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Mietek Pemper, Holocaust Prisoner Who Typed Up Schindler's List, Dead At 91

95.7 KEZJ — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:15:25 +0000

If it wasn't for Mietek Pemper, Schindler's list may never have seen the light of day.

Pemper, who typed up the list that helped save some 1,200 Jews from the Nazis in World War II, died Tuesday in Germany. He was 91.

Man Finishes Yard Work After Finding Dead Body on Property

Brad Weiser — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:24:47 +0000

William Hendrix Jr. takes his yard work very, very seriously. WESH reports the 55-year-old man from Deland, Florida continued doing chores around his house Monday after he found the body of a man who he’d taken in as a boarder. Hendrix, who was arrested, elected not to call police because his girlfriend, who owns the [...]

Super Glue Inventor Harry Wesley Coover Jr. Dead at 94

Brad Weiser — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:50:33 +0000

Super Glue inventor Harry Wesley Coover Jr. died Saturday night of congestive heart failure at his home in Kingsport, TN, the NY Times is reporting. He was 94.

Though he held over 460 patents in his career, Coover was best known for his revolutionary invention, which he created accidentally while testing compounds at Eastman Codak's Tennessee laboratory in 1951. Seven years after the accident, during which Coover ruined a $3,000 machine, the first version of Super Glue (called Eastman 910) was made available.

A Dad Offered $3,000 For His Daughter's Boyfriend, "Dead or Alive"

Jackie — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:43:04 +0000

On some level, this guy lived out the fantasy of every father who's ever hated his daughter's older boyfriend. Which is every father in history.

50-year-old Domingos Oliveira of Spring Valley, California, HATED his 19-year-old daughter's boyfriend.

His daughter goes to Grossmont College in El Cajon, California. And, over the last two weeks, Domingos has been hanging up fliers all over the campus.