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Today in History 12 July: During the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia, a groundbreaking agreement called the Great Compromise was adopted. This compromise resolved the contentious issue of representation between large and small states,
and other female creatures 1. I wanted to be a woman in the woods. I ended up in jail. 2. This is a story with no obvious beginning. Like a river of disputed origin. Let’s start in a hospital bed where a young woman has been watching blood clots work their way down a catheter tube. Which snakes between her own two legs. Let’s have her smoking a cigarette, which locates us in time. A time when you could smoke in hospitals. Let’s make it look awkward because she just started smoking today! The diagnosis is cancer, so, really, why not?
1:58 The first Europeans to settle Upper Louisiana saw river bottoms with a diverse mix of flood-tolerant trees and lowland prairies. In the Bootheel, prairies on ancient sand deposits were sites of the earliest settlement. Animals included bison, elk, and prairie chickens. These alternated with swamp forests of oaks, sweetgum, and cypress up to 1000 years old. The higher sites that native peoples had cultivated had grown up to dense giant cane. Forested river hills along the Mississippi gave way to open oak-hickory forests with grassy understory inland. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft described these...
1 of 4 Bill Clark of Van Buren harvested this bull elk on his property.Photo courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation. Sam Schultz of Winfield harvested this 5x6 bull elk in Shannon County.Photo courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation. Michael Buschjost of St. Thomas took this 6x6 bull elk outside of the refuge portion of the Missouri Department of Conservation Peck Ranch Conservation Area. Photo courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation. Joe Benthall of Mount Vernon harvested this 5x5 bull elk in Shannon County.Photo courtesy Missouri Department of Conserv...