Chicago Fire Case Study

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The mystery of the Chicago fire is an interesting one but there are many missing pieces of the mystery, such as how the fire was started. The fire first was started around nine P.M in a barn on the O’Leary’s farm in the barn. There are many speculations such as the O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lamp or a lot of drunken men were messing around and gambling near fire in or near the barn. But one thing is for sure its effects were disastrous. The city was mostly made of wood so the fire wreaked havoc on the city. One theory that would never happen was if aliens came down from outer space and shot the barn with lasers to start a fire that would help them take over the world. This theory isn't reliable because we have no proof of
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What has become of her now? No one knows!!! There are many theories on what happened to her to make her never to be seen again. One theory that definitely didn't happen is if she flew into a time space wormhole and ended up crashing into the Great Wall of China. The Chinese then put her dead body and the plane in the wall and built around it. This didn't happen but one of the theories that are that she crash landed on a island and was taken prisoner by the Japanese military and held prisoner near spain. The other theory that is very likely is that she ran out of fuel and got off course then her ship sank with her in it. This theory is called the crash and sink theory. This is probably the most reliable theory and the most likely because if this happened and the ship sank and deteriorated under the ocean then that is why we can't find her or the plane. The ocean is also such a large place that it probably wouldn't be found anyway. This cold case will probably be solved soon though because of modern technology they can track her progress and use submarines with metal detectors to find the plane. This is my theory on this cold

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