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Officials at Death Valley National Park said they hope to capture a goat seen wandering in the California section of the park. A tourist spotted the goat near Stovepipe Wells and shared a picture with park officials. Rangers immediately went to area to find the non-native animal and remove it from the…

British officials are looking for the owner of a treasure trove of gold coins found hidden inside a piano. The owners took the piano to be tuned last year and found a bag containing gold coin minted between the mid-19th and the early 20th century. The piano was manufactured in 1906 and the first owners…

Caroline Rezac and her husband John were on vacation in Glacier National Park when their camera fell out of John’s pocket and disappeared down a stream. Three years later, a Montana photographer, who works for a newspaper, found the camera and suspected that the owner might be from the Lincoln area because…

The amazing discovery of a 1880s era Winchester rifle has authorities in Nevada stumped. During an archaeological survey in late 2014, the rifle was discovered leaning against a tree. It blended in to its surrounding so well that officials say it is possible the .40-40 rifle had been there since the…

Chuck and Elicia James decided it was time for their daughter to have a dog. Their beloved Reckless had disappeared over a year and a half ago during Hurricane Sandy. The whole family had been heartbroken. “It was like losing a family member,” commented Chuck. For their daughter’s 10th birthday they…

Authorities say a Tennessee man whose car was stolen in 1974 will soon have his vehicle back. Joseph MacDonald was a college student and had gone to have dinner with some friends. When he returned, the car was gone, and he never thought he would see it again. Recently, border agents checking paperwork…

Like the prodigal son, KC decided to take what was his and go to the far country. The 14-year-old dog got loose from his owner while on a walk outside their suburban Detroit home. When he came to his senses he was far from home on out on the ice of Lake St. Clair, 4 miles from shore. Discovered and rescued…

Clarence Van Dyken remembers several things about 1959. Gas was twenty-five cents a gallon, and he earned $50 a week. That was also the year that he lost his wallet. As time passed, he never thought he would see it again, and life went on. Recently Van Dyken’s lost wallet was returned after the person…

A Canadian dentist is hoping that chance and a little help from the media can help him find the girl of his dreams. On a trip to Ireland last year, Sandy Crocker, briefly spoke to a woman in a café in the Irish countryside. He says he usually does not instantly fall in love, but there was something special…

Bob Russell’s 1967 Austin Healey 3000 was stolen from his Philadelphia area apartment 42 years ago. Since then, Russell has eyed every Healey that passed him wondering if it might be his old car. Several years ago, he started checking internet sits in hopes of one day finding the long lost car. Even…

Cindy Herzner thought she would never see her class ring again. When she was a senior at Phoenix, Arizona’s Trevor Browne High School in 1985, she saved her money for six months to buy the ring. Six months after she bought it, she lost it. She thought it was gone for good. Twenty six years later, she…

According to reports from the cell phone industry Americans lost nearly 30 billion dollars worth of mobile phone equipment in 2011 alone. The list of places phones were likely to disappear included coffee shops, workplaces, and restaurants. The security firm’s report concluded that the average American…

An unidentified man was walking home in the early morning hours in Minneapolis. He was using the walking maps on Google maps when he misunderstood the directions for crossing the Stone Arch Bridge near Minneapolis’ downtown. He walked out on the frozen Mississippi river where he fell through ice into…

Richard Lucas, driving his bus in Buffalo, noticed smoke coming from the back of a house alongside his route. He stopped his bus, leaving the passengers; he ran to the house and began banging on the door. The people inside the two-family home, all of whom had apparently been asleep, stumbled out, just…

LOST In April of 1912, over 1500 people lost their lives in the North Atlantic when the ship that they were aboard, the Titanic sunk to the bottom on the ocean floor. Many tragic things happen to cause so many people to perish, but there was one that grips our attention. When the ship sank, there were…

Why do we do what we do? Sometimes we lose our sense of purpose. On a dangerous sea coast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and there was only one boat, but the few devoted members kept a constant watch over the sea, and with…

SOUL An Australian council gave an Irishman special permission to dig through a local garbage dump. The man is desperately trying to find a lottery ticket worth 1.5 million dollars ($700,000 US), that he says he accidentally threw out in an empty grocery bag. Newsagent Sue Virgin said the winning ticket…

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN William Bailey panicked when he realized he had accidentally left a leather portfolio containing a Picasso print, and a painting by Sophie Matisse worth $6,000 in a New York subway station. Bailey, a framer and art instructor had been taking the portfolio downtown when he put it down…

LOST AND FOUND As of July 1, 2003 a new lifesaving technology became available to millions of Americans. Personal locator beacons similar to beacons used by mariners and aviators, allow lost hikers, campers, and others to be tracked in an emergency when they carry the devices. When activated in an emergency,…

SIN How far can one person fall? During the winter of 2008, Julian Carr made plans to fall 300 feet, land on his back, and walk away, or rather, ski away. The Salt Lake City resident plans to travel to Jackson, Wyoming for a planned ski jump, summersault, and free fall into a 10-foot snow pack with another…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

A Catechism for the use of the people called Methodists (a) WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? | 1 | What is a Christian? Christians are those who believe that God has revealed himself in Jesus Christ accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour, live in communion with God and in the power of the Holy Spirit, and…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…