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Heroic 12-Year-Old Rescues Younger Siblings from House Fire
When fire engulfed 12-year-old Justin Jackon’s Milton, FL, home on Sunday at 2AM, his mother was at work and his father was out of state. So if anyone was going to save his four younger siblings, it was going to have to be him.
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College Sweethearts Marry After 60 Years Apart
Peggy Marie Pence Schuster and Henry O. Freund first felt a spark between them back in 1950 when the pair attended Southwestern of Memphis (now Rhodes College).
They exercised their young love by sitting next to each other in class and attending school events together. But like many college sweethearts, their romance didn’t make the jump into the real world. Soon after graduation, Marie married someone else, and Henry, who had joined the Air Force, did the same.
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University Dismisses Entire Student Body In Mass Email Fail
Every semester, college students find out whether or not their grades will keep them in good standing at their university. Recently, students at Eastern Michigan University received a disturbing email.
“As a result of your Winter 2012 academic performance, you have been dismissed from Eastern Michigan University,” reads the first line of an email that caused many a heart palpation throughout the Ypsilanti, Michigan campus Friday.
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Woman Changes Her Name to 161 Words… to Support a Charity?
A woman from Hartlepool, England is finding that having a 161-word name can be awkward. But the 41-year-old has only her self to blame for any complications stemming from the monster 1,055 letter moniker.
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Five-Year-Old With Leukemia’s ‘Make A Wish’ Dream Is to Help at a Soup Kitchen
Five-year-old Leland Camara suffers from Leukemia. He’s had some tough days since he was diagnosed in September, but he also realizes that others have gone out of their way to make his time more joyful as he battles the disease. For example, last winter his hometown fire department in Anchorage, Alaska sent Santa Claus over to his house so he could enjoy a proper Christmas.
So when Leland got hooked up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, he asked for two wishes.
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Will The World End During Your Lifetime? — Survey of the Day
According to the Mayan calender, we are all doomed come December 21 of this year when the world ends.
Interestingly, that ancient prediction would be in accordance with the 15 percent of people around the globe who believe the world will end during their lifetime.
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Facebook Has A New Organ Donation Tool
Mark Zuckerberg wants to use Facebook to help those languishing at the tail end of organ donation lists.
So, starting today, the close to 200 million Facebook users in the United States and the United Kingdom will have the option to add that they are organ donors on their Facebook timeline.
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Key Witness Alleges Second Shooter in Robert Kennedy Assassination [VIDEO]
Nina Rhodes-Hughes was with Robert F. Kennedy at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel in 1968 when the presidential candidate was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
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Two-Year-Old Rides Toy Bike Three Miles In Bid To See Sick Grandmother
Two-year old Noah Joel really wanted to see his sick grandmother in the hospital. So he pulled a stunt that darn near gave his mom a heart attack.
The toddler from Hameln, Germany snuck out his room when his mother thought he was playing. Then he grabbed his trusty toy bike and paddled toward where he believed the hospital and his granny to be. For provisions, Joel filled a backpack with candy.
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Watch This Newborn Baby Flip Dad The Bird
Every parent vividly remembers the birth of their child. Just in case, and for the benefit of those not in the delivery room, many parents record the early moments for prosperity and Facebook. Mostly for Facebook.
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Google Drive Is Here – Is Cloud Storage the Way of the Future?
While Google Drive sounds like it has something to do with the search company’s much buzzed about driverless car project, it’s actually a completely different direction in Google’s quest for world domination.
The 5GB cloud-storage service, which launched this week, allows users to access information from any of their computing devices. It also includes the functionality of Google docs, which means you can use it to collaborate with colleagues in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. (Learn more in the video below.)
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‘The Avengers’ Trailer From the ’70s Is Fantastically Awful
‘The Avengers,’ which hits theaters on May 4th, is the first live-action movie adaptation featuring the complete team of Marvel superheroes.
Or at least we thought it was. But it turns out The Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man and the rest assembled and did battle with Loki in a little known TV movie in 1978. Take a trip in the way back machine and check out this fantastic (and fake) trailer.