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One of the 73 people listed as victims of Hurricane Katrina was actually shot by police. Officer Ronald Mitchell shot and killed Danny Brumfield, 45, outside the convention center, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed Friday. Police said it happened about 2 a.m. Sept. 3, in the darkness before the National Guard arrived and began evacuating the convention center. A police statement released after The Associated Press asked about the shooting said that, moments after Mitchell and his partner heard what appeared to be a gunshot, a man jumped onto the hood of their patrol car swinging something shiny. It...

IF YOU had asked your great-great-grandmother if she believed in fairies, she would have looked at you askance. Believe in fairies? Of course she did! Ninety-five per cent of Scots continued to believe in fairies right up until the middle of the 19th century. These were not the diminutive, be-winged fairies of 1800s children's books. No, these were strange folk who bewitched you, killed your cattle and kidnapped your wives and daughters. Fairy lore flowed through the centuries, their presence acknowledged in ballads, poems and stories. They came in all shapes and sizes and different parts of Scotland had different...

This is a Hallowe'en song I wrote many years ago,while camping in the Jersey Devil's pineywood home. (1)Deep in the Jersey Barrens Outside the town of Leeds There lived a lonesome widow- No one to tend her needs. So,one All Hallows Eve'ning When the moon was pale and white She cried: " I'd let Ol'Scratch hisself Come share my bed tonight !" (Chorus) Keep to the middle of the trail,friend When the moon is pale and white And build up the fire at the old campsite- The devil walks tonight ! 2. Ol'Scratch,he come a' courtin'- Kept her dancin'...

I have a friend who has recently become an avid lurker and is, I hope, a soon-to-be poster. When I first started lurking there were threads with FReeper folklore, acronyms, definitions and even FReeper photos. Are any of those still around? They were so interesting and of great help to me in the beginning; I wanted to pass them on to our newest newbie. I've looked everywhere I can think of and can't find them. If, as I am wont to do at times, I've had a brain fart, flame away. If not, any help would be appreciated.

<p>Some high-falutin' study by the University of Vanderbilt over there in Tennessee says Southerners just ain't what they used to be.</p> <p>Says the numbers of people living in the South who reckon they're actually "Southerners" is in decline, down to 70 percent, according to polls conducted on 17,600 people from 13 states, including Florida.</p>

<p>Before humans used chlorophyll and carotenoids to explain fall leaves, they drew on a mother's grief over the kidnapping of her daughter or the persistence of a group of bear hunters to account for the spectacle of summer green giving way to autumn's fiery blaze.</p>

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997. Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

ouglas Herrick, who gets both the credit and the blame for perhaps the tackiest totem of the American West, the jackalope — half bunny, half antelope and 100 percent tourist trap — died on Jan. 6 in Casper, Wyo. He was 82. The cause was bone and lung cancer, his brother, Ralph, said. Douglas Herrick lived in Casper, but it was in his hometown, Douglas, Wyo., that luck changed his life. In 1932 (other accounts say 1934, 1939 and 1940, but Ralph Herrick swears it was 1932), the Herrick brothers had returned from hunting. "We just throwed the dead jack...

Science still cannot explain fact or fiction NORMAN JULIAN Ever heard of the Flatwoods Monster seen on Sept. 12, 1952, in Braxton County? More on that in a minute. Most of us who have been exposed to science believe in a rational universe without miracles. When something comes into conflict with something else that has been proved by scientific research, we tend to dismiss it or believe it has an explanation that can be attributed to natural causes. So where do unidentified objects or appearances that boggle our logic come in? The movie "Signs," starring Mel Gibson, dramatizes those crop...

Ancient history as taught today is a disaster area. The chronology of the first and second millennium BCE is badly wrong. The history of ancient history revisionism offered here is drawn largely from the pages of SIS publications over the last 25 years. The Revision of Ancient History - A Perspective By P John Crowe. An edited and extended version of a paper presented to the SIS Jubilee Conference, Easthampstead Park, Sept. 17-19th 1999 [1] Internet Paper Revision no.1 March 2001 Contents Introduction An Outline History of Revising Ancient History - Up to 1952. 2.1 Exaggerating Antiquity. 2.2 The Early...

<p>Perhaps. The Hatfields and McCoys are ready to have at each other again, but with barristers, not double barrels.</p> <p>It was a melancholy Ron McCoy who filed suit last Friday against one John Vance — a Hatfield — down in Pikeville, Ky. Mr. McCoy would like access to the small McCoy family cemetery that abuts Mr. Vance's property.</p>