#St. Louis Missouri

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Calvery Cemetery.

St. Louis, Missouri 2023

Calvery is one of two giant cemeteries next to each other in northern St. Louis.

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Baby Jasmine ❤️

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Gloria Oladipo at The Guardian:

A Missouri judge awarded more than $23m to a former St Louis police officer who was beaten by other officers while working undercover at a protest in 2017.

On Monday Luther Hall was awarded the significant sum in a default judgment by Joseph Whyte, the St Louis circuit judge, after one of the defendants failed to respond to a lawsuit over the 2017 attack. “Mr Hall had to endure this severe beating and while that was happening, he knew it was being administered by his colleagues who were sworn to serve and protect,” Whyte said. Hall was severely injured by his own colleagues while undercover at a protest following the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a white police officer who shot and killed 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith, a Black man. Hall was pinned to the ground by officers and beaten with a baton, suffering permanent injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder, Buzzfeed News reported. Last year, the St Louis police department reopened an internal investigation into the incident, KSDK reported.

[...] Hall previously sued the city of St Louis in 2021 over the attack, later reaching a $5m settlement agreement. In 2022 Hall sued three former law enforcement colleagues for their roles in the assault: Randy Hays, Dustin Boone and Christopher Myers, who are all white.

Former St. Louis undercover cop Luther Hall was awarded $23M in a default judgment by Joseph Whyte after getting beaten by his own police colleagues during the 2017 protests against the disgraceful not-guilty verdict of Jason Stockley.

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#OTD in 1951 – Death of athlete and gold medal winner, Tom Kiely.

Born in Ballyneale, just outside Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, Kiely competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, Missouri. Kiely faced a monumental task in St. Louis; the ten events by which all-around ability was measured were all contested in a single day, in the following order: 100 yards, shot put, high jump, 120 yard hurdles, 880 yard walk, hammer throw, pole vault, 56 lb weight…

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William Wells Brown, Hoodoo in St. Louis

William Wells Brown (circa 1814-1884) was a formerly enslaved man and an abolitionist who documented Hoodoo practices of enslaved people in St. Louis in two of his books. Brown was born enslaved in Kentucky. In 1827 Brown’s enslaver, Dr. John Young, moved near St. Louis, Missouri, and established a small farm. Dr. Young hired out Brown to work in the city of St. Louis for steamboat captains and local merchants. During his years enslaved in St. Louis, Brown saw conjure practices of enslaved people that he documented years later in his autobiographies after he escaped from slavery on the Underground Railroad. In 1849, Brown published Narrative of William W. Brown, An American Slave. Written by Himself. In the book, Brown wrote that he saw an enslaved man named Frank, who was a fortune-teller. Brown spoke to Frank to know if his plan to escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad would lead to his freedom. Brown wrote…[Read more here]

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Louis Kesler: Work

“Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.” —Louis Keisler.

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Doors of Hope

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Idea for how Pepper and Venus met. Since Venus is a popular and famous DJ, she tends to travel a lot. The event she was booked for was in Kansas City, only three hours from her home of St. Louis. Pepper was asked to be security for the event so she keeps her Violet Ring on her just in case.

When Venus arrives, she immediately clocks the ring on Pepper's finger and goes "Me too!"

Yesss I love this! At first, Pepper's like "huh?" But then she notices Venus saw her Star Sapphire ring and was like "Oh, you mean you're a Sapphire too? Awesome! Ah, it's so good to see another Star Sapphire!" And they hit it off from there 🥰

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I found Al Hirschfeld’s birth announcement! From The Jewish Voice, St. Louis, Missouri.

Now I know what you’re thinking: “But he was born on June 21, 1903! That was a Sunday!”

There’s a sad reason why it was listed so late. (From Hirschfeld: The Biography by Ellen Stern.)

Isaac Hirschfeld (Al’s father) was known as Ike, and Al’s family lived on Evans Avenue in St. Louis at the time he was born…(Yeah, July 25 was a Saturday, but how many Hirschfelds lived on Evans Avenue in St. Louis in 1903?)

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Station Ident of KTVI Channel 2 - St. Louis, Missouri, 1975

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Snowby loved this hat

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Lovely Missouri weather...

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#OTD in 1951 – Death of athlete and gold medal winner, Tom Kiely.

#OTD in 1951 – Death of athlete and gold medal winner, Tom Kiely.

Born in Ballyneale, just outside Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, Kiely competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, Missouri. Kiely faced a monumental task in St. Louis; the ten events by which all-around ability was measured were all contested in a single day, in the following order: 100 yards, shot put, high jump, 120 yard hurdles, 880 yard walk, hammer throw, pole vault, 56 lb weight…

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11 Questions with Wendy Koenig, author of On the Sly!

11 Questions with Wendy Koenig, author of On the Sly! #IARTG #Mystery #Action #FemaleProtagonist #BYNR #Fiction #MysterySeries #FemaleAuthor #WomenSleuths @BookGal

Sylvia Wilson, a bar owner in St. Louis, Missouri, arrives at work to discover the body of an ex-police officer in her locked bar. The police focus on her as their primary suspect, so she decides to launch her own investigation into the dead man and his accomplices. But when the killer sends her clear messages that she and her loved ones are on his radar, she knows it’s just a matter of time…

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St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Missouri, August 11, 1931

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28/10/22

This week there have been shootings in USA. Some of them happen in St. Louis and in Ohio.

The three notice are taken from the appnews.com