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Many burned alive in the steel train cars; more died later. At 5:45pm, during the height of rush hour on a cold February 17 in 1996, an Amtrak passenger train bound for Chicago crashed head-on into a MARC local commuter train during a powerful snowstorm. 24 people were severely injured in addition to 12 people who variously died upon impact, burned to death, or suffered heart attack or cold shock immediately after the accident. An old, haunted manor house and stone castle A manor house and adjacent stone castle was home to a wealthy southern lawyer. Disagreements and tragedy over the natural course of history lent several hauntings to the house and surrounding land. A phantom menace over Baltimore. Baltimore's area newspapers, including the Evening Sun, printed reports about a community that was in a panic over a phantom stalker. The legend of the O'Donnell Heights phantom is a Baltimore story that dates back to the summer of 1951 when numerous people reported dozens of sightings of the phantom over a three-week period. R Merryman's DelightThe MERRYMAN family cemetery Directions to it are given in the paperback book The Baltimore Trail Book, pub. 1983. I used it to find my way there many years ago. The gravestone inscriptions are given in the 1908 book Historic Graves of Maryland a... R claggett landing houseI have a particular interest in old and historic homes in the Bowie Mitchellville Upper Marlboro area and am familiar with most in the area that fall into those categories. One that always has intrigued me and that I followed here eagerly a few year... R Rockefeller: Flu + Swine Flu = A Ghost of YouEugenics the study of methods of improving the quality of the human race, esp by selective breeding from Greek eugen 275 s well born, from eu gen 275 s born see gen . The science of improving a breed or species through the careful selection... | |
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