[Scarlett156]

I was wondering where “executed today” had gone. But here it is! YAY!

[Little Ray]

Sounds like a happy ending to me.

[DesertRhino]

Sounds like they had it coming.

[Sans-Culotte]

Their deaths seem to have been a bit better than the one they reserved for the husband. Why would the husband even want her back? She must have been quite the hottie.

[Spok]

Thank goodness lynchings are now illegal in the U.S.! Far too many these days!

[stormhill]

Quite the atrocity. Only part I missed is which specific policy of the Donald Trump administration is responsible for the tragedy. Seems every reporter goes out of his way to blame every bad thing on him.

[moovova]

"The leaders soon became embroiled in a complex political rivalry with California’s governor and the colony itself failed to take root, its emissaries settling and taking work wherever they could ."

Oddly enough...in landscaping and roof replacement. The whine of gas-powered blowers and the rat-tat-tat of roofing guns forever becoming a part of California's residential landscape.

[Midwesterner53]

Might cut crime in California with more of that today.

[keving]

“This was Alta California under Mexican rulership, a decade before the Yankees gobbled it up in the Mexican-American War.”

Mexico sold the land, I guess you didn’t read that?
1.Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
2.Treaty of Mesilla, Gadsen Purchase

[sauropod]

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