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Commentary: Forgetting - and remembering - the Alamo Paul Stekler, For the Express-News July 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Descendants of Alamo defenders place wreaths in 2019. History is not set in stone. Over time, people discover diaries and documents. They learn about forgotten events.Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth Hardcover - June 8, 2021, by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason StanfordHandoutShow Mo...

2 分で読む ［ワシントン　７日　ロイター　BREAKINGVIEWS］ - 米国の暗号資産（仮想通貨）ビジネスが「西部の荒野」、ワイオミング州に進出した。カウボーイで知られる同州は米連邦準備理事会（ＦＲＢ）などの米規制当局に先駆け、金融関係のルールを改定して暗号資産ビットコインを扱う新興企業を誘致している。しかし「ビットコイン銀行」の許認可は未踏の領域。...

In other words, Snake Plissken is John Carpenter, and Escape from New York was the first of three films in the 1980s in which Kurt Russell would serve as his charismatic stand-in – an iconoclast who had no home in the new Hollywood, but would take up residence on its fringes. As Plissken runs and guns his way through a Manhattan that’s been turned into maximum security prison, it’s easy to imagine it as an allegory for a film production, where Carpenter weaves his way through an impossibl...

Stanton Glantz est un professeur de médecine américain à la retraite et c’est sans doute l’une des pires saloperies anti-vape qui existe sur cette planète. C’est une célébrité puisqu’il fait partie des hommes qui ont révélé que Big Tobacco cachait le fait que le tabac provoquait le cancer dans les années 1980 avec les grands procès qui ont suivi. Il est l’auteur d’un best-seller appelé The Cigarette Papers publié en 1996. En 1994, Glantz reçoit deux cartons pleins d...

Gina Chon 3 minute read Representations of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum, DogeCoin, Ripple, Litecoin are placed on PC motherboard in this illustration taken, June 29, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters Breakingviews) - U.S. cryptocurrency businesses are riding out to the Wild West of Wyoming. The cowboy state has revamped financial rules to attract bitcoin startups, putting it ahead of the Federal Reserve and other D.C. regulators. But the measures for bitcoi...

a- Near Monument Valley, site of so many John Wayne westerns, the borders of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado come together at Four Corners. These adjoining states all share similar mountains and deserts. Yet the southern tier of Arizona and New Mexico displays practically Latin American levels of income inequality, while the northern tier of Utah and Colorado are almost Scandinavian in their economic egalitarianism. The seldom-remarked links between economic equality (Liberals Like) and...

Updated on July 8, 2021 at 12:10 am NBCUniversal, Inc. The city of Weatherford has seen more snake bites than normal for this time of year, and they’re warning people to be on the lookout. Physicians in Weatherford say they’ve seen enough snake bites among patients to cause concern. Dr. Nathan Holbrook is the Medical Director of Emergency Services with Medical City Weatherford. He said they’ve seen five snake bites this week alone. Typically, theyll see one or two per week this time of ye...

Remembering Richard Donner, Supermans real-life best friend The 1978 "Superman" movie was a turning point in how superheroes are seen on the screen — and thats all thanks to one man who stuck to his vision. By  Chris Taylor  on July 6, 2021 Director Richard Donner, left, gave us the ultimate movie vision of the ultimate hero — seen here with fictional best pals Jimmy, Lois and Perry. Credit: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images The decade didnt seem right for Superman. Few critics believ...

Imagine watching a John Wayne western and at the end of the movie The Duke takes off his cowboy hat, replaces it with a headdress, smears war paint under his eyes, and sides with the Indians. Unbelievable, right? Well, that was the gut punch felt by wrestling fans 25 years ago tomorrow. For over 12 years, Hulk Hogan proudly wore the red and yellow and preached his demandments of Hulkamania, which included: “train”, “say your prayers”, “eat your vitamins”, â�...

To both sides. what is the other side, slave holders fighting a war to hold on to their slaves, what could you give to that? >> i dont know. thats the problem. all grew out of a problem i wrote about texas needing to rebrand itself. we cannot have the image of the long tall white cowboy fighting and enslaving people of color as our brand anymore. but unfortunately, conservatives, particularly governor abbott and patrick, their identity is caught up in this mythology. governor patrick has a colle...