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Pittsburgh first baseman Randall Simon will not face charges for hitting one of the Milwaukee Brewers sausage mascots with his bat durin
stanley becher g a game.Prosecutors said Thursday they made the decision after reviewing tape of Wednesday night s game.The women were not interested in having him charged criminally and did not believe Simon meant to hurt them, Deputy District Attorney Jon Reddin saidSimon was cited by the sheriff s department for disorderly conduct and fined $432. He can contest the citation at a Sept. 3 hearing.Simon maintains he did not
stanley quencher deliberately try to knock down the female mascot. That wasn t my intention in my heart for that to happen, he said before Thursday s Brewers-Pirates game. I was just trying to get a tap at the costume and for her to finish the race. Simon said he hopes to apologize to the woman before he leaves Milwaukee. I thought at the moment they were trying to play with us. They were r
stanley water bottle unning right next to the players, he said. I m a fun player, and I ve never hurt anyone in my life. Simon was taken to the Milwaukee County Jail after the game, won 2-1 by the Brewers in 12 innings. He was booked, released and ordered to appear in the district attorney s office. Simon had been handcuffed in what is standard procedure for those taken to jail, Deputy Inspector Sherry Warichak of the sheriff s department said. She said he was totally cooperative. Four people in sausage costumes race around the infield warning track between the s Gqfm It s Official: South Carolina Has a State Fossil
At almost the instant when humans started building cities, we figured out ways to put walls around them. The often violent history behind those walls is still affecting urban life today, in ways you may not realize. Illustration by Mark Molnar In the early 1960s, eminent scholar Lewis Mumford published a massive tome called The City in History. He argued that cities evolved largely as military entities, and their walls wer
water bottle stanley e the most obvious sign of their profoundly warlike character. Undeniably, early city walls were built as social armor, sometimes prot
botella stanley ecting a single settlement and sometimes an entire region. The Great Wall of China is the city wall writ large. Mumford great insight was that these walls weren ;t just for defense. They were also an early form of surveillance technology. Authorities used these walls to watch who exited and entered through the gates. Their eyes were trained on the enemies within, as well as those without. But Mumford was also wrong about the origins of city walls. The Truth About the First Walls Human settlements grew walls long before the imposing fortifications of ancient Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome. And even during the period of monumental city wall building, those walls had many non-military uses. Evidence of city walls dates back over 9,000 years ago to the Neolithic period, thousands of years before the rise of famously fortified ancient citie
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