Jim McKay died at 86 on saturday of natural causes at his farm in Monkton.

Jim McKay, born on 24th Sep 1921, was an American television sports journalist. He is best known for hosting ABC’s Wide World of Sports covering a wide variety of special events, including horse races such as the Kentucky Derby, golf events such as the British Open, and the Indianapolis 500.

Jim Mckay died on 7th Jun 2008.

Rest in peace Jim Mckay.

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Lorenzo Odone, the man whose true life story the movie Lorenzo’s Oil was based, died on May 30, 2008, at his home in Virginia.

Augusto Odone says Lorenzo Odone, his son, had come down recently with pneumonia.

Doctors had predicted he would die when he was 8, but Lorenzo had another opportunity of life thanks to his father Augusto Odone.

Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte starred as Michaela and Augusto Odone in the 1992 movie, “Lorenzo’s Oil”. They formulated an oil that they said helped their son fight the neurological disease.

A study published in 2005 verified that the oil could prevent the onset of symptoms.

Here is the Lorenzo’s Oil Movie Trailer:
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Jeremy Bentham was the man in the coffin in Lost season 4 finale

The real Jeremy Bentham, a 19th century philosopher., requested that his actual body, not a statue, be put on display in a wooden case for people to gaze upon after he died in 1832.

The wooden case is now at the University College London..

The body has a wax head, because Bentham’s real head was damaged in the preservation process.

The real head used to be in the case with Jeremy, but students at the college kept pulling pranks with it so it had to be put in a secure location somewhere.

They still pull old Jeremy Bentham out for important meetings, where they list him as “present but not voting.”

Here is the video of Lost season 4 finale when it revealed the identity of the man in the coffin - Jeremy Bentham:

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Jeff Peckman, Colorado’s favorite nut who lives with his parents at age 54, wants Denver city council to form an Extra-Terrestrial Affairs Committee.

The reason is he has a video that proves aliens exist.

“It shows an extraterrestrial’s head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that’s visible through an infrared camera,” he said. The alien is about 4 feet tall and can be seen blinking, Peckman said this month.

In a statement, Peckman said “other related credible evidence” proving aliens exist will be shown at Friday’s news conference, too

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Dianne Odell, 61 years old women from Jackson, TN, has died after a power failure disabled her breathing machine. She was at her family home near Memphis, in Tennessee.

Dianne Odell has been in an iron lung for about 58 years, after being diagnosed with polio when she was 3.

Dianne Odell’s family members tried to get the emergency generator working.

“We did everything we could do but we couldn’t keep her breathing,” said brother-in-law Will Beyer. “Dianne had gotten a lot weaker over the past several months and she just didn’t have the strength to keep going.”

Emergency crews were called to the scene, but were unable to help.

Dianne was able to get a high school diploma, take college courses and write a children’s book, though she was confined to the 750-pound machine for most of her life,

Dianne said, “I have had two dreams in my life. The ability to write without the help of others” and “to write my own letters and perhaps books.” She continues, “My dream of writing a book without help has come true. I had started a children’s book over 12 years ago. The computer I had then gave me nothing but frustration. It must have been three years before I realized that the method of voice recognition that I was using would never work for my voice. It broke my heart to think of all the wasted money people had contributed for my benefit. Now my expectations have been more than fully realized . . . I am making good progress.”

Rest in peace Dianne Odell.

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Teddy Ebersol, born in Torrington, Connecticut. on June 10, 1990, died Sunday, November 28, in the crash of a private plane near Telluride, Colorado. He was 14 years old.

The body of Edward Teddy Ebersol, was found under the two days later.

Teddy Ebersol is the 14-year-old son of NBC Sports Dick Ebersol and actress Susan Saint James,

Christened Edward Bright Ebersol is his birth name.

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Bethany Correira, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, moved to Anchorage in May 2003 to pursue medical studies in college. Four days after Correria’s move, her mother, Linda, arrived at her apartment to find the door unlocked and her daughter’s purse, keys and cell phone inside. Bethany was nowhere to be found.

How was the case solved? Check out the 90 minutes show, called “Mystery at Bootleggers Cove,” focuses on Bethany Correira’s disappearance, the investigation led by Detective Glen Klinkhart, her family and the trial. It will be air on Dateline NBC on Monday at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 2.

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Krista Dwyer is the girlfriend of NASCAR driver Tony Stewart who iis a two-time Cup Series champion, and is considered to be one of the best drivers in NASCAR with 25 career wins.

Tony Stewart’s bad-boy image and driving skills make him hugely popular with fans.

On 23rd May 2008, Krista Dwyer and Tony Stewart gave their 3 years old pet monkey, Mojo, to The Louisville Zoo.

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Jucelino Nóbrega da Luz, a brazilian psychic born on 07/03/1960, did predict many events: the 9/11 attacks, the Tsunami on 26/12/2004 in Indonesia, a further Tremor in Sumatra, the correct location of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit, the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq and the winning of the soccer championship by Italy.

Jucelino Nóbrega da Luz (da Luz = “from the light”) is said to hear a voice from next world which tells him the prophecies since he is 9 years old.

However, the prediction of an eathquake in sumatra on 23rd Deec 2007 did not come true.

On December 23, 2007 a great earthquake with a magnitude of 8.5 on Richter scale should shock the indonesian Island of Sumatra. The Indonesian authorities took the warning for December 23 for serious because the Brazilian teacher of English and German was 2 times right with precise prophecies of Earthquakes.

Here are some of his other prophecies:
- Earthquake in China on 13. September 2008 with more than 1 Million death
- Vaccination against AIDS 2008
- Earthquake in Osaka with 8.9 on Richter scale and 500.000 Death on 25. January 2009
- Stock market crash in Wall Street in New York on 15 June 2010
- a deathly desease named “Heros” in 2011
- between 2012 and 2015 Explosion of the Krakatao
- A Vulcano Eruption on the canares (LaPalma) with Mega-Tsunami in North- and South America in November 2013
- An eruption of the Yellowstone - Supervolcano also in November 2013
- A catastrophic comet impact in 2019
- 80% chance of asteroide impact (Apophis) on 11/11/2036
- Earthquake in San Francisco with 8.9 on Richter Scale on 09 February 2023
- Earthquake “The Big One” on 17 July 2026 in San Francisco with 10.8 on the Richter scale
- in some decades 14 Cities remained where mankind could survive. And even 7 of them are in his home country - Brazil.

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Google celebrates the birthday of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius with a special logo today.

Walter Gropius, born in Berlin, Germany on 18th May 1883, was the third son of Walter Adolph Gropius, German architect and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber.

He studied at the Colleges of Technology of Berlin and Munich and founded the Bauhaus school of design, which became a dominant force in architecture and the applied arts in the 20th century.

In March 1919, Walter Gropius was elected chairman of the Working Council for Art and a month later he was appointed Director of the Bauhaus.

In 1934, Walter Gropius opposed the Nazi regime and left Germany secretly. After several years in England, Gropius began teaching architecture at Harvard University.

Between 1938 to 1941, Gropius worked on several houses with Marcel Breuer and formed the Architects Collaborative in 1945.

On 5th July 1969, Walter Gropius died at age 86 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Important buildings from Walter Gropius:
* 1910-1911: Fagus Works, Alfred an der Leine, Germany
* 1925: The Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany
* 1937: The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
* 1949–1950: Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
* 1963: Pan Am Building, in collaboration with Pietro Belluschi, New York

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