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The event is properly called the Half-Sun Travel Plaza $5,000 Bounty Hole and $5,000 Freestyle Competition by Sand Scorpions, said Sand Scorpions board member Brandon Douglass. This is the 13th ...
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian , seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh , and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch .
An example of mud bogging. Mud bogging (also known as mud racing, mud running, mud hogging, mud drags, mud dogging, or mudding) is a form of off-road motorsport popular in the United States and Canada in which the goal is to drive a vehicle through a pit of mud or a track of a set length.
The first ton of dirt moved efficiently, though around 10 feet (3.0 m), the shaft became so narrow only two men could work at a time. By 15 feet (4.6 m), workers hit boulders under the surface and began to use pickaxes. A series of pulley systems were used to remove rocks from the hole, but the pace of work slowed as they dug nearer to Collins.
Woodcut illustrating keelhauling, from the Tudor period (1485–1603). Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea.
Hole, a spokesman for the bounty killers, calls on Wermeer to surrender. A shot rings out and Clayton emerges dragging the "dead" convict. They argue that Clayton is a sheriff and therefore he cannot collect bounty, and that he instead should give up the body. The disagreement develops into a gunfight.
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Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story- and screenwriter. He was, according to British journalist Anthony Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land". [1]