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I'd totally forgotten about the bombing at the Harvey's casino in Tahoe, but there's a pretty interesting (if long) article about it here:

https://read.atavist.com/a-thousand-...verlay&preview

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06-04-2015 , 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Howard Treesong

I'd totally forgotten about the bombing at the Harvey's casino in Tahoe, but there's a pretty interesting (if long) article about it here:

https://read.atavist.com/a-thousand-...verlay&preview

Wow, that was long. Interesting read. I never knew that story.

***The feds always got them at the money drop.***

I don't understand how the transfer of money could ever be made successfully. Unless you are going to DB Cooper it, how does one even think they could get away with it?

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06-04-2015 , 05:47 PM

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the murder of Laci Peterson, for which Scott Peterson was convicted in 2004,

lol

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06-05-2015 , 02:32 AM

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lol

It's pretty annoying with the true crime genre, authors love to pin all sorts of things on their subject, based on nothing more than "someone got killed and my subject liked killing so..."

The worst one is where the guy claimed his great-grandfather or whatever was HH Holmes and that he was Jack the Ripper too although there was no evidence that he had ever even been to England.

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06-05-2015 , 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Howard Treesong

I'd totally forgotten about the bombing at the Harvey's casino in Tahoe, but there's a pretty interesting (if long) article about it here:

https://read.atavist.com/a-thousand-...verlay&preview

Wow, thanks for posting that. Super long but really good read. I had known of the Harvey's bombing and had seen some tv docs about it but that was a very interesting look at it from different perspectives.

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06-05-2015 , 07:12 PM

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As they say, two people keeping a secret is one too many.

Even if the $3 million was delivered successfully, the chances of 6 people keeping this quiet would be 0%.

It is almost has to be like the movie Goodfellas where you are forced to kill your accomplices. One is bound to roll over.

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06-06-2015 , 12:20 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...ssoms_at_Night

Japanese plan to use biological warfare against the US during WW11

Awesome, thank you.

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06-06-2015 , 12:25 AM

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This thread is awesome.

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06-07-2015 , 05:39 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt

Reichelt announced to the press in early February 1912 that he had finally received permission and would shortly conduct an experiment from the Eiffel Tower to prove the value of his invention.

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I guess in a way a dummy did drop.

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06-07-2015 , 08:44 AM

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Although I do believe the killers in In Cold Blood actually killed that Sarasota family as well

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06-07-2015 , 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Howard Treesong

I'd totally forgotten about the bombing at the Harvey's casino in Tahoe, but there's a pretty interesting (if long) article about it here:

https://read.atavist.com/a-thousand-...verlay&preview

Somehow I've never heard of this incident. Very long article but I made it all the way through and found it interesting so thanks for sharing.

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06-07-2015 , 05:31 PM

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Lol

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06-07-2015 , 05:33 PM

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Brock Landers

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Babs, noooooooooooooo!

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06-07-2015 , 05:35 PM

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Hahaha

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06-07-2015 , 06:32 PM

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ancient civilisations attempt to draw world maps

good effort from ptolemy (~150 AD):

wtf is this **** from isidore of seville (~600 AD):

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good effort from ptolemy (~150 AD)

Yeah, good effort. Wow.

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06-07-2015 , 06:46 PM

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Isadore also did this one:

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06-09-2015 , 01:22 AM

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Door to Hell - Turkmenistan - natural gas fire burning since 1971.

Devil's Kettle Falls - empties into a sink hole that nobody knows where it goes.

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At the falls, along Lake Superior’s north shore, a river forks at a rock outcropping. While one side tumbles down a two-step stone embankment and continues on like a normal waterfall, the other side vanishes into a deep hole and disappears — apparently forever.

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06-09-2015 , 03:55 AM

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Speaking of strange pits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island

The wiki write-up isn't as good as you'll find elsewhere, but the gist is that there is supposedly a buried treasure in an incredibly complex pit. Lots of money was spent trying to extract this "treasure." The claimed engineering of this pit can get, what I figure, is outlandish to say the least, but stories are stories.

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06-10-2015 , 12:09 AM

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And it even has it's own show....

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06-10-2015 , 02:49 PM

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thread's starting to go through topics for the 3rd time now...

Interesting Wikipedia articles for killing time and expanding your mind!!

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06-10-2015 , 04:49 PM

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Welcome to life.

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06-11-2015 , 12:41 PM

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FeralCreature

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I think the whole thing is pretty much a hoax. Just a naturally occurring phenomenon with a myth built around it.

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06-11-2015 , 08:42 PM

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Well no one can explain the coconut fibers apparently.

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