Posts Tagged ‘Fascinating’

McLean House

{ Article added: 07/03/2010 }
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Categories : Civil War, Historical
On July 21, 1861, the first major battle of the American Civil War took place on farmland owned by Wilmer McLean. It was called the First Battle of Bull Run. Seeking to get away from the war, McLean, ...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 »

Ansel Bourne

{ Article added: 11/27/2009 }
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Ansel Bourne was a preacher living in Rhode Island in the 19th century who suddenly moved to Pennsylvania and opened a store under the name A.J. Brown. Bourne had been suffering from amnesia at the time and this life ...Read More »

Lazarus syndrome

{ Article added: 11/06/2009 }
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Lazarus syndrome is a medical condition where a patient who has been declared dead by doctors experiences a spontaneous return of circulation. Medical literature has documented at least twenty-five instances of the syndrome since 1982. Examples include a ...Read More »

Hollywood accounting

{ Article added: 11/06/2009 }
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Categories : Movies
Hollywood accounting is a phrase used to describe the practices of movie studios and financial backers of films whereby the money earned from a project is redistributed to separate corporate entities that are in fact owned by the same people ...Read More »

Great Locomotive Chase

{ Article added: 09/06/2009 }
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Categories : Civil War
The Great Locomotive Chase is the name given to a raid conducted by the Union Army (and led by two civilians) that took place on April 12, 1862. The purpose of the raid was to do as much damage ...Read More »

Uncontacted peoples

{ Article added: 07/25/2009 }
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Uncontacted peoples, or perhaps more accurately referred to as isolated peoples, either exist now or have existed at some point in the past without significant contact from the civilized population. These groups have been isolated, whether by their own ...Read More »
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