
A 20-year-old woman says she was attacked by a man with pillow inside a
Walmart in St. Johns County, Florida. Miranda Mahr says a man ran up
behind her and started hitting her with a pillow. 
A 20-year-old woman says she was attacked by a man with pillow inside a
Walmart in St. Johns County, Florida. Miranda Mahr says a man ran up
behind her and started hitting her with a pillow.
“It really scared me. I was alone at Walmart at night and then this man
just comes up and hits me and stares at me, you know,” Ms Mahr said. She
says regardless of whether it was a joke - the incident shook her up.
“It kind of makes you feel like what's going to happen next.
A man from Midland, Texas, was arrested on Thursday after allegedly
threatening his girlfriend with a knife when she refused to smell his
armpit.
Robinson Pinilla-Bolivar, 24, is being held on a $25,000 bond for a
second-degree felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Police in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have arrested and charged a
34-year-old woman with aggravated assault and attempted first degree
murder, after investigators say she confessed to hitting another woman
with an axe, because she hugged her boyfriend.

In 15 daily sessions, each an hour long, the pigeons got the right answer 85 per cent of the time - with accuracy levels increased to 99 per cent when responses from a panel of four pigeons were pooled.These results are likely due to pigeons’ remarkable visual acuity:
Pigeons' ability to interpret complex visual stimuli has been well-researched over the years. Previous studies have established that the birds are able to discriminate between letters of the alphabet, the identities and emotional expressions of human faces - and they can even tell the difference between paintings by Monet and Picasso.
| 269 | Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor’s bodyguard. | |
| 1695 | Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush. | |
| 1700 | Sweden’s 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva. | |
| 1903 | In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell. | |
| 1914 | Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War. | |
| 1928 | Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole). | |
| 1931 | Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva. | |
| 1943 | U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific. | |
| 1945 | The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg. | |
| 1947 | Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey. | |
| 1950 | U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria. | |
| 1955 | The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated. | |
| 1962 | President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing. | |
| 1967 | U.S. census reports the population at 200 million. | |
| 1971 | The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies. | |
| 1974 | The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT. | |
| 1978 | South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia. | |
| 1981 | Microsoft Windows 1.0 released. | |
| 1992 | Fire in England’s Windsor Castle causes over £50 million in damages. | |
| 1998 | First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched. | |
| 2008 | Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system |

This year Oxford University Press have partnered with leading mobile technology business SwiftKey to explore frequency and usage statistics for some of the most popular emoji across the world, and [this one] was chosen because it was the most used emoji globally in 2015. SwiftKey identified that [this one] made up 20% of all the emojis used in the UK in 2015, and 17% of those in the US: a sharp rise from 4% and 9% respectively in 2014. The word emoji has seen a similar surge: although it has been found in English since 1997, usage more than tripled in 2015 over the previous year according to data from the Oxford Dictionaries Corpus.There’s more about the decision to go with an emoji, plus the revelation of the eight other words that made the shortlist at the Oxford Dictionaries blog.

As to whether crunning is actually beneficial, science seems to settle on a resounding "eh." Is crunning healthier than eating a slab of spam pressed between two pieces of cheesecake? Sure! Is it better for you than watching every single episode of Guiding Light back-to-back while chain drinking BuzzBallz and eating butter with your hands? I'm no doctor, but I say "probably!" Is it better for you than running upright on two feet like a person still clinging to a shred of pride? Absolutely not. Still: "I actually see the Crossfitters at my gym crawling around like that all the time," a friend told me via email.You can see videos of crunning and read more about it at Gothamist. It might invoke nightmarish memories of middle school gym class.

A vodka-swilling man who exposed himself to a shocked woman from his
front window, before flashing police as they arrived to arrest him, has
been ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for five years.
Drunken David Helens had earlier been spotted swinging a spade in the
street by the same witness while drinking from a spirit bottle, leading
her to call the police.
When he returned to his flat, she saw the 26-year-old pull down his
trousers and expose his genitals while ranting that he would ‘kill
everyone’.
When police were dispatched to his address in South Shields, Tyne and
Wear,
he flashed officers before making lurid sexual comments in their direction
.
Helens admitted charges of exposure and using threatening, abusive words
or behavior when he appeared before South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court
on Monday.
The court heard that Helens is seeking support to tackle drink problems,
which have fueled his offending.
Glenda Beck, prosecuting, said; “At 11.05pm the witness saw Helens run
out of his address, carrying a spade and waving it about in a
threatening manner.
The defendant appeared drunk.
She was across the road and called police as she feared for his and her
own safety.
She later saw him pull down his trousers and expose himself at his front
window, shouting ‘I’m going to kill everyone.’
A homeowner in Laurel, Maryland, was surprised after a teenage burglar
committed a lewd act into their refrigerator after eating from it during
a break-in.
Anne Arundel County Police first began investigating a burglary on Oct.
5., when an electronic tablet was stolen.
A 45-year-old Florida woman was arrested on Saturday evening following a
series of events that began with a trip to a storage unit with her
ex-husband (with whom she has recently reunited).
According to police, Wendy Luper and Michael Vaccaro, who were married
for 12 years, drove together to retrieve some of his belongings from
their storage unit in Bradenton.
As Vaccaro sought to remove some of his belongings from the car’s rear
seat, Luper allegedly accelerated the vehicle “with Vaccaro still half
way inside the vehicle.” As Vaccaro “pulled out of the vehicle,” Luper
drove over his right foot.
When officers arrived at the scene, Vaccaro was bleeding from a head
wound and his right foot appeared to be swelling. After being contacted
by police, Luper returned to the vicinity of the storage facility. | 1620 | The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod. | |
| 1828 | In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphilis at age 31. | |
| 1861 | Julia Ward Howe writes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while visiting Union troops near Washington. | |
| 1863 | Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address" at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
| 1885 | Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza. | |
| 1873 | James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation. | |
| 1897 | The Great "City Fire" in London. | |
| 1905 | 100 people drown in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sinks. | |
| 1911 | New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy. | |
| 1915 | The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers. | |
| 1923 | The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures. | |
| 1926 | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1942 | Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad. | |
| 1949 | Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco. | |
| 1952 | Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe. | |
| 1969 | Apollo 12 touches down on the moon. | |
| 1973 | New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years. | |
| 1976 | Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail. | |
| 1981 | U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil. | |
| 1985 | Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, meet for the first time. | |
| 1985 | In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco. | |
| 1990 | Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning Girl You Know Its True album. | |
| 1996 | Canada’s Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril arrives in Africa to lead a multinational force policing Zaire. | |
| 1998 | US House of Representatives begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton. | |
| 2010 | New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed. |
I'm
thankful my mom taught me how to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal from
scratch, and over the years I've volunteered to "do Thanksgiving" time
and time again simply to gain experience.
