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    1. Ellsberg was motivated after hearing a draft resister named Randy Kehler, who was excited ‘to join his friends in prison’ by making the moral choice to protest against the war. In modern times,
    1. The Wisconsin experience demonstrates that a preoccupation with mostly phantom election fraud leads to real incidents of disenfranchisement, which undermine rather than enhance confidence in elections, particularly in minority communities.
    1. The Wisconsin experience demonstrates that a preoccupation with mostly phantom election fraud leads to real incidents of disenfranchisement, which undermine rather than enhance confidence in elections, particularly in minority communities
    1. so long as the subpoena is issued in good faith and is based on a legitimate need of lawenforcement, the government need not make any special showing to obtain evidence of criminal conduct from a reporter in a criminal proceeding.
    1. The county has four "historic wildfire corridors," including the Hanly Fire area, Sonoma Valley (scene of the Cavedale fires in 1925 and 1966), the Geysers (with fires in 1988, 1999 and 2004 that covered a total of 22,000 acres) and the Guerneville area (hit by major fires in 1923 and 1961, the latter burning 5,800 acres, 18 homes and $500,000 worth of timber. In Santa Rosa, about one-fourth of the city's residents live within four moderate, high and very high severity fire zones, mostly hilly, wooded areas all east of Highway 101. Two of the zones bracket Annadel State Park: One of them east of Summerfield Road, the other along Highway 12 including parts of Oakmont. The largest zone covers a broad swath of northeast Santa Rosa, including all of Fountaingrove and the Chanate Road, Hidden Valley and Brush Creek areas down to Highway 12.
    1. list of nominees for Best Film Editing will quickly change your mind: Barbara McLean. Margaret Booth. Dorothy Spencer. Monica Collingwood. Adrienne Fazan. Alma Macrorie. Viola Lawrence. Anne V. Coates. Thelma Schoonmaker (rings a bell?). Verna Fields. Marcia Lucas. Dede Allen. Lisa Fruchtman. Nena Danevic. Susan E. Morse. Claire Simpson. Susan E. Morse. Gabriella Cristiani. Geraldine Peroni. Veronika Jenet. Sally Menke. Simona Paggi. Lisa Zeno Churgin. Jill Bilcock. Clare Douglas. Juliette Welfling. Pamela Martin. Anne-Sophie Bion. Sandra Adair.
    1. This painting was originally created in the 1930s for the teashop 'Pooh Corner' in Bristol

      This painting was originally created in the 1930s for the teashop 'Pooh Corner' in Bristol

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Shepard

    1. The biggest regret in EH Shepard's life was agreeing to illustrate Winnie the Pooh for AA Milne, as it resulted in the bulk of his work, even during his lifetime, being completely overshadowed.

      The biggest regret in EH Shepard's life was agreeing to illustrate Winnie the Pooh for AA Milne, as it resulted in the bulk of his work, even during his lifetime, being completely overshadowed.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Shepard