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Giant cranes lift stranded Via Rail cars as Churchill struggles without rail line
Flooding in May left a Via Rail train stranded in Churchill, Man. It’s been collected by a ship, but the rail line—the town’s main link to other communities—is still in disrepair.
The real tragedy of Mavis Otuteye’s death: it didn’t have to happen
The Ghanaian woman found dead of exposure in a Minnesota field could’ve legally entered Canada—at a normal crossing
He’s Fightin’ and Smitin’ With Repulsor Rays
That Hulk theme wasn’t the only 20-second theme song written for cheaply-animated Marvel adaptations in the ’60s. The same company did an anthology show called The Marvel Superheroes, featuring some of the Marvel characters who weren’t as big as Hulk or Spider-Man, and each segment had its own theme song. An instrumental version of the “Iron Man” song can be heard briefly in the recent movie.
No Such Thing as an Underground Classic
I won’t be able to post much today, so here as filler is the greatest TV performance of all time, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year: William Shatner singing “Rocket Man” at the 1978 Science Fiction awards.