ASHLAND, O. (AP)-From inside lock trunk of a parked car the cries of “lemme out!” attract-a passerby who called police.
Expecting to free a small, curious boy, the cops Monday night broke the lock to release a not-so-small and curious wife who said she had hidden there to check up her husband. Police Chief Harvey Smith withheld her name from newsmen.
ATLANTA, May 10-(P)-A little girl named Flowers went toddling among the flowers going sniff, sniff, sniff. And when Mary Beth Flowers came to the roses, she took a great, big sniff, just about the biggest sniff that could be sniffed. The little Miss Flowers, age 18 months, started crying and ran into the house. Her…
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 21 (AP) – The annual Christmas pageant given by the Fairbanks High School choir at the Ladd Air Force Base Hospital included a group of girls dressed in angel costumes. The girls were walking down the corridor when a setviceman patient was wheeled out of the operating room still feeling the effects…
In 1942, a forest ranger discovered a lake full of human bones high in the Himalayans. And when I say Roopkund Lake is full of human bones—the remains of around three hundred people rest in the lake water. The area is remote. Before a lake packed with dead folks was discovered, the only people who…
Late in the fall of 1896, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, scholars fresh from Oxford took the steamer to Cairo. They wanted to become Famous Archaeologists during a period when the British were fascinated by ancient Egyptian artifacts. So fascinated that said artifacts were disappearing from Egypt like sliced grapes from a toddler’s plate. They decided to dig…
WACO, Texas (AP) – Mrs. Burgman Black, intent on a fine spring garden, purchased a sack of commercial fertilizer and stored in the garage. At the first opportunity she carefully mixed what she thought was the fertilizer with soil in her garden, did her planting, and then gave it all a good soaking. The next…
Have you ever noticed that our expectations for ancient man are similar to those for toddlers? Hear me out:1. They aren’t allowed to use power tools.2. They can’t be motivated by practicality.3. They must believe in Santa Claus and bogeymen under the bed. Yes, I know, it sounds weird, but let’s look at Gobekli Tepe. Discovered in 1994, this site…