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  2. It's Kind of a Funny Story (film) - Wikipedia

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    It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2010 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, an adaptation of Ned Vizzini 's 2006 novel of the same name. The film stars Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis. [3] It was released in the United States on October 8, 2010, and received generally ...

  3. It's Kind of a Funny Story - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 9780786851966. OCLC. 61458359. It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004. [1] Ned Vizzini later died by suicide [2] on December 19, 2013. The book received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the ...

  4. CSX 8888 incident - Wikipedia

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    Damage. None. The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001. Locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, was pulling a train of 47 cars, including possibly two cars loaded with hazardous chemicals, specifically molten phenol ...

  5. Philadelphia Experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex- merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sometime around October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer ...

  6. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.

  7. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon - Wikipedia

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    English. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon is a 2001 film written, produced and directed by Nashville -based filmmaker Bart Sibrel. Sibrel is a proponent of the conspiracy theory that the six Apollo Moon landing missions between 1969 and 1972 were elaborate hoaxes perpetrated by the United States government, including NASA. [1]

  8. Grigori Rasputin - Wikipedia

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    Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( / ræˈspjuːtɪn /; Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn]; 21 January [ O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [ O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of ...

  9. Winchester Mystery House - Wikipedia

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    The story in the 2001 miniseries "Rose Red" created by Stephen King was inspired by the lore surrounding Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House. [34] [35] The Haunting of Winchester is a ghost-story musical by composer Craig Bohmler and writer Mary Bracken Phillips that takes place in the house.