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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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..
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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,” [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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