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Daily Bread for 10.26.13

Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be a day of partly sunny skies, a high of fifty, and winds of 15 to 20 mph.

Perhaps, for Halloween, you’d like to design some unusual graphics, of strange and imaginary creatures. Mashable has tips on how to Photoshop ordinary animal photos into ones of imaginary animals: How to Photoshop Hybrid Animals. (One doesn’t need Photoshop; other photo-editing programs have similar features. They’ve an accompanying link to the 9 Best Free Image Editors.)

When you’re done, you could have hybrid like this Corgi-Sloth from Mashable:

sloth-corgi

It’s the anniversary of a famous gunfight:

On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona…

Around 3 p.m., the Earps and Holliday spotted the five members of the Clanton-McLaury gang in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral, at the end of Fremont Street. The famous gunfight that ensued lasted all of 30 seconds, and around 30 shots were fired. Though it’s still debated who fired the first shot, most reports say that the shootout began when Virgil Earp pulled out his revolver and shot Billy Clanton point-blank in the chest, while Doc Holliday fired a shotgun blast at Tom McLaury’s chest. Though Wyatt Earp wounded Frank McLaury with a shot in the stomach, Frank managed to get off a few shots before collapsing, as did Billy Clanton. When the dust cleared, Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers were dead, and Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday were wounded. Ike Clanton and Claiborne had run for the hills.

Sheriff John Behan of Cochise County, who witnessed the shootout, charged the Earps and Holliday with murder. A month later, however, a Tombstone judge found the men not guilty, ruling that they were “fully justified in committing these homicides.” The famous shootout has been immortalized in many movies, including Frontier Marshal (1939), Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994).

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