How an explorer stuck in a Kentucky cave for 17 days captured the world's attention
When Floyd Collins ventured into Sand Cave in Kentucky on Jan. 30, 1925, he was searching for the next big attraction. But he ...
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Sand Cave Incident: The “Greatest Cave Explorer Ever" Met A Grim Fate In 1925
A lmost exactly a century ago, the “Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known" entered a labyrinth of underground caverns in ...
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Recalling A Tragedy That Led To Mammoth Cave National Park
Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave a century ago today to explore its prospects as a visitor site and became trapped in a passageway not much wider than his chest, dislodging a 27-pound rock that pinned ...
A 100-year-old tragic cave accident led to this national park. Here's what happened.
Floyd Collins got trapped in a Kentucky cave 100 years ago this week, an incident that led to the creation of Mammoth Cave ...
Somali general confident of defeat against IS
For almost a month security forces in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland have been advancing on the mountainous ...