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Read More: Ode to Troy Livingston, Part 3Back sometime in 1976, in the Fall (Like we have seasons in Florida), we were travelling East on Alligator Alley, heading home from Sanibel Island back to Miami. It was about 11:00 at night, as we’d gotten a really late start after closing up my grandparent’s house for the year. Now, Alligator Alley is a…
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Read More: World’s longest-married couple reveals key to a lasting relationship: ‘We love each other’Eleanor Gittens, 107, and Lyle Gittens, 108, of Miami met at a basketball game in 1941 and have been married for 83 years A Miami husband and wife who recently attained the title of world’s longest-married couple say they managed that feat just by loving one another. “We love each other,” Eleanor Gittens, 107, said…
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Read More: Alice CooperI just won 3rd place in an international writing competition for this piece. Alice Cooper It’s late October, 1973 at about 1:30 in the morning, and Alice Cooper is winding up a set on the Midnight Special. Wolfman Jack is singing their praises and the studio audience is going wild with adoration. There’s my…
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Read More: October 2025 Food DriveThank you to everyone that donated to the food drive fund. We raised almost $1000. This is what about $500 worth of food and looks like. This was just from Wal Mart. We then went to Aldi for another hundred worth and the Dollar Store for another hundred worth of the personal hygiene items that…
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Read More: TattooIn 1942 during the Battle of Britain, the RAF pilots had an uphill battle against the German Luftwaffe. The British bomber pilots had about a 45% chance of returning from their missions. Their lives were a mixture of waiting around to be sent out, and if they returned, nights at the pub drinking hard, coming…
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Read More: Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for JusticeNobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is a chilling memoir by advocate Virginia Giuffre about the abuse she was subjected to by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as, allegedly, Britain’s former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and other influential men. The book was ghostwritten with journalist Amy Wallace and published…
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Read More: More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policyA POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law. It’s one of the most thorough legal rebukes in recent memory. More than 100 federal judges have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration’s effort to systematically detain…
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Read More: Trump unveils newest White House renovation to historic Lincoln BathroomThe president traded green for black, white and gold. The White House has given its Lincoln Bathroom a new look, President Donald Trump announced Friday, marking the latest renovation in the administration’s push to remodel the historic building. The bathroom, which used to feature art deco-style green tiling, is now covered in sprawling black and…
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Read More: Ode To Troy Livingston: Part 5Back in about 1973 my father was working on a project to create a “take it home and plug it into your TV set” game console. The first of it’s kind. It was going to play Paddle Battle, a tennis like game with about a dozen levels. He had overcome many, many obstacles, being the…
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Read More: Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of…
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