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TIL Harry Glicken's was devastated when his mentor David Johnson died during the eruption of Mt St Helens in 1980. Glicken met the same fate 11 year's later during the eruption of Mt Unzen in Japan. Glicken and Johnson are the only American volcanologists to have died in volcanic eruptions.

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1RNW TIL that in 1914, at the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a manservant at the residence became deranged, setting half the house ablaze; he then went on to murder seven people with an axe as the fires burned. Among the dead were Wright’s mistress and her 2 children.
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