It would have been nice to think that they didn’t see it coming. The hail of bullets, the crash, the gun smoke, the blood. After all, there was a lot in life that they DID see coming. But the end, particularly this end, they saw coming a mile away. Hell, she even wrote poems about…
Letter to Henry Ford on April 10, 1934… Dear Sir, While I still have breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car make. I have driven Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got ever other car skinned and…
“Women are the ones who knows what’s going on,” she said quietly. “They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?” – Alexander McCall Smith, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Agatha Christie was the bestselling author of all time, and living in the days of Stephen King and J.K. Rowling, that…
At the height of his power, Pablo Escobar controlled over 80% of the cocaine flowing into the United States. His organization spent over $1,000 dollars a week on rubber bands to hold the cash it stored in warehouses, and over a million dollars was written off every year as “spoilage” due to the rats that…
“Break the rules and you go to prison. Break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz.”-Anonymous Sitting about a mile and a half off San Francisco in the middle of a bitter, inhospitable California bay, Alcatraz Island is a lot like many other pieces of bay area real estate. Many have claimed ownership and…
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