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2 days ago · —anonymous Stonewall riots participant The police were to transport the bar's alcohol in patrol wagons. Twenty-eight cases of beer and nineteen bottles of hard liquor were seized, but the patrol wagons had not yet arrived, so patrons were required to wait in line for about 15 minutes. Those who were not arrested were released from the front door, but they did not leave quickly as usual ...
1 day ago · The public viewing of the coffins was curtailed severely and even more scandalously, Montenuovo tried unsuccessfully to make the couple's children foot the bill. Sophie's coffin was slanted down from her husband's to reassert her lower social status, gloves were placed on top of her casket as was traditional for a lady-in-waiting.
1 day ago · Tweed had for months been under attack from "The New York Times" and Thomas Nast, the cartoonist from "Harper's Weekly." Regarding Nast's cartoons, Tweed reportedly said, "Stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers say about me. My constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures!
15 hours ago · SOUTH Belfast Alliance MLA Paula Bradshaw has lodged a proposal for a Private Member's Bill in a bid to tackled the scourge of sectarian markers on public property. Mr Bradshaw wants to see implemented the recommendations contained in the report of the Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and ...
News used to be considered a public service. Today, news a profit machine designed to benefit shareholders, and the public be damned. Back in the day, news was a public service. The Fairness Doctrine, introduced in 1949, required those with broadcasting licenses (that's every radio and TV station in the country) to:
4 days ago · Just three months ago, CNN’s own one-time White House correspondent, John Harwood, damned the talk of Biden’s ‘alleged mental decline’ as ‘utter bullshit’. Now CNN platforms a ...
2 days ago · Steve Clarke's SFA bosses Ian Maxwell and Mike Mulraney are in no hurry Credit: Willie Vass. We just go, “If they’re doing things that make me happy, keep them.
