In 1971, who hijacked an aeroplane, collected a ransom, parachuted out over the Rocky Mountains and was never seen again?
D. B. Cooper D. B. Cooper D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the northwest United States, in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on the afternoon of Wednesday, He extorted $200,000 in ransom () and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or identified. It remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. Available evidence and a preponderance of expert opinion suggested from the beginning that Cooper probably did
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an 1866 landscape oil painting by German-American painter Albert Bierstadt that was inspired by sketches created on an 1863 expedition. Bierstadt traveled to the Colorado Rocky Mountains where he was taken up to the Chicago Lakes beneath Mount Evans. The painting is named after Bierstadt's mistress and, at the time, his friend's wife, Rosalie Osborne Ludlow. The painting, measuring at , is exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, who acquired it in 1976. By the mid-19th century, the U.S. Government had begun sending surveying