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...likely causes, a meteor hit moved up. Few people suggest that a cataclysmic collision simply blew the ship out of the sky--not so low in the atmosphere, anyway. But up in orbit, a bad ding by a rogue rock could have done enough damage to cause serious drag as the ship descended through the atmosphere, and Columbia indeed heeled sharply to the left before it disintegrated. Pits and gouges in the protective tiles are common during flight; ships routinely pick up close to 100 of them. But for that very reason, a meteor remains a long shot: with...
...slavers in hot pursuit of their "property." The rising tide of escapees led to cross-border raids by Southern slaveholders who were emboldened by federal laws that gave them the right to chase runaways into free states. Hired slave hunters prowled the riverbanks, hoping to catch blacks and drag them south for cash. When no runaways were available, free-black citizens--there were 200,000 in the Northern states by 1860--could be clubbed and hustled across the river into captivity. Pro-slavery Northerners destroyed printing presses and burned the rare biracial schools...
...Golden Globe winner was then forced to sit through a grammar lesson taught by a man dressed in drag who towered above him. Scorsese was reprimanded with a slap on the wrist when he was unable to identify the grammatical error in the statement, “You Talkin’ to Me”—the famous line delivered by Robert De Niro in Scorsese’s film, Taxi Driver...
...Scorsese—whose films often feature acts of senseless violence—kept his cool as two men decked out in drag adorned Scorsese with a sparkling bra and a wig of long, golden locks...
...Huston had to do more to earn her “pudding pot” in the 53rd annual recognition of “lasting and significant contribution to the world of entertainment” than just take a loop through the Square with men in drag...