Sun-Herald [Biloxi, MS]
16 August 2019
Did Camille hurricane party
at Richelieu Apartments really happen? Here’s the truth.
When America’s most respected TV newsman announced the
destruction of the Mississippi Gulf Coast [in August, 1969], the usual assuring
timbre of Walter Cronkite’s voice faltered. The TV camera panned to a
debris-littered concrete slab that once was a three-story luxury apartment
complex. […] “This is the site of the Richelieu Apartments in Pass Christian,
Mississippi,” Cronkite said about the slab. “This is the place where 23 people
laughed in the face of death. And where 23 people died.” That broadcast, backed
by the questionable sanity of Mary Ann Gerlach who claimed to be the only
apartment survivor, gave rise to the Richelieu Hurricane Party myth. […]
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BBC
17 August 2019
Did delayed wig fitting save
Swansea parishioners in 1739?
It was 280 years ago that the roof of Swansea's
largest church, St Mary's, collapsed 10 minutes after the Sunday morning
service should have begun. Only one person was hurt as the vicar had been
delayed opening the church. Many lives were saved because Rev Charles Davies'
"drunken barber" failed to turn up to fit his wig, according to
legend. […]
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India Today
18 August 2019
Fact Check: Now JD(U) leader
falls for best national anthem hoax
Janata Dal (United) leader Ajay Alok is the latest to
fall for the age-old hoax that Unesco has declared 'Jana Gana Mana' as the best
national anthem in the world. On Saturday, he made a tweet in Hindi which
translates to, "Just sometime back, Unesco has declared our national
anthem Jana Gana Mana as the best in the world. Congratulations everyone. Now
please don't say Modi-Shah managed it." […]
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