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Police in Florida rescue a man who was trapped in quicksand

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 2 Mar

A relative of a Jacksonville Florida resident who went missing on Valentine's Day after a breakup with his friend called the Putnam County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) to try to find him. The PCSO asked the Jacksonville Sheriff's...

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Michigan man rescued by a female when he fell into quicksand in a beach

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 6 May 25

Interlochen Michigan resident Mitchell O' Brien was walking on the sandy beach on Saturday April 12 with his colleague Breanne Sika who are employed by 217 Recovery Center clinic located in Traverse City Michigan looking for...

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Teamwork between the firefighters and rescue team save a hiker stuck in quicksand

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 21 Dec 24

The Summerville Fire Department and the Wilderness Volunteer Fire Department and the Fayette County Vertical Rescue Team worked together on Tuesday evening to rescue a male hiker who fell into Summersville Lake in West...

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Movie Review Star Wars The Rise Of Skywalker

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 24 Dec 19

2019 – Spoiler Alerts What? Still no Jar-Jar? Lol. Seriously, there is much to like here but rather more to be disappointed by. It is often visually stunning and they work very well round the limited footage available of the...

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Morecambe A Seaside Town Out Of Season

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 17 Nov 18

As my diary entry for yesterday said, I went for a walk round Morecambe, in Lancashire, about ten miles from home. Seaside towns can be very quiet, and even ad looking places in Winter, without the tourists (me excepted) pouring...

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Book Review Abe Kobo The Woman In The Dunes

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Nov 17

1964 - 1991 edition. Vintage International. Translated by E Dale Saunders. Illustrated by Machi Abe. Spoiler alerts A surreal, creepy, claustrophobic Kafkaesque allegory. It begins with the sudden disappearance of an...

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Movie Review - The Beast of Hollow Mountain

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 3 Jul 17

1956 - spoiler alerts A real turkey of a science fiction Western, the first of a spate of cowboy V dinosaur features (The Valley Of Gwangi being much better). The film was given the Mystery Science Theatre treatment in 2017....

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Poem Quicksand Phobia

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 1 Apr 17

Quicksand Phobia My fear of quicksand started with Ice Cold In Alex. The old John Mills film about A World War Two ambulance on a bold Behind enemy lines mission right out In the desert when Anthony Quinn falls In the mire...

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Have you ever needed any bank loan?

The Invisible Man @TheInvisibleMan (17594) 5 Mar 17

I remember that many years ago, my parents needed to ask for a bank loan to take away the value of our home. But before they went to the bank, I decided to lend all my savings to them and prevent them from entering that...

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Talk Review – How Morecambe Bay Got Its Name

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 1 Feb 17

A short informal talk I attended on Tuesday March 31st at Ingol, Preston’s Intact Centre. The talk was presented by historian Bill Shannon. Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, is the biggest area of mudflats and sand in Britain,...

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Movie clichés used in dozens of movies - quicksand peril

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 9 Sep 15

The love-interest blunders into quicksand. The hero ties himself to a tree on a long rope, jumps in and fishes her out, just before the rope snaps or the tree breaks. Later, chased by the villain, they lure him into the quicksand...

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~ building a house on quicksand ~

sanjana_aslam @sanjana_aslam (4187) • Malaysia 21 Jan 10

saw this in an article today .. how constructive is this words .. i saw the image of the house sinking into the quiksand, deeper n deeper it went.. then came a few bubbles .. it went still no movemet .. it was as though nothing...

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Rival Schools

Redhornet117 @Redhornet117 (1248) • Philippines 26 Jul 09

Anybody here a fan of Rival Schools? I really love their song "Favorite Star". Very cool song....

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pasjiskot @pasjiskot (62) • Croatia (Hrvatska) 29 Feb 08

So many times i have watched a movie where the hero is sucked down into a pit of quicksand, only to be saved at the last minute by grabbing a nearby tree branch and pulling himself out. Is it so in the real life too and can you...

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What is Quicksand?

sahyd2don @sahyd2don (2941) • India 28 Feb 07

how are they formed.

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