Posts Tagged ‘Impressive’

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 »

Yale’s “We Suck” prank

{ Article added: 12/13/2009 }
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Each year, a college football rivalry game between Yale University and Harvard University takes place. For the game in 2004, approximately twenty Yale students disguised themselves as the fictitious "Harvard Pep Squad" and handed out signs to Harvard fans. ...Read More »

Manfred von Richthofen

{ Article added: 11/07/2009 }
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Categories : People, World War I
Manfred von Richthofen was a famous flying ace in World War I who is more commonly known as the "Red Baron". He was the most successful fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service and was credited with 80 ...Read More »

Larry Walters

{ Article added: 11/06/2009 }
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Larry Walters, better known as "Lawnchair Larry", was a man who gained attention in 1982 when he piloted a homemade aircraft built around a chair to 15,000 feet in California airspace. His aircraft was named Inspiration I and used ...Read More »

Loudest band in the world

{ Article added: 08/09/2009 }
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Since the late 1970s, some controversy has existed in the music world due to the multiple claimants of the title for the "loudest band in the world". Some bands base this on live performances, while others point to decibel ...Read More »

Marree Man

{ Article added: 07/04/2009 }
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The Marree Man is the largest known geoglyph (drawing or design made in the ground) in the world and is located in South Australia. It appears to depict an indigenous Australian man holding a throwing stick and was discovered ...Read More »

Don Gorske

{ Article added: 06/27/2009 }
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Don Gorske, the so-called "Mac Daddy", is an enthusiast of the Big Mac hamburger from McDonald's. Since 1972, Gorske has eaten over 23,000 of the sandwiches and has averaged around two per day in recent years. He keeps ...Read More »
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