No-Man's-Land Corridor Lies Between Rome and Vatican
A 1641 foot strip of land between Italy and Vatican City, dubbed Nobody's Land, remains unowned and neglected. The Corridoro di Castello links Castel Sant'Angelo to the Vatican but is inaccessible, under lock and key, with access requiring unclear permissions.
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Tiber River
Nobody's Land
Vatican Post Office
la Terra di Nessuno
No Man’s Land
Prisoners to Eat TV Dinners After Jail Move
SPARKS Nev AP prisoners will skip peeling potatoes and washing pots as the city jail shifts to new quarters next year A kitchen was cut from the building plans due to budget limits making inmates rely on frozen TV dinners for meals Chef Robert Galli confirms the plan reflects the money shortage.
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Sparks
Nev
Robert Galli
Worms Search Turns Up Ancient Coins Worth Hundreds
A retired coal miner, John Halfpenny, while digging for fishing worms in Mansfield, unearthed 450 coins from the 13th century Irish, Scottish, and English realms worth several hundred pounds. The find shines light on buried medieval coin hoards.
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Mansfield
UPI
John Halfpenny
Kim Shearer to Receive Eagle Rank in Court of Honor
Kim Shearer 16 son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Shearer 926 Nineteenth Street NW will receive the Eagle rank in a court of honor Monday at 7 p m in Hoover school He has four years in troop 29 attended three summers as a nature counselor and serves as Order of the Arrow chapter secretary plus patrol leader librarian and senior patrol leader roles He is a member of Salem United Methodist Church and a junior at Jefferson High School. Hello Dolly! channel nine special feature with Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway airs tonight.
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Order of the Arrow
Young Geology Student Killed in Clay Landslide
Ronald Steven Johnson, 19, a geology student from Perth working at a tile firm, was buried alive in an 18-foot trench when clay sides collapsed. David Plant, 32, attempted to dig him out with a hand shovel, then a mechanical shovel. the machine accidentally decapitated the youth, believed killed by the landslide.
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Australia
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David Plant
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Barbs By Phil Pastorer
A collection of wry aphorisms and humor notes on luck dates rumors and everyday quirks. The author muses on superstition spring timing newsboys pay rumors shopping CPI and busy people with light clever observations.
Speedy New York to Washington Trains Spark Letdown Fears
A lighthearted item notes trains between New York and Washington zoom along to save time for return-trip lines. It jokes that keeping up with the Joneses would ease if they slowed and stopped chasing the Smiths.
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New New York
Washington
Jones
Smiths
Plants and ESP Experiments Spark Garden Speculation
A National Wildlife magazine piece outlines Cleve Backster’s plant studies using polygraph linked to plant stress signals. The article suggests plants react to danger and may communicate death signals, sparking debate about gardening craft and even undercover rival plots.
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National Wildlife Magazine
Thorn Bacon
Cleve Backster
Backster Research Foundation
New York City
Backster
Central Intelligence Agency
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