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originally posted by: 777Vader
A Far Rockaway woman who accidentally left $12,000 cash in a backpack on the Long Island RailRoad was joyful after being reunited with the dough.
Juliet Barton boarded the train in Babylon Monday with much of her life savings stuffed into the backpack to “protect” it — and panicked when she realized she had left it behind when she transferred before her final destination of Rockville Centre.
“That’s when I realized, ‘I don’t have my bag,’” Barton told Newsday.
She approached LIRR workers, who told her to go to Penn Station, where she filled out paperwork about her missing item — then went home to pray.
A worker then came out and gave her the backpack, which had been found and turned in by the Babylon train’s conductor.
“Not a single dollar was missing,” MTA chairman and chief executive Janno Lieber said during a news conference Thursday with Barton and the transit workers who Lieber said who “showed kindness and concern when faced with a passenger who was going through that kind of stressful situation.”
The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic life-size portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. It depicts the 64-year-old President of the United States during his final year in office. The portrait was a gift to former British Prime Minister William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, and spent more than 170 years in England.
The Lansdowne portrait likely (and fancifully) depicts President Washington's December 7, 1795 annual address to the Fourth U.S. Congress. The highly unpopular Jay Treaty, settling claims between the United States and Great Britain left over from the Revolutionary War, had been presented to the U.S. Senate for approval earlier in the year. The Senate held a special session to debate the treaty in June, at which opposition to it had been fierce. Only two-thirds of the 30 senators (the minimum required under the U.S. Constitution) approved the treaty in mid-August, and Washington, who strongly supported the treaty, signed it in late August. In his annual address, delivered to Congress on opening day of its next session, the President acknowledged the struggle over the Jay Treaty, and called for unity. There was lingering resentment in the House of Representatives, which expressed its displeasure by declining to appropriate funding for the treaty's implementation until April 1796.
originally posted by: Guyfriday2
a reply to: Thoughtful3
During the Toilet Paper scarcity situation, we all learned that Toilet Paper is both a National Security thing, and manufactured near the areas where it is distributed.
Ask yourself this, "Have you even seen a facility in your city or county where Toilet Paper is manufactured?"