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Iran military shoots down U.S. spy drone

By Nick On December 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In General

Iran’s military has shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran and has threatened to respond to the violation of Iranian airspace, a military source told state television Sunday.

“Iran’s military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran,” Iran’s Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted the unnamed source as [...]

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The Victoria’s Secret Million Dollar Bra

By Nick On November 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In General

Model Miranda Kerr walks the runway in a $2.5 million bra during the 2011 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory on November 9, 2011 in New York City. The lingerie features approximately 3,400 hand-placed gems, including 142 carats of diamonds in addition to pearls, citrines, and aqua marines.Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images – [...]

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Heavyweight Boxing legend Joe Frazier has passed away at 67

On November 7, 2011 By Nick


Philadelphia boxing legend and former undisputed heavyweight champion “Smokin’ ” Joe Frazier has passed away at 67.

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Big giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines

On September 7, 2011 By Nick

Big giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines

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Golden Girls Betty White is America’s Most Trusted Celebrity

On August 20, 2011 By Nick

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seems like former “Golden Girls” actress Betty White really does have the Midas touch.

White, 89, is both the most popular and most trusted celebrity with Americans and the person most likely to drive up the business of a brand she might choose to endorse, according to a poll released on [...]

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Ferry captain got stuck in toilet

On August 20, 2011 By Nick

A Finnish ferry has run aground while its captain was stuck in the bathroom. One member of staff managed to slow the island-hopping tourist ferry down, but the vessel, carrying 54 passengers, slammed onto a rock near the shore of Helsinki, the Finnish coastguard said Friday.

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Famous and Missing: James “Jimmy” Hoffa

On August 3, 2011 By Nick


It was arguably the most suspicious disappearance in American history: On July 30, 1975, James “Jimmy” Hoffa, former head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union and one of the most powerful and well-known men in America, vanished so quickly and so thoroughly that his vanishing would eventually become something of a punch [...]

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Famous and Missing: Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin

On August 3, 2011 By Nick


The federal prison on Alcatraz Island had long been known as America’s most secure lockup when Frank Morris began serving time there in 1960 after attempting to escape other facilities. The Rock was also falling apart, a fact that Morris — who reportedly had a 130-plus IQ — noticed when he began peeling [...]

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Famous and Missing: Lionel “Buster” Crabb

On August 3, 2011 By Nick


In April of 1956, Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin and future premier Nikita Khrushchev chugged into England’s Portsmouth Harbor aboard the cruiser Ordzhonikidze. They were visiting on a diplomatic mission, but MI-6, Britain’s intelligence agency, had a mission of its own: They wanted to inspect the ship’s unique propeller, so they recruited Lionel “Buster” [...]

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Famous and Missing: Michael Rockefeller

On August 3, 2011 By Nick


With an oil baron for a grandfather and a New York governor for a dad, Michael Rockefeller could have slipped easily into a life of riches and leisure. But the heir was a hard-worker with a passion for exploration.

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Famous and Missing: Glenn Miller

On August 3, 2011 By Nick


A king of the Big Band era, trombonist Glenn Miller and his orchestra charmed the world in the 1930s and 1940s with hits like “Moonlight Serenade” and “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”. After war broke out, Miller enlisted in the Army as an officer at age 38 and boosted morale with his Army Air Force band.

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Famous and Missing: Aviator Amelia Earhart

On August 3, 2011 By Nick


No disappearance is more storied than that of the famous aviator Amelia Earhart. The first woman to fly across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, Earthart was attempting to circumnavigate the globe in her Lockheed Electra when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, left Lae island in the South Pacific on July 2nd, [...]

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Famous and Missing: Northwest Airline Highjacker D.B. Cooper

On August 3, 2011 By Nick

On November 24, 1971, a man in a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase handed a note to a stewardess aboard a
Northwest Orient 727 jet liner, bound from Portland to Seattle. The note claimed that inside the case was a bomb, and demanded that $200,000 in unmarked bills and two parachutes [...]

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Famous people who simply vanished

On August 3, 2011 By Nick

Fame is a notoriously fleeting thing, but one way of outwitting it seems to be capping one’s celebrity career with a mysterious disappearing act.

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Snakes on a car for a ride

On August 3, 2011 By Nick

First there were Snakes on a Plane; then there were Snakes on a Train (can you say “straight to DVD”?) Now … you guessed it: Snakes on a car.

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