What the Heck

Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled

I didn't think such a thing was possible.  My local PBS station shared this link today:
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Greater-Boston-11/episodes/Dec-13-2010A-monkey-shines-in-Kasey-to-the-Rescue-22704

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As the Mayflower crossed the Atlantic in 1620, passenger John Howland was swept overboard during a storm. He managed to sieze a trailing halyard and was pulled back to safety. His descendants in the New World have included:

• Franklin Roosevelt
• George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
• Humphrey Bogart
• Benjamin Spock
• Sarah Palin
• Chevy Chase
• Christopher Lloyd
• Alec Baldwin

If Howland had lost his life in that storm, none of these people would have existed.

via http://www.futilitycloset.com/2010/12/12/happenstance

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http://tylertervooren.com/advancedriskology/the-day-i-bought-15000/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbirkbeck/5137148913/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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http://www.youtube.com/v/sXUeO3auRZg

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http://youtu.be/_UQ2vqFJvpA

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