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		<title>Times That the Sword of General Gainsborough has Gone Missing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Brodie H. Brockie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the famous statue of General Archibald Gainsborough in Ataraxia Park is made of bronze, sculptor Jeffery Couveign chose to create the general’s sword as a separate piece, made of stainless steel, hoping the weapon would “shine in the sun, as a symbol of the illuminating potential of violence.” Here is a listing- in chronological order- of occurrences in which the sword has been broken off, removed or stolen from the statue: 1922 &#8211; Local youths broke the sword off the statue for the first time after an older boy stole the stick they were using for a bat in a game of stick ball. They only attempted to use it for two at-bats before group leader Butchie Flatts remarked, &#8220;Aw, saucepans! This pig-sticker’s too heavy to heave!&#8221; and discarded it. 1926 – Director Mack Sennett chose to shoot a Keystone Cops short here, taking advantage of the city&#8217;s cheap labor market and loose safety regulations. One gag chase was plotted to end with the Cops’ paddy wagon colliding with the statue of Gainsborough. During rehearsal, the sword broke off and impaled one of the actors, killing him. 1940 – For reasons unknown, the sword simply fell off one August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Boy Scout, Future Senator (1941)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 1941. Local Boy Scout Anderson Grimes in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., holding a copy of a WPA poster designed for the city&#8217;s landmark water conservation program. Shortly after this photo was taken, he was to present the poster to local congressman Harford Collins in a brief ceremony. Tragically, Grimes, along with several local reporters and congressional aides, instead found Senator Collins slumped over his desk, dead from a heart attack. Thirty years later, Grimes ended up serving the same seat in Congress for four terms. He did not die in office. - RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Apparently Babies Need Keys and Ham</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/01/04/friday-facts-apparently-babies-need-keys-and-ham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of fire department/EMT calls due to fireworks &#8216;incidents&#8217; on New Year&#8217;s Eve: 211 :: Number of fire department/EMT calls due to fireworks &#8216;incidents&#8217; last July 4th: 213 :: The first baby of 2008 was born in Nilsson-Presbyterian South Hospital at 12:49am on Jan. 1. He&#8217;s Jeffrey Louis Hippert, 9 lbs., 4 oz., born to parents Adima and Louis Hippert, of Edwin Falls. :: Among the items in the gift pack traditionally awarded to the first baby of the new year from local merchants: iPod Nano, dry cleaning for a year, $25 US savings bond, passes to Daisyland Amusement Park, a gallon of paint primer, 6-month subscription to The Evening Press, keys copied free for a year, a coupon for ham. :: Items in the gift pack which would actually be useful in the first year or so of caring for an infant: None. :: Urgent memo from City Hall: “Please be advised that the City Slogan Contest is now over. Do not fax additional entries; they will be neither accepted nor received, as our expected shipment of toner was not delivered last week due to inclement weather and clerical oversight.” :: Official number of entries in the City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Graffiti, Flying Ravioli, Native Alabamans</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/10/05/friday-facts-graffiti-flying-ravioli-native-alabamans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Adelmorst is the longest city street name with all the letters in alphabetical order. :: Authorities still do not know who has been heavily tagging numerous Downtown, Central Corridor and Northside buildings with the phrase &#8220;Rock-n-Roll&#8221; over the last two months. :: Number of barriers erected in the West Sugar neighborhood to prevent speedy &#8220;cut through&#8221; traffic: 14 :: Decrease in traffic infractions since barriers were erected last fall: 16 percent :: Estimated damage as a result of the Sorini Refrigerated Macaroni truck driving through one of the barriers during a high-speed police chase, precipitated by a 14-month investigation into possible sales of &#8220;bad macaroni&#8221; to neighborhood children: $42,364 :: Cost to restore Stanley Hodges&#8217; At Rainbow&#8217;s Edge (1972), a massive &#8220;elliptico Marxist&#8221; sculpture destroyed by the Sorini truck: $0 (&#8220;I will not let some macaroni shyster destroy the statement I bestowed upon West Sugar more than 30 years ago,&#8221; Hodges tells The City Desk. &#8221; At Rainbow&#8217;s Edge will rise from the ashes on that solemn spot.&#8221;) :: Of the 119 city residents killed or missing in action in the U.S. Civil War, all but two were fighting on the Union side. :: 6.5 oz Coca Cola at [...]]]></description>
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