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  1. Happy 69th Birthday, Robert William "Willy" Pickton! Pig farmer and serial killer. Fed his victims to his pigs. About the only things they don't digest are zippers and buttons and hair.
  2. Looks like a bloody handprint across her face.
  3. This is very interesting. I was saving Crippen for November 23 but this'll work. First suspect to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraph. Vulcana, Cora Crippen's friend who was a professional strongwoman, reported her as missing to police. The Crippen house was searched but nothing unusual was found. Crippen told Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector Walter Dew that he lied about his wife having died and that she'd run off for America with her lover. Crippen and his girlfriend tried to escape to Canada. Crippen shaved his mustache; his girlfriend was disguised as a boy. The captain of the ocean liner wasn't fooled and sent a wireless telegram to London police. Police went to Crippen's house and searched more thoroughly digging up the cellar finding the torso of a body. Chief Inspector Dew took a faster White Star ship and met Crippen in Canada. If Crippen hadn't tried to escape, suspicions wouldn't have risen. If he hadn't booked first class passage, he may not have been recognized. If Crippen had taken a ship to the USA, things would have been tied up in extradition. (Canada was still a British colony.) The jury was out for twenty-seven minutes until the guily verdict. Crippen was convicted and sentenced to death. In England, this meant being assigned to a condemned cell. The hangman and his assistant make calculations for the drop based on he prisoner's weight and height to achieve a swift death by broken neck without decapitation or strangulation. On November 23, 1910 at 9:00AM, guards entered Crippen's cell, removed a partition wall to the execution chamber. It was over within seconds. Cora's torso is buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley. Except it isn't Cora. Recent DNA testing revealed it was a man's torso in the cellar. 1910 coroner's exams note the torso had high levels of anaphrodisiac - the opposite of an aphrodisiac - which Crippen bought at a local pharmacy. The head, arms and legs were never found. Why go through the trouble of disposing of them and leaving the torso? Who is he? Was Crippen performing abortions? Did he murder Cora? Did she have syphilis? (Regarded as proof of her infidelity and a motive for Crippen to kill her.) There are more questions than answers.
  4. 1895, Paris (the one in France).
  5. Tom Torlino matriculates at The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania AKA Carlisle Indian School from October 21, 1882 until August 28, 1886. Same school later attended by Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe who was coached by Pop Warner in track and football and competed in lacrosse and baseball. And winner of the 1912 intercollegiate ballroom dancing championship.
  6. Not too much different from USA but we call it Mexican Cession, the Overthrow and Annexation of Hawaii, Opening of Japan, dominating Spain's former colonies, recognizing the rebel country of Panama, defending it from Columbia and signing the treaty to built a canal within a matter of days, etc. The rest of the world calls it American imperialism.
  7. Bullshit. One of the first things the emperor accomplished was establishment of prefectures for local governing and the Diet and a prime minister.
  8. Why do you say that? Japan was mired in the feudal system and the samurai class was dissolving.
  9. 1867. The last shogun. Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns, ending the Tokugawa shogunate — the feudal military government in power from 1600 — leading to the Meiji Restoration and return of authority to the emperor.
  10. Gas station maps. Forgot all about those. When I bought my first car I went to the map store and bought the tear-resistant map and street atlases for the glovebox. Navigated from the passenger seat while my dad drove. Drew detailed neighborhood maps for my first science fair to illustrate different scales. A friend had a 3D topographic map in his cubicle and I commented how nice it was. "Yeah, I really love maps." He must have. Worked as an emergency road service dispatcher for AAA.
  11. 1974. Ed Sullivan died. The Ed Sullivan Show, a television variety program which he created and hosted, was my favorite. Every week I'd wait for Sunday. Watch the afternoon football broadcast, eat supper, put on my pajamas and be ready for Ed Sullivan to start. I especially liked the circus-type acts and The Rolling Stones. The Beatles wore wearing matching outfits but the not the Stones. On their first appearance, Mick Jagger did not even wear a tie or jacket! In one the the great moments of censorship, the Stones had to change the lyrics of "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "let's spend some time together" as Mick rolled his eyes. Good times.
  12. I do not recall seeing a shirt on backwards in mugshots before.
  13. 2004. Rex Baum murdered by Nathan Moore, Luis Oyola and Andrew Ihrcke. Please burn in hell.
  14. 1989. Cowboys trade Herschel Walker to Vikings.
  15. I was born in 1956 and this is the first I'm hearing of an official observance.
  16. According to three articles I read, meteor fragments are cold to the touch. It had been a hot and dry summer. People did not practice good fire safety by putting out campfires and using fire to clear land. Wisconsin and Michigan were being clear cut by the lumber industry. Lots of fuel in the form of branches lay on the ground. When the winds came that night ... perfect conditions for a disaster.
  17. In 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Deadliest fire in American history. Between 1,700 and 2,500 people perished; estimates inaccurate as many town halls with birth, marriage and tax records were lost and superheated flames cremated victims. 1.2 million acres burned. Door County, Wisconsin. It was assumed fire vortices from the Peshtigo firestorm jumped across Green Bay but has been disproven. It had been a hot and dry summer and extremely strong winds created dangerous conditions. Aprx 200 killed. Aprx 1.000.000 acres burned. There was a wiidfire along the Lake Michigan near Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Four fires in Michigan, the Peshtigo fire jumped the Menominee River and burned in Menominee County, Michigan on the Upper Peninsula, one on the Lake Michigan near Manistee and another near Holland, the other on Lake Huron. Estimated loss of life 500(?). 2,500,000 acres burned. The Great Chicago Fire. Nothing to do with Catherine O'Leary's cow kicking over a lantern. Estimated 200 people died. 3.5 square miles burned leaving estimated 100,000 homeless.
  18. No. I'm driving the car.
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