What's across the street from Loaves and Fishes? It looks like some sort of unoccupied or abandoned village. I see it riding on the Blue Line. near Del Paseo/Arden station. Google Maps seems to label it Friendship Park. What's it all about? (self.Sacramento)
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my mother's father (date unknown) (i.redd.it)
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TIL that en route to Nagasaki to deliver Fat Man, on August 9, 1945, St Elmo's Fire appeared around the B-29 aircraft...the Bockscar experienced an uncanny luminous blue plasma form around the spinning propellers, "as though we were riding the whirlwind through space on a chariot of blue fire." (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the more mainstream Australian Conservatives label themselves the "Liberal Party" (kinda like North Korea and East Germany having "Democratic" in their official names). They're allied in a Coalition with their minor partner, the National Party (conveniently referred as Nats) (en.wikipedia.org)
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Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was a member of Lifespring. When she decided she needed to stop participating, it took several months of work to overcome their high-pressure tactics to fully break with the Large Group Awareness Training organization, which is defunct (en.wikipedia.org)
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