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During a lull in the Soviet shelling, the two bodies were carried upstairs to the Chancellery garden, doused with gasoline and set afire. Even before the flames died down, renewed shelling drove the survivors underground again. Goebbels and Nazi Party Secretary Martin Bormann decided to try offering the Soviets a deal. On May 1 they sent a general to Soviet headquarters to propose a surrender of Berlin in exchange for their own safety in leaving the city. During the long interval before the general returned with a Soviet rejection, Goebbels decided that he too must die. He ordered...
...they have a spare or give you a key that isn't even to their car." Ellison speaks from painful experience. In 2002, a local parent supervised a tent party at which kids supposedly surrendered their keys. Nevertheless, several of them left the home at 3 a.m. and drove to the apartment where Ellison's son Doug, 20, lived apart from his parents. All the young people continued to drink, and later that morning, when Doug went to buy a soda at a local market, he crashed his car and died...
...days after Vietnamese troops drove Pol Pot from power in 1979, a Cambodian farmer named Neang Say returned to his home village of Choeung Ek on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. He came upon a tree with blood, brain matter and hair embedded in the bark. Nearby he found an open pit filled with corpses?one of the 129 mass graves dug by the Khmer Rouge for the estimated 17,000 people they executed at the secluded spot. Neang Say was one of the first people to bring Choeung Ek's horrors to the attention of the invading Vietnamese...
With two outs and Steffan Wilson on second base with a double, junior shortstop Morgan Brown drove a base hit up the middle to break a scoreless tie in the seventh inning...
With Harvard leading 1-0, Brendan Byrne singled to open the inning and was replaced on first when Salsgiver hit into a fielder’s choice. After Farkes flied out, Josh Klimkiewicz drove home Salsgiver on a double down the left field line. Mann then singled to score Klimkiewicz and give the Crimson a 3-0 lead...