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Jeffrey MacDonald was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the second of three children born to Robert and Dorothy (née Perry) MacDonald. He was raised in a poor household on Long Island, [4] with a disciplinarian father who, although nonviolent towards his wife and children, demanded obedience and achievement from his family.
The 2012 Indian Ocean migrant boat disaster occurred on 21 June 2012, when a boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and the Australian external territory of Christmas Island. 109 people were rescued, 17 bodies were recovered, and approximately 70 people remain missing. [1]
James Churchward (27 February 1851 – 4 January 1936) was a British writer, inventor, engineer, and fisherman. Churchward is most notable for proposing the existence of a lost continent, called "Mu," in the Pacific Ocean. His writings on Mu are considered to be pseudoscience. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Men and women gathered in Secession Hall, Charleston, S.C., around Christmastime in 1860. On Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to vote to leave the Union. Credit - Corbis via ...
The classification of lost lands as continents, islands, or other regions is in some cases subjective; for example, Atlantis is variously described as either a "lost island" or a "lost continent". Lost land theories may originate in mythology or philosophy , or in scholarly or scientific theories, such as catastrophic theories of geology .
On July 19, 2018, the roller coaster was sold to Lost Island Water Park located in Waterloo, Iowa. [3] It was planned to be included within a theme park expansion of the complex that was planned to open in 2022 [ 4 ] and was initially set to be placed on the park's lake shore before soil stability concerns resulted in it trading places with the ...
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt in history up to that time, the U.S. Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan ditched at sea after their plane ran out of fuel; this "crash and sink theory" is the most widely accepted explanation.
Police are investigating a one-car accident early Christmas Eve morning on Route 1 that claimed the life of a 23-year-old township man, South Brunswick Deputy Police Chief James Ryan said.