who jumped off the occoquan bridge?
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Rodger Rodriguez, 16, somehow escaped from the front seat of a locked police cruiser and jumped over a thigh-high concrete barrier into the river, state police said. The river is about 400 feet wide where the Interstate 95 bridge crosses it, and it separates Prince William County from Fairfax County.
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On May 10, 1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne of France. In 1775 Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured Ft. Ticonderoga in New York from the British. In 1869 a golden spike was driven into a rail tie at Promontory, Utah, completing the first transcontinental railroad.
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'Alaska: The Last Frontier' Star on the Hunt for $100K After Falling Off Cliff. Atz Lee Kilcher, almost died after the edge of a cliff took him by surprise while hiking at an Alaskan resort, and he's blaming the resort for the fall.
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Unstoppable is a 2010 American action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. It is loosely based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident, telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it.
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The men who escaped The Rock In 1962, brothers John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris did the unthinkable: They escaped from Alcatraz, what the FBI calls the "ultimate maximum-security prison." It was supposed to be impossible. The 36 other prisoners who had tried it had all failed.
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After Arthur and the other two clear out the camp of O'Driscoll members, Arthur heads for the cabin in the rear of the camp, assuming that Colm is hiding there on account of his body not being among those they killed. As Arthur opens the door, he is jumped by an O'Driscoll and is knocked to the ground.
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On December 25, 1776, General George Washington and a small army of 2400 men crossed the Delaware River at McConkey's Ferry, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on their way to successfully attack a Hessian garrison of 1500 at Trenton, New Jersey.
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Tyrone Williams "Ty" Conn (January 18, 1967 – May 20, 1999), born Ernest Bruce Hayes, was a Canadian bank robber. He was the only person in the last half-century to escape over the wall from the Kingston Penitentiary, one of Canada's most secure prisons.
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Peyton Farquhar just happened to be one of the Southern activists who got caught. He was hanged from the bridge mainly to set an example. No doubt his body was left hanging for a long time, so that other Southerners would see it and be frightened.
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Yes. The Upside true story reveals that the real-life paragliding accident happened in the Savoyard reliefs of Mont Bisanne in the Swiss Alps in 1993 when Philippe was 42. ... Bryan Cranston (left) recreates the moment in The Upside movie.
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The Leonard P. Zakim (/ˈzeɪkəm/) Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge (or Zakim Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge completed in 2003 across the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. It is a replacement for the Charlestown High Bridge, an older truss bridge constructed in the 1950s.
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A millionaire businessman who fell from a cliff while riding his Segway scooter probably died after trying to make way for a dog walker, an inquest has heard. Jimi Heselden, 62, reversed the machine to make way for another dog walker.
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He supposedly died under mysterious circumstances when he fell from a boat into Sweetwater River on July 4th, prior to the start of the series. But as it turns out, he died a week later around July 11th when he was shot by an unknown assailant, who was later revealed to be his own father, Clifford Blossom.
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Most importantly, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. This event left the nation in mourning.
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That 2008 season is the one that got away. It's also the one where, a decade ago this week, wide receiver Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg at a Manhattan club.
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Orlin Dwyer (died March 2019), also known as Cicada, was a serial killer whose goal was to kill all meta-humans after various conflicts involving these beings tore apart his family. ... Orlin lost his powers after taking Team Flash's meta-human cure, which eventually caused him to desert his crusade.
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In the Alcatraz escape on June 11, 1962, American criminals brothers John and Clarence Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island using an inflatable raft, never to be seen again. It was never determined by the FBI whether they succeeded in their escape or died in the attempt.