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#46 Tens Of Thousands Of People Drive Over Rhode Island’s Route 37 Every Day, But Few Of Them Know What Lies Beneath — Hundreds Of Bodies In Unmarked Graves From A Former State Institution For The Poor, Sick, And Mentally Ill.
Investigators only recently discovered the existence of the burials while researching the location of a local woman’s great-great-grandfather, who had been buried in a different institution cemetery but reinterred in an unmarked mass grave by the highway in 1975. Researchers estimate that there are between 800 and 1,000 people buried beneath the highway, in addition to the 577 buried in the mass grave
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#47
“Mommy, I can’t catch my breath. Help me. Help me.”
Early in the morning hours of December 20, 2009, Brittany Murphy collapsed on the balcony of her Hollywood Hills home. Her mother was on the scene but didn’t think much of it at first, knowing that Brittany had been fighting an illness for the last few weeks and had a flair for the dramatic. But then, hours later, Murphy fell for a second — and final — time. After more than a decade, questions still remain about what exactly happened.
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#48 In December 1997, Julia “Butterfly” Hill Climbed A 1,000-Year-Old California Redwood Tree As Part Of Efforts To Keep It From Being Knocked Down By Loggers
Initially, she only intended to stay there for a couple of weeks. But instead, Hill didn’t touch the ground for 738 days, far surpassing the previous record for the longest tree sit of 90 days. During her protest, she lived on platforms 180 feet above the ground, surviving off of food and water brought up by other environmental activists and enduring the freezing rain and winds of a particularly brutal El Niño season. Hill also faced near-constant harassment and threats from employees of Pacific Lumber Co., the logging company trying to cut the tree down. But despite the many setbacks she faced, her protest was ultimately successful and she was able to save the tree.
