Month: April 2005

Deadwood Nuggets It was estimated that 90% of women living in Deadwood in 1876 were prostitutes. In 1876, the lawless town of Deadwood averaged a murder a day. According to eye witnesses, Wild Bill Hickok could hit a dime tossed...

As members of the U.S. military watched on television via satellite from Iraq, Dolly Parton invited their boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, onstage at the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday. Rumsfeld was sitting in the front row...

I am cross posting the diary here from DKos because I have tried to start a campaign The British press has again picked up the story of the legal advice given to Tony Blair on the legality of the war with Iraq has considerable...

This is an unusual diary for me.  It’s primarily about my Uncle’s experience in WWII.  He served as an infantry soldier in the US Army during the period which encompassed the Battle of the Bulge....

CAPTION: Aerial view of the Mexico City main square (Zocalo) during the March of Silence, a mass political rally in support of suspended city mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. (AFP) “Hundreds of thousands of people have...