Thousands rioted in London in August 2011, with the police losing control of parts of the city for four days. More than 3,000 people were subsequently arrested. Unlike many recent riots in the United States and Western Europe, the London riot was not focused on ethnic grievances, the paper ...
Mount Parnassus. The slopes of the mountain are covered in beautiful Kefalonian pine trees, and the park is a great way to get out into nature and boasts a number of hiking trails. There’s also the famous Corycian Cave, where nymphs and the God Pan were once worshipped. ...
Road rage incidents, riots that flame up like a prairie fire, unprovoked beatings, mass brawls in fast food restaurants and on commercial airliners; people are snapping over the slightest provocation, a misheard word, a momentary inconvenience… There are just too many small indicia of trouble ...
I met two sisters while we were in Selma, both of them were in Bloody Sunday event—you can even see them getting beat by troopers in the Eyes on the Prize videos. One of them still had the knot on her head from the billy club; the other was still missing the teeth the police had...
Despite his efforts to tackle the crises, some of his decisions led to completely opposite results. During his rule, two large riots took place. The ‘Salt Riot’ and ‘Copper Riot’, as well as one uprising that was caused by an excessive feudal pressure on people – in particular, by ...
After the siege of Badajoz troops under his command indulged in a 72-hour orgy of violence and looting in which hundreds of Spanish civilians were killed. Men, women, and children were shot in the streets for sport. Horrific though the riots were, Wellington thought they were useful as they...
A BLOGSITE FOR THE PRAISING OF ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL AND SUBLIME IN HONOR OF ALL BLACK WOMEN. "ONLY THE BLACK WOMAN CAN SAY WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER, IN THE QUIET, UNDISPUTED DIGNITY OF MY WOMANHOOD, WITHOUT VIOLENCE AND WITHOUT SUING OR SPECIAL PATRONAGE
For everyone who came here to lecture me, that the China Coff was going to depopulate the world, and I was being irresponsible for saying it was like the flu with a lot of stupid number games added; for every one who flounced because I told them the masks were a f*cking stupid idea...
“We were in Humboldt County, the pot capital of the world. We bought that little station for about $400,000 and it was the hardest station I tried to turn around. It took me a couple of years before we broke even. They don’t give a darn about ratings in those little markets. ...
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