Albert Veissid stashed stolen marmalade for six fellow prisoners in an Auschwitz bunker, a French Jew helping Polish Christians in a gesture of desperate solidarity. In thanks, they shared spare cups of soup — and etched his name alongside theirs in a note buried in a bottle for 65 years.
The note, written in pencil then rolled up and inserted in a bottle, contains the names of seven young people who probably thought they were doomed to die in the notorious Auschwitz death camp.
When it comes to the $787 billion in federal stimulus money flowing from Washington to the states, it will cost money to spend money.
A southern Illinois farmer was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for bankruptcy fraud in a case connected to the unsolved slayings of a potential witness and his wife.
A British auction house says it has sold a stash of rare wines hidden away during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II for 50,000 pounds (nearly $70,000).
Chile's government has filed lawsuits against four banks claiming those institutions were negligent or had deliberately helped former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet conceal about $26 million in public funds allegedly stolen over several decades.
A southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to two years probation for her role in a federal bankruptcy fraud case linked to the unsolved killings of two witnesses.
The Nazis have long since gone and it may be time at last to pop the corks.
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A model of refined simplicity on the outside, the iron lady that symbolizes Paris is a complicated piece of work inside her elegant A-line figure.
You're standing in line at a deli behind two day laborers fumbling with cash and struggling with English, when the clerk begins spewing hatred. Go back to your country, he says, or go eat at Taco Bell.
A southern Illinois farmer pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal bankruptcy fraud charges, and his attorney said outside court that his client had nothing to do with the unsolved killings of a potential witness and his wife.
A southern Illinois farmer's wife pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting federal bankruptcy fraud and agreed to cooperate with authorities in a case connected to the unsolved slayings of a potential witness and his wife.
A Cleveland woman who ended up in a feud over $182,000 in Depression-era currency found in the walls of her home has filed for bankruptcy.
George Weedon hid a tractor behind a false wall on his property, allegedly for a bankrupt dairy farmer who authorities say was trying to conceal assets from his creditors. But Weedon did not keep the secret for long.
A campaign watchdog group in Texas is urging prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst over his failure to disclose his vast wealth.
A Palestinian couple locked their disabled son and daughter away for decades out of fear they would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child if discovered, police said Wednesday.
He's said to be the richest man in Texas politics, but the disclosures Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has filed to the state Ethics Commission have only the barest details.
A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.
Every inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin. The 18-month-old had been crying for so long in the hospital malnutrition ward that his mother no longer tried to console him.
The world-famous HOLLYWOOD sign that has been used by TV and movie directors in more scene-setting shots than a film student could ever count was first erected in 1923 to promote real estate in the fledgling capital of celluloid.
State Farm insurance agent Darin Morton has had a fully functioning fire truck parked in front of his office in the Charlotte suburb of Pineville for six years.
A man who hid his wife's body for 23 years in a steel drum in their suburban Australian backyard has been convicted of her murder.
Let me make a confession. I hate getting cheated. I mean, really, really, really hate getting cheated. I mean veins-pop-out-of-my-forehead, glad-I’m-not-getting-my-blood-pressure-checked-today hate getting cheated.
Police in a Spanish enclave in North Africa caught a teenager trying to sneak in from Morocco hidden in the gas tank of a Mercedes car, officials said Thursday.
Workers demolishing the wall of a building that once belonged to the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners 65 years ago, Auschwitz museum officials said Monday.
A Mandarin pharmacy was recently struck by a thief who made off with a small fortune in prescription narcotics after hiding in the business while police scoured the crime scene.
Parents, students and administrators at a small school in Weston are reeling following the arrest of a school worker who is accused of installing a secret video camera in a girl's bathroom.
Police say they are investigating three cases of people who suffered punctures from hidden hypodermic needles.Vancouver officers told KPTV in Portland, Ore., that in two of the incidents the needles were taped to door handles while the third was taped to a public phone receiver.
"Project Runway" taped its sixth-season finale Friday, but due to a legal battle, something was missing: the finalists.
Due to several factors, we at EyeSpyPro declare February is National Pervert Awareness Month. We just read that MySpace removed 90,000 sex offenders from their site, about double the amount they acknowledged last year.
Tips on how to maintain at least some semblance of privacy when you absolutely have to have a Web site.
A mother told an inquest she did not know she had given birth until flushing her baby down a toilet by accident. Claire Jones, 32, became pregnant after an affair with a work colleague but hid her condition from friends and family.
watch Just For Laughs Gags the Hilarious Comedy made by An hidden Camera that shoots unprepared people for jokes.
A Scots art buyer who paid £22,500 for a drawing by artist Joan Eardley has found a painting hidden inside the frame worth about four times as much.
If you mistakenly receive too much change from a cashier, would you return it? How would you handle an obnoxious cell phone user or a waitress who shamelessly flirts with your boyfriend?
Advanced X-ray analysis reveals a portrait below the painting of a landscape A new technique allows pictures which were later painted over to be revealed once more in unprecedented detail.
A group of international scientists at the DESY physics research centre in Hamburg has uncovered a painting underneath another artwork by Vincent van Gogh using special light technology.
We found a cool fully self contained, camouflaged, night vision, waterproof, battery powered video surveillance camera/still camera with motion detection. Whew! The Wild View Waterproof Outdoor Megapixel Motion Detection Camera straps to a tree and blends right in.
The Caucasus Republic of Georgia as nations go does not appear to be a major global player. Yet Washington has invested huge sums and organized to put its own despot, Mikhail Saakashvili, in the Presidency in order to close a nuclear NATO iron ring around Russia.
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After a heated debate, MEPs from the budgetary control committee voted on Tuesday afternoon (26 February) not to publish a confidential report detailing abuses in the way some deputies use their monthly staff allowance.
The City of Industry has closed off a house after investigators looking into building code violations uncovered a labyrinth of tunnels and rooms beneath it. Sheriff's deputies are now trying to figure out what could have been going on.
Health insurance companies like to keep secrets. And they like to save money. Example: You have surgery, and weeks later you get a bill for using an out-of-network anesthesiologist. Ridiculous, right? You didn't choose who put you under, so you shouldn't have to pay extra.
Like X-rays let doctors see the bones beneath our skin, "T-rays" could let art historians see murals hidden beneath coats of plaster or paint in centuries-old buildings, University of Michigan engineering researchers say.
That's right folks, the American institution of Saved by the Bell is actually a masked announcement of the birth of the Anti-Christ! Er. . . or something equally profound and evil sounding.
Scientists in Scotland hope to mimic bat radar to locate and identify tumours hidden deep inside the body. The University of Strathclyde team are developing a diagnostic device that employs the same technique used by some animals to recognise objects.
Spoiler alert! I usually don't post these but this really isn't a huge spoiler, but it's still a spoiler to some people non the less. Click the link to see the hidden playable character in Super Mario Galaxy. Be warned that the character comes at a price.