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Jim Creighton

{ Article added: 03/20/2010 }
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Categories : People, Sports
Jim Creighton was the first superstar in baseball, as well as the first professional baseball player, playing in the mid 1800s. Creighton excelled as both a hitter and a pitcher. His fastball was unthinkably quick, so much so ...Read More »

Argleton

{ Article added: 03/20/2010 }
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Argleton is a fictitious location supposedly located in West Lancashire, England. The settlement at one time appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth, and although it was recently removed, the previous location is still listed in search results. ...Read More »

Surgeon’s Photograph

{ Article added: 03/20/2010 }
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Categories : Photographs
The Surgeon's Photograph is a photograph of what was purported to be the Loch Ness Monster. The photo was published in the Daily Mail in April of 1934 and was given its name because the source, a doctor, refused ...Read More »

Principle of Evil Marksmanship

{ Article added: 01/24/2010 }
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Categories : Movies
The Principle of Evil Marksmanship is the theory that the "bad guys" in films will invariably be very poor marksmen, almost always missing when attempting to shoot the main characters, or "good guys". The term, sometimes called the "Stormtrooper ...Read More »

Anna Bågenholm

{ Article added: 01/24/2010 }
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Categories : Medical, People
Anna Bågenholm is a Swedish woman famous for experiencing the lowest known body temperature in a case of hypothermia and surviving. In 1999, Bågenholm was skiing and fell headfirst onto a frozen stream where her upper body was soon ...Read More »

June 1962 Alcatraz escape

{ Article added: 01/04/2010 }
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Categories : The Unexplained
On June 11, 1962, three men escaped from Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, taking a makeshift raft into the waters of San Francisco Bay and disappearing. Along with a fourth man who was unable to participate because he could ...Read More »

Dieter Dengler

{ Article added: 01/04/2010 }
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Categories : People, Vietnam War
Dieter Dengler was a Navy pilot during the Vietnam War whose capture and imprisonment in Laos as a POW was the subject of the film Rescue Dawn. The prison camp was operated by the Pathet Lao, and Dengler was ...Read More »
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