to do worse put them back into society to kill again.

kv

 

https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1177423181679755264​

4 million people call LA home. 4 million stories. 4 million voices...sometimes you just have to stop and listen to one, to hear something beautiful.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2...ubway-singer-meets-police-officer-mxp-vpx.hln

She has been offered a record deal following the video's popularity.

 

The Mayor had been searching for her ever since the video to set her up with housing and social aid help but they couldn't find her. Glad they finally did and hope it works out. Unfortunately, it doesn't always have a happy ending with some homeless people. Some don't want help and just want to be left alone...

 

The Mayor had been searching for her ever since the video to set her up with housing and social aid help but they couldn't find her. Glad they finally did and hope it works out. Unfortunately, it doesn't always have a happy ending with some homeless people. Some don't want help and just want to be left alone...

Mental illness, a previous history of abuse or some other trauma...

You're right, some homeless people don't want anything else but to be left alone... it's sad, but I hope this lady is not such case.

 

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...-by-climate-change-are-now-returning-to-life/

Corals have been hard hit by warming waters. Reefs worldwide, including the Great Barrier Reef, are edging towards collapse. The slow-growing endangered species Cladocora caespitosa is particularly vulnerable to destruction with little indication so far as to whether it can recover.

By monitoring colonies of C. caespitosa in the Mediterranean Sea for 16 years, Diego Kersting and Cristina Linares at the University of Barcelona, Spain, have observed that recovery is possible. They discovered that seemingly dead corals can in fact regrow in the wake of heat damage caused by climate change. Some made an almost full recovery.

When the polyps that make up a C. caespitosa colony are hit by warm weather, Kersting and Linares found that they shrink and recede deep within the coral skeleton. To the eye the hard coral looks devoid of life. But given time these tiny polyps – the characteristic “tentacles” on coral – can regrow.

 

https://www.kptv.com/general/drone-...d.html#tncms-source=block-contextual-fallback

Fines told The Associated Press he does thermal inspections and drone work as his business, and he just "had to go help" after the sheriff's office posted something about their search on Twitter. He said he worked with law enforcement to search in a grid pattern and had his drone in the air for more than two hours before the boy was found.

When asked if he would do the same thing again, he replied, "in a heartbeat."

 

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/bart-rescue-video-coliseum-surveillance-hero-14808226.php

 

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/bart-rescue-video-coliseum-surveillance-hero-14808226.php

I saw this on the news! Shocking! That man was lucky that someone like the supervisor was there.

 

https://www.kptv.com/news/woman-on-...cle_b5af7e10-0255-11ea-bc4c-23d0199b2881.html

MOLALLA, OR (KPTV) - The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office says a woman on horseback and local loggers helped locate a little girl who was lost in a wooded area Thursday morning.

The sheriff's office said they were notified at around 11:19 a.m. about a 2-year-old girl who was missing in the Molalla River Recreation Area, which is located about 10 miles south of Molalla.

Deputies, along with search and rescue crews, responded to the area and spoke to Gayla Ann Jay, 62, who said she had been on a walk with her two grandchildren when 2-year-old Iris had run ahead on the trail and out of sight.


Gayla told deputies that she tried to catch up to her granddaughter, but came to a four-way split on the trail and did not know where Iris was.

 

Having grown up in the San Gabriel valley of SoCal, I had no idea what a real forest was like. On my honeymoon to a province of Canada in 1968, I learned. It is easy to get lost. Glad she was found safely. Bravo to the dogs and volunteers.