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The surfshooter link I posted is *THE* site of Kurt Jones. Check out the bottom of the picture of the supposed "shark," see what it says? Kurt Jones. The man who took the picture is telling you that it is a dolphin. Why would you doubt it? Now go look up the difference between the dorsal and tail fins of a shark and dolphin.
 
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One of the biggest and most complete giant squids ever found is on display at London's Natural History Museum.
Measuring a monstrous 8.62m (28ft), the squid was caught off the coast of the Falkland Islands by a trawler.



The mollusc curator at London's Natural History Museum looks at a giant squid about to go on display.
 
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This is a selection of the photographs
For a complete viewing see . . .
http://www.al.com/unseen/

The previously unpublished photographs in this section were researched by Alexander Cohn, a former photo intern at The Birmingham News. The archived images represent the work of Birmingham News photographers during the civil rights movement.

They have not been seen by the public. Until now.


Spring 1957: Members of the Ku Klux Klan rally in East Lake.


May 17, 1961: Police cover the windshield of a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders from Nashville at the Birmingham depot. Police said they did it for the riders' safety because a mob had gathered around the bus station.


May 17, 1961: While being taken to jail, Freedom Riders sing in the rear of a paddy wagon. From right are Carl Bush, William Harbour and Rudolph Graham. Police said the men were arrested for their protection


May 24-25, 1961: National Guard troops protect a Trailways bus near the Mississippi state line as it travels from Montgomery to Jackson on Highway 80 near Cuba. The troops were called out after prolonged violence in Montgomery.
 
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April 10 1963: Jazz Singer Al Hibbler, left, pickets in front of Trailways bus depot at Fourth Avenue North and Nineteenth Street. Police refused to arrest Hibbler with the rest of the group. Instead, he was driven back to the A.G. Gaston Motel.



May 3-9, 1963 Civil rights leaders disagreed on whether to use students as part of the movement, but public perception changed after photographs showed the children being arrested, sprayed by fire hoses and dodging police dogs.



May 7, 1963: Birmingham Police arrest Parker High School student Mattie Howard in front of the Carver Theatre. Youths became an integral part of the civlil rights movement when the Children's Crusade began on May 2.



May 3-9, 1963: Youths are pummeled by water from a fire hose during a Children's Crusade demonstration in downtown Birmingham.
 
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June 15, 1963 Protests in Birmingham spread to other cities including Gadsden where these demonstrators gather on a sidewalk under the taunts of whites. The protests in Gadsden were not widely reported in Birmingham.



May 3-9, 1963: Protesters face off against Birmingham police and firefighters in Kelly Ingram park during demonstrations in Birmingham. The protests would gradually build as the day went on, often culminating in conflict between the two sides.


August 1963: A demonstrator marches on 22nd St. in Birmingham.


Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 1962: The National Guard rounds up student protesters at Ole Miss during riots protesting the enrollment of James Meredith. He became the first black student to graduate from the school, in 1963.
 
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Sept. 11-13, 1963: West End High School students protest the enrollment of Patricia Marcus and Josephine Powell, who were inside. Marcus and Powell were attending their first classes. West End High students boycotted classes as part of their protest.



February 1956: A Tuscaloosa mob protests Autherine Lucy's enrollment at the University of Alabama.



Sept. 4, 1963: Protesters and a States Rights Party Member, right, wave flags outside Graymont Elementary.



September 1963: Police keep boycotting students across the driveway from West End High School.
 
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Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 1962: Mississippi National Guardsmen detain a student protester on the University of Mississippi campus after James Meredith tried to enroll.



June 27, 1964, Neshoba County, MS: Law enforcement officials search for three missing civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss. The bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were found Aug 4 buried 15 ft beneath an earthen dam.



June 11, 1964: Some of the 210 demonstrators jailed after protesting in the streets of Tuscaloosa two days earlier, wave from their cell.



March 25, 1965: Mississippi Highway Patrolmen watch marchers arrive in Montgomery from Selma.
 
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March 7, 1965, Selma: Using batons and tear gas, Alabama state troopers break up the march from Selma to Montgomery at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The clash became known as "Bloody Sunday."



March 7, 1965: Marchers move Amelia Boynton, after she was beaten by police outside of Selma on "Bloody Sunday."



March 7, 1965: An Alabama State Trooper adjusts his gas mask on "Bloody Sunday."



June 1966: A message directed at demonstrators during the "The March Against Fear" from Memphis to Jackson, Miss.