February 2008

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CIA Releases Declassified Files Detailing Domestic Surveillance Activities
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Thrift Store Camera from 1930s Yields Mysterious Photos in England
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CIA Acknowledges Cold War LSD Experiments on Civilians
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Doctor's Visit Detour Nets Illinois Friends $350,000 Lotto Jackpot
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Indonesia’s Maros Region Yields World’s Longest Wild Snake
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Top 5 Tail-Wagging Sporting Sensations Ready to Precede the Puppy Bowl
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First Confirmed Case of Cloning Fraud Exposed in 2002
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First Televised Autopsy Airs, Stirring Debate in 1975
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North Carolina Man Strikes $150,000 Lottery Jackpot Thanks to Ohio Work Trip
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Mud Mayhem: British Firefighters Save Cow From Sticky Situation
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Zebra Brings Nevada Road to a Standstill
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Vatican Issues First Official Statement on Extraterrestrial Life
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Gigantic Sock Monkey Artfully Crafted in Glasgow Sets Record
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Oscar Pistorius fatally shoots Reeva Steenkamp at home on Valentine’s Day 2013
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FBI Opens Files on Watergate Informants
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Logan Paul's Legendary Pokémon Card Smashes Auction Records at Over $16 Million
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Scratch-Off Loses, Then Wins $1 Million in Second Chance Christmas Miracle
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Paws for the Finish: Dog Joins Olympic Cross-Country Sprint
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FBI Releases Files on Jack Ruby
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Vatican Opens World War II Archives to Scholars
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1998 Miami Case Revealed as First Documented Organ Trafficking Investigation
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CIA Releases Cold War 'Killing' Manuals from 1950s–1970s
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1995 case helps define 'false memory syndrome' in public debate
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Florida man allegedly tried to rob store with an alligator
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First successful robotic-assisted surgery performed in 1985
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FBI Confirms Wiretaps of Journalists in 1976 Disclosure
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Olympic Medalist Later Revealed to Be an Impostor
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House Collapses Into Sinkhole, Swallowing Bedroom
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Proceedings in Salem Village mark start of 1692 witch trials

Posts for February 14, 2008

Exterior of a suburban Pretoria house at night with police tape and subdued lighting, representing the scene of a 2013 shooting; no identifiable faces.
02/14/2013 • 49 views
Oscar Pistorius fatally shoots Reeva Steenkamp at home on Valentine’s Day 2013
Year: 2013
 Football goalkeeper leaving a courthouse flanked by police and journalists, with club stadium blurred in the background.
02/14/2004 • 43 views
Goalkeeper Arrested After Years Using False Identity
Year: 2004
 Cold War-era military command center with rows of consoles, maps on the wall, and a tense atmosphere of officers monitoring communications.
02/14/2003 • 43 views
Pentagon Confirms Cold War 'Doomsday' Drills Were Conducted
Year: 2003
 Archive-style view of a mid-20th-century film studio exterior with production equipment and a government office building visible across the street.
02/14/1999 • 42 views
CIA Acknowledges Past Monitoring of Hollywood Figures
Year: 1999
 Damaged residential house after an explosion with debris in the yard and emergency tape around the property; responders and utility crews present.
02/14/1998 • 37 views
House Explodes After Resident Lights Cigarette Following Gas Leak
Year: 1998
 Rural 1980s British farmyard with dairy cattle in a field and an agricultural worker in period-appropriate workwear; buildings and feed storage in the background, overcast sky.
02/14/1985 • 45 views
First Confirmed Case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Identified
Year: 1985
 A mid-20th-century public meeting in a modest hall, with a group of people listening to a speaker at a small raised platform; documents and period clothing suggest early 1950s setting.
02/14/1951 • 40 views
A Self-Proclaimed Divine Leader Appears in 1951
Year: 1951
 A 1950s-era meeting hall with a small congregation listening to a single speaker at a podium; men in suits and women in modest dresses seated in wooden chairs, overhead lighting and a simple stage.
02/14/1951 • 42 views
Early documented instance of a cult leader proclaiming divinity, 1951
Year: 1951
 Urban neighborhood street in the 1940s with row houses and period automobiles, showing signage of a municipal building; no identifiable faces.
02/14/1948 • 47 views
Supreme Court Rules Racially Segregated Housing Unconstitutional
Year: 1948
 Mid-20th-century residential street with mixed single-family houses, signs of neighborhood life but showing segregated patterns through empty yards adjacent to occupied homes; no identifiable faces.
02/14/1948 • 42 views
Supreme Court Strike Against Housing Segregation Upholds Constitutional Equality
Year: 1948
 Los Alamos laboratory interior, 1940s: scientists and engineers gathered around schematics, explosive lens mock-ups and technical drawings for an implosion-type plutonium device.
02/14/1945 • 45 views
Design for the first atomic bomb is finalized at Los Alamos
Year: 1945
 A wide workshop interior at Los Alamos showing engineers and technicians around benches with explosive lens models, blueprints, and mechanical equipment, dated to the mid-1940s.
02/14/1945 • 37 views
Manhattan Project Finalizes Bomb Design on February 14, 1945
Year: 1945
 Exterior of a 1920s brick garage on a Chicago street with closed doors and early automobiles parked nearby, winter light casting long shadows; no identifiable faces.
02/14/1929 • 42 views
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago leaves seven dead
Year: 1929
 Exterior view of a 1920s brick automobile garage and street in Chicago, early morning, with a police wagon and uniformed officers outside; period cars parked on the street.
02/14/1929 • 46 views
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: Seven Men Killed in Chicago Gangland Ambush
Year: 1929
 Early 20th-century wooden house with nearby stone marker and split-rail fence in a small town setting, winter ground conditions visible.
02/14/1907 • 33 views
House Reportedly Shifts Inches Each Night on Valentine’s Day, 1907
Year: 1907
 Late 19th-century clinical room with a physician observing a seated adult patient kept awake, oil lamp on a side table, period medical instruments and notebooks visible.
02/14/1896 • 37 views
A night without sleep: the first recorded human sleep-deprivation experiment (1896)
Year: 1896
 A goalkeeper training on a football pitch with officials reviewing paperwork at a table nearby, representing administrative investigation into player identity.
02/14 • 26 views
Goalkeeper Arrested After Years Playing Under False Identity