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  • July 2008

    • DNA Tests Yield Few Clues on Canada Victims

      newser  |  CNN  |  Jul 11, 08 7:20 AM CDT

      DNA Tests Yield Few Clues on Canada Victims

      Canadian authorities have determined that two of the five feet found floating on British Columbia's coastline came from the same man. The only other information about the mystery victim are his shoe size (11) and brand preference (Nike), and fact that he must have been alive in early 2003 when that model was available, reports CNN. More »

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      Canada  • DNA  • missing person  • mystery  • British Columbia  • severed feet  • sneakers

  • June 2008

    • Soldier Held as French Probe Display That Left 17 Injured

      newser  |  AFP  |  Jun 30, 08 10:15 AM CDT

      Soldier Held as French Probe Display That Left 17 Injured

      French authorities are investigating a military demonstration gone terribly wrong yesterday, the AFP reports, in which 17 people were wounded when a soldier fired live rounds instead of blanks during a demonstration of hostage-situation techniques. The soldier has been detained, but has no history of psychological problems. "The theory being worked on is one of error," an official said. More »

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      France  • accident  • shooting  • mystery

    • Mysterious Human Feet Baffle Police

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Jun 25, 08 7:56 AM CDT

      Mysterious Human Feet Baffle Police

      Police are struggling to explain a string of washed up human feet found on beaches along one 125-mile stretch of British Columbia. So far five of the grisly, sneaker-clad appendages have been found, and all are right feet. “It’s a mystery,” said one Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. “We’ve certainly heard lots of theories - from the media mostly.” More »

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      Canada  • missing person  • DNA evidence  • mystery  • feet  • severed feet  • British Columbia  • unsolved mystery

  • April 2008

    • Missing Romanovs Identified

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 30, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Missing Romanovs Identified

      DNA tests have confirmed that remains discovered last year in Russia are the remains of two children of Tsar Nicholas II, the BBC reports. Though most of the tsar’s family, executed during the Bolshevik revolution, was found in 1991, two children—Alexei and Maria—were thought missing, fueling widespread rumors that they survived and escaped later capture. More »

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      mystery  • Bolshevik Revolution  • Romanov  • Alexei Romanov  • Maria Romanov  • Czar Nicholas II  • Nicholas II

    • Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 11, 08 1:37 PM CDT

      Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

      One of aviation’s great mysteries has been solved: What happened to Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, the French pilot and author of The Little Prince, who disappeared in 1944. A bracelet turned up in the Mediterranean a decade ago, then a sunken aircraft. An archeologist diver, not satisfied to stop there, contacted hundreds of veterans before hearing, “You can stop searching. I shot down Saint-Exupéry.” More »

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      France  • World War II  • aviation  • author  • mystery  • unsolved mystery  • Luftwaffe

  • January 2008

    • Margaret Truman Daniel Dead

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jan 29, 08 5:20 PM CST

      Margaret Truman Daniel Dead

      Margaret Truman Daniel died today at 83 after breaking the mold of First Daughter and embarking on careers in singing, acting, and writing, the Los Angeles Times reports. The go-getter braved opera critics as a singer in the 1940s and '50s before acting alongside Jimmy Stewart on radio and television. Her career cooled after she married a future New York Times editor, but she wrote biographies—one of father Harry—before turning to mystery-writing on a whim. More »

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      obituary  • White House  • book  • Washington  • opera  • mystery  • Harry Truman  • first families  • Too Much Media

    • Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind

      newser  |  LiveScience  |  Jan 19, 08 11:49 AM CST

      Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind

      Debated for centuries, the human mind still holds a mystery or two in modern times. Here are LiveScience's top 10: Consciousness. Still the biggest human puzzle since Socrates. Cryonics. Can gray matter be revived from a 320-degree deep freeze? Aging. An unappreciated benefit, or simply cell decay with no purpose? Nature/nurture. DNA, peer pressure, upbringing—scientists disagree on why we do the things we do. Laughter. Three brain zones like it, but scientists wonder why people giggle at different things. More »

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      list  • science  • brain  • sleep  • memory  • mystery  • mind  • top 10  • laughter

  • October 2007

    • New Lead on Poe's Death Excites Buffs

      newser  |  New York Observer  |  Oct 21, 07 4:25 PM CDT

      New Lead on Poe's Death Excites Buffs

      Accounts of Edgar Allan Poe's exhumed brain may prove how he died, says Matthew Pearl, author of The Poe Shadow . He found reports of Poe's "dried and hardened" brain, "diminished in size," in old newspapers—and confirmed them as signs of a tumor. One Poe descendant says that Pearl has “stumbled onto something quite important," perhaps solving a great Poe puzzle, the New York Observer reports. More »

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      death  • literature  • mystery

  • August 2007

    • Full Moon Injuries Just a Myth: Scientists

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Aug 1, 07 7:17 AM CDT

      Full Moon Injuries Just a Myth: Scientists

      Another of life's mysteries has been cleared up—a crack team of scientists has found no link between accidents and the full moon. Experts analyzed 500,000 industrial accidents to arrive at the myth-busting conclusion, the AP reports. Says an Austrian government astronomer, "The full moon does not unfavorably affect the likelihood of an accident." More »

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      accident  • moon  • mystery  • full moon  • myth

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