Tortoise shells have nerve endings and are sensitive to the slightest touch. This tortoise at Badger Run Wildlife Rehab loves to feel her shell scratched, so a kind volunteer made her a scratching device.
On Mar. 25, 1931, the Scottsboro nine, nine young African Americans, were falsely charged with rape and collectively served more than 100 years in prison.
The right of African Americans to serve on juries was established by their case. For more info including timeline, primary sources, see the website for the film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy from PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/index.html
Top: 1933 protest at the White House. The protest was led by Mother Patterson, the mother of accused Heywood Patterson.
The Hellboy Omnibus Collection box set will be published in comic shops on September 29 and in bookstores on October 12 via Dark Horse Comics. With 1,600 pages of stories, it will retail for $99.96.
The box set collects all four Hellboy trade paperback omnibuses (Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, Hellboy: Strange Places, Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, and Hellboy in Hell) in a 6 5/8 x 10 3/16 box featuring new art by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, colored by Dave Stewart.
Additionally, Dark Horse has launched pre-orders for Mignola’s Hellboy: His Life and Times line art lithographs (pictured below). They measure 24x18 and will be hand-numbered. Scheduled to ship in May, this timed edition is available for $49.99 now through April 1 at 5pm EST.
On March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers, mainly young immigrant women, were killed when the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught fire and they were locked inside.
110 years later, too many workers - particularly in this past year - still face unsafe working conditions everyday.
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