97K views · 1.3K reactions | Residents of Owens Valley began attacking the aqueduct drawing the area's water away to Los Angeles. The press started to call it the "Little Civil War." Watch FLOOD IN THE DESERT Tue May 3 at 9/8c on American Experience | PBS → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert | American Experience | PBS | Facebook

Holding the most senior civil servants to account over how our money is being wasted is a very sobering experience. There is ZERO respect for taxpayer money right across the public sector. I am desperately trying to inject some private sector common sense, as you can see... | Rupert Lowe

336K views · 6.1K reactions | This now abandoned mine was opened before the American Civil War. In 1863, production shifted to supply coal to the blast furnaces that were producing munitions for the confederacy. After the war, it took many years to rebuild the south’s infrastructure and industrial economy, so it sat abandoned. During the 1890s, it was reopened, and eventually shuttered in the early 1930s | Underground Birmingham | Facebook