“The moment I realized I was about to die—and knew I only had seconds left to live before the airplane slammed into one of the emergency response vehicles prepositioned on the side of the runway—I experienced a deeply visceral and raw terror in my heart and my entire body.” So said retired Navy flight engineer…
Navy Pilot About to Crash, Terrified, Flies Out of His Body, Sees the Light, His Creator—Now Reveals His Story
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A wild rabbit, orphaned as a baby, got a second chance at life when she was taken in by a caring woman. Months later, she reentered the wild but has since shown up again in her rescuer’s backyard, proving that she is thriving. Jessica Lee, 25, of Marietta, Georgia, found a baby cottontail rabbit, Honey, crawling…
The Mayan Calendar Is Strikingly Like the Chinese Zodiac; Could This Be Ancient Cross-Cultural Exchange?
Ancient Mayan and Chinese calendar systems share so many similarities, it is unlikely they developed independently, according to the late David H. Kelley, whose paper on the subject was published posthumously in August 2016. Kelley was a Harvard-educated archaeologist and epigrapher at the University of Calgary in Canada. He earned fame in the 1960s for…
Shelter Puppy Comforts Terrified Sister With a Hug After Being Rescued From Filthy Pen
A pair of puppies rescued from a cramped, filthy pen by an Ohio animal shelter has gone viral. After being saved, one of the terrified puppies comforted her sister with a hug; the canine family has since been adopted into three different loving families with the help of the shelter’s transfer partner. In March 2022,…
Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: The Echo
July 23, 2022
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This is the 12th installment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…
Dive Photographer Explores Haunting Sunken Battleship-Reef With Schools of Fish off Thai Island
There’s something about a shipwreck that seems frozen in time. Photographer Guntaphat Pokasasipun’s underwater pictures of the sunken HTMS Chang have a beautifully eerie quality that makes it seem ageless. He credits the wreck with being one of the largest, most complete dive sites in Thailand. “It sank on November 22, 2012, and quickly turned…
‘A Happy Ending’: Woman Spots Wild Rabbit Hit by Car in the Middle of the Road, Stops and Saves His Life
When a woman from Nova Scotia, Canada, was driving to work and saw an injured rabbit in the middle of the road, she couldn’t bear the thought of leaving him to perish, thus she circled back. What then followed was a complicated rescue and a life saved. Jessica Dawn Fekeshazy, 30, was driving along Prospect…
‘A Really Great Coincidence’: Toddlers Who Shared First Kiss Reunite Years Later and Are Now Together
In what might seem like the greatest “coincidence” of their lives, high school sweethearts Kadee and At go back in time. They first met as toddlers, when they shared their first kiss. “At and I both met when we were 3 because my mom nannied us together,” Kadee, who currently lives in Florida, told The…
Retired Military Dog Gets Forever Loving Home With Former Handler After Near-Fatal Incident
A military dog who formed an inseparable bond with one of his handlers during deployment in South Korea has been adopted by the airman after a near-death experience. The pair had a joyful reunion in New Mexico after being separated for eight months. On July 12, military working dog Akim was reunited with Senior Airman…
Divers Find 1600s Warship Wreck That Sank With King James II, Cannons, Wine Bottles, and Other Artifacts
A prestigious English shipwreck was discovered by a pair of brothers 28 miles off the coast of Norfolk. It’s a ship whose sinking could have quite literally changed the course of British history. The brothers, Julian and Lincoln Barnwell, spent decades diving and exploring World War I and II shipwrecks; but later set their sights on…
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