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Firefighter Red Adair on Hell
Paul "Red" Adair was the oil field firefighter first made famous by a 1968 John Wayne movie The Hellfighters. After the first Gulf War, he led ...
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Woman Uses Valuable Coin for Parking
When we possess something of great value, we generally safeguard it. Through a series of errors, a South African woman failed to properly care for a collection ...
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Boxer Mike Tyson Squandered Fortune
Minimum amount boxer Mike Tyson earned in the nine years before filing for bankruptcy in August 2003: $300,000,000.
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Counterfeiter Misused Artistic Talents
As a counterfeiter, Emanuel Ninger is legendary. When arrested on March 28, 1896, The New York Times reported that a search of the suspect turned up $244.25 ...
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Sin Is Like Shopping with a $1 Million Bill
A woman named Alice Pike tried to use a fake $1 million dollar bill to shop at Walmart. Two questions came to mind: "There isn't really a $1 ...
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New Age Intellectual Finds Christ
Mary Poplin, professor of education and Dean of the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University, attended a Methodist church as a child, ...
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Renowned Author Caught Lying
Even before historian Joseph Ellis became a best-selling author, he was famous for his vivid lectures. In his popular courses at the exclusive Mount Holyoke ...
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Never Do It Alone
In his fictional short story, Top Man, mountaineer James Ramsey Ullman writes of a three-man mountain-climbing team in the Himalayas that pitches camp—really ...
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God's Junk Mail
The other twenty million finalists might as well give up. One of the gold-sticker-laden sweepstakes entry forms and magazine sales pitches that show up ...
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Satan's Best Trick
The Devil's most beautiful ruse is to convince us that he does not exist.
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