Category: Knowledge

These were Abraham Lincoln’s last words

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Not sure why I became curious about this- maybe this thread.

One of the following represents the final words Honest Abe spoke to his Mary:

1. Suddenly I have a great headache. Man, that shit hurts.

2. As much as I dread death with so much left to accomplish, even death is more welcome than having to sit through the rest of this fucking play.

3. After all the work I did to save this union, and all I need to do to rebuild it, it’s now in the hands of that asshole, Johnson.

4. There is no city on earth I so much desire to see as Jerusalem.

5. She won’t think anything about it.

There doesn’t seems to be complete agreement on this. It is either 4 or 5. Number five seems more likely.

Dedee Pfeiffer and Carol Alt topless in Deadly Past (1995)

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We may be through with the 90s, but the 90s are not through with us.

Low-budget noir from the hyphen world (straight-to-video or made-for-cable).

A reformed convict is now on parole, working at a local bar, and living happily with his girlfriend (Dedee), until his glamorous ex-girlfriend (Carol Alt) reappears on the scene and manipulates him into a criminal scheme. As usual in the genre, there is more than meets the eye.

I watched this film because Carol Alt and Dedee Pfieffer didn’t do much film nudity elsewhere, but I regret to report that the sex scenes are as dull and unimaginative as the rest of the film. Dedee’s scene is especially disappointing

That said, I’ll take another look at it if it ever comes out in HD.

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DVD-quality video

More Dedee (lq):

Dedee Pfeiffer – Dream On S01E06 (1990)

Dedee Pfeiffer – Radical Jack (2000)

Dedee Pfeiffer – The Horror Show (1989)

One-of-a-Kind Historical Photos Worth Learning About

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I really enjoyed this gallery. I was curious about the picture of the Klansmen riding the Ferris Wheel.

Here is the story:

In April 1926, dozens of Ku Klux Klan members in Cañon City, Colorado walked down Main Street and enjoyed some fun and frivolity on the Ferris wheel set up by a traveling carnival. There they posed for a photo at the carnival owner’s insistence and a story about it appeared on the front page of the local newspaper the next day. At the time, the Klan were one of the most popular groups in America and free to conduct their business in the open with the government’s blessing. Local Klansman’s children were even known to write “KKK” on their school uniforms and call themselves the Ku Klux Kids.

I found out in researching this that Colorado was a hotbed of Kan activity, and had the second-largest Klan contingent among the states. I didn’t expect that.

In Colorado, the Klan held significant political power in the mid-1920s, with a Klansman serving as governor (Clarence Morley) and another as Denver’s mayor (Benjamin Stapleton). History Colorado has digitized extensive records of Klan membership ledgers from this period, which are available to the public for research.

#1 also surprised me: Indiana.

Most Sinful Cities in America (2025)

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As always, I’m interested in the flip side. We all know that there is mischief in Vegas, the Big Easy, NY, LA and Miami, but where is the LEAST sinful place in America?

It turns out that I’m almost living there. My guess was that it had to be in Utah, and there was a place called West Valley City, UT near the top, or bottom as the case may be. But imagine my surprise when the least sinful was Madison, Wisconsin among cities with a quarter-million people or more. I know we’re boring in the Midwest, but I had no idea that we are more boring than Utah.

I’m suspicious of that ranking. Madison is a college town with a gigantic university population (50,000 students plus staff) dominating a relatively small city (250,000, more or less). I don’t spend much time there, and I wouldn’t have an inside view since I’m boring to begin with, but I’m thinking there must be plenty of sin if you look for it. I think it is probably more sinful than West Valley City, UT.