http://www.thenativeangeleno.com/2012/09/28/clifford-clinton-the-cafeteria-kid-who-toppled-city-hall/

http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/clifford-clinton

http://www.laweekly.com/arts/my-mother-was-the-mistress-of-the-owner-of-cliftons-cafeteria-4183131

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/09/local/me-then9

http://www.lapdonline.org/history_of_the_lapd/content_basic_view/1109

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/17/news/mn-11278

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/aug/08/local/me-then8

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jan/25/opinion/op-11942

 Los Angeles Police Department (Images of America: California) * Thomas G. Hays, Arthur W. Sjoquist

http://www.1947project.com/everybody-has-to-fall-some-time#.VaH1IJNViko

http://www.1947project.com/i-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_L._Shaw

http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/16/523864.pdf

 

Sources for Dollop # 39 – LADP The Beginning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Los_Angeles_County_Sheriff%27s_Department

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Rangers

http://www.lapdonline.org/history_of_the_lapd/content_basic_view/1107

http://www.laweekly.com/news/how-los-angeles-covered-up-the-massacre-of-17-chinese-2169478

http://www.lawesterners.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/232-BI-232.pdf

https://archive.org/stream/sixtyyearsinsout00newmrich/sixtyyearsinsout00newmrich_djvu.txt

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/16/local/me-37851

 

Sources for Dollop # 38 – Ballonfest

http://www.cleveland.com/remembers/index.ssf/2011/08/balloonfest_1986_the_spectacle.html

http://www.cleveland.com/remembers/index.ssf/2011/08/balloonfest_1986_the_spectacle.html

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/09/twenty-five_years_ago_thousand.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/millions-of-balloons-cleveland_n_5206936.html

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/news-archives/video-vault-clevelands-1986-balloonfest-the-world-record-that-went-bust

http://gizmodo.com/that-time-cleveland-released-1-5-million-balloons-and-c-1565731191

 

Sources for Dollop # 37 – AC/DC

Edison, His Life and Inventions * Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer

 My Inventions * Nikola Tesla

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age * Bernard W. Carlson

http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Tesla.htm

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_early.html

http://www.nps.gov/edis/historyculture/edison-biography.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-stock-ticker-debuts

http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/history/

http://news.rutgers.edu/research-news/thomas-edison%E2%80%99s-first-wife-may-have-died-morphine-overdose/20111115#.VGVtP5UtDIU

http://urwebsrv.rutgers.edu/magazine/archive1013/features/spring-2011/in-search-of-thomas-edison

http://edison.rutgers.edu/bio-long.htm

http://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-motion-pictures/origins-of-motion-pictures/

http://www.railwaybridge.co.uk/topsy.html

http://edison.rutgers.edu/topsy.htm

http://www.thomasedison.org/index.php/education/the-edison-family/

http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2010/11/the-edison-curse.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131003-nikola-tesla-surprising-facts-statue-museum-science/

http://www.mt.net/~watcher/bielek.txt

http://energy.gov/articles/

  George Westinghouse: Gentle Genius * Quentin R. Skrabec

 Algora Publishing, 2006. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 15 November 2014

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edison-vs-westinghouse

http://www.lef.org/magazine/2004/4/report_sonogram/Page-01?p=1

http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Tesla.htm

http://anengineersaspect.blogspot.com/2011/07/nikola-tesla-7-short-articles-from.html

http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/pic/2004/july.asp#more

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19280114&id=v58hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_pkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5096,2541333

http://teslacollection.com/

http://teslaresearch.jimdo.com/articles-interviews/tesla-s-ray-time-july-23rd-1934/?mobile=1

 

Sources for Dollop # 36 – Kentucky Meat Shower

http://mentalfloss.com/article/59487/time-it-rained-flesh-kentucky

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/

https://archive.org/stream/americanjournal163unkngoog#page/n66/mode/2up

https://archive.org/stream/americanjournal163unkngoog#page/n96/mode/2up

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074156194;view=1up;seq=263

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9403E5D81E3FE73BBC4852DFB566838D669FDE

 

Sources for Dollop # 34 – Dan Burros

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Burros

http://www.nypress.com/old-smoke-the-death-of-daniel-burros-a-jewish-klansman-who-did-more-than-just-hate-himself/

Article: “State klan leader hides secret of Jewish origin” – New York Times – October 31, 1965

 

Sources for Dollop # 33 – The Stomach Men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beaumont

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_St._Martin

http://mynorth.com/2010/05/the-gruesome-medical-breakthrough-of-dr-william-beaumont-on-mackinac-island/

http://www.guineapigzero.com/alexis-st-martin-1794-1880.html

http://www.livescience.com/28996-hole-in-stomach-revealed-digestion.html

http://www.the-aps.org/fm/125th-aps-anniversary/beaumont.pdf

 Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont * Jason Karlawish

 

Sources for Dollop # 32 – The Leatherman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherman_(vagabond)

http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/leatherman.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-SXFVLnV-4

The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend (Garnet Books) * Dan W. DeLuca

http://www.damnedct.com/the-leatherman

 

Sources for Dollop # 31 – Jack Parsons

 Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons * John Carter and Robert Anton Wilson

 Townsend, WA, USA: Feral House, 2005, 1999. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 26 October 2014. Copyright © 2005. Feral House. All rights reserved.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/23/jpl-jack-parsons/viewall

http://herculeshistory.org/tag/hercules-powder-co/

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/history/dr_goddard.html#.VFFEAPnF_E0

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jplhistory/early/index.php

http://www2.galcit.caltech.edu/history/index.html

http://www.esa.int/Education/Solid_and_liquid_fuel_rockets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley#United_States:_1914.E2.80.9319

 Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons * George Pendle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

 “Scientology: New Light on Crowley.” The Sunday Times, December 28, 1969

http://altreligion.about.com/od/controversymisconception/a/scientology_cos.htm

iau.org

 

Sources for Dollop # 30 – The Taxidermist

http://io9.com/the-woman-who-shot-elephants-for-americas-natural-hist-1466170378

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Akeley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Akeley

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akeley.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=GpkN_MX0HMcC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=carl+akeley+wife+monkey&source=bl&ots=U61xd8zlT2&sig=GJECI9KHBnzF8x0vKCxh07aREMA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HNShVd3AC9KhyASqyLqwBg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=carl%20akeley%20wife%20monkey&f=false

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/04/131107085/wrestling-leopards-felling-apes-a-life-in-taxidermy

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/carl-akeley

https://books.google.com/books?id=4ygDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18&dq=carl+akeley%2Bleopard&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D7gbU43ALoKq0QHX14GACA&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA%20-%20v=onepage&q=carl%20akeley%2Bleopard&f=true#v=snippet&q=carl%20akeley%2Bleopard&f=false

 

Sources for Dollop # 29 – The Flying Pinto

http://mentalfloss.com/article/31341/flying-pinto-killed-its-inventor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVE_Mizar

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-the-pintos-brief-life-as-an-airplane/

http://paleofuture.com/blog/2009/7/3/inventors-die-testing-flying-pinto-1973.html

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness

 

Sources for Dollop # 28 – The Talk Board

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board-5860627/

http://www.williamfuld.com/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12952/brief-history-ouija-board

http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_sisters

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/10/29/roman_mars_99_percent_invisible_the_ouija_board_s_strange_history.html

http://www.philipcoppens.com/gulfbreeze6.html

http://artvoice.com/issues/v10n43/the_uija_board_murder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism_of_Roland_Doe

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/ouija_inmates.htm

 

Sources for Dollop # 27 – Oofty Goofty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oofty_Goofty

https://spydersden.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/the-strange-life-of-oofty-goofty/

https://tonyquarrington.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/great-san-franciscan-characters-12-oofty-goofty/

http://www.sfcityguides.org/public_guidelines.html?article=1326&submitted=TRUE&srch_text=&submitted2=&topic=parks%20and%20recreation

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071197/1900-08-10/ed-1/seq-6.pdf

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth90387/m1/2/

 

Sources for Dollop # 26 – Bernhard Goetz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Goetz

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/30/nyregion/you-have-to-think-in-a-cold-blooded-way.html?pagewanted=all

http://gothamist.com/2011/12/24/bernard_goetz_weighs_in_suicide_of.php

http://narrative.ly/stories/bernie-goetz-squirrel-vigilante/

http://nypost.com/2013/11/07/bernhard-goetz-nycs-most-high-minded-citizen/

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-01-08/news/mn-17496_1_south-bronx

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/anniversary/35th/n_8601/

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089734,00.html

 

Sources for Dollop # 25 – The Two Dog Men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bergh

http://blog.nyhistory.org/henry-bergh-angel-in-top-hat-or-the-great-meddler/

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19820507&id=Lo5OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R_sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4403,2537025&hl=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Burns

http://narrative.ly/stories/the-brutal-honesty-of-a-bloodsport-baron/

http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/06/rat-pit-captain-joseph-rose-house.html

http://www.americanhumane.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/mary-ellen-wilson.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

  https://books.google.com/books?id=liaPsdwt11kC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=aspca+wiki+henry+bergh&source=bl&ots=VmZNwDx69T&sig=x_RAQmImctTiRsHCJfZoZFVFOOw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=28ShVYOEMIS1yATq1bOIBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBTgo#v=onepage&q=aspca%20wiki%20henry%20bergh&f=false

 

Sources for Dollop # 24 – John Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE

 Let The Fire Burn

http://www.post-gazette.com/frontpage/2005/04/14/Philadelphia-residents-win-lawsuit-over-MOVE-bombing/stories/200504140218

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-03-10/news/mn-2916_1_goode-apologizes-mayor

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,956982,00.html

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/MOVE-Phihladelphia-BombNYT14may85.htm

 

Sources for Dollop # 23 – The Willie Dee

http://www.historynet.com/uss-william-d-porter-the-us-navy-destroyers-service-in-world-war-ii.htm

http://www.cracked.com/article_19637_the-5-craziest-war-stories-all-happened-same-ship.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_William_D.Porter(DD-579)

http://www.ussiowa.org/general/html/willie_d.htm

 

Sources for Dollop # 22 –  Acharya Rajneesh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneeshpuram

http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/2011/04/part_one_it_was_worse_than_we.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/2011/04/part_two_thwarted_commune_goes.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/2011/04/part_three_mystery_sickness_su.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/2011/04/part_four_paranoia_takes_hold.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/2011/04/part_five_utopian_dreams_die_i.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/rajneesh_story_archive.html

 

Sources for Dollop # 21 – William Walker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster)

http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/historyofcentralamerica/a/wwalker.htm

http://www.historynet.com/william-walker-king-of-the-19th-century-filibusters.htm

http://thenashvillecitycemetery.org/william_walker_article.pdf

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/jackson-lincoln/essays/filibuster-king-strange-career-william-walker-most-dangerous-i

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