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Maria Ridulph was kidnapped on a street corner in Sycamore, Illinois, on December 3, 1957. She was 7 years old at the time. Her body was discovered in a field 5 months later. The case went cold for 55 years until Jack McCullough, formerly John Tessier, was arrested in July 2011. It is believed that the case involved the oldest unsolved murder resulting in an arrest in the United States.
McCullough, then John Tessier (17 years old at the time), befriended Ridulph in Sycamore, Illinois when she was 7 years old. She disappeared from a street corner in Sycamore on December 3, 1957. According to the prosecutors in his case, McCullough choked Ridulph with a wire and stabbed her. The case received nation-wide interest; the FBI was involved under J. Edgar Hoover and it reportedly received attention from Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The case was reopened when Janet Tessier, McCullough's half sister, believing McCullough was involved, asked the Illinois State Police to look into it. Janet Tessier made the decision to come to the police after spending time as the caretaker to the mother of author Mark Lemberger, who wrote "Crimes of Magnitude," a story of an unsolved murder of a seven-year-old girl. Mark Lemberger, upon hearing her speak of her mother's deathbed confession, encouraged Tessier to try to contact a law enforcement agency one more time. Tessier did just that, contacting the Illinois State Police via e-mail. McCullough was arrested in a retirement community in Seattle where he lived and worked as a security guard in July 2011. Ridulph's body was exhumed that same month
At the trial, Kathy Chapman, a childhood friend who was with Ridulph on the day of her disappearance, testified against McCullough. She said that a man, who called himself Johnny, had walked up to them and had given Ridulph a piggyback ride. Chapman went home briefly to get mittens, and upon her return both Johnny and Maria were gone. Based on a 1957 photo, she identified McCullough as the man who had walked up to them. McCullough was convicted of the crime in September 2012 and later received a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 20 years. He was 73 at the time he received his sentence. Although his request for a new trial was denied at the time of sentencing, his appeal continues, as of 2013.
You can watch the documentary on Maria Ridulph case ' 48 Hours Mystery Cold As Ice The Abduction and Murder of 7 Yr Old Maria Ridulph Case' and there is a CNN story on Maria. RIP little girl it's horrible how someone can murder a innocent small child.
Maria Ridulph was kidnapped on a street corner in Sycamore, Illinois, on December 3, 1957. She was 7 years old at the time. Her body was discovered in a field 5 months later. The case went cold for 55 years until Jack McCullough, formerly John Tessier, was arrested in July 2011. It is believed that the case involved the oldest unsolved murder resulting in an arrest in the United States.
McCullough, then John Tessier (17 years old at the time), befriended Ridulph in Sycamore, Illinois when she was 7 years old. She disappeared from a street corner in Sycamore on December 3, 1957. According to the prosecutors in his case, McCullough choked Ridulph with a wire and stabbed her. The case received nation-wide interest; the FBI was involved under J. Edgar Hoover and it reportedly received attention from Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The case was reopened when Janet Tessier, McCullough's half sister, believing McCullough was involved, asked the Illinois State Police to look into it. Janet Tessier made the decision to come to the police after spending time as the caretaker to the mother of author Mark Lemberger, who wrote "Crimes of Magnitude," a story of an unsolved murder of a seven-year-old girl. Mark Lemberger, upon hearing her speak of her mother's deathbed confession, encouraged Tessier to try to contact a law enforcement agency one more time. Tessier did just that, contacting the Illinois State Police via e-mail. McCullough was arrested in a retirement community in Seattle where he lived and worked as a security guard in July 2011. Ridulph's body was exhumed that same month
At the trial, Kathy Chapman, a childhood friend who was with Ridulph on the day of her disappearance, testified against McCullough. She said that a man, who called himself Johnny, had walked up to them and had given Ridulph a piggyback ride. Chapman went home briefly to get mittens, and upon her return both Johnny and Maria were gone. Based on a 1957 photo, she identified McCullough as the man who had walked up to them. McCullough was convicted of the crime in September 2012 and later received a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 20 years. He was 73 at the time he received his sentence. Although his request for a new trial was denied at the time of sentencing, his appeal continues, as of 2013.
You can watch the documentary on Maria Ridulph case ' 48 Hours Mystery Cold As Ice The Abduction and Murder of 7 Yr Old Maria Ridulph Case' and there is a CNN story on Maria. RIP little girl it's horrible how someone can murder a innocent small child.
For Our Daily Challenge - Fences
This is one of those pieces of art that spring up where people walk and find things. This is the fence of lost soles, a place where your missing shoe ends up. No one has discovered the place where missing socks wash up. This is still a great unsolved mystery.
"LaMartina's movie has to do with a mysterious book that details local unsolved crimes, most of them of the distinctly icky variety, such as the kidnapping and murder of babies, people with their eyes gouged out, etc."
Read More:
alternativecinema.blogspot.com/2010/05/chris-lamartina-an...
i have no idea how this happens, but every now and then when we freeze ice cubes one of these spikes will grow out of the tray. they melt super fast, but i managed to snap a photo. any ideas how it formed?
Couldn't figure out how this one happened. I just left my bike in the shed overnight and took it out in the morning and left it in the sun while I was getting ready and came back to be greeted by a flat rear tire.
LSN's own Brilliant Idiots (Andrew Schulz & Charlamagne Tha God) Host a screening for USA Network's Unsolved, Followed by a talk with the series' own Bokeem Woodbine.
Chevonne Small with a family photograph of her cousin, James Murchison, in her Highland Falls, NY home on Friday, June 13, 2008. Murchison, 16, is the Newburgh teen who was stabbed to death last month. Small and other family members are planning a series of fund raisers to offer a reward for information in Murchison's killer. Times Herald-Record/CHET GORDON
o meu ipod proporcionou-me em modo shuffle:
nouvelle vague - guns of brixton
nick drake - at the chime of a city clock
björk - karvel
explosions in the sky - day one
animal collective - unsolved mysteries
bat for lashes - the wizard
venus hum - soul sloshing
Emphasized perspective of a coin slot. Why "quarter" rather than "quarters?" I suppose that's a question that will remain unsolved.
The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie in Scotland
The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that lives in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Popular interest and belief in the animal was brought to the world's attention in 1933. The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving 'lizard' plesiosaurs.The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.
On October 22nd 2012 Theresa Irene Wolowski, and Ryan Janek Wolowski, took a boat ride through Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands looking for Nessie, who's presence was felt.
Fore more on The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie visit
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/legend-loch-ness.html
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Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UK United Kingdom, Europe
10-22-2012
The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie in Scotland
The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that lives in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Popular interest and belief in the animal was brought to the world's attention in 1933. The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving 'lizard' plesiosaurs.The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.
On October 22nd 2012 Theresa Irene Wolowski, and Ryan Janek Wolowski, took a boat ride through Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands looking for Nessie, who's presence was felt.
Fore more on The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie visit
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/legend-loch-ness.html
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Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UK United Kingdom, Europe
10-22-2012
The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie in Scotland
The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that lives in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Popular interest and belief in the animal was brought to the world's attention in 1933. The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving 'lizard' plesiosaurs.The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.
On October 22nd 2012 Theresa Irene Wolowski, and Ryan Janek Wolowski, took a boat ride through Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands looking for Nessie, who's presence was felt.
Fore more on The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie visit
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/legend-loch-ness.html
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Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UK United Kingdom, Europe
10-22-2012
Arlis Perry - 'ritualistic' murder and sexual assault at Stanford. Murder at Memorial Church remains unsolved 40 years later from www.pinterest.com/pin/368310075766383907/
For a collection of photos about the Huron River Spill, look here: www.flickr.com/photos/ahknaten/collections/72157626327597...
On July 19, 2010, the Huron River in Ann Arbor, Michigan had a pollution spill. The case is unsolved but closed. Booms were setup, the pollution flowed for hours and I witnessed it. Yet no one was ever charged. Someone was able to spill something and get away with it.
20 Days after the spill, I went for a walk around Gallup Park. Here are the photos that I took that day.
After the booms failed the pollutants presumably went downstream and dispersed. The boom failure was due to a rain event, but the initial spill was not. There is a considerable amount of press related to phosphors from fertilizers that focuses on the average citizen, and Gallup Park had an algae bloom that can be caused by pollution from phosphors. Remember, the AAFD report stated an 88% confidence of phosphoric acid in the spill (a DPS report states that the AAFD report with the acid reference may be inaccurate). Also, some reports stated that petroleum was mixed in as well. I know that I could smell something, so the reports that state that it was 'non-odorous' are not complete. I'm not saying that this spill caused all of the algae in Gallup, but unless Ann Arbor tells me that petroleum and acid is allowed to be dumped legally, then this spill could not have helped the environment, and as there were no accident or permit reports, I presume it must have been illegal?
According to the City of Ann Arbor, "A Resident's Guide to Clean Water", Spring 2010 edition:
www.a2gov.org/government/publicservices/systems_planning/...
"Dumping waste into storm drains, ditches, or waterways contaminates drinking water supplies, recreational areas, and wildlife habitat. Plus, it is illegal"
"In Ann Arbor, an ordinance prohibits the use of fertilizers containing phosphorus unless a need is demonstrated through a soil test"
According to the HRWC
"nuisance algae blooms that can result from excess phosphorus entering our freshwaters"
www.hrwc.org/2010/12/michigan-protects-rivers-lakes-with-...
For documents relating to this case, look here:
and here
I was shocked that there wasn't crime scene tape. The scene was brutal, vicious... The victim was found in the nude, decapitated. Her head lay several inches from her naked body. Her one arm was still extended into the air in a silent plea for help. Her body was deposited close to the road but she still went unnoticed for days. There was no blood at the scene so it seems like it is a body dump rather than where the actual murder took place. I think this will probably be an unsolved case. Such a careless loss of life. Truly a tragedy.
If you know anything about what happened to Lily or have any information which could assist in the investigation, please step forward and reach out to Miami Dade Police Sgt. Gallagher 305-471-2400.
The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie in Scotland
The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that lives in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Popular interest and belief in the animal was brought to the world's attention in 1933. The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving 'lizard' plesiosaurs.The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.
On October 22nd 2012 Theresa Irene Wolowski, and Ryan Janek Wolowski, took a boat ride through Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands looking for Nessie, who's presence was felt.
Fore more on The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie visit
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/legend-loch-ness.html
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Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UK United Kingdom, Europe
10-22-2012
SAT 4th APRIL.
Took this in the early hours of the morning as was relevant to various discussions revolving around civil liberties we had been having the night before. Apparently there is approx one camera for every 14 people in the UK yet most crime goes unsolved.
www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/issues/3-privacy/32-cctv/...
Off out to play poker in the evening, came 4th out of 8, not too bad, slowly getting the hang of it now :)
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"...think of your life in terms of a quest. ... On a quest we discover the true nature of what we're after only by going on the journey."
-- Resilience by Eric Greitens
Shortly after Greitens references this wonderful Rilke quote:
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
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"Love the questions themselves". Yes. So easy to say, so easy to read, yet so difficult to build the patience, to the build the resilience against -forcing now-. Live everything and love the questions themselves.
While the book was solid up to this point, once I read this section I was sold. Already wanting to re-read. Already wanting to find all of my margin notes and expand on them.
It is going to take a little rain to wash clean the ground and allow the flowering questions to bloom.
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Fraser, CO. December 14th, 2015
if only life was as simple as solving a rubik's cube
Please do not use my photos without permission!
You better block your number when you prank call a serial murderer. Jarring follows 4 friends who discover voice recordings with the most bizarre phone messages. After they call a few times 2 of them disappear. Inspired by true events.
The Bullock Hotel has been the subject of the popular TV show Unsolved Mysteries and is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Seth Bullock, among others. This photo was taken in Bully bar inside the Bullock.
Free Bloody Mary's at Bully's every Saturday morning!
633 Lower Main Street
June 25-July 2, 2009
I-SPY today in the news that Groveland Police Officer Jesse Baker is STILL patrolling the streets even after officers complained and a news station outted him last year. NOT JUST STILL WORKING - but promoted to Sgt., and now his wife Pamela is gone. Thoug he won the case, he was found later to have battered his wife in a subsequent investigation.
WHAT I SAW YESTERDAY THAT GOT ME STARTED:
Groveland father shook girl, left her critical, cops say
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
May 12, 2006
... they arrived at his Groveland home Wednesday night, Groveland police Sgt ... Jesse Baker said ... The Florida Department of Health released a statement last month during ...
www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-lshaken1206ma...
I RECALLED AN ARTICLE FROM LAST YEAR:
Florida Officer With History Of Domestic Violence Patrolling The Streets
Story by wftv.com
November 14, 2005
Channel 9 has learned that an officer with a history of domestic violence is patrolling the streets of Groveland and there are questions about how he got that job after he was fired as a state wildlife officer.
Officer Jesse Baker was acquitted in court of the attack on his wife, but a state inspector general later questioned that verdict and whether Baker should ever be allowed on the street again.
Channel 9 began to investigate Officer Baker, a sergeant at Groveland Police Department, after receiving complaints from other law enforcement officers in Lake County.
Channel 9 found Baker was fired from the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission after they determined he had battered his wife, leaving her hospitalized for a week.
For several years now, Baker has worked the streets for Groveland Police Department, but back in 1997 he was arrested and charged with battering his wife. According to court files, his wife Pamela could not remember the night she was injured.
A jury never heard testimony from her and Baker was found not guilty, but a subsequent investigation by state officials indicated "you were responsible for the battery of your wife," further finding that he "left her unconscious for six hours ... while he went to work" as a wildlife officer.
The report noted that Baker's wife suffered bruising over 75% of her body. In Baker's court files, a counseling evaluation states that he'd taken full responsibility for his actions. But when he was arrested and in the Lake County jail, the Fish and Wildlife Commission found Baker was "uncooperative, belligerent and made derogatory statements to corrections officers."
Baker's wife, Pamela, died from heart trouble a year to the day after Baker was officially fired from Florida Fish and Game.
But in spite of the scathing report in which Baker was fired as a wildlife officer, he was hired by Groveland Police Department. The police chief knew about Baker's past but didn't want to talk on camera. The chief told 9 Investigates that he is confident in Baker's ability and even gave him a lie detector test before hiring him.
www.wftv.com/news/5324697/detail.html
PAM IS GONE. NO ARTICLE ABOUT HER PARTING.
The islands in the mediterranean sea still hold many unsolved prehistoric enigmas. Monte d'Accoddi near Sassari is one of them.
The small hill was used as a base for an antiaircraft gun in WWII. At that time it came clear, that this was not just a hill in the meadow. Excavations done in the 1950s found the ruins of a ziggurat. A terraced step pyramid, known from Mesopotamia, but not from mediterranean islands.
The oldest parts of the ziggurat are dated to around 4.000 BC. The structure had a base of 36m by 27m and probably reached a height of 5.5 m. A ramp, flanked by menhires, lead up to a kind of house (temple?) on the highest platform.
It has been partially reconstructed during the 1980s.
Don Denton/News staff
February 2 2012 - Jeff Buziak talks with members of the local media before the 2nd annual Walk for Justice, held to honour his daughter murdered realtor Lindsay Buziak. The four year old murder is still unsolved.
Unsolved Mysteries is on! This show is amazing. I don't wanna go to work today. Ick.
I'm debating if I should start the project 365 thing. I don't know.
What do you think?
Old newspaper clippings of Christopher Newport University freshman Keith Call and Cassandra Hailey are seen spread over a coffee table at Call's sister's home in Gloucester. Call and Hailey disappeared in April of 1988 and were presumably linked to the unsolved Colonial Parkway four double-murder cases which occurred in the years of 1986-1989.
"LaMartina's movie has to do with a mysterious book that details local unsolved crimes, most of them of the distinctly icky variety, such as the kidnapping and murder of babies, people with their eyes gouged out, etc."
Read More:
alternativecinema.blogspot.com/2010/05/chris-lamartina-an...
An afternoon visit in Oxfordshire to the National Trust property of Buscot Park.
Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.
It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian. Campbell's daughter Florence would later be famous as Mrs Charles Bravo, the central character in a Victorian murder case that remains unsolved to this day. On Campbell's death, in 1887, the house and its estate were sold to Alexander Henderson a financier, later to be ennobled as Baron Faringdon.
Following the death of the 1st Baron in 1934, the house was considerably altered and restored to its 18th-century form, by the architect Geddes Hyslop, for his grandson and successor, Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon, during this era, the art collection founded by the 1st Baron was considerably enlarged, although many of the 1st Baron's 19th-century works of art were sold immediately following his death.
The house and estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956. The contents (which include works of art by Rembrandt and Burne-Jones) are owned by the Faringdon Collection Trust. The house is occupied and managed by the present Lord Faringdon. The mansion and its extensive formal and informal gardens and grounds are open to the public each summer.
Grade II* listed building
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BUSCOT SU29NW Buscot Park 1/23 10/11/52 GV II* Country house. Built about 1780 for Edward Loveden Townsend, altered in the 1860s, altered and extended in 1889 and finally reduced in size and given E and W Pavilions (q.v.) in 1934-6. No architects are recorded for the first 2 phases of building, but the 1889 extensions were made by Sir Ernest George whose partner, Harold Peto, was landscaping the grounds at that time, and the final phase of reconstruction was directed by Geddes Hyslop. This reinstated the restrained classical lines of the original 1780 design. Finely jointed ashlar, rusticated base, dentil cornice and a hipped slate roof with E and W and ridge stone stacks. 3 storeys and attic, 9 bays. S front of 9 bays with 2 dormers. The 3 centre bays have slight projection and a pediment with carved floral enrichment, a wide flight of steps to central glazed doors with cornice head at first floor level. Modern sashes and blind boxes to all windows. The N front has 3 central bays flanked by segmental bows of 3 windows each the whole height of the building. 7 dormer windows. E and W fronts have 3 bay projections and pediments with lunettes. The interiors were all redesigned and redecorated in the 1934-6 reconstruction in a mixed neo-Classical manner incorporating wine very fine original C18 chimney-pieces. A series of paintings entitled 'the Briar Rose' by Edward Burne Jones that were acquired for the Drawing Room by Alexander Henderson in 1890 were installed under the artist's direction and in specially designed frames in the Saloon where they still hang. Country Life, 18, 25 May 1940; National Trust Guidebook to Buscot Park.
Listing NGR: SU2430696829
West Pavilion
Grade II listed building
Buscot Park: West Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls and Gatepier
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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/09/2012
SU29NW 1/104 10/11/52
BUSCOT Buscot Park, West pavilion with attached terrace walls and gatepier
(Formerly listed with Buscot Park)
GV II
Pavilion (part of country house). Circa 1935 by Geddes Hyslop for 2nd Baron Faringdon. Limestone ashlar. 7-bay range running parallel with main axis of mansion (q.v.) has both ends porticoed with 4 Tuscan Doric columns in antis and roundels in pediments. Longer sides have an additional basement storey, to east opening to a sunken service court; middle bay, which is wider and breaks forward below triangular pediment, has an arched carriage entry rising through both storeys. Ashlar ridge stacks flank central bay. Stone retaining walls, punctuated by low piers with vases and by flights of steps, extend around the west and north sides of the north terrace, curving around a stone basin and statue, and to south ramp up to a raised balustrade adjoining the panelled northern pier of the south-west gateway to the forecourt. The walls form part of an elaborate formal landscape scheme surrounding the mansion. (q.v. also east pavilion and south screen.) (Country Life, 18, 25 May 1940; National Trust Guidebook to Buscot Park).
Listing NGR: SU2426796849
In 1994, "Unsolved Mysteries" did an episode on the Fatima, Portugal visitations where Mary appeared to three children in 1917. They used clips from this film which they said was made in Portugal in 1993. I am trying to locate this film. There have been three other films about Fatima made, one in the US and two in Portugal, and none of them are it.
If you recognize these actresses or know the film, please contact me!
Quinton has grown considerably in recent years, but Lower Quinton still retains a palpable atmosphere of the past. Friday Street is lined with lined with half-timbered and Georgian houses and the church of St Swithin is one of the most interesting in the area, with the brooding mass of Meon hill beyond, infamous for the unsolved murder of Charles Walton in 1945 with its rumours of witchcraft. An elegant church with north and south aisles and west tower with a tall C15 spire visible for miles around. The south aisle is c 1100 and is thought to have been cut through the Saxon wall of an earlier church, while the north aisle shows the transition from round to pointed arches and is c 1170. The chancel is Early English and above the chancel arch the arms of Elizabeth I are still visible. A clerestory was added in the C15 and the nave has a late C16 oak roof. The aisles end in chapels to Our Lady and St Anne built in the C13 and C14. A Norman font stands by the north door. There are five Armorial windows designed by Geoffrey Webb between 1929-32. Webb asked local school children to suggest subjects to decorate the blank panes. At the end of the Transitional north aisle the Lady Chapel has an east window which incorporates a C14 niche which houses a modern Virgin and Child. Fragments of the original glass fill the tracery and Webb has designed panels depicting the Virgin's Life. The Chancel c 1255, was restored in 1862, when a large window by F. Preedy was inserted in the blank east wall. The south aisle has a chapel dedicated to St Anne which has a double piscina and a triple sedilla, 1340. The jewel of this chapel is an Altar tomb to Joanna, Lady Clopton c 1430 who entered a religious order after the death of her husband. The brass shows her wearing a wimple and a widows barbe. She originally lay next to her husband Sir William, but they were separated in 1749 and his effigy is now lies between the south aisle and the nave. Sir William is depicted in full armour, though he is thought to have been the victim of Parliamentary troops, who damaged the sculpture.
[9:44pm]
Well today isn't my birthday but I got most of my gifts anyway, this was because Callie and Mom won't be home on my birthday and my Grandpa showed up today so we figured that we'd do it all today.
I didn't get everything that I wanted but I deffinatly got the most important thing. A Nikkor 75-300mm lense. I LOVE IT! It focuses to 5 feet at 300mm so its almost a macro lense. I also got, as you can see, a bunch of DVD's so I'll become the resident couch potato for the next few days.
Fun fun.
After all of the excitement of dinner and presents I played 30 minutes of piano for everybody, which they seemed to really like, then I went upstairs and I managed to fix the probelm with my Flickr account, Thank god the good people at Yahoo allowed me to switch the Account this thing was based on.
Anyway I just had a double shot of espresso and a suger cookie :) so I'm gonna go watch Scrubs Season 2.
2 Days until I'm 16!!!
Holga 120SF / Lomography 120CN 400
Unintentional frame overlap with intentional double exposure on the second frame.
Kids are often attracted by objects which can be potentially dangerous for them. They try to touch the flame of a candle or play with a sharp knife without knowing what the consequences can be. That is the age when everything around them is an unsolved mystery. Curiosity is at it’s peak. They are so innocent that they don’t even know the meaning of words like pain, agony, death etc.
This little chick of a Purple Sunbird behaved in the same manner when I was closing in on it. Although it knew how to fly, it innocently stayed where it was. It didn't know that a human in such close proximity can be dangerous for it or maybe it knew that this human with a camera in his hand is harmless and a responsible person ;-) . It was chirping continuously perhaps trying to share its location with its parents. I started clicking and watching it closely through my viewfinder. Suddenly, I saw another bird entering the frame. It was an adult female sunbird and had brought some breakfast for the chick. There went my shutter firing continuously at more than 7 frames per second, recording one of the most beautiful spectacles of nature. It was all over in a fraction of a second. Here is my first shot of a bird feeding it’s chick.
It had been two and a half weeks since 8-year-old Dajore Wilson was shot and killed in her father's northbound SUV at 47th and Union by a gunman in a Dodge Charger who drove up behind the SUV, shot into it, then did a U-turn and sped back south. The SUV crossed Union into the opposing traffic lane and crashed into a parked car.
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-police-seek-car-wan...
Over time, a memorial grew at the site. As of April 17, 2024, the gunman is still at large.
A simple plot that seems to expand into hilarious slap stick?
After getting lambasted by the Police Chief for the 42 unsolved robberies committed on his watch, Officer Kennedy bamboozles vagrants Stanley and Oliver into a plan to recover his reputation, in exchange for not jailing them for sleeping on park benches. Kennedy sets them to burgling the Police Chief's own house, planning to arrest them in front of his boss, and later "fixing it" for the boys.