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10 YEARS AGO TODAY |5/28/02| Eminem releases his fourth album, The Eminem Show, through Aftermath Records
Today, we honor all of the fallen heroes who have paid the ultimate price in laying down their life for their country.
Their courage and sacrifice will be remembered for generations to come, and we, as a nation, will always be eternally grateful.
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“Corsair fighter looses its load of rocket projectiles on a run against a stronghold on Okinawa. In the lower background is the smoke of battle as Marine units move in to follow up with a Sunday punch.”
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Living Emblem of the United States Marines 1919
100 Officers and 9,000 Enlisted Men
Marine Barracks, Paris Island, S.C.
Brigadier General J.H. Pendleton, Commanding
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Frontispiece for “The Life of W.T. Sapp, the World Famous Ossified Man”
W.T. Sapp was born in Lebanon, KY, in 1854, and had a normal early childhood. By age seven, though, a significant stiffening of the joints had begun to appear in his legs and arms. By age ten, Sapp was completely immobilized aside from his left forearm, left hand, and jaw. He was still able to feed himself and write, but needed to be attended to in order to move about and care for himself in other ways. The disuse of his muscles led to a complete atrophy of the tissue (leading to a weight of only 40 lbs at adulthood), and the cost of his care led to his family displaying him as a sideshow freak.
However, unlike the majority of historical “freakish” persons, W.T. Sapp was cared for by a loving caretaker (a member of his church as a child) and family, and was very intelligent, referred to as an “encyclopedia in a baby carriage”. His successful career as a “circus freak” was not at the cost of his personal dignity and fulfillment, according to his own hand. He lived for over 45 years, and became one of the most renowned medical anomalies in the Western hemisphere and Western Europe.
This book was written Sapp’s his 43rd year of life. The exact condition Sapp was afflicted with is not known. However, there are many juvenile-onset muscular dystrophy/atrophy conditions known to exist today, and no doubt the majority existed in the past, as well.
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Frontispiece for “The Life of W.T. Sapp, the World Famous Ossified Man”
W.T. Sapp was born in Lebanon, KY, in 1854, and had a normal early childhood. By age seven, though, a significant stiffening of the joints had begun to appear in his legs and arms. By age ten, Sapp was completely immobilized aside from his left forearm, left hand, and jaw. He was still able to feed himself and write, but needed to be attended to in order to move about and care for himself in other ways. The disuse of his muscles led to a complete atrophy of the tissue (leading to a weight of only 40 lbs at adulthood), and the cost of his care led to his family displaying him as a sideshow freak.
However, unlike the majority of historical “freakish” persons, W.T. Sapp was cared for by a loving caretaker (a member of his church as a child) and family, and was very intelligent, referred to as an “encyclopedia in a baby carriage”. His successful career as a “circus freak” was not at the cost of his personal dignity and fulfillment, according to his own hand. He lived for over 45 years, and became one of the most renowned medical anomalies in the Western hemisphere and Western Europe.
This book was written Sapp’s his 43rd year of life. The exact condition Sapp was afflicted with is not known. However, there are many juvenile-onset muscular dystrophy/atrophy conditions known to exist today, and no doubt the majority existed in the past, as well.
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The Dark Knight Rises
Submitted by ashtrayb
Ode to the High Score
By Ian Brooks
O Top Scorers, O High Scorers!
You brave space, time, and dimly lit bar
To space-spar with czars in ships near bizarre
Harken to you, Scorers of Up High!
The lights you illuminate as the numbers they correlate
The enemies you topple, their masters you throttle
O Master of the Score,
You do battle with the machine to free unknown damsels
The commands you demand with no intention of cancel
O High Scorer, our Pixel Explorer,
The mazes you navigate while hidden secrets you activate
String combos you calculate to rain on targets you assassinate
O Courageous Scorers, the buttons your mast, the winds your controller!
You fear no time limit, pitfall, nor border
The walls you ignore as your course bores you forward
O Top Scorers, with numbers that soar
There is no floating head too large, nor galaxy too far
The High Score you unlocked in my heart, the moment you first pressed Start.
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