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FA-18 Hornet breaking sound barrier (7 July 1999)​



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Sir Mix-A-Lot & his posse on Broadway … in Seattle. Circa Late-80’s





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Now the freaks are getting hungry & Mix-a-Lot's treatin'
We stopped at Taco Bell for some Mexican eatin'
But Taco Bell was closed the girls was on my tip
They said, "Go back the other way we'll stop and eat at Dick's"
Dick's is the place were the cool hang out
The swass like to play and the rich flaunt clout
Posse to the burger stand so big we walk in twos
We're getting dirty looks from those other sucker crews
 

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Molly Williams

An African American, she was a slave[2] of the New York City merchant Benjamin Aymar. She was affiliated with the Oceanus Engine Company #11 in lower Manhattan. During her time in the company, she was called Volunteer No. 11.[3] Williams made a distinguished presence in her sturdy work clothes of calico dress and checked apron Her service was noted particularly during the blizzard of 1818. Male firefighters were scarce due to a cholera outbreak,[4] but Williams took her place with the men on the dragropes and pulled the pumper to the fire through the deep snow.[5]

When asked, Williams always replied: "‘I belongs to ole ‘Leven; I allers runs wid dat ole bull-gine.’"[6]


Further readingEdit

  • Ochlitree, Diana; Kemly (illustrator), Kathleen (2012). Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter. Calkins Creek. ISBN 978-1590787212. Story book for young children
 

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In 1960, a group of local businessmen in Louisville, Kentucky, backed amateur boxer Cassius Clay, protecting him from the underworld of boxing. Three days later he would win his first professional fight, and later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

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The group offered Muhammad Ali a $10,000 signing on fee, a guaranteed salary of $4,800, and covered all his expenses, in return for 50% of his fight purse.

One of then group members, William Sol Cutchins, remarked in 1963, “If anyone had told me a year ago that Cassius would develop into an international figure, I would have said he was smoking marijuana,”

Ali maintained lifelong friendships with many of the members. They helped him try to find a way to avoid the Vietnam draft while protecting his public image. And when group member Faversham had a severe heart attack, Ali drove from Chicago, through the night, to visit him in a Louisville hospital.
 
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