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This Baby’s Belly Kept Growing Nonstop, Then The Doctors Delivered The Alarming News To Her Parents This baby’s belly kept growing non-stop. Then, the doctors delivered the alarming news to her parents. Steve Tenney, a U.S. Army veteran and 18-year member of the Keene Police Department, hadn’t seen a doctor in at least a decade. Saved for a stitch or two, he had never been seriously ill and never spent a night in the hospital. At 40 years old, he was the epitome of good health. He kept in shape and helped coach middle school football at his alma mater, Monadnock Regional High. Yet, on September 8th, after a week-long battery of physical and psychological tests that declared him perfectly healthy, surgeons at the Leahy Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, removed his perfectly functioning liver. They sliced off about 20 percent of the organ, returned it to his body, and stitched him up. “I woke up that afternoon and felt like a truck had run over me,” Tenney said e

What should I keep in mind when writing about a fictional oppressed species in a fictional civilization? My opinion is that you should always keep in mind how allegorical you want to be, and how subtle you want to be. If your fictional civilization is oppressing a fictional species and you’re using these as stand-ins for actual oppressors and oppressed here on Earth, either historical or current, then you have to decide how obvious you want to be about it. The classic case in television/movie science fiction is the episode of Star Trek The Original Series called “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”. It had these two characters as representatives of an oppressing group and an oppressed group. As you can plainly and obviously see, one character — Bele, the oppressor — is black on the right side and white on the left. The other — Lokai, the oppressed — is black on the left side and white on the right. Not very subtle, is it? More subtle would be the Star Trek The Next Generati

The boy who vanished in the mountains, 1969. The boy who vanished in the mountains, 1969 Dennis Lloyd Martin was a six-year-old boy who disappeared in the Smoky Mountains with his family on a yearly camping trip in June of 1969. The Martins met with family friends on the second day of their trip and made their way to Spence Field, a spot known for its good views.  Dennis, his brother William, and 2 children from the family they met on the second day decided to run ahead of the adults and hide in the woods around Spence field to scare the adults when they arrived. The children had left the supervision of the adults for 5 minutes. The 2 kids from the family friends and William hid in one location, but Dennis hid nearby because the red shirt Dennis wore would have given away their location. Dennis was last seen running behind a tree along the forest boundary.  At 16:30, when the adults arrived, the kids jumped out of their hiding spots. When the adults asked where Dennis was, no one knew

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE ARIZONA COWBOY "DAVID E. WARFORD. David E. Warford (1866−1942) was an Arizona cowboy. He served as a member of the Rough Riders in Cuba as part of B Company, 1st Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.  In June 1898 during the Battle of Las Guasimas, a bullet entered his right thigh, ricocheted through his abdomen and exited out his left thigh. He was evacuated to a hospital ship. In 1901, he was appointed as a United States Forest Ranger.  In 1903, he enlisted as a private in the Arizona Rangers. Warford was known for tattoos covering from his neck to ankles. In 1915 he lived at the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. He was buried at the Sawtelle Soldiers' Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

The possible cannibalistic killing of Micheal Rockefeller, 1960 Michael Rockefeller was born in 1938. He was the grandson of John D Rockefeller, a businessman in the oil industry and one of the wealthiest people to have ever lived.  Rockefeller took an interest in indigenous art and wanted to expose it to the Western World, so he went to Dutch New Guinea, a big island off the coast of Australia, which the Dutch then colonized.  Rockefeller was going to focus on the lives and art of the Asmat people. The Asmat people are an indigenous group who believed that white people were supernatural spirits. Rockefeller focused on a group of Asmat people in the village of Otsjanep.  Rockefeller went back to the US after his first trip but went back to the Asmat people in 1961 with anthropologist René Wassing.  On their way to the island,  the boat overturned. Rockefeller began to swim 12 miles (22 KM) to the shore, but Wassing hung on the overturned boat.  Rockefeller was never seen again. Theori

America's Unsung Heroes: The great majority of the military women who served in Vietnam were nurses.  All were volunteers, and they ranged from recent college graduates in their early 20s to seasoned career women in their 40s.  Members of the Army Nurse Corps arrived in Vietnam as early as 1956, when they were tasked with training the South Vietnamese in nursing skills.  As the American military presence in South Vietnam increased beginning in the early 1960s, so did that of the Army Nurse Corps.  From March 1962 to March 1973, when the last Army nurses left Vietnam, some 5,000 would serve in the conflict. Five female Army nurses died over the course of the war, including 52-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Annie Ruth Graham, who served as a military nurse in both World War II and Korea before Vietnam and suffered a stroke in August 1968; and First Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane, who died from shrapnel wounds suffered in an attack on the hospital where she was working in June 1969.  Lane w

Rare photo of the man who is believed to be the deadliest sniper of the Vietnam war Adelbert Waldron: During his single deployment in Vietnam, Staff Sergeant Adelbert F. Waldron III made 109 confirmed kills in just six months, making him the most lethal sniper in the history of the U.S. Army. Adelbert Waldron preferred working in the shadows. During the Vietnam War, he became the conflict’s most prolific sniper while fighting in the dense jungle as a sergeant in the U.S. Army.  And after returning home, he didn’t discuss his record-breaking 109 kills. Though snipers generally don’t brag about their records, some, like Chuck Mawhinney and Carlos Hathcock — both Marines — have become well-known for their combat records.  Waldron, on the other hand, quietly returned home in 1969 and remained mum about his service for the rest of his life. But his military achievements speak for themselves.  He had 109 confirmed kills, making him the deadliest sniper in the history of the U.S. Army. And h