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Largest compilation of exonerations ever finds... →
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities.
There is no official record-keeping system for exonerations of convicted criminals in the country, so academics set one up. The new national registry, or database, painstakingly assembled...
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A Mark Twain moment in Egypt →
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.
Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.
His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according...
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Don’t explain. People only hear what they want to hear.
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
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Before you speak, think -Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt...
– Sri Sathia Sai Baba (via diveinme)
I need to do this more. My mouth tends to get me in trouble :(
(via carriebee)
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Hank (Pete) Wood’s Pond
Took a ride up to the State Wildlife Management Area not too far from my house. Very peaceful. Been coming here about once a year for over 40 years.
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When our government is the looter - George Will →
Russ Caswell, 68, is bewildered: “What country are we in?” He and his wife, Pat, are ensnared in a Kafkaesque nightmare unfolding in Orwellian language.
This town’s police department is conniving with the federal government to circumvent Massachusetts law — which is less permissive than federal law — to seize his livelihood and retirement asset. In the lawsuit titled United States of America v....
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Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
– John Green (via loveyourchaos)
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Man goes over Niagara Falls and lives: Only the... →
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A man who survived a plunge of at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls - only the third person known to have done so without a safety device - was in stable condition Tuesday, a day after his apparent suicide attempt that led to a dramatic and painstaking rescue.
On a warm and sunny Victoria Day holiday morning in Canada, the man climbed over a railing 20 to 30 feet...