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So when Taft accused Truman — not long after his “special” train had stopped in Crestline — of going around the country on this campaign train tour “blackguarding (attacking) Congress at every whistle-stop,” Truman embraced the opportunity. Altogether, Segal has cataloged about 180 campaign train trips throughout U.S. history — from William Henry Harrison to Joe Biden, with dozens of presidents, vice presidents, first ladies, representatives, senators and governors in between. The project was inspired by Segal's personal experience organizing a whistle-stop campaign tour for Republican U.S. Rep. Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, for whom he was serving as press secretary in 1984. Sometimes campaign trains were used in creative ways, too, as when comedian Gracie Allen pretended to run for president in 1940, as the nation was recovering from the Great Depression. In 1972, Winnie the Pooh launched a bid for the White House from Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A., then went on a two-week whistle-stop tour with his trusted advisers, Tigger and Eeyore.

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☆ Review: On ‘Killing It,’ It’s Dog (and Snake and Gator) Eat Dog
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( James Poniewozik | More About James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

(If you didn’t watch it — and the show’s undeserved lack of buzz suggests you didn’t — stream it before starting the new one. It’s 10 quick episodes, and you’ll want to be up to speed on the serialized story.) Craig has started his saw palmetto farm with Jillian, only to see the first crop threatened by another invasive swamp thing, the giant African land snail. The struggle to save the farm deepens the partnership between Craig, softhearted but realistic, and Jillian, the persistent Jiminy Cricket on his shoulder. “Killing It” shares a low-rent vibe with series like the late, raunchy “Florida Girls,” whose Melanie Field steals scenes as Craig and Jillian’s domineering assistant, Shayla.

Persons: Craig, Jillian, Dot, Marie Jones, Jackie, larcenous Boones, ”, Melanie Field, Shayla Organizations: palmetto, Cricket Locations: horning, Florida

☆ In New Mexico, an unlikely wildfire thinning alliance
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Andrew Hay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Near Taos in northern New Mexico, Vicente Fernandez, a mayordomo, or forest caretaker, cut saplings and seedlings crowding a mature fir tree. In an about-face, the Forest Service is now paying local woodcutters or leñeros $300 an acre to cut these trees for personal use or sale. Some environmentalists oppose Taos County's so called Mayordomo Program, and other thinning, saying it is a waste of time, harms forests and is often a guise for logging. "The Forest Service believes in helping communities to wisely use the forests," the agency said in a statement. "We cannot fireproof forests, we can fireproof communities," said Horning, who has lived in northern New Mexico for 30 years.

☆ Cassidy Hutchinson secretly back-channeled with the Jan. 6 committee before blindsiding her Trump-aligned lawyer in a bombshell deposition
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Hutchinson told the panel that her Trump-aligned lawyer advised her to mislead lawmakers. ""Look, we want to get you in, get you out," Hutchinson said Passantino told her before the appearance. Reach out to them," Hutchinson told the panel, paraphrasing what Passantino told her of a job offer connected to former top Trump aide Jason Miller. Hutchinson said she told Farah, who was also a former House aide, to back channel with the January 6 committee. Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson arrives for her public testimony in front of the January 6 committee.

☆ Curtea tronului lui Irod Antipa, locul în care Ioan Botezătorul a fost decapitat, descoperită de arheologi
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-05 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +4 min

descriu modul în care regele Irod Antipa, fiul regelui Irod cel Mare, l-a executat pe Ioan Botezătorul. irodIrod Antipa se temea de influenţa în creştere exercitată de Ioan Botezătorul în rândul populaţiei israelite, motiv pentru care l-a executat, conform lui Flavius Iosefus. Biblia menţionează că Irod Antipa urma să se căsătorească cu o femeie pe nume Irodia, însă amândoi erau divorţaţi, iar Ioan Botezătorul a obiectat cu privire la această uniune. Regele Irod a şovăit să-i îndeplinească dorinţa, însă în cele din urmă a acceptat, iar Ioan Botezătorul a fost decapitat şi capul lui i-a fost oferit fiicei Irodiei pe o tavă. Ei şi-au exprimat îndoiala că această nişă ar reprezenta rămăşiţele tronului lui Irod Antipa.

Persons: Flavius Iosefus, Irod Antipa, Irod cel Mare, Ioan Botezătorul . Cronicarul Flavius Iosefus, execuţia, irod Irod Antipa, Ioan Botezătorul, Irod, Ioan, Salomeea, Ioan Botezătorul . Regele Irod, Alliata, Irod Antipa . irod, Arheologii, Vörös, ştiinţă, Horning Jensen, Jodi Magness, Irod Antipa . Ea, Eric Meyers Organizations: Teologie, University, Chapel, Duke University Locations: Machaerus, israelian, Iordaniei, Galileea, părţi, Iordania, North Carolina, Ierihon, Upper Herodium

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