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• Republicans convene in Florida...what a difference 40 years makes

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  Tampa police, Aug. 27, 2012. Photograph by Tamara Lush. When the Republicans convened in Miami Beach in 1972 to nominate Richard Nixon, police arrested more than 1,000 protestors. Fast forward to the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa. From the Tampa Bay Times: TAMPA — To prepare for an expected 1,000 protester arrests [...]
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• Louisiana Father-Son Team Rescues 120 From Flooding

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  Heroes. -via ABC News: Jesse Shaffer, 25, and his father, also named Jesse Shaffer, 53, both of Braithwaite, La., stayed behind in their town to rescue their friends. While police and the fire department were unable to reach some stranded people using their vehicles, the Shaffers were able to save lives using [...]
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• Satellite images of of Isaac making landfall in Louisiana

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  -via NOAA: Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana in the evening of August 28, 2012. During the day, NOAA's GOES-14 satellite took images of the storm at 1 minute intervals, showing the development of Isaac from a tropical storm to a hurricane in great temporal detail. The imagery is from [...]
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• The Daily Show invades Tampa

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  John Oliver on Tampa: Isaac has passed, returning this city back to its normal atmospheric conditions ... somewhere between  (a) steam room and a subway platform in Haiti. [Tampa] is the land that time forgot. This is the Republican National Convention in Tampa Florida at the end of August. Tampa [...]
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• Aug. 28, 1982: The day two Miami Herald columnists almost turned out the lights on Miami's film industry

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  Miami News, Aug. 30, 1982. (Click to enlarge) Thirty years ago this week, on Monday, Aug. 30, 1982, the Miami News reported that "Scarface" producer Martin Bregman was threatening to pull his production out of Miami because of two weekend Miami Herald columns that he said were "highly inflammatory." From the [...]
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• The way we were...Fidel Castro says, 'Come on down'

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  Less than three weeks after Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista was chased out of Havana on New Year's Eve 1958 by Fidel Castro and his rebels, an ad for the Havana Riviera signed by Castro appeared in the entertainment section of the Miami News on Jan. 18, 1959. In the ad,' [...]
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• Tropical Storm Isaac brought out the ass in everyone

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  Well, we survived. Not Tropical Storm Isaac. That was a non-event, really. We live in South Florida. It's summer, it rains. But the people who run Miami's TV news operations never pass up an opportunity to hype any kind of event if it will give their ratings a boost. And their non-stop [...]
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• Neil Armstrong - Aug. 5, 1930 - Aug. 25, 2012

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  LIFE Magazine photograph by Ralph Morse, March, 1969. The Right Stuff..... In 1944, Neil took a 40-cents-an-hour job sweeping out and hoisting cartons at Rhine and Brading's pharmacy before and after school. Every now and again he would ask his boss Dick Brading for a couple of hours off. This didn't happen [...]
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• The way we were...Hurricane Wilma hits Miami Beach in 2005

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  Mike Theiss of UltimateChase.com captured Hurricane Wilma's strong Category 2 force winds on Miami Beach, Florida on October 24th, 2005.

  
  

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• The guy in this video is not a celebrity...

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  ...but that didn't prevent a whole bunch of idiots in New York City's Times Square from treating Brett Cohen like one. The Washington Post's Jen Chaney calls Cohen's stunt, "a semi-disturbing display of how easy it is to become famous in America in 2012."

  
  

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