Friday, December 14, 2007

Shut down the Internets!


Damnit - look at what the internet can do:

Midas of the Maritimes
Time Magazine - Friday, Jan. 31, 1964


Flames curled through a straw-and-cloth effigy hanging in the main square of normally sedate Saint John, New Brunswick. Hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the fire and to argue about the object of their anger: Kenneth Colin Irving, the richest man, the biggest landholder and the most contentious entrepreneur in Canada's Maritime Provinces.


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I didn`t go and buy up the press so that people can remember what I`ve done!