D. B. Cooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, USA on November 24, 1971. He extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and an exhaustive (and ongoing) FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified. To date, the case remains the only unsolved airline hijacking in American aviation history.
Doddington Place Gardens 29th May 2011 on Flickr.
Doddington Place Gsrdens 29th May 2011. Next Tardis design?
I can’t bear it any more, though I don’t know what ‘it’ is.
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http://www.stleonardschurchhythekent.org/History/HouseofBones.html
There are some 2000 skulls in the Bonehouse of St Leonard’s Church, mainly arranged on shelves so you can get a good look at them – like the faces of the living they have their own characteristics and expressions. A few are of special interest as showing medical and dental conditions; there is even an example of trepanning. There are also about 8000 long bones – mainly thigh-bones – in a rather nicely designed pile. So that represents the remains of about 4000 people (men, women and children) – obviously the skulls being more fragile have not survived in such numbers. We do make a small charge to visitors: our bonehouse has been a nice little earner for the church since medieval times. Some people think it is wrong to put them on show, but they are reverently treated, they remain on consecrated ground, and they are contributing to their church even as they did in life. They are also of scientific importance, and it would be a pity to deny access to them.
Note : An ossuary is a chest, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia (Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom “Friday” is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen), or paraskevidekatriaphobia[1][2] a concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή, meaning “Friday”), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς, meaning “thirteen”) attached to phobía (φοβία, from phóbos, φόβος, meaning “fear”).
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Have you seen this man?
* Colonel Percival Harrison Fawcett has been missing since 1925
* He was searching for the ancient Lost City of Z in Brazil
* His body has never been found and his son also never returned
* An estimated one hundred would-be-rescuers have died in more than 13 expeditions sent to uncover Fawcett’s fate
* On March 12, 1948, Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 (NC95422) crashed into Mount Sanford, Alaska, with a crew of six and 24 passengers
* After the initial impact the wreckage slid down for about 3000 feet before coming to rest
* Many witnesses in the nearby town of Gulkana saw the crash, but the wreckage was lost for over 50 years. Snowstorms quickly buried its exact location in a mountain glacier. Over the years, various individuals, lured by rumors of a secret gold cargo shipment from China, searched the mountain and came home empty-handed
* Only the remains of Francis Joseph Van Zandt were ever recovered or identified. The bodies of the remaining 29 individuals still await possible recovery
