Correction appended, March 12.
Wisconsin residents might want to start stockpiling their favorite flavors: The Jelly Belly Candy Co. warehouse and store are leaving the Badger State for good.
The company plans to sell its 40-acre property in Pleasant Prairie, Wisc., and move operations to Tennessee, the Milwaukee Business Journal reports. A spokesperson for the California-based company confirmed the building had been put up for sale but said there was no timeline in place yet for the change.
Joaquin Phoenix Holds Court in Napoleon's Big, Messy Pageant
Trust no one—not even me—who tries to tell you Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is any good. Good is perhaps not the word to use. Napoleon is a sprawl, a messy pageant, a little crazy and yet perhaps not crazy enough. Its color palette is both grand and muted, like a newly printed map distressed to fool you into thinking it’s an antique. It’s sometimes boring and pretentious and often a little silly, almost to the point—almost—of parody.
John Wilkes Booth Bobbleheads Pulled from Gettysburg Gift Shop
Shane Dunlap / The Evening Sun / APA John Wilkes Booth bobblehead doll, left, is seen for sale alongside a President Abraham Lincoln bobblehead doll at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center Battlefield Bookstore in Gettysburg, Pa.
The news that bobblehead dolls of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, were yanked from the shelves of the Gettysburg National Military Parks visitors’ center bookstore isn’t all that shocking.
Kamala Harris' Candidacy Will Break a Unique Barrier in Three States
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When Kamala Harris arrived in the Senate in early 2017, she was only the sixth Black person to win election to the chamber since Reconstruction and just the second Black woman to get there. Now the Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency could help a third and fourth Black women join the Senate through elections in Maryland and Delaware.
Massacre at Hill 303 - TIME
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"The Reds walked up & down the line of prisoners, shooting. I was hit in the leg. I reached down to my leg and got some blood and smeared it on my head and I laid down under a dead man. I didn't move a muscle. When they came back along the line I got shot in the arm but I didn't yell." Then, as U.S. troops advanced up the slope of Hill 303, the North Koreans retreated.
Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter Public Domain: Its Finally Happe
Dan O’Neill was 53 years ahead of his time.
In 1971, he launched a countercultural attack on Mickey Mouse. In his underground comic book, “Air Pirates Funnies,” the lovable mouse was seen smuggling drugs and performing oral sex on Minnie.
As O’Neill had hoped, Disney sued him for copyright infringement. He believed it was a legal parody. But after eight years in court, he was saddled with a judgment he could not pay.
National Affairs: WPB in Greece
State and War Department planners, whose job it is to translate broad policies into practical details, had a rough plan for Greece ready by week’s end. Of the $400 million which the President asked, Greece would get $254 million in the next two years. This is how it would be spent:
¶ $154 million for military items (rations, clothing, rifles, grenades, automatic rifles, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, motor transports, fuel, lubricants; if there was anything left it would go for artillery and some aircraft—chiefly for the psychological effect).
People with these 8 jobs are more likely to cheat on their partners
1,074 users of Ashley Madison were invited to respond to a survey regarding their jobs. These were the results of the survey: 1. Female doctors and nurses The field of medicine has emerged as the leading profession for women who engage in infidelity. 23% of women worked as nurses or doctors. These women in the medical field engage in affairs because of the long hours spent at work coupled with stress.
Pop star drops new song with Kanye and Paul McCartney
The song, off her forthcoming eighth studio album, is a departure from 2012's Unaplogetic. A plucky acoustic guitar complements Rihanna's vocals. "I think I've had enough/ Might get a little drunk/ I say what's on my mind/ I might do a little time," she sings on the opening lines of the track. "Cause all of my kindness/ Is taken for weakness." For Kanye's part, he sings, "Woke up an optimist/ Sun was shining, I'm positive/ Then I heard you was talking trash/ Hold me back/ I'm about to spazz.
Rigoberta Mench (Indigenous Rights Activist)
Full Name: Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Profession: Indigenous Rights Activist, Feminist and Nobel Laureate
Biography: Rigoberta Menchú is a K'iche' Indigenous woman from Guatemala who gained international prominence as a human rights activist. She rose to prominence in the early 1980s when she began speaking out about the injustices faced by her community during the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted from 1960 to 1996. Menchú specifically highlighted the violence and atrocities committed by the Guatemalan military against Indigenous communities.