Architecture and the politics of ... Gulf workers find message in a bottle from grieving soldier's family. Message in a bottle travels 1,300 miles Gulf oil cleanup crew finds four letters in a bottleThe letters were written by relatives of a Welsh soldier slain in AfghanistanThey put the bottle in the Atlantic Ocean at Barbados (CNN) -- Doug Kirchoff doesn't think chance explains why a bottle full of messages washed up on the shore of Horn Island, Mississippi.
Kirchoff, the supervisor of a crew doing cleanup after the BP oil spill, was astonished by the content of the four letters found inside the bottle last month. "What we found was it was about a soldier that lost his life in the Afghanistan war and his family had written him a series of letters kind of sharing their thoughts and emotions," Kirchoff said Thursday. In them, family members wrote letters to their beloved son and brother, Pvt. "Each person when we unwound the letters, started opening one letter at a time and reading one letter at a time," Kirchoff said. Video: Message in a bottle to fallen soldier "It seems too good to be true. History's Most Awesome Time Capsules. Once upon a time, time capsules were the coolest thing since sliced bread. Sliced bread was likely even included in some, so future generations could also see just how cool it was. Time capsules faded from the limelight for a while, then enjoyed a bit of popular resurgence around the millennium, and are now slowly sinking into obscurity again.
Before we forget them entirely, here's a look at a few impressive ones that are still out there, somewhere. Westinghouse Time Capsules Back in 1939, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company thought it'd be a keen idea to make up a time capsule and slap it in the ground during a World's Fair . It included a fountain pen, alphabet blocks and some examples of art and literature from the time. Westinghouse loved the idea so much that they made another one for the 1964 World's Fair, only this time they included much more information about atomic energy, in case future people don't know how to blow themselves up or make super-mutants. The pursuit of pleasure: gender ... Perfect Pitch documentary. From the Gulf, a Message in a Bottle. As oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill spreads around the Gulf of Mexico, many people wonder if it will eventually enter the Atlantic and travel up the Florida coast.
Brian N. Toder, a lawyer in Minneapolis who was involved in the Exxon Valdez case, says he is certain that it will. Yet his view is based not on the science of winds or ocean currents, but personal experience. As a young man, Mr. Toder went to sea every summer. Video message in a bottle. The mystery of the message in the bottle. Gruen Transfer: Pitch Global Warming. Muppet Show Pitch.
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