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Solving the Mystery of Amelia Earhart's Disappearance
Thanks to another search for her plane, Amelia Earhart is still making news. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with members of "The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery" (TIGHAR) to discuss the unsolved case of the aviator. The group plans the search for Earhart's plane in June,[...]
The Magic of Monarchs
Every year tens of millions of monarch butterflies migrate more than 2000 miles to Mexico to get away from Canada's cold winters and they've been doing it for at least 10,000 years, according to recorded history. Their transcontinental odyssey, continues to amaze scientists as the butterflies fly to the exact same place monarchs before them have been. They travel at around 6 mph, but[...]
If I Had My Life To Live Over...
Erma Bombeck was an American writer and humorist who wrote more than 4,000 newspaper columns and had a following of more than 30 million readers in the United States and Canada. She also published over a dozen books many of which became best sellers. Erma died in 1996 at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer and kidney disease. She was buried in her family's plot in the Woodland[...]
Regrets of the Dying for the Living
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who has worked in palliative care for years spending her time caring for those people who know their time on this Earth is coming to an end. Bronnie plays an integral part in the last few weeks of people's lives and they often share many intimate times with Bronnie. She noticed through her personal discussions with them that certain patterns emerged[...]
Mitsuo Aoki Lived His Own Dying Twice
Mitsuo Aoki died for the first time in 1960 when the car he was a passenger in hit a telephone pole and his body was thrown from the car. Aoki remembered with vivid detail looking down at his lifeless body and hearing the firefighter on the scene pronounce him dead. Hearing this he said, "No, I'm not dead!" and then miraculously found himself back in his body. From that day forward Aoki[...]
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