BLACK SEA (Jan. 7, 2015) The guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) transits the Black Sea. Donald Cook was conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Karolina A. Oseguera)
And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, June 5, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Wild Bill Hickock original grave
Colorado Charlie Utter (at right) and Arapaho Joe add a headstone to Wild Bill Hickok’s Deadwood grave in 1877. Two years later, under Utter’s supervision, Hickok was reinterred at Mount Moriah Cemetery where his grave mates became Calamity Jane, in 1903, and Potato Creek Johnny, in 1943. –Courtesy Deadwood Public Library –
But did the airbag deploy?
A learner driver in Germany had a narrow escape on Monday when her car was crushed by a British tank.
The 18-year-old driver made the mistake of turning into a column of British tanks that were travelling through the small town of Augustdorf.
The British soldier at the controls of the tank behind her had no time to stop, but managed to turn so that he crushed the engine of the car, just avoiding the driver.
Fear the Deer—Nature's Unstoppable Killing Machines
A girl about to get gored by her soul sister.
Bucks duel each other for territory and mating privileges. These fights can go to extraordinary lengths. White-tailed deer bucks have been found in dead pairs, their antlers tangled and locked so tightly they couldn't extricate themselves. They died of thirst or stress. The truculence of deer can go further than that. I know of one case in which a buck was found with the decapitated head of another locked in its antlers. Biologists posited that the living buck picked a fight with an already dead rival and tore his head off.
This truculence transfers easily to humans. In 2005, for example, a man was tending the tomatoes in his backyard near Rancho Santa Fe, California, when a deer appeared. It gored him in the face and head. Bending over to pick tomatoes probably looked to the deer like a fighting stance. In 2006, a seven-point white-tailed buck attacked an elderly man in Pennsylvania, butting and goring him in the head. When his wife came to his defense, she, too, was attacked. The violence stopped only when police shot the buck to death.
Deer kept on farms and in zoos and wildlife parks have also injured people and even fatally gored their keepers. In 1997, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, a man who kept reindeer as part of his Santa Claus act was attacked by a 550 pound bull in heat. When the bull tried to gore him, the man latched on to its 31-point rack of antlers. The reindeer carried the man – who weight 370 pounds – in the air for forty-five minutes. Eventually it pinned him to the ground. Five other men tried to pull the buck off. When they finally succeeded, the buck fell dead from its exertions. The owner was not seriously hurt.
A personal anecdote: when my mom was a kid, they had a pet deer. It tended to bully family members, and it's hooves were sharp and dangerous, and it knew how to use them. They eventually had to kill and eat it, it was simply too unpredictable.
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