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The Mysterious Skyjacking of D.B. Cooper During the 1970s, the U.S. was a victim to an average of 138 hijackings per year, tallying up to have the most hijackings per year in American history. Most of these hijackings came from the same derivative, namely, the skyjacking of D.B. Cooper. D.B. Cooper, originally known as Dan Cooper, hijacked his flight to Seattle, plundered $200,000 and four parachutes, after which he jumped out of the plane’s detoured departure to Mexico, never daring to reappear…

Morris and the Anglin brothers started preparing for their escape months prior to their escape in June 1962. The intelligent men began their strategy with saw blades and sharpening spoons from the prison cafeteria to widen the air vents in their cells until the openings were large enough for them to shimmy through. The inescapable prison was starting to deteriorate and the three inmates used the crumbling walls of the building to their advantage. They covered their digging by crafting a…

Through Literature: Know Your Place Slavery will forever be engrained in the minds of the world’s population. Regardless if you are college educated or never been to school in your life, you are aware of the times of slavery and the mistreatment of African Americans. Slavery was an epidemic of sorts in a figurative sense, the only difference was a disease was not taking the lives of African-Americans, whites were. Slavery and racism was wide-spread geographically and in terms of time, yet their…

The house has taken the personality of the whole family. There are many different voices in the house which is in charge of a specific duty in the house. The weather box sings softly in the morning “rain, rain, go away: rubbers, raincoats for today…” (Bradbury 64) which is there to remind the family of the proper attire that is best suited for the weather. The house functions to protect the property and to protect the family from any outside danger. The family approaches the house…

14. Chapter fourteen: Unconditional love (noun): “And at nap time, when we would sleep next to each other. And our teacher thought that was the cutest thing, how I would cuddle up next to you and say you were my big brother. And you agreed just so I didn 't have to move. All the substitute teachers didn 't get it, how two 5yr old 's could be that close. Or how when I left early for a doctors appointment you would come with me because our parents knew each other and you didn 't want me to cry.…

D-Day Bald Eagle Times #58 Recently I was able to witness (with alot of convincing on my part) the invasion of Normandy Beach, France. This invasion officially began on June 6, 1944 better known as D-Day. However, in truth, it began long before that. It took tactical, strategic, combat, and productivity skils for this operation to have a chance at success and for the battle to have a chance at beginning even the basic phase of the operation, let alone the actual invasion of Normandy Beach and…

It was a typical morning in Park City, Utah. Wil Cruz woke up to the sound of his alarm, at 5:30 a.m. and immediately looked out his window. Fresh snow had fallen overnight, about a foot or so, and icicles hung from the lip of his roof that almost reached the base of his house. He got out under the layers of blankets spread around his bed, and went to watch the weather channel. His best friend Jake was already watching, waiting anxiously for the report. “It’s another great day here in Park City…

TRAGEDY STRIKES TEENS AT TARARUA RANGES TRAMPING SAFETY What was supposed to be a cruisy overnight stay at a hut in the Tararua Ranges turned into a tragedy for ill-prepared teens Bevan Cole and Peter Smith, leading both into a state of hypothermia and taking the life of Smith. The boys thought that a small trip to the ranges would be a breeze, but neither of them gave attention to the weather forecast or evaluated the risks involved correctly, leading to the pair being ill prepared to face off…

Unusual Pleasures In the book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, we learn very quickly that the main characters in the novel have what most would consider a very perverted relationship. Humbert and Lolita are the main characters in this tale. Humbert is a middle-aged man engaged to Lolita’s mother, Charlotte. This book is the story of Humbert’s intense love and obsession for Lolita, Charlotte’s daughter. Throughout the novel, we find out that Humbert’s pleasures and Lolita’s pleasures are far from…

El Camino de Santiago has been, and remains, the oldest and most celebrated route of the old continent. The route crosses Europa to arrive to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. There are different variants of the Camino de Santiago, starting from different parts of Europe. Each of the routes has a different name and its corresponding stages. El Camino de Santiago is the route that the pilgrims take to visit the tomb of the Apostle Santiago, in Santiago de Compostela. Since IX century, it was…