Salt and flat are apposite words. The Salar de Uyuni is mostly regular old sodium chlorideâten billion tons of it, packed into a crust several feet thick. It is so uniformly flat that itâs where NASA goes to calibrate laser altimeters.
Singer Freddy Fender Dead at 69. Singer-songwriter Freddy Fender, acclaimed for his work as a solo artist and with the Texas Tornados, died Saturday (Oct. 14) at his home in Corpus Christi, Texas, following a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He was 69.
Freddy Krueger. Frederick Charles Freddy Krueger is a fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films. He first appears in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a disfigured dream stalker who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams which ultimately results in their death in the real world.