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M_Sinistrari posted:I highly recommend Issac's Storm by the same author. It's about the 1900 Galveston Hurricane that completely devastated the city and killed approximately 20% of the population. It still remains the most deadly natural disaster in the US. If you are ever in Galveston, go see The Great Storm. It's a film about the storm and the aftermath that plays at the Pier 21 theatre. https://www.galvestonhistory.org/attractions/cultural-heritage/pier-21-theater-3 They had to burn the bodies of the dead on the beach because the tides kept washing them back onto shore.
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luxury handset posted:it's about the birth of formalized scientific meteorology and how one guy used these techniques to say "hey there's a giant loving storm coming" and nobody believed him until whoops, thousands die gently caress, I have to read like all of these
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Jul 10, 2019 17:04
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Before I buy the book tho, how horny was the adult daughter? please this is important
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Jul 10, 2019 17:11
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Before I buy the book tho, how horny was the adult daughter? What if I told you that she referred to her vag as the garden of beasts?
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Jul 10, 2019 17:18
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Before I buy the book tho, how horny was the adult daughter? They made an audiobook from her diary and it's something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j6muYHRX90
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:What if I told you that she referred to her vag as the garden of beasts? Sounds less like a case of horniness and more of a clear warning sign
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Jul 10, 2019 17:19
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:What if I told you that she referred to her vag as the garden of beasts? She was my ex fiancee???
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Jul 10, 2019 17:21
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Before I buy the book tho, how horny was the adult daughter? some of the men she slept with in one year in berlin ernst hanfstaengel, hitler's close personal friend and advisor ernst udet, research chief and theorist for the luftwaffe max delbruck, physicist and biologist rudolf diels, the head of the gestapo boris vinogradov, diplomat and secret NKVD spy hanfstaengel also tried to set her up with hitler himself yeah she got around lol. kind of a lady james bond, she was a soviet spy for a few years because of her deep relationship with vinogradov (who was executed in the purges)
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Jul 10, 2019 17:35
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pookel posted:I mean, a small room with inset hooks in the walls is exactly what some people need for kinky activities, though. I'm not saying it seems harmless, just that it's not enough to prove someone's planning to murder anyone, because it's easily explained away with "we're into some weird poo poo and REALLY don't want anyone walking in on us." Like obviously this guy was building a creepy kidnapping murder room considering later context, but the specific details of the room he wanted doesn't support a consensual kink explanation.
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Jul 10, 2019 17:55
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PetraCore posted:Gerard's Game "I didn't kill my wife!" "Roll for persuasion...oof, a nat one. I don't care!"
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luxury handset posted:some of the men she slept with in one year in berlin While Fascism/Nazism may be a disease, this is not how you catch it.
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Speaking of odd, locked-from-outside rooms that are used for "music": https://www.insider.com/jeffrey-epstein-private-island-temple-2019-7 quote:Epstein built a stone mansion with cream-colored walls and a bright turquoise roof surrounded by several other structures including the maids' quarters and a massive, square-shaped white building on one end of the island. Workers told each other it was a music room fitted with a grand piano and acoustic walls. quote:Certain features of the "temple" raise even more questions. When INSIDER consulted James Both, a contractor and engineer based in Chicago, he first pointed to the wooden door. "It's styled like what you might see on a castle, with what appears to be a reinforcing lock bar across the face," he said. "What makes it peculiar is that if you wanted to keep people out, the bar would be placed inside the building, [but the] locking bar appears to be placed on the outside ... as if it were intended to lock people in."
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Jul 10, 2019 23:09
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Obligatory mention of 'The Devil in the White City'. Come for the descriptions of the horrific yet banal cold-blooded murder of women and children alike, stay for the descriptions of the construction of the World's Fair. I did the same thing...I started off more interested in the Holmes stuff than the World's Fair...and by the time I was near the end, I was all "yes, yes...Holmes did a thing...but what about the Fair? How will they pull it off? I must know!"
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Martinpale posted:I did the same thing...I started off more interested in the Holmes stuff than the World's Fair...and by the time I was near the end, I was all "yes, yes...Holmes did a thing...but what about the Fair? How will they pull it off? I must know!" Or humming the tune they made up so the Arab exhibit would seem more exotic and realizing it's the snake charmer song from seemingly every TV show ever.
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Jul 11, 2019 01:49
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buddhist nudist posted:Yeah, but are you really gonna turn down paying work? In this economy? That serial killer couldn't negotiate for poo poo. We're charging him twice what we'd normally get. That's why you build the thing and take the money and then immediately call the FBI afterwards. Jeez.
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Jul 11, 2019 02:08
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That doesn’t sound like a good way to get repeat customers or referrals.
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Jul 11, 2019 02:41
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Martinpale posted:I did the same thing...I started off more interested in the Holmes stuff than the World's Fair...and by the time I was near the end, I was all "yes, yes...Holmes did a thing...but what about the Fair? How will they pull it off? I must know!" I have this suspicion that he originally just pitched a book about the World's Fair and then his editors came back and said "no one but nerds will buy this, find some way to jazz it up"
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Jul 11, 2019 03:27
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showbiz_liz posted:I have this suspicion that he originally just pitched a book about the World's Fair and then his editors came back and said "no one but nerds will buy this, find some way to jazz it up" Nah thats just the kind of history nerd that he is.
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showbiz_liz posted:I have this suspicion that he originally just pitched a book about the World's Fair and then his editors came back and said "no one but nerds will buy this, find some way to jazz it up" when i was in grad school we read the devil in the white city for the columbian exposition parts because it is a historic moment in american urban planning. but instead of an academic text it's a mass market paperback because there's also a true crime story in there too, meaning that instead of paying like $60 for the book i only paid $6 lol. thematically the stories go great together since holmes murders were enabled by the context of being in a rapidly growing american city in the industrial revolution
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Varkk posted:That doesn’t sound like a good way to get repeat customers or referrals. I can't imagine wanting to be the #1 contractor in the pedophile sex dungeon community.
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OutOfPrint posted:I can't imagine wanting to be the #1 contractor in the pedophile sex dungeon community. That's not the talk of a 'job-creator'.
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A terrifying story that was new to me:quote:In December 1968, kidnappers abducted 20-year-old university student Barbara Jane Mackle from her family’s home in Coral Gables, Fla., drove her to a remote pine stand near Norcross, Ga., and buried her in a box. Inside she found this message: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2019/07/06/instructions/ The note goes on in bizarrely excruciating detail about all the features of the capsule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Mackle_kidnapping More details
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:A terrifying story that was new to me: That guy sure didn't serve much prison time yeesh
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SilkyP posted:That guy sure didn't serve much prison time yeesh
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FactsAreUseless posted:I did some research and I think I might know why: Florida is in America While that's true, the crime was committed in Georgia.
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Jul 12, 2019 02:34
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Doesn’t the US tend towards longer prison sentences?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Doesn’t the US tend towards longer prison sentences? Only for non-whites
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wikipedia posted:The FBI was able to trace George Deacon to the University of Miami, where they realized he built ventilated boxes for a living. Uh, ....huh
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Doesn’t the US tend towards longer prison sentences? It's because it happened before all the "tough on crime" bullshit really got rolling in the 70s and especially the 80s. 
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:A terrifying story that was new to me: I first knew of the story from a Readers Digest version of the book many years ago; it's haunted me ever since, I think it was my first introduction to how a nerd would justify a crime like that by intricate details of the imprisonment but fail in the more obvious ways of covering up the crime.
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I live in Lawrenceville and I've never heard of this 
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Oh, not in Lawrenceville, no, it was a Decatur incident.
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luxury handset posted:thunderstruck, about the birth of wireless radio and how this technology was used to catch a murderer as he fled with his lover on a trans-atlantic cruise ship. previously they would have been able to disappear once the ship docked since they could travel faster than information but because of the wireless radio the cops were waiting as the ship came to port But presumably they could have just used the boring old telegraph to beat a transatlantic ship, right?
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:A terrifying story that was new to me: Oh, I've seen this CSI episode. Also they let that guy go on to become a doctor for fucks sake
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SilkyP posted:That guy sure didn't serve much prison time yeesh How the gently caress do you get caught on a boat with $1,000,000 worth of coke and serve just five years?
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christmas boots posted:Oh, not in Lawrenceville, no, it was a Decatur incident. GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE?!
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Samovar posted:GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE?! septic tank installation
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Pvt.Scott posted:How the gently caress do you get caught on a boat with $1,000,000 worth of coke and serve just five years? white
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Delthalaz posted:But presumably they could have just used the boring old telegraph to beat a transatlantic ship, right? With what undersea cable?
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Delthalaz posted:But presumably they could have just used the boring old telegraph to beat a transatlantic ship, right? i didn't remember correctly - the captain of the ship was able to signal the cops before the ship sailed out of wireless range https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Harvey_Crippen Proteus Jones posted:With what undersea cable? the first transatlantic cable predates the american civil war
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