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The Mountain Meadows Massacre The Mountain Meadows Massacre. In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared.
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Sharpeville massacre The Sharpeville Massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against the Pass laws, a crowd of about 5,000 to 7,000 black African protesters went to the police station. The South African Police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people.
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- The earliest known shooting to happen on school property in the US was the Pontiacs rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children (reports vary). Only three children survived.
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Beckwourth Trail Just west of Spanish Ranch is the area known as Meadow Valley where there were more ranches and mining. From this point the emigrants were pretty much following a pack trail and wagon road that had been built eastward from Marysville to supply this area with goods needed for ranching and mining activities.
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âIt was the tour from hellâ: Inside the Grateful Deadâs last shows, and Jerry Garciaâs final days DENNIS McNALLY, Grateful Dead publicist: In 1994 we played a gig at this airstrip in Highgate, Vermont [Franklin County Field, July 13, 1994]. It was almost a guerrilla thing. We went in, it was comfortable, we got out. The venue had been pristine, because nobody knew about it.
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- The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an American musical outfit led by frontman Anton Newcombe. It was formed in San Francisco in 1990. Their early music was in a shoegaze style. Following their debut album, Methodrone, the group's sound transitioned to a broader style of psychedelic rock, incorporating styles such as garage rock, folk rock and, later, electronica into their sound. The act continue to experiment with musical styles. The outfit was the subject of the 2004 documentary film Dig!, and ha
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Texas high school shooting: Girl shooter dead, 2 injured (CNN)A 14-year-old freshman shot and killed herself after shooting and wounding another female student at Alpine High School in west Texas, authorities said Thursday. In the confusion that followed, numerous law enforcement officers rushed to the scene and a US marshal accidentally shot a Homeland Security agent, Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson said.
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre  (book) The Mountain Meadows Massacre (book) The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1950) by Juanita Brooks was the first definitive study of the Mountain Meadows massacre. Brooks, a Mormon historian trained in historical methods, was discouraged from studying the incident, and she suffered some ostracism from fellow Mormons after its publication.
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre This was my first in-depth study of the Mountain Meadows massacre. I knew very little about the incident previous to reading this book and now I feel much more aware of the conditions within the Mormon Church as well as in the state of Utah, etc., leading up to the massacre.
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- The largest single-incident massacre of Indians in the American West. The attack near Preston, Idaho, at the confluence of Bear River and Beaver Creek, is considered the largest single-incident massacre of Indians in the American West-larger than Wounded Knee and Sand Creek.n January 29, 1863, the militia of the U.S. Army's Third California Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Patrick E. Connor, rode down the frozen bluff and massacred some 490+ Northwestern Shoshone Indians-the largest slaughter of Native Americans in the history of the country.
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SEVEN OAKS MASSACRE SEVEN OAKS MASSACRE. The chain of events leading to the Seven Oaks Massacre began in the spring of 1816, when the Hudson's Bay Company destroyed the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.he attack was a part of the companies' intense struggle for the control of the Northern Plains fur and meat trade; its immediate goal was to expel the Nor'westers from the Red River Settlement by cutting off their supply lines from the Plains.
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Mormon leader 'ordered massacre of settlers' The note claims that the founder of Salt Lake City ordered the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, when a wagon train of 120 settlers, mostly women and children, were killed after they had thrown down their weapons on a promise of safe passage.
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2015 Waco shootout On May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas, a shootout erupted at a Twin Peaks restaurant where members of several motorcycle clubs, including the Bandidos, Cossacks, and allies, had gathered for a regularly scheduled meeting about political rights for motorcyclists. Waco police, including a SWAT team, had gathered to monitor them from outside, and opened fire on the bikers after the shootout started. Nine bikers were killed, seven of them members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club, while eighteen others were
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Bonners Ferry, Idaho Bonners Ferry is eight miles (13 km) from the site of the Ruby Ridge confrontation and siege in 1992. In recent years, Mormon Fundamentalists from nearby Bountiful, British Columbia have established a presence in Bonners Ferry. They have brought with them the controversial practice of plural marriage.
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Mountain Meadows Massacre Mountain Meadows Massacre Articles. The Mountain Meadows Massacre summary: A series of attacks was staged on the Baker-Fancher wagon train around Mountain Meadows in Utah. This massive slaughter claimed nearly everyone in the party from Arkansas and is the event referred to as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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Wounded Knee incident Oglala and AIM activists controlled the town for 71 days while the United States Marshals Service, FBI agents, and other law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area. The activists chose the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre for its symbolic value.
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- Deposition of Brigham Young. Regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre. July 30, 1875. [Brigham Young declined to be deposed for John D. Lee's first trial, but he agreed to the following deposition for Lee's second trial, in which Lee was found guilty of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.]
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- The town of Pleasant Hill. Missouri was burned by Charles Jennison a...nd his band of Jayhawkers on November 17, 1861. Jayhawkers also burned the towns of Dayton, and Nevada, Missouri. At Kingsville, Missouri the town was burned and nine men killed. In September of 1864 Martin Rice, his son, along with six neighbors were captured by the 9th Kansas Cavalry. The six neighbors, all civilians were murdered, but Rice and his son were spared.
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In Refugee-Rich Vickery Meadow Neighborhood, Residents React To Ebola ShareTwitter Facebook Google+ Email. Ebola is the talk of Vickery Meadow in northeast Dallas. It's a refugee-rich neighborhood with a significant West African population – and it’s where a man was visiting before he became the first person in the United States diagnosed with the Ebola virus. Listen. Listening...
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Reopening a Mormon Murder Mystery; New Accusations That Brigham Young Himself Ordered an 1857 Massacre of Pioneers Reopening a Mormon Murder Mystery; New Accusations That Brigham Young Himself Ordered an 1857 Massacre of Pioneers. On Sept. 11, 1857, a group of California-bound pioneers camping in southern Utah were murdered by a Mormon militia and its Indian allies.
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1972 Olympics - Munich Massacre The Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually murdered by the Islamic terrorist group Black September.
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- The site where Stevie Ray Vaughan's helicopter crashed Aug. 27, 1990, killing him and four others. Vaughan had just finished playing at Alpine Valley with Eric Clapton.
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Black Bear Killed in High Uinta Great Salt Lake Council Boy Scout Camp By Bob Nelson • Jul 12, 2013. A confrontation last night between Boy Scout Camp leaders and a bear in the Uinta Mountains ended with a dead bear and possible charges being filed against a camp leader. It happened at the Hinckley Scout Ranch along the East Fork of the Bear River near the Utah-Wyoming border.
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Preserved Lemons Once preserved, the lemons are tender with a perfect balance between tart and salty. You lose some of the brighter lemon flavors, but these are supplanted by deep earthy notes that add a wonderful flavor to everything from stews to salads.
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Waco and Ruby Ridge: the 1990s standoffs haunting the Oregon takeover, explained — rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) January 3, 2016. But it's hardly unthinkable that law enforcement officials would respond aggressively to armed white right-wing extremists. In the early 1990s, in two high-profile standoffs at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, that's exactly what they did.
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Battle of Ash Hollow The Battle of Ash Hollow, also known as the Battle of Blue Water Creek or the Harney Massacre, was an engagement of the First Sioux War, fought on September 2 and 3, 1855 between United States Army soldiers under Brigadier General William S. Harney and a band of the Brulé Lakota along the Platte River in present-day Garden County, Nebraska.