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Laramie Daily Boomerag (Boomerang, said to be named after the first publisher's mule, but some Wyoming news veterans say it's because when the newsboy tossed copies onto the reader's porches, the readers threw it back).
(Read about that abolition .) This summer, half the parishes in Louisiana threw out video gambling from their bars, restaurants, and truck stops.
The theory that the horse latitudes were so named because mariners becalmed there threw overboard the horses they were transporting because they died of thirst or starved seems almost impossible: in order for such an event to have given rise to horse latitudes it would have to have recurred many times, and it is hard to believe that 16th- and 17th-century mariners were so improvident as to have allowed that to happen very often.
Rioters threw stones, bottles, and iron pieces at the police while policemen fired tear gas and used pistols, dogs, and horses to disperse the mob.
Concert-goers threw bottles, set fire to 12 tractor-trailers, and recreational bonfires grew into serious blazes.