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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After…

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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in…
In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the…
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,…
Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…
The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and…
Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can…
Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending…
Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are…

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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of… — George Carlin
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The fatal futility of Fact. — Henry James
The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in… — Rajneesh
What is hope but futility for moments stood on end. — Unknown Author
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,… — Helen Prejean
Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from… — Ron Holland

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