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• The 1929 German comic opera "Neues vam Tage" ("News of the Day") by Paul Hindemith included a scene in which a lady sang an aria sitting (apparently) naked in a bathtub, surrounded by cotton soap suds. This scene proved so offensive that chancellor Adolf Hitler left the theater in disgust, while other members of his party referred to the work as an example of "degenerate art" and to its creator as a "cultural bolshevik."
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• In 1911, McCurdy decided to rob a train in Oklahoma after hearing that it was carrying a safe containing $4,000. He and two buddies successfully stopped the train and found the safe. Because McCurdy had worked in mining, he had access to nitroglycerin and he used it to blow open the safe. However, he miscal- • Five years later, two men showed up at Johnson’s culated the amount needed and ended up destroying funeral parlor, claiming that they were McCurdy’s not only the safe but also all the paper money inside brothers. They took the corpse with them, promising a it. The three men made off with about $450 in silver proper burial for their long-lost brother. However, they coins which were largely fused together in the blast. weren’t actually McCurdy’s brothers at all. They ran a carnival and were looking for a good side-show attrac• Next McCurdy and his gang decided to rob a bank in tion. McCurdy’s corpse travelled with this carnival Kansas by tunneling into a wall at night and placing until 1922, when the carnival was sold to a new owner. a nitroglycerin charge next to the vault. Once again the blast was badly bungled, destroying the interior • McCurdy’s body then spent the next six years travelof the bank but failing to blow open the vault. The ing among a display of wax replicas of famous outteam made off with some loose change before eslaws. Next it was passed around various other attraccaping. Undeterred, the three men decided to rob antions. It appeared as a prop in a movie; it was part of a other Oklahoma train carrying a $400,000 payment wax museum display; it was shown in an amusement destined for the Osage Indian Nation. Unfortunately park; and then it appeared in a funhouse attraction. they accidently held up the wrong train, stopping a • In 1976, the production crew of the TV show “The passenger train by mistake. They made off with $46 Six Million Dollar Man” was filming scenes for an robbed from the passengers and some whisky. They episode called “Carnival of Spies” inside the funhouse retreated to a nearby ranch to hide out and consume when a production assistant moved what he thought the whiskey. was a wax mannequin out of the way. The manne-
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quin’s arm broke off, exposing human bones. Police were called. Detectives worked hard to identify the remains, now thoroughly mummified. Once his history had been traced, McCurdy was buried properly in Guthrie, Oklahoma, under two feet of concrete to ensure his wandering days were done, some 66 years after his death.
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• On June 30, 1859, Emile Blondin becomes the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. The feat was witnessed by some 5,000 spectators. Blondin wore pink tights and a yellow tunic, and carried a balancing pole. • On June 26, 1917, during World War I, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops land in France. By the war's end on Nov. 11, 1918, more than 2 million American soldiers had served on the battlefields of Western Europe, and more than 50,000 lost their lives. • On June 25, 1950, in one of the greatest soccer upsets of all time, an American team composed largely of amateurs defeats its more polished English opponents, 1-0, at the World Cup in Brazil. Assembled just days before the match, the U.S. team included a dishwasher, two mailmen, a teacher and a mill worker. • On June 29, 1964, two dozen New Zealand Army engineers arrive in Saigon as a token of that country's support for the American effort in South Vietnam. • On June 28, 1972, President Richard Nixon announces that no more draftees will be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer for such duty. He also announced that a force of 10,000 troops would be withdrawn by Sept. 1, which would leave a total of 39,000 in Vietnam. • On June 27, 1988, heavyweight champion Mike Tyson knocks out challenger Michael Spinks with a left hook in the first round. The match lasted just 91 seconds. • On June 24, 1997, Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash 50 years earlier in Roswell, New Mexico. The UFO rumors began in 1947 when a rancher found shiny material scattered on his land. The Air Force said it was a downed weather balloon. © 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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THE ICE BALLOON
• In 1897, Sweden was falling far behind in the race to explore the North Pole. A man named S. A. Andrée set out to remedy that. Andrée worked as an engineer in Sweden’s patent office and had developed an interest in hydrogen balloons. He proposed that he head up an official expedition to fly over the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, mapping and photographing the route, before landing in Russia or Canada. Enthusiasm for the project ran high and the government pledged support and funding. He chose as his travel companions a meteorological researcher, and a physics and chemistry student who was also a photographer. None of the three team members had any training for surviving in extreme conditions. • One of the main problems presented was how to steer a balloon. Andrée devised a series of ropes that would drag on the pack ice, supposedly providing a rudimentary rudder. He failed to do much testing of this theory. A second issue was ensuring that the hydrogen would not escape from the balloon, because there was no way to replenish it once the balloon was launched. Andrée pointed at balloons constructed in Europe that had held their hydrogen for up to a year without deflating, but no hydrogen balloon had ever been tested in Arctic conditions before. • Andrée ordered a specially constructed balloon, built to be able to carry a crew of three plus three tons of supplies, and designed to stay aloft for up to 30 days. The balloon was named “Örnen” meaning “Eagle.” • When it was delivered, it was found to be leakier than expected, with hydrogen escaping through over 8 million stitching holes used to join the fabric together. There was no effective way of sealing holes or seams that would endure freezing temperatures. Andrée, now pressured by huge media attention, ignored the warning signs. ...cont'd
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