In 1930 she took her first college course during the Great Depression, in 2007, she finally received her Bachelor’s degree: How Nola Ochs became one of ‘world’s oldest graduate’?

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When 21-year-old Alexandra walked across the stage at Fort Hays State University in 2007 to collect her bachelor’s degree, she had a rather unusual fellow graduate beside her. Her grandmother, Nola Ochs, was also receiving a degree that day. The difference was that Alexandra was 21 and Ochs was 95.For Ochs, the ceremony marked the…

‘Die first, white man’: US university probes Nigerian-origin professor Uju Anya’s ‘threatening’ social media posts

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Nigerian-origin professor at Carnegie Mellon University Uju Anya’s social media posts trigger outrage. Carnegie Mellon University has launched a review of social media posts attributed to Nigerian-born professor Uju Anya after a fresh backlash over remarks described by the university as “hostile and threatening”. The university said Anya, an associate professor of second-language acquisition in…

In 2001, a security guard led 6 people trapped on the 70th floor to safety as the World Trade Center burned; 25 years later, the survivors he saved are trying to save his life

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Doug Brown (left) and Dereck Lovell (far right) Image Credit: Doug Brown via PEOPLE When the World Trade Center was engulfed in smoke and flames on September 11, 2001, a security guard carrying a flashlight and bullhorn appeared to six people who were struggling to find a way out of the South Tower. He was…

In 1900, Chicago engineers reversed the flow of an entire river to push the city’s sewage away from Lake Michigan; 126 years later, the river still runs backwards

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Chicago’s founding problem had always been plumbing. The city drew its drinking water from Lake Michigan and emptied sewers into the Chicago River, which flowed straight into Lake Michigan. But every rainstorm flushed the stockyards and slaughterhouses and a million people’s waste out toward the water intakes. This is why the nineteenth-century city was periodically…

American flight attendant reveals why you should never eat off airplane’s tray tables: “Why do people do this?”

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Janae, a flight attendant who shares travel and workplace experiences on TikTok. A Texas-based flight attendant has warned passengers about one of the dirtiest surfaces they regularly touch on a flight. She said it’s the tray table. According to the cabin crew member, some parents change their babies’ dirty diapers on the same fold-down tables…

160-year-old St. Louis church went through a fire, 37 service requests and 2 structural condemnations; after a year-long legal fight, a neighbourhood group has won control to rehabilitate it

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For years, a 160-year-old church in St. Louis stood as a reminder of a neighbourhood’s past while steadily becoming one of its most troubled properties. The vacant structure had endured a fire, repeated complaints and two structural condemnations. City records showed 37 service requests connected to the property, as concerns about its condition continued to…

Indian-origin woman shot dead by stalker in California; mother says ‘system failed her’

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Investigators said Rohit (L) had been stalking and harassing Thakur (R) for months. A 38-year-old Indian-origin woman was shot dead outside a restaurant in California’s Sacramento after allegedly being stalked and harassed for months by a 22-year-old man, who later died by suicide during a police standoff on a busy highway.Shalini Thakur was being dropped…

San Francisco minted just 24 of these dimes in 1894 and only 9 are known to survive; 132 years later, one 10-cent coin has sold at auction for $1.25 million

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Legendary 1894-S Barber Dime (Image Credit: Stack Bowers Galleries) A 10-cent coin minted in San Francisco more than a century ago has just sold for about $1.25 million, turning one of the smallest denominations in US currency into a million-dollar collector’s prize. The 1894-S Barber dime is one of the most famous rarities in American…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s IIT batchmate became a famous monk; what he told Pichai when they met years later: “You deal with Google, which creates stress. I deal with…”

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Pichai completed his BTech at IIT Kharagpur in 1993. He later moved to the US for higher studies. One went on to lead Google. The other chose a life of spirituality. Both were IIT graduates from the same year, but their careers took them in entirely different directions. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and ISKCON monk…

A Union soldier aged just 16 to 19 was buried after the 1862 Battle of Manassas; 162 years later archaeologists found him beside four amputated limbs, and he is now set to be buried at Arlington

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Representative Image (AI-generated) More than 160 years after the Second Battle of Manassas, the remains of a young Union soldier are set to receive a final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery. According to the National Park Service, archaeologists uncovered the nearly complete burial of the soldier during excavations at Manassas National Battlefield Park in…

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