This would be a crazy movie plot. A New Life. Life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back.
Eunice Williams, abducted in 1704 at age 7, refused to leave the Kahnawake Mohawks despite her father’s pleas — he found she had forgotten the English language and adopted Indian clothing and hairstyle. “She is obstinately resolved to live and dye here,” he wrote, “and will not so much as give me one pleasant look.” The Mohawks were much more indulgent of children than the colonists, and women were counted equal to men and played an integral role in society and politics. Eunice married a Mohawk and lived with him for half a century. A returned captive named Titus King reported that many young captives responded similarly. Texas police arrest 34-year-old high school student. LONGVIEW, Texas - LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) -- A 34-year-old woman posed as a teenager to enroll as sophomore at a small private high school in East Texas, officials said Wednesday.
Longview police said Charity Johnson was arrested early Tuesday morning after telling officers she was "Charite Stevens" and was born in November 1997. Police had been called to an apartment when the person Johnson was staying with said she no longer wanted her living there. Police gave Johnson a trespass warning. Officer Debra Stiles said during the investigation, police determined she had given them a false name and birthdate. Police say Johnson is 34, although jail records list her as 31. Stiles said she did not know why the woman posed as a teen. The principal at New Life Christian School in Longview said Johnson enrolled in October with a guardian and filled out paperwork indicating she was 15. "She acted like a 15, 16-year-old. Time Capsule from 1993. MAB_2014. Cops Flush Out 'Mystery Pooper' After 'Weird And Deliberate' Defecations On Park Slide.
Police in Michigan have successfully deterred the infamous "mystery pooper" from defecating on a park slide.
Ypsilanti Police made contact with the unidentified suspect following a streak of what officials called "weird and deliberate" defecations on the same playground slide between November 2013 and April 2014. The individual's identity has not been revealed, and no charges have been filed. Police said the suspect is a resident of a halfway house near Ypsilanti's Prospect Park.
Police said no additional defecations have occurred since they made contact. "This whole saga has generated a lot interest in Prospect Park from around the country. Earlier this year, a digital billboard and social media campaign were launched to help "flush out" the Mystery Pooper. But residents and the park employees tasked with wiping down the slide say they're just glad to put the incident behind them.
US Postal Service Still Trying To Deliver Letter Sent In 1945. Welcome to the Body Farm. By Rene Ebersole Beyond the border of an ordinary parking lot lies the most cutting-edge graveyard in the world … and a hands-on lab for cops and forensic anthropologists.
It was Valentine's Day when the gravediggers finished. The crew stood there waiting, their long-sleeved shirts drenched from a mixture of cold rain and sweat. At their feet were the holes—four of them—dug deep into the heavy clay. Nearby, young women and men in rubber gloves and medical gowns prepared to haul the cadavers down the hill. Picking their way through the barren woodland, they carried 10 bodies to the burial site. Nicknamed “the body farm,” the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Center is the oldest and most established of only four such facilities in the country.
Plotting the Farm Back in 1969, the director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation needed some advice. But Bass didn’t have much experience studying the remains of large livestock. So he resolved to fill the void. CSI: Farm Graham Yelton. Behance. Eleven Inc. is a San Francisco(CA) agency that asked us to develop and produce 18 clips starting from 18 words representing Dignity Health approach to health care (Dignity Health is a California-based not-for-profit public benefit corporation that operates hospitals and ancillary care facilities [wiki]).
The acronym of those 18 words reads H E L L O H U M A N K I N D N E S S on hellohumankindness.org home page to launch a Vine “contest” asking users to upload their interpretation of the same theme we developed in our clips. Each word reveal a theme expressed by sentences, all pivoting around human kindness to reflect and focus on the importance of those tiny charming gestures that positively affect our daily life.
Given conditions to respect were to fit Vineish style: square format and 6” clip length.