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[color=#333333]Howard Snitzer - Dead for 96 minutes[/color]

[color=#333333]In January, 54 year-old Howard Snitzer suffered a heart attack outside of a grocery store in Goodhue, Minn. Luckily, two first responders were across the street and quickly began CPR. Before long, a large group of rescuers, including a helicopter and team from the Mayo Clinic, arrived to help. Finally, after 12 defibrillation shocks, antiarrhythmic drugs and m[/color][color=#333333]ore than an hour and a half of continuous resuscitation, Snitzer's pulse returned. It had been 96 minutes since he had collapsed.

Generally, if a victim's pulse has not started after 45 minutes of CPR, resuscitation is discontinued.[/color]

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[color=#333333]The World's first photo[/color]

[color=#333333]The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.[/color]

[color=#333333]One summer day in France in 1826, Joseph Niepce took the worlds's first photograph. It's a photo of some farm buildings and the sky. It took an exposure time of 8 hours.[/color]

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Mammoth Camera - Worlds Largest Camera

The Mammoth camera was manufactured by the J.A. Anderson Company, Chicago in 1900. It was designed as the largest camera every made in order to capture a complete train with cars.

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[color=#333333]The head of the Statue of Liberty on display in the garden at the Champs du Mars at the World's Fair in Paris to drum up support and contributions for the completion of the great project, 1878.[/color]

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[color=#333333]Brutal Japanese: Rape Of Nanking 1937[/color]

[color=#333333]The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, is a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period, hundreds of thousands of [/color][color=#333333]Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.[/color]

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[color=#333333]A Sheedi devotee sought blessings for his five-month-old son while holding him over a crocodile during a festival at the Manghopir shrine in Karachi, Pakistan.[/color]

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[color=#333333]John Dominis' famous 1966 photo of a showdown between two age-old enemies confronting each other in Botswana isn't exactly spontaneous; the leopard was a rental. But the dramatic battle between predator and prey was real, natural, and terrifying.[/color]

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[color=#333333]Man slept next to dead wife for 5 years[/color]

[color=#333333]For the past five years, Le Van from Vietnam has slept next to his wife…his dead wife. After she died in 2003, he missed her so much, he would sleep on her grave site. A year later, he dug a tunnel next to the grave so he could sleep beside her. His neighbors became concerned and called the police. In a desperate act, Van dug up his wife’s corpse and brought it home. This is when he molded it with clay so he could sleep next to her.[/color]

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[color=#333333]One in a million “Red/Green” apple[/color]

[color=#333333]Ken Morrish of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, England was out picking apples in his garden one day when he came upon this very rare two-toned apple. Thought to be caused by a genetic mutation, the odds of finding an apple like this are a million to one![/color]

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[color=#333333]The Faces of Bélmez[/color]

[color=#333333]The Bélmez Faces or the Faces of Bélmez is an alleged paranormal phenomenon in a private house in Spain which started in 1971 when residents claimed images of faces appeared in the concrete floor of the house. These images have continuously formed and disappeared on the floor of the home.[/color]

[color=#333333]Located at the Pereira family home at Street Real 5,[/color][color=#333333]Bélmez de la Moraleda, Jaén, Spain, the Bélmez faces have been responsible for bringing large numbers of sightseers to Bélmez. The phenomenon is considered by some parapsychologists the best-documented and "without doubt the most important paranormal phenomenon [in the 20th] century".

Various faces have appeared and disappeared at irregular intervals since 1971 and have been frequently photographed by the local newspapers and curious visitors. Many Bélmez residents believe that the faces were not made by human hand. Some investigators believe that it is a thoughtographic phenomenon subconsciously produced by the owner of the house, María Gómez Cámara ("Thoughtography" is considered a form of psychokinesis among parapsychologists).

Skeptical researchers point out that unlike other psychic claims this case is falsifiable. Since the faces of Bélmez are fixed on whitewash of cement, scientists are able to analyze the molecular changes that took place in such mass of concrete. Skeptics have performed extensive tests on the faces and maintain they have demonstrated that fakery has been involved.[/color]

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[color=#333333]The Ghost Ship - Mary Celeste[/color]

[color=#333333]In 1872, the ship was spotted off the Azores in the Atlantic completely intact and undisturbed, aside from its missing crew. Not a single person, alive or dead or undead, could be found, despite everyone's personal belongings still sitting undisturbed where they had been left. Even little things like valuables and piano music were right where they should have been. I[/color][color=#333333]t was as if its crew had simply evaporated.

The strange case of the disappearing crew of the merchant ship Mary Celeste is not only the most famous maritime mystery in history, it is the episode which served as midwife to the Bermuda Triangle hysteria.

So how did everyone just vanish? Ghosts? Aliens? Sea monsters? Dimensional vortex? According to the History Channel, yes. After all, the case has proven a tough one to crack. All the ship's papers were missing, but the logbook was still safe and sound. Piracy is unlikely since there were no signs of a struggle and no booty missing. The main hatch was sealed, and there were no storms or time/space disruptions reported in the area.

The fate of her crew has been the subject of much speculation. Theories range from alcoholic fumes, to underwater earthquakes, to waterspouts, to paranormal explanations involving extraterrestrial life, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), sea monsters, and the phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle, although the Mary Celeste is not known to have sailed through the Bermuda Triangle area.

The Mary Celeste is often described as the archetypal ghost ship, since she was discovered derelict without any apparent explanation, and her name has become a synonym for similar occurrences.[/color]

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[color=#333333]There is a girl in Scotland who may die if she brushes her hair[/color]

[color=#333333]Thirteen-year-old Scottish teen Megan Stewart can't brush her hair while sitting up.[/color][color=#333333]It's not that she wouldn't want to -- rather, if she does, she runs the risk of her brain shutting down because of the static electricity.[/color]

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[color=#333333]Park that turns into a lake for half the year[/color]

[color=#333333]A rare natural phenomenon turns one of Austria’s most beautiful hiking trails into a 10 meter-deep lake, for half the year.[/color]

[color=#333333]Located at the foot of the Hochschwab Mountains, in Tragoess, Styria, Green Lake is one of the most bizarre natural phenomena in the world. During the cold winter months, this place is almost completely dry, and used as a countr[/color][color=#333333]y park where hikers love to come and spend some time away from urban chaos. But as soon as temperatures rise, the snow and ice covering the mountaintops begin to melt, and the water pours down, filling the basin below with crystal-clear water.

Water levels go from one-two meters at most, to over 10 meters, in the early summer. The waters of Green Lake are highest in June, when this extraordinary place is invaded by divers, curious to see what a mountain park looks like underwater. Fish swimming over wooden benches, a grass-covered bottom, trees, roads, roads and even bridges create a surreal setting that feels like it belongs on dry ground. That’s because for half of the year, that’s exactly where it’s at.[/color]