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At Preakness, Not Everybody’s Idea of Fun

Posted on May 18, 2011 by atomictv

By Joe Drape (The New York Times, 5/17/2011) Excessive drinking at the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown, reached its nadir in 2007 when videos of young men racing atop portable toilets in the Pimlico Race … Continue reading →

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Another Trunk Mystery: A Dismembered Body Received in Baltimore (1887)

Posted on January 6, 2011 by atomictv

ANOTHER TRUNK MYSTERY. A DISMEMBERED BODY RECEIVED IN BALTIMORE. CHOPPED INTO SECTIONS FOR PACKING AND FORWARDED FROM NEW YORK BY THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY. The New York Times, January 27, 1887 BALTIMORE, Jan. 26.—On Sunday morning a cheap looking trunk … Continue reading →

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Husband, Wife and Unborn Child Killed by Bags of Batshit, 1854

Posted on December 26, 2010 by atomictv

Horrible Tragedy in Baltimore (The New York Times, August 23, 1854) On. Saturday last, at dinner time, at Fells Point, an industrious German, who had been engaged in unloading a ship, was, with his wife, seated upon a bag of … Continue reading →

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