Dad puts 3-yr-old son in washing machine, turns it on killing him
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Christophe Champenois, 37, allegedly sought to punish his son, Bastien for 'behaving badly at school'. Bastien's mother, Charlotte Cotte, 29, is charged with collusion and appeared alongside Champenois. ADVERTISEMENT
She maintained this version throughout the investigation, and Cotte has previously said she saw Champenois put Bastien in the washing machine and turn it on. Cotte told investigators she was doing a puzzle with her daughter and Champenois was surfing on the internet while their son screamed inside the tumbling machine.
[Read More]Dr. Pimple Popper Just Popped A Huge Blackhead Whole Below A Man's Eye In New Instagram Video
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Dr. Pimple Popper starts off with a scalpel, pretty scarily close to her patient's eye, to slice into the blackhead. (Yep, it's that big it needs multiple tools.) Next comes her trusty comedone extractor. The blackhead looks like it is primed and bursting at the seams. So, Dr. Pimple Popper goes in with a little pressure from her comedone extractor and poof, out glops the blackhead in one neat clump.
[Read More]Education: Gracchus, Cicero & Roosevelt
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Martina Birk
TIME
July 2, 1934 12:00 AM GMT-4
New York high-school students taking their regents examinations in Latin last week ploughed unhappily through the usual translations, conjugations and declensions, blinked when they came to something entirely new. To modernize classical study the State Department of Education had this year inserted a section of such posers as the following: 1) Name a reform of Gaius Gracchus similar to one that is now being advocated by President Roosevelt.
[Read More]Frosty the Snowman - Top 10 YouTube Holiday Specials
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
The same production company who gave us Rudolph (Rankin/Bass) returned five years later with Frosty the Snowman, casting comedian Jimmy Durante as the short's narrator, and Jackie Vernon as the voice of Frosty himself. Abandoning the stop-motion work of Rudolph for more conventional animation reportedly in the hopes of mimicking the look and feel of a Christmas card Frosty's story starts with a greedy magician in search of his magical top hat.
[Read More]He Was Dead: Jack Henry Abbott On Trial For Murdering Richard Adan
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Abbott takes the stand
Defense Lawyer Ivan Fisher asked his client: “Did you place the knife in the chest of Richard Adan?”
Jack Henry Abbott, convict turned literary celebrity, answered: “Yes.”
Silence fell over the Manhattan courtroom where Abbott is on trial on a charge of murdering Adan, 22, a waiter and an aspiring playwright, last July—a bare six weeks after Abbott had been released from prison on the urging of Novelist Norman Mailer.
[Read More]How the Fight Over One Monument Shows the Power of the Past
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
In Jersey City, overlooking the Hudson River, stands one of the most dramatic Second World War memorials in the world. Thirty-two feet high, standing on a granite plinth, is a bronze statue of a bound-and-gagged soldier being stabbed through the back with a bayonet. He appears to be in the throes of death. His body is arched in pain, and his face is tilted up towards heaven. The point of the bayonet emerges through the left side of his chest, exactly where his heart is.
[Read More]Hurricane Katrina (Famous Photo) - On This Day
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Historical Context Perhaps the most infamous hurricane of all time, Katrina devastated large swathes of the US Gulf Coast, particularly Louisiana, where the 'Big Easy' New Orleans was inundated with floodwaters after the city's levees broke. More than 1,836 people died.
Exacerbating one of the worst natural disasters in American history was the much criticized government response, particularly by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In the Superdome in New Orleans, supplies were limited, leading to a rapid deterioration in conditions and an evacuation which took five days.
[Read More]Jackie Chan Has (Not) Made His Last Action Film
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Loic Venance / AFP / Getty ImagesJackie Chan arrives to take part in the TV show "Le Grand Journal" on the set of French TV Canal+ during the 65th Cannes film festival on May 19, 2012 in Cannes. The big entertainment news over the weekend was that Jackie Chan had announced his retirement from action movies during a Cannes Film Festival press conference promoting Chinese Zodiac, his latest action film.
[Read More]Jimmy Johnson (NFL Head Coach)
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Profession: NFL Head Coach
Biography: One of only three football coaches to lead teams to both a major college football championship and a Super Bowl, winning back-to-back Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys.
Served as the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater from 1979 to 1983 and the University of Miami from 1984 to 1988. Before moving to the NFL where he coached the Dallas Cowboys from 1989 to 1993 and the Miami Dolphins from 1996 to 1999.
[Read More]Joeys Chronicles Of A Lagos Ajebutter: Abeg Dash Me Independence Medicine Na
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Nigeria is 53 years, and this ajebutter has to celebrate too. I stayed up all night waiting for something special to announce the dawn of the day. Nothing came. I hoped for novel constellations to appear in the sky, forming the word ‘53’. I prayed for a host of green angels to swoop down on us all, or mean screaming aliens to attack us for all our Alomo. But nothing happened.
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