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Columbine was not the first school shooting, it was not the deadliest school shooting, and other students in trench coats fired guns inside classrooms during attacks dating back to 1983. Unlike more than two hundred other planned attacks at k-12 schools since 1966, Columbine is the most influential school shooting. The “lessons learned” (or not learned) from Columbine have changed how police respond and how school officials try to prevent the next attack.

Share When I look back on “Columbus Day” during my youth and schooling, we all learned the little rhyme: “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue… .” We were taught that the famous explorer “discovered America,” even though he never set foot on American soil.  But the year 1493 was more significant than 1492. It’s when Columbus sailed back west with the authority of the European church and state – papal bulls and government instruction – to conquer, not discover, the lands and indigenous people who were already there.

It so often happens that I make fun of an inexplicably tacky and obscenely expensive Zillow house and then worry that maybe it’s somehow owned by really nice people. But listen: It never is. Case in point… This $65 million Upper West Side 7-story Beaux-Arts townhouse. It’s actually a gorgeous 1910 construction from architect CPH Gilbert, but oh lord, the things these current owners did. Let’s consider the evidence against them.

Everyone from Eastern Europe knows buckwheat. It’s very popular there, and my husband and I ate it almost every day growing up in Ukraine and Belarus. Nowadays, buckwheat is becoming more and more popular in the West due to its incredible health benefits. I see many healthy recipes that include buckwheat, but they usually use raw buckwheat groats, unlike the toasted ones used in Eastern Europe. Raw buckwheat requires soaking before cooking, and it has a different taste.

This essay is part of our Five Days of Gossip Girl series. If you’re not a GG fan, don’t worry; this will end on Friday. But if you are, make sure you tell your GG-loving friends to subscribe and tune in for an essay each day this week. This one comes with a trigger warning for abusive and toxic relationships, and mention of rape and sexual assault.  In junior high, when classmates were first starting to date — and by date I mean beg their parents to drop them off at the mall so they could hold hands while browsing Hot Topic and split an Auntie Anne’s pretzel — I was getting most of my cues into what romance might look like from the screen.

Earlier this week I broke down some of the basic variations of the quarters coverage schemes that the Washington Commanders use. While quarters is the Commanders go-to choice of coverage, it's far from their only scheme. Washington also uses plenty of other coverages, with one of the most frequently occurring coverages being Tampa 2, a variation of Cover 2.  Everyone in the league will run Cover 2 and Tampa 2 at various times throughout the season.

It's very sad, tragic, ridiculous, and absurdly insane that America has allowed a severe mental, emotion, criminally insane, privileged and self-entitled person to be elected to the greatest position of responsibility on the planet, its literally feels like, if you hired a supposed house sitter to watch your house then when you come home they refuse to leave and say it's their house not yours, you finally force them out, in the process they try to burn your house down, and engage you in a legal battle still claiming ownership of your house!

Your amazing !! I love that. Your stories are uplifting and I look forward to every one. They boost me right up :) I think you, like me, belive god is awesome but your are not into following rules made up by churches...? That quote from the bible I knew off by heart - It features in my story - THE GIRL FROM THE ISLAND ! Heres where I used it -

I think Grand Marnier is great in a Mai Tai, but I have never had a GM Margarita that I really loved. It certainly can work well enough if that’s what is available — the best Margarita is the one you actually have in your hand, not the one you can imagine — but I strongly prefer the lighter, brighter character of Cointreau. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmibn5i4ta3IpaqwoaSdwLawxKukmqZeqMKjv9OamqRmk6S6cLyObGSwmamoerW7jKaYpJ1dlnqurdGgmKuhpJZ8pLvMppynrKM%3D