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12 Sep 2019, 1:02 pm
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30 Jan 2008, 9:40 pm
There were no seats available, so Whitfield gladly stood the whole 100-mile ride -- finally free.Twisting in a technicalityBut Whitfield's life of viciously cruel ironies followed him home to Norfolk.To clear the way for his immediate release from prison, the state put him out on parole.Nobody gave it a second thought until his lawyer filed for a writ of actual innocence, paperwork to formally certify what the prosecutor already had acknowledged and continues to tell anybody who asks:… [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 10:19 am
. * 1649: Sir Arthur Aston, Royalist commander of the garrison during the Siege of Drogheda, was beaten to death with his own wooden leg, which the Parliamentarian soldiers thought concealed golden coins. * 1660: Thomas Urquhart, Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator of Rabelais into English, is said to have died laughing upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne. * 1671: François Vatel, chef to Louis XIV, committed suicide because his seafood… [read post]
