I think a most exciting time to visit this continent would be before or shortly after its "discovery." I think it would have been an amazing thing to see some of the larger "cities", the Anasazi peoples before they abandoned their settlements at present day Mesa Verde, the Cherokee (which are my ancestors), and the Powhatan Confederacy, as well as other tribes across the Americas. The native people here on this continent were as diverse as tribes or different groups of people in Africa. Nowadays, most people have one stereotypical idea of "Native American Indians" riding horses, living in tepees, scalping poor innocent whites. These stereotypes mostly come from old western movies. But there were very distinct, diverse populations that lived here. (Horses were not originally here either.) The native peoples had very different and unique cultures with different lifestyles, political systems, language, religions, customs, rituals, legends and diets. Visiting the Americas would have been like a wonderful National Geographic trip for me. I would have taken on meeting the different peoples as a great honor, meeting with different tribes, immersing myself into their lifestyle, documenting their customs, language, etc for all people from the "Old World" to know about. How different would our history be if instead of looking at the natives as free workers or enemies -- we appreciated them for their uniqueness? How different would our history be if instead of seeing the natives as inferior or beneath us, we saw them as equals? Unfortunately, I wouldn't want to hang around for long, because I would be so sad to see so many natives die because of disease, then altercations and wars with settlers and finally so many deaths caused by the forced relocation of thousands of natives to what was deemed less valued land. But, before all of the bloodshed, I think the America's and the native peoples would have been an amazing place to visit and study.
Ted Bundy is a movie that chronicled the life and crimes of serial killer Theodore Robert Bundy. The film starts out showing Bundy as an impulsive kleptomaniac. The movie continues with alternating scenes between fairly normal life with his girlfriend and her daughter and times where Bundy is stalking, attacking, raping and killing women. He sometimes broke into women’s houses with a lock picking kit. He would often attack women on the streets or trick them into letting their guard down before attacking them. The scenes with assaults are shocking, as Bundy nonchalantly attacks and kidnaps women, usually in broad daylight. One scene with Bundy putting makeup on a severed head in his house is particularly chilling. When Bundy ends up moving to Utah, his killings appear to have ramped up, and he killed in multiple areas in Utah and Colorado. Bundy picked up a woman at a shopping center, claiming to be a police officer working on a case. When she realizes that they hav
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