TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉 ✓
@CherokeeOwl · USA · joined 05 Apr 2024
You Only Need To Know The Direction, Not The Destination 🇺🇸 🦉History, True Crime, Heroes🚫Lists https://t.co/4QgpFDVQQn
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Second man off the landing craft on Omaha Beach. The first and third are already dead.
Days later a mine tears him up. Six months in a hospital.
Then they send him back. Battle of the Bulge. Hand-to-hand with a teenage German. Captured.
Survives the aftermath of Malmedy. htt
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They wouldn’t take you unless you weighed 107 pounds
and still had six teeth.
That was the minimum.
That’s how hungry America was in 1933.
March 31, 1933 — FDR signs the Civilian Conservation Corps into law. Unemployed young men, mostly 18 to 25, single, broke. $30 a month. htt
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He was the most feared man in the NFL.
Limping down the tunnel. Jersey slung over his shoulder. A 9-year-old kid chasing him with a bottle of Coke.
“I think you’re the best ever.”
Mean Joe Greene almost didn’t do the commercial. He wasn’t an actor. First take? He burped.
They
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THEY CHANGED HER NAME AND STOLE THE FIRST HIT.
Fourteen years old.
Born Jamesetta Hawkins to a child herself.
Raised by strangers.
Punched in the chest by a choir director who wanted the voice to come from the gut.
Johnny Otis flipped her name to Etta James and cut a raw https
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James Arness
6-foot-7. Too tall for a fighter cockpit. So they made him a rifleman.
February 1944. Anzio. German machine gun finds his right leg. He spends more than a year in hospitals.
Walks with pain for the rest of his life. Bronze Star. Purple Heart.
Then America spends
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@CherokeeOwl @maggiewise111 I have met my share of entitled cockroaches like that in NYC. A horrible human being, she most surely was.
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He didn’t get busted.
He walked in.
Anchorage bouncer. 1983. Joins the Hells Angels on what he later called a dare.
Sergeant-at-arms. West Coast officer. Wires under the cut. Bugs in a cast. Flies the country on the FBI’s dime.
Three years inside. Then the door kicks in — 32
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@CherokeeOwl The Steinway and the free suite weren’t generosity. NYC succession rights meant a relative could inherit the $500 Plaza lease after she died. Paying her off once was cheaper than fighting a multi-generational tenancy.
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@CherokeeOwl Everyberg
Singlestein
Timeowicz
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When Trump bought the Plaza Hotel in 1988 for $407.5 million, the sellers warned him: the biggest problem isn’t the debt or the renovations.
It’s Fannie Lowenstein.
She was 80. Tiny. Lived in a rent-controlled three-room suite for 35 years paying $500–$800 a month while guests h
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Two days in Korea. Mortar shrapnel to the face and hand. Purple Heart number one.
Later a U.S. jet stitches him while he’s diving into a foxhole. Friendly fire.
They don’t pin the second Purple Heart on him until 1983 — thirty-two years later.
By then he’s Bret Maverick and h
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@CherokeeOwl Keith Richards met his match with this badass. Sonny didn't play.
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@CherokeeOwl 🏍 Actually, coincidentally met him at an Harley auction once. When out in California my buddy and I went to an auction from the City of Oakland at which they were auctioning off old police Harley-Davidson bikes. I did not realize who he was, at first. Seemed like a
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@CherokeeOwl I had family members that ran with him. What wild lives they had. I’ve heard stories. 👀
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They called him the maximum leader.
Sonny Barger. Oakland. 1957. He turned a motorcycle club , Hells Angels, into a worldwide name — and a federal target.
1986: an Anchorage Angel is shot dead by Outlaws. Barger says it’s time to hit back.
The man sitting next to him in the ht
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They called him the most feared tackler who ever lived.
South Side kid. Lithuanian immigrant family. Illinois All-American. Bears first-rounder.
For nine years he hunted quarterbacks and running backs like it was personal. 22 picks. 27 fumble recoveries. Eight Pro Bowls. They
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Before Death Wish. Before The Magnificent Seven. Before the granite face.
1943. Army Air Forces. B-29 tail gunner. Twenty-five missions over the Pacific. He gets hit.
They give him a Purple Heart and send him home.
He uses the GI Bill to study acting.
Hollywood turns the h
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One miserable family road trip in 1951 created the most famous green sign in America.
Kemmons Wilson loaded his wife and five kids into the car and headed from Memphis to Washington. He booked nothing.
Every motor court charged extra for the children, rooms were filthy or http
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Three days after he recorded it, the song still wasn’t finished.
Otis Redding had whistled the ending of “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” as a placeholder.
He planned to come back and complete it later.
He never got the chance.
On December 10, 1967, his private plane left h
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Against accounts of the same size
19 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views14 411this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %11.73%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.34%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 14 411 | 5 983 | 2.41× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 11.73% | 1.49% | 7.87× |
| Engagement rate | 0.34% | 0.93% | 0.37× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
1.8K3 Sep
2.3K
1.2K
8.2K
794.1K
2.4K
13K
9.2K
9.2K
522.6K5 Sep
14.4K
75.2K
14K6 Sep
308.4K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.34%3 Sep
0.35%
0.26%
2.63%
0.07%
0.33%
0.16%
1.45%
0.18%
0.11%5 Sep
1.62%
2.30%
1.35%6 Sep
0.64%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes65.9%5 461 in total
Reposts21.3%1 766 in total
Replies3.1%255 in total
Quotes0.5%44 in total
Bookmarks9.1%757 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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