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PUBLISHED: 09:30 16 August 2017 | UPDATED: 09:30 16 August 2017 Megan Aldous Elvis Presley as he presents sergeant's stripes during his career as a soldier in the US Army. Picture: EPA Archant It’s been 40 years since Elvis Presley passed away. We’ve pulled together 50 facts to celebrate The King and recall your favourite memories. [embedded content] 1. Elvis Presley ’s family tree can be traced back to Morning Dove White , a Cherokee on his mother’s side. 2. Elvis’ twin brother, Jessie Garon, was born at 4am on 8 January 1935 but was dead by the time Elvis was born. There is no evidence that Elvis used to talk to his dead twin. 3. Elvis Aaron Presley was born at 435am on 8 January 1935 at the family home, no more than a shack, in Tupelo, Mississippi. 4. In 1937, Elvis’ father, Vernon Elvis Presley , sold a hog to his landlord for $4. He was arrested for changing the cheque to $14 and was sent to the notorious penitentiary, Parchman Farm. 5. As a child, Elvis attended the Firs...

Guinea trive members had never seen a white person before" /> New Guinea trive members had never seen a white person before ( ) Margaret Hastings " /> Margaret Hastings ( ) Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff Harper When Margaret Hastings found her best friend dead, all she could think about were her shoes. “I ought to have cried,” Hastings wrote in her diary. “I just sat there in shock, and all I could think was: ‘Now the shoes belong to me.’ ” That’s what paradise had done to the Women’s Army Corps corporal — stripped her of emotion, survival was the only imperative. If she was to make it out of the jungle alive, crying was a luxury. As World War II was drawing to a close, Hastings was part of a group of enlisted men and women who crashed in the middle of a “Shangri-La,” a hidden valley, untouched by the rest of the world, in Dutch New Guinea. But this Shangri-La was a far cry from the utopia coined by the 1933 novel “Lost Horizon.” Of the 24 passengers, only H...