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Today in Rotten History

Jan 7 1943
Nikola Tesla dead. The inventor of alternating current, Tesla was driven mad by Edison and spent his final days trying to invent a death ray.

Jan 7 1948
Residents of Maysville and nearby towns report UFO sightings, and at 2:45 PM, the US Air National Guard investigates. Capt. Thomas Mantell radios that the craft is "metallic and tremendous in size". It may have been a weather balloon. At 3:18 PM Mantell's P-51 goes down, the first UFO related fatality.

Jan 7 1950
Thirty-nine lunatics and one normal person die in the Mercy Hospital fire, Davenport IA.

Jan 7 1961
Young hoodlum Al Pacino arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. He and his compatriots were driving around a suburb of Providence RI, in the middle of the night, wearing masks and gloves. Not suspicious at all.

Jan 7 1989
Marine biologist Emperor Hirohito dead from cancer. Prior to his scientific career, Hirohito was the highest profile unindicted war criminal, presiding over such events as the Rape of Nanking and the unnecessary deaths of over 1 million Japanese in 1945 after it became quite clear the war was lost.

Lamb of God

Posted by Clint at 10:38 PM on 3/1/2007   (Post Comment)

Last Thursday I took my sister Ivy to see my favorite band, Lamb of God. They played for almost two hours and it was fucking amazing. Lamb of God has definitely picked up where Pantera left off. The opening band Gojira was impressive and Trivium was amazing.

Below is some LoG concert footage of something called the Wall of Death. Thankfully, we saw nothing at the show that remotely resembled the video below.

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