Five Ways to Give
Without Spending Dime
Gimundo, ENN
Even if you write out a check to every charity that sends you a
handwritten letter and a photo of a pleading child each Christmas,
you can't help thinking that it's never enough — with the money
you've got left over after paying for all your bills and basic
necessities, you'll never be able to fund a school in Africa, or to
give a family enough food to keep their bellies full for even a
single week. Your paltry donation might buy a few extra pens and
stamps for the nonprofit organization you sent it to, but that's
about it.
But don't worry — even if you're not in Donald Trump territory, you
can still donate to a variety of great causes every day without
spending a single penny. All you need is an Internet connection, and
you're good to go. Here are a few of our favorite free ways to give...
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Blind Luck Helps
Archer Make One-In-A-Million Robin Hood Shot
Telegraph.co
An archer has achieved a one-in-a-million feat of marksmanship after
splitting one arrow with another. What makes the shot even more
remarkable is that Tilly Trotter is blind.
The 74-year-old grandmother pulled off the shot, known among archers
as a "Robin Hood", at a practice session of the Wellington Bowmen in
Somerset.
Mrs Trotter, who has been an archer for two years at the invitation
of granddaughter Charlotte, said: "The second arrow made such a
noise going into the back of previous arrow I thought I had hit the
ceiling or done some expensive damage...
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Seeking UFOs, Deep
Underground
Peter Davenport
runs the National UFO Reporting Center from an abandoned missile
complex in Washington state. He is passionate that there is
something out there.
by Tomas Alex Tizon, Los Angeles
Times
"That door," he says with dramatic pause. "That door weighs 4,000
pounds. It's been reinforced to withstand a nuclear blast."
UFO files stored deep underground
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UFO files stored deep underground
Peter Davenport has a radio voice, the kind of exaggerated baritone
that cuts through walls and most doors, but not this one. This is
solid steel and a foot thick.
It is Davenport's door, which opens into a tunnel leading below
ground to what was once a nuclear missile complex here in the desert
of eastern Washington.
The Air Force decommissioned the site in the mid-1960s and it sat
empty for most of the time since.
Davenport, longtime director of the National UFO Reporting Center, a
nonprofit clearinghouse and 24-hour hotline for UFO sightings,
bought it for $100,000 two years ago to turn into his new
headquarters.
Why does a man buy an old windowless missile complex deep
underground, only to spend his days tracking unidentified objects
flying through the sky?..
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FBI Hopes Chute Opens Up Skyjacker Mystery
by Pierre Thomas, Jack Date
and Theresa Cook, ABC News
It's dirty and it's old, but a piece of cloth found in a Washington
field might hold the key to solving one of the FBI's most enduring
mysteries.
On Nov. 24, 1971, an unassuming man wearing a business suit and
appearing to be in his mid-40s allegedly hijacked and threatened to
blow up a Northwest Orient Airlines plane traveling from Portland,
Ore., to Seattle if he did not get four parachutes and a $200,000
ransom.
When the plane landed in Seattle, the suspect, known only as Dan
Cooper or D.B. Cooper, allowed the passengers and two flight
attendants off the plane, and the officials handed over the money,
in $20 bills, and the parachutes.
According to the FBI, Cooper simply told the remaining crew to "fly
to Mexico" after they took off from Seattle.
"Back in the early '70's, late '60's, hijackings weren't uncommon.
The philosophy of the day was cooperate. Comply with his demands and
we'll deal with it when the plane lands," said Larry Carr, an FBI
special agent who manages the case out of the bureau's office in
Seattle...
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Spain Dig Yields Ancient
European
by Paul Rincon, BBC News
Scientists have discovered the oldest human
remains in western Europe.
A jawbone and teeth discovered at the famous Atapuerca site in
northern Spain have been dated between 1.1 and 1.2 million years
old.
The finds provide further evidence for the great antiquity of
human occupation on the continent, the researchers write in the
journal Nature.
Scientists also found stone tools and animal bones with
tell-tale cut marks from butchering by humans.
The discovery comprises part of a
human's lower jawbone. The remains of seven teeth were found
still in place; an isolated tooth, belonging to the same
individual, was also unearthed...
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