Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

• Authorities: Maine hermit attracts marriage offer

  High bail is appropriate to prevent the exploitation a Maine man who has attracted a marriage proposal and a stranger's offer to bail him out since ... 

• Allan Calhamer, creator of game 'Diplomacy,' dies

  As a kid rooting around in the attic of his boyhood home, Allan Calhamer stumbled across an old book of maps and became entranced by faraway places ... 

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  Looters steal $200K in coins after hoarder's death

  It took months for anyone to discover that an eccentric man known simply as Radkin had died, crushed under a tractor-pulled horse trailer on his ... 

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  Fateful B-52 flight revealed deadly weakness

  Flying low over snowy terrain on a Cold War training mission, Lt. Col. Dan Bulli's massive B-52 bomber hit turbulence that shook the plane so ... 

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  RFK children speak about assassination in Dallas

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn't solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and ... 

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  Blighted icon: Volunteers aim to revive chestnut

  Jim Hurst has doted on his trees, arranged in three "families" on a bluff high above the rushing French Broad River. He installed a drip irrigation ...