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For two years, our family lived in the town of Bodega, California, where Alfred Hitchcock filmed his horror classic, The Birds. In the film, thousands of birds descend on a seaport village and begin randomly attacking people. No one ever discovers the reason for the birds’ bizarre behavior. It’s creepy, even to bird lovers.
Read MoreIn Bolivia, an eight-year-old boy provoked a black widow spider into biting him, hoping it’s venom would turn him into the Marvel Comics superhero, Spiderman. Unlike the fictional character, rather than furnishing him with superpowers to swing through the air
Read MoreOn July 4, 1776, fifty-six men signed a document that changed the world, the Declaration of Independence. Afterwards, they sat in silence, absorbing the solemnity of their decision—an act of treason against the most powerful monarch on earth.
Read MoreOn Friday, surrounded by family, we spread Linda’s ashes in Puget Sound near the beach where she was raised. It was such an amazing and beautiful experience. I know I’ll see her again,
Read MoreOn June 2, an elephant from a wildlife park, strolled into a small grocery store in Thailand, walked up to the counter, and began chomping on snacks. Park workers slowly shooed the pachyderm out the door. He exited, still holding a bag of snacks with his trunk.
Read MoreOver 1,000 people gathered last Saturday in an upscale Minneapolis neighborhood to witness a man sharpening a pencil. But not just any pencil, a giant twenty-foot-tall #2 pencil, to be precise.
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