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LookNoFurther

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19 Dec

Tourists flock to Chernobyl
Climate change->plant extinctions
2 Baby whales
ISIS terrorist subdued by 3 Americans on French train convicted
Henry VIII’s traumatic brain injury
Sarah Palin is not going quietly
Miss America-100 years old
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1. In the afternoon of August 21, 2015, a French train carrying 554 passengers from Amsterdam to Paris was attacked by a 25-year-old Moroccan man named Ayoub El Khazzani.

2. He emerged from a train lavatory shirtless, brandishing a carbine and wearing a backpack that contained an automatic pistol, a utility knife, ammunition magazines and a bottle of gasoline.

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LookNoFurther

@LookNoFurther4

18 Dec

1. FDR’s 1944 Christmas Address:

“…The Christmas spirit lives tonight in the bitter cold of the front lines of Europe and in the heat of the jungles and swamps of Burma and the Pacific Islands.

2. "Even the roar of our bombers and fighters in the air and the guns of our ships at sea will not drown out the messages of Christmas which comes to the hearts of our fighting men.

3. "“We all know how anxious they are to be home with us, and they know how anxious we are to have them, and how determined every one of us is to make their day of home-coming as early as possible.

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LookNoFurther

@LookNoFurther4

11 Dec

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I grew up in a little town in northern Iowa. About 3,100 people lived there then.

It was a different time.

Both sides of my family had lived in my hometown, or on farms a few miles out, for more than one hundred years.

My grandpa had a business on Main Street that my dad took over when grandpa got sick.

I knew nearly everybody.

There were no “helicopter parents” then and the only teenagers who had cars were older boys who bought them used and beat-up and liked to tinker under the hood.

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LookNoFurther

@LookNoFurther4

10 Dec

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LookNoFurther

@LookNoFurther4

9 Dec

Russia fortifying Kaliningrad; Why?
British “treasure”
Japan bear attacks
Robbery on Putin’s Doomsday plane
Venice floodgate failure
Mexico's Mayan Train enjoined
Commercial shipping-environmental risk to Arctic Ocean
Former WWII POW Nicholas Katzenbach
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1. Thieves have pried open the cargo hatch of one of Putin’s four Ilyushin-80 airplanes, the strategic command and control aircraft that would protect Putin during a nuclear war and enable him to maintain command of Russian military forces--> look.substack.com/p/eight-things…

2.The robbery occurred as the plane was undergoing routine maintenance at the Taganrog Aviation Scientific & Technical Complex located on the northeast coast of the Sea of Azov.The Taganrog facility recently received more than $300,000 in government funds to upgrade its security.

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