A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg

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His father died when Dwight was age four; fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, were born one month after the father's death. Their mother struggled to support the nine children, but had to send some off to work for their room and board. Dwight too was sent off, where he received cornmeal, porridge, and milk three times a day. Natural asphalt also called asphaltum, bitumen, pitch or tar—brea in Spanish has seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of thousands of years.

The tar is often covered with dust, leaves, or water. Over many centuries, the tar preserved the bones of trapped animals.

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Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens from the animals that died there. Formation Illustration of several species getting mired in the tar pits Tar pits are composed of heavy oil fractions called gilsonite, which seeped from the Earth as oil. Roberts, whose life includes incidents from Tabor's. In , he departed for the Kansas Territory with the New England Emigrant Aid Company to populate that territory with anti-slavery settlers.

There he farmed land along Deep Creek in R He was convicted of one murder, for which he was received the death penalty and was executed. Authorities believe he committed at least another 21 murders. Early life Sells and his twin sister, Tammy Jean, contracted meningitis when they were 18 months old; Tammy died from the illness. When he was five years old, he was returned to his mother after she found out his aunt wanted to adopt him.

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Some time later, he started taking guitar lessons by hitching rides with the local mailman to a neighboring town, and, at fifteen, he was playing for dances with a local band.

Graduating from high school, Feller played lead guitar in various rock and blues groups including The Sliders in Pittsburg, KS and surrounding areas. In early , Feller went to Los Angeles to play in a band and hone his songwriting skills.

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Having had no particular luck, he returned home to Missouri to continue playing with local bands. Scouting in Missouri has a long history, from the s to the present day. In his book "The History of the Boy Scouts of America" he goes on to say that this man had even gone so far as to appoint field representatives in other states as well. Districts Black Diamond is located He played in games during his four-year career with the Boston Beaneaters, of them as their catcher. Bergen helped the Beaneaters to two straight National League pennants and and a second-place finish in A article about him described him as "a nimble fielder with a bullwhip arm who could snap the ball to second base without so much as moving his feet".

Bergen suffered from apparent mental illness. By , he experienced hallucinations, had to be removed from a game due to odd behavior, and walked off from the team train during a trip to Boston. On January 19, , he killed his wife the former Hattie Gaines ,[2] and two children, then took his own life.

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On September 10, , Thomas died of acute nephritis in Paris five days after consuming mercury bichloride. Although her death was ruled accidental, news of her hospitalization and subsequent death were the subject of speculation in the press. Thomas' death has been cited as one of the first heavily publicized Hollywood scandals. Early life Thomas was born Olive R. Duffy in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, but often claimed her birth World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically mass distributed music. Many people in the war listened to radio and long playing records en masse.

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Heir to a multimillion-dollar mine and railroad fortune, Thaw had a history of severe mental instability and led a profligate life. He is most notable for shooting and killing the renowned architect Stanford White on June 25, , on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden in front of hundreds of witnesses. White and Nesbit had a sexual relationship in —, when she was 16—17 years old, and their relationship had allegedly begun with White plying Nesbit with alcohol and possibly drugs and assaulting her while she was unconscious.

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In Thaw's mind, the relationship had "ruined" her. Plagued by mental illness throughout his life that was evident even in his childhood, Thaw spent money lavishly to fund his obsessive partying, drug addiction, abusive behavior toward George Raymond Richard Martin[1] born George Raymond Martin; September 20, ,[2] also known as GRRM,[3] is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer.

In , Lev Grossman of Time called Martin "the American Tolkien",[4] and in , he was included on the annual Time list of the most influential people in the world. Somehow, it was different. In Norry's stories the soldiers were strong, and handsome, and glittering with gold lace, and full of laughter.

She couldn't recall whether they had any little girls or not. And there was her mother hanging over the strange man — yes, he was strange to her. And her mother would care for him, and stay beside him, and she somehow would be left out. Her little heart swelled. She did not understand about jealousy, she had had all the attention, and it was not pleasant to be pushed one side. Oh, how long he was eating, and drinking, and talking, and — yes, they laughed. Grandad was coming up to the house with a great two-handled basket — she knew it was full of ears of corn, and she did so like to see him shell it, and hear the rattle as it fell down in the tub.

He sat on a board across the tub, and had a queer sort of affair, made by two blades, and as he drew the ears of corn through it, scraped off both sides.

A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg

No, she wouldn't even go and see grandad, for he would say, "Well, yellow-top, your father hasna come home yet;" and, she — well, she could not tell a wrong story, and she would not tell the true one. Grandad wouldn't go back on her, but he could wait. The soldier looked more attractive. His faded cap had been thrown aside, and his short dark hair was a mass of curls. He looked sharply at the little girl, and she turned away her face. Still, she took her mother's hand.

Sure, I've been afraid we'd never set eyes on you again! The saints be praised! Sandy Carrick came and put his arms around his son. Both were rather tall men. For some moments neither spoke. Then the father said, "Cross the threshold, Barney. An' here's a silver shilling — kiss it for good luck an' a long stay. There's always room intil you're laid on your back for the last time. An' you're that thin, 't would take two of you to make a shadow.

She set out cold chicken, and boiled bacon, and bread that would tempt one on a fast day, with a great loaf of cake, and Bernard and Barbe sat down. For if you go to fairyland, you'll have to stay seven years. And if I could find some four-leaf clovers — " "You can't in winter.

Here's a nice chunk of cake. He was thin, and pale, and travel-stained, and had not the brisk, jaunty air of the peddlar.

A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg

Carrick stepped to the door, and glanced. Then, with a cry, she went to her husband's arms. They both almost fell on the doorstep.

And — " "Never mind; I'm home. And everybody — " "They are all alive and well. She was sitting here — " "Not that child! The child came shyly, hesitatingly. Barbe put her arms around Dilly. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon for example, "The copyrighted work at issue is the image that appears on http: Identify each web page that allegedly contains infringing material. This requires you to provide the URL for each allegedly infringing result, document or item.

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