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The enduring bond between a man and his dog is a tale as old as time itself. The story of Hachiko, a dog whose loyalty to his owner transcended even death, stands out among the countless heartwarming tales of canine-human relationships.
Earlier this month, Brandon Jones, 37, wrote an email to Steve Chu, 30, a co-owner of two Ekiben restaurants in Baltimore, explaining that his mother-in-law had terminal cancer but had joked that the last thing she’d like to eat on her death bed was Ekiben’s tempura broccoli.
Brandon merely asked if Steve would be willing to share the recipe so that he and his wife Rina Jones, 38, could prepare it for her when they went to visit.
In 1908 Hine became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), leaving his teaching position. Over the next decade, Hine documented child labor, with focus on the use of child labor in the Carolina Piedmont, to aid the NCLC’s lobbying efforts to end the practice. In 1913, he documented child laborers among cotton mill workers with a series of Francis Galton’s composite portraits.
Hine’s work for the NCLC was often dangerous. As a photographer, he was frequently threatened with violence or even death by factory police and foremen. At the time, the immorality of child labor was meant to be hidden from the public. Photography was not only prohibited but also posed a serious threat to the industry. To gain entry to the mills, mines and factories, Hine was forced to assume many guises. At times he was a fire inspector, postcard vendor, bible salesman, or even an industrial photographer making a record of factory machinery.
The Titan, a submarine owned by OceanGate, which offers tourists a unique opportunity to visit the Titanic wreck for a hefty price of $250,000, is controlled by a surprisingly affordable video game controller. This revelation was made by Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, during an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” last year.
The young man’s name was Joseph Hafen and he was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1895, the seventh of ten children. He was 22 years old when he left to fight in WWI.
During the spring of 1964, Sports Illustrated covers featured the usual cadre of super (or soon to be super) stars: golfer Jack Nicklaus, lefty pitcher Sandy Koufax, the first-time national champion UCLA basketball team.
Then, on April 20, with hair blown out, makeup on, and crouched in sprint positions, Janis Rinehart (foreground), Paula Walter (middle), and Jeanne Ellison (now Jeanne Ellison Biggs, right) became the first female track athletes from the U.S. to grace the cover. Their look was no joke.
The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), also known as the XM129 and XM159 Atomic Demolition Charges and the B54 bomb was a nuclear man-portable atomic demolition munition (ADM) system fielded by the US military from the 1960s to 1980s but never used in combat.
For two months in 1958, Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, left a trail of 11 dead bodies across Nebraska and Wyoming. Their victims were anyone unfortunate enough to get in their way, including Fugate’s parents and a wealthy Nebraska couple they had robbed.
One of Panzram’s most brutal murders involved hiring six men to work on a boat with him, shooting them, and then feeding them to crocodiles. In his autobiography, he wrote, “For all of these things, I am not the least bit sorry.”
A boater who was found Sunday clinging to his sinking vessel far off Florida’s Atlantic coastline told U.S. Coast Guard officials he didn’t think he would make it back to shore alive.
“I didn’t see anybody, I thought, this is it!” Stuart Bee said in a call with the Coast Guard released Monday night.
Bee, 62, had been reported missing on Friday after he departed from Cape Marina on his 32-foot boat.
Bee described having mechanical problems on the boat Saturday night, saying the engine was making squealing noises. He went to sleep and was woken up by water coming into the boat.
