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Buckhorn Saloon & Texas Ranger Museum
A unique museum featuring an eclectic collection of taxidermy, Western artifacts, and Texas Ranger memorabilia. The original saloon dates to 1881 and accepted animal horns as paym…
Vancouver Strip Club Takes a Shot at Trump
A longtime Vancouver nightclub known almost as much for the jokes on its outdoor sign as for what happens inside recently found itself at the center of another political controver…
A Dad Carried His Children Across a Flooded River in Plastic Bags
The image captures a scene that looks almost unbelievable at first: a man moving through a swollen, fast-moving river while holding a large plastic bag containing a child. On the…
The Brighton Breader
In Brighton, it is not uncommon to hear about an unusual and ongoing phenomenon-loaves and pieces of bread appearing in yards, sidewalks, and bushes without explanation. For years…
Last Bridge Willy The Whale Passed
This the last bridge that Willy passed before their death.
Willy the Gray Whale of the Willapa River
As you follow the winding banks of the Willapa River near Raymond, it is hard to imagine that a young gray whale-affectionately named “Willy” by locals-once swam through these nar…
The Waver of the Theo/Malone Bridge
As cars drive under the Theo/Malone bridge near Burbank High School, it is common to see a man standing above the traffic, waving and gesturing to those passing below. Day after d…
115-119 Eighth Avenue (Brooklyn)
115–119 Eighth Avenue, known as the Adams House, is a historic double house in Park Slope, Brooklyn, built in 1888 by inventor Thomas Adams Jr. and designed by architect C. P. H.…
1980 MGM Grand fire (site now Bally's)
On November 21, 1980, a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino killed 85 people and injured hundreds; it remains one of the deadliest hotel fires in U.S. history and was widely re…
1995 Enola Gay exhibition controversy at the National Air and Space Museum
A planned 1995 exhibit about the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum prompted a heated public and scholarly debate over how to present the atomic bombings o…
1997 Phoenix Lights - Sky Harbor observations
On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across Phoenix reported seeing a series of unexplained lights and a V-shaped formation in the sky; observers included people near Phoenix Sk…
19th‑century 'sea serpent' reports in Boston newspapers
The Boston Public Library's Central Library holds archival collections and microfilm of 18th- and 19th-century Boston newspapers that published multiple accounts of purported 'sea…