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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 1d

I am proud to be offering this online presentation about a forgotten wartime tragedy that changed the world.

My book at Amazon tinyurl.com/4z34saa3 and Indigo tinyurl.com/yck4rua2

Event link (and registration) tinyurl.com/3uwcfjkf

@dundurnpress.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 1d

I am proud to be offering this online presentation about a forgotten wartime tragedy that changed the world.

My book at Amazon tinyurl.com/4z34saa3 and Indigo tinyurl.com/yck4rua2

Event link (and registration) tinyurl.com/3uwcfjkf

@dundurnpress.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 2d

In World Two Two, American GIs were equipped with high-powered M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles (one of the finest firearms of the time) while most German soldiers were still using five-round bolt-action rifles that weren't much different than their Great War counterparts.

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 2d

I am giving a presentation about 1950s-era Toronto bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd.

Where: Wychwood branch, Toronto Library

When: Oct 7 at 2 pm.

Free and open to the public.

Event info tinyurl.com/569r3ya2

My book at Amazon tinyurl.com/3pmav3j4 and Indigo tinyurl.com/y4bl4gv2

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 3d

mixing up "complement" (to add to something) with "compliment" (to say something nice)

Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 3d

Not new, but hey ...

www.surreynowleader.com/entertainmen...

Surrey-based podcast focuses on Canadian true crime

Corus Entertainment’s Curiouscast picks up Dark Poutine

www.surreynowleader.com

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · Jun 19

"The constant danger for gurus is that they must keep producing new wonders for their followers. They can't let the act get stale or seem to be wrong about something or, worse of all, to fail publicly." ~ Jeff Guinn, MANSON, The Life and Times of Charles Manson
#Booksky

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 4d

Even worse, they allegedly maintained forced laborers to do their bidding, on the threat of eternal damnation if they failed to work hard enough or bring in enough cash.

They were apparently told that disappointing the ministers was tantamount to disappointing God.

Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus wept.

www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

www.miamiherald.com

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 4d

Today's trail brought to you by Earl Bales Park, Toronto, and the annual phenomenon called autumn.

#mountainbike #mtbtoronto

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NPR @npr.org · 5d

Sarah Mullally has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to be chosen to lead the world's 85 million Anglicans.

Sarah Mullally named first woman Archbishop of Canterbury

Sarah Mullally has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to be chosen to lead the world's 85 million Anglicans.

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 5d

Meet the gang that broke out of Toronto's horrid Don Jail twice.

My talk re 1950s bank robber Edwin Boyd @ Wychwood branch, Toronto Library, Oct 7 at 2 pm

Event info tinyurl.com/569r3ya2

My book at Amazon tinyurl.com/3pmav3j4 and Indigo tinyurl.com/y4bl4gv2

@crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7d

Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: He invites us in and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. I say, "Massage table in the middle of your house? How often you have a massage?

And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."

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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · 7d

#Primates
We’ve lost one of our pioneers

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 9d

In "1984", narrator Winston Smith goes to the movies.

One of the flicks features a helicopter attacking civilians in a lifeboat. It's clear from Smith's description that this scene is intended to be inspirational, not horrific.

The point is to underscore the brutality of Big Brother's regime.

Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 10d

Edwin Boyd: gentleman bandit or cold-blooded killer?

Find out at my talk re this 1950s Toronto bank robber @ Wychwood branch, Toronto Library, Oct 7 at 2 pm

Event deets tinyurl.com/569r3ya2

My book at Amazon tinyurl.com/3pmav3j4 + Indigo tinyurl.com/y4bl4gv2

@crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11d

Sounds like the Taliban ... "Douglas Wilson Wants the U.S. to Be a Christian Republic. MAGA Is Listening. The incendiary pastor calls for taking away women’s right to vote and barring non-Christians from holding office. Pete Hegseth and Tucker Carlson are among his fans." www.wsj.com/us-news/doug...

Essay | Douglas Wilson Wants the U.S. to Be a Christian Republic. MAGA Is Listening.

The incendiary pastor calls for taking away women’s right to vote and barring non-Christians from holding office. Pete Hegseth and Tucker Carlson are among his fans.

www.wsj.com

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · Aug 1

My books (true-crime and history) in audiobook format at:

Amazon tinyurl.com/2p8f57dz
Apple tinyurl.com/33zu8cpz
Audible tinyurl.com/mwhs9z26

@dundurnpress.bsky.social @tantoraudio.bsky.social
#audiobooks

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 13d

I wrote a book on the subject.

On June 27, 1918, German U-boat 86 torpedoed the Llandovery Castle, a clearly marked Canadian hospital ship, then tried to murder survivors.

At a 1921 trial about the attack, a German court said the attack on survivors was an obvious war crime.

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kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 13d

The RCMP has charged seven suspects from the Greater Toronto Area in connection with what it describes as “one of the largest known” drug trafficking operations conducted on the dark web in Canadian history. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

RCMP charges 7 suspects from the GTA in dark web bust

The RCMP has charged seven suspects from the Greater Toronto Area in connection with what it describes as “one of the largest known” drug trafficking operations conducted on the dark web in Canadian h...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 14d

On this day in 1957, U.S. Army troops escorted the Little Rock Nine to Central High School in Arkansas. Less well known—in August 1958 all the city's high schools were closed for a year to resist integration. Students learned through televised lessons, as shown in these photos.

Photograph shows an African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration. September 1958. Thomas O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Two teachers teaching a class which is being broadcast by KATV 7 television, after high schools were closed to prevent integration, Little Rock, Arkansas. September 1958. Thomas O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Photograph shows three pajama-clad white girls being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration. Thomas O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 14d

I am giving an afternoon presentation about 1950s Toronto bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd at the Wychwood branch of Toronto Public Library on Oct 7.

Event deets tinyurl.com/569r3ya2

My book at: Amazon tinyurl.com/3pmav3j4 and Indigo tinyurl.com/y4bl4gv2

@crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 14d

A tragedy about a Canadian hospital ship in WW1, the German sub that sank it, and the court ruling that forever changed war crimes prosecutions.

“Gripping"—Literary Review of Canada

Paperback version on sale at Amazon tinyurl.com/nhse5tae

@dundurnpress.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 14d

I am giving an afternoon presentation about 1950s Toronto bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd at the Wychwood branch of Toronto Public Library on Oct 7.

Event deets tinyurl.com/569r3ya2

My book at: Amazon tinyurl.com/3pmav3j4 and Indigo tinyurl.com/y4bl4gv2

@crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 14d

A tragedy about a Canadian hospital ship in WW1, the German sub that sank it, and the court ruling that forever changed war crimes prosecutions.

“Gripping"—Literary Review of Canada

Paperback version on sale at Amazon tinyurl.com/nhse5tae

@dundurnpress.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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