Futility Closet

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Futility Closet

Por Greg Ross
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325-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Here are eight new lateral thinking puzzles -- play along with us as we try to untangle some...

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324-The Bizarre Death of Alfred Loewenstein

In 1928, Belgian financier Alfred Loewenstein fell to his death from a private plane over the...

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323-The Blind Traveler

When a mysterious illness blinded him at age 25, British naval officer James Holman took up a...

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322-Joseph Medicine Crow

Joseph Medicine Crow was raised on a Montana reservation in the warrior tradition of his Crow...

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321-The Calculating Boy

George Parker Bidder was born with a surprising gift: He could do complex arithmetic in his...

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320-John Hornby and the Barren Lands

John Hornby left a privileged background in England to roam the vast subarctic tundra of...

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319-Friedrich Kellner's Opposition

In the 1930s, German civil servant Friedrich Kellner was outraged by the increasing brutality...

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318-Peace Pilgrim

In 1953 Mildred Norman renounced "an empty life of money and things" and dedicated herself to...

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317-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Here are six new lateral thinking puzzles -- play along with us as we try to untangle some...

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316-A Malaysian Mystery

In 1967, Jim Thompson left his silk business in Thailand for a Malaysian holiday with three...

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315-Beryl Markham's Unconventional Life

Beryl Markham managed to fit three extraordinary careers into one lifetime: She was a champion...

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314-The Taliesin Murders

By 1914 Frank Lloyd Wright had become one of America's most influential architects. But that...

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313-The Santa Claus Association

In 1913, New York publicist John Duval Gluck founded an association to answer Santa's mail....

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312-The Last of the Yahi

In 1911 an exhausted man emerged from the wilderness north of Oroville, California. He was...

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311-A Disputed Russian Princess

In 1920, a young woman was pulled from a canal in Berlin. When her identity couldn't be...

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310-The Case of Bobby Dunbar

In 1912, 4-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing during a family fishing trip in Louisiana. Eight...

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309-The 'Grain of Salt' Episode

Sometimes in our research we come across stories that are regarded as true but that we can't...

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308-Nicholas Winton and the Czech Kindertransport

In 1939, as the shadow of war spread over Europe, British stockbroker Nicholas Winton helped...

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307-The Cyprus Mutiny

In 1829 a group of convicts commandeered a brig in Tasmania and set off across the Pacific,...

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306-The Inventor Who Disappeared

In 1890, French inventor Louis Le Prince vanished just as he was preparing to debut his early...

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