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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events United Kingdom expels four Congonhas International Airport, the venue of a rally and meeting Russian diplomats São Paulo, Brazil. to be addressed by Pakistan Chief The United Kingdom is expelling Justice Iftikhar Muhammad •The High Judicial Council of Libya four Russian diplomats in an Chaudhry. commutes the death sentences extradition row related to the against six foreign medical •39 people are arrested, detained Alexander Litvinenko case. The workers to life imprisonment. and kept at an undisclosed Foreign and Commonwealth location in Pakistan due to an Office has not named the four •An apparent leak of the seventh alleged connection with a recent Russian diplomats but, according J.K. Rowling novel Harry Potter attack on a plane carrying Pervez to the BBC, they are intelligence and the Deathly Hallows, taking Musharraf. officers. the form of hundreds of photographs of pages from the •All three men charged with Home-invaders pose as NYC book, emerge online in the week supporting Tamil Tigers have police prior to release, leading American been granted bail in Melbourne. In two separate incidents, men publisher Scholastic to seek a •Delegates arrive in Beijing for the posing as members of the New subpoena to identify the pirate. resumption of six party talks on York Police Department have The content of the leak is Wednesday involving North invaded and robbed homes in the described by Scholastic Korea, South Korea, China, New York City area. One incident spokesperson Kyle Good as Russia, Japan and the United involved a sexual assault. "convincing" but Good refused to States to discuss the second comment on its authenticity, only phase of a deal on North Korean noting that it conflicted with two Featured story nuclear disarmament. other claimed leaks. Kwik-E-Mart promotion •2007 Niigata earthquake: The •A train carrying yellow drawing thousands of visitors Government of Japan orders The phosphorus derails in western Thousands of such fans Tokyo Electric Power Company to Ukraine, sending a toxic cloud converged on a 7-Eleven store in keep its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa over several villages. At least Los Angeles to witness that Nuclear Power Plant closed twenty people are hospitalized store's transformation for the pending safety checks after the and hundreds are forced to month of July into a Kwik-E-Mart, earthquake caused a leak. evacuate. a fictional convenience store from the popular animated television •The Sudanese government says : Mauricio Soler show. that a recent attempted coup wins stage 9 d'état did not have the support of Mauricio Soler of Colombia has Wikipedia Current Events the government, won stage 9 of the 2007 Tour de contrary to previous accusations •The World Bank releases its France. Michael Rasmussen of Worldwide Governance from Nafi Ali Nafi, Sudanese Denmark retains the overall lead. Indicators, providing information President Omar al-Bashir's on corruption, rule of law, and assistant. The government has The 159.5 km stage 9 began with other indicators of stability on arrested 14 members of the a cold start to the Hors Categorie countries around the world. Umma Reform and Renewal Party climb up to the Col de l'Iseran (15 for plotting the coup. km at 6%), followed by the Col du •TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight JJ 3054 Télégraphe and the carrying 174 people crashes in •Five people are killed in a twin bomb blasts in Islamabad near (12 km at 6.7% and 17.5 km at

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7%) with a 32 km downhill finish Benoit's wife, Nancy Benoit also 2007 draws in Briançon. tested positive for Xanax, and the thousands to for painkiller hydromorphone. Benoit's furry weekend The Colombian Barloworld rider son could not be tested due to a Pittsburgh, – Local was the first to top the peak of Col lack of urine samples. caterers ready for big business, as du Galibier and held on during the almost three thousand fans downhill finish. The chase group Federal authorities have charged converge on the David L. Lawrence finished 38 seconds behind him. Dr. Phil Astin with improperly Convention Center over the dispensing medication painkillers Independence Day weekend for Soler was excited by his stage and other drugs to two other the world's largest ever furry victory: "It’s an incredible day. I’m patients. Astin has pleaded not convention, Anthrocon 2007. living out a dream. I worked very guilty. hard to arrive at the finish on my Many hope to renew own and I received the superb Amtrak train collides with acquaintances, or meet new prize for that effort. I wanted to truck, derails friends. Others look to buy from achieve something for myself in An Amtrak passenger train de- dealers and artists, or show off my Tour debut and at 24 years of railed after hitting a pickup truck new artwork or costumes. Some age, I’ve been able to stamp my in Plant City, Florida, in the United attend to make money, or even name on a stage. Nobody believed States. The driver of the pickup learn a thing or two. But one thing I could win here, not even me." truck was killed on impact. The unites them: They're all there to crash occurred at a marked have fun. Pre-Tour-favorite, Alexandre railroad crossing inside of an Vinokourov, who has been industrial area, according to an This year marks the second time struggling since he crashed on Amtrak spokesperson. this ten-year-old convention has stage 5, lost nearly three minutes been held in Pittsburgh. Members the in chase for the yellow jersey None of the 133 passengers were of the furry have lived in and is now in 21st place overall. seriously hurt, however, the train's the region for years, but prior to engineer and five passengers were 2006 their annual gathering took "I did what I could," said taken to a local hospital after place 300 miles to the east, in Vinokourov. "The team worked well suffering minor injuries. The Philadelphia. again and tried to reduce the gap. remaining passengers were taken It was another horrible day for to a local bowling alley. Although Fears of union rates kept the me." the train's two locomotives and growing fan convention away from nine cars de-railed, they remained the Steel City for years, but Linus Gerdemann, who surprised upright. Anthrocon ultimately outgrew all everyone in stage 7, fell out of the other options. The purchase and top ten overall and had to Witnesses report the train sounded demolition by Target of its regular surrender the white jersey to its horns at the appropriate times. hotel, the Adams Mark, led to a Alberto Contador. It was reported the pickup truck cramped last-minute alternative simply drove in front of the train. for Anthrocon 2005. Convention Georgia Bureau of leaders became determined to Investigation says drugs found The crash is the second to occur provide a better venue, no matter in Benoit, wife, and son this week with a train; on Monday, the cost. According to the Georgia Bureau of a driver in a Pontiac Grand Am Investigation, toxicollogy reports deliberately ignored the lights and And that cost is high. The reveal that the former pro-wrestler crossing arms at another railroad convention hall alone runs to Chris Benoit had 10 times the crossing in the area, and drove $24,000; A/V and labor costs normal level of testosterone as around them, into the path of a nearly triple that before accounting well as hydrocodone (a painkiller), different Amtrak train on the same for the main ballroom. The board and Xanax (an anti-anxiety route. The impact caused the car of Anthrocon, Inc. seems to like medication). to go airborne. All four people in the venue, though, and has the car were killed; no one on the booked it through 2009. Its Benoit also reportedly tested train was injured. chairman, Dr. — negative for alcohol. better known in the furry world as

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"Uncle Kage" — seems determined This year's Masquerade (where As for the , there's no to keep other fees to a minimum, costumed fans perform skits for denying their popularity. Surveys taking time during the pre-con the audience) ended with the suggest that up to 15% of staff meeting to caution against performers dancing with the convention attendees have one, last-minute extras. audience in the aisles to the tune and Anthrocon 2007 is no of the Time Warp. Earlier that day exception, with 353 in the half- Similar touches can be seen members of the Funday PawPet hour long Saturday parade; elsewhere; bag racks are shared Show provided a ninety-minute potentially a record for mascots in with long-running sci-fi event puppet extravaganza. Comedy a procession. Guinness World Philcon, and spare paper is kept plays a significant large part in the Records were invited to confirm packed away for next year. It may lineup, with home-bred this next year, while convention seem like penny-pinching, but the entertainers such as Matthew staff promised more fans in the results speak volumes: Anthrocon Davis (or "2, The Ranting $1,000/day headless lounge to has kept in the black for the last Gryphon") doling out the laughs. keep the costumed critters from three years. Dr. Conway played a part with his overheating. Story Hour — a regular fixture Where does the money come involving personal tales with a Other groups sought a different from? Attendees pay from $35 to humorous spin. brand of comedy. Four "protesters" $50 depending on when they from imageboard 7chan stationed register - or perhaps nothing at Anthrocon has historically held themselves outside a daycare all, if they worked as a volunteer itself to three days of activities, center opposite the convention last year. But that isn't quite though this year's holiday provided hotel on Saturday. Two wore Afro enough to cover the costs. an excuse for many to arrive early. wigs and bore anti-furry banners. For some, the entertainment Most attendees treated the It is Anthrocon's sponsors who started early, too; Thursday night "raiders" as part of the make up the gap. Of the 2849 saw a staged reading of Furry entertainment, especially after it registered attendees, hundreds Tales, a unofficial musical inspired began to rain. Dr. Conway and paid $90 or $175 for the privilege by Anthrocon 2006. The cabaret Operations Director Douglas Muth of faster registration, a convention found itself swamped by furry eventually took pity on the group, t-shirt, and - for the 202 fans, and was well-received as a lending them Anthrocon-branded SuperSponsors - preferential comedy, though Anthrocon board umbrellas. seating and free food. This year members had reservations about the price includes a three-course the show's accuracy. When its “What exactly are these people luncheon with the convention's creators admitted not actually fans of? Comics? Animation” guests of honor; voice actor Rob having attended a furry —Rob Paulsen Paulsen, Carolyn Kelly (daughter of convention, Conway told them he Pogo artist Walt Kelly) and "knew where there was one." “Actually, they're fans of each animation writer Mark Evanier. other.” —Mark Evanier “It was a good production, it was a Three courses may not sound like nice story . . . but it was not quite much, but this is at an event our story.” —Dr. Conway on Furry Anthrocon has a significant where the standard fare is cheese Tales international draw. However, most pizza and granola bars consumed are native English-speakers — of between the many panels, Convention leaders have often the 18 countries represented at workshops and special events. The found themselves having to the event, the USA, Canada and vast majority of programming is explain things to those who have the UK make up over 98% of provided by fans, though guests heard second-hand accounts. For attendees. are expected to pass on their example, while the fabled furpiles experiences in return for of CSI do exist, they're hardly the Of course, other countries have accommodation and travel public orgy depicted — you'll find their own furry events, but they're expenses. Tutorials on arts, crafts furs snuggling together, but closer to one tenth the size. The and fiction are the order of the conduct in lobby areas remains largest outside of North America is day, though several more exotic firmly PG. , which drew 405 in events do stand out. 2006. Anthrocon's closest

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Wikinews Page 4 competition is San Diego's Further had in both sections for those Canadian Coke and the pound of Confusion, while Midwest FurFest willing to forgo a popular name. A beef jerkey, were more esoteric. in provides a third number of items went for the alternative, spurred by 35% minimum bid, sometimes as low as “Everyone wants to see the growth last year. Anthrocon's own $10 for large colored pieces. parade, but only some people want yearly growth was 14%. to see the auction. When we lose “The folks I've met here at people from the auction, we lose Ontario's Feral! is set in a Anthrocon — with fewer exceptions auction income. And we took a big campground, but at Anthrocon than you'd imagine — have been hit.” —Brian Harris, Charity hotels are a necessity. Many share decent, bright, creative and Director four or (unofficially) more to a charming people.” —Mark Evanier room, skirting the bounds of local Proceeds were down from previous fire codes. Part of this is due to the Anthrocon does not require artists years, which Charity Director Brian cost. Even at the discount rate, a to pay for display space, though it Harris attributed to a scheduling night in the convention hotel is takes a commission on sales, and snafu - the parade was $125 after tax; furry fans are will charge artists to ship them scheduled on top of the charity often young, with little money to back if they are left unsold; a presentation, and overran the spare. policy which encourages low auction. While most large furry minimums. Similarly, artists conventions sponsor charities, not Money isn't the only explanation, looking to sell commissions for all have such auctions; many though. Furries are social items such as sketches and simply donate a portion of their creatures, and for some Anthrocon unofficial convention badges do "earnings" to the cause. represents the only time in the not have to pay up-front for space year when they can meet up with in the crowded Artists' Alley — The task of manging these events friends from around the world. though they do face the risk of not falls to over 130 volunteer staff When not attending a panel or being able to get a place at all, as members, most of whom spend watching fellow fans fursuiting, happened to some on Friday and around 12 to 18 hours "on duty" many can be found chatting, Saturday. during the convention. But they drawing or playing games in The don't do it alone. Security for the Zoo — the convention's 24-hour The convention does require event is provided by the red- social space. If it weren't for the payment for dealers tables, at shirted Dorsai Irregulars, known discos, some might never leave. which works by others may be since the mid-1970s for their sold. The fee for a full table is activities in the science fiction One prime attraction is the art $115, or $70 over regular pre- community. The Dorsai have been show. On display are framed and registration. Extra table space is associated with Anthrocon since unframed prints and originals, significantly more expensive, to 2002, and plan to expand to other along with a few items of sculpture encourage variety. 245 dealers and furry conventions, including and even one fursuit head - and assistants registered this year, Connecticut's FurFright. They have almost everything is on sale to the ranging from professional artists also begun to recruit from the right bidder. Due to time through comic dealers, publishers, . constraints, only the most hotly- musicians, costumers and plush contested pieces go to voice toy vendors. “They welcome new comers and auction. This year, one piece friends with open arms...They breached the $1,000 mark in the The convention supported Animal enjoyed giving each other hugs, PG category - "Just one more", by Friends, a local no-kill animal and I even got one before California artist Dark Natasha. shelter. Over $6,600 was raised by everyone left. There were people Sunday night. Of this, $5,053 from all age groups and The piece was one of a set created came from a charity auction nationalities who got along just by seven prominent furry artists to featuring 77 items donated by fine.” —Pittsburgh cab driver depict the seven deadly sins - in members of . Some, this case, Greed. Adult art like a Kevin and Kell original, Last year gave local vendors plenty commanded a slightly higher price, would have been at home in the to think about. Dr. Conway with one work by Taurin Fox going regular art auction. Other reported the total impact on the for $2,000. But bargains could be donations, such as the 12-packs of local economy at $2.5 million.

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Regardless of the actual figure, the yesterday evening a railway spinal cord, and starts liver local Kwik-E-Mart started taking disaster led to a fire involving 15 necrosis. furry fandom seriously when containers of liquid yellow shelves started coming up bare. phosphorus. Nuclear leaks after Japan quake are worse than first This year, vendors thought Extinguishing the fire proved reported themselves better-prepared. The extremely difficult, since water In the wake of yesterday's Steel City Diner printed 100 shirts cannot be used, as in contact with earthquakes, Japan is today celebrating the convention, only to phosphorus it would generate reporting that leaks at the run out on Friday afternoon. The poisonous gas. It took six hours Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power diner met their weekly sales target before the flames were over. Gas Plant are worse than first reported. by Wednesday, and doubled that was generated anyway, and at the by Friday night, working through moment the poisoned surface In addition to a leak of 315 gallons Sunday to keep up with demand.... extends on about 90 sq. km. The (1200 liters) of radioactive water casualties count is already heavy: into the Sea of Japan, reports say “I didn't get a lot of sleep. There 20 people were injured, 13 of that drums with nuclear waste lost were people in the room next to them in critical condition. They their lids and radioactive gases mine barking all night.” —J.J. have been carried to the Lviv cobalt-60, chromium-51 and iodine Hardy of the Milwaukee Brewers hospital. Podrobnosti reports that were released into the the fire started when one of the atmosphere. Several pipes are also Neighboring sub shop Fernando's containers started to leak and the reported to have broken. drew blue paw-marks on the phosphor caught fire. pavement to attract customers, Officials are also reporting 50 and offered a special $5 menu for The poisoned area includes 14 different problems at the plant of attendees. Its proprietor also came villages. From the five villages that "malfunctioning and trouble," but to the aid of his furry customers as are closer to the disaster area officials would not comment they were being harassed by a some 800 people have already further on the damage other than local beggar — who gave Fernando been evacuated. Half of them had calling the issues "minor." a mild skull fracture for his to manage on their own as there trouble. was not enough public transport Man becomes first to swim at for all. North Pole While local cab drivers had Lewis Gordon Pugh, 37, a man compliments, not everyone At the moment there is no from the United Kingdom has appreciated the company. The available data about the wind become the first person to swim at Chicago Cubs decided to cancel direction or next expected the North pole. The water, 29 their booking after hearing about movements of the phosphorus degrees F (-1.8 C), is believed to the con, and J.J. Hardy of the cloud. Special firemen units be the coldest waters any human Milwaukee Brewers reported being remain on place to control the has ever swam in on the planet. kept up by fans on Wednesday possibility of a new fire, while the night. The Brewers lost their game Admistration of the Lviv Oblast is "I am obviously ecstatic to have the following day. trying to forecast the possible succeeded but this swim is a short- and mid-term evolution of triumph and a tragedy. A triumph The convention closed with next the situation. that I could swim in such ferocious year's date — June 26-29 — along conditions, but a tragedy that it's with the announcement of a guest: The Ukrainian Railways have possible to swim at the North Disney animator Floyd Norman. officially excluded the possibility of Pole," said Pugh who swam 0.6 The event's theme will be "It's a a terrorist act as a cause for the miles in just under 19 minutes Jungle Out There!" disaster. through cracks in icebergs.

Ukranian railway accident Podrobnosti reports the deadly Pugh says he swam at the North generates huge phosphor cloud dose of yellow phosphor at 0.1 g. Pole to demonstrate the effects An alarm for heavy chemical According to the same source, that global warming is playing on pollution has been issued in the when poisoning living beings, the Earth and is hoping that his Lviv region, Ukraine, where phosphor attacks their bones, their act will gain the attention of

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Wikinews Page 6 leaders from around the world. US$0.7925. This was due to the ten-year Government bonds are at Reserve Bank of New Zealand 7.61% and 6.82% respectively. "The decisions which they make announcing that it will intervene over the next few years will next week at their Official Cash The Official Cash Rate is currently determine the biodiversity of our Rate review if the dollar continued at 8%, due to other interventions world. I want my children, and to rise. by the Reserve Bank. their children, to know that polar bears are still living in the Arctic — Economists are predicting that the The NZD is also trading well these creatures are on the front NZD will now go above US$0.80. against the Australian dollar and line up here," added Pugh. Japanese yen. The cause of this rise was mainly The World Wide Fund for Nature due to the release of the June Police officer killed, at least 18 (WWF), which sponsored the quarter retail sales data. The injured in south Thailand blasts swim, states that the only reason consumer price index data showed A police sergeant was killed and at Pugh was able to swim in the that sales increased by 1.2%, least 18 people were injured in a freezing waters was due to global instead of the predicted 0.4%. The pair of bomb blasts today in warming. bigger than expected sales data southern Thailand. were mainly due to supermarket, "[The swim was] a bittersweet car and petrol purchases. In May, Taking place in Yala, the capital of victory, as this swim has only been the core sales figures showed a one of Thailand's three possible because of climate 0.8% rise, these figures excluded southernmost provinces, the first change," said WWF U.K. car and fuel sales. blast, at around 8 a.m. local time spokesman, Colin Butfield. The (0100 GMT), resulted in no waters were completely frozen 10 Economist correspondents for injuries, but drew police and years ago and the swim would Radio New Zealand have also said journalists to the scene. Then, have been impossible to complete. that a weak US dollar is also to about 30 minutes after the initial blame for the rising New Zealand blast, a second, more powerful Pugh has also swam in the waters dollar. Danika Hampton, currency bomb went off. of Antarctica where he was analyst for the Bank of New credited to being the only person Zealand, says the NZD is looking The explosion tore through shops to swim so far south earning him expensive and doubts if it will and a motorcycle taxi stand at a the nickname "The Polar Bear." maintain it's current high figure. major intersection across the Pugh also swam the Indian Ocean. street from the city's railway Michael Cullen, the finance station. "It was frightening. The pain was minister of New Zealand, has said immediate and felt like my body that investors will be hurt when Police Sergeant Subin was on fire. I was in excruciating the New Zealand dollar does fall. Pruekmongkol, 48, who lost his pain from beginning to end and I Dr Cullen personally believes that arms and legs in the blast, was nearly quit on a few occasions. It the NZD is currently overvalued. taken to Yala Hospital, where he was without doubt the hardest was pronounced dead. swim of my life," added Pugh. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has called for the New At least eight other police officers New Zealand dollar hits new Zealand Government to slow down were wounded, two of them high versus the United States it's spending. Charles Finny, from seriously, while four local dollar the Chamber of Commerce, says journalists were also taken to The New Zealand dollar (NZD) this is one of the core factors and hospital. The injury tolls varied value rose and, for a short amount not oil and housing markets as widely, with local news reports of time, was worth US$0.7932, the much as has been speculated. Oil saying at least 18 people were highest level in New Zealand since prices are at a current 11-month injured, while CNN reported that the dollar was floated in 1985 - world high. up to 32 people had been hurt. 22-years-ago. The retails sales figures also Police said the first bomb was The value then dropped a little and resulted in Government bonds hidden inside a motorcycle helmet as of 11.40 a.m. was trading at being weakened. The two-year and and placed in the front basket of a

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Wikinews Page 7 motorbike. The second blast was Haneef's lawyers have also the government was acting set off remotely after people had attacked the government's hypocritically. flocked to the blast site. This tactic decision saying it will make it more of using a smaller bomb as a lure, difficult for Haneef to mount a “We are supposed to be a followed by a second stronger defence should he be held in democratic society. I thought the bomb, has become more common immigration detention. His lawyers war against terrorism was an in the south Thailand insurgency. are considering delaying posting effort to preserve our democracy. Since attacks by separatists in his bail surety until his visa issues But here we are trashing it left, Thailand's Malay Muslim-majority are resolved. This will allow Haneef right and centre in the name of provinces flared up in January to stay in Brisbane near them, his saving it.” 2004, there are have about 2,000 lawyers say. They have also people killed in bombings and indicated that they will appeal the Burnside also questioned the almost-daily drive-by shootings. government's decision. government's anti-terror laws, saying it was unusual for a person In a separate violence earlier Australian immigration minister to be charged with giving someone today in Yala Province, a man was Kevin Andrews announced a SIM card twelve months earlier. fatally shot in front of a tea shop yesterday that he had used his in Yaha District. powers under the Migration Act to Queensland's Premier Peter Beattie cancel Haneef's visa as he had called on the immigration minister In Bangkok, the central failed a character check. to explain the reason for Haneef's government's Cabinet agreed to visa being cancelled. Mr Beattie extend an emergency law in the Mr Burnside is sceptical of Mr said that the Australian people southern provinces for another Andrews' motives, claiming the believed the government was three months. The current round government would not have being heavy-handed. expires on Friday. The emergency cancelled Haneef's visa if he had powers, which are set for three- not been bailed. He said Mr "But clearly the Federal Minister month periods, were first enacted Andrew's moves amount to the for Immigration has acted in in 2005. Among other powers, the government interfering in the relation to particular information decree allows officials the judicial process. from the federal police." authority to detain suspects for up to 30 days without charge. About “They want to keep him here for "If there's something they have 350 suspects have been rounded trial. They waited to cancel his visa become aware of since this up and detained under the law in until they saw whether he got investigation started that's not the the past few weeks, according to bail,” Mr Burnside told Southern subject of the charge, then they The Nation newspaper. Cross Broadcasting. should share that with the Australian people," Mr Beattie told Australian government under “If he didn’t get bail then they the media. fire over Haneef visa decision weren’t going to cancel the visa." Australia's federal government has Today in History come under fire by prominent “This is a misuse of power in bad 64 – The Great Fire of Rome human rights lawyer Julian faith for the explicit purpose of started among the shops around Burnside, Q.C. for using migration trumping a magistrate’s order that the Circus Maximus selling laws to circumvent the release of he should be let out on bail." flammable goods, eventually Mohamed Haneef after he was destroying four of fourteen Roman granted bail in Brisbane “I think it’s disgraceful that districts and severely damaging Magistrate's Court. Andrews has lent himself to doing seven others. it, because as a lawyer, he ought 1863 – American Civil War: Led by Haneef is alleged to have provided to know better,” said Mr Burnside. Union Army Colonel Robert Gould support to a terrorist organisation, Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts for leaving his mobile phone SIM Mr Burnside attacked the Volunteer Infantry, the first formal card with Sabeel Ahmed who government, claiming its decision African American military unit, allegedly had knowledge of the to cancel Haneef's visa tramples spearheaded an assault on Fort Glasgow attacks. on some of the key foundations of Wagner near Charleston, South democracy. He further alleged that Carolina.

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