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It was for a time the only LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs, Colorado's second-most populous city with a population of just under 500,000. [17] A 2021 article by Denver -based magazine 5280 noted the club to be a place "where LGBTQ folks [went] for drag performances , dance parties , and drinks ."
Beth Harmon is orphaned at age eight when her mother dies in a car crash. Growing up in an orphanage in Kentucky, she is taught chess by the custodian Mr. Shaibel, and soon becomes a chess prodigy. While at the orphanage, she struggles with an addiction to tranquilizers. In her teens she is adopted and begins her rapid rise in the chess world ...
On April 21, 2021, 42-year-old Andrew Brown Jr. was fatally shot in the back of the head by police as he drove away. Protesters gathered in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where the shooting occurred, demanding for body camera footage to be released. [146]
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.
Larry J. Harmon, 21 6 2 4 Former MIT student Larry J. Harmon, 21, entered St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church on the Gonzaga University campus armed with a rifle. Harmon killed the caretaker, 68-year-old Hilary Kunz, and wounded four more people before police officers shot and killed him. [24] November 13, 1971 Guatemala City Guatemala
Aurora, Colorado: A SWAT team approached Lewis to arrest him in connection with a drive-by shooting in Denver earlier in the month. When officers approached, Lewis raised his hands in the air while holding a cellphone, and an SWAT officer shot him. [44] 2024-05-23 Miguel Antonio Moreno (36) Hispanic St. Augustine Shores, Florida [45] 2024-05-23
On 13 August 1942, the Group's personnel sailed on the RMS Queen Elizabeth on 30 August 1942 and arrived 5 September 1942 at Greenock, Scotland. The aircraft flew from Wendover to Westover Field, Massachusetts on 2 August 1942. The remainder of the Group departed for the United Kingdom on 1 September 1942 via Gander-Prestwick ferry route.
The Focus on the Family headquarters is a four building, 47-acre (19 ha) [101] complex located off of Interstate 25 in northern Colorado Springs, Colorado, with its own ZIP Code (80995). [102] [103] The buildings consist of the Administration building, International building, Welcome Center and Operations building, and totals 526,070 square ...