At the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, in Tacoma, Washington, he released thirty-six passengers and two crew members once his demands were met (Pasternak). After taking off again Cooper ordered the plane to fly at a low altitude towards Mexico. At 8:13pm pressure gauges recorded his jump over the Lewis River from 10,000ft into a thunderstorm with over a hundred mile per hour winds and negative temperatures wearing only a thin suit, wrap-around sunglasses, and a rain coat (Brad Meltzer's Decoded). Many people believe that this was a suicidal jump and that Cooper died that night (Mysterious Disappearances in U.S. History). A reporting error in this high interest case mixed up his name forever immortalizing him as D.B.
Demetrius Cameron Gordwin 07/25/2008 Rogue Waves Since the first ship set sail on the deep blue sea there has been many stories and myths. Stories of pirates and their treasures and monsters that live in the deepest parts of the ocean. There were even tales of waves that were so high that they could swallow a ship and destroy it in a matter of minutes. They called them freak waves or massive waves. But like all old stories and myths, for centuries the idea of such a thing was only a folklore.
Invasion of The Body Snatchers Invasion of The Body Snatchers is a classic science fiction film from the 1950’s. This movie is one among the litter of films and media that addressed invasions from foreign creatures and evil aliens during the 1950’s and 1960’s. On television there were Twilight Zone episodes that featured this theme. And on Radio an earlier broadcast of “War of The Worlds” from 1938, focused around alien invasions too. This invasion theme started to make way in the 1920’s and for reasons based in world political events.
Later Earhart sent another message, "We are running north and south." It was her last. Searches and Theories After spending $4 million dollars and searching 250,000 square feet of Ocean the US Government called off the initial search effort however ever every so often a new search effort will pop up. There are several different theories of what happened. One theory is that the plane crashed into the ocean and sank so deep that no one will find it.
Michael Squillacote 9/28/11 Professor Blum Business paper Challenger Shuttle The Challenger space shuttle was set off to launch on January 28th 1987. This turned into a tragic day for NASA and the United States. At 11:38 am Challenger took of from the launch pad. Everything was going smoothly until 73 seconds into the flight the shuttle disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean killing seven astronauts. There are a few different theories on what went wrong to the shuttle.
“Until my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns.”; a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the famous, longest major poem called The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which tells a story about Albatross. Midway Island, also known as Pihemanu, is an island in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean and located more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent where Albatross live and breed. Midway Atoll was used to be “Albatross’ paradise”, but now, it is a graveyard for them. Do you know why they die so easily? We can find numerous bottle caps, wires, metal or non-biodegradable plastics or materials, lighters or even a toothbrush inside their stomach – undigested; especially inside the Albatross’ babies.
Lord of the Flies Government Essay Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, describes a horrific plane crash involving several young English boys deserting them on an island. The events in Lord of the Flies relates to the United States government. The author does this by starting out the story with the boys landing on the island, and once all together, then try to plan a way of how things will work in order to survive. This is the start of how the Articles of Confederation began, leading into the Constitutional Convention where the Constitution was born. The Articles of Confederation due to having too weak of a central government, where people were in need of a stronger government.
The Historical Accuracy of The Odyssey Homer wrote The Odyssey in which Odysseus travels to many locations and comes across trouble trying to get back to his homeland, Ithaka. After a storm blows him off course he arrives at the Kyklops’ island. Then he sails to Aiolos’ island and receives a bag of wind in which his crew members foolishly open and they were blown back to Aiolos’ island. Later they sail past a monster which eats some of his crewmembers. Homer composes parts in The Odyssey that are fictional; however most of The Odyssey is accurate such as the locations and creatures that appear in the epic poem.
Lauren Schmitt Dr. Bradley English 1301 1 May 2015 Orca Whales in Captivity Aliens. Does anything positive come from hearing that word? Humans have made movies and written novels about the horrific possibility of Alien abductions. This fictitious fear of having children and entire families removed from Earth, is disconcerting. It is difficult to imagine someone being involuntarily taken to an entirely different world where otherworldly beings force them to do things.
Still, no one could figure out what was causing the Black Death. In 1348, a pope was sent out to Paris to a medical facility to learn about the plague. They studied it for a long time then sent out a report. They believed the disaster was caused by a particularly unfortunate conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the sign of Aquarius that had occurred in 1345. This conjunction cause hot, moist conditions, which cause the earth to exhale poisonous vapors (Knox).