Entries Tagged as 'history'
September 11th, 2014 · 2 Comments
As I was dressing at home, I heard excited voices from the TV in the other room. There was something that looked like a disaster movie on, and I switched it off. Twenty minutes later, I was walking through the back door of Laser’s Edge Compact Discs, ready to start the workday. Michael had arrived […]
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Tags: history · music · TV
Card is untitled on its front.
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Tags: history · postcards
I found this incredibly rare Confederate 100 dollar bill in a now-shuttered antique mall in Birmingham, Alabama, around 2009.
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This is what Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s Wikipedia page looked like at 1:37 p.m. CST on 8 January 2011. Click on the image if you wish to enlarge it. As of 2:00 p.m. CST, Rep. Giffords was reported as still being alive. The Wikipedia page had been updated to reflect this.
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Tags: history · politics
December 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments
Can you get an idea about what is happening in this work-in-progress by reading its word cloud?
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Tags: fiction · history · ideas · language · writing
Sculpture in Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama.
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September 11th, 2010 · No Comments
I check the time on my wrist and notice the date. In digital form, it appears a brand on my skin, a match to the one on my memory.
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Tags: CNFtweet · history · self
Got northbound accomodations, riding with two peckerwoods. Am hungry, must have dropped my nosebag when I flipped this rattler. • From the Wikipedia entry for “Wobbly lingo:” Wobbly lingo is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, for more than a […]
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Clover kicker in dusty duds, bindle under his arm, drops a frogskin as he passes, talking a blue streak to no one in particular. • From the Wikipedia entry for “Wobbly lingo:” Wobbly lingo is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the […]
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Card is titled: “Custer Battlefield and National Cemetary, Montana.”
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Tags: history · postcards