(CNN)— The mob was already waiting for James Zwerg by the time the Greyhound bus eased into the station in Montgomery, Alabama. 

Seven of the Lenin Peace Prize Recipients: Pablo Picasso, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Linus Pauling, Leonid Brezhnev, Salvador Allende, Indira Gandhi An incomplete list of recipients is shown below Copyright ©2011 Soylent Communications from http://www.nndb.com/honors/283/000099983/ Lenin Peace Prize HONOR International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples. Originally (1950-55) the Stalin Peace Prize, re-named as part of destalinization in 1956, and discontinued after 1990 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. 1949 Halldór Laxness 1949 Jorge Amado 1950 Pablo Picasso 1951 Frédéric Joliot 1951 Anna Seghers 1951 Hewlett Johnson 1951 Madame Sun Yat-sen ? Martin Anderson Nexo 1953 Rev. James Gareth Endicott 1953 Eliza Branco 1953 Johannes Becher 1953 Sayfuddin Kichloo…

By Golfweek Staff May 15, 2011 7:25 p.m. PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – K.J. Choi has won The Players Championship, defeating David Toms with a par on the first playoff hole to cap a dramatic final day at TPC Sawgrass. Toms (70) drove into a divot on the final hole of regulation, then sank a 20-foot birdie putt to force a playoff. On the first playoff hole – at the par-3 17th – Toms three-putted from 22 feet while Choi two-putted from the back of the green. It was the eighth career title for Choi, who last won in 2008 (Sony Open). Choi, who closed with 70 to finish at 12-under 276, pocketed…

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May 15, 1896:  A particularly intense tornado hits Sherman, Texas, on this day in 1896, and kills 73 people. It is estimated that the tornado was a rare F5 tornado, in which winds exceeded 260 miles per hour. Storms of that strength happen, on average, less than once a year. The strength of tornadoes is measured on the Fujita Scale, named after University ofChicago physicist Tetsuya Theodore Fujita. He was the first scientist to devote extensive study to tornadoes and how they operate. He discovered that the average tornado is 150 feet wide, travels one mile moving 40 mph in a northeasterly direction and tends to pick up strength the longer…

Q: What are the worst tornadoes in Texas’ history in regards to death and damages?   A:  The one at the top of the list has to be the Wichita Falls tornado of April 10, 1979, says Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University. “It did an estimated $400 million damage in 1979 dollars, destroying over 3,000 homes, 1,000 apartment units and over 100 businesses were damaged,” he reports. “About 20,000 residents were left homeless, meaning between 10 to 20 percent of the city’s population was displaced. It killed 45 people, and another tornado the same day killed 11 in nearby Vernon. No tornado since then has done such extreme damage.”…

Posted By: Scott Harrison Posted On: 9:05 a.m. | May 10, 2011 Jan. 13, 1969: Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) Flight 933 crashed about six miles offshore in Santa Monica Bay while on approach to Los Angeles International Airport. Fifteen passengers and crew were killed and 30 survive.

Home / September 25th, 2010; Vol.178 #7 / Feature Fire & Ice Volcanoes and frozen lands make an explosive combo By Alexandra Witze September 25th, 2010; Vol.178 #7 (p. 16) FIRE AND ICE Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted quietly at first this spring (shown), until magma shifted directly beneath a glacier.Odd Stefan Thorisson/Nordicphotos/Corbis SVEIFLUHÁLS, Iceland — High atop an Icelandic mountain one magnificent summer day, with blankets of soft moss underfoot and a translucent lake shimmering in the valley below, geologist Emily Constantine Mercurio is conjuring up an image of hell. Tens of thousands of years ago, says Mercurio, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, this place was the heart of a…