Social Nonsense & Odd News: Armed Woman, 75, Holds Up Bank

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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Armed Woman, 75, Holds Up Bank

Police have captured an elderly woman who they say tried to rob a bank with a gun in West Mifflin on Monday morning.
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Nathan Hale Is Hanged for Spying (1776)

A young teacher at the start of the American Revolution, Hale joined the Continental Army and volunteered for the dangerous mission of spying on British forces. The inexperienced 21-year-old managed to penetrate the British lines but was captured and hanged without trial. His last words, reported as, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," became a symbol of the Revolutionary spirit. Yet, some question whether these were his exact words. What might he have actually said? More... Discuss

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So the days pass, and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
Virginia Woolf
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