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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Lugoff is located 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Camden, the Kershaw county seat, and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of the Wateree River.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 15.3 square miles (39.6 km 2), of which 15.0 square miles (38.9 km 2) are land and 0.6 square kilometres (0.2 sq mi), or 1.64%, are water.
The survivor, Elizabeth Shoaf, [1] was kidnapped after she got off her school bus on September 6, 2006. Filyaw gained her trust by posing as a police officer. [1] He walked her around in the woods until she became disoriented and then marched her to an 8x8 ft makeshift underground bunker, located within a mile of her own home.
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union.
Harry F. Powers (born Harm Drenth; November 17, 1892 – March 18, 1932) was a Dutch-born American serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia. Powers lured his victims through " lonely hearts " advertisements, claiming he was looking for love, but ultimately murdering them for their money.
Sarah Goddard Power c. 1975. Sarah Goddard Power (June 19, 1935 – March 24, 1987) was a United States Democratic Party activist and University of Michigan Regent.She was a Democratic National Convention delegate in 1976 and she was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in 1980 and 1981.
According to a local police constable whom he passed, the defenseman for the Buffalo Sabres NHL team had been driving "over 100 miles an hour" while on his way home to Buffalo, New York, after a 4 to 2 loss the night before to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Horton was thrown from his Ford Pantera car after the car ran onto a grass median and rolled ...
Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941) is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer. His works include No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America; White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal; Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and Mark Twain: A Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.