The Texas Bucket List - Presidio La Bahia
We visit Presidio La Bahia in Goliad to explore the grounds where men died fighting for Texas Independence from Mexico. You can even stay the night at La Bahia, just as long as you aren’t afraid of what goes bump in the night! It’s a place that every Texan needs to visit, and hear the battle cry of Texas in soft South Texas breeze – Remember Goliad!
Greystone Castle - Texas
Greystone Castle
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Ghost Busters in Terrell, TX
More details and purchase tickets at terrellghostwalk.com or visit one of our talented Mediums (by appointment only) at terrellmediums.com.
Shout out to the writers of the awesome musicians who let us use it in our feature. We would like to thank JD Ryant of Texas Day Trippin on 1080 AM for taking his time out to come and interview us. We really enjoyed telling our stories, sharing our paranormal experiences, and describing the accuracy of our mediums. Please make it see us some night in Terrell, TX. Details at terrellghostwalk.com or 972-546-7536. One of our Investigation Team will be happy to take care of you and address your concerns about what might be happening in your home or business. As featured in Texas Monthly and Kaufman County Live Magazine.
See you at the Walk! #terrellghosts #terrellmediums
Across America: Creeping Through a Ghost Town.
We got a flat tire! Luckily it happened within a mile or two from our hotel. After I got it plugged, we packed up, and headed towards Toyah, Texas. Toyah is a little ghost town in West Texas I've been dying to explore. Enjoy!
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Jamie Foxx Interviews Dwayne Johnson || OFF SCRIPT a Grey Goose Production
Watch Dwayne Johnson get real with Jamie Foxx about running for president, the importance of being kind, and more in this Grey Goose production. #ad #OffScript
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We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 - gov hhs cms 006719
To commemorate victims the 98th anniversary of the breakout of the first major H1N1 Flu pandemic, I present to you US government produced documentary:
We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918.
The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population—making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults. Modern research, using virus taken from the bodies of frozen victims, has concluded that the virus kills through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system). The strong immune reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups.
Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the pandemic's geographic origin. It was implicated in the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.
To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States; but papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII), creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit—thus the pandemic's nickname Spanish flu. In Spain, a different nickname was adopted, the Naples Soldier, which came from a musical operetta (zarzuela) titled La canción del olvido (The Song of Forgetting). The operetta premiered in Madrid during the first epidemic wave, and Federico Romero, one of the librettists, quipped that the play's most popular musical number, Naples Soldier, was as catchy as the flu.
H1N1 would later make its return in 2009 in the form of Swine Flu. the 1918 outbreak was an Avian strain.
James Thurber Delivers Remarks on the New Congress
James Thurber, American University, delivers remarks on the new Congress and discusses the important issues facing the Congress and the Obama Administration at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C. on March 21, 2013. A text transcript can be found at
Aaron Burr | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Aaron Burr
00:01:46 1 Early life
00:03:46 1.1 Revolutionary War
00:07:45 2 First marriage and family
00:10:22 2.1 Illegitimate children
00:12:27 3 Politics
00:14:31 3.1 New York City politics
00:16:28 3.2 The presidential election of 1800
00:19:17 3.3 Vice presidency
00:20:19 4 Duel with Alexander Hamilton
00:25:27 5 Conspiracy and trial
00:31:13 6 Exile and return
00:32:46 7 Later life and death
00:33:08 7.1 Adopted and natural children
00:34:18 7.2 Marriage to Eliza Jumel
00:35:09 7.3 Death
00:35:36 8 Character
00:40:27 9 Legacy
00:41:14 10 Representation in literature and popular culture
00:46:34 11 Notes
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Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician. He was the third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805), serving during Thomas Jefferson's first term.
Burr served as a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War, after which he became a successful lawyer and politician. He was elected twice to the New York State Assembly (1784–1785, 1798–1799), was appointed New York State Attorney General (1789–1791), was chosen as a U.S. senator (1791–1797) from the State of New York, and reached the apex of his career as vice president. In the waning months of his tenure as president of the Senate, he oversaw the 1805 impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.
Burr shot his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a famous duel in 1804, the last full year of his single term as vice president. He was never tried for the illegal duel and all charges against him were eventually dropped, but Hamilton's death ended Burr's political career.
Burr left Washington, D.C., and traveled west seeking new opportunities, both economic and political. His activities eventually led to his arrest on charges of treason in 1807. The subsequent trial resulted in acquittal, but Burr's western schemes left him with large debts and few influential friends. In a final quest for grand opportunities, he left the United States for Europe. He remained overseas until 1812, when he returned to the United States to practice law in New York City, where he spent the rest of his life in relative obscurity.
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is the 15th largest city in the United States of America with a population of 809,798 . It is the core city of the Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area , which encompasses a ten county area. Under the Metropolitan Statistical Area model, it is the third largest metropolitan area in Ohio, virtually tied with the Cleveland MSA and only slightly behind the Cincinnati MSA .
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5 Most Famous Unsolved Ever We will never know!
Just the thought of a person murdering in cold blood and getting away with it can send chills to the very innards of your soul. The victims, unavenged, and the killer still at large, ready to terrorize at a moment's notice, is simply frightening.
The murder mysteries on this list are some of the most brutal killings in history and have yet to be solved. What are the most famous unsolved murder cases? This list has them all.
In some of these cases, people were charged with murder only to be acquitted from a lack of evidence. In others, police didn't have any suspects or couldn't identify the victim.
This list is only five case of a lot of famous murders unsolved from around the world, as well as information about every single victim and any suspects who are named.