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Some favorites: The Divine Inspiration of Jim Jones. What Jim Jones borrowed from Father Divine, a New York- and Philadelphia-based minister. quote:Jones returned to Indiana full of enthusiasm—and already plotting to supersede Father Divine. By then, the aging Divine was too old to preach. Tape recordings of his sermons were played over loudspeakers at the Peace Mission banquets—as they still are today—and Father Divine seldom ventured beyond Woodmont. The movement, Jones believed, was ripe for a takeover, and he was the man for the job. The Power of One. Bonnie Richardson is the only competitor from her track team at the state meet. She singlehandedly won the competition for the school. The next year, she did it again. Duel in the Sun: The 1982 Boston Marathon. The top runners battled the entire way, making for a fantastic race and changing both their lives. The True Story Of The Fake Zombies, The Strangest Con In Rock History. The Zombies had broken up by the time Time of the Season became a hit in America. It didn't stop a few promoters from putting together a tour. O Sister, Where Art Thou. A Skip Hollandsworth article about an extremely popular all-girls band ... inmates in a Texas prison.
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RNG posted:The Crossing Reaaaally long (33 parts) article about the worst traffic accident in Colorado history (a train striking a school bus). It goes into the stories of everyone affected both then and now; kind of a tearjerker. That piece is amazing. And really awful in that many of the families kept suffering tragedies.
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New York Times series on the girls basketball team of Carroll Academy, an alternative school in Tennessee. It hits a little close at times when your own hometown isn't far removed at all from this situation: It Ain't About the Record, Court-ordered basketball and no fans, 'Bad Decisions, Good Intentions. And a follow-up of sorts, That's as Bad as It Gets. The Innocent Man. A two-part Texas Monthly article on Michael Morton, convicted in 1987 of killing his wife and the legal struggle to prove his innocence.
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Mar 18, 2017 04:47
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Just in case someone hasn't read it yet, The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans. Not traditional longform, but a multi-part series about what can go wrong when tourists completely misjudge their surroundings.
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Mar 24, 2017 04:51
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The Magical Season of the Macon Ironmen. Small town Illinois high school team almost wins the big one. One of the players, Brian Snitker, is now managing the Atlanta Braves.
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An actual feel-good story: Runs in the Family: Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough went searching for his biological parents. He found them where he never would have expected. No spoilers because that's the feel-good portion.
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An oral history of Too Many Cooks.
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Edit: Article already posted above. On this page. I am dumb. Probably already posted, too: The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest gently caress-Up The Bicycle Thief. A one-time Olympic cycling hopeful starts robbing banks. RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 04:34 on Apr 1, 2019 |
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1980s Villanova women's basketball star Shelly Pennefather became a nun.quote:That Saturday morning in 1991, Pennefather drove her Mazda 323 to the Monastery of the Poor Clares in Alexandria, Virginia. She loved to drive. Fifteen cloistered nuns waited for her in two lines, their smiles radiant.
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FrozenVent posted:The Terror is based on a real story, they just added a monster to make it less spooky. I've read two excellent books on the search for the Northwest Passage and both detailed the Franklin Expedition. Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (Glyn Williams) The Man Who Ate His Boots (Anthony Brandt) The latter has more Franklin Expedition history, while the former has better stories about other explorers. The Franklin Expedition does have updates since the publication of the two books. Both the Erebus and Terror have been found. Artifacts. At least some good came out of the Franklin disaster - everyone's attempts at finding the crew led to huge chunks of Canada being mapped for the first time.
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ultrafilter posted:The Prophecies of Q e: Here's something legitimately nice and gentle. How Two Kentucky Farmers Became Kings Of Croquet, The Sport That Never Wanted Them RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 17:59 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Cervixalot posted:How wealthy parents are using niche sports like squash, fencing and rowing to get their kids into Ivy League schools. And failing. The crazy thing is that until covid, I'd think there were probably more athletic scholarships available than ever before. They're just not hoity-toity athletics and not at hoity-toity schools. You know what was growing? Scholarships for fishing and video gaming. If this hell world recovers enough, I'm thinking that women's wrestling scholarships will be on the rise as well. Men's wrestling has been in a freefall for a few decades at the college level, but the amount of women in amateur wrestling is skyrocketing.
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Danger posted:Sorry if it’s been mentioned but thread favorite Skip Hollansworth has a new piece out which is also an episodic podcast with Texas Monthly: Tom’s Body. I had planned to do things today. I'm now on Part 7 of Tom's Body. Thanks a lot. Seriously. Thanks. A lot. Hollandsworth is one of my favorite writers. Edit: I think it was suicide. I think Tom gave his phone and belongings to a friend or his brother for safekeeping, possibly not giving them a reason at all. They held on to the phone for sure, perhaps the backpack, too. Possibly even by coincidence they laid the phone by Lake Marvin Road to be found when they heard of the search. Tom himself might have laid the backpack down. The article never said if it was obvious it had been under the tree or looked freshly left. He might have thought the world was collapsing on him. His grandfather killed himself near the same location, which I think is big. He searched suicide prevention numbers the night of his death. Most of the investigating agencies were absolute crap, which has let this fester even longer. RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 21:01 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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The Skeletons at the Lake: Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.quote:It was the Roopkund B group, a mixture of men and women unrelated to one another, that confounded everyone. Their genomes did not look Indian or even Asian. “Of all places in the world, India is one of the places most heavily sampled in terms of human diversity,” Reich told me. “We have sampled three hundred different groups in India, and there’s nothing there even close to Roopkund B.”
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CleverHans posted:Death of a (Really Good) Salesman I read that one earlier today. I can't argue for "dramatic fall" in that he was always terrible with money and had decades of bad decisions. They didn't give me much to even prove he was a good salesman.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The Girl in the Kent Story Photo. What it says. Very very good. That was tremendous. I had never considered her age and despite knowing that lots of people were anti- anti-Vietnam, I didn't realize so many blamed them for being shot, even the student who happened to be passing through. Americans have always loved their victim-blaming.
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Apr 20, 2021 20:38
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Stephen King's early novel The Long Walk is essentially this right down to messing with your mind at the finish, except they shoot you dead for going too slow in it.
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The Search for a Ranger Who Was Lost and Never Foundquote:Paul Fugate was last seen around 2 P.M. on Sunday, January 13, 1980, when he stepped out of the visitor center at Chiricahua National Monument, in southeastern Arizona, wearing his standard Park Service uniform and Red Wing boots and carrying a green down parka. “I am going to do a trail,” he announced to an aide. If he wasn’t back by 4:30, she should close up without him. No trace of Fugate was ever conclusively found. Investigators formed theories. Many make perfect sense. At the same time, they can all be disproven. Was Fugate murdered, did he willingly disappear? And who was involved with the outcome?
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In 1966, a woman drowned in a motel pool in Pecos, Texas. She had been traveling with a man and, upon alerting him, he asked for his hotel registration card to show to authorities. He got it, then promptly disappeared. Her identity was figured out recently. Her name was Jolaine Hemmy and she was from Kansas. She disappeared from there earlier in 1966 and how she ended up in Texas is a mystery. They still don't know who the man was with her.
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i!ii!!iii!!!ii!!i! posted:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/twenty-years-gone-911-bobby-mcilvaine/619490/ This is exceptional.
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Aug 12, 2021 18:02
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Porno hustlers of the Atari age, with a focus on Custer's Revenge. It's deep dive into the business behind these games, which is quite complicated. Has descriptions of Custer's Revenge, but nothing explicit. Not that you could really get more than crudely explicit with Atari 2600 games.
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Searching for Mr. X.quote:For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for? Mr. X is in a Mississippi mental health facility in the 1930s with amnesia. Finding his family is complicated.
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I started thinking about the Tom Brown case, the one Skip Hollandsworth did an 8-part series on. I had forgotten it was so long ago when I read it, until I came to the part at the end where Hollandsworth expected a grand jury presentment in 2021. That didn't happen, it seems, but a 249-page packet about the case was offiically released in October. A few new things pop up, at least things that weren't referenced in the Hollandsworth series. The major one, at least for me, is that someone deliberately wiped his social media and iCloud. Brown could have done it himself, but later in the packet, his mother and the highly-paid "investigator" who preferred stirring things up blame each other for closing his Facebook account. Since the mother later asked if anyone knew Brown's iPhone password (before the phone publicly conveniently found during the "investigator"'s search), I think she wiped it because there were things she preferred hidden. Brown had his secrets and for him to be searching suicide prevention numbers the night he disappeared, he had his deep burdens, too. The packet makes a pretty clear case of either accidental death or suicide. In my own theories, I can't rule out accidental death. It was cold out and he wasn't wearing much clothing. He could have decided to take a long walk (it was November) and developed hypothermia, which caused him to wander even more.
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Longform is shutting down its recommendations. Longreads doesn't do it for me. Are there any other good articles recommendations places?
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uggy posted:Cool article about an extended family of siblings who were mostly put up for adoption and found each other later in life. And potentially a lot of awfulness underneath. The father of the reunited siblings had a marriage and an intact family of his own. Anne (the adopted kids' mother) was his mistress and it sounds like he was making money off selling most of the kids she continuously had.
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New Skip Hollandsworth: Glen McCurley Strangled Carla Walker in 1974. Was She His Only Victim? The drama isn't the case that convicted McCurley. Hollandsworth brings up the other issues involved in cold cases. The lack of effort to investigate them because money involved in a low reward situation. The family kept up the pressure, but Interest in this case was revived by a true crime podcast. Money had to be donated to do DNA testing. Forensic Files II covered this case recently if you want the nitty-gritty on the investigation. A new season of that is tonight and they've been replaying other FFII episodes.
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Porfiriato posted:https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/2/23705821/jeopardy-lost-tapes-barbara-lowe-mystery-champion I linked that earlier in the Jeopardy thread. From the story Lowe Volllick tells, it seems her biggest sin might have been what's thrust on young athletes now - that she was too animated. Instead of the staid, boring Jeopardy contestant that was the case for most of its history, Lowe Vollick emoted and Trebek and the producers hated it. I do wonder if there was something else that made their reaction over the top. I can easily see Eisenberg/Trebek being mad then that she was questioning AND successful, held on to her money and didn't let her compete at Tournament of Champions. Surely she couldn't have been the only tenacious contestant or the only one who had the runs, even in Season 2. Did they perhaps think or believe they had reason to believe she was cheating somehow? (I do know Eisenberg claimed she was using multiple SSN numbers, but no evidence has popped up to support that or that she did exceed the number of game show appearances or tried to weasel her way on Jeopardy under a fraudulent name.) RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 02:45 on May 3, 2023 |
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Listening to the Procol Harum's Live with the Edmonton Syphony Orchestra, I was reminded that I had heard somewhere that the band was named for a cat. I stumbled upon someone's search for the cat. The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Cat: in Search of the Real Procol Harum
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A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry. Lupus has been connected to at least two patients with severe mental illness. By focusing on that, both have made a ton of progress. Of course, after 20 years, it's going to remain to be seen what happens with the title story. WaPo, but I think this is one they're making free to everyone.
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Every line of the story seems more and more fantasy. ProPublic'a's writers took great care to find the best phrasing and quotes. quote:Not everyone minded. Kaelan Strouse, a 35-year-old life coach, was thrilled by both the “restaurant-size pepper mill” between his legs and the kilts he began wearing to accommodate it. Richard Hague Jr., a 74-year-old pastor at a Baptist church in Niagara Falls, said his implant made him feel like “a wild stallion.” For example. quote:Ed Zimmerman, who trained as a family practitioner, is now known for his proprietary HapPenis injections; he saw a 69% jump in enhancement clients after rebranding himself in 2021 as TikTok’s “Dick Doc.” And this was nice. e: Somehow, this was the most bonkers line of them all to me. quote:He won a free Penuma in a contest in 2013, as part of a marketing campaign involving the rapper Master P. RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 03:15 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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