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You no longer need to be sad that nowadays there is so little useless information.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.comBlogger5927125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-68164340557926344402024-03-18T08:39:00.002-04:002024-03-18T17:35:57.288-04:00Life is short. Eat cookies for breakfast<p>Today is <b>Oatmeal Cookie Day.</b> (Remember to keep you cookie jar filled with Oatmeal cookies!) <br />
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Given the amount of drinking many of you probably did yesterday, a little extra fiber in your diet today wouldn't be the worst idea in the world. Word to the wise - if one of the raisins stats to crawl away, don't eat the cookie. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1924 </b>- <br />
The<b> Douglas Fairbanks</b> swashbuckler adventure film, <i><b>The Thief of Bagdad</b></i>, which tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph, was released on this date. <br />
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For the flying carpet effect, <b>Douglas Fairbanks</b> stood on a <b>3/4-inch</b> thick sheet of steel attached to <b>16</b> piano wires and rigged to the top of a crane, which lifted him above the crowd. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1938</b> - <br />
The under appreciated <b>Ernst Lubitsch</b> film,<b><i> Bluebeard's Eighth Wife</i></b> starring <b>Gary Cooper </b>and <b>Claudette Coulbert</b> (written by <b>Charles Brackett </b>and <b>Billy Wilder</b>) premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>Ernst Lubitsch</b> originally wanted <b>Marion Davies</b> for the part of <b>Nicole</b>, but she had retired from films by <b>1938</b>. <br />
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March 18, 1959</b> - <br />
One of the last classic westerns, <b>Howard Hawks' <i>Rio Bravo</i></b>, starring <b>John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, </b>and <b>Ward Bond</b> premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>Howard Hawks</b> always wanted someone who would connect with teenagers to play <b>Colorado</b>. Reportedly, his first choice was <b>Elvis Presley</b>, who was enthusiastic about the opportunity. Unfortunately, Presley's manager, Colonel <b>Tom Parker</b>, wanted too much money and top billing. Neither Hawks nor <b>John Wayne</b> would have any of it, so the search continued. Hawks settled on <b>Ricky Nelson</b>, although he considered him to be both too young and too lightweight, and deliberately gave him the fewest possible number of lines for a third-billed star. However, he later admitted that having Nelson's name on the poster had probably added $<b>2 million</b> to the film's box office performance. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1964</b> -<br />
In his first outing as the bumbling<b> Inspector Clouseau, Peter Sellers </b>starred in <i><b>The Pink Panther,</b></i> which premiered in <b>New York City</b> on this date.<br />
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With just <b>two weeks</b> to go before shooting begun, the producers decided that <b>Ava Gardner's</b> erratic lifestyle could affect filming and decided not to offer her the part of <b>Madame Clouseau. Capucine</b> was hired in a hurry, but <b>Peter Ustinov's </b>wife felt this would affect the calibre of the production and told him to withdraw . From this chaos, <b>Peter Sellers</b> became an international superstar. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1967</b> - <br />
<b>The Beatles'</b> single <b><i>Penny Lane</i></b> became their 13th hit to go to the #<b>1</b> spot on the <b><i>Billboard</i></b> <b>Charts</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>Paul McCartney </b>was sitting at a bus shelter waiting for <b>John Lennon</b> to meet him on<b> Penny Lane</b>, a street near their houses in<b> Liverpool, England. </b>While sitting there Paul jotted down the things he saw, including a barber's shop with pictures of its clients and a nurse selling poppies for <b>Remembrance Day</b>
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<b>March 18, 1968</b> - <br />
<b>Mel Brook's</b> screamingly funny first film, a send-up of <b>Broadway</b>, <i><b>The Producers</b></i>, opened in <b>New York City</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Gene Wilder</b> said in an interview on <b>TCM </b>that at the first reading of the script, he excused himself to leave for a dentist appointment he could not miss, when in fact he had to go to the unemployment office to collect a check for $<b>55 </b>he desperately needed at the time. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1972</b> - <br />
<b>Neil Young's</b> <b><i>Heart Of Gold</i></b>, with backing vocals by <b>James Taylor </b>and <b>Linda Ronstadt</b>, hit No. #<b>1</b> on the<b> <i>Billboard </i>Charts</b> in the <b>US</b>, on this date. <br />
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Young wrote this in <b>1971 </b>after he suffered a back injury that made it difficult for him to play the electric guitar, so on the <b><i>Harvest </i></b>tracks he played acoustic. Despite the injury, Young was in good spirits (possibly thanks to the painkillers), which is reflected in this song.<br />
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<b>March 18, 1975 </b>–<br />
<b>McLean Stevenson’s </b>character (<b>Lt. Colonel Henry Blake</b>) died in the<i><b> M*A*S*H</b></i> episode <i><b>Abyssinia, Henry</b></i>, its third season finale on this date.<br />
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According to producer <b>Larry Gelbart</b>, when<b> Larry Linville</b> read the (previously concealed) final page of the script, he said, "<i><b>Fucking brilliant!</b></i>" When <b>Gary Burghoff</b> read it, he looked at <b>McLean Stevenson</b> and said, "<i><b>You'll probably win the Emmy for this, you son of a bitch!</b></i>" <br />
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<b>March 18, 1976</b> - <br />
<b>Nicholas Roeg's</b> adaptation of the <b>Walter Tevis</b>' novel, <i><b>The Man Who Fell To Earth</b></i>, starring <b>David Bowie</b> (in his first major role), <b>Candy Clark, Buck Henry</b>, and <b>Rip Torn</b>, premieres in <b>London</b>, on this date. (And yes Bunkies, this was not a porno film even though it had actors with names like <b>Candy, Buck</b>, and <b>Rip.</b>)<br />
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According to costume designer <b>May Routh, David Bowie</b> was so thin that some of his outfits were boys' clothes. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1981</b> - <br />
<b>Stephen J. Cannell's </b>take on superheroes, <i><b>The Greatest American Hero</b></i>, starring<b> William Katt, Robert Culp</b>, and<b> Connie Sellecca,</b> premiered on <b>ABC-TV</b>, on this date. <br />
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Two years after the show's cancellation by <b>ABC, NBC</b> picked up the series, and aired its reruns in a <b>Sunday </b>night, post-primetime time slot. This led to speculation that <b>NBC </b>was looking to revive the series, but their efforts only resulted in<i><b> The Greatest American Heroine</b></i> pilot. <br />
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<b>March 18, 2005 </b>– <br />
The very popular<b> Disney Channel</b> series, <b><i>The Suite Life of Zack & Cody</i></b>, starring <b>Dylan</b> and <b>Cole Sprouse</b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>Kim Rhodes </b>was notorious for her "<b>potty mouth</b>" and consistently sweared on set. One of the <b>Disney Channel</b> representatives suggested having a "<b>swear jar</b>" on the set.<b> Dylan Sprouse</b> responded, "<b><i>We've worked with Adam Sandler. We've heard it all!</i></b>" <br />
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<b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/calliope.html" target="_blank">Word</a></b> of the Day<br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 18, 1314</b> - <br />
<b>Jacques de Molay</b>, Grand Master of the <b>Knights Templar</b>, was burned at the stake during the final purge of the Templars in <b>France </b>on this date. <br />
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Among the things de Molay admitted to the Inquisitor panel (though possibly coerced) were the obligation of Templars to deny <b>Christ </b>when they joined, and a sacrament that involved spitting on a crucifix.<br />
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Oh that wacky life during the <b>Middle Ages</b>.<br />
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<b>March 18, 1584</b> -<br />
<b>Ivan IV</b> of <b>Russia</b> died on this date. He is better known by his nickname:<b> Ivan the Terrible</b>. He was the first king of <b>Russia </b>to call himself a <b>Caesar</b>, probably in the hopes that <b>Shakespeare </b>would write a play about him. He also replaced the sale of beer and mead with vodka at state-run taverns.<br />
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He couldn't pronounce <b>Caesar</b>, however, so he simply called himself "<i><b>zar</b></i>," and subsequent arguments over whether that should be spelled <b>czar</b>, <b>tsar</b>, <b>zar </b>or <b>tzar </b>became so heated that they eventually resulted in <b>Russian History</b>.<br />
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And all of this led to <b>Vladimir Putin </b>having himself elected president in a rigged election, for another time.<br />
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<b>March 18, 1913</b> - <br />
(Once again kids follow along, it's complex.)
Itinerant sailor and general layabout <b>Philip Mountbatten's</b> (nee <b>Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg</b>) grandfather, <b>Christian Wilhelm Ferdinand Adolf Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg</b> (sibling to a king and two queens) was out on an afternoon stroll. This, in and of itself, is not remarkable, except for the fact that this minor Danish/ German prince had changed his name to <b>George </b>and became the King of <b>Greece</b>. <b>Wilhelm/ George,</b> like most royalty, went out for an afternoon stroll without any pocket change (royalty and presidents don't carry money.) <br />
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<b>Alexandros Schinas</b>, an alcoholic vagrant asked the King for some spare change and shot him in the back went the King refused to give him money. <b>Wilhelm/ George</b> died en route to the hospital,<br />
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Alexandros died<b> five days</b> later after he '<i><b>accidentally</b></i>' fell out of a window at police headquarters. <br />
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So kids let this be a lesson to you, if you find yourself the ruler of a European nation - <b><i>the change you carry, may save your life</i></b>. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1915</b> - <br />
<b>Wenseslao Moguel</b>, suspected of taking part in the <b>Mexican Revolution</b>, was captured by the Mexican Constitutionalists, on this date. <br />
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He was sentenced to summary execution, and was shot <b>8–9</b> times by a firing squad in the body, and received one final shot to the head point-blank range to ensure death. He survived his execution and lived to the age of <b>85</b>.<br />
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<b>March 18, 1922 </b>-<br />
<b>Mohandas K. Gandhi</b> a British educated lawyer, was arrested and sentenced to prison in India for civil disobedience after calling for mass civil disobedience which included boycotting British educational institutions and law courts, not working for the British controlled government and the boycott of foreign-made goods, especially British goods, on this date.<br />
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Although he was sentenced to six years in prison, he only served two before being released for an appendicitis operation. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1937</b> - <br />
A massive gas explosion at the<b> New London Junior-Senior High School </b>in <b>New London, Texas</b>, killed more than <b>400 </b>people, most of them children, on this date. <br />
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As a result of the explosion, legislation was passed requiring an odor to be added to natural gas so that leaks may be detected.<br />
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<b>March 18, 1954 </b>-<br />
In <b>1948, Howard Hughes</b> gained majority control of<b> RKO Pictures</b> stock; at that time <b>RKO </b>had becomes a struggling <b>Hollywood </b>studio. A steady stream of lawsuits from <b>RKO's</b> minority shareholders became an increasing nuisance, especially as Hughes looked to focus on his aircraft-manufacturing and <b>TWA </b>holdings during the <b>Korean War</b> years. And so our favorite bisexual billionaire, ever increasing germaphobe and aviator <b>Howard Hughes</b> bought <b>RKO Pictures </b>for $<b>23,489,478</b> (and not a penny more,) on this date.<br />
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With his purchase of the studio, Hughes became the closest thing to a sole owner of a studio that <b>Hollywood </b>had seen in more than <b>three decades. Six months</b> later, Hughes sold the studio to <b>General Tire and Rubber Company </b>for $<b>25 million</b>. <br />
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<b>March 18, 1965 </b>- <br />
Cosmonaut <b>Aleksei Leonov</b> performed the first spacewalk on this day. He stayed outside his ship for <b>12 minutes</b>, held to the ship by a tether. <br />
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By the time his walk was over, his spacesuit had inflated so much in the vacuum of space that he could barely get back inside the ship. With a bit of quick thinking, he opened a value to allow some of the suit’s air to bleed off without venting all of it, only barely getting back into the capsule in time.<br />
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<b>March 12, 1965 </b>-<br />
<b>Gene Sesky</b> of <b>Scranton </b>lost control of the truck he was driving, hauling <b>30,000 pounds</b> of bananas, barreling down<b> Moosic Street </b>toward central <b>Scranton</b>, unable to stop and crashes into cars, telephone poles, and houses on its way down the hill, injuring many people and killing Mr. Sesky.<br />
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<b>Harry Chapin</b> sang about of the tragic event in his song <a href="https://youtu.be/NZZqnVYB4UA" target="_blank"><b><i>30,000 Pounds Of Bananas</i></b>.</a> <br /> <br />
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<b>March 18, 1970</b> - <br />
<b>Country Joe McDonald</b> (of<b> Country Joe and the Fish</b>) was convicted on obscenity charges after he asks for an <b>F,</b> a <b>U</b>, a <b>C </b>and one other letter at a concert in <b>Massachusetts</b>. <br />
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The song was meant as a satire of <b>US</b> government attitudes toward the <b>Vietnam War. Country Joe MacDonald </b>released it at the height of the war after he had been discharged from the <b>US Navy </b>for several years. He wrote it in about <b>30 minutes </b>after it popped into his head.<br />
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<b>March 18, 1980 </b>-<br />
<b>50 </b>people were killed at the <b>Plesetsk Space Center, Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia</b>, when a <b>Vostok </b>rocket exploded on the launch pad on this date.<br />
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At the time, this represented a significant percentage of the Soviet space program's scientists. <br />
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<b>Before you go</b> - <b>Spring </b>starts tomorrow in <b>Northern Hemisphere</b> at <b>11:06 P.M.</b> <b>EDT</b>, <br />
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Partially sunny, forecast highs in the upper <b>40s</b>. We'll discuss it all tomorrow. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-47891715784630238862024-03-17T04:30:00.034-04:002024-03-17T09:00:02.234-04:00May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.The Feast Day of <b>St. Patrick</b> is celebrated on <b>March 17</b>. <br />
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<b>St. Patrick</b> is considered the father of Celtic Christianity. He founded more than <b>three hundred </b>churches, drove the snakes out of <b>Ireland</b>, invented green beer, and coined the popular slogan, <i><b>Kiss me, I'm Irish </b></i>(although, he himself was not.) <br />
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This year, the Citizenry of <b>Chicago </b>were once again encouraged to drink cheap green beer early and often before <b>St. Patrick's Day</b> so the <b>Chicago River</b> could be dyed with their vomit. (Many cities around the country, including <b>NYC</b>, are also once again having their in-person<b> St. Patrick Day </b>festivities.) <br />
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I like to joke about the dyeing of the river every year but here's the actual story behind it: Turning the<b> Chicago River</b> green for <b>St. Patrick's Day </b>first began in <b>1962</b>, one year after <b>Savannah, GA</b> tried to dye their river green but did not succeed. Mayor<b> Richard J. Daley</b> suggested that the city find a way to turn <b>Lake Michigan</b> green for<b> St. Patrick’s Day</b>. According to the <i><b>Chicago Tribune</b></i>, the business manager of the<b> Chicago Plumbers Union, Stephen M. Baily</b> came up with the idea of dyeing the river with a solution that was used for identifying pollution and had the happy side effect of creating green streaks. <br />
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I'm pretty sure that <b>St. Patrick</b> would be horrified by <b>St. Patrick's Day</b>. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1958</b> - <br />
The song <b><i>Tequila</i></b> by <b>the Champs</b> was number one on the music charts on this date. <br />
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This was originally released as the <b>B</b>-side to a song by <b>The Champs</b> called <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/LknGoOYgIiM" target="_blank">Train to Nowhere</a></i></b> in <b>December 1957</b>. Disc jockeys flipped the single and played <b><i>Tequila</i></b> instead, making the song one of the biggest hits of the '50s. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1966 </b>- <br />
The<b> Walker Brothers</b> had their second<b> UK </b>No.<b>1</b> hit (their first being, <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/n01L-3cOceM" target="_blank">Make It Easy on Yourself</a></i></b>) with the song <i><b>The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore</b></i>, on this date. <br />
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In the <b>UK </b>this is regarded as a death song, supposedly because of an incident in the mid <b>1960s</b> concerning <b>Ronnie Kray</b>. The story goes that the legendary <b>London </b>gangster, armed with a <i><b>9mm Mauser</b></i>, strolled into the <b>Blind Beggar</b> pub in <b>London's East End</b> to shoot and kill rival gangster <b>George Cornell</b>. This song was playing on the jukebox at the time and a stray bullet hit the machine, forcing the record to repeat the line "<i><b>The sun ain't gonna shine, anymore, anymore, anymore</b></i>…" as Cornell lay dying just a few feet away.<br />
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<b>March 17, 1968</b> - <br />
<b>The Bee Gees</b> made their <b>U.S.</b> television debut on the <i><b>Ed Sullivan Show</b></i>, on this date. <br />
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Besides their song, <i><b>Words </b></i>(which went on to become a no. <b>1</b> hit in several countries,) they sang<i><b> To Love Somebody</b></i>, (which went on to be one of their most covered songs.)<br />
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<b>March 17, 1972</b> - <br />
<b>John Water</b> presented <b>Divine </b>to an unsuspecting world: <i><b>Pink Flamingos</b></i>, premiered in <b>Baltimore </b>on this date. (In <b>2021</b>, this cult classic was inducted into the <b>National Film Registery</b> of important films that need to be preserved.) <br />
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According to production designer <b>Vincent Peranio</b>, the art department's budget was about $<b>200</b>. Half went to purchasing the trailer, half to decorating it. "<i><b>And then after that</b></i> (<b>running out of money</b>), <i><b>we would just steal things.</b></i>" <br />
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<b>March 17, 1972 </b>- <br />
<b>Ringo Starr</b> released the single <b><i>Back off Boogaloo</i></b>, in the <b>UK</b>, on this date. The song peaked at number <b>2 </b>in <b>Britain </b>and <b>Canada</b>, and number <b>9 </b>on the<b> U.S.'</b> <b><i>Billboard</i></b> <b>Hot 100 </b>chart. It remains Starr's highest-charting single in the <b>United Kingdom</b>. <br />
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"<b><i>Boogaloo</i></b>" was <b>Ringo's</b> nickname for <b>Paul McCartney</b>. The song was <b>Ringo </b>urging <b>Paul </b>to stop his snide remarks in the press about the other <b>Beatles</b>, and just make good music ("<b><i>Give me something tasty</i></b>"). <br />
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<b>March 17, 1978</b> - <br />
<b>Paramount Pictures </b>releases the bio-pix about <b>Alan Freed</b>, <b><i>American Hot Wax</i></b>, starring <b>Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno</b>, and <b>Laraine Newman</b> (and featuring performances by <b>Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Screamin' Jay Hawkins</b>, and <b>Frankie Ford</b>,) on this date. <br />
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The film was not as successful at the box-office as the similarly titled <i><b>American Graffiti</b></i> had been a few years earlier. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1982 </b>- <br />
<b>Dean Jones</b> reprised his role as <b>Jim Douglas </b>when <b>CBS </b>aired the short-lived TV version of <b><i>Herbie The Love Bug</i></b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Herbie The Love Bug</b> was a <b>1963 Volkswagen Beetle</b> deluxe ragtop sedan painted in <b>Volkswagen L87 pearl white</b>. Under normal circumstances, the interior would be a matching white. However, <b>Herbie's </b>interior was painted a special non-reflective grey color so the camera and studio lights would not reflect. <br />
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<b>March 17, 2014 </b>- <br />
<b>Sia</b> released her chart smashing hit <b><i>Chandelier</i></b> on this date. <br />
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The song's music video features a dance performance from a <b>Sia</b>-wigged <b>Maddie Ziegler</b>. The <b>11-year</b>-old star of<b> Lifetime's<i> Dance Moms </i></b>was personally asked to be in the clip by the singer.<br />
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Another book from the back shelves of <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-book-many-are-reading-at-moment.html" target="_blank">The ACME Library</a></b> <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 17, 45 BC</b> - <br />
In <b>Hispania</b>, at <b>Munda</b>, on this date, the last battle of the civil war between <b>Julius Caesar</b> and the forces of the <b>Optimates </b>(the traditionalist majority of the Roman Senate) who have backed <b>Pompey</b>, ends with <b>Caesar </b>victorious and <b>Pompey’s</b> eldest son,<b> Gnaeneus Pompeius </b>killed in the battle. <br />
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<b>Caesar</b> can now return to <b>Rome</b> and rule as the elected Roman dictator <b><i>perpetuo rei publicae constituendae</i></b>, dictator-for-life <br />
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But you don't care, you just want to continue to drink your green beer today. <br />
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<b>March 17, 965 </b>- <br />
Pope <b>Leo VIII</b> died of a stroke during sexual congress with a prostitute on this date. <br />
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Perhaps a fine way for a man to die, but not a very appropriate choice for the Bishop of <b>Rome</b>. (it's OK if you hum to yourself, <b><i>Back in the Saddle Again</i></b>.) <br />
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<b>March 17, 1756</b> - <br />
<b>St. Patrick's Day</b> was celebrated in <b>New York City</b> for the first time (at the <b>Crown and Thistle Tavern</b>). <br />
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The patrons finally sober up and six years later, the celebration evolves into a parade (the first in <b>NYC</b>) and the <b>St. Patrick's Day Parade</b> in <b>New York City</b> has become the largest celebration of the holiday in the world (drawn more revelers than any parade for the holiday in the whole of <b>Ireland</b>.) <br />
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<b>March 17, 1845</b> - <br />
<b>Stephen Perry</b> and <b>Thomas Barnabas Daft</b>, British inventors and businessmen patented the rubber band on this day. <br />
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They conceived of the device after experimentally slicing up rubber bottles that had been manufactured by <b>South </b>and <b>Central America</b> natives and brought to <b>England </b>by sailors. Other regional names for the rubber band include a binder, a laggy band, an elastic, and a gum band. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1884</b> - <br />
<b>John Joseph Montgomery</b> made the first manned, controlled, heavier than air flight in a glider he built. Although not publicized at the time, this flight was first described by Montgomery as part of a lecture delivered at the <b>Conference on Aerial Navigation</b> in <b>Chicago</b>, <b>1893</b> and published by <b>Octave Chanute</b> in <i><b>Progress in Flying Machines</b></i>. <br />
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While Montgomery himself never claimed firsts, his flight experiments of the <b>1880s </b>are considered by several historians and organizations to have been the first controlled flights in <b>America</b>, or in the <b>Western Hemisphere</b> depending on source. After a crash destroyed his glider in <b>1886</b>, Montgomery abandoned aviation, but then took it up again in <b>1903</b>. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1891</b> - <br />
The <b>SS Utopia</b> accidentally collided with the moored battleship <b>HMS Anson</b> in the <b>Bay of Gibraltar</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>Utopia</b> sank within <b>20 minutes</b>; with a loss of <b>562</b> of <b>880</b> passengers and crew of <b>Utopia</b> and <b>two</b> rescuers from <b>HMS Immortalité</b> died in the accident. The sinking of <b>Utopia</b> was blamed on "<b><i>grave error of judgement</i></b>" of her captain <b>John McKeague</b>, who survived the accident. <br />
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So this shows that Utopia, sometimes, isn't the greatest place to be. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1905</b> - <br />
<b>Anna Eleanor Roosevelt</b>, niece of President <b>Theodore Roosevelt</b>, married her <b>fifth</b> cousin, <b>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</b> in <b>New York</b> on this date. <br />
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Apparently, Roosevelt confuses himself with British Royalty by marrying his distant relative. <b>FDR</b> jokes with friends that, "<b><i>Only on St. Patrick's Day can you marry your cousin</i></b>". <br />
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<b>March 17, 1919</b> - <br />
<b>Nathaniel Adams Coles</b>, the premiere singer and jazz pianist was born on this date. <br />
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Cole's popularity allowed him to become the first African American to host a network variety program, <i><b>The Nat King Cole Show</b></i>, which debuted on <b>NBC </b>television in <b>1956</b>. The show fell victim to the bigotry of the times, however, and was canceled after one season; few sponsors were willing to be associated with a black entertainer. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1939</b> - <br />
After German troops crossed the Czech border, British Prime Minister <b>Neville Chamberlain</b> threw all his years of careful diplomacy out the window and accused Adolf Hitler of breaking his word. <br />
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He instantly regretted having let these angry words slip, however, and subsequently resigned. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1941</b> - <br />
President <b>Franklin D. Roosevelt</b> opened the <b>National Gallery of Art</b> to the public, on this date. The <b>National Gallery of Art</b> would become known as one of the best museums in the world. It contains a collection of more than <b>130,000</b> paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, decorative arts, and furniture pieces. <br />
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At the time of its inception, it was the largest marble structure in the world. The museum stands on the former site of the <b>Baltimore and Potomac Railroad</b> station, most famous for being where <b>20th</b> president<b> James Garfield</b> was shot in <b>1881</b> by <b>Charles Guiteau</b>. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1958 </b>- <br />
The <b>United States Navy</b> launches the <b>Vanguard I </b>satellite from <b>Cape Canaveral</b>, on this date, following the <b>Soviet Union’s</b> success with their satellites <b>Sputnik I </b>and <b>Sputnik II</b> spacecraft. <br />
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<b>Vanguard </b>is the <b>fourth </b>artificial satellite to be put into space, and the first launch in the <b>United States</b>. The <b>three pound</b> satellite was developed in just <b>two years, six months</b>, and eight days from scratch. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1966 </b>- <br />
A U.S. midget submarine, the <b>Alvin</b>, located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the <b>Mediterranean</b> off <b>Spain</b> on this date. Oops. <br />
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Most famously, the <b>Alvin </b>was involved in the exploration of the wreckage of <b>RMS Titanic</b> in <b>1986</b>. Launched from her support ship <b>RV Atlantis II,</b> she carried Dr.<b> Robert Ballard</b> and two companions to the wreckage of the great liner. <b>RMS Titanic</b> sank while attempting to transit the <b>North Atlantic Ocean</b>, after striking a large iceberg in <b>1912</b>.<br />
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<b>Alvin</b>, accompanied by a small remotely operated vehicle (<b>ROV</b>) named <b>Jason Jr.</b>, was able to conduct detailed photographic surveys and inspections of the<b> Titanic's</b> wreckage. Many of the photographs of the expedition have been published in the magazine of the <b>National Geographic Society</b> which was a major sponsor of the expedition. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1967</b> – <br />
<b>Snoopy</b> and <b>Charlie Brown</b> of <b>Peanuts</b> are on the cover of <b><i>LIFE</i></b> magazine, on this date <br />
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The rest of the <b>Peanuts</b> gang are miffed but say nothing. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1999 </b>- <br />
<b>Six</b> members of the <b>International Olympic Committee </b>were expelled for corruption, all from poor third world countries. They received bribes from<b> Salt Lake City </b>totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, a practice that had been going on for years. <br />
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It should also be noted that the IOC Vice President at the time was named <b>Dick Pound</b>. <br />
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<b>March 17, 1960</b> - <br />
My good friend <b>John</b> (a fraternity brother) was born on this day. <br />
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Not to be confused with his cousin, <b>John</b>, who was also born but not on this day.<br />
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<b>March 17, 1970</b> -<br />
My actual fraternal brother was born at <b>Jewish Memorial Hospital</b> in <b>Upper Manhattan</b> on this date.<br />
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As was noted at the time, he must be a lucky kid as he was a Puerto Rican baby born in a Jewish Hospital on an Irish holiday.<br />
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Happy Birthday guys. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-89539668376903305902024-03-16T08:30:00.018-04:002024-03-16T08:30:00.137-04:00Pull on your tongueIt's <b>National Hiccup Day</b> today (apparently, according to the interweb, this is a cure for hiccups. But, do not put it over your head.) <br />
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It's also known as <b>synchronous diaphragmatic flutter</b> or <b>singultus</b>. <br />
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Today is the celebration of <b>St. Urho's Day</b>, Patron saint of Finnish vineyard workers. Attributed to him is the miracle of banishing grasshoppers from <b>Finland </b>which he accomplished with a few choice Finnish phrases, thereby saving the season's grape crop. <br />
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But in reality a bunch of very drunk people made this up in <b>1956</b>. <br />
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Please celebrate responsibly, (remember, tomorrow is <b>St. Patrick's Day</b>.) <br />
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<b>March 16, 1934</b> - <br />
An (almost) all singing <b>Popeye</b> cartoon, <b><i>The Man on the Flying Trapeze</i></b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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<b><i>The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze</i></b> is based on a real person: <b><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Jules_L%C3%A9otard_3.jpg/1200px-Jules_L%C3%A9otard_3.jpg" target="_blank">Jules Leotard</a></b>. He was a former law student who ran away from home and joined a circus as an adolescent. Young Jules was the first performer to wear the skin-tight suit of clothes that would later be named after him; he died of tuberculosis aged only twenty-eight. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1954 - <br />
Max Ophüls'</b> beautifully acted film, <b><i><a href="https://ok.ru/video/2555148503718" target="_blank">La Ronde</a></i></b>, premiered in the <b>US </b>on this date. (Psst kids, the films about the transmission of syphilis - really.) <br />
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The film was shot entirely in the studio. <br />
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This is a must-see film - find time to watch it today. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1955 </b>- <br />
<b>Elia Kazan's</b> powerful family drama, <b><i>East of Eden</i></b>, premiered in <b>Los Angeles</b> on this date (this is the only one of the "<i><b>big three</b></i>" <b>James Dean</b> films to be released before his death.) <br />
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In the scene where Adam refuses to accept Cal's money, the script called for Cal to turn away in anger from his father. It was James Dean's instinct to embrace him instead. This came as a surprise to Raymond Massey, who could think of nothing to do but say, "Cal! Cal!" in response. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1960</b> - <br />
One of the iconic films of the <b>French New Wave, <i>À Bout de Souffle</i></b> (<b>Breathless</b>), directed by <b>Jean-Luc Godard,</b> starring <b>Jean-Paul Belmondo</b> and <b>Jean Seberg</b> was released in <b>France</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Jean-Paul Belmondo</b> was very surprised by the warm reception the film received. Immediately after production he was convinced it was so bad that he thought the film would never be released. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1963 </b>- <br />
The musical group of <b>Peter Paul and Mary</b> released their hit single <b><i>Puff the Magic Dragon</i></b>, on this date. This song was rumored to be about drugs, particularly marijuana. <br />
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Some of the alleged drug references in this song include the "<i><b>autumn mist,</b></i>" which was marijuana smoke, and the "<i><b>land of Hanah Lee</b></i>," which was the Hawaiian town of <b>Hanalei</b>, famous for its marijuana plants. <b>Peter Yarrow</b> insists that not only did the song have nothing to do with drugs, but that he didn't even know about pot in <b>1958</b>, which kills any theories that he put drug references in subconsciously. <br />
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<b><b>March 16, 1967</b> </b>- <br />
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The <b><i>Star Trek</i></b> episode <b><i>Errand of Mercy</i></b> premiered on this date. In it, <b>Kirk</b> and <b>Spock</b> attempt to protect the planet <b>Organia</b> from the <b>Klingon</b> and sway them to the side of the <b>Federation</b>, but they aren’t welcome. <br />
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The episode marks the first appearance of <b>Klingons</b> on the series. Popularly known as <b><i>The Vietnam Story</i></b>, for its obvious allusions to <b>Vietnam</b> and its abuse by the colonial powers. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1979</b> - <br />
The <b>Columbia Pictures</b> thriller <b><i>The China Syndrome</i></b>, starring <b>Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas,</b> and <b>Wilford Brimley</b> premiered in the <b>US </b>on this date. The film opened less than <b>two weeks </b>before the <b>Three Mile Island Nuclear</b> meltdown. <br />
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When the film was first released, nuclear power executives soon lambasted the picture as being "<b><i>sheer fiction</i></b>" and a "<b><i>character assassination of an entire industry</i></b>". Then twelve days after its launch, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred near <b>Harrisburg, Pennsylvania</b>. <br />
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<b>March 16, 2019</b> - <br />
<b>Lil Nas X's</b> song <i><b>Old Town Road</b></i> makes the <b>Country </b>chart, but is removed the following week when <i><b>Billboard </b></i>declares it ineligible for the tally. <br />
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Like most unknown artists, <b>Lil Nas X</b> wasn't signed to a label when he uploaded this song to <b>YouTube </b>and various streaming platforms. When it became a viral sensation, radio stations added it to their playlists, but had to get it by ripping the song from <b>YouTube</b> because there was no label to service it. With a hit on his hands,<b> Lil Nas X</b> found himself in a a bidding war among multiple labels. <b>Columbia Records w</b>on out and<b> Lil Nas X</b> inked an exclusive agreement with them on<b> March 22, 2019</b>.<br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 16 1190 </b>- <br />
More than <b>150</b> and perhaps as many as <b>500</b> Jews, secured in <b>Clifford's Tower</b> at <b>York</b>, died from suicide and massacre after they were sieged by townspeople under <b>Richard Malebys </b>on this date. Malebys was a nobleman who owed money to the Jews; after their siege all records relating to moneylending were destroyed. <br />
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This was seen as a warm-up for the Crusaders invasion of the <b>Holy Land</b>. It is the largest massacre of Jews in the history of the <b>United Kingdom</b>.<br />
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At a masquerade ball, a disgruntled Captain <b>Jacob Johan Ankarstroem</b> shot Swedish King <b>Gustav III</b> near the heart with a bullet composed of lead and carpet tacks, on this date. It took the King almost <b>two weeks</b> to die.<br />
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Shakespeare never wrote about Gustavus, probably because <b>Gustavus</b> was born well after <b>Shakespeare's </b>death, but <b>Giuseppe Verdi</b> (or under his stage name, <b>Joe Green</b>) wrote an opera about the affair called <b><i>Un Ballo in Maschera</i></b> ("<b>A Bull in Mascara</b>"). <br />
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As punishment, the Captain was decapitated, drawn, and quartered. <br />
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<b><i>Ouch!!!</i></b> <br />
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<b>March 16, 1912</b> - <br />
<b><i>I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder</i> </b><br />
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<b>Thelma Catherine <i>Pat </i>Nixon</b> (nee <b>Ryan</b>) - the patron saint of long suffering political wives and good Republican cloth coats was born on this date. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1916</b> – <br />
<b>Tsutomu Yamaguchi</b>, born on this date, was one of the only individuals who witnessed and survived both atom bombs in <b>Japan</b>, <b>Hiroshima </b>on <b>August 6th</b>, and <b>Nagasaki </b>on <b>August 9, 1945</b>. <br />
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Mr. Yamaguchi slowly recovered and went on to live a relatively normal life. He died from radiation related stomach cancer at <b>93</b>, on<b> January 4, 2010</b>. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1926</b> - <br />
<b><i>I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less</i></b>.<br />
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<b>Joseph Levitch</b>, comedian, actor, producer, writer, director, singer, <i><b>Légion d'honneur</b></i> recipient and the dollar sign in <b>Dean Martin</b> eyes, was born on this date. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1926 </b>- <br />
<b>Robert H. Goddard</b>, fueled the first hopes of space travel when he successfully launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at<b> Auburn, Massachusetts</b> on this date. <br />
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The rocket traveled for <b>2.5 seconds</b> at a speed of about <b>60 mph</b>, reaching an altitude of <b>41 feet</b>. The rocket was <b>10 feet tall</b>, constructed out of thin pipes, and was fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline. <br />
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(This will be on the test.) <br />
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<b>March 16 1949</b> - <br />
It's <b>Erik Estrada's</b> birthday today. <br />
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Reason enough to live another day. <br />
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<b>March 16, 1966</b> - <br />
<b>NASA</b> launches the <b>Gemini 8 </b>on this date. It is the <b>twelfth </b>manned American space mission. Shortly after its launch, it will take part in the first physical docking of <b>two </b>spacecraft in orbit when it rendezvous with the <b>Gemini Agena </b>to conduct extravehicular activities <b>six hours and thirty-three minutes</b> after launch. <br />
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However, about <b>twenty-seven minutes </b>after docking, a malfunction in the capsule’s control thrusters occurs, and it is forced to abort the mission and return to <b>Earth</b>, only <b>6.5 orbits</b> after launch. The mission is crewed by command pilot Astronaut <b>Neil A. Armstrong </b>and pilot Astronaut <b>David R. Scott.</b> <br />
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<b>March 16 1978</b> - <br />
Italian<b> Red Brigades</b> kidnapped former Italian Premier<b> Aldo Moro</b> on this date, in order to obtain the release of imprisoned comrades. <br />
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Moro was murdered and his body was later found on <b>May 9, 1978</b>. <br />
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Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-40178919597821869982024-03-15T08:30:00.028-04:002024-03-15T08:30:00.140-04:00... But I can’t stop eating peanutsToday is <b>National Peanut Lovers Day</b>, as opposed to <b>National Peanut Butter Lovers Day</b> which is celebrated at the beginning the beginning of the month. Peanuts are one of America's favorite legumes - we each eat about six pounds of them a year. <br />
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All of this is well and good but you may ask, <b><i>why bring it up?</i></b> It's much less controversial than mentioning that it's <b>International Eat an Animal for PETA Day</b> - really, look it up. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1941</b> - <br />
The first of <b>three </b>appearances of <b>Cecil Turtle, <i>Tortoise Beats Hare</i></b><i>,</i> premiered on this date. <br />
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This is the first time <b>Bugs Bunny</b> loses in the end, proving that <b>Bugs </b>isn't completely indestructible; <b>Cecil </b>is one of the very few characters who was actually able to beat <b>Bugs Bunny</b> not once but three times in a row and at the rabbit's own game. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1946</b> - <br />
<b>Columbia Pictures</b> released <b>Charles Vidor's</b> film-noir classic, <i><b>Gilda</b></i>, starring <b>Rita Hayworth</b> and <b>Glen Ford </b>on this date. <br />
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The script was not yet finished when filming began. According to choreographer <b>Jack Cole</b>, "<i><b>The script pages would arrive practically the morning that we were going to shoot, they were making the picture up as we went along. If you really look, you can tell that was the way the picture was done because it doesn't really make any sense if you try to follow the story</b></i>."<br />
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<b>March 15, 1956</b> - <br />
The landmark science-fiction film, <b><i>Forbidden Planet</i></b> (think <i><b>The Tempest in Outer Space</b></i>), premiered on this date. <br />
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This film marked one of the first times a science-fiction project had received a large budget. The genre had rarely been taken seriously by studio executives, and sci-fi films generally received the most meager of budgets. The critical success of this film convinced many in the film industry that well-funded science-fiction projects could be successful.<br />
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<b>March 15, 1972</b> - <br />
<b>George Roy Hill's</b> adaptation of the <b>1969 </b>novel by <b>Kurt Vonnegut</b>, <b><i>Slaughter House-Five</i></b>, starring <b>Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman</b>, and <b>Valerie Perrine</b> opened in the <b>US </b>on this date. <br />
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<b>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</b> was a prisoner of war in <b>World War II. </b>He was captured during the <b>Battle of the Bulge </b>while a battalion scout with the <b>106 Infantry Division</b> on <b>December 22, 1944</b>, and used these experiences in his novel when <b>Billy Pilgrim </b>is captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp. Vonnegut also lived through the bombing of <b>Dresden </b>and used that experience in the book. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1972 </b>- <br />
The greatest film ever about cooking for a large group and risk aversion management, <i><b>The Godfather</b></i>, premiered in <b>New York City</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>James Caan</b> improvised the part where he throws the <b>FBI </b>photographer's camera to the ground. The actor's frightened reaction is genuine. Caan also came up with the idea of throwing money at the man to make up for breaking his camera. As he put it, "<b><i>Where I came from, you broke something, you replaced it or repaid the owner</i></b>." <br />
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<b>March 15, 1975</b> -<br />
<b>Electric Light Orchestra's</b> single <b><i>Can't Get It Out of My Head</i></b>, became their first top <b>ten </b>single in the <b>U.S.</b>, (with peaked at no. <b>nine </b>on the<b> <i>Billboard </i>Hot 100 Singles Chart</b>,) on this date.<br />
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<b>Jeff Lynne</b> recalled in an edition of <b>VH1's <i>Storytellers</i></b>, that he found inspiration for the song in the unfulfilled reveries of an everyday bloke. "<b><i>It's about a guy in a dream who sees this vision of loveliness and wakes up and finds that he's actually a clerk working in a bank</i></b>," he said. "<b><i>And he hasn't got any chance of getting her or doing all these wonderful things that he thought he was going to do.</i></b>"<br />
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<b>March 15, 1975</b> - <br />
<b>The Doobie Brothers</b> song <i><b>Black Water</b></i> hit the No. <b>1</b> position on the <i><b>Billboard </b></i>charts, on this date. <br />
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<b><i>Black Water</i></b> wasn't seen as having hit potential, so it was relegated to the <b>B</b>-side of <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/8xUBoG7uGho?feature=shared" target="_blank">Another Park, Another Sunday</a></i></b>. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1977 </b>- <br />
Everybody was first welcomed to <b>The Regal Beagle</b> when <b><i>Three's Company</i></b>, starring <b>John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt,</b> and <b>Suzanne Somers</b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>John Ritter</b> is the only cast member to appear in every episode. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1977</b> - <br />
One of the first TV "<b><i>dramedies</i></b>", <b>Eight Is Enough</b> began airing on <b>ABC-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Mark Hamill</b> and <b>Kimberly Beck</b> only appeared in the pilot. Mark was later replaced with <b>Grant Goodeve</b> and Kimberly left to do the series<b><i> Rich Man, Poor Man</i></b> and was replaced by <b>Dianne Kay</b>. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1985</b> -<br />
The <b>1948</b> film <b><i>Sitting Pretty,</i></b> starring <b>Clifton Webb</b>, was adapted in the TV sitcom, <b><i>Mr. Belvedere</i></b>, starring, <b>Christopher Hewett, Bob Uecker,</b> and<b> Ilene Graff</b>, premiered on <b>ABC TV</b>, on this date. <br />
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The series was the fourth attempt to adapt the <b>1947 </b>novel <b><i>Belvedere </i></b>by <b>Gwen Davenport</b> and subsequent film series for television. In <b>1956</b>, a pilot was produced but was rejected by the networks. In <b>1959</b>, a second pilot starring <b>Hans Conried</b> was also rejected. In 1965, a third pilot starring Victor Buono also failed to sell.<br />
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<b>March 15, 1986 </b>- <br />
During the <b><i>Saturday Night Live</i></b> sketch <b><i>Mr. Monopoly</i></b>, cast member <b>Damon Wayans</b> ad-libbed his police officer character role as a gay stereotype, which would later result in his firing, on this day. <br />
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In the season finale however, executive producer <b>Lorne Michaels</b> invited Wayans back to perform stand up on the show, even though he had been fired by Michaels from the show two months prior. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1988</b> - <br />
<b>Talking Heads</b> release their <b>eighth</b> and final album, <b><i>Naked</i></b>, on this date. <br />
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The album was co-produced with the band by <b>Steve Lillywhite</b>, an Englishman known for his work with <b>Peter Gabriel</b> and <b>U2</b>. He was married to the singer<b> Kirsty MacColl</b>, who contributed backing vocals of the song, (<b>Nothing But</b>) <b><i>Flowers</i></b>.<br />
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Another <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/tom-was-bit-flabbergasted.html" target="_blank">unimportant moment</a></b> in history<br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 15, 44 BC </b>- <br />
<b>Julius Caesar</b>, already warned to be wary on this the <b>Ides of March</b> by the astrologer <b>Spurinna</b>, was assassinated with pointy knives by a group of Senators, including <b>Brutus </b>and <b>Cassius</b>, at the <b>Pompey</b> theater. <br />
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They were angry at him because he had crossed the <b>Rubicon</b>. Later <b>Marc Antony</b> borrowed everyone's ears and told them that <b>Brutus </b>was an honorable man, which upset them so much they had a <b>Civil War</b>.<br />
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<b>Sixteen centuries</b> later, more or less, <b>William Shakespeare</b> immortalized the story and eventually <b>Marlon Brando</b> got to play <b>Marc Antony</b>, so everyone was happy in the end.<br />
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<b>Caesar</b> is also celebrated because he wrote a famous book called The <b>Garlic Wars</b>, which begins with the famous line, <i><b>All garlic is divided into three cloves</b></i>. It also includes the line - <i><b>veni, vidi, vinci</b></i>, the exact meaning of which is still a matter of debate but, if my own Latin studies are worth anything, probably involves Druids and hollandaise sauce. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1812</b> - <br />
Luddites attack<b> Frank Vickerman's</b> wool processing factory at <b>Taylor Hill</b> in <b>West Yorkshire</b>, on this date, resulting in general destruction and attempted arson. <br />
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The rampaging Luddites were incensed because his machines replaced workers, but Vickerman was primarily targeted because of involvement in an Anti-Luddite committee. <br />
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So now you know more about Luddites than you thought you ever would (remember, <b><i>smash the fitbits</i></b>.) <br />
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Today's episode of <b><i>Oh, that Wacky Russian Revolution</i></b>: <br />
At<b> two o'clock </b>in the morning on <b>March 15, 1917</b> the Tsar sent word to <b>Petrograd </b>that he was awfully sorry about the war and starvation and everything, but that he had some really good ideas about what they could do now, was looking forward to working with them, believed that healthy debate was a symptom of good government, and so on. <br />
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The new government (which had recently moved to <b>Moscow</b>) told him to blow it out his ass.<br />
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And so at three o'clock in the afternoon, <b>Nicholas</b> abdicated in favor of his son (who had measles).<br />
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The new government told him and his son to blow it out their asses.<br />
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At <b>11:15 pm</b>, <b>Nicholas</b> signed a proclamation that both he and his son (who had measles) would abdicate in favor of his brother, the Grand Duke <b>Mikhail</b>.<br />
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The next day, the new government told <b>Nicholas</b>, <b>Alexei</b> (who had measles), and the Grand Duke <b>Mikhail </b>to blow it out their asses. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1950 </b>- <br />
<b>New York City</b> suffering through a persistent drought, hired for $<b>100 </b>a day - a very large sum in those times, particularly for a scientist - Dr. <b>Wallace E. Howell</b>, a meteorologist to make rain, on this date. Dr. Howell, who had participated in early scientific research into cloud seeding, set up shop at <b>Floyd Bennett Field</b> in <b>Brooklyn</b>, using a police airplane to sprinkle silver iodide crystals into clouds over the <b>Catskill </b>watershed. <br />
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The rains came and the reservoirs began to rise. There was even a mid-<b>April </b>snowstorm, referred to in the papers as '<i><b>'Howell's snow.</b></i>'' By <b>1951</b>, the crisis had passed and Dr. Howell was laid off in <b>February</b> of <b>1951</b>. <br />
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<b>March 15, 1964</b> - <br />
<b>Richard Burton</b> and <b>Elizabeth Taylor</b>, finally legitimized their scandalous affair and were married on this date. <br />
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Both were already married – he was married at the time to former actress <b>Sybil Williams</b>, she to her <b>fourth </b>husband <b>Eddie Fisher</b>, whom she had famously ‘<i><b>stolen</b></i>’ from <b>Debbie Reynolds</b>. <br />
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<b>March 15, 2006</b> - <br />
A stockpile of provisions that were made for the survival of residents if <b>New York City</b> had been hit by a nuclear attack has been found inside the masonry foundations of <b>Brooklyn Bridge</b>, on this date. <br />
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City workers had been conducting a regular structural inspection of the bridge when they came across the cold-war-era hoard of water drums, medical supplies, survivor blankets, drugs and food in the <b>350,000</b> Civil Defense All Purpose Survival Crackers. These are said to been put there in the <b>1950s</b>. And if you hurry, some of those crackers are still on sale at <b>Lots Less</b>. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-23133006359896837092024-03-14T08:30:00.004-04:002024-03-14T08:30:00.131-04:00Here’s to being irrational! Today is <b>Pi Day</b>! <br />
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<b>Pi Day</b> was founded by Physicist <b>Larry Shaw</b> in <b>1988</b>. <br />
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<b>Pi Day</b> is celebrated by math enthusiasts ( read - lonely shut-ins) around the world on <b>March 14th</b>. <br />
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<b>?</b> was first used as a mathematical symbol in <b>1706 </b>by<b> William Jones.</b> <br />
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<b>Albert Einstein's</b> parents conveniently arranged for him to be born on <b>Pi Day</b> in 1879. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1940 </b>- <br />
The first of the <b>seven Bob Hope, Bing Crosby</b> and <b>Dorothy Lamour</b> "<b><i>Road</i></b>" films, <b><i>The Road to Singapore</i></b>, premiered in <b>NYC</b> on this date. <br />
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During a lunch break, <b>Bob Hope</b> threw a handful of the soap suds at <b>Dorothy Lamour</b> and soon <b>Bing Crosby</b> became involved. The fight ended when Lamour cornered Hope and Crosby and threw all she had at them. The director was not particularly pleased because it would take hours to repair their hair, makeup, and clothing.<br />
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<b>March 14, 1957 </b>- <br />
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A television adaption for <b><b>Playhouse 90</b></b> of <b>F. Scott Fitzgerald's </b>unfinished last novel <i><b>The Last Tycoon</b></i>, (one of the <b>152 </b>live TV dramas <b>John Frankenheimer </b>directed between <b>1952 </b>and <b>1960</b>) starring <b>Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, Viveca Lindfors</b>, and <b>Peter Lorre</b> premiered on this date. <br />
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Fitzgerald’s unfinished Hollywood novel <b><i>The Last Tycoon</i></b> was scripted by <b>Don M. Mankiewicz</b>, who had grown up in the novel’s Hollywood setting; he was the son of <i><b>Citizen Kane </b></i>screenwriter <b>Herman J. Mankiewicz. </b><br />
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<b>March 14, 1958</b> - <br />
The first ever Gold Record is awarded for sales of a million copies, went to <i><b>Mr. Excitement</b></i> himself, <b>Perry Como</b>, for his recording of <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/_offMQv8m8U" target="_blank">Catch A Falling Star</a></i></b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>Perry Como</b>, with his relaxed style, was one of the highest-paid performers of his era and his<i><b> Perry Como Show</b></i> was the most successful television variety show of the time in both <b>Britain </b>and <b>America</b>. Como sang this song on his show in<b> January 1958 </b>and its exposure contributed to the tune's success. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1965 </b>– <br />
<b>Petula Clark</b> makes her American TV debut on<b> CBS-TV’s</b> <b><i>Ed Sullivan Show</i></b>, on this date. <br />
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Sullivan later recalled that her plane landed and <b>45 minutes</b> later she performed live without any rehearsal. That night she sang her number <b>one</b> hit <b><i>Downtown</i></b> and her follow up hit <b><i>I Know a Place</i></b>, which went to number <b>three</b>. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1968 </b>- <br />
The final episode of <b><i>Batman</i></b>, <b><i>Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires</i></b>, starring <b>Adam West</b> and <b>Burt Ward</b> aired on the <b>ABC TV</b> on this date. <br />
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This was the season finale of the <b><i>Batman</i></b> series. However it was not the last time we would see the caped crusaders. <b>Adam West </b>appeared in full costume and part costume on various tv shows throughout the late <b>60s </b>and <b>1970s</b>. <b>Adam West</b> and <b>Burt Ward</b> would reprise the roles again in <b>1977</b> for <i><b>The New Adventures of Batman</b></i>. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1969</b> - <br />
The <b><i>Star Trek</i></b> episode <b><i>All Our Yesterdays</i></b> first aired on this date. This is the penultimate episode of the original <b><i>Star Trek</i></b> series. <br />
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In it, <b>Kirk, Spock,</b> and<b> McCoy</b> are trapped on a planet which will soon be destroyed in a supernova. <br />
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When first arriving on the planet <b>Sarpeidon </b>and meeting <b>Mr Atoz, Kirk, Spock</b> and <b>McCoy</b> all failed to mention that they are not natives of this planet and are only there to investigate the disappearance of the inhabitants. A simple explanation would have saved <b>Mr. Atoz</b> much confusion and consternation as he hurried to find them time periods into which they could escape destruction. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1969</b> - <br />
The <b>Walt Disney studio</b> put the film, <b><i>The Love Bug</i></b>, starring '<b>Herbie</b>,' a loveable <b>Volkswagen</b> bug with a personality, into general release on this date. <br />
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<b>Dean Jones</b> personally requested to play the hippy at the drive-in. The director originally turned him down, but after Jones proved that he could convincingly take on the persona, he was immediately given the part.<br />
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<b>March 14, 1975 </b>- <br />
<b>Melvin Frank's</b> film adaptation of <b>Neil Simon's</b> comedy <b><i>The Prisoner of Second Avenue</i></b>, starring <b>Jack Lemmon</b> and <b>Anne Bancroft</b>, opened in <b>NYC</b>, on this date. <br />
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According to the <b>Jack Lemmon's</b> biography <b><i>Lemmon</i></b> by <b>Don Widener</b>, actress <b>Anne Bancroft</b> recounted this episode from the film's shooting: "[<b>Jack was</b>] <b><i>nice to a point where he's crazy...We had a scene in 'Prisoner [of Second Avenue'] where he had to carry a shovel in - a very close two-shot favoring me. I played the scene with tears in my eyes because Jack had accidentally hit me in the shin with that shovel. The director saw something was wrong so he stopped everything. I had a big bump on my leg, but it was Friday and over the weekend I fixed it up. When we came back on Monday the first scene was a retake of the shovel thing. Well, Jack brought the shovel in and I anticipated getting hit again. He's so full of energy, you're sure he's not noticing; but he never touched me. The take was fine, but Jack limped away. To avoid hurting me, he had cut himself. He was bleeding and we had to bandage his leg; his wound was much worse than mine. He is so kind he hurt himself rather than injure someone else. That's a little crazy! It's the nicest crazy I know, and I know a lot of crazy people.</i></b>" <br />
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<b>March 14, 1979 </b>- <br />
<b>United Artists</b> version of the <b>Broadway</b> anti-war musical <b><i>Hair</i></b>, directed by<b> Miloš Forman</b>, and starring <b>Treat Williams, John Savage, Beverly D'Angelo, Nell Carter, Cheryl Barnes, Richard Bright, Ellen Foley</b> and <b>Charlotte Rae</b>, premiered in <b>Century City</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Milos Forman's</b> only casting regret was <b>Nicholas Ray</b> as <b>The General</b>. "<b><i>Though he performed well, Ray had to endure clouds of heavy smoke for his big scene, and it was only weeks later that Forman learned he was dying of lung cancer</i></b>". <br />
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<b>March 14, 1981 </b>- <br />
<b>Roxy Music </b>had their only <b>U.K. No. 1</b> single with their version of<b> John Lennon's <i>Jealous Guy</i></b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>Roxy Music</b> recorded this as a tribute to Lennon, who was murdered on<b> December 8, 1980</b>. <b>Bryan Ferry</b> performs the whistling solo on the <b>Roxy Music</b> version. The Roxy frontman's whistling prowess harks back to his paper round days as a youngster when he used to do plenty of whistling. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1989</b> - <br />
<b>De La Soul</b> released their debut album, <b><i>3 Feet High and Rising</i></b>, on this date. <br />
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The album was one of the most innovative records of the late <b>1980s</b>, its merging of traditional hip-hop with humorous lyrics, abundant samples and jazz elements went on to inspire numerous artists. <br />
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<b>March 14, 2007</b> - <br />
The comedy-action film, <b><i>Hot Fuzz</i></b>, directed by <b>Edgar Wright</b>, and starring <b>Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton</b> and <b>Jim Broadbent</b>, was shown at <b>ShoWest </b>on this date. <br />
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The first draft of the script included a love interest for <b>Nicholas</b> named <b>Victoria</b>. She was cut from subsequent drafts, but a good amount of her dialogue was given to <b>Danny</b>, often without any changes. <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 14, 1794 </b>- <br />
<b>Eli Whitney</b> was granted a patent for the <b><a href="https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/thisdayintech/2009/10/cotton_400.jpg" target="_blank">Cotton Gin</a></b> on this date<br />
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While it is potable, gin flavored with juniper berries is still a better choice for a very dry martini.<br />
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<b>March 14, 1883</b> -<br />
<b><i>The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people</i></b>.<br />
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<b>Karl Marx</b> died of pleurisy in <b>London </b>on this date. While his original grave had only a nondescript stone, the <b>Communist Party of Great Britain</b> erected a large tombstone, including a bust of <b>Marx</b>, in <b>1954</b>.<br />
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His premature death prevented him from seeing the global impact of his progeny: <b>Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo </b>and <b>Zeppo. Karl Marx </b>was born in<b> Trier, Prussia May 5, 1818</b>. He went to school at a time of severe repression. Pianos had to have skirts on for fear young men would become aroused by the sight of their bare legs. The Prussian government kept the teachers under police surveillance to make sure they wouldn't teach anything too radical like <b>2 + 2= 4</b> and so the students, including <b>Marx</b>, became extremely radical.<br />
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(There are no know photos of Karl and <b>Gummo </b>together: they never got along)<br />
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As a result of his beliefs, <b>Marx </b>was not able to get a job as a chicken inspector after he got his doctorate in philosophy. And without a job, he spent his time analyzing history and stealing tips left for waiters at the coffeehouses he frequented and came to the conclusion that all historical events were caused by economic forces.<br />
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He got involved in <b>Communism </b>- the belief that all private property should be abolished, men and women should not bathe or shave and pickled herring should be used as a cologne. <b>Marx </b>moved around <b>Europe</b>, writing for newspapers and pornographic pamphlet, studying, wanting to write a book about his economic ideas. But <b>Marx </b>was an obsessive researcher, and never knew when to stop reading and start writing. He only became productive after he met <b>Friedrich Engels</b>, a socialist who was also wealthy—the heir to a textile business and primitive whoopee cushion novelty item.<br />
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Their main theory was that the economic system was a perpetual conflict between those who controlled the capital and those who provided the labor, that the conflict would never be resolved peacefully, that in a free market, workers would continue periodically to lose their jobs, their standard of living would fall, and this would inevitably lead to violent revolution. He believed that giant corporations would dominate the world's industries, that globalism in trade would make markets even more unstable. He also believed that you could hard boil an egg by holding it under one's armpit for a week thus saving money by not paying the gas bill.<br />
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<b>Marx </b>and <b>Engels </b>published their <b><i>Communist Manifesto</i></b> and<i><b> </b><b i="">What the Butler Saw Whilst Polishing the Knob</b></i> in <b>1848</b>, and revolution did break out afterward in<b> France, Italy,</b> and <b>Austria. Marx's</b> newspaper was shut down. He had to flee the country. He moved to <b>London</b>, worked for years on his last book, <b><i>Das Kapital</i></b>. His family in poverty, <b>Marx </b>said, "<i><b>I don't suppose anyone has ever written about 'money' when so short of the stuff</b></i>." A spy from <b>Prussia </b>was keeping tabs on him and wrote, "<i><b>Washing, grooming and changing his clothes are things he does rarely. He does not shave at all. But he does have an unnatural obsession watching Amenian women clip their toenails</b></i>!"<br />
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He fed his family on bread and potatoes, and when one of his children died, his wife had to borrow money from a neighbor to buy a coffin. <br />
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When Marx died in <b>1883</b>, only <b>11</b> persons came to his funeral. And they were all charged a mourners tax! <br />
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<b>March 14, 1885 </b>- <br />
<b>Gilbert & Sullivan's</b><b> two-act</b> operetta <b><i>The Mikado</i></b> opened on this date, in <b>London</b>, where it ran at the <b>Savoy Theatre</b> for <b>672 </b>performances, which was the second longest run for any work of musical theater and one of the longest runs of any theater piece up to that time. <br />
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Before the end of <b>1885</b>, it was estimated that, in <b>Europe </b>and <b>America</b>, at least <b>150 </b>companies were producing the opera. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1889</b> - <br />
German <b>Ferdinand von Zeppelin</b> was issued a <b>US</b> Patent (#<b>621,195</b>) for his Navigable Balloon on this date. <br />
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He did not speak with <b>Paul von Hindenburg</b> about it at the time. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1912</b> - <br />
A young anarchist, <b>Antonio Dalba,</b> shot at King <b>Victor Emmanuel III</b> and queen <b>Elena </b>(of <b>Montenegro</b>) of <b>Italy </b>on this date, but missed, hitting a bodyguard and his horse instead. Their majesties were attending the annual memorial service for the previous king, <b>Umberto I,</b> who was assassinated by an anarchist in <b>1900 </b>(whose assassination inspired <b>Leon Czolgosz</b> to shoot President <b>McKinley</b>). <br />
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Since Dalba was a legal minor (<b>20</b>) at the time, he could not be executed. He was sentenced to<b> 30 years</b> imprisonment, but, perhaps because of his increasing mental instability, was pardoned in <b>1921</b>, only to be committed two months later to a mental hospital, where he died in <b>1953</b>. <br />
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Today on <b>March 14 1932</b>, one of the greatest notes was written: <br />
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<b>George Eastman</b>, the founder of <b>Kodak Corporation</b>, killed himself after a long illness on this date. <br />
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His suicide note states "<b><i>To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?</i></b>" <br />
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All in all, terse but to the point. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1933</b> - <br />
<b><i>It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.</i></b>. <br />
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<b>Quincy Delight Jones Jr.</b> record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer was born on this date. <br />
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<b>March 14, 1942</b> - <br />
Mrs. <b>Anne Miller</b><b></b> was near death at <b>New Haven Hospital</b>, suffering from a <i><b>streptococcal </b></i>infection, before doctors <b>Orvan Hess </b>and <b>John Bumsfield</b> decided to use an experimental treatment - <b>Penicillin</b>, on this date. This was the first time penicillin was successfully used to treat a patient in the US. <br />
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Although Dr. <b>Alexander Fleming </b>had proven that penicillin was an effective antibacterial in <b>1928</b>, few doctors seemed interested in using the common mold as a medicinal tool. Supplies were limited at the time, nearly half of the total supply produced were used on Mrs. Miller. She survived, living to be <b>90 years</b> old and penicillin became widely used. <br />
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As I am deathly allergic to the drug, this medical advancement is almost meaningless to me. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-91373747222888234072024-03-13T08:30:00.052-04:002024-03-13T08:30:00.132-04:00Woof - Thank you for your service<b>National K9 Veterans Day, March 13</b>, is a day set aside to honor commemorate the service and sacrifices of American military and working dogs throughout history. The <b>Army</b> began training for its new <b>War Dog Program</b>, also known as the "<b><i>K-9 Corps</i></b>" on this date in <b>1942</b>, according to <b>American Humane</b>, marking the first time that dogs were officially a part of the <b>U.S. Armed Forces</b>. <br />
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The top canine hero of <b>World War II</b> was <b>Chips</b>, a German Shepherd who served with the <b>Army’s 3rd Infantry Division</b>. Trained as a sentry dog, <b>Chips</b> broke away from his handlers and attacked an enemy machine gun nest in <b>Italy</b>, forcing the entire crew to surrender. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1949</b> - <br />
<b>Donald Fauntleroy Duck's</b> birthday is officially recognized as<b> June 9, 1934</b>, the day his debut film was released, but in <b><i>The Three Caballeros</i></b>, his birthday is given as simply <b>Friday the 13th</b>. In <b><i>Donald's Happy Birthday</i></b>, the cartoon gives his birthday as <b>March 13</b>. (The best guess is this would be <b>Donald's</b> <b>110th</b> birthday.) <br />
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Things that make you go hmmmm - <b>Donald</b> doesn’t wear pants but when he comes out of the shower, covers himself with a towel. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1954 </b>- <br />
It's <b>Rocky's</b> third appearance in a <b>Bugs Bunny</b> cartoon (and the funniest) - <b><i>Bugs and Thugs</i></b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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Near the end of the film, <b>Bugs</b>' office has a sign that says - "<b><i>Member- Detective Guild, Local 839</i></b>". <b>Local 839</b> of the <b>IATSE</b> was the <b>Animation Guild</b>, whose members made the cartoon. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1956</b> - <br />
One of <b>John Ford's</b> greatest westerns, <b><i>The Searchers</i></b>, starring <b>John Wayne</b> (giving his finest performance) premiered on this date. <br />
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While on the desert locale,<b> John Ford</b> was stung by a scorpion. Worried about his investment, financial backer<b> C.V. Whitney</b> asked <b>John Wayne</b>, "<b><i>What if we lose him? What are we going to do</i></b>?" Wayne offered to check in on the "<b><i>stricken</i></b>" director. A few minutes later he came out of Ford's trailer and said to Whitney, "<b><i>It's OK. John's fine, it's the scorpion that died</i></b>." <br />
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<b>March 13, 1968</b> - <br />
<b>The Beatles</b> release the single <b><i>Lady Madonna</i></b> in the <b>UK</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>John Lennon</b> and <b>Paul McCartney</b> took imitation to a high level, often going into character as some of their favorite musicians when they crafted songs. When McCartney started playing the boogie-woogie piano on this track, he thought of <b>Fats Domino</b>, specifically his 1956 song <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/ratqtPBMqxk" target="_blank">Blue Monday</a></i></b>, and crafted the song in Domino's style.<br />
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<b>March 13, 1979</b> - <br />
A spin-off from the <b><i>Three's Company </i></b>series,<b><i> The Ropers,</i></b> starring<b> Norman Fell </b>and <b>Audra Lindley </b>premiered on <b>ABC TV,</b> on this date. <br />
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When the network proposed the spin-off of <b><i>Three's Company</i></b>, focusing on the <b>Ropers</b>, <b>Audra Lindley</b> was excited and wanted to go ahead, but <b>Norman Fell </b>wasn't too keen on the idea. Fell felt that you couldn't do a series with '<b><i>only</i></b>' the running gag of<b> Mrs. Roper </b>being undersexed. The network assured him the show would have more substance than that, and furthermore, if the show didn't make it a full season, he and Audra could come back full time to <b><i>Three's Company</i></b> as the <b>Ropers</b>. So it was after <b>six months </b>of convincing, <b>Norman Fell</b> finally gave in. <b><i>The Ropers</i></b> made it a season and a half before it was canceled, As a result, <b>ABC Network </b>was not obligated to take them back to <b><i>Three's Company</i></b>, because their contract had passed the one year mark, so <b>Norman Fell </b>and <b>Audra Lindley</b> were out of work. However, despite their hard feelings they did reprise their roles as guest stars on <b><i>Three's Company</i></b> as <b>Mr </b>and <b>Mrs Roper</b> one last time before their characters were retired for good. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1982 </b>- <br />
<b>William Shatner</b>, donned his man girdle once again when <i><b>T.J. Hooker</b></i>, costarring <b>Adrian Zmed,</b> premiered on <b>ABC-TV</b>, on this date. <br />
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The series was originally to be titled <b><i>The Protectors</i></b>, which would be the title of the show's pilot. Creator <b>Rick Husky</b> originally developed the show as a newer version of his previous series<i><b> The Rookies</b></i>, and intended the show as an ensemble series. Noting <b>William Shatner's</b> prominence in the pilot, it was decided to make <b>Hooker </b>the focus of the show, and title the series after the character. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1992</b> - <br />
<b>Merchant Ivory Productions</b> release of the adaptation of<b> E. M. Forster's</b> novel, <b><i>Howards End</i></b>, directed by <b>James Ivory</b>, from a screenplay written by <b>Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</b>, and starring <b>Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave, Jemma Redgrave</b> and <b>Prunella Scales</b>, opened in the <b>US</b> on this date. <br />
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The country house used as the location for <b><i>Howards End</i></b> is over twice as large as seen from the front and partial side views used in this movie. It is <b>H-shaped </b>with a large back portion, into which its owners moved during filming, while the front portion was emptied and refinished. (The landscaping was also redone, with flowers and plants truer to the story's period.) The house is owned by friends of production designer <b>Luciana Arrighi</b>, and it occurred to her it would make a good stand-in for Howards End, while she was a houseguest there. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1993</b> - <br />
<b>Eric Clapton’s</b> LP <b><i>Unplugged</i></b> hit No.1 on the <b><i>Billboard</i></b> charts — and stayed there — becoming the most successful and best-selling live album of all time. <br />
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It was nominated for <b>nine Grammy Awards </b>in <b>1993</b> and won <b>six</b>, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1995</b> - <br />
<b>Parlophone Records</b> released <b>Radiohead's second</b> studio album, <b><i>The Bends</i></b>, in the <b>UK</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>John Leckie</b>, the producer of <b><i>The Bends</i></b>, recalled to <b><i>Q</i></b> magazine <b>April 2008</b> the recording of the album: "<b><i>I love the album but by the end of the sessions I felt devastated. Without telling me, the band sent copies of the master tapes to the States to be mixed by the Americans who produced Pablo Honey. It was the first time it had happened to me. After 100 days' work I felt like I'd given birth to a dozen babies and had them all taken away. I wasn't even invited to the final playback. The band chose me as producer because I did the first Magazine album Real Life, which they were all big fans of. I suggested we use the Manor studio in Oxfordshire but they said it was 'too rock 'n' roll' and went for Mickie Most's RAK studio in London, where they worked solidly for nine weeks. Thom would be there when the studio opened at 9 o'clock, working on his own at the piano before the others turned up at 12. After that the band went off on a tour of the Far East. When they came back they weren't happy with a lot of what we'd done at RAK so they decided they would use the Manor after all. After that I went to Abbey Road to start mixing. I heard later the band said it was like the schoolteacher had left the room. Maybe it was an age thing, I was 20 years older than them. They felt more comfortable with RAK's assistant engineer, this young guy, Nigel Godrich.</i></b>" <br />
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<b>March 12, 1999 </b>- <br />
<b>Cher's </b>single <b><i>Believe</i></b> hit No. #<b>1</b> on the <i><b>Billboard </b></i>singles chart on this date and stayed there for<b> four weeks</b>, make <b>Cher </b>the oldest woman to top the <b>Hot 100</b>, (it's very rude to ask how old.) <br />
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The song reached No.<b>1 </b>in almost every country it charted, including the <b>UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland</b>, <b>Spain, France, Germany</b> and <b>Italy</b>. The song was “<i><b>auto-tuned</b></i>”, made by audio processing software, a relatively new process that became known as the “<i><b>Cher effect</b></i>”.<br />
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<b>Today in History:</b> <br />
<b>March 13, 1639 </b>- <br />
A recently founded school in <b>Cambridge, Massachusetts</b>, <b>New School</b>, renamed itself <b>Harvard College</b> on this date in honor of clergyman <b>John Harvard</b>, who'd bequeathed £<b>780</b> and his <b>400</b> volume library to the educational establishment. <br />
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From <b>1780</b> onwards it was referred to as <b>Harvard University</b>. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1781</b> - <br />
Scottish astronomer Sir <b>William Herschel</b> discovered <b>Uranus</b> (which he named '<b><i>Georgium Sidus</i></b>,' in honor of<b> George III</b>,) on this date, which he first mistook for a comet <br />
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It is the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. <b>Uranus</b> is the <b>seventh</b> planet from the <b>Sun</b> and is named after the Greek god <b>Uranus</b>, who was a god of sky. <br />
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(Twice in one week, I've mentioned <b>Uranus</b>, feel free to guffaw like a small child.) <br />
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<b>March 13, 1852</b> — <br />
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<b>Frank Bellew's</b> cartoon, “<b><i>Uncle Sam</i></b>,” made its debut today in the <b><i>NY Lantern Weekly</i></b> on this date. <br />
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The character's name is attributed to <b>Samuel Wilson</b>, a meat packer who supplied food to the troops during the <b>War of 1812</b>. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1881</b> - <br />
An anarchist <b>Nikolai Rysakov</b>, from the radical group<b> People's Will</b> threw a bomb which disrupts Czar <b>Alexander II's</b> motorcade. Startled but unharmed, <b>Alexander </b>thanked <b>God </b>for his deliverance, another anarchist <b>Ignacy Hryniewiecki</b>, yelled "<i><b>It is too early to thank God</b></i>" and throws a second bomb, causing severe injuries from which <b>Alexander</b> bled to death several hours later. <br />
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(<b>Nicholas II, Alexander's</b> grandson, was one of the unfortunate witnesses to Czar's gruesome death.) <br />
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<b>March 13, 1877</b> – <br />
The first <b>US </b>Patent (#<b>188,292</b>) for earmuffs was issued to teen-aged <b>Chester Greenwood</b> of <b>Farmington, Maine</b> on this date. <br />
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Think about this as you venture out during the winter. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1911 </b>- <br />
Today is the birthday of <b>L. Ron Hubbard</b> (the "<b>L</b>" is for <b>Lafayette</b>.) Mr. Hubbard invented <b>Dianetics</b>, which eventually led to Scientology, causing Scientologists and Personality Tests. <br />
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Scientologists are easily distinguished from Jehovah's Witnesses in that they don't ask you subscribe to <b><i>The Watchtower</i></b> and they can often be seen in major motion pictures. <br />
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Today on <b><i>Oh That Wacky Russian Revolution</i></b>: <br />
<b>March 13, 1917</b> - <br />
The imperial guard, acting on the orders of the dissolved <b>Duma</b>, which had not been dissolved, took the Tsarina and her children (who had measles) into custody. A day later, <b>England </b>and <b>France</b> acknowledged the Executive Committee of the <b>Duma </b>as the official government of <b>Russia</b>. <br />
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Meanwhile, <b>Nicholas II </b>had taken a train to <b>Pskov</b>. He knew the revolutionaries would be unlikely to pursue him somewhere so difficult to pronounce. <br />
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That evening in <b>St. Petersburg, the Executive Committee of the Duma </b>met with the Petrograd Soviet and agreed that the Russian <b>Cabinet </b>should be dissolved, and also the Tsar.<br />
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They established a joint government, with Prince <b>Grigori Lvov</b> at its head, nicely countering the Czar's difficult pronunciation ploy. They put the <b>Russian Cabinet </b>in prison, next to the<b> Russian Credenza</b>. <br />
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<b>March 13, 1964</b> - <br />
A young woman, <b>Kitty Genovese </b>was murdered in front of multiple witnesses, all of whom fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the bystander effect. (This story have been proven a lie; many of her neighbors in fact did attempt to help. Only <b>two </b>people, who actually witnessed the attack did nothing.) <br />
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<b>Winston Moseley</b> was found guilty of Genovese’s murder. He was initially sentenced to death, but that was commuted several years later and changed to life in prison, where he died in <b>2016</b>. At the time of his death, Moseley has spent more time in the <b>New York</b> prison system than any other prisoner. <br />
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Pope <b>Francis</b> has been on the job for <b>eleven years</b> now. <br />
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The Pope does not appear to be in the greatest health and probably could you a prayer or two. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-42491647361386959092024-03-12T08:30:00.034-04:002024-03-12T08:30:00.132-04:00Spring is a week awayToday is the day to participate in <b>National Plant a Flower Day</b>.<br />
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Each year this day is dedicated to the planting of flowers and looking forward to the spring season.<br />
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Today is <b>Alfred Hitchcock Day</b>. Since <b>Hitchcock</b> was born in <b>August</b>, and died in <b>April</b>, I have no clue why we celebrate in <b>March</b> - its arbitrary and capricious, which makes me like it even more. (It may have to due to the fact that March 12 is the televised anniversary of his <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/Zn8uRMCENkE?feature=shared" target="_blank">American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Awards</a></i></b>.) Besides, it's an hour earlier than you think, so why not. <br />
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But please, feel free to bludgeon someone to death with a leg of lamb and serve it to the police when they come to investigate, in his honor, if you so choose. Save a serving for me (I'll bring the homemade tzaktiki.) <br />
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<b>March 12, 1941</b> - <br />
One of <b>Frank Capra's </b>most iconic films, <i><b>Meet John Doe</b></i>, starring <b>Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck,</b> and <b>Edward Arnold</b>, premiered in <b>New York</b> and<b> Los Angeles</b> on this date. <br />
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Well into production, <b>Frank Capra</b> refused to reveal publicly what the film was about. Part of the motivation for his secrecy was fear that powerful <b>US </b>fascist organizations would pressure<b> Warner Bros. </b>not to make the film, but he also did not have a completed screenplay, and keeping mum on the film's subject was his way of keeping <b>Warner Bros</b>. from pulling out of its agreement.<br />
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<b>March 12, 1953</b> - <br />
<b>John Huston's</b> very off-beat comedy, <b><i>Beat the Devil, </i></b>starring <b>Humphrey Bogart</b>, <b>Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre</b> and <b>Bernard Lee</b>, premiered in<b> New York City</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>John Huston</b> suggested to<b> Humphrey Bogart</b>, that <b>Lauren Bacall</b> might play his wife. <i><b>"I read your insidious and immoral proposals to my wife</b></i>," Bogie wrote to Huston in mock anger. <i><b>"I have instructed Miss Bacall to disregard your blandishments...</b></i>" Anyway, she was busy shooting <i><b>How to Marry a Millionaire. </b></i><br />
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<b>March 12th, 1967</b> -<br />
<b>The Velvet Underground</b> released their debut album, <b><i>The Velvet Underground & Nico</i></b>, on this date. <br />
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The album’s back cover originally featured a shot of the band playing with an image of <b><a href="https://recordart.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/vu-torso-bk.jpg" target="_blank">Eric Emerson’s</a></b> face from <b><i>The Chelsea Girls</i></b> projected prominently in the background. Emerson either needed drug money or was simply broke, so he threatened to sue the record label because he hadn’t signed a photo release. <b>Verve Records</b> pulled the album from record stores and redacted Emerson’s face from the back cover, which was a disaster for the band. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1971</b> - <br />
<b>Robert Wise's</b> taut Sci-Fi Thriller, <b><i>The Andromeda Strain</i></b>, opened on this date. (A fun film to watch while you're self-quarantining.) <br />
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Screenwriter <b>Nelson Gidding</b> broached the idea to director <b>Robert Wise </b>that <b>one </b>of the <b>four</b> scientists should be a woman. Wise initially envisioned female character being something like <b>Raquel Welch </b>in <i><b>Fantastic Voyage</b></i> and objected strenuously to the change. However, after Gidding described in detail the character eventually played by <b>Kate Reid</b>, and after Wise conferred with actual scientists, he became convinced that it was a positive addition to the story. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1973 </b>- <br />
After <b>six</b> seasons, the last episode of <b><i>Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In</i></b> aired on <b>NBC TV</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>George Schlatter</b> did not produce the final season, but he won the rights to those episodes in a subsequent court battle. For many years, he neither allowed those episodes to be re-aired, nor any clips to be included in retrospectives. On <b>March 13, 2017</b>, <b>Decades TV </b>was allowed to begin airing the final season. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1971</b> - <br />
<b>John Lennon</b> released <b><i>Power to the People</i></b> in the <b>United Kingdom</b> on this date. <br />
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"<i><b>Power to the People</b></i>" was a popular phrase in the <b>1960s </b>and early '<b>70s.</b> It indicated a need for individuals to take control from governments and institutions, which is something Lennon advocated.<br />
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<b>March 12, 1982</b> -<br />
<b>Columbia Picture </b>released the concert film <b><i>Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip</i></b>, starring <b>Richard Pryor</b>, on this date. <br />
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The film was edited together from two live performances that were filmed back to back on <b>December 9</b> and <b>December 10, 1981</b>. <b>Richard Pryor</b> admitted in his autobiography that he completely messed up his performance during the first filming of the show. Pryor lost his train of thought and forgot most of his material. He apologized to the audience and ended the show early leaving the audience angry. Pryor pulled himself together and gave a much better performance the next night. Most of the footage in the film is from the second performance. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1991 </b>- <br />
<b>Warner Bros. Records</b> released the <b>seventh</b> studio album by<b> R.E.M.</b>, <b><i>Out of Time</i></b>, on this date.<br />
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The opening track on <b><i>Out of Time</i></b>, <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/0XhYEqz2Hu8?feature=shared" target="_blank">Radio Song</a></i></b> features the influential rapper <b>KRS-One. R.E.M.</b> guitarist <b>Peter Buck</b> explained to <b><i>Guitar School</i></b> in <b>1991</b>: "<b><i>When we wrote it out, we only had acoustic guitar, bongos, bass, organ, and a 12-string over the chorus. When we got to the studio we added drums, and I put down some funk guitars and we thought, 'Well, gee, now it's kind of a funk song.' And Michael suggested bringing in KRS, since he'd worked with him before"</i></b> (<b>KRS-One</b> appeared in a public service announcement for Stipe's <b>C-Hundred</b> film production company). <br />
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<b>March 12, 1994 </b>- <br />
The Swedish group <b>Ace Of Base's </b>single,<b><i> The Sign</i></b>, was No. <b>1</b> on the <b><i>Billboard</i> Charts</b> on this date. <br />
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The song went on to be ranked as the number one song of <b>1994</b> on <b><i>Billboard's</i></b> year-end chart. It was also <b>Arista Record's</b> most successful <b><i>Billboard</i></b> Chart single in the label's history, selling over <b>nine million</b> copies in <b>America</b>. <br />
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<b>March 12, 2001</b> - <br />
<b><i>The Chris Isaak Show</i></b>, a television sitcom which follows a fictionalized version of the life of American rock musician <b>Chris Isaak</b>, premiered on <b>Showtime </b>on this date. <br />
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The character of <b>Mona</b> is based on a real woman at the <b>Bimbo's 365 Club</b> in <b>San Francisco</b> known as "<b><i>Dolphina</i></b>". In the <b>1930s</b>, a magician worked the joint and rigged up a series of mirrors that would project an image of anyone who was lying on a rotating table in the basement up into the fish tank located behind the bar. <br />
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The<b> Fox Searchligh Pictures</b> sleeper hit <b><i>Bend It Like Beckham</i></b>, starring <b>Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley</b>, and <b>Jonathan Rhys Meyers</b>, went into limited release in the <b>US</b> on this date. <br />
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The chauffeur driver of the <b>Rolls Royce </b>in the wedding scene was not an actor, but an actual chauffeur, and was unaware he was in a film. He believed instead that it was simply a wedding with a lot of cameras. It was only discovered he was in the film when, to their surprise, one of his relatives saw him in the background. <br />
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<b>March 12, 2002 </b>- <br />
The <b>Chris Wedgee's </b>film, <b><i>Ice Age</i></b>, starring <b>Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Jack Black,</b> and <b>Cedric the Entertainer</b> premiered in this date in the <b>US</b>. <br />
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Despite the <b>Dodo's</b> less than brilliant survival instincts, they outlived all of the major character's species.<br />
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<b>March 12, 2007 </b>- <br />
<b>Amy Winehouse</b> made her <b>US</b> television debut on the <b><i>Late Show with David Letterman</i></b> performing <b><i>Rehab</i></b> on this date. <br />
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On <b>August 14, 2007</b>, Winehouse entered The Causeway Retreat, a rehab center in <b>Essex, England</b>, with her new husband (and fellow addict), <b>Blake Fielder</b>. Addiction specialists know that admitting a couple to rehab together is a bad idea, but <b>The Causeway</b> was not an ethical institution: it was shut down amid a host of violations in <b>2010</b>. Winehouse did a few more stints in rehab to treat her drug and alcohol addiction, but it was ultimately unsuccessful. She was found dead in her <b>London </b>home on <b>July 23, 2011. </b><br />
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Today's moment of <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-young-man-out-standing-in-his-field.html" target="_blank">Zen</a></b> <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 12, 538 </b>– <br />
After a <b>year and nine days</b>, the <b>First Siege of Rome</b> during the <b>Gothic War</b> ended when, <b>Vitiges</b>, king of the <b>Ostrogoths </b>retreated to the Gothic capital of <b>Ravenna</b>, in the <b>Emilia-Romagna</b> region of Northern <b>Italy</b>, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, <b>Belisarius</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1888 </b>-<br />
The day before started off seemingly fine - the temperature was mild as a light rain began to fall on<b> March 11th, 1888</b>. And then the weather changed. The rain became heavier and by the next day, the rains changed to heavy snow and buried the unprepared city in drifts of up to <b>thirty feet </b>deep! The temperature plunged and winds reached over <b>eighty miles per hour</b>.<br />
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On the first day of<b> 1888 blizzard, Roscoe Conkling</b>, former congressman and <b>US</b> Senator (from <b>NY</b>) was at his law office at <b>10 Wall Street</b>. Despite the severity of the storm, Conkling decided to walk from his office to his club on <b>Madison Square</b>, even though it was <b>6:00 PM </b>and already dark, rather than pay the outrageous rate of $<b>50 </b>for a cab ride.<br />
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He made it up <b>Broadway </b>as far as<b> Union Square</b> where he (as he later put it): “<i><b>got to the middle of the park and was up to my arms in a drift…. For nearly twenty minutes I was stuck there and I came as near giving right up and sinking down there to die as a man can and not do it</b></i>.” But somehow Conkling freed himself and continued up <b>Broadway </b>to <b>Madison Square</b>, where the people at the <b>New York Club</b> could “<i><b>scarcely believe</b></i>” he had walked from <b>Wall Street.</b><br />
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Conkling developed a slight cold a few day later and a few weeks later on<b> April 18th</b>, became one of most famous victims of the blizzard. Conkling friends immediately set about to memorialize him with a statue in <b>Madison Square Park</b>. (Apparently the city fathers balked at commemorating Conkling in <b>Union Square</b> amidst <b>George Washington</b> and <b>Abraham Lincoln</b> - he was not that well liked.) Aside from the statue, <b>Roscoe Conkling's </b>greatest legacy was perhaps silent film star <b>Roscoe "<i>Fatty</i>" Arbuckle</b>, who was reportedly named for Conkling by Fatty's father, who thought that his son was the product of an affair between his wife and Conkling. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1894 </b>- <br />
Bottled <b>Coca-Cola</b> was sold for the first time on this date. <br />
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Since its initial creation in <b>1886</b>, <b>Coca-Cola</b> was sold only as a fountain drink unti <b>Vicksburg, Mississippi</b> confectioner <b>Joseph Biedenharn</b> thought of bottling the beverage in the same manner he had been bottling soda water and offering it for sale to those who could not always make it to town to visit one of his <b>three</b> soda fountains. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1912 </b>- <br />
<b>Juliette Gordon Low</b> organized the <b>Girl Guides</b>, which later became the <b>Girl Scouts of America</b>, at the <b>1848 Andrew Low House</b> in <b>Savannah, Ga.</b> on this date. <br />
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Mrs. Low rented a carriage house for "<b><i>club rooms</i></b>" for the <b>Girl Guides</b> on the property of a prominent family in <b>Georgia</b>, the Nash family.<b> Ogden Nash, 10 years</b> old in <b>1912</b>, grew up to be a well-known poet; he immortalized "<i><b>Mrs. Low's House</b></i>" in one of his poems. The Nash family continued to pay rent for the carriage house even after it was converted for use by the<b> Girl Guides</b>, becoming one of the first financial supporters for the fledgling movement.<br />
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On <b>May 29, 2012</b>, the centennial of the <b>Girl Scouts</b> was commemorated when Low was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1918</b> - <br />
Today episode on the <b><i>Wacky World of the Russian Revolution</i></b> - <br />
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Russia's peasants and workers are still exhausted by the war and its attendant famine. The Tsar and Tsarina are past caring about their suffering - they were under arrest. The Russian peasants and workers are still furious with the government, which had become two governments and therefore twice as bad. And they were tired of all this nonsense about <b>March </b>being <b>February</b>, <b>St. Petersburg</b> being <b>Petrograd</b>, the Czar being Tsar, and all those crazy, mixed-up fonts. <br />
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So what does the country do - move the capital from <b>Petrograd </b>to <b>Moscow</b>, as well as move the central headquarters of the<b> Red Army</b> there, on this date <br />
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<b>March 12, 1922 </b>- <br />
At the end of the <b>Second World War</b>, <b>America</b> dropped two atomic bombs on <b>Japan</b>. Each bomb killed so many people so quickly and made the world so safe for peace-loving democracies that America began feeling pretty good about things and forgot all about being Depressed, etc. This caused the hula-hoop, the soda fountain, and the young<b> Annette Funicello</b>. <br />
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Not everyone could master the hula-hoop, however, and the alienation experienced by those who couldn't resulted in the development of an American counterculture.<br />
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Scoffing the traditional values of mainstream America, the counterculturalists experimented with bold new ideas. They forsook the established middle-class pleasures, such as wine, woman, and song, in favor of radical new ones, such as sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. <br />
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Born<b> 101 years </b>ago today,<b> Jack Kerouac</b> was a child of the Depression and a veteran of the second world war. He was therefore torn between these competing value systems and roamed the country aimlessly in search of grammar and punctuation. <br />
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The adventures described in<i><b> On the Road </b></i>were based loosely on his real-life travels with the infamous <b>Ken Kesey</b> and his band of <b>Merry Pranksters</b>, whose insatiable appetite for borscht led Kerouac to dub them "<i><b>The Beet Generation</b></i>." <br />
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<b>March 12, 1930</b> - <br />
<b>Mahatma Gandhi </b>began his historic <b>Salt March</b> to the sea, a protest against British salt taxes in <b>India</b>. <br />
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The crowd of marchers grew as <b>Gandhi </b>walked for <b>24 days</b>, a <b>240-mile</b> trek (<b>390 km</b>) to the beach at <b>Dandi </b>where he produced salt without paying any tax to the nation’s British rulers, sparking similar acts nationwide. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1932</b> - <br />
<b>Ivar Kreuger</b>, the so-called <b><i>Swedish Match King</i></b>, (at one time, he controlled <b>two thirds</b> of the worldwide match production) committed suicide in <b>Paris </b>on this date, leaving behind a financial empire that turned out to be a massive <b>Ponzi </b>scheme. <br />
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The '<b><i>Kreuger crash</i></b>’ shook <b>Wall Street</b> and led to a <b>1933 Securities Act</b>, which strengthened disclosure requirements for all companies selling stock. <br />
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<b>Bernie Madoff,</b> who pleaded guilty to <b>11 </b>federal felonies on this date in <b>2009</b>, was a piker compared to <b>Kreuger</b>. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1938</b> - <br />
<b>Germany</b> enters <b>Austria</b> in the <b>Anschluss</b>, to annex it as part of <b>Grossdeutchland</b>. <br />
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Oh those wacky Germans and their <b>World Domination Tour</b>. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1945</b> - <br />
...<b><i>The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be</i></b>.... <br />
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<b>Annelies Marie Frank </b> was thought to have died, a day after her sister, <b>Margot</b>, at <b>Auschwitz</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1955 </b>- <br />
<b><i>Bird Lives.</i></b> <br />
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<b>Charles Parker, Jr</b>., one of the most influential jazz musicians, died on this date while while watching <b>Tommy Dorsey</b> on television. <br />
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Due to many years of drug and alcohol abuse, the coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker's <b>34-year</b>-old body to be between <b>50 </b>and <b>60 </b>years of age. <br />
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<b>March 12, 1969 </b>- <br />
<b>Paul McCartney</b> married<b> Linda Eastman</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>George Harrison</b> and<b> Patti Boyd </b>missed the ceremony because they had been arrested earlier that day when a very large amount of hashish was found in their home. I guess their wedding gift never got to the newlyweds. <br />
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The <b>World Wide Web</b> turns <b>35</b> today (or not, please you get your own blog and post what you want.) <br />
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When <b>Tim Berners-Lee</b> submitted his proposal, his boss was the first of many people who didn’t get it initially. His manager described the web as “<i><b>vague but interesting</b></i>”. <br />
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<b>March 12, 2000</b> - <br />
Pope <b>John Paul II </b>asked <b>God's</b> forgiveness for the many wrongs committed by the Roman Catholic Church on this date. The pardon he requested divided into seven categories of Church sin, including sins against the Jews, against native peoples of the world, the crimes of the Inquisition, and general crimes against humanity. <br />
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This pardon was requested only for past sins, and apparently did not ask for it to apply to the Church's many, many, many ongoing sins. Let us continue to pray that Pope <b>Francis </b>has the strength to continue asking for all of that forgiveness. <br />
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<b>Before you go </b>- Please say <b><i>Happy Birthday</i></b> to <b>Mike Geier</b>, <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-7787206699334716032024-03-11T08:30:00.007-04:002024-03-11T08:30:00.135-04:00More lies we were toldMost people believe that cracking your knuckles will lead to you developing arthritis - A <b>30-year</b> study showed that this is not the case. However, knuckle cracking can lessen one’s grip strength because of repeated overstretching of the tendons. So crack them as you see fit.<br />
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Some people still believe that we only use<b> 10% </b>of our brain. While you can believe that there are some politicians who use none of their brain, this is a motivational speaker’s ploy (that can be traced back to the early <b>1900s</b>) to encourage people to live up to their full potential. Studies of brain activity have provided no evidence that only <b>10%</b> of the brain is used. <br />
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Today is <b>Debunking Day</b>. The day gives everyone the chance to set the record straight on whatever false and inaccurate pieces of information have been troubling them the most. There should be a little bit more truth in the world after today because much that is untrue will have been debunked. <br />
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Today is also <b>World Plumbing Day</b>. It is an international event, initiated by the<b> World Plumbing Council</b>, held on <b>March 11 </b>each year to recognize the important role plumbing plays in societal health and amenity.<br />
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I should make sure I'm wearing a belt today.<br />
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So, How did you do on your Oscar ballot? <br />
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I didn't do so well - <b>14/24</b>. (I have to stop betting on my personal favorites.) <br />
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Today is <b>National Napping Day</b>, the holiday is observed the day following the return of daylight saving time. <br />
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<b>National Napping Day</b> provides everyone with the opportunity to have a nap (by themselves or with a friend) and catch up on the hour of sleep they lost due to the spring forward time change. (Remember the true sign that you are an adult - you don't need to be encouraged to take a nap.)<br />
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<b>March 11, 1950</b> - <br />
A very funny <b>Bugs Bunny</b> cartoon, directed by <b>Chuck Jones</b>, <b><i>Homeless Hare</i></b>, was released on this date.<br />
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When <b>Bugs</b> falls into the rain water barrel and regains his senses after taking an I-beam to the head, he laments that "<b><i>This isn't Saturday night</i></b>." <b>Bugs</b> is referring to the common practice of rural and farm people of taking one bath a week, usually on <b>Saturday</b> night, so they can be clean for church the next day.<br />
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<b>March 11, 1956</b> - <br />
<b>Laurence Olivier's </b>version of <b>William Shakespeare's </b><b><i>Richard III</i></b> became the first film to have its <b>U.S.</b> premiere in theaters and on TV simultaneously, when <b>NBC-TV</b> broadcast the film on the same day it had its U.S. premiere in <b>New York</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>Laurence Olivier</b> used long takes throughout this movie to allow the actors and actresses to build their scenes more theatrically. His opening soliloquy was shot in one <b>nine-minute </b>take. When he almost dropped the King's crown in the first scene, rather than re-shoot, he used the accident to create a motif for the movie. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1961</b> - <br />
<b>Kenneth Sean Carson</b>, the cultural icon from <b>Willows, Wisconsin</b> and <b>Barbie’s</b> go-to counterpart, was introduced at the <b>American International Toy Fair</b>, on this date. <br />
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For those wondering where <b>Barbie</b> and <b>Ken</b> met, their official story is that they met on the set of their first commercial together in <b>1961</b>. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1967</b> - <br />
<b>Pink Floyd</b> released one of the best songs about underwear stealing transvestites, <i><b>Arnold Layne</b></i> on this date. <br />
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Original member <b>Syd Barrett</b> wrote this about a cross-dresser named "<i><b>Arnold Layne</b></i>" who used to steal bras and panties from clotheslines in <b>Cambridge, England</b>. Barrett lived near <b>Roger Waters </b>growing up. Their mothers both lost underwear to <b>Arnold Layne.</b><br />
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<b>March 11, 1968</b> - <br />
In the episode of<b> <i>The Monkees</i></b>, <b>Monkees Blow Their Minds</b> that aired on this date, <b>Frank Zappa</b> appeared as <b>Mike Nesmith</b> and vice versa, debating qualities of each other's music. Many a young mind was blown today. <br />
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The song heard while <b>Michael Nesmith</b> and <b>Frank Zappa</b> play the car is <b><i>Mother People</i></b> by Frank's band <b>The Mothers of Invention</b> from the <b>1968</b> album <b><i>We're Only in it for the Money</i></b>. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1970</b> - <br />
<b>Federico Fellini's</b> take on ancient <b>Rome</b>,<i><b> <a href="https://youtu.be/KppON3q8Zlk" target="_blank">Fellini - Satyricon</a></b></i> (Another movie had registered the title <i><b>Satyricon </b></i>first. <b>Federico Fellini </b>fought to use the title for his movie but lost the case. Subsequently the title was changed to<i><b> Fellini - Satyricon</b></i>) premiered in the <b>US </b>on this date. <br />
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According to an episode of the <b>NPR-WNYC</b> radio program <i><b>Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!</b></i>, future fitness guru <b>Richard Simmons </b>is in this film. An American student living in <b>Rome </b>in the late <b>1960's</b>, he was cast as an obese nobleman in the banquet scene. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1970 </b>- <br />
The first album by<b> Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young</b>, <b><i>Déjà Vu</i></b> was released on this date. <br />
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<b><i>Rolling Stone</i></b> magazine ranked it #<b>148 </b>on the <b>500 </b>greatest albums of all time. It was certified <b>7</b>-times platinum with over <b>8 million </b>copies sold, and spent <b>88 weeks</b> on the <i><b>Billboard </b></i>chart. It remains the highest-selling album of each member’s career to date.<br />
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<b>March 11, 1974</b> - <br />
The beloved <b>Emmy</b> and <b>Peabody</b> winning children's TV special, <b><i>Free To Be ... You and Me</i></b>, produced by <b>Marlo Thomas</b> premiered on <b>ABC-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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The basic concept was to encourage post-<b>1960s</b> gender neutrality, saluting values such as individuality, tolerance, and comfort with one's identity. A major thematic message is that anyone—whether a boy or a girl—can achieve anything. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1994</b> - <br />
The<b> Coen Bros</b>. send-up of '<b>30s </b>screwball comedies, <b><b>The Hudsucker Proxy</b></b>, starring <b>Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh</b>, and <b>Paul Newman</b> went into general release in the <b>US</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Paul Newman </b>had been approached about the project in <b>1984</b> but turned it down due to not having done much comedy work before although he liked the film and encouraged the <b>Coens</b> to go ahead without him. The <b>Coens</b> instead waited <b>ten years</b> until he agreed to do it. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1994</b> - <br />
One of the most successful Rom-Com films of all times, <b><i>Four Weddings and a Funeral</i></b>, starring <b>Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, Corin Redgrave</b> and <b>Rowan Atkinson</b> went into limited release in the <b>US </b>on this date. <br />
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Backstories were given in a deleted scene. <b>Charles (Hugh Grant</b>), <b>Matthew </b>(<b>John Hannah</b>), and <b>Fiona </b>(<b>Kristin Scott Thomas</b>) were at university together, and <b>Gareth </b>(<b>Simon Callow</b>) was a lecturer. <b>Scarlett </b>(<b>Charlotte Coleman</b>) was found under <b>Charles</b>' kitchen table after a party and has lived there ever since. <br />
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<b>March 11, 2006</b> - <br />
<b>James Blunt's</b> single <b><i>You're Beautiful</i></b> goes to No. #<b>1</b> on the <b><i>Billboard</i></b> charts on this date. <br />
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Blunt has said that he wrote this song about seeing his ex-girlfriend with a new man he didn't know about on a train in the <b>London </b>underground. He says they shared a lifetime in their brief moment of eye contact. The words came to him all at once. The girl that inspired this song is<b> Dixie Chassay,</b> who works in the casting department on films. Blunt mentions her in the thank you note on his first album. <br />
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Word of the <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/bamboozle.html" target="_blank">Day</a></b><br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 11, 222</b> - <br />
Most of you with teenagers think that yours are the worst, but no, Ancient <b>Rome </b>had the worst by far, the Emperor <b><a href="https://youtu.be/koJwOwHHCKs" target="_blank">Elagabalus</a></b>. <br />
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His real name was <b>Varius Avitus Bassianus </b>but as he developed an intense interest in worshiping the Syrian god <b>Elagabal</b>, became High Priest of the cult and so had his name changed to <b>Elagabalus</b>. After the death of his grandfather, father and cousin within a year, <b>Elagabalus</b>, all of <b>14</b>, found himself the Emperor of the known world (this is not to say, the millions of people living in <b>Asia, Africa, Australia</b> and the <b>New World,</b> even had a clue who this snarky teen was.) Rather than even thinking of governing, <b>Elagabalus </b>immersed himself in heavy drinking and self-worship (very intense sodomy - it is rumored that he had engaged in a sexual act ever hour he was awake for the entire <b>four years</b> he was Emperor - think about it - he had sex over <b>23,000</b> times in four years), leaving the affairs of the state mostly in the hands of his grandmother <b>Julia Maesa.<br />
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<b>Elagabalus </b>was probably the first famous transsexual, rumored to have consulted his physicians about an early version of a sex-change operation. Having found this impossible, he took a series of male lovers, chosen by the enormous size of their private parts. When <b>Elagabalus </b>was involved in a rigorous diet of sodomy, he also was getting drunk. Legend has it that he and his friends had gotten so drunk that when <b>Elagabalus </b>had a shower of rose pedals dropped on his dinner guest, many of them had suffocated under the weigh of the flowers. <br />
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Finally the <b>Pretorian </b>guard had enough of <b>Elagabalus</b> notorious excesses (but let's be clear about this; like most of the <b>GOP</b>, the Roman elite professed a disgust of homosexuality yet vigorously engaged in it,) and on this date, hunted down the young reprobate in a private bathroom and executed him on this date, as he clung tenaciously to his mother. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1302</b> - <br />
This is the anniversary of <b>Romeo and Juliet's</b> wedding day, according to <b>Shakespeare</b>. <br />
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I've seen all of these websites that can offer to help you plan a romantic wedding '<i><b>just like Romeo and Juliet</b></i>', does that mean you have to kill yourself shortly after the honeymoon? <br />
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<b>March 11, 1669 </b>- <br />
After a series of premonitional earthquakes near, the largest volcano in <b>Europe </b>spectacularly erupted, destroying the Sicilian town of <b>Nicolosi </b>and killing <b>20,000 </b>people. <br />
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Were there no virgins to toss into the volcano to appease the gods back in <b>1669</b>? <br />
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<b>March 11, 1811 </b>- <br />
<b>Ned Ludd</b> (not a real person) led a group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization on this date. Members of the organized bands of craftsmen who rioted against automation in <b>19th century</b> <b>England </b>were known as <b>Luddites </b>and also <b>Ludds</b>. The movement, began near <b>Nottingham </b>as craftsman destroyed textile machinery that was eliminating their jobs. By the following year, <b>Luddites</b> were active in <b>Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire</b> and <b>Leicestershire</b>. <br />
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Although the <b>Luddites </b>opposed violence towards people (a position which allowed for a modicum of public support), government crackdowns included mass shootings, hangings and deportation to the colonies. It took <b>14,000</b> British soldiers to quell the rebellion. The movement effectively died in <b>1813</b> apart from a brief resurgence of <b>Luddite </b>sentiment in <b>1816 </b>following the end of the<b> Napoleonic Wars</b>. <br />
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I'm still waiting for the anti-Apple movement - <b><i>Smash the Fitbits!</i></b> (but make sure that they are not on your wrist.) <br />
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<b>March 11, 1818</b> - <br />
<b><i>Frankenstein</i></b>, "<b><i>The Modern Prometheus</i></b>," was published on this date. The book started out as basically a scary story told on a rainy night. That is, if you are telling scary stories to<b> England's</b> greatest romantic poet and his best friend, <b>Europe's</b> most notorious clubfooted, bisexual poet. <br />
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The book, by <b>21-year</b>-old <b>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley</b>, is frequently called the world's first science fiction novel. <br />
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More on the <b><i>Wacky Russian Revolution</i></b>: <br />
On<b> March 11, 1917</b> the <b>Russian Cabinet </b>finally became indignant and tried to dissolve the <b>Duma</b>, but the <b>Duma </b>refused to dissolve. The <b>Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies </b>also refused to dissolve, even though the <b>Cabinet </b>had not asked them to dissolve. <br />
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(The <b>Cabinet </b>could not ask them to, because the <b>Cabinet </b>had determined that <b>The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies </b>did not exist.)<br />
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<b>March 11, 1927</b> -<br />
<b>Samuel Roxy Rothafel</b> opened <b>The Roxy Theatre</b> in <b>New York City, </b>a <b>6,214</b> seat movie theater at <b>153 West 50th Street </b>at <b>7th Avenue</b>, on this date. It was designed by <b>Chicago </b>architect <b>Walter W. Ahlschlager.</b><br />
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The opening night film was <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/tYUYneDTiQc" target="_blank">The Love of Sunya</a></i></b> produced by and starring<b> Gloria Swanson</b>. The <b>Roxy</b> was overshadowed by the opening of <b>Radio City Music Hall</b> in the <b>Rockefeller Center</b> in <b>NYC </b>in <b>1932</b>. <br />
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The <b>Roxy </b>closed and was demolished in <b>1960</b>, and Swanson was famously photographed on <b>October 14, 1960</b> by<i><b> Time-Life</b></i> photographer <b>Eliot Elisofon </b>in the midst of the ruins during the theater's demolition. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1931</b> - <br />
<b>F. W. Murnau</b> (born <b>Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe</b>,) one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, was out for a relaxing drive with his <b>fourteen-year</b> old Filipino valet<b> Garcia Stevenson</b>, when Mr. Murnau failed to heed one of the basic tenets of auto safety - it was rumored that Murnau decided to perform fellatio on the young driver. <br />
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Mr. Murnau and Mr Stevenson were involved in a car crash and both died on this date. <br />
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Kids, let this be a lesson to us all - for heaven's sake, please pull over if you decide to polish the knob of the driver of your automobile. (Also insist on a more secure grave - back in <b>2015</b>, grave robbers stole Murnau's skull, in some quasi-occult ritual.) <br />
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<b>March 11, 1957 </b>- <br />
<b>Charles Van Doren</b>, darling of the American public, lost to <b>Vivienne Nearing</b> on the rigged TV quiz show <i><b>Twenty One</b></i> when both are asked to name the kings of <b>Norway </b>(<b>Olav V</b>), <b>Denmark </b>(<b>Frederick IX</b>), <b>Sweden </b>(<b>Gustaf VI Adolf</b>), <b>Jordan </b>(<b>Hussein</b>), <b>Iraq </b>(<b>Faisal II</b>), and <b>Belgium </b>(<b>Baudouin</b>). <br />
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Doren "<b><i>missed</i></b>" - the king of <b>Belgium</b>. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1958</b> - <br />
A <b>B-47</b> bomber drops a nuclear bomb in the town of <b>Mars Bluff </b>in <b>South Carolina</b>. While it did not detonate a nuclear explosion, conventional explosives within the bomb left a <b>75 foot</b> crater, destroying <b>one </b>house and damaging <b>five </b>others. <br />
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The government has to send out hundreds of '<b><i>oops</i></b>' letters to the town's residents. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1969 </b>- <br />
<b>Levi Jeans</b> added Bell Bottoms to their line of Jeans which had become fashionable as part of the hippie counterculture movement. <br />
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Though the actual creation of the first pair of bell-bottoms is unknown, the first mention of bell-bottom pants was in <b>1813</b> in reference to the uniforms of <b>U.S. Navy</b> sailors. <br />
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<b>March 11, 1997</b> - <br />
<b>Thirty years </b>after being admitted as a <b>Member of the Order of the British Empire</b> (<b>MBE</b>),<b> Paul McCartney</b> was knighted by Queen <b>Elizabeth II </b>for his contributions to popular music and to British culture, and for his charity work. <br />
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"<b><i>Proud to be British, wonderful day and it’s a long way from a little terrace in Liverpool</i></b>," McCartney told reporters.<br />
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<b>March 11, 1977 </b>-<br />
After gunmen held three buildings in <b>Washington, D.C.</b> during a <b>39-hour</b> siege, all<b> 149 </b>hostages were freed on this date, thanks to ambassadors from <b>3 </b>Islamic nations—<b>Egypt, Iran</b>, and <b>Pakistan</b>.<br />
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They, the diplomats, courageously intervened with police, reading to the <b>12</b> Hanafi Muslim gunmen passages from the <b>Quran </b>to demonstrate Islam’s compassion and mercy, and urging them to surrender. <br />
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<b>March 11, 2004 </b>- <br />
In <b>Madrid, Spain</b>, a series of <b>10</b> bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick succession at <b>three</b> stations, blowing apart <b>four</b> commuter trains on this date. <b>191</b> people were killed and over <b>1,450</b> were wounded. Spanish leaders were quick to accuse Basque terrorists but a shadowy group claimed responsibility in the name of al-Qaeda. <br />
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On <b>October 31, 2007</b>, <b>three </b>lead defendants were convicted of murder. <b>Four </b>other top suspects were acquitted of murder but convicted of lesser charges. In all <b>21 </b>of the <b>28 </b>defendants were convicted. On <b>July 17, 2008</b>, a Spanish court cleared <b>four </b>of the <b>21 </b>people charged for crimes related to the train bombings. In <b>2009</b>, <b>seven </b>people were indicted for helping the bombers flee.<br />
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<b>March 11, 2011 </b>-<br />
<b>Ten years </b>ago today, an earthquake and a tsunami sparked one the most severe atomic accident since <b>Chernobyl</b> at the <b>Fukushima Daiichi</b> power plant in <b>Japan</b>.<br />
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Over <b>81,000</b> jobs were lost due to the tsunami and the future of the plant and surrounding area still remains uncertain. <br />
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And so it goes. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-64042182132488746352024-03-10T08:30:00.005-04:002024-03-10T09:14:45.015-04:00They've rolled out the red carpetThe Oscars are on tonight on <b>ABC-TV.</b><br />
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Remember It's just an honor to wins your Oscar pool - actual betting on the results of the Oscars is illegal in most states.<br />
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Did you forgot to set the clock ahead - we'll wait (while we madly dash around the house ourselves.) Here's a short film explaining <b>Daylight Saving Time</b> - <br />
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Do you need some more time (did you get the clock on the microwave? None of you still have a VCR?) - here's another opinion on the matter by Lewis Black: <br />
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Alright, you can either continue reading or go back to bed for an hour. <br />
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<b>Remember</b> - you'll have one less hour for drinking today - start earlier. <br />
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Every year<b> March 10th</b> is the <b>Festival of Life in the Cracks Day</b>, celebrating the first signs of spring weather, such as the green sprouts sprouting from cracks in the pavement. (Spring is in 9 days)<br />
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It a nice way to honor the rebirth and renewal in life, and see beauty and life everywhere as well. <br />
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Today is also <b>International Day of Awesomeness</b>. It's a day for celebrating all things awesome, and everything awesome that you, your friends, and everybody else does.<br />
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It's also the birthday of <b>Chuck Norris</b> <br />
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<b>March 10, 1938</b> - <br />
<b>Bette Davis</b> won her <b>second Academy Award </b>and re-ignited her sagging career when <b><i>Jezebel</i></b>, premiered in <b>New York City </b>on this date. <br />
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<b>Bette Davis </b>came to the realization that <b>William Wyler </b>was a very special director when he insisted she come view the dailies with him, something she had never done with any other director before. They watched a scene where her character was coming down a staircase, a scene that had really irritated Davis, as she couldn't understand why Wyler wanted to film it over <b>30 </b>times. Watching the rushes, however, she saw one of the takes in which he had captured a fleeting, devil-may-care expression that summed her character up perfectly. After that, she happily accepted however many takes Wyler wanted. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1956</b> -<br />
The musical adaptation of the play <b><i>High Tor</i></b>, starring <b>Bing Crosby, Nancy Olsen</b> and <b>Julie Andrews</b> (in her TV debut) aired on the<b> <i>Ford Star Jubilee</i></b> program on <b>CBS</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>Stephen Sondheim</b> also set a musical version of the play <b>High Tor</b>, but Maxwell Anderson refused permission, so the Sondheim musical adaptation was never produced. Subsequent copyright extension acts mean the Stephen Sondheim music will be illegal until 2042.<br />
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<b>March 10, 1958</b> - <br />
<b>Big Records</b> released the single, <i><b>Our Song</b></i>, by a teenage duo from <b>Queens, New York</b>, <i><b>Tom and Jerry</b></i>, on this date. <br />
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The duo in a few years will become famous in the <b>'60s</b> under their real names, <b>Paul Simon</b> and <b>Art Garfunkel. </b><br />
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<b>March 10, 1960</b> -<br />
The crime thriller based on the novel <b><i>The Talented Mr Ripley</i></b> by <b>Patricia Highsmith</b>, <b><i>Purple Noon</i></b> starring <b>Alain Delon</b>, and directed by <b>René Clément</b>, opened in France, on this date. <br />
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Author <b>Patricia Highsmith</b>, expressed satisfaction with the film, which she called "<b><i>very beautiful to the eye and interesting for the intellect</i></b>," and with <b>Alain Delon's</b> performance as <b>Tom Ripley</b>. She was, however, disappointed with the film's ending, calling it "<b><i>a terrible concession to so-called public morality</i></b>."<br />
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<b>March 10, 1972</b> - <br />
<b>Peter Bogdanovich's</b> valentine to screwball comedies, <b><i>What's Up, Doc?</i></b>, starring <b>Barbra Streisand</b>, <b>Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars,</b> and <b>Madeline Kahn</b>, premiered in the <b>US </b>on this date <br />
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This film was morphed from the screen adaptation of <b>Herman Raucher's</b> novel, <b><i>A Glimpse of Tiger</i></b>. It was to star <b>Elliott Gould</b> and <b>Kim Darby</b> and be directed by <b>Anthony Harvey</b> but Gould behaved erratically during production and, after <b>four days</b>, walked off the set. The project eventually came into the hands of <b>Peter Bogdanovich</b>, who, conceiving it as a remake of<b> Howard Hawks' <i>Bringing Up Baby</i> </b>switched the genders of the lead couple, making the wild, unpredictable Gould character a woman, who would be played, coincidentally, by Gould's ex-wife<b> Barbra Streisand</b>. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1972 </b>- <br />
<b>Universal Pictures</b> released the science fiction film <b><i>Silent Running</i></b>, directed by <b>Douglas Trumbull </b>(who just passed away last week,) and starring <b>Bruce Dern</b>, on this date. <br />
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The decommissioned <b>Essex</b>-class aircraft carrier "<b>Valley Forge</b>," a veteran of <b>Korea </b>and <b>Vietnam</b>, served as the interior of the space freighter "<b>Valley Forge</b>." The flight control area and hangar deck of the carrier were modified and painted to represent the space freighter in the film. The carrier was scrapped after filming was complete. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1977 </b>-<br />
The TV movie <b><i>A Circle of Children</i></b>, starring<b> Jane Alexander, Rachel Roberts,</b> and <b>David Ogden Stiers </b>and based on the life and book about this by <b>Mary Mac Cracken</b> premiered on<b> CBS TV</b>, on this date.<br />
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The film was one of the first to deal sympathetically with the issue of autism<br />
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<b>March 10, 1978</b> - <br />
TV audiences get to see for the first time, the trials and tribulations of Dr <b>David</b> (and not <b>Bruce</b>) <b>Banner</b> and his travels to find the cure for his gamma ray exposure accident when <b><i>The Incredible Hulk</i></b>, starring<b> Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin</b> and <b>Lou Ferrigno</b>, premiered on <b>CBS TV</b> on this date. <br />
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First appearance of the <b>Hulk</b> making his escape by breaking through a wall and running down an alley (wearing blue pants). This scene was re-used many times over the course of the series. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1979 </b>– <br />
<b>Poco's</b> single <b><i>Crazy Love</i></b> went to No. <b>1</b> on <b><i>Billboard's</i></b> <b>Adult Contemporary</b> charts on this date. <br />
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<b><i>Crazy Love</i></b> was the first single by <b>Poco</b> to reach the <b>Top 40</b> and remained the group's biggest hit. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1983</b> –<br />
Despite the production value and <b>Michael Jackson's</b> star quality, <b>MTV</b> didn't play the video <b><i>Billie Jean</i></b> until the song was already a #<b>1 </b>hit. <b>Les Garland</b>, who ran the network at the time, claims that they loved the video and played it as soon as they could, but interviews with executives at Jackson's record company and with others familiar with the matter suggest otherwise. <br />
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In the book <b><i>I Want My MTV</i></b>, multiple sources who worked at <b>MTV </b>claimed that the network wanted to air the <i><b>Beat It </b></i>video first, because <b>Eddie Van Halen</b> played on it and the song fit their format. <b>Walter Yetnikoff</b>, who was head of <b>CBS Records</b> (Jackson's was signed to its subsidiary, <b>Epic</b>), recalls threatening to pull all <b>CBS </b>videos from <b>MTV </b>if they didn't play <i><b>Billie Jean</b></i>. He says he threatened to bring Jackson's producer <b>Quincy Jones</b> in on it as well, and the network acquiesced. <b>MTV </b>broadcasted the video of <b>Michael Jackson’s</b> song<i><b> Billie Jean</b></i> for the first time, on this date.<br />
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When <b>MTV </b>started playing the clip, it was first put in medium rotation, then promoted to heavy rotation when viewers loved it. The video for this song is often credited with breaking the color barrier on <b>MTV</b>. When the video for<i><b> Beat It </b></i>was delivered, that one also went into hot rotation. For a<b> two-month </b>stretch in the summer of <b>1983</b>, both videos were getting constant airplay, establishing Jackson as a video star. His next video effort was for <i><b>Thriller</b></i>, which revolutionized the form.<br />
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<b>March 10, 1989 </b>- <br />
<b>Terry Gilliam's fourth</b> film, <b><i>The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen</i></b>, starring <b>John Neville, Eric Idle, Uma Thurman,</b> and a whole bunch of other people, premiered on this date. <br />
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With delays and postponements, the film was already $<b>2 million</b> over budget before a single frame had been shot. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1994</b> - <br />
The surprise Australian independent hit, <b><i>Muriel's Wedding</i></b>, starring <b>Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths,</b> and <b>Bill Hunter</b> went into limited release in the US on this date. <br />
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<b>Bill Hunter</b> was filming <i><b>The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert</b></i> and <i><b>Muriel's Wedding</b></i> at the same time, each requiring him to have different length hair, beard and to be in different parts of the country. Both films developed international cult followings and prominently featured the music of <b>ABBA</b>. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1997</b> - <br />
<b><i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i></b>, created by <b>Joss Whedon</b> and starring <b>Sarah Michelle Geller</b> premiered on <b>WB Television Network </b>on this date. <br />
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<b><i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b> magazine named Buffy the number three character of all time, coming behind Homer Simpson and Harry Potter. (issue #<b>1105/1106</b>, <b>June 4/11, 2010</b>). <br />
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Another book from the back shelves of <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/everyone-is-reading-it.html" target="_blank">The ACME Library</a></b> <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 10, 1876 </b>- <br />
It was on this date in <b>1876 </b>that <b>Alexander Graham Bell</b> (<b>Don Ameche</b>) conducted the first successful experiment on a radical new technology. He put a "<i><b>transmitter</b></i>" in one room of his home and a "<i><b>receiver</b></i>" in another. He connected them with wire. He then shouted into the mouthpiece of the transmitter, "<b><i>Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.</i></b>" <br />
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A moment later, his assistant, who had been waiting in the room with the receiver, came into Bell's room and said he had heard and understood everything.<br />
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When <b>Alexander Graham Bell</b> finished his invention of the telephone, he noticed he had two missed calls from <b>Chuck Norris</b>. <br />
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The invention didn't enjoy much commercial success because the market for persons with out-of-earshot assistants named Watson was not as large as Bell had hoped, but it did serve as a major stepping-stone to one of Bell's most significant inventions, the <b>Watson Detonator</b>. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1914 </b>– <br />
At London’s National Gallery, suffragette <b><a href="https://youtu.be/HpA4tQD7Bfw" target="_blank">Mary Richardson</a></b> slashes<b> Diego Velázquez’s <i>Rokeby Venus </i></b>with a meat cleaver: “<b><i>I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs. Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history. Justice is an element of beauty as much as colour and outline on canvas. Mrs. Pankhurst seeks to procure justice for womanhood, and for this she is being slowly murdered by a Government of Iscariot politicians</i></b>.” — her statement was published in<b><i> The Times, London</i></b>, the next day.<br />
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<b><a href="https://youtu.be/98xcEcYpE9w?si=4zYTqW4t8wgKV3hG" target="_blank">Emmeline Pankhurst</a></b> and other members of the militant <b>Women’s Social and Political Union</b> (<b>WSPU</b>), while serving sentences for their activities, went on hunger strikes to protest the horrible conditions at <b>Holloway Prison</b>; the government begins violent force-feedings to prevent them from dying as martyrs. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1948</b> - <br />
The State owned Communist newspaper reported that the Czech foreign minister <b>Jan Masaryk</b> was thrown from a window at his apartment in <b>Prague</b> under mysterious circumstances on this date. <br />
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Authorities rule his death was a "<b>suicide</b>" and then decide to rule the death as accidentally because he seems to have "<i><b>fallen while sitting in a yoga position on a window sill to combat insomnia</b></i>". But most likely he was suffocated first, judging from the fact that he had lost control of his bowels and the deep nail marks on the window sill. <br />
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I hate when that happens. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1948</b> - <br />
...<i><b>By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future</b></i>....<br />
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Author and artist, <b>Zelda Fitzgerald</b> died in a fire at <b>Highland Hospital, NC</b>, along with <b>eight </b>other inmates on this date.<br />
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She was locked in on the<b> 3rd floor</b> while undergoing insulin-induced coma therapy. <br />
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I really hate when that happens. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1951</b> - <br />
FBI director <b>J. Edgar Hoover</b> announces that he has turned down an offer to become commissioner of baseball on this date. <br />
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The governor of <b>California, Earl Warren</b>, (and soon to be proponent of '<i><b>The Magic Single Bullet Theory</b></i>',) had previously rejected an offer to become baseball's leader. Think how the nation would be different if baseball was able to fit Hoover with a pair of high heel cleats. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1977</b> - <br />
<b>Roman Polanski</b> gave a <b>13 year </b>old girl <b>Quaaludes</b> and has sex with her during a photo shoot at <b>Jack Nicholson's</b> home on this date. He later fled the country to avoid statutory rape charges. <br />
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He would currently be living in <b>Los Angeles</b> (and probably having more fun) if he just went into the bathroom and auditioned his hand puppet alone. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1977 </b>- <br />
Astronomers <b>James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham</b> and <b>Douglas J. Mink</b> discover rings around <b>Uranus </b>on this date. <br />
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Allow yourself to titter and guffaw like a school boy.<br />
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<b>March 10, 1980</b> -<br />
<b>Jean Harris</b> shot and killed her unfaithful lover, cardiologist<b> Herman Tarnower</b>, co-author of <i><b>The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet</b></i> in his <b>Purchase N.Y.</b> home on this date.<br />
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She was granted clemency on <b>December 31, 1992 </b>by Governor <b>Mario Cuomo</b> after she served<b> 12 years</b> of a <b>15 year </b>sentence. Harris was released in <b>January 1993</b>. Mrs Harris died in <b>December 2013</b>. <br />
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<b>March 10, 1988 </b>-<br />
An avalanche hit the British royal party including King <b>Charles</b> (Prince of <b>Wales</b> at the time,) as they were ski-ing off piste above the resort of <b>Klosters</b> in Switzerland, on this date. <br />
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<b>Charles</b> and several other members of the party, including their guide, were able to ski to safety, but one of the Prince's closest friends Major <b>Hugh Lindsay</b>, former equerry to the Queen is not so lucky. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-72527919341845084022024-03-09T08:30:00.014-05:002024-03-09T08:30:00.144-05:00The whole idea is never to get greedy indoors<b>ACME's</b> favorite sponsor, <b><i><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_8PT7sl_Oes/VzKTDs3BQKI/AAAAAAAAEpo/B52weT74T74JbJurwg8peLfd7vsALR9GQCKgB/s1600/raymond%2Bburr%2Bcopy.jpg" target="_blank">Raymond Burr's Nipple Rouge</a></i></b>, would like to honor a great American - and wish everyone a very happy and healthy <b>Joe Franklin Day</b>. <br />
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Perhaps you remembered that <b>March 1st </b>was the <b>28th</b> annual <b><a href="https://njop.org/shabbat/saa/" target="_blank">Shabbat Across America/ Canada</a></b>, (held once again after being cancelled for a few years due to Covid concerns.) Hopefully you didn't forget to have <b><a href="https://youtu.be/2BEUNJs_hlM?feature=shared" target="_blank">Streit's Matzos</a></b> at your family's <b>Shabbat</b> dinner. <br />
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<b>Streit's Matzos</b>, <b><i>the unleaved experience of a lifetime</i></b>.) <br />
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<b>March 9, 1948</b> - <br />
The first of <b>John Ford's</b> famed '<b><i>Cavalry Trilogy</i></b>', <i><b>Fort Apache</b></i> (a thinly veiled retelling of <b>Custer's Last Stand</b>), premiered on this date. This film was followed by <i><b>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</b></i> and <i><b>Rio Grande</b></i>, though it was not originally intended as a trilogy. <br />
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<b>Shirley Temple</b> and <b>John Agar</b> were married at the time the movie was made, but went through a highly publicized divorce complete with allegations of spousal abuse, infidelity and alcoholism a couple of years later. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1954</b> -<br />
... <b><i>The actions of the Junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies</i></b>.<br />
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<b>Edward R. Murrow</b>, cigarette smoking, gin guzzling reporter took on the cigarette smoking, whiskey drinking junior senator and demagogue from <b>Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy</b> and the<b> Red Scare</b> hysteria on his program, <i><b>See It Now</b></i>, on this date.<br />
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Besides being arguably television's finest hour, it clearly demonstrates the powers of <b>gin </b>over <b>whiskey</b>. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1954 </b>- <br />
The first local color television commercial was aired on <b>WNBT</b> television, now <b>WNBC</b> television, in <b>New York</b> on this date, for <b>Castro Decorators of New York City</b>. Castro were the folks who made the Castro convertible sofa beds. <br />
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The television commercial featured <b>Bernadette Castro</b> opening a big couch into a bed (only the B & W kinescope exists.) <br />
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<b>March 9, 1959 </b>- <br />
The <b>Barbie </b>doll went on display at the <b>American Toy Fair </b>in <b>New York City</b> for the first time. <b>Barbie</b> was the first mass-produced toy doll in the<b> United States</b> with adult features. <br />
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With its sponsorship of the <b><i>Mickey Mouse Club</i></b> TV program in <b>1959</b>, <b>Mattel</b> became the first toy company to broadcast commercials to children. They used this medium to promote their new toy, and by <b>1961</b>, the enormous consumer demand for the doll led <b>Mattel</b> to release a boyfriend for <b>Barbie</b>. <b>Ruth Handler</b> named him <b>Ken</b>, after her son.<b> Barbie's</b> best friend, Midge, came out in <b>1963</b>; her little sister, <b>Skipper</b>, debuted the following year. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1966</b> - <br />
<b>The Beach Boys </b>began recording <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/XqLTe8h0-jo" target="_blank">God Only Knows</a></i></b> on this date. (<b>Paul McCartney</b> once called<b> <i>God Only Knows</i></b>, "<b><i>The greatest song ever written</i></b>.") <br />
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<b>Brian Wilson</b> wrote this song with <b>Tony Asher</b>, who was an advertising copyrighter and lyricist that Wilson worked with on songs for <b><i>Pet Sounds</i></b>. This song reflects Wilson's interest in spirituality, and it was a big departure from previous <b>Beach Boys </b>songs that dealt with girls, cars and surfing. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1967</b> - <br />
The <b><i>Star Trek</i></b> episode <b><i>The Devil in the Dark </i></b>aired on this date. <br />
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In it, the <b>Enterprise </b>arrives at <b>Janus VI</b>, where <b>Kirk </b>must deal with a mysterious creature that is destroying machinery and menacing the miners. This episode marks the first and only time an episode begins without the <b>Enterprise </b>or its crew being involved in the teaser scenes before the main credits. <br />
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This episode was the first time <b>McCoy</b> used the phrase, "<b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/ghPiQ3NNjPY" target="_blank">I'm a doctor, not a (blank)</a></i></b>" when <b>Kirk</b> asks him to help the <b>Horta</b>, finishing the line as, "<b><i>I'm a doctor, not a brick layer!</i></b>" An earlier version of this phrase is used in<b><i> The Corbomite Maneuver,</i></b> when <b>McCoy</b> says, "<b><i>What am I, a doctor or a moon-shuttle conductor?</i></b>" <br />
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<b>March 9, 1969</b> - <br />
<b>Wiggen</b> sisters Dorothy, <b>Helen, Betty,</b> and <b>Rachel</b>, recording under the name <b>The Shaggs</b>, released the album <i><b>Philosophy of the World</b></i>, on this date. <br />
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Numerous music critics and historians consider it the worst album ever recorded, but years later both <b>Frank Zappa </b>and <b>Kurt Cobain</b> call it one of their favorites ever made. (You be the judge.) <br />
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<b>March 9, 1979 </b>- <br />
<b>ABC-TV </b>aired the documentary <b><i>Heroes of Rock & Roll</i></b>, on this date. <br />
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This was one of the first comprehensive documentaries to be made about rock music. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1984</b> - <br />
The <b>Ron Howard</b> romantic comedy film, <b>Splash</b>, starring <b>Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah,</b> and<b> John Candy</b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>Daryl Hannah's</b> fin weighed<b> 35 pounds</b>. It took technicians three hours each day to put it on her, and she had to remain still while it was being attached. "<i><b>At lunch they'd yank me out on a crane and plop me on the deck,</b></i>" she told People. "<i><b>I couldn't eat because I couldn't go to the bathroom. I just lay there shivering with barnacles in my hair, soaking wet</b></i>." <br />
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<b>March 9, 1985 </b>- <br />
<b>REO Speedwagon's</b> single <b><i>Can't Fight This Feeling</i></b> started a three week run at No.<b>1</b> on the <b><i>Billboard</i></b> on this date <br />
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<b>Two </b>videos were made for this song: one that shows them goofing around in a rehearsal space before performing it, and another far more <b><a href="https://youtu.be/zpOULjyy-n8" target="_blank">elaborate video</a></b> directed by <b>Kevin Dole</b> that shows a baby going through different life stages from birth to death. Heavy on compositing and special effects, it was cutting edge for <b>1984</b>.<br />
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<b>March 9, 1987 </b>-<br />
<b>Island Records</b> release <b>U2's </b>fifth studio album, <i><b>The Joshua Tree</b></i> (the original working title of which was <i><b>The Two Americas</b></i>,) on this date.<br />
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The first two singles, <i><b>With Or Without You</b></i> and <i><b>I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For</b></i>, climb to #<b>1 </b>in <b>America</b>. <i><b>The Joshua Tree </b></i>is the band’s best-selling album, with<b> 25 million</b> copies sold worldwide and at the <b>1987 Grammy Awards</b>, won the band ‘<i><b>Album Of The Year</b></i>’ and ‘<i><b>Best Rock Performance</b></i>’, the first of what has become a record-breaking run of Grammy wins.<br />
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<b>March 9, 1990</b> - <br />
The cult classic, <b><i>House Party</i></b>, starring<b> Kid 'n Play, Robin Harris, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, </b>and <b>John Witherspoon</b> premiered in the <b>US </b>on this date. <br />
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<b><i>House Party</i></b> was originally written for<b> DJ Jazzy Jeff </b>and <b>Will Smith</b>. This happened because <b>New Line Cinema</b> won a lawsuit against them due to their song <i><b>A Nightmare on My Street </b></i>and one of the conditions were that they had to appear in a<b> New Line</b> film. Director <b>Reginald Hudlin </b>refused to cast them in the movie based on those terms. <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 9, 1170 </b>- <br />
In <b>Essex</b>, a <b>UFO</b> is spotted over St. Ostwyth, manifesting itself as a "<b><i>wonderfully large dragon ... borne up from the Earth through the air</i></b>". The craft kindled the air and destroyed a house. <br />
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And all of that was before <b>LSD</b>. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1454 </b>- <br />
<b>Amerigo Vespucci</b> was born on this date. He was an Italian explorer who made many voyages to the new world at about the same time as <b>Columbus</b>. <br />
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The two continents of the new world were therefore named for him, and it wasn't until the <b>seventeenth century</b> (<b>Greenwich time</b>) that <b>North </b>and<b> South Vespucci</b> were renamed the <b>Americas</b>. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1556 </b>- <br />
<b>David Rizzio</b>, the secretary to <b>Mary, Queen of Scots</b>, was stabbed <b>56</b> times by a gaggle of Scottish nobles on this date (and no, they are not known as a murder of crows.) <br />
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Her husband <b>Henry</b>, Lord <b>Darnley </b>had orchestrated the murder with <b>Mary </b>witnessing, hoping to precipitate a miscarriage. <br />
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Isn't love among the royalty grand? <br />
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<b>March 9, 1562</b> - <br />
Kissing in public was banned in <b>Naples Italy </b>punishable by death. However this law was part of legislation to curb the spread of a plague that was rampaging across <b>Europe</b>. <br />
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It lasts for about a day before the local nobleman is forced to rescind it. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1858</b> - <br />
<b>Philadelphia</b> iron products manufacturer <b>Albert Potts</b> patented his design for a lamppost mounted collection mailbox (<b>US</b> Patent #<b>19,578</b>). <br />
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His box was designed to be mounted to a lamppost so people could drop their letters into the box instead of making a special trip to the post office to mail their letters. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1862 </b>- <br />
Happy<b> Bang-Clang Day. Bang-Clang Day</b> commemorates the <b>Battle of Hampton Roads</b>, a <b>Civil War</b> battle that took place on this date. The battle is significant not because of its outcome, but because it marked the first battle between ironclad ships, ushering in a new era of naval warfare. <br />
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On the Confederate side was the <b>Virginia</b>, formerly the <b>USS Merrimack</b>, and on the Union side was the <b>Monitor</b>. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1961</b> - <br />
<b>Korabl-Sputnik-4</b>, also known as <b>Sputnik 9</b>, was launched with a dog named <b>Chernushka</b> (Blackie) on a one orbit mission. Also onboard the spacecraft was a cosmonaut dummy (whom Russian officials nicknamed "<i><b>Ivan Ivanovich</b></i>"), mice and a Guinea pig. <br />
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The dummy was ejected out of the capsule during re-entry and made a soft landing using a parachute. The animals were recovered unharmed inside the capsule. <b>Chernushka </b>went on to a successful career as the provincial governor of the <b>Kazakhian </b>region. The Cosmonaut dummy could not be used again as '<b>Blackie</b>' had spent the entire flight having a '<i><b>brief but intense</b></i>' relationship with the leg of '<i><b>Ivan Ivanovich</b></i>'. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1967</b> - <br />
<b>Josef Stalin's </b>daughter, <b>Svetlana Alliluyeva</b>, walks into the <b>U.S. Embassy</b> in <b>New Delhi</b> and asks to defect (some reports have it that she defected on<b> March 6th </b>- does it really matter - you don't give a damn.) <br />
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Her defection was one of a series of high-profile defections throughout the<b> Cold War.</b> <br />
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<b>March 9, 1974 </b>- <br />
Officer <b>Hiroo Onoda</b>, the last Japanese soldier operating in the <b>Philippines</b>, surrendered, <b>29 years </b>after <b>World War II </b>ended, on this date. <br />
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The Japanese intelligence officer and <b>WWII</b> holdout, came out of hiding in fatigues patched many times over, on <b>Lubang </b>island in the <b>Philippines </b>on his <b>52nd</b> birthday. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1981</b> - <br />
<b>Dan Rather</b> succeeded <b>Walter Cronkite</b> as anchor and managing editor of the <i><b>CBS Evening News</b></i>. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1996</b> - <br />
<b>Nathan Birnbaum</b>, the comedian <b>Gracie Allen</b> carried around for years, forgot to have his daily martini and died on this date. <br />
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Kids, let this be a lesson to us all - not only does alcohol taste good, it's good for you - even if you are <b>100 years</b> old. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1997</b> - <br />
<b>Notorious B.I.G.</b> (<b>Christopher Wallace</b>) was killed in a drive-by outside the<i><b> Soul Train Music Awards</b></i> in<b> Los Angeles </b>on this date. The murder has never been officially solved, though an ongoing feud with <b>Death Row Records </b>may have had something to do with it. <br />
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Be thankful that most of us aren't hip hop stars. <br />
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<b>March 9, 1999</b> - <br />
During a campaign interview conducted by <b>Wolf Blitzer</b> on <b>CNN’s</b> <b><i>Late Edition</i></b> program, V.P. <b>Al Gore</b> was asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator <b>Bill Bradley</b>, Gore replied (in part): “<i><b>During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system</b></i>.” <br />
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In context, Gore’s response (which employed the word “<i><b>created</b></i>,” not “<i><b>invented</b></i>”) was clear in meaning: the vice president was not claiming that he “<i><b>invented</b></i>” the <b>Internet </b>in the sense of having thought up, designed, or implemented it, but rather asserting that he was one of the visionaries responsible for helping to bring it into being by fostering its development in an economic and legislative sense. But so are urban legends born, thus on this date, <b>Al Gore</b> '<i><b>claimed</b></i>' that he invented the internet. <br />
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<b>March 9, 2004</b> - <br />
<b>Tom Jones</b> was banned from wearing tight leather pants by his son — and manager — <b>Mark Jones</b>, on this date. <br />
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Mark told Tom it was time to "<b><i>dress his age</i></b>" as he was in danger of becoming a laughingstock at <b>63</b>.<br />
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Tom, I so feel your pain. You don't want to see the list my daughters have presented me.
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<b>Before you go</b> - Here is your <b>96th Oscar</b> ballot for tomorrow night: <br />
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Please remember that betting on the <b>Oscars </b>is illegal in most states; it should be used for entertainment purposes only. <br />
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<b>Wait, <i>one more thing</i></b>, we lose an hour of sleep tonight -<b> Daylight Saving Time</b> (leave the last<b> S </b>off for saving) starts at<b> 2 AM </b>tomorrow morning, so don't forget to turn all those clocks, microwaves, DVD players, etc. ahead. <br />
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Please do this work yourself: <br />
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the time you save may be your own. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-80098067866230192412024-03-08T08:30:00.038-05:002024-03-08T08:30:00.138-05:00Feminism is for everybodyToday marks the observance of <b><a href="https://youtu.be/VVjtsdubSj4?feature=shared" target="_blank">International Women's Day</a></b>, celebrating the achievements of inspiring women around the world. (This year, the theme of <b>International Women’s Day</b> is “<b><i>Inspire Inclusion</i></b>”.) <br />
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The earliest <b>Women's Day</b> observance was held on<b> February 28, 1909</b>, in<b> New York</b>; it was organized by the <b>Socialist Party of America</b> in remembrance of the <b>1908 </b>strike of the<b> International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.</b> An annual <i><b>"international women's day</b></i>" was first organized by the German socialist and theorist <b>Clara Zetkin</b> along with <b>100 </b>delegates from <b>17 </b>countries in March <b>1911</b>. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1933 </b>- <br />
The quintessential backstage musical, <b><i>42nd Street</i></b>, premiered in <b>New York City</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Ginger Rogers </b>took the role of "<i><b>Anytime Annie</b></i>" at the urging of director <b>Mervyn LeRoy</b>, whom she was dating at the time. Illness prevented <b>Mervyn LeRoy</b> from directing, so he handed the reins over to <b>Lloyd Bacon</b>. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1959</b> - <br />
The apex of the golden age of television was achieved on this date when<b> <i>The Incredible Jewel Robbery</i> </b>aired. <b>Groucho, Chico</b> and <b>Harpo</b> made their final TV appearance together. <br />
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It was all down hill from here. <b>Chico</b> died <b>two years</b> later, followed by <b>Harpo</b> <b>three years</b> after that. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1964 </b>- <br />
The first of <b>three</b> film adaptions of <b>Richard Matheson </b>novel,<i><b> I am Legend, The Last Man on Earth</b></i>, starring <b>Vincent Price,</b> premiered on this date. <br />
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To more accurately show how grueling it was for his character to survive, <b>Vincent Price</b> insisted on lifting real people into the back of his car instead of dummies. This is why it seems he's taking extra care with the bodies. For the scene at the pit, however, he's handling dummies for obvious reasons. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1967</b> - <br />
<b><i>Mad Monster Party</i></b> was released by <b>Embassy Pictures</b> for <b>Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc</b> on this date. <br />
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In her stand-up comedy routine, <b>Phyllis Diller</b> (the voice of the <b>Monster's Mate</b>) referred to her husband as "<i><b>Fang</b></i>". She decided to use the name when referring to the <b>Frankenstein Monster </b>- whom her character is married to in the film - because that was what she was used to. The producers decided to allow it since the name of '<b>Frankenstein</b>' was copyrighted, and referring to the name (or his monster) would have required paying royalty fees. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1969 </b>- <br />
<b>Creedence Clearwater Revival's</b> <i><b>Proud Mary</b></i> hits #<b>2 </b>on the<b> Hot 100</b> on this date. It stayed at No.<b> 2 </b>for <b>three weeks</b>. <br />
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<b>John Fogerty</b> wrote the lyrics based on three song title ideas: <i><b>Proud Mary, Riverboat,</b></i> <i><b>Rolling On A River</b></i>. He carried around a notebook with titles that he thought would make good songs, and <i><b>Proud Mary</b></i> was at the top of the list. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1974</b> - <br />
All good things must come to an end - the last episode <b><i>The Brady Bunch</i></b> series, <b><i>The Hair-Brained Scheme</i></b> aired on <b>ABC-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Robert Reed</b> was written out of this episode. He felt that the plot involving hair tonic was implausible. When he began arguing with the producers over the script, studio security wanted to remove him from the set. However, <b>Sherwood Schwartz</b> would not allow it because he felt that it would be too distressing for the kids. Reed remained on the set to watch the filming of the episode, which would ultimately become the final episode of the series. <b>Carol </b>refers to <b>Mike's </b>absence in passing in the closing segment, in which the family returns home from <b>Greg's</b> graduation ceremony. She says to <b>Greg</b>, "<b><i>We're so proud that you graduated with honors, Greg. Too bad your father was out of town and had to miss it.</i></b>" <br />
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<b>March 8, 1975 </b>– <br />
<b>Laurence Luckinbill</b>, and <b>Carole King</b> were the guest stars on <b><i>The Mary Tyler Moore Show</i></b> episode, <b><i>Anyone Who Hates Kids and Dogs</i></b>, on<b> CBS-TV</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>Carole King </b>played one of <b>Stevie's</b> aunts, under her married name Carole Larkey. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1979 </b>- <br />
John Denver and several popular female celebrities from the late <b>70s</b> including, <b>Cheryl Ladd, Valerie Harper, Cheryl Tiegs, Tina Turner</b>, and <b>Erma Bombec</b>k starred in the TV special <b><i>John Denver and The Ladies</i></b>, which aired on <b>CBS TV</b> on this date. <br />
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The special had <b>DuPont</b> as a sponsor – an odd choice, considering Denver’s ecological focus. The show's debuted to no great acclaim and was mostly forgotten. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1991 </b>- <br />
The highest grossing independent film of <b>1991</b>, <b><i>New Jack City</i></b>, directed by <b>Mario Van Peebles</b> was released on this date. <br />
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Story is largely based on a real-life <b>Detroit </b>gang known as<b> The Chambers Brothers</b>. Writer <b>Barry Michael Cooper</b> got the idea for the film after visiting <b>Detroit </b>and learning about the gang's exploits. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1994</b> - <br />
Two seminal albums from the '<b>90s</b> were released on this date: <b>Soundgarden's <i>Superunknown </i></b>and<b> Nine Inch Nails' <i>The Downward Spiral</i>. </b><br />
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They enter the albums chart at #<b>1</b> and #<b>2</b>, respectively. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1996</b> - <br />
The film that put the <b>Coen</b> Bros. into the mainstream consciousness, <b><i>Fargo</i></b>, went into limited release on this date. <br />
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Filming took place in the winter of <b>1995</b>, when the region was experiencing its second-warmest winter in <b>100 years.</b> Filming of outdoor scenes had to be moved all over <b>Minnesota</b>,<b> North Dakota</b>, and <b>Canada</b>, and much of the snow was artificial. <br />
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Another <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/niels-had-epiphany.html" target="_blank">unimportant moment</a></b> in history <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 8 1619 </b>- <br />
<b>Johannes Kepler's three</b> laws of planetary motion provided evidence that the planets, including the <b>Earth</b>, orbit the <b>Sun</b> in an oval shape and that a planet's speed varies at different stages of its orbit. The German astronomer's first <b>two</b> laws were published in <b>1609</b>. His <b>third</b> law, which he discovered on this date, was outlined in <b><i>Harmonice Mundi</i></b> (<b>Harmony of the Worlds</b>) <b>ten years</b> later. <br />
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So that and $<b>2.90</b> will get you a ride on the <b>NYC</b> subway. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1910 </b>- <br />
French aviatrix '<b><i>Baroness</i></b>' <b>Raymonde de Laroche</b> was the first woman to receive a pilot's license, No. <b>36</b> on this date. <br />
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Soon after receiving her license, De Laroche participated in aviation meetings at <b>Heliopolis </b>in <b>Egypt</b>, <b>Saint Petersburg, Budapest</b> and <b>Rouen</b>. During the show in<b> St. Petersburg</b>, she was personally congratulated by Tsar <b>Nicholas II.</b> <br />
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<b>March 8, 1941 </b>- <br />
<b>Sherwood Anderson</b> and his <b>fourth</b> wife, <b>Eleanor</b>, were enjoying a well deserved vacation on a ocean liner bound from from New York to <b>Valparaiso, Chile</b>. During a cocktail party on the ship, Anderson was enjoying his olive from a well chilled martini: it would be his last. <br />
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Anderson soon became very ill and he and his wife had to disembarked at <b>Colon </b>in <b>Panama </b>and headed to a local hospital. He died in agony, <b>two days</b> later on this date. An autopsy revealed that he had accidentally swallowed a small piece of a toothpick (presumably in the martini olive), which had perforated his colon and caused a fatal case of <i><b>peritonitis</b></i>. <br />
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Remember, ask not for whom the bell tolls. And don't swallow your toothpick. <br />
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<b>March 8, 1950 </b>- <br />
Marshal <b>Voroshilov</b> announced the existence of the Soviet atomic bomb on this date. <br />
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This baffled the western powers, who were sure they had left the secret somewhere safe.<br />
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<b>33 years </b>later, on this date, the ever swift President <b>Ronald Reagan</b> gets around to calling the Soviets, "<b><i>an evil empire</i></b>." <br />
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Let us quote that great Tantrist practioner during these trying times and "<b><i>hope the Russians love their children, too</i></b>." <br />
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<b>March 8, 1968 </b>- <br />
The Soviet submarine,<b> K-129</b>, sank in the <b>Pacific Ocean</b>, killing all <b>97 </b>crew members aboard. Later in the year a<b> U.S. </b>submarine secretly retrieves an encryption machine, codebooks, and nuclear warheads from the Soviet vessel. <br />
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A further bold attempt is made in <b>1974 </b>to bring up the entire submarine using the <b>CIA </b>ship <a href="https://youtu.be/CqGTd3zQSqk" target="_blank"><b>Glomar Explorer</b></a>, built by<b> Howard Hughes</b>. That mission supposedly fails, and was made public by the <i><b>Los Angeles Times</b></i> to the great embarrassment of the <b>Agency</b>.<br /><br />
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<b>March 8, 1971</b> – <br />
<b>Muhammad Ali</b> lost to Heavyweight Champion<b> Joe Frazier </b>in the “<i><b>Fight of the Century</b></i>” at<b> Madison Square Garden </b>in <b>New York City</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Frank Sinatra </b>wasn’t able to get ringside seats for the Fight, so he arranged to take photos for <b><i>Life</i></b> magazine so that he could be close to the action.<br />
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<b>March 8, 1999</b> -<br />
<b>Joseph Paul "<i>Joe</i>" DiMaggio</b> passed away in his <b>Florida</b> home on this date in <b>1999</b>.<br />
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We actually know where he's gone. And since he's been dead for more than <b>20 years</b>, we should take our lonely eyes off of him. It's a little creepy. <br />
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And so it goes. <br />
<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-77430979398005396342024-03-07T08:30:00.009-05:002024-03-07T08:30:00.143-05:00Fall in love with the back of your cereal box<b>March 7, 1897 </b>- <br />
Today is <b>National Cereal Day</b>. On this date, Dr. <b>John Kellogg</b> served corn flakes for the first time to his patients at his hospital in <b>Battle Creek, Michigan</b>. Dr. Kellogg wanted Americans to eat corn flakes because he thought the bland food would reduce the desire to commit carnal sins. They wouldn’t be sold commercially until <b>1906</b>. Corn flakes did not put a stop to self love. <br />
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In honor of <b>National Cereal Day</b> remember to have the true <b><a href="https://youtu.be/CxCUHjx7U7Y%20" target="_blank">Breakfast of Champions</a></b> in celebration today! <br />
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<b>March 7, 1936 </b>- <br />
<b>Walt Disney's</b> <b><i>Mickey's Grand Opera</i></b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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I'm not a big <b>Disney </b>fan (especially <b>Mickey Mouse</b>) but this one is pretty funny.<b> Donald Duck</b> underwent a major face lift after this cartoon. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1955</b> - <br />
<b><i>Peter Pan</i></b>, the first full-length <b>Broadway </b>production broadcast in color, (starring <b>Mary Martin</b> and the show's original cast) was broadcast on this date. <br />
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It was so well received that the musical was restaged again live for television on<b> January 9, 1956</b>. Both of these broadcasts were produced in color, but only black-and-white kinescope recordings survive. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1960</b> - <br />
After a month’s absence, <b>Jack Paar</b> had re-appeared as the host on <b><i>The Tonight Show</i></b> on this date. <br />
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He had walked off in protest against censorship before returning to his position as host of this production. He had made a joke about a “<b>water closet</b>” (European bathroom), which most likely would have been considered mild according to the standards set today. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1962</b> - <br />
The <b>Alain Resnais'</b> enigmatic masterpiece, <b><i>L'Année dernière à Marienbad</i></b> (<b>Last Year at Marienbad</b>), opened in the <b>US </b>on this date. <br />
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The film is included in both <b><i>The Fifty Worst Films of All Time</i></b> (<b>And How They Got That Way</b>) by <b>Harry Medved</b> and <b>Randy Lowell</b> and <b><i>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die</i></b>, edited by <b>Steven Schneider</b>. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1964 </b>- <br />
<b>John Frankenheimer's</b> under-appreciated almost documentary-like thriller set set during <b>WWII</b>, <i><b>The Train</b></i>, premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>Burt Lancaster </b>took a day off during shooting to play golf when the production was about half completed. On the links, he stepped in a hole and re-aggravated an old knee injury. In order to compensate for the injury, <b>John Frankenheimer </b>had Lancaster's character shot in the leg, thus enabling him to limp through the rest of the shooting. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1975</b> - <br />
<b>Felix</b> finally moves out of <b>Oscar's </b>apartment at <b>1049 Park Ave.</b> when <b><i>The Odd Couple</i></b> aired the final episode <i><b>Felix Remarries</b></i>, on this date. <br />
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While this was the final first-run episode that aired, <i><b>Your Mother Wears Army Boots </b></i>was the last episode that was filmed. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1980 </b>- <br />
<b>Michael Apted's</b> <b>Loretta Lynn</b> biopic, <i><b>Coal Miner's Daughter</b></i>, starring <b>Sissy Spacek, Beverly D'Angelo, Tommy Lee Jones</b> and<b> Levon Helms </b>premiered in <b>US </b>theatres on this date. <br />
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<b>Beverly D'Angelo </b>and <b>Sissy Spacek </b>did all their own singing. Director<b> Michael Apted </b>also wanted Spacek to sing all of the songs live, feeling he could capture the realism in all of the performing scenes. Luckily <b>Sissy Spacek</b> and <b>Beverly D'angelo</b> were both accomplished singers in their own right and could easily handle this request.<br />
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<b>March 7, 1983 </b>- <br />
<b>New Order</b> released their song <b><i>Blue Monday</i></b>, as a <b>12-inch</b> on the <b><i>Factory Records</i></b> label on this date. <br />
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The title is not mentioned in the lyrics, which is true of many <b>New Order </b>songs. The band took the song's name from an illustration in the <b>Kurt Vonnegut</b> book <b><i>Breakfast Of Champions</i></b>, which <b>Stephen Morris</b> was reading. One of its illustrations read: "<b><i><a href="about:invalid#zSoyz" target="_blank">Goodbye Blue Monday</a></i></b>," referring to the invention of the washing machine improving housewives' lives.<br />
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<b>March 7, 1986</b> - <br />
This was a Red Letter Day for <b>Daniel Day Lewis</b>. <br />
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The stars somehow aligned for him and both <i><b>My Beautiful Laundrette</b></i> and <i><b>A Room With A View</b></i>, opened in <b>NYC </b>on this date. <br />
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Lewis was relatively unknown in the <b>US </b>at that time and critics raved about how great the range of his talent was to play such vastly different characters. (It's called acting) <br />
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<b>March 7, 2014</b> - <br />
Another home movie by <b>Wes Anderson</b> and his pals, <b><i>The Grand Budapest Hotel</i></b>, starring <b>Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton,</b> and <b>Owen Wilson</b>, when into limited release worldwide on this date. <br />
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According to writer, producer, and director Wes Anderson, the cast stayed in the same hotel, the Hotel Börse in Görlitz, Germany during principal photography. He insisted all make-up and costume fittings happen in the hotel lobby to speed up filming. The owner of the hotel appeared in this movie as an extra working the front desk of The Grand Budapest Hotel. After filming ended for the day, the crew often returned to find him at the front desk of their own hotel. <br />
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Another <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/avoid-eating-talking-processed-meat.html" target="_blank">ACME Safety Film</a></b> <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 7, 1876 </b>- <br />
<b>Alexander Graham Bell</b> receives <b>US </b>Patent #<b><a href="https://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/images/bell.jpg" target="_blank">174,465</a></b> for his revolutionary new invention - the telephone. <br />
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<b>Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci</b> and<b> Thomas Edison</b> all claimed to have invented the telephone first, and the issue is still a source of controversy. <br />
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Another episode of <b><i>The Crazy Mixed-Up Russian Revolution</i></b> <br />
<b>March 7, 1917</b> - <br />
<b>Russia's 1917 February Revolution</b> began on <b>March 7</b>, which was then the middle of <b>February</b>, in the city of <b>St. Petersburg</b>, which was then <b>Petrograd</b>, in what was then <b>Russia</b>, but would soon be the <b>Soviet Union</b>. <br />
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Tsar (or Czar)<b> Nicholas II</b> of the <b>Romanov </b>(or <b>Romanoff</b>) line had been away from <b>St. Petersburg</b> (or <b>Petrograd</b>) most of the winter, leading his army against the <b>German Empire's Eastern Front</b> (or <b>Russia's Western Front</b>). <br />
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<b>Russia's </b>peasants and workers had become exhausted by the war and its attendant famine and were exasperated by the Tsarina's indifference to their suffering. They were furious with the government, which had become two governments and therefore twice as bad. And they were tired of all this nonsense about <b>March </b>being <b>February</b>, <b>St. Petersburg</b> being <b>Petrograd</b>, the Czar being Tsar, and all those crazy, mixed-up fronts. <br />
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In short, the peasants were revolting. And so these poor bastards began a series of riots and strikes that eventually led to what is now known as the <b>February Revolution</b>.<br />
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With her usual delicate touch, the Tsarina tried to assuage the rioters by having them shot, but her soldiers refused to fire on the crowds. She therefore ordered the soldiers to shoot themselves and was disobeyed again.<br />
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It was a bleak moment for the House of Romanov, which like most monarchies had endured through the centuries largely as a result of its soldiers' willingness to shoot people.<br />
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<b>One Year later</b>:<br />
On <b>March 7, 1918</b> the <b>Bolsheviks </b>changed their name to the <b>Russian Communist Party</b>.<br />
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<b>Bolsheviks</b> is Russian for <b>majority</b>, as opposed to <b>Mensheviks</b>, which means <b>minority</b>. The <b>Mensheviks</b>, however, were in fact the majority party in <b>1918</b>, and the <b>Bolsheviks</b> the <b>minority</b>, so the name change helped ease the work of journalists, who had become so confused they'd begun writing stories about children and ducks. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1923</b> - <br />
... <b><i>And miles to go before I sleep, <br />
And miles to go before I sleep</i></b>. <br />
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The popular poem by <b>Robert Frost</b>, <b><i>Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening</i></b>, was first published on this day in <b><i>The New Republic</i></b>. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1933 </b>- <br />
<b>Charles Darrow</b>, for some reason claims that he invented The <b>Monopoly</b> board game on this date. Thank your rich <b>Uncle Pennybags</b>. <br />
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(Quite truthfully, the history of the Monopoly game is so complicated, for legal reasons, just go with this date, don't ask about <b>Elizabeth Magie's</b> '<a href="https://youtu.be/0Oj8rU3zDiE?feature=shared"><i><b>The Landlord Game</b></i></a>' and her patent of <b>March 23, 1903</b>.)<br />
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<b>March 7, 1964 </b>- <br />
<b><i>I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.</i></b> <br />
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<b>Wanda Sykes</b>, actress, comedian, and writer, was born on this date. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1945</b> - <br />
Gen. <b>George Patton</b> urinated in the Rhine after the <b>U.S. Third Army</b> took the bridge at <b>Remagen </b>on this date. <br />
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So remember, you can't slap a soldier for cowardice but you can piss in your enemy's river. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1965</b> - <br />
Protesting the shooting death of <b>Jimmie Lee Jackson</b> (a <b>26-year</b>-old church deacon from <b>Marion</b>,) by an Alabama State Trooper, a group of more than <b>600 </b>Civil Rights marchers trying to get to the state capitol in <b>Montgomery</b>, was broken up in <b>Selma, Alabama</b>, on this date. <br />
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Coverage of the riot, which was broken up by state troopers with tear gas and whips, was one of the first to get major coverage in the Civil Rights movement and put the national spotlight on the issue. <br />
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<b>March 7, 1988</b> - <br />
Trans actress <b>Divine</b> (<b>Harris Glenn Milstead</b>,) who appeared in several <b>John Waters </b>films, died from sleep apnea on this date. <b>Divine </b>was about to join the cast of <i><b>Married with Children</b></i> when she unexpected stopped breathing. <br />
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The producers of <i><b>Married With Children</b></i> sent flowers to the funeral, along with a humorous card that read, <b><i>If you didn't want to do the show, you could have just SAID something!</i></b> <br />
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<b>March 7, 1999</b> - <br />
<i><b>The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.</b></i><br />
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<b>Stanley Kubrick</b>, who directed <b>13 </b>films, including <i><b>Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange</b></i> and <i><b>2001: A Space Odyssey</b></i>, died in <b>Hertfordshire, England,</b> at age <b>70 </b>on this date. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-6878237036725040002024-03-06T08:30:00.018-05:002024-03-06T08:30:00.132-05:00It tastes good when you have someone to share it withIt's <b>Frozen Food Day</b>. The day was established by President <b>Ronald Reagan</b> in <b>1984</b> with Proclamation #<b>5157</b>: “<b><i>Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim March 6, 1984, as Frozen Food Day, and I call upon the American people to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities</i>.</b>”<br />
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He then announced that he wanted to award Admiral <b>Byrd</b> a medal for his work on frozen food and then was heading to the commissary to have lunch with <b>Gale Storm</b>. Aides just turned a weary eye to one another.<br />
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<b>March 6, 1942</b> - <br />
<b>Ernst Lubitsch</b> <b>World War II</b> comedy,<i><b> To Be or Not to Be</b></i>, starring <b>Jack Benny, Carole Lombard </b>and <b>Robert Stack</b> premiered on this date. <br />
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The biggest problem early in the shoot was <b><i>Jack Benny's</i></b> insecurity about acting the central role in such an important production by a major filmmaker. He seemed dumbfounded that<b> Ernst Lubitsch</b> had not only cast him but was building the film around him. Finally Lubitsch set him straight: "<b><i>You think you are a comedian. You are not even a clown. You are fooling the public for 30 years. You are fooling even yourself. A clown - he is a performer what is doing funny things. A comedian - he is a performer what is saying funny things. But you, Jack, you are an actor, you are an actor playing the part of a comedian and this you are doing very well. But do not worry, I keep your secret to myself.</i></b>" <br />
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<b>March 6, 1970 </b>- <br />
<b>The Beatles</b> released <b><i>Let it Be</i></b> in the <b>UK</b> on this date. <b>Paul McCartney </b>wrote this song supposedly after he had a dream about his mother who died when he was <b>14</b>. <br />
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<b><i>Since Let It Be</i></b> was <b>The Beatles</b> last album, it made an appropriate statement about leaving problems behind and moving on in life. <b>John Lennon</b> hated the song because of it's apparent Christian overtones. He made the comment before recording it, "<i><b>And now we'd like to do Hark The Angels Come</b></i>." <br />
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<b>The Beatles</b> were so busy arguing with each other that <b>Aretha Franklin</b> was able to release a cover version of the song <br />
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on her album <i><b>This Girl's In Love With You</b></i> (as well as <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/TlHaX55wG0Y" target="_blank">Eleanor Rigby</a></i></b>), before <b>The Beatles</b> version came out. <br />
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<b>March 6, 1970 </b>- <br />
<b>David Bowie</b> released the single <b><i>The Prettiest Star</i></b> in the UK on this date, as a follow-up single to <i><b>Space Oddity.</b></i> The track featured <b>Marc Bolan</b> on guitar, with whom <b>Bowie </b>would spend the next few years as a rival for the crown of the king of glam rock. <br />
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This was released as a single in 1970, but it flopped, selling just <b>800</b> copies. In 1973, a <a href="https://youtu.be/sNNX7-ZHddQ" target="_blank">glammed up version</a> was recorded and released on <b><i>Aladdin Sane</i></b>, with <b>Mick Ronson</b> recreating Bolan's original guitar part.<br />
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<b>March 6, 1973 </b>- <br />
<b><i>Closing Time</i></b>, one of <b>Tom Waits</b>’ most melodic albums, (and a fascinating snapshot into his early days as a bar-room balladeer,) was released on this date. <br />
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A number of artists covered songs from the album, starting a trend that would continue throughout Waits’ career. Martha was recorded by <b><a href="https://youtu.be/EVRCk0T3UfA" target="_blank">Tim Buckley</a></b> and frequently performed by <b><a href="https://youtu.be/_EMaLSEFOCc" target="_blank">Bette Midler</a></b>, while <b><a href="https://youtu.be/--rAINTn2TE" target="_blank">the Eagles</a></b> recorded a version of <b><i>Ol’ ‘55</i></b> for the band’s <b>1974</b> album <b><i>On The Border</i></b>. <br />
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<b>March 6, 1977</b> -<br />
<b>Diana Ross</b> became the first solo female performer to host a<b> 90-minute</b> TV special when <b><i>An Evening With Diana Ross</i></b> aired on <b>NBC-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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<b><i>An Evening With Diana Ross</i></b> became a double album on the <b>Motown </b>label that led to a one-woman show on <b>Broadway </b>for which she was awarded a special <b>Tony Award</b>. <br />
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<b>March 6, 1897</b> - <br />
<b>Richard Donner's</b> buddy cop flix,<b><i> Lethal Weapon</i></b>, starring <b>Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, </b>and <b>Mitchell Ryan</b>, opened on this date.<br />
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Casting director<b> Marion Dougherty</b> first suggested teaming <b>Mel Gibson</b> and <b>Danny Glover</b>. She arranged for Gibson to fly in from his home in <b>Sydney</b>, while Glover was flown in from <b>Chicago</b>, where he was appearing in a play, to read through the script.<br />
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<b>March 6, 1995</b> - <br />
<b>Annie Lennox</b> second solo album, <b><i>Medusa</i></b>, a collection of covers, was released on this date. <br />
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The first single<b><a href="https://youtu.be/GEDrISl5z_4" target="_blank"> <i>No More I Love You's</i></a>,</b> was originally recorded by the English group <b>The Lover Speaks. </b><br />
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<b>March 6, 1998 </b>- <br />
The <b>Coen</b> Bros. off-kilter take on a <b>Raymond Chandler</b> detective story, <b><i>The Big Lebowski</i></b>, opened on this date. <br />
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Before filming a scene, <b>Jeff Bridges</b> would frequently ask the <b>Coen</b> brothers "<b><i>Did the Dude burn one on the way over?</i></b>" If they said he had, he would rub his knuckles in his eyes before doing a take to make his eyes appear bloodshot.<br />
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<b>March 6, 2009 </b>- <br />
<b>Zack Snyder's </b>version of the seemingly unfilmable graphic novel, <b><i>Watchmen</i></b>, starring <b>Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan</b>, and <b>Patrick Wilson</b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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When <b>Patrick Wilson</b> was offered the role of <b>Dan Dreiberg</b>, he called one of his best friends who is a huge comic book fan, and asked him what he knew about the <b><i>Watchmen</i></b> comic. He told Patrick that if he was ever to do a superhero movie that this was the one to do. Having gotten the part, Patrick invited his friend to visit the set when filming the prison escape scene.<br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>Michelangelo Buonaroti </b>was born on this date in <b>1475</b>. He painted and sculpted so much that it began to become embarrassing for other people, so they finally decided it was time to stop procrastinating and start the <b>Renaissance</b>. <br />
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On <b>March 6, 1619, Cyrano de Bergerac</b> was born. Mr. de Bergerac was a brilliant French satirist and playwright, a rapier wit, and, from all contemporary accounts, an accomplished musician, an enthralling conversationalist, and a charming ladies' man. <br />
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He was unfortunately best known for his nose. <br />
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Dr. <b>John Greenwood, George Washington's</b> personal dentist, constructed the first '<b><i>dental foot engine</i></b>' on this date in <b>1790</b>. <br />
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He adapts his mother's foot treadle spinning wheel to rotate a drill. <br />
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... <b><i>Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.</i></b> <br />
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<b>The Alamo</b> was seized by General <b>Santa Ana </b>- <b>3,000 </b>versus <b>147</b>, it wasn't much of a fair fight. The holdouts suffered unnecessary deaths, disobeying direct orders by remaining, and losing their arms and cannon to the Mexicans. Davy - Pioneer, Patriot, Soldier, Trapper, Explorer, State Legislator, Congressman was one of the last holdouts to die on this day.<br />
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(The Mexican army managed to lose over <b>600 </b>men.)<br />
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<b>March 6, 1857</b> - <br />
After years in litigation, the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice <b>Roger Taney</b>, ruled that <b>Dred Scott </b>did not gain his freedom by living in a free territory. Taney wrote that African Americans could not have rights of their own and inferior to white people. <br />
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The essence of the decision was that as a slave, <b>Dred Scott </b>was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court. The opinion also stated that <b>Congress </b>could not exclude slavery in the territories and that blacks could not become citizens. In <b>2017 Charles Taney IV</b> apologized to the family of <b>Dred Scott</b> for the words of his great-great-grand-uncle. <br />
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<b>Dmitri Mendeleev</b> presented the first periodic table to the <b>Russian Chemical Society </b>on this date in a presentation entitled "<i><b>The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements.</b></i>" He left gaps in his charts and predicted the addition of three more elements in the near future. <br />
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Mendeleev's predictions were right, and he is credited with writing the first periodic table. <br />
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<b>March 6, 1899 </b>- <br />
<b>Friedrich Bayer and Co.</b> patented their eponymous painkiller, <b>Bayer </b>aspirin in <b>Berlin </b>on this day. The compound <i><b>salicylic acid</b></i>, which occurs naturally in willow bark was already known to provide pain relief. Unfortunately it is bitter tasting and can cause vomiting. By mixing<i><b> acetylating salicylic acid </b></i>with<i><b> acetic acid</b></i>, German <b>Bayer AG </b>chemist <b>Felix Hoffman</b> concocted a less acidic formula to ease his father’s arthritis two years previously. <br />
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<b>March 6, 1912 </b>- <br />
<b>National Biscuit Company's</b> (<b>Nabisco</b>) <b>Oreo </b>cookies went on sale for the first time on this date. <br />
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The brand's competitor, <b>Sunshine's <a href="https://youtu.be/e3AopgMXsZM?feature=shared" target="_blank">Hydrox</a></b>, had debuted in <b>1908</b>. (<b>Hydrox </b>has up until recently, completely disappeared as a brand but secretly exists as '<i><b>cookie crumbs</b></i>' for yogurt flavorings and an ingredient in piecrust.) <br />
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<b>March 6, 1918</b> - <br />
In <b>January 1918, US </b>naval collier (a ship that transports,) <b>Cyclops </b>was assigned to the <b>Naval Overseas Transportation Service</b> and sailed to Brazilian waters to fuel British ships in the <b>South Atlantic. </b><br />
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It put to sea from <b>Rio de Janeiro</b> on <b>February 16, 1918,</b> and after touching at <b>Barbados </b>on <b>March 3 </b>and <b>4</b>, was never heard from again. The loss of the ship without a trace is one of the sea's unsolved mysteries. <br />
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<b>March 6, 1950</b> - <br />
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<b>Silly Putty</b> was introduced as a toy by <b>Peter Hodgson,</b> a marketing consultant, who packaged one-ounce portions of the rubber-like material in plastic eggs, on this date. It could be stretched, rolled into a bouncing ball, or used to transfer colored ink from newsprint. <br />
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The original discovery was made in <b>1943</b> by <b>James Wright</b> who combined silicone oil and boric acid in the laboratories of<b> General Electric</b>. He was researching methods of making synthetic rubber, but at the time no significant application existed for the material. However, it was passed around as a curiosity.<br />
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Hodgson saw a sample and realized its potential simply for entertainment and coined its name for marketing it as a toy. Its popularity made him a millionaire. (Hey, that's <b>Peter Hodgson</b> as the salty sea dog pulling the putty.) <br />
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<b>March 6, 1965 </b>- <br />
<b><i>I'm not a stooge, I'm a straight lady - the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man but never top him, never steal the laughs</i></b>.<br />
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<b>Daisy Juliette Baker, Groucho's </b>favorite comic foil, died on this date.<br />
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<b>Groucho </b>was often cruel to her on-screen but when the cameras stopped rolling, he had nothing but nice things to say about <b>Margaret Dumont</b>, calling her a "<b><i>wonderful woman</i></b>."<br />
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<b>March 6, 1970</b> - <br />
In<b> Greenwich Village</b>, a townhouse at<b> 18 West 11th St.</b> exploded on this date.<b> SDS Weathermen </b>members <b>Diana Oughton, Ted Gold</b> and <b>Terry Robbins</b> were killed at the site where a bomb was being manufactured. <br />
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Other members went underground and became known as the <b>Weather Underground</b>. <br />
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<b>March 6, 1981</b> - <br />
After <b>19 years </b>presenting the <b><i>CBS Evening News</i></b>, Uncle <b>Walter Cronkite</b>, the most trusted man in <b>America</b>, signs off for the last time. <br />
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With all that we've been through, once again we must ask, who will carry that weight now? <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-59201832531985511902024-03-05T08:30:00.015-05:002024-03-05T08:30:00.142-05:00I'm not sure if this is a real thingHappy <b>Cinco De Marcho</b>! <b>Cinco De Marcho</b> is a <b>12-day</b> drinking regimen for anyone who wishes to “<b><i>train one’s liver</i></b>" <br />
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Also, it's <b>National Cheez Doodle</b> Day. <br />
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It's doesn't sound appetizing saying 'Extruded Flavored Cornmeal Day' <br />
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<b>March 5, 1954</b> - <br />
The <b>Classic B</b> movie, <b><i>Creature from the Black Lagoon</i></b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>Julie Adams</b> noted that making the film was an extremely pleat process, and that the cast and crew got along quite well. She also explained that she felt sympathetic toward the monster. Adams said, "<b><i>There always is that feeling of compassion for the monster. I think maybe it touches something in ourselves, maybe the darker parts of ourselves, that long to be loved and think they really can't ever be loved. It strikes a chord within us.</i></b>"<br />
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<b>March 5, 1956 </b>- <br />
<b>Frank Sinatra</b> released his tenth studio album <b><i>Songs for Swingin' Lovers!</i></b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Sinatra</b> aficionados often rank it his best album and many music critics consider it one of the greatest albums of its era. <br />
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<b>March 5, 1959</b> – <br />
In <b><i>The Twilight Zone</i></b> episode <i><b>The Last Flight</b></i>, (which originally aired<b> February 5, 1960</b>,) British RFC Flt. Lt. <b>Decker </b>was lost over <b>France </b>on <b>March 5, 1917</b>, and he seemed to have returned on this date, <b>42 years</b> later. <br />
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The episode was filmed at <b>Norton AFB, San Bernardino, California</b>--playing the roll of <b>Lafayette Air Base, Reims, France</b>. There was a <b>Reims Air Base </b>in<b> France </b>in<b> 1959</b> (the year the episode was set), now known as <b>Aerodrome de Reims-Champagne. Norton AFB</b> was decommissioned and closed in <b>1994</b>. The site is now <b>San Bernardino International Airport</b>.<br />
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<b>March 5, 1965</b> - <br />
The <b>Mannish Boys</b> released their second single <b><i>I Pity The Fool</i></b>, featuring a young <b>David Bowie</b>, produced by <b>Shel Talmy</b>, (who was also producing the early singles and albums by <b>The Who</b> and <b>The Kinks</b>). <br />
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<b>Jimmy Page</b> was Talmy's regular session musician and played the guitar solo on <b><i>I Pity the Fool</i></b>. <br />
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<b>March 5, 1970</b> -<br />
<b>Universal</b> released the blockbuster film, <b><i>Airport</i></b>, starring just about everyone who was available in <b>Hollywood</b>, on this date. <br />
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The field and terminal scenes were filmed entirely at the <b>Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport</b>, due to the abundance of snowfall during the winter months there, although at first, the film's producers were forced to use bleached sawdust as a supplement, to make up for the lack of falling snow, until a snowstorm hit the <b>Twin Cities </b>area during production.<br />
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<b>March 5, 1971</b> - <br />
<b>Led Zeppelin</b> started a <b>12-date</b> '<b><i>Thank You</i></b>' tour for British fans, appearing at the clubs from their early days and charging the same admission prices as in <b>1968</b>. <br />
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Northern <b>Ireland</b> was a war zone at the time and their first show was at <b>The Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland</b> where they played songs from their upcoming fourth album, including the first public performances of <b><i>Black Dog, Stairway To Heaven, Going To California</i></b> and <b><i>Rock And Roll</i></b>. <br />
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<b>March 5, 1978</b> -<br />
<b>Mae West's </b>final film, <b><i>Sextette</i></b>, was released on this date. <br />
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<b>Eighty-four-year-</b>old<b> Mae West </b>had trouble remembering her lines. She wore a wireless earpiece during filming, and Director <b>Ken Hughes</b> would speak her lines, which she would repeat. The earpiece occasionally picked up police radio transmissions. Once, West picked up a police call and repeated, "<b><i>There's a 608</i></b>."<br />
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<b>March 5, 1983</b> - <br />
<b>Michael Jackson's</b> single <b><i>Billie Jean</i></b> hits No. #<b>1</b> on the <b><i>Billboard</i> Charts </b>and stays there for <b>seven weeks</b>, on this date. <br />
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In his autobiography <b><i>Moonwalk</i></b>, Jackson said that <b>Quincy Jones</b> wanted to change the title to<b><i> Not My Lover</i></b> because he thought it would be confused with the tennis star <b>Billie Jean King</b>. Jackson ended up winning that battle. <br />
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The nature documentary<b><i> Planet Earth </i></b>narrated by <b>David Attenborough</b> premieres on the <b>BBC TV</b>, on this date. <br />
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Today's moment of <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-odd-thought-that-comes-to-mind.html" target="_blank">Zen</a></b><br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>March 5, 1616</b> - <br />
Copernican theory was declared “<i><b>false and erroneous</b></i>” in a decree written by Cardinal <b>Robert Bellarmine </b>and issued by the Catholic Church and the work was placed on the<b> Index of Forbidden Books</b> by the Roman Catholic Church, on this date. Further, no person was to be permitted to hold or teach the theory that the <b>Earth </b>revolves around the <b>Sun</b>. <br />
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When <b>Galileo </b>later violates the decree, he will be put on trial and held under house arrest for the final eight years of his life.<br />
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<b>March 5, 1770</b> -<br />
British soldiers who had been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing <b>five </b>people, on this date, in what would become known as <b>The Boston Massacre</b>. Among the <b>five </b>killed was an African American sailor, <b>Crispus Attucks.</b><br />
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Colonists were already resenting the <b>Townsend Acts</b>, a very early <b>WHO </b>album. Tensions caused by the heavy military presence in <b>Boston</b>, led to brawls between soldiers and civilians and eventually to troops shooting their muskets into a riotous crowd. <br />
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SO you can see, the tradition of killing innocent black men in American is older than the Republic. <br />
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<b>March 5, 1933</b> - <br />
<b>Germany</b> went on a <b>12 year</b> drinking binge - the Nazi Party won <b>44 percent</b> of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slight majority in the <b>Reichstag</b>. <br />
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Adolf 'Evil Bastard' Hitler had become chairman of the Nazi party in <b>1921</b>, and <b>two years</b> later he tried to topple the German republican government in the "<b><i>beer-hall putsch</i></b>." Nazi storm troopers surrounded government officials during a meeting at a beer hall in <b>Munich</b>. The troopers forced the officials to swear allegiance to the Nazi revolution. But the coup was defeated and Hitler fled, then he was captured and imprisoned. While in prison, Hitler dictated his autobiography <i><b>Mein Kampf</b></i> (or, in English,<i><b> I'm Crazy and I'm Gonna Kill You or How I Intend to Enslave or Kill Millions of People Immediately Upon My Release</b></i>) to a sympathetic scribe, and the book became important to Nazism.<br />
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The failed coup made Hitler famous ( he already began selling the cryptic t-shirt '<i><b>World Tour 1939 - 1945</b></i>'), and the Nazi party capitalized on the economic depression of <b>1929</b>, as well as the heavy reparations <b>Germany </b>was made to pay for <b>World War I,</b> and they became a powerful force in <b>Germany</b>. In <b>1932</b>, Hitler ran for president of <b>Germany</b>, but lost. The next year, he became the chancellor. Just before the parliamentary elections in <b>1933</b>, the <b>Reichstag </b>building was set on fire, which led to the <i><b>Reichstag Fire Decre</b></i>e, which rescinded<i><b> habeas corpus</b></i> and other protective laws.<br />
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The following week, <b>March 5, 1933</b>, the Nazi Party won a slight majority in the elections. Within<b> three weeks</b>, the Nazi-dominated <b>Reichstag </b>passed the <b>Enabling Act</b>, which gave Hitler dictatorial powers and ended the <b>Weimar Republic</b> in <b>Germany</b>. <br />
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If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: <b>beer, Bavarians and the ballot <i>do not mix</i></b>. <br />
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It was on this date in <b>1946</b>, in a speech at <b>Fulton, Missouri</b>, that<b> Winston Churchill</b> made his famous observation that, "<b><i>From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent</i>.</b>" <br />
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The speech was not well received at first, as the people of <b>Fulton</b> weren't sure which continent he was talking about and they didn't care what sort of drapes were fashionable in foreign parts. <br />
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<b>Bizarre ironies of History</b> - <br />
On <b>March 1, 1953</b>, after an all-night dinner with interior minister<b> Lavrenty Beria</b> and future premiers <b>Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin</b> and <b>Nikita Khrushchev, Josif Stalin</b>, truly Evil Bastard, did not emerge from his room the next day, having probably suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. <br />
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Although his guards thought it odd that he did not rise at his usual time, the next day they were under orders not to disturb him and he was not discovered until that evening. He died <b>four days</b> later, on <b>March 5, 1953</b>, at the age of <b>74</b>, and was buried on<b> March 9. </b>His daughter <b>Svetlana </b>recalls the scene as she stood by his death bed "<i><b>He suddenly opened his eyes and cast a glance over everyone in the room. It was a terrible glance. Then something incomprehensible and awesome happened. He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse upon all of us. The next moment after a final effort the spirit wrenched its self free of the flesh</b></i>." <br />
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Officially, the cause of death was listed as a cerebral hemorrhage. <b>Khrushchev </b>wrote in his memoirs that <b>Beria </b>had, immediately after the stroke, gone about "<i><b>spewing hatred against</b></i> [<b>Stalin</b>] <i><b>and mocking him</b></i>", and then, when <b>Stalin </b>showed signs of consciousness, dropped to his knees and kissed his hand. When <b>Stalin </b>fell unconscious again, Beria immediately stood and spat.<br />
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His body was preserved in <b>Lenin's Mausoleum</b> until <b>October 31, 1961</b>, when his body was removed from the Mausoleum and buried next to the <b>Kremlin </b>walls as part of the process of de-Stalinization. <br />
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Wait, it starts to get weird here, <b>America </b>learns of Soviet dictator <b>Joseph Stalin's</b> death when <b>Air Force Staff Sergeant Johnny Cash</b> intercepts a coded message from <b>Russia</b>. Cash enlisted in 1950 after he turned <b>18 </b>and was assigned to the <b>12th Radio Squadron Mobile</b> of the <b>US Air Force Security Service </b>at <b>Landsberg, West Germany, </b>where he proved his skill as a Morse Code operator.<br />
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The famed Russian composer <b>Sergei Prokofiev</b> lived in dread fear of getting on the wrong side of <b>Stalin</b>. Always looking to appease the Evil Bastard, he died at the age of <b>61 </b>from a cerebral hemorrhage on <b>March 5, 1953</b> (the same day and even hour and cause that Communist Party leader <b>Joseph Stalin</b> died.)<br />
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Prokofiev had lived near the <b>Red Square </b>and for <b>three days </b>the throngs gathered to mourn <b>Stalin </b>made it impossible to carry Prokofiev's body out for the funeral service at the headquarters of the <b>Soviet Composer's Union</b>. Paper flowers and a taped recording of the funeral march from his <i><b>Romeo and Juliet</b></i> had to be used, as all real flowers and musicians were reserved for<b> Stalin's</b> funeral.<br />
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<b>Herman J. Mankiewicz</b>, producer and alcoholic screenwriter, best known for his collaboration with <b>Orson Welles</b> on the screenplay of <i><b>Citizen Kane</b></i>, for which they both won an Academy Award and famously clashed over credit, <br />
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died of uremia poisoning in <b>Hollywood, CA </b>on <b>March 5, 1953</b>, the same day as <b>Joseph Stalin</b> and <b>Sergei Prokofiev</b>. <br />
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<b>March 5, 1963</b> - <br />
<b><i>There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.</i></b> - <b>Mikey Way</b> <br />
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The <b>US Patent Office</b> issues patent No. #<b>3,079,728</b> to <b>Arthur K. Melin</b> and <b>Richard Knerr</b> for their <b>Hula Hoop</b> design. <br />
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<b>March 5, 1963</b> - <br />
<b>Virginia Patterson Hensley</b> (<b>Patsy Cline</b>), country music singer has an unfortunate close encounter with an airplane on this date. <br />
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What was it with singers and small planes in the early <b>60s </b><br />
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<b>March 5, 1977 </b>- <br />
<b>Walter Cronkite</b> and <b>Jimmy Carter</b> went on the air for a call-in radio program where ordinary citizens could call and ask the president anything they liked. <br />
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Over <b>9 million </b>callers tried to get through, and the questions ranged from Carter's pardoning the draft dodgers to why he sent his daughter to public school. <br />
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<b>March 5, 1982</b> - <br />
<b>John Belushi</b> was found dead at the<b> Chateau Marmont</b> in <b>Hollywood </b>from a cocaine and heroin overdose on this date. A sketchy woman, <b>Cathy Smith</b>, was later charged with administering the fatal injections. <br />
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Sorry but there was really nothing funny about that - it was just a waste.<br />
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<b>March 5, 1989</b> -<br />
<b>Darwin Award</b> nominee <b>Michael Anderson Godwin</b>, previously on death row for murder but with sentence commuted to life imprisonment, died in a toilet-related accident at the <b>Central Correctional Institution </b>in <b>South Carolina </b>on this date. Godwin, sitting on a stainless steel toilet, bit into headphone wires that were connected to his television. He was immediately electrocuted.<br />
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[<b>Moral</b>: <i><b>use a porcelain toilet. And eat more fiber</b></i>.] <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-78761514867783553362024-03-04T08:30:00.001-05:002024-03-04T08:30:00.251-05:00It's a call to actionToday is my favorite day - <b>March 4th</b> <br />
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It's the day that tells you to do something. <br />
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<b>March 4, 1922</b> - <br />
The first vampire film <b><i>Nosferatu</i></b>, an illegal adaptation of <b>Bram Stoker's</b> <b><i>Dracula</i></b>, was released in <b>Germany</b> on this date. <br />
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The film was loosely based on the <b>Bram Stoker </b>book but the characters' names were changed in an attempt to prevent legal action (which failed). The subtitles were translated into French, then when the film went to the <b>USA </b>into English but with Stoker's character names used.<br />
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<b>March 4, 1950</b> - <br />
One of the classic <b>Chuck Jones</b> <b>Looney Tunes</b> cartoons, <b><i>The Scarlet Pumpernickel</i></b>, was released on this date. This was another show I was not allowed to watch with my family because I laughed too loudly. <br />
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By all means, please, stop eating or drinking while watching this cartoon, you may injury yourself. Also, a State dept report has just been released, the cavalry came to the rescue but it was too late.<br />
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<b>March 4, 1961</b> - <br />
<b>Michelangelo Antonioni's</b> landmark of European cinema, <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/tJVI7aFREb4" target="_blank">L'Avventura</a></i></b>, premiered in the US on this date. <br />
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The rocky Aeolian island on which the first portion of the film was made - its name is Lisca Bianca - didn't have electricity or running water and was subject to violent weather, including a tornado. At one point, the crew found themselves completely stranded on the island.<br />
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<b>March 4, 1963</b> - <br />
<b>The Beach Boys</b> released <b><i>Surfin' U.S.A.</i></b> a song with lyrics by <b>Brian Wilson</b> set to the music of <i><b>Sweet Little Sixteen</b></i>, written by <b>Chuck Berry</b>. <i><b>Billboard</b></i> ranked <i><b>Surfin' U.S.A.</b></i> the No. <b>1</b> song of <b>1963</b>. <br />
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Many of the early<b> Beach Boys'</b> songs were about surfing. <b>Dennis Wilson </b>was the only<b> Beach Boy</b> who actually surfed, but surfing was a very popular at the time, especially with teenagers who bought records. For <b>The Beach Boys</b>, the surfing subculture gave them an opportunity to write songs about adventure and fun while exploring vocal harmonies and new production techniques. And while the majority of Americans didn't surf, the songs represented <b>California</b>, which was considered new and modern and a great place to be. Surfing, and <b>California </b>by extension, became more about a state of mind. <br />
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<b>March 4, 1967 </b>- <br />
<b>The Rolling Stones</b> song, <b><i>Ruby Tuesday</i></b>, topped the charts on this date. <br />
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<b>Brian Jones</b> played the recorder (it sounds like a flute) on this song. He was a founding member of the group and fancied himself their leader, which along with a debilitating drug habit, starting causing problems in the band around this time. He was booted from the group in <b>June 1969</b>, and found dead in his swimming pool less than a month later. <br />
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<b>March 4, 1979 </b>- <br />
<b>Mary Tyler Moore's</b> second ill-conceived venture in a variety series, <b><i>The Mary Tyler Moore Hour</i></b>, co-starring <b>Dody Goodman, Michael Keaton, Joyce Van Patten, Ron Rifkin</b>, and <b>Doris Roberts</b>, premiered on <b>CBS </b>on this date. <br />
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The show's premise was to give the audience a fictionalized view into the life of the star of a television variety show, much as <b><i>The Jack Benny Show</i></b> had purported to do two decades earlier on the same network. Unlike the Benny show, or Moore's sitcoms, but more like her earlier variety show the previous fall, <b><i>The Mary Tyler Moore Hour</i></b> would have trouble attracting a sizable audience. The series only lasted <b>11 </b>episodes. <br />
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<b>March 4, 1982 </b>- <br />
The <b>David Zucker, Jim Abrahams</b>, and <b>Jerry Zucker</b> silliness, <b><i>Police Squad</i></b>, starring <b>Leslie Nielsen</b> as <b>Frank Drebin</b>, premiered on<b> ABC-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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Each week featured a "<b>Special Guest Star</b>" who is killed off in the opening credits. <b>Lorne Greene </b>and<b> William Conrad</b> are knifed and tossed out of cars; <b>Georg Stanford Brown</b> has a safe dropped on him; <b>Florence Henderson</b> is shot during a musical number; <b>Robert Goulet </b>is executed by a firing squad; and <b>William Shatner</b> avoids a burst of machine-gun-fire only to drink a glass of poisoned wine.<br />
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<b>March 4, 1984</b> - <br />
Appearing in front of <b>50,000 </b>people,<b> The Police</b> play the final concert of their <i><b>Synchronicity </b></i>tour in <b>Melbourne, Australia</b>, on this date. <br />
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It is their last show, except for a few special events together, until <b>2007</b>. <br />
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<b>March 4, 1996 </b>- <br />
<b>The Beatles</b> song <b><i>Real Love</i></b>, compiled from a <b>John Lennon</b> demo recording, is released in the <b>UK</b>, on this date. <b>Yoko Ono</b> supplied <b>Lennon's</b> demo for this song and <i><b>Free As A Bird</b></i> and gave the remaining <b>Beatles </b>permission to use them. <br />
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<b>Paul McCartney</b> did his best <b>John Lennon</b> imitation to help the lead vocal because the recording of John's voice was low and spotty in some places. The lead vocal is actually a John and Paul duet. <br />
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<b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/bafflegab.html" target="_blank">Word</a></b> of the Day <br />
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<b>Today in History: <br />
March 4, 1837</b> - <br />
The "<b><i>Windy City</i></b>", "<b><i>Chi-Town</i></b>", "<b><i>Second City</i></b>," and the "<b><i>City of Broad Shoulders</i></b>" - <b>Chicago</b> became incorporated as a city on this date. <br />
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<b>10,000 </b>extra votes from various local cemeteries were counted that day alone. <br />
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<b>Remember, <i>vote early, vote often</i>.</b> <br />
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<b>March 4, 1849 </b>- <br />
This is a <b>US </b>secret you probably don't know - this is the day <b>America </b>had no President. <br />
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<b>James K. Polk</b> (whose cause of death was officially listed as "<b><i>diarrhea</i></b>") officially stepped down as the <b>11th</b> US president and President<b> Zachary Taylor</b> (who would die in office after eating cherries and milk at a<b> July 4th</b> celebration) refused to be sworn-in on a <b>Sunday</b>.<br />
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US Sen. <b>David Rice Atchison</b> (<b>1807-1886</b>) of <b>Missouri</b> then technically held office as president until <b>Zachary Taylor</b> took his oath the next day. However Atchison’s term as president pro tempore of the <b>Senate </b>had also expired, and his new term did not begin until <b>March 5.</b> For the rest of his life, Atchison enjoyed polishing this story, describing his "<i><b>presidency</b></i>" as "<i><b>the honestest administration this country ever had</b></i>." <br />
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<b>March 4, 1861</b> - <br />
The first official flag of the Confederate States of America, called the <b>Stars and Bars</b>, having <b>seven</b> stars, for the <b>seven </b>states that initially formed the Confederacy, was formally adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America, on this date. <br />
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This flag was sometimes difficult to distinguish from the Union flag under battle conditions, so the flag was changed to the<b> Stainless Banner.</b> The union of the <b>Stainless Banner,</b> known as the<b> Southern Cross</b>, became the one more commonly used in military operations. The <b>Southern Cross</b> had <b>13 stars</b>, adding the four states that joined the Confederacy after <b>Fort Sumter</b>, and the <b>two </b>divided states of <b>Kentucky </b>and <b>Missouri</b>.<br />
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While, the Southern states were adopting their banner, <b>Abraham Lincoln</b> was inaugurated as the <b>16th</b> President of the United States on this date as well.<br />
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<b>March 4, 1884</b> - <br />
...<b><i>By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs -- by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable.</i></b>...<br />
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<b>Sherlock Holmes</b> and <b>Dr. Watson</b> begin their work on the case in <b><i>A Study in Scarlet</i></b>, the first <b>Sherlock Holmes</b> story, on this date (or maybe it didn't. I'm not going to join the massive debate the Holmesians get involved in with the accuracy of this date.) <br />
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<b>March 4, 1933 </b>- <br />
<b>Frances Perkins</b> began on this date as the<b> U.S. Secretary of Labor,</b> the first female member of a president’s cabinet, in <b>1933</b>. <b>Franklin D. Roosevelt</b> appointed her during the <b>Great Depression </b>to help establish <b>Social Security </b>and other public safety net programs that were known collectively as <b>The New Deal. </b><br />
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For <b>12 years</b> in that cabinet role, she built a reputation as the woman behind the <b>New Deal</b>. She also helped establish the first minimum wage and overtime laws for American workers, workplace safety regulations (after a tragic factory fire), and the standard<b> 40-hour</b> work week.<br />
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<b>March 4, 1952</b> -<br />
<b>Ronald Reagan</b> married his '<i>mommy</i>' <b>Nancy Davis</b>, <br />
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in the <b>San Fernando Valley</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b>March 4, 1960</b> - <br />
<b><i>Waaaa, Ricky I don't want to be married anymore to you, you lousy two bit skirt chasing, whoremonger.</i></b> <br />
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<b>Lucille Ball</b> filed divorce from <b>Desi Arnaz</b> on this date.<br />
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<b>March 4, 1966</b> -<br />
<b>John Lennon</b> claimed that The Beatles were "<b><i>bigger than Jesus</i></b>", and that "<b><i>Christianity will... vanish and shrink" on this date</i></b>.<br />
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I guess he was dead wrong about that. <br />
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<b>March 4, 1974</b> - <br />
The first issue of <b><i>People</i> Magazine</b> featuring actress <b>Mia Farrow</b>, starring in the movie <b><i>The Great Gatsby</i></b>, was released on this date. <br />
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The duration of your stay in the bathroom has never been the same. <br />
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<b>March 4, 1994</b> - <br />
Comedian <b>John Candy </b>died on this date. <br />
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Just think - the fun <b>John Candy</b> and <b>Desi Arnaz</b> are having in the <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/8SJY6w0HD50?si=blVRTG35BEznqVip " target="_blank">3D House of Stewardesses</a></i></b>. (So remember, <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/zv7v4MJcD74" target="_blank">EVERYBODY MAMBO</a></i>!</b>) <br /><br />
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And so it goes. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-51699952950976668312024-03-03T08:30:00.010-05:002024-03-03T08:30:00.194-05:00Say 'Bonjour' to a lilacToday is <b> World Wild Life Day.</b> The day celebrates both wild plants and animals on our planet and is also a day to be aware of what human beings are doing to endanger the delicate balance of the world eco-system. The <b>United Nations</b> proclaimed <b>March 3</b> as <b>World Wildlife Day</b> on <b>December 20, 2013</b>. <br />
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This years theme: “<b><i>Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation</i></b>,” is a way to celebrate all conservation efforts, from intergovernmental to local scale. <br />
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Today is also<b> I Want You to be Happy Day</b>. I can think of nothing else that will make you more happy than to continue reading this posting, or perhaps finding me a new job that pays something. <br />
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I know that would make me very happy. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1933</b> - <br />
<b>W.C. Fields</b> classic short, <i><b>The Fatal Glass of Beer</b></i>, premiered on this date. <br />
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In Fields' first sound film, <i><b>The Golf Specialist</b></i> there is a wanted poster of Fields which shows him in his<i><b> Fatal Glass of Bee</b><b>r</b></i> costume. It evidently was taken from an earlier stage presentation of the classic Fields sketch.<br />
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<b>March 3, 1972 </b>- <br />
<b>Elton John</b> released the song <b><i>Rocket Man</i></b>, (officially titled <i><b>Rocket Man</b></i> (<b>I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time</b>), on this date. <br />
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The inspiration for Bernie Taupin's lyrics was the short story <b><i>The Rocket Man</i></b>, written by <b>Ray Bradbury</b>. The sci-fi author's tale is told from the perspective of a child, whose astronaut father has mixed feelings at leaving his family in order to do his job. It was published as part of the anthology <b><i>The Illustrated Man</i></b> in <b>1951</b>. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1985</b> - <br />
<b>ABC-TV</b> unleashed <b>Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd</b> and the crew from the <b>Blue Moon Detective Agency</b> onto an unsuspecting world, when it premiered the pilot episode of <i><b>Moonlighting </b></i>on this date. <br />
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<b>Bruce Willis</b> was the very last of about <b>3,000</b> actors to audition for the role of<b> David Addison, Jr.</b> (Have a good thought for Bruce while you watch this today.)<br />
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<b>March 3, 2008</b> - <br />
<b>Chumbawamba</b> break the record for longest album title with their 160-word release <i><b>The Boy Bands Have Won... </b></i><br />
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Using efficient typography, the British band get the full title on the cover: <br />
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The record of longest album title was established in <b>1999 </b>with <b>Fiona Apple's 90-word </b>title for her <b>second </b>album, <i><b>When The Pawn</b></i>... <br />
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The Belgian group <b>Soulwax </b>broke it with a <b>103-word </b>title for a compilation album in <b>2007 </b>before <b>Chumbawamba </b>claimed it. <br />
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<b>March 3, 2010</b> - <br />
<b>Tim Burton</b> fanciful retelling of <b>Lewis Carroll's <i>Alice in Wonderland</i></b>, starring <b>Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover</b>, and <b>Mia Wasikowska</b> is released. <br />
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<b>Tim Burton </b>and <b>Johnny Depp</b> worked hard to give the <b>Mad Hatter</b> more depth and presence than in past portrayals. In fact, the pair swapped sketches and themes for the character prior to creating this new version. This movie marks the seventh time <b>Johnny Depp</b> has worked under the direction of <b>Tim Burton</b>, and the sixth time for<b> Helena Bonham Carter. </b><br />
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Another book from the back shelves of <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-truth-can-now-be-told.html" target="_blank">The ACME Library</a></b> <br />
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<b>Today in History</b> - <br />
<b>March 3, 1861 </b>- <br />
Russian Tsar, Tzar, Czar <b>Alexander II</b> issued a manifest and ends feudal control of serfs as part of a program of westernization. <br />
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The Russian serf lived a hopeless life of back-breaking labor and desperate poverty. Their oppression, which continued even after their liberation, caused riots, assassinations, and literature. Finally they had the <b>Bolshevik Revolution</b> in <b>1917 </b>to make the serfs equal to everyone else, and it worked.<br />
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From that point forward, everyone lived a hopeless life of back-breaking labor and desperate poverty.<br />
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The American surfdom can only be blamed for the<b> Beach Boys </b>and <b>Annette Funicello</b>.<br />
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<b>March 3, 1863</b> - <br />
The <b>National Conscription Act </b>was signed, forcing all men between <b>20 </b>and<b> 45 years</b> of age into the draft lotteries. Except for rich bastards, who could buy their way out for $<b>300</b>, or hire another man to serve in his place. <br />
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The inevitable result is the week long <b>New York Draft Riots</b>.<br />
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<b>March 3, 1875</b> -<br />
The opera <b><i>Carmen</i></b>, composed by <b>Georges Bizet</b>, opened in <b>Paris </b>at the <b>Opera-Comique</b>, despite intense controversy surrounding its opening. The story was considered too salacious for the general public, and Bizet had trouble getting even one actress to agree to play the title role.<br />
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This was Bizet's only hit opera, as he died suddenly at the age of <b>37</b>, <b>three months</b> later. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1876</b> - <br />
The <b>Kentucky Meat Shower</b> took place on this date in <b>1876</b>, during which what appeared to be flakes of red meat measuring approximately <b>5 by 5 centimetres</b> (<b>2 in × 2 in</b>) fell from the sky near the settlement of <b>Rankin</b> in <b>Bath County, Kentucky</b>. <br />
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The incident sparked plenty of wild theories about how it happened. To this day, there's no <b>100%</b> certain explanation. <br />
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But you know your ole pal the doc, I'll go with the vulture vomit. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1879 </b>- <br />
Politician <b>Joseph H. Rainey</b> of <b>South Carolina</b> was sworn in as the second African American congressman in <b>December 1870</b>. (The first being <b>Hiram Revels</b>.) He was the first black presiding officer of the <b>House of Representatives</b>. <br />
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Rainey served a total of four terms in <b>Congress</b> until this date in <b>1879</b>, establishing a record of length of service for a black Congressman that was not surpassed until that of<b> William L. Dawson </b>of <b>Chicago </b>in the<b> 1950s. </b><br />
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<b>March 3, 1887</b> - <br />
<b>Anne Mansfield Sullivan</b> arrived at the <b>Alabama </b>home of Capt. and Mrs. <b>Arthur H. Keller </b>to become the teacher of <b>Helen</b>, their blind and deaf <b>6 year</b> old daughter on this date. <br />
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<b>Anne Sullivan</b> was legally blind and <b>Helen Keller</b> was blind and deaf. They accomplished more in their lives than most able-bodied people. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1902</b> - <br />
<b>Sarah Rector </b>was born on this date. <b><i>Who is Sarah Rector</i></b>, you ask? An impoverished African American member of the <b>Muscogee</b> (<b>Creek</b>) <b>Nation</b>, at the age of <b>11</b> she became a millionaire oil baron when oil was discovered on the land allotted to her by the government. <br />
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Sarah avoided hundreds of attempts to scam her out of her fortune and became known as the “<b><i>Richest colored girl in the world</i></b>.” She lost the majority of her wealth in the <b>Great Depression</b>, as did many wealthy Americans. Sarah married <b>twice</b>, had <b>three</b> sons and died in <b>1967</b> at the age of <b>65</b>. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1923</b> - <br />
The first issue of <b><i>Time</i></b> magazine, created by <b>Briton Hadden</b> and <b>Henry Luce</b> (the first weekly news magazine in the <b>United States</b>), was published on this date. It featured on its cover, <b>Joseph G. Cannon</b>, the retired<b> Speaker of the United States House of Representatives</b> <br />
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It has been suggested that <b><i>TIME</i></b> is an acronym, for <b>The International Magazine of Events</b>. <br />
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An English beer drinking song became the <b>National Anthem of the United States</b> on this date. <br />
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<b><i>To Anacreon in heaven where he sat in full glee,<br />
A few sons of harmony sent a petition,<br />
That he their inspirer and patron would be,<br />
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Voice, fiddle aud flute, no longer be mute,<br />
I'll lend you my name and inspire you to boot!<br />
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The myrtle of Venus and Bacchus's vine.</i></b><p>
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Perhaps we can hand out laminated cards before each game. <br />
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...<b><i>Why, you can get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie</i></b>.... <br />
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On the same day President <b>Herbert Hoover</b> signed a congressional act adopting <b><i>The Star-Spangled Banner</i></b>, as the national anthem, <b>Cab Calloway</b> recorded the classic <b><i>Minnie The Moocher</i></b>. <br />
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It became the first million-selling jazz album. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1934</b> - <br />
<b>John Dillinger</b> escaped from an escapeproof jail in <b>Crown Point Indiana</b>, using a wooden pistol he carved himself. It's his second escape. <br />
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Remember, J. Edger was just months away from slicing up the corpse of Dillinger for his own personal collection. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1959 </b>- <br />
An embittered and confused <b>Lou Costello </b>roused himself from his hospital bed to mutter,<i><b> Fuck you Abbott, Who's on first now</b></i>, coughs up bloody phlegm and died on this date. <br />
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<b>Bud Abbott</b>, <b>ten years</b> older than Lou, smiled to himself, lit a cigars and lived another <b>15 years </b>to spite his former partner. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1969</b> - <br />
<b>Apollo 9</b>, the third manned mission in the <b>United States Apollo</b> space program, blasted off from <b>Cape Kennedy </b>on a mission to test the lunar module. <br />
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It carried astronauts <b>James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart</b> and <b>David Scott</b> and made <b>151 Earth</b> orbits over <b>10 days</b>. The mission was the second manned launch of a <b>Saturn V </b>rocket. <br />
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<b>March 3, 1991 </b>- <br />
<b>Three</b> white police officers had proceeded to beat <b>Rodney King</b> beyond what was necessary to use force to control him. Moreover, these <b>three</b> officers had reported that the bruises, cuts, and/or scrapes they gave King were minor in nature. The beating by officers from the <b>Los Angeles Police Department </b>of <b>Rodney King</b> is captured on video, the video then appeared on television news which angered many of the public especially those in the African American community who believed the police brutality was racially motivated. <br />
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<b>Four LAPD</b> officers were eventually tried in a state court for the beating but were acquitted. The announcement of the acquittals sparked the <b>1992 Los Angeles Riots</b>. <br />
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On a personal note: <b>Happy Birthday Cara</b> <br />
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Hope you're enjoying your birthday weekend. <br />
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<br /><p></p>Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-53620890412716497722024-03-02T08:30:00.005-05:002024-03-02T08:30:00.177-05:00Eighth Wonder of thw World<b>March 2, 1933</b> - <br />
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<b>RKO Studios</b>, on the brink of bankruptcy, gambled the studio on a filmed puppet show for kids, releasing the film <i><b>King Kong</b></i> on this date. <br />
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In the original film, the character's name is <b>Kong </b>-- a name given to him by the inhabitants of "<i><b>Skull Island</b></i>" in the <b>Indian Ocean</b>, where <b>Kong </b>lived along with other over-sized animals such as a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs. '<i><b>King</b></i>' is an appellation added by an American film crew led by <b>Carl Denham,</b> who captures <b>Kong </b>and takes him to<b> New York City</b> to be exhibited as the "<i><b>Eighth Wonder of the World</b></i>". <br />
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<b>Kong </b>escapes and climbs the <b>Empire State Building</b> (the <b>World Trade Center</b> in the <b>1976 </b>remake) where he is shot and killed by aircraft. Nevertheless, "<i><b>it was beauty who killed the beast</b></i>", as he only climbed the building in the first place in an attempt to protect the lead female character<b> Ann Darrow.</b> <br />
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The film saved <b>RKO Studios </b>from bankruptcy. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1935</b> - <br />
One of the earliest <b>Technicolor Merrie Melodies</b> cartoon, <b><i>I Haven't Got A Hat</i></b>, directed by <b>Friz Freleng</b> and featuring the debut of<b> Porky Pig</b> and <b>Beans the Cat</b> (a minor <b>Looney Tunes</b> character from the '<b>30s</b>,) premiered on this date.<br />
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Struggling against other animation studios, <b>Warner Bros</b>. were desperate to find a character as successful as major studios' mascots, such as <b>Disney's Mickey Mouse, Fleischer Studios' Betty Boop</b> and <b>Felix the Cat</b>, and so Freleng designed several potential characters, <b>Little Kitty, Beans, Ham and Ex, Oliver Owl,</b> and <b>Porky Pig.</b><br />
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<b>March 2, 1939</b> - <br />
The first of many collaborations between <b>John Ford</b> and <b>John Wayne</b>, <i><b>Stagecoach</b></i>, went into general release on this date. <br />
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The hat that<b> John Wayne </b>wears was his own. He would wear it in many westerns during the next two decades before retiring it after <b>Howard Hawks'</b> <i><b>Rio Bravo</b></i> because it was simply "<i><b>falling apart</b></i>." After that, the hat was displayed under glass in his home. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1940</b> - <br />
The <b>Looney Tunes</b> short,<i><b> Elmer's Candid Camera</b></i>, directed by <b>Chuck Jones,</b> and featuring the newly redesigned <b>Elmer Fudd </b>for the first time, premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>Elmer Fudd</b> evolved from <b>Egghead</b>, a character created by <b>Tex Avery </b>in the mid-'<b>30s</b>. In this cartoon, <b>Elmer </b>still wears the same attire (derby hat, high collar, green coat) as <b>Egghead</b>, and sports a large, bulbous nose, which was one of<b> Egghead's</b> distinguishing traits. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1965</b> - <br />
The movie version of <b>Rodgers and Hammerstein's</b> musical <b><i>The Sound of Music</i></b>, starring <b>Julie Andrews</b> and <b>Christopher Plumme</b>r, had its world premiere at<b> New York's Rivoli Theater</b> on this date. <br />
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When <b>Maria</b> is running through the courtyard to the Von Trapp house in <b><i>I Have Confidence</i></b>, she trips. This was an accident. However, director <b>Robert Wise</b> liked this so much that he kept it in the movie. He felt it added to the nervousness of the song and of the character. <br />
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The <b><i>Star Trek</i></b> episode <b><i>This Side of Paradise</i></b> first aired on <b>NBC TV</b> on this date.<br />
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In it, the <b>Enterprise </b>visits a planet where mysterious plants regulate the population. <b>Spock </b>is entranced by the planet and refuses to leave.<br />
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Some of <b>Spock's</b> family background is fleshed out in the episode with references to his half-human heritage. The episode also first reveals that Spock's father is an Ambassador, which would be depicted in later stories. Spock's mother is said to be a teacher, but there would be no further details or depictions of her career. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1984</b> - <br />
<b>Rob Reiner's </b>seminal mockumentary, <b><i>This Is Spinal Tap</i></b> starring <b>Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer</b> and a bunch of other great actors premiered in the <b>US </b>on this date. <br />
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<b>37</b> different people have been in the band over the years. Excluding the <b>two </b>original members, <b>one</b> keyboard player, and the original and current bass players, that means the band has had <b>32 </b>different drummers who inexplicably died.<br />
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<b>March 2, 1987</b> - <br />
The long-planned collaboration between <b>Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris</b> and <b>Dolly Parton</b>, The <b><i>Trio</i></b> album, was released on this date. <br />
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The album sold over <b>4 million</b> copies and won the <b>Grammy Award</b> for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1989</b> - <br />
<b><i>Like A Prayer</i></b> became the first hit song to debut in a commercial when it is used in a<b> 2-minute Pepsi </b>ad starring <b>Madonna</b>. <br />
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The spot is called "<b><i>Make A Wish</i></b>," and shows <b>Madonna</b> watching her<b> 8-year-</b>old self at her birthday party. The commercial airs in prime time around the world, the <b>Pepsi </b>people claimed that<b> 250 million</b> viewers saw the ad, and that they were clearly the choice of the younger generation, as their partnerships with <b>Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson</b>, and now <b>Madonna</b>, demonstrated. Unfortunately (for <b>Pepsi</b>) the commercial is never broadcast again because the next day, the video was released, and in it, <b>Madonna </b>kisses a black man and dances in front of burning crosses - not what <b>Pepsi</b> had in mind. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1990</b> - <br />
<b>Paramount Pictures</b> released the submarine thriller, based on the <b>Tom Clancy</b> novel of the same name, <i><b>The Hunt for Red October</b></i>, starring <b>Sean Connery</b> (with the worst attempt at a Russian accept ever),<b> Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones</b>, and<b> Sam Neill,</b> on this date. <br />
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After being faxed the script, <b>Sean Connery</b> initially turned the role down on the basis of the plot being unrealistic for the post-Cold War era. Whoever sent the fax neglected to include the foreword, explaining the movie as historical. Once he received the foreword, Connery accepted the role.<br />
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<b>March 2, 1991</b> -<br />
<b>Chris Isaak's</b> single <b><i>Wicked Game</i></b> reached the #<b>6</b> position on the US <b><i>Billboard</i> charts</b>, on this date.<br />
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<b>Lee Chesnut</b>, who was music director of an Atlanta radio station and a huge fan of <b>David Lynch</b> films, helped popularize this song when he added it to his playlist after watching <b><i>Wild At Heart</i></b>. The song gradually gained an audience and charted in the <b>US 18 months</b> after Isaak's album <b><i>Heart Shaped World</i></b> was released.<br />
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<b>March 2, 2009</b> - <br />
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<b>Jimmy Fallon</b> premiered on the third incarnation of the <b><i>Late Night</i></b> franchise, first hosted by <b>David Letterman</b>, followed by <b>Conan O'Brien</b>, on this date. <br />
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In <b>2013</b>, Fallon was selected by <b>NBC</b> to succeed the continually retiring<b> Jay Leno</b> as host of<i><b> The Tonight Show</b></i>. The last episode of<i><b> Late Night</b></i> under Fallon aired one night after Leno's final episode of <i><b>The Tonight Show </b></i>on <b>February 6, 2014</b>. Most of the cast and crew immediately began working on <i><b>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</b></i>, which premiered on<b> February 17, 2014. Seth Meyers </b>was named as Fallon's replacement, and <i><b>Late Night with Seth Meyers </b></i>debuted <b>February 24, 2014</b>. <br />
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When he was a young man, no one knew for sure if<b> Nicholas I</b> of <b>Russia</b>, the son of <b>Paul I</b>, was Czar, Tsar, or Tzar. It was hard to know anything at all about someone whose last name was a vowel, especially when he lived in a hermitage. <b>Nicholas</b> was therefore as confused as he was powerful, which inevitably led to his becoming an Evil Bastard. <br />
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He didn't realize what an Evil Bastard he'd become until he lost the <b>Crimean War</b>, however, at which point he discovered that in addition to being Evil he was also an Incompetent Bastard. This made him Autocratic and he therefore died on <b>March 2, 1855</b>. <br />
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His first son <b>Alexander</b>, was left to ponder all of this when he became <b>Alexander II</b> on the same day. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1882</b> - <br />
Queen <b>Victoria</b> was a much beloved monarch, except by her would-be assassins. The queen escaped another assassination attempt on this date. <b>Roderick Maclean</b>, the final in a series of <b>eight </b>malcontents over the course of her very long reign, took a shot at the queen as her carriage pulled away from <b>Windsor </b>railway station after she refused to accept one of his poems. <br />
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He was beaten back by two schoolboys with umbrellas and arrested by Superintendent <b>Hayes </b>of the <b>Windsor </b>Police. He was tried for high treason but found not guilty but insane and sent to an asylum. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1900</b> - <br />
<b><i>It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.</i></b> <br />
... <b><i>I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music</i></b>.<br />
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<b>Kurt Weill</b>, composer, Brecht and Gershwin collaborator, was born in<b> Dessau, Germany </b>on this date. <br />
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<b>Theodor Seuss Geisel</b>, better known as <b>Dr. Seuss</b>, was born <b>119 years </b>ago today, on <b>March 2, 1904.</b> He won the <b>Pulitzer Prize</b> in <b>1984</b>, and is one of only a few men in history to have written illustrated books in verse about a pedophiliac cat. <br />
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You can hardly blame the guy for changing his name. (Remember it's <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/26/695966537/classic-books-are-full-of-problems-why-cant-we-put-them-down" target="_blank"><b>National Read Across America</b></a> Day in honor of<b> Dr. Seuss</b>.)<br /><br />
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On<b> March 2, 1931</b>, <b>Mikhail Gorbachev</b> was born with a big red splotch on his head, so he got right into politics. Mr. Gorbachev was the last Evil Bastard to reign over the Soviet Empire. Fortunately, he was also Bumbling Bastard, and his invention of glasnost and perestroika accidentally made walls fall down in <b>Germany</b>. <br />
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This caused <b>Boris Yeltsin</b> to ride on top of a tank and was therefore historical.<br />
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<b>March 2, 1939</b> -<br />
<b>Howard Carter</b> died of <b>King Tut's</b> curse on this date.<br />
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But dammit remember there is no mummy's curse. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1944</b> - <br />
A train of mixed military/civilian passengers (<b>Train #8017</b>) stalls inside a tunnel outside <b>Salerno, Italy</b>, asphyxiating <b>426 </b>from fumes. Authorities question <b>Mussolini </b>on the necessities of have trains run on a timely basis to meet ones death in such an unpleasant manner. <br />
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But he was having his own problems at the time.<br />
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<b>March 2, 1944</b> -<br />
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<b>Lewis Allan <i>Lou </i>Reed</b> singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist was born (on the wild side.) <br />
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<b>March 2, 1949</b> – <br />
Captain<b> James Gallagher</b> landed his <b>B-50 Superfortress, Lucky Lady II</b> in <b>Fort Worth, Texas</b> on this date after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in <b>94 hours and one minute. </b><br />
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En route, the aircraft was refueled four times near<b> Lajes Air Force Base </b>in the <b>Azores, Dhahran Airfield</b> in <b>Saudi Arabia, Clark Air Force Base</b> in <b>the Philippines</b>, and<b> Hickam Air Force Base</b> in <b>Hawaii</b>, using the soon-to-be obsolete grappled-line looped-hose technique. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1968 </b>- <br />
<b>Syd Barrett</b> left <b>Pink Floyd</b>, after melting his mind with various extremely dangerous drugs on this date. He spends the following years mumbling about pork chops and refrigerators. <br />
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A very good biography about <b>Syd Barrett</b>, <i><b>A Very Irregular Head</b></i>, came several years ago. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1982</b> - <br />
Science fiction author <b>Philip K Dick</b> died of a stroke in <b>Santa Ana, California </b>on this date. Since <b>1974 </b>the author had been possessed by a superalien who arrived in his head via a beam of pink light. <br />
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It has been suggested that Mr Dick and Mr Barrett had been in regular communication via the pork chops in his refrigerator. <br />
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<b>March 2, 1997</b> - <br />
<b>Don P. Wolf</b> and a team of researchers at the<b> Oregon National Primate Research Center</b> announced that they had produced rhesus monkeys from cloned embryos, the first successful use of cloning-related technology in primates. <br />
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Isn't this how that whole the <i><b>Planet of the Apes</b></i> problem began. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-86494873631820116422024-03-01T08:30:00.001-05:002024-03-01T08:30:00.154-05:00The March winds are the morning yawn<b>March </b>comes in like a the <b>Spiny Lumpsucker</b> and goes out like a <b>Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko</b>. <br />
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The name of <b>March </b>comes from ancient <b>Rome</b>, when <b>March </b>was the first month of the year and called <b>Martius </b>after <b>Mars</b>, the Roman god of war. <br />
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In <b>Rome</b>, where the climate is <b>Mediterranean</b>, <b>March </b>is the first month of spring, a logical point for the beginning of the year as well as the start of the military campaign season. The numbered year began on<b> March 1 </b>in <b>Russia </b>until the end of the <b>fifteenth century</b>. <br />
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<b>Great Britain</b> and her colonies continued to use<b> March 25 </b>until <b>1752</b>, the same year they finally adopted the <b>Gregorian </b>calendar. Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the <b>New Year</b> in <b>March</b>. (But I bet you told your boss that you still tenaciously clung to the <b>Julian</b> Calendar and celebrated <b>January 13th</b> as<b> New Years Day</b> - well you're <i><b>SOL</b></i>.) <br />
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Among the things we celebrate this month are: <br />
* <a href="https://youtu.be/HDYDVZv8UEc?feature=shared" target="_blank"><b>Cataract Awareness</b></a> Month <br />
* <b><a href="https://youtu.be/7IRiH9TwRUs?feature=shared" target="_blank">Honor Society Awareness</a></b> Month <br />
* <a href="https://youtu.be/8ZvugebaT6Q?feature=shared" target="_blank"><b>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness</b></a> Month <br />
* <b><a href="https://youtu.be/CIbHiWvRl6M?feature=shared" target="_blank">Colorectal Cancer Awareness</a></b> Month (Please stop broadcasting colonoscopies!) <br />
* <b><a href="https://youtu.be/GwSh0dAaqIA?feature=shared" target="_blank">Deaf History</a></b> Month <br />
* <b><a href="https://youtu.be/zzAL4PakEHc?feature=shared" target="_blank">Feminine Empowerment</a></b> Month <br />
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Today is <b>National Pig Day</b> honoring the porcine fellow. According to one of the holiday's creators, the purpose of<b> National Pig Day</b> is "<i><b>to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place as one of man's most intellectual and domesticated animals</b></i>." <br />
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<b>March 1, 1936 </b>- <br />
<b>Warner Bros. Pictures</b> releases the horror film <i><b>The Walking Dead</b></i>, directed by <b>Michael Curtiz</b> and starring<b> Boris Karloff </b>and <b>Edmund Gwenn,</b> which premiered in <b>New York City</b>, on this date. <br />
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The "<b>glass heart</b>" machine used to revive Karloff's dead character was said to be "<i><b>nearly a prefect replica</b></i>" of an actual perfusion pump- a device designed to keep organs alive outside an organism's body- which had been built by <b>Charles Lindbergh</b>, when the legendary pilot and engineer was working with a Nobel-winning scientist at <b>New York's Rockefeller Institute</b> research labs in the mid-<b>1930s</b>. <br />
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<b>March 1, 1968</b> -<br />
The <b><i>Star Trek</i></b> episode <b><i>The Omega Glory</i></b> aired in this date. <br />
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In it, the <b>Enterprise </b>comes across the derelict <b>Federation </b>ship <b>Exeter</b>, and the crew discovers that its entire crew has been killed by a plague.<br />
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<b>NBC </b>announced that<b><i> Star Trek </i></b>would be renewed for a <b>third </b>season during the closing credits of <b><i>The Omega Glory</i></b>, broadcast on this date. In the announcement, they also wrote "<b><i>Please do not send any more letters</i></b>", responding to the vast amount of mail received during the protests organized by <b>Gene Roddenberry</b> and <b>Bjo Trimble</b>. <br />
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<b>March 1, 1973</b> - <br />
<b>Pink Floyd</b> released their <b>eighth </b>studio album, <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/8Is9XsDjHe4" target="_blank">Dark Side Of The Moon</a></i></b>, on this date. <br />
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The album debuts at an inauspicious #<b>95 </b>on the <b>US </b>Albums chart, but has become the album with the most weeks on the <i><b>Billboard </b></i>charts, thanks in large part to a run from <b>1977-1988</b> when it never left. With an estimated<b> 45 million </b>copies sold, it is <b>Pink Floyd's </b>most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. <br />
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<b>March 1, 1981</b> - <br />
<b>NBC-TV</b> aired the made-for-TV film <b><i>Elvis and the Beauty Queen</i></b>, starring <b>Don Johnson</b> and <b>Stephanie Zimbalist</b> on this date. <br />
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The color scheme seen when Elvis is first showing Linda around Graceland is inaccurate. Linda and Elvis worked together to come up with the red theme. Also, Linda designed the stained glass in the house. A receipt on display at Graceland shows that the designer closely worked with Linda on the designs. The movie shows the stained glass already installed. <br />
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<b>March 1, 1985</b> - <br />
Another of <b>Woody Allen's</b> takes on the public's relationship with the movies, <b><i>The Purple Rose of Cairo</i></b> starring<b> Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, </b>and <b>Danny Aiello</b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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<b>Woody Allen</b> has frequently said that <b>Eve Arden </b>is his favorite comedic actress, and he very much wanted to collaborate with her on this film. Allen offered Arden a part, but unfortunately she had to turn it down in order to care for her ailing husband. <br />
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Another <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/03/after-that-unfortunate-incident.html" target="_blank">unimportant moment</a></b> in history<br />
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<b>Today in History:</b> <br />
<b>March 1, 1810 </b>- <br />
<b>Frédéric François Chopin</b>, one of the best-known and best-loved composers of the Romantic period, was born on this date. <br />
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Chopin's entire musical output was devoted to his favorite instrument, the piano.<br />
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<b>March 1, 1932</b> -<br />
A person, most likely not the convicted and executed<b> Bruno Hauptmann,</b> climbed a makeshift ladder to the <b>2nd</b> floor of <b>Charles Lindbergh's New Jersey</b> home and snatches his <b>twenty-month</b>-old son, <b>Charles Jr</b>. Whoever took the baby left behind a poorly-written ransom note demanding $<b>50,000</b> in small bills.<br />
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Interesting aside, leading the investigation for the <b>New Jersey</b> state police was Col.<b> H. Norman Schwarzkopf,</b> father of the <b>Gulf War</b> hero, <b>Stormin Norman,</b> who shares his name.<br />
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<b>March 1, 1954</b> -<br />
The first hydrogen bomb is detonated at <b>Bikini</b>. Even though the bomb was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb exploded there in <b>1946</b>, no islanders were evacuated this time. Almost <b>300 </b>people suffered radiation exposure. The test was so successful that it blew the once happy island into tiny bits that came to be known collectively as the <b>Bikini Atoll</b>.<br />
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Shrewd fashion moguls in France put two and two together and invented bell bottoms.<br />
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About four hundred years earlier--on <b>March 1, 1562</b>-- <b>Jason </b>and his thousand <b>Huguenots </b>were at prayer in <b>Vassy, France,</b> when they were suddenly massacred by Catholics. Huguenots and Catholics subsequently fought <b>The Wars of Religion</b> for over <b>three decades</b> to settle the question of Best Religion Ever. Unfortunately the <b>Edict of Nantes</b> granted religious tolerance in <b>1598 </b>and the question was never settled to anyone's satisfaction.<br />
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I truly hopes <b>God </b>is grading on a curve. . . . <br />
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<b>March 1, 1969 </b>- <br />
While performing with the <b>Doors </b>at <b>The Dinner Key Auditorium</b> in <b>Miami</b>, the formerly svelte, now tubby alcoholic <b>Jim Morrison</b> asks the audience <i><b>Do you wanna see my cock?</b></i> then exposes himself briefly on the <b>Miami </b>stage. <br />
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For thus showing why he was known as <b><i>The Lizard King</i></b>, Morrison received a sentence of <b>six months </b>hard labor. <br />
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<b>Mr. Mojo Rising</b> indeed. <br />
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<b>March 1, 1971</b> - <br />
You may not need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows but... The radical group <b>Weather Underground</b> exploded a bomb in a restroom of the<b> U.S. Capitol</b> building, causing significant damage. The bomb exploded after an intensive search of the building yielded no results. <br />
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Nobody was ever convicted of the attack. <br />
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<b>March 1, 1978 </b>- <br />
The body of <b>Charlie Chaplin</b> was stolen for ransom by<b> Galtcho Ganav</b> (<b>Bulgaria</b>) and <b>Romnan Wardas</b> (<b>Poland</b>) from a cemetery in <b>Corsier, Switzerland.</b> The actor's corpse is recovered<b> two months </b>later. <br />
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One can only hope the little tramp was properly embalmed.<br />
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<b>March 1, 1982</b> -<br />
Russian spacecraft <b>Venera 13</b> landed on <b>Venus </b>and sent back data.<br />
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Frightened scientists try to suppress the video but the world must know. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-3646104383091100162024-02-29T08:30:00.040-05:002024-02-29T08:30:00.159-05:00Leap into the future with confidence and courage.<b>February 29, 1584 </b>-<br />
Due to the <b>Gregorian Calendar</b> adjustment of<b> two years</b> earlier, much of <b>Europe's</b> population lived through its first <b>Leap Day</b> on this date.<br />
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But let's take a step back - Roman Emperor <b>Julius Caesar</b> took a break from being the dictator of the known world and took a stab at fixing the calendar when dates were no longer in sync with the seasons. First, he created one extra-long year – <b>445 days</b> – to get things back on track (heavy drinking, animal sacrifices and non-stop orgies were involved.) He followed that with a pattern of <b>three 365-day years</b> and <b>one 366-day year</b> – leap year.<br />
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<b>Fifteen centuries</b> later, though, the calendar was off-kilter again. It turns out that <b>Caesar’s</b> plan created three extra leap years every <b>400 years</b>. So in <b>1582</b>, Pope<b> Gregory XIII</b> came up with a way to fix the problem. That year, the calendar jumped from <b>October 4 </b>to<b> October 15. Gregory</b> also set up a new rule to get rid of those three extra leap years. Under the Gregorian calendar, only century years divisible by <b>400</b> are leap years. With the introduction.of <b>LEAP SECOND</b> adjustments on the final day of some years, calendar accuracy has become an almost-exact science.<br />
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<b>Leap Year</b> has been the traditional time that women can propose marriage. In many of today's cultures, it is okay for a woman to propose marriage to a man. Society doesn't look down on such women. It is believed this tradition was started in <b>5th century Ireland</b> when <b>St. Bridget</b> complained to<b> St. Patrick</b> about women having to wait for so long for a man to propose. A law once existed in <b>Scotland</b> forbidding a man to refuse a proposal made to him on<b> February 29th.</b> Punishment for such an offense was a large fine. And yet, there is a Greek superstition that claims couples have bad luck if they marry during a leap year. Apparently one in five engaged couples in <b>Greece</b> will avoid planning their wedding during a leap year.<br />
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A person who was born on <b>February 29</b> may be called a "<b><i>leapling</i></b>". In non-leap years they may celebrate their birthday on <b>February 28th </b>or<b> March 1st</b>.<br />
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For legal purposes, their legal birthdays depend on how different laws count time intervals. In <b>England </b>and<b> Wales</b> the legal birthday of a leapling is <b>February 28th</b> in common years (see <b>Leap Years</b>, above). In <b>Taiwan</b> the legal birthday of a leapling is also <b>February 28</b> in common years. In both cases, a person born on <b>February 29, 1980</b> would have legally reached 18 years old on <b>February 28, 1998</b>.<br />
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There are many instances in children's literature where a person's claim to be only a quarter of their actual age turns out to be based on counting their leap-year birthdays.<br />
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A similar device is used in the plot of the <b>Gilbert and Sullivan</b> operetta <i><b>The Pirates of Penzance</b></i>. <b>Frederic</b>, born on <b>February 29</b>, was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his <b>21st birthday</b>, which would not arrive until he was <b>88 years</b> old.<br />
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Some famous leaplings are:<br />
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- <b>William "<i>Wild Bill</i>" A. Wellman</b>, American film director, (<b><i>Wings, The Public Enemy</i></b> and <b><i>Nothing Sacred</i></b>) (<b>1896</b>)<br />
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- <b>Jimmy Dorsey</b>, American bandleader (<b>1904</b>)<br />
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- <b>Balthus</b>, (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) French-Polish painter of young girls in an erotic context (<b>1908</b>)<br />
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- <b>Dinah Shore</b>, American singer and long-time supporter of women's professional golf. (<b>1916</b>)<br />
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- <b>Superman</b> (aka <b>Kal-El</b>), the <i><b>Man of Steel</b></i>.<br />
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<b>Clark Kent’s </b>birthday (<b>June 18</b>) is the day the Kents (the <b>Earth</b> couple who adopted him) found baby.<br />
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<b>February 29, 1964 </b>-<br />
<b><i>Bartholomew Versus the Wheel</i></b>, a<b><i> Merrie Melodies</i></b> short directed by <b>Robert McKimson</b> was released on this date. <br />
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This is the shortest cartoons ever made by<b> Warner Bros.</b><br />
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<b>February 29, 1968 </b>-<br />
<b>Universal Pictures </b>released the wartime comedy, <b><i>The Secret War of Harry Frigg</i></b>, starring <b>Paul Newman</b>, in <b>NYC </b>on this date.<br />
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The character of <b>Harry Frigg </b>was supposed to be about <b>30 years</b> old, and he said so in dialogue, but <b>Paul Newman </b>was <b>42-43 </b>at the time of production. I don't believe any of his fans minded<br />
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<b>February 29, 1980</b> -<br />
The coming-of-age drama, <b><i>Foxes</i></b>, directed by <b>Adrian Lyne</b>, in his directorial debut, and starring <b>Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, </b>and <b>Cherie Currie</b>, premiered on this date.<br />
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<b>Rosanna Arquette, Diane Lane, Jennifer Jason Leigh </b>and <b>Kristy McNichol</b> all auditioned and/or tested for the role of <b>Annie </b>which in the end was cast with <b>The Runaways</b>' lead singer <b>Cherie Currie</b>.<br />
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<b>February 29, 1988</b> -<br />
The sitcom <b><i>Day by Day</i></b> starring <b>Douglas Sheehan, Linda Kelsey, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith, </b>and <b>Thora Birch</b> aired on <b>NBC </b>on this date.<br />
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Christopher Daniel Barnes'</b> character has a dream in <b><i>A Very Brady Episode </i></b>in which he is <b>Chuck Brady</b>, an additional brother to the three famous brothers in original <b><i>The Brady Bunch</i></b> TV series. He then went on to star as <b>Greg </b>in<b><i> The Brady Bunch Movie </i></b>and <b><i>A Very Brady Sequel</i></b>.<br />
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<b>Today in History</b> -<br />
<b>February 29, 1504</b> -<br />
<b>Christopher Columbus</b>, stranded in <b>Jamaica</b> during his <b>fourth</b> voyage to the <b>West</b>, used a correctly predicted lunar eclipse to frighten hostile natives into providing food for his crew.<br />
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Things didn't go well for the native population after that.<br />
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<b>February 29, 1692</b> -<br />
The witch mania in <b>Salem, Massachusetts</b>,began on this date when <b>Sarah Goode</b> and <b>Tituba</b>, an Indian servant to a local preacher, were arrested and charged with witchcraft on this date.<br />
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<b>February 29, 1904</b> -<br />
President <b>Theodore Roosevelt </b>appointed the <b>Isthmian Canal Commission </b>to detail requirements for construction of a canal across the <a href="https://youtu.be/BL3ShfMEHwE?feature=shared"><b>Isthmus</b></a> of .<br />
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In <b>1905</b>, the <b>seven-man</b> commission decided on a canal with locks, not a sea-level waterway. Completed in the <b>1914</b>, its final cost was $<b>336-million</b>.<br />
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<b>February 29, 1940</b> -<br />
<b><i>Gone with the Wind </i></b>wins <b>eight</b> Academy Awards, including best picture of <b>1939</b>, on this date.<br />
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<b>Victor Fleming</b> was named best director, <b>Vivien Leigh</b> best actress and <b>Hattie McDaniel</b> best supporting actress, the first black performer to receive an <b>Oscar</b>.<br />
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<b>February 29, 1968</b> -<br />
At the <b>Grammy Awards</b> on this date, the<b> Fifth Dimension's <i>Up, Up and Away</i></b> won record of the year for <b>1967</b>,<br />
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the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category is given for the first time, and Aretha Franklin won it for Respect. (She won the award again each of the next seven years.) <br />
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while album of the year honors went to<b> the Beatles </b>for<b> <i>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</i></b>.<br />
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The album was heavily produced and took<b> 129 days</b> and about <b>700 hours</b> to complete. <b>The Beatles</b> first album, <b><i>Please Please Me</i></b>, was recorded in less than <b>10 hours</b>.<br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-53626086722682589292024-02-28T08:30:00.001-05:002024-02-28T08:30:00.165-05:00In case you forgotSince it's a leap year, this isn't the end of <b>February</b> - there's one more day this month<br />
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<b>February 28, 1936 </b>- <br />
<b>Wife vs. Secretary</b> starring, <b>Clark Gable, Jean Harlow</b>, and<b> Myrna Loy </b>premiered on this date. <br />
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Please refer to the flowchart provided to follow along - This was the <b>fifth </b>of <b>six </b>films paring Gable and Harlow, and the fourth picture for Gable and Loy starring together. This was the <b>first </b>film Loy and Harlow appeared together. They would be together again for <i><b>Libeled Lady </b></i>in <b>1936</b>. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1963</b> - <br />
<b>Patsy Cline</b> made the final TV appearance on this date, when she's on <b><i>The Glenn Reeves Show</i></b>, performing <i><b>San Antonio Rose </b></i>and <i><b>I Fall To Pieces</b>.</i> <br />
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She died tragically in a plane crash just <b>five days</b> later at the age of <b>30</b>. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1970</b> - <br />
<b>Simon and Garfunkel's</b> song <i><b>Bridge over Troubled Water</b></i> reached number one on this date and stayed there for the next<b> six weeks</b>. <br />
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Simon wrote this song with just two verses, considering the song "<b><i>a little hymn</i></b>." Garfunkel and producer <b>Roy Halee</b> heard it as more epic, and convinced him to write a third verse, which Paul did in the studio (the "<i><b>Sail on, Silvergirl part</b></i>"). This was very unusual for Simon, as he usually took a long time writing his lyrics. Simon's "<i><b>little hymn</b></i>" got a grand production, and after hearing it, Paul thought it was too long, too slow and too orchestral to be a hit. <b>Clive Davis</b> at <b>Columbia Records</b> is the one who heard the commercial appeal of the song, and insisted they market it like crazy and use it as the album title. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1983 </b>- <br />
The <b>256th</b> and final episode of<b> <i>M*A*S*H</i></b>, <i><b>Goodbye, Farewell and Amen</b></i>, aired on <b>CBS-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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It's the second time the phrase "<b><i>son-of-a-bitch</i></b>" was said, uncensored, on the series. Both times it was said by <b>Hawkeye</b>. The first time was in <i><b>Guerrilla My Dreams</b></i>, which was also the first time the curse was ever uttered on network television. <b>Hawkeye </b>said it once before, in <i><b>The Interview</b></i>, but it was bleeped, as it would have been in a <b>1951 </b>interview.<br /> <br />
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<b>February 28, 1983 </b>- <br />
Produced by <b>Steve Lillywhite</b>, <b>U2</b> released their third studio album <i><b>War</b></i>, on this date. <br />
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It's their first album to sell a million copies in <b>America</b>. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1986 </b>- <br />
The <b>Brat-Pack</b> Classic, <i><b>Pretty In Pink</b></i>, starring<b> Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer</b> and <b>James Spader</b> premiered on this date. <br />
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The genesis of this project emerged when <b>Molly Ringwald </b>asked <b>John Hughes</b> to write a movie based on <b>The Psychedelic Furs</b> song <i><b>Pretty in Pink</b></i>, which was her favorite song at the time.<br />
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<b>February 28, 1989 </b>- <br />
<b>America </b>started following the goings on at with <b>Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles</b> football team when <i><b>Coach</b></i>, starring <b>Craig T. Nelson, Shelley Fabares, Jerry Van Dyke,</b> and <b>Bill Fagerbakke</b> premiered on <b>ABC-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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The <b><i>Coach</i></b> theme song was performed by the <b>Iowa State University Cyclone Football</b> "<b><i>Varsity</i></b>" <b>Marching Band</b>. The <b>Iowa State</b> band was the winner of a national contest for the right to play the piece for TV. <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>February 28, 202 BC</b> -<br />
<b>Liu Bang</b>, who rose from obscurity to be crowned as Emperor <b>Gaozu</b>, on this date, at the <b>Xianyang Palace</b> in modern-day <b>Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China</b>. <br />
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This marked the beginning of the<b> Han Dynasty</b>, one of the most significant and influential dynasties in Chinese history, lasting from <b>202 BC</b> to <b>220 AD</b>. <br />
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Once again, what the hell do you care.<br />
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<b>February 28, 1574 </b>- <br />
Two impertinent heretics were burned at the stake in <b>Mexico </b>at a spectacular <i><b>auto-da-fe</b></i> comparable to those in Spain. <br />
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The <b>two </b>are the first victims of the Inquisition in the <b>New World</b>, dying for their heretical crimes of...<i><b>Lutheranism</b></i>.<br />
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<b>February 28, 1844</b> -<br />
<b>Julia Gardiner</b> met her future husband, President <b>John Tyler</b>, on this date.<br />
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The<b> USS Princeton</b> departed <b>Alexandria, Virginia</b> on a pleasure and trial trip down the <b>Potomac </b>with President <b>John Tyler</b>, his Cabinet and approximately<b> two hundred</b> guests on board. Upon the final firing of Captain <b>Robert F. Stockton's Peacemaker</b> (a newly designed cannon), the defective gun finally burst, instantly killing Secretary of State <b>Abel Upshur</b>; Secretary of the Navy <b>Thomas Gilmer</b>; Captain <b>Beverly Kennon</b>, Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs; <b>Virgil Maxcy </b>of <b>Maryland</b>, Charge d'Affaires to <b>Belgium</b>, <b>1837–42; David Gardiner</b> of <b>New York</b>, the father of <b>Julia Gardiner</b>; and the President's valet, a black slave named <b>Armistead</b>.<br />
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It also injured about <b>20</b> people, including Captain Stockton (who received severe powder burns on his face, and all the hair on his head was burned off.) A Court of Inquiry exonerated Capt. Stockton due to his political influence (he supported Tyler’s campaign), blaming the explosion on <b>John Ericsson</b>, designer of the ships' engines (despite the fact Ericsson had nothing to do with the design of the Peacemaker gun. Capt. Stockton, in fact, stole the design plans from Ericsson, got a key element of the design wrong in the process, and passed them off as his own), and "<b><i>bad luck</i></b>". When <b>Julia Gardiner</b>, who was aboard, found out her father had died in the explosion she fainted into President Tyler's arms. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1905 </b>- <br />
<b>Jane Lathrop Stanford</b>, the wife of the late<b> Leland Stanford</b>, died of suspected arsenic poisoning at the <b>Moana Hotel</b> in <b>Honolulu</b>. A coroner’s jury confirmed the result. <br />
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Her body was returned to the mainland under the care of <b>David Starr Jordan</b>, the president of <b>Stanford Univ</b>. An examination by <b>Stanford </b>physicians claimed no trace of strychnine and set heart attack as cause of death.<br />
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A will signed <b>19 months</b> earlier had left the bulk of her $<b>30 million</b> estate to <b>Stanford University.</b> After <b>100 years,</b> the only thing certain about the case - Stanford did in fact died of strychnine poisoning and somebody got away with murder. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1915 </b>– <br />
<b><i>The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again</i></b>.<br />
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<b>Samuel Joel Zero Mostel</b>, (blacklisted by the <b>HUAC</b> in the '<b>50s</b>), larger than life actor and comedian, was born on this date. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1939</b> - <br />
On <b>July 31, 1931</b>, while working on the second edition of <b>New International Dictionary</b> for the <b>G. and C. Merriam Company, Austin M. Patterson, Merriam-Webster's </b>chemistry editor, sent a slip of paper reading "<i><b>D or d, cont./density.</b></i>" it was meant as a note to say the the letters <b>D </b>or <b>d </b>could be used as the abbreviation for the word <b>Density</b>. The typo word got past proofreaders and appeared on page <b>771 </b>of the dictionary around <b>1934</b>. <br />
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The ghost word "<b>dord</b>" was not discovered to have made it into the dictionary until this date in the <i><b>New International Dictionary.</b></i> The word was a great source of embarrassment for the<b> G. and C. Merriam Company</b>, since it's not actually a word. For some reason though, they never go around to kicking it out of the dictionary until <b>1947</b>.<br />
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(But please feel free to use it in <b>Scrabble</b>, citing the above mentioned page as proof of it's existence.)<br />
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<b>February 28, 1948</b> -<br />
<b><i>The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience</i></b>.<br />
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<b>Bernadette Lazzara</b> (<b>Bernadette Peters</b>), Actress/Singer was born on this date.<br />
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<b>February 28, 1954</b> - <br />
The first <b>NTSC </b>standard color television sets were sold on this date. The first set was made by <b>Westinghouse</b>, and sold for $<b>1295</b> (approximately one-half the cost of a new car.) <br />
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Only <b>30 </b>of these sets were sold by <b>April </b>of that year and only <b>500 </b>sets were ever be built. On<b> March 25th, RCA</b> began shipping its mass-produced all-electronic compatible color set, for $<b>1,000</b>, and later in the year, a still cheaper model that would secure the company’s dominance in the television market.<br />
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<b>February 28, 1968</b> -<br />
Singer and early <b>60s </b>heartthrob <b>Frankie Lymon </b>was found dead from a heroin overdose next to his syringe, in his grandmother's<b> New York City </b>apartment, on this date. Years later, three women,<b> Zola Taylor, Elizabeth Waters </b>and <b>Elmira Eagle</b>, each claim to be Lymon's rightful widow and sue to stake out a piece of his estate.<br />
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SO, I'm hoping the answer to the question, <b><i>Why do fools fall in love</i></b>? - isn't so that they can O.D. and have three women pick over the bones of their rotting corpse. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1979 </b>- <br />
<b>Mr. Ed</b>, the talking horse, died. This was not the horse who actually starred on the TV show, but another horse who did publicity work as <b>Mr. Ed</b>. <br />
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The original <b>Mr. Ed </b>(<b>Bamboo Harvester</b>) died in <b>1970</b>. <br />
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<b>February 28, 1986 </b>- <br />
Prime Minister of <b>Sweden</b> <b>Olof Palm</b>e was assassinated as he left a movie theater in <b>Stockholm</b> on this date. <br />
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In <b>1996 </b>South African former police officer <b>Eugene de Kock</b> said that<b> Craig Williamson</b>, a South African spy, was involved in the murder. In <b>1997 </b>lawyer<b> Pelle Svensson </b>said that his client,<b> Lars Tingstrom</b>, wrote a statement on his deathbed in prison in <b>1993 </b>that he committed the killing. The family of <b>Christer Pettersson</b>, a drug addict and alcoholic, was convinced that he was the killer. In <b>1999, Abdullah Ocalan</b> in <b>Turkey </b>suggested that a rival <b>PKK </b>organization killed <b>Olaf Palme</b>.<br />
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<b>February 28, 1993</b> -<br />
<b>Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco</b> used armed force attempting to serve <b>Branch Davidian</b> leader <b>David Koresh</b> with a search warrant (one with no actual evidence of any illegal activity whatsoever), in what the <b>BATF </b>viewed as a publicity stunt to improve their image.<br />
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While the agents carefully coordinated the raid with eleven different media outlets, something apparently tipped off Koresh and as these things usual happen - things do not go well: <b>six </b>Davidians and <b>four ATF</b> agents were killed.<br />
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The warrant instead could have been served peacefully, while Koresh did his daily morning jog. <br />
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<b>February 28, 2013</b> – <br />
Pope <b>Benedict XVI</b> resigned as the pope of the Catholic Church, on this date. <br />
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<b>Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger</b> became the first pope to resign since <b>1415</b>. At <b>94</b>, the pope emeritus tenaciously clings to the buttocks of life. <br />
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<b>February 28, 2014</b> - <br />
Ukrainian authorities have accused <b>Russia</b> of deploying troops and occupying government buildings in the region of <b>Crimea</b>. <b>Russia</b> was accused of sending armed troops to the <b>Sevastopol</b> airport and attempting to provoke <b>Ukraine</b> into armed conflict. <br />
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This was just the first of many controversial moves made by <b>Russia</b> during the Ukraine government crisis. <br />
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As always, please keep the people of <b>Ukraine</b> and their struggles in your thoughts today. <br />
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Before you go, <b><i>please note</i></b> - <br />
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There are <b>20 days</b> until <b>Spring</b>! <br />
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(<b>Christmas</b> is in <b>301</b> days) <br />
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And so it goes. <br />
<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-64218550145330903252024-02-27T08:30:00.027-05:002024-02-27T08:30:00.161-05:00Drink up (or not)It's <b><i>National Kahlua Day!</i></b> <b>Kahlua</b>, for those under <b>21</b> or Mormon, is a rich, creamy, coffee based alcoholic liqueur from <b>Mexico</b>. <br />
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this will be on the test (and <b>Kahlua</b> can send me my check for the advertising space I provided.) <br />
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(As always, celebrate as you see fit.) <br />
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<b>February 27, 1920 </b>- <br />
A film that we're somewhat familiar with here, <b><i><a href="https://youtu.be/Gpn49rUuOGU?feature=shared" target="_blank">The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari</a></i></b>, opened in <b>Germany</b> on this date. <br />
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The final look and feel of the film was based as much on low-budget practicalities as it was on creative inspiration and expressionism. Electricity was strictly rationed in post-<b>WWI Germany</b> at the time the film was being shot, so director <b>Robert Wiene</b> ended the film simply painting light beams on backdrops. Shooting on severely confined sets forced him to use unusual camera angles <br />
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<b>February 27, 1937</b> - <br />
An early <b>Porky Pig</b> cartoon, drawn by <b>Tex Avery</b>, <b><i>Picador Porky</i></b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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(Sorry for the colorized version.) This is the first <b>Warner Bros</b>. cartoon to feature <b>Mel Blanc's</b> voice. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1968</b> - <br />
<b>CBS</b> News anchorman <b>Walter Cronkite's</b> commentary on the progress of the <b>Vietnam War </b>solidified President<b> Lyndon B. Johnson's</b> decision not to seek reelection in <b>1968</b>. Cronkite, who had been at Hue in the midst of the <b>Tet Offensive</b> earlier in <b>February</b>, said: "<i><b>Who won and who lost in the great Tet Offensive against the cities? I m not sure</b></i>." He concluded: <i><b>"It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out...will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.</b></i>" <br />
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Johnson called the commentary a turning point, saying that if he had "<b><i>lost Cronkite</i></b>," he'd "<b><i>lost Mr. Average Citizen</i></b>." On <b>March 31</b>, President Johnson announced he would not seek reelection. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1971 </b>- <br />
<b>Janis Joplin's </b>album released three months after her drug overdose, Pearl hits #<b>1</b> in the <b>US</b>, where it stays for <b>nine weeks</b>, on this date. <br />
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<b><i>Pearl</i></b> was <b>Janis Joplin's</b> most commercially successful album, yet it only reached #<b>50</b> in the <b>UK</b>. <b><i>Pearl</i></b> was one of Joplin's nicknames. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1979</b> - <br />
The short-lived anthology series <b><i>Cliffhangers</i></b>, starring <b> Susan Anton, Geoffrey Scott, </b>and <b>Michael Nour</b>i, premiered on this date. (The series only aired 10 episodes.)<br />
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Of the <b>three </b>short weekly installments (<b><i>Stop Susan Williams, The Secret Empire,</i></b> and <b><i>The</i></b> <b><i>Curse of Dracula</i></b>,) that made up the series <b><i>Clilffhangers</i></b>, <b><i>The Curse of Dracula</i></b> was the only one of the three stories to be completed by the time <b><i>Cliffhangers </i></b>was cancelled. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1980</b> - <br />
During a live telecast from <b>Shrine Auditorium </b>in <b>Los Angeles</b>, the only Grammy for Best Disco Recording ever, was awarded to <b>Gloria Gaynor</b>, <b>Dino Fekaris</b> and<b> Freddie Perren </b>(the producers of the song) for <b><i>I Will Survive</i></b>. <br />
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Gaynor told <b><i>Billboard</i></b> magazine that it doesn't bother her in the least that she will forever be tied to her signature ode. "<b><i>From the beginning I recognized it was a timeless lyric that everyone could relate to," said Gaynor, "so I don't get tired of singing it. I'm always freshening it up; changing the beat, the lyrics, modernizing the arrangement - I've even stuck a hip-hop section in the middle of it. I become 295% grade A ham when I do this song because people still love it.</i></b>" <br />
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<b>February 27, 1998</b> - <br />
<b>New Line Cinema</b> released the influential (but little seen) science fiction film <b><i>Dark City</i></b>, directed by <b>Alex Proyas </b>and starring <b>Rufus Sewell, William Hurt</b>, <b>Kiefer Sutherland</b>, and <b>Jennifer Connelly</b>, in the<b> U.S.</b>, on this date. <br />
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Although <b>Alex Proyas</b> wrote the original screenplay, very little of the plot was retained (besides the fact that the lead is wanted for murders).<b> Lem Dobbs</b> wrote the final draft and reformed the plot as it appears in the film with the exception of the special effects sequences. Although the powers of<b> the Strangers </b>were alluded to they would never actually be depicted.<b> David S. Goyer </b>was hired to write the shooting script when they had secured a bigger budget. He added all the action scenes that appear in the film and which show explicitly the operating background of the<b><i> Dark City</i></b>. <br />
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<b>February 27, 2000 </b>- <br />
Another bio-pix mini-series about<b> America's</b> favorite band, <b><i>The Beach Boys: An American Family</i></b> began aired on <b>ABC</b> on this date. <br />
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During scenes in which <b>Brian Wilson</b> (<b>Frederick Weller</b>) is demoing <b><i>I Get Around</i></b> and <b><i>In My Room</i></b>, the real <b>Brian Wilson</b> contributes the vocal, recorded specifically for this film. However, an uncredited <b>Jeffrey Foskett</b>, a member of Wilson's touring band, provides the high notes during the <b><i>In My Room</i></b> demo. <br />
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Today's moment of <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-random-thought-on-tuesday-afternoon_01226711314.html" target="_blank">Zen</a></b><br />
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<b>Today in History:</b> <br />
On this date in <b>280 A.D.</b> (or another date or year, again remember lead cups and constant orgies, do not good calendar keepers make), Emperor <b>Constantine the Great</b> was born. <br />
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<b>Constantine</b> took half the Roman Empire and moved it to <b>Byzantium</b>, a little village which he built up into such a magnificent city that it was eventually named after him: Istanbul. <br />
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And it's nobody's business but the Turks. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1859 </b>- <br />
Censured Congressman <b>Dan Sickles</b> of <b>New York</b> (who escorting a known prostitute into State chambers) shot and killed <b>Philip Barton Key</b>, son of <b>Francis Scott Key</b> and U.S. Attorney for the <b>District of Columbia</b>. The younger Key was having an affair with the congressman's wife at the time. <br />
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He was tried on a charge of murder, but was acquitted after a sensational trial involving the first use of the insanity defense in U.S. history. <br />
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<b>An interesting aside</b>: Sickle went on to become a Union general and was involved in some of the bloodiest fighting at Gettysburg and lost his own right leg in the battle. He had the leg preserved and sent to <b>Washington D.C.</b>, where it was exhibited in a little wooden coffin at the <b>Medical Museum</b> of the <b>Library of Congress</b>. Sickles frequently visited it himself. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1902 </b>- <br />
<b>John Steinbeck</b>, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose novels included <b><i>The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden</i></b>, and <b><i>Of Mice and Men</i></b>, was born in <b>Salinas, California</b> on this date in <b>1902</b>. <br />
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He won the <b>1962 Nobel Prize</b> in Literature “<b><i>for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.</i></b>” Before his death at age <b>66</b>, he authored <b>27</b> books, including <b>16</b> novels, <b>six</b> non-fiction books, and <b>two</b> collections of short stories. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1932</b> - <br />
<b><i>You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.</i></b> <br />
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<b>Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor</b>, actress and serial bride was born on this date. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1933</b> - <br />
The <b>Reichstag</b> conveniently went up in flames on this date. A mad Dutchman who was arrested at the scene, <b>Marinus van der Lubbe</b>, may have been partially responsible but if this is so, he is likely someone's patsy. The Nazi Party benefit greatly from the subsequent crack down, and it's suspected that SA stormtroopers set things up for van der Lubbe. <br />
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Another important life lesson - bad Germans in leather shorts, beer halls and matches do not mix. <br />
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On <b>February 27, 1939, Neville Chamberlain</b>, everyone's favorite legume supporter, recognized General<b> Franco's </b>government on this date. The Fascist regime was on it's way to achieved victory in the <b>Spanish Civil War</b>. <br />
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<b>Ernest Hemingway</b> had been defeated.<br />
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The war had been so successful that <b>Europe </b>decided to have the<b> Second World War,</b> which was every bit as exciting as the <b>Spanish Civil War</b> but with more geography and submarines. <br />
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General <b>Franco </b>and<b> Ernest Hemingway </b>are still dead. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1951</b> - <br />
The <b>22nd Amendment </b>to the <b>American Constitution</b> was ratified by <b>Minnesota</b>, the <b>36th </b>state out of <b>48 </b>to ratify, thereby making it the law of the land. The <b>22nd Amendment</b> states that no person shall be president of the <b>United States</b> more than twice unless they're <b>Harry Truman.</b> <br />
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Really, look it up - it says that. <br />
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In the graphic novel <i><b>Watchmen</b></i>, a crushing<b> U.S.</b> victory in the Vietnam War leads to the repeal of the <b>22nd Amendment</b> and the repeated reelection of President<b> Richard M. Nixon</b>, who still serves as of <b>1985</b>, the year in which <i><b>Watchmen </b></i>is set. <br />
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Similarly, in the time-travel movie <i><b>Back to the Future Part II</b></i>, an alternate timeline newspaper headline, before changing to report<b> Ronald Reagan</b> considering a second term, reports Nixon considering a fifth term. In a<i><b> Saturday Night Live</b></i> sketch, <b>Dan Aykroyd </b>portrayed <b>Richard Nixon </b>writing to random congressmen, asking for repeal of the amendment. <br />
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<b>February 27, 1992</b> - <br />
Trying to get the lid off her<b> McDonald's</b> coffee to add cream and sugar,<b> 79-year</b>-old <b>Stella Liebeck </b>accidentally splashes the 180-degree liquid on herself, causing third-degree burns to the thighs, genitals, and buttocks. <br />
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After skin graft surgery and weeks of recuperation, Liebeck asks <b>McDonald's </b>to turn down the temperature of their coffee and pay $<b>20,000</b> to defray her hospital bills.<b> McDonald's</b> told the old lady go suck an egg, as they had done for a decade of similar burn claims. Ultimately, a jury awards Liebeck $<b>2.9 million</b> in the resulting lawsuit, which immediately triggers a renewed call for legislative tort reform and makes that one expense cup of coffee. <br />
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<b>February 27, 2003 </b>- <br />
All of our neighborhoods were a little less beautiful when our good neighbor,<b> Fred McFeely Rogers </b>died on this date. <br />
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But let's make the most of this beautiful day. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-38046823078108424612024-02-26T08:30:00.001-05:002024-02-26T08:30:00.279-05:00You learn something new every dayToday is <b>For Pete's Sake Day</b>. “<b><i>For Pete’s sake</i></b>” originated as a substitute for “<b><i>for Christ’s</i></b> (or<b><i> God’s</i></b>) <b><i>sake</i></b>,” and other similar expressions—as using a shortened form of the disciple St. <b>Peter’s </b>name instead was considered less offensive.<br />
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According to the <b><i>Oxford English Dictionary</i></b>, “<b><i>for Pete’s sake</i></b>” came into use more than a century ago and prompted similar sayings such as “<b><i>for the love of Pete</i></b>” in <b>1906 </b>and “<b><i>in the name of Pete</i></b>” in <b>1942</b>. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1908</b> - <br />
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<b>Frederick Bean (<i>Tex</i>) Avery</b>, animator, cartoonist, and another member of the legendary <b>Termite Terrace</b> was born on this date. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1966</b> - <br />
While<b> Nancy Sinatra</b> was on the same record label (<b>Reprise</b>) as her famous father, her record label was going to drop her because her first few singles flopped. Things changed when they teamed her with producer <b>Lee Hazlewood</b>. <i><b>These Boots Are Made for Walkin</b></i>' topped the charts on this date. <br />
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It was her first hit. In <b>1996</b>,<b> Nancy Sinatra</b> gave a pair of white go-go boots she wore to promote this song to the <i><b>Hard Rock Cafe </b></i>in <b>Beverly Hills</b>. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1967</b> – <br />
<b>Gene Kelly</b> starred in<i><b> Jack and the Beanstalk </b></i>on <b>NBC </b>(produced by <b>Hanna-Barbara</b>) on this date. It was the first TV special to combine live action and animation. <br />
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<b>Dick Beals,</b> who was <b>39 years </b>old provided the singing voice for <b>8-year-</b>old <b>Bobby Riha's </b>character, <b>Jack</b>.<br />
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<b>February 26, 1979</b> - <br />
The shortlived sitcom, <b><i>Flatbush</i></b>, premiered on<b> CBS-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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The show was so disliked that <b>CBS </b>switchboards were flood with negative comments about the show that night. Only <b>three </b>of the episodes aired. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1979</b> - <br />
<b>NBC</b> hoped to capitalize on their previous series <b><i>Columbo</i></b>, by casting<b> Kate Mulgrew</b>, as his never seen wife, now a crime solving reporter in <b><i>Mrs. Columbo</i></b>, co-starring<b> Henry Jones</b>, premiered on this date. <br />
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The series was originally about the exploits of the crime reporter wife of <b>Lt. Columbo</b>, but when the series couldn't capitalize on the popular earlier series, producers changed <b>Mrs. Columbo's</b> name to "<b>Callahan</b>" and soon, all references to the fictional cop were removed. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1988</b> - <br />
<b>John Water's</b> great, albeit more mainstream feature (Water's first <b>PG-rated</b> film), <i><b>Hairspray</b></i>, opened on this date. <br />
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<b>Ricki Lake</b> began rapidly losing weight due to the intense dance lessons she had to take for the film. She reportedly had to "<i><b>eat like crazy</b></i>" in order to stay plump. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1988 </b>- <br />
The science fiction film <i><b>Alien from L.A</b></i>., directed by <b>Albert Pyun</b> and starring <b>Kathy Ireland</b> was released in <b>US </b>theaters, on this date. <br />
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And the only reason to note it is because the <b>MST3K</b> guys spoofed it. <br />
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<b>February 26, 2011</b> – <br />
<b>Lady Gaga</b> single, <i><b>Born This Way</b></i> hit No. #<b>1</b> on the <i><b>Billboard Charts</b></i>, on this date. <br />
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Gaga performed this song at the <b>Grammy Awards</b> in <b>2011</b>. The Grammys don't let performers do new songs very often at the ceremonies, but Gaga was the hottest thing going at the time. Her album<i><b> The Fame Monster</b></i> took home the Best Pop Vocal Album award later in the show, and when she accepted the award, she thanked <b>Whitney Houston</b>, stating the when she wrote <i><b>Born This Way</b></i>, she imagined Whitney singing it, "<i><b>because I wasn't secure enough in myself to imagine I was a superstar</b></i>." <br />
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<b>February 26, 1076</b> - <br />
<b>Godfrey III</b> (the hunchback) was assassinated on this date. He was murdered while going to the latrine with a spear through his behind. <br />
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<b>Godfrey</b> was the duke of Lower <b>Lorraine</b>. <br />
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(His wife, <b>Matilda of Canossa</b>, countess of <b>Tuscany</b> , known as <b><i>Os Vulvae</i></b> by her friends - look it up - was probably having an affair with Pope<b> Gregory VII</b>.) <br />
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<b>February 26, 1815</b> - <br />
One of the Top 10 prison breaks of all time <br />
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<b>Napoleon</b> managed to sneak past his guards and somehow escape from <b>Elba</b>, slip past interception by a British ship, and start on his return to France.<br />
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<b>February 26, 1829</b> -<br />
<b>Levi Strauss</b>, inventor and manufacturer of blue jeans was born, on this date.<br />
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He originally planned to make canvas tents for miners in the <b>California </b>gold rush, but soon found that durable pants sold better.<br />
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<b>February 26, 1870 </b>-<br />
The <b>Beach Pneumatic Transit</b>, the first pneumatic-powered subway line in <b>New York City </b>was opened to the public on this date.<br />
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Propulsion was provided by a giant fan, nicknamed <b>The Western Tornado</b>, operated by a steam engine, drawing air in through a valve, and blowing it forcefully into the tunnel.<br />
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The tunnel was only a block long, and the line had only one car. Rush hour must have been a bitch. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1916</b> -<br />
<b><i>If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.</i></b><br />
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<b>John Herbert Gleason</b>, (<i><b>The Great One</b></i>) comedian, actor and musician was born on this day.<br />
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<b>February 26, 1918 </b>- <br />
The Grandstands at the <b>Hong Kong Jockey Club </b>collapsed and burnt, killing <b>604 </b>spectators on this date. It was the worst disaster in sports history. <br />
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Even though mad dogs and Englishmen may go out in the midday sun - they apparently will not leave a burning stadium. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1919 </b>- <br />
In early <b>January 1908</b>, President <b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> declared the <b>Grand Canyon</b> a national monument, protecting its <b>800,000 </b>acres from private development. <br />
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<b>Congress </b>did not officially outlaw private development in the <b>Grand Canyon</b> until this date in <b>1919</b>, when President <b>Woodrow Wilson</b> signed the <b>Grand Canyon</b> <b>National Park Act</b>, establishing most of the <b>Grand Canyon</b> as a <b>United States National Park.</b> <br />
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<b>February 26, 1932</b> - <br />
Country star <b>Johnny Cash </b>was born on this date in <b>1932</b> in <b>Kingsland, Arkansas</b>, <b>one </b>of <b>seven</b> children born to<b> Ray Cash </b>and <b>Carrie Clovere</b>e (née <b>Rivers</b>). <br />
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He was originally born<b> J.R. Cash</b>. The <b>J.R.</b> didn’t stand for anything because his parents couldn't think of a name. He took on the first name <b>John </b>when he joined the<b> Air Force </b>because the military wouldn't accept a name with just initials. <br />
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The good people at <b>Volkswagen</b> seem to overlook this anniversary every year. <br />
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On this date in <b>1936</b>, Some junior officers in the Japanese Army mistook <b>Japan </b>for a foreign country and tried to conquered it. <br />
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This disrupted the Japanese automotive industry, giving Adolf Hitler the opportunity to preside over the official opening of the first <b>Volkswagen </b>factory on this date. (More about Hitler and cars in a moment.) <br />
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<b>February 26, 1970</b> - <br />
<b>National Public Radio </b>(<b>NPR</b>) was created by Congressional mandate, along with the <b>Corporation for Public Broadcasting </b>on this date. <br />
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Its programs<i> </i><b><i>Morning Editio</i>n</b> and <i><b>All Things Considered</b></i> rank among the most popular radio programs in <b>America</b>. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1974</b> - <br />
A<b> U.S. Senate </b>report reveals<b> Ford Motor's </b>involvement in Nazi<b> Germany's</b> war efforts, for which CEO<b> Henry Ford </b>was awarded the<b> Grand Cross of the German Eagle</b> at the behest Adolf Hitler himself. <br />
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After the war, the car company was paid nearly $<b>1M</b> reparation by the <b>U.S. </b>government to compensate for one of its plants that was bombed within the Reich. <br />
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And some people worry about buying a <b>BMW</b>. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1993</b> - <br />
<b>31 years</b> ago on this date, a bomb explodes on level <b>B2</b> of the <b>World Trade Center</b>, creating a <b>five</b> story crater and leaving <b>six</b> dead and over <b>1,042</b> injured. <br />
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<b>Mohammed A. Salameh</b> was later arrested in connection with the bombing as he tries to claim a refund on a rented van believed to have carried the explosion. <br />
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Genius, sheer genius. <br />
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<b>February 26, 1994 </b>- <br />
<b>Bill Hicks</b>, writer and comedian, died of pancreatic cancer on this date. <br />
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In the years after his death, Hicks' work has achieved significant admiration and acclaim. <br />
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<b>February 26, 2012</b> – <br />
<b>Trayvon Martin</b>, a teen walking home from a trip to a convenience store, was fatally shot in an altercation with <b>George Zimmerman</b>, a neighborhood watch volunteer patrolling the townhouse community of the <b>Retreat </b>at <b>Twin Lakes</b> in <b>Sanford, Florida.</b> <br />
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On <b>August 13, 2013</b>, <b>George Zimmerman</b> was acquitted of second-degree murder charges. <b>Trayvon Martin</b> would have been<b> 27 years </b>old on <b>February 5</b>. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-37332046170150602242024-02-25T08:33:00.001-05:002024-02-25T08:33:59.373-05:00It may seems hard to believeThe <b>Lunar New Year</b> celebrations ended yesterday. You may go on with your lives <br />
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<b>February 25, 1941</b> - <br />
Another <b>Preston Sturges'</b> comic masterpiece, <b><i>The Lady Eve</i></b>, premiered in the US on this date. <br />
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<b>Preston Sturges</b> wrote the screenplay specifically for <b>Barbara Stanwyck</b>. He had promised her a great film while working on a previous movie. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1946 </b>- <br />
Part of <b><i>Roberto Rossellini</i></b> Neo-realist classic war trilogy, <b><i>Roma, città aperta</i></b> (<b><i>Rome Open City</i></b>) opened in the <b>US</b> on this date. <br />
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Rossellini used real Nazi POWs as extras for added realistic effect.<br />
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<b>February 25, 1950 </b>- <br />
The comedy-variety program <b><i>Your Show of Shows</i></b>, starring <b>Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca</b> and <b>Carl Reiner</b>, debuted on <b>NBC-TV</b> on this date. <br />
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Writers for the show included <b>Mel Brooks, Neil Simon</b> and <b>Larry Gelbart</b>. A common misconception is that <b>Woody Allen</b> wrote for <b><i>Your Show of Shows</i></b>; he in fact wrote for its successor program, <b><i>Caesar's Hour</i></b>, which ran from <b>1954</b> to <b>1957</b>. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1956</b> - <br />
<b>Elvis Presley</b> had his first national hit when <b><i>I Forgot To Remember To Forget</i></b> went to No.<b>1</b> on the <b><i>Billboard</i></b> <b>Country & Western</b> chart, on this date and stayed there for two weeks. This is one of just <b>10 </b>songs <b>Elvis</b> recorded for<b> Sun Records</b>, where he got his start. (The<b> B side</b> of the record is <b><i>Mystery Train</i></b>.) <br />
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<b><a href="https://youtu.be/ANxlTNTSY0s">The Beatles</a></b> covered this song once for the <b><i>BBC </i></b>radio show, <b><i>From Us To You</i></b>, on <b>May 1, 1964</b>, with <b>George Harrison</b> on lead vocals.<br />
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<b>February 25, 1964</b> - <br />
<b>Bob Dylan</b> appears on the <b><i>Steve Allen Show</i></b>, on this date, and performed <b><i>The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll</i></b>. <br />
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This song gives the account of the killing of <b>51-year</b>-old barmaid <b>Hattie Carroll</b> by the wealthy young <b>William Devereux "<i>Billy</i>" Zantzinger</b> and his subsequent sentence of<b> six months </b>in jail. The actual incident took place<b> February 9, 1963</b> at a ball at the <b>Emerson Hotel</b> in <b>Baltimore, Maryland</b>. Dylan's song accurately implies, but never states, that Carroll was black and Zantzinger is white. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1970</b> - <br />
<b>Ernie</b> sings his signature song, <i><b>Rubber Duckie</b></i>, on <i><b>Sesame Street </b></i>for the first time, on this date. It goes over so well that the song is released as a single, which in <b>September </b>reaches #<b>16</b> on the <b>Hot 100</b>. <br />
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Rubber ducks were around since at least the <b>1940s</b>, but they had a popular resurgence thanks to<i><b> Rubber Duckie</b></i>. Early versions came in different shapes, sizes and colors, but<b> Ernie's</b> small yellow duck became the standard. For parents, the toy could provide some relief at the dreaded bathtime (many families had to share bathwater, making it even less appealing to kids who were late in line). It was inexpensive, durable, and could float - really the perfect bath toy. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1995 </b>- <br />
<b>Madonna</b> started a seven week run at No.<b>1 </b>with <i><b>Take A Bow</b></i>, on the <b>US </b>singles chart, which was co-written with <b>Babyface</b>. <br />
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This song is about a failed romance <b>Madonna</b> had with "<b><i>a movie star</i></b>," possibly <b>Warren Beatty</b>, whom she starred opposite in the movie <i><b>Dick Tracy</b></i> and had a<b> 15-month</b> relationship. Beatty, a notorious ladies' man, was also rumored to be the mysterious subject of <b>Carly Simon's</b> <b><i>You're So Vain</i></b>. <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>February 25, 1570</b> - <br />
Pope <b>Pius V</b> issued a Papal Bull on this day excommunicating Queen <b>Elizabeth I</b>, whom he called "<b><i>the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime</i></b>." <br />
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As <b>Elizabeth</b> was already the head of her own religion, <b>Church of England</b>, this Papal Bull did not make her break stride. She did however, respond by hanging and burning Jesuit priests. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1601</b> - <br />
<b>Robert Devereux</b>, second Earl of <b>Essex</b>, was beheaded following a conviction of treason on this date. His plot to capture <b>London</b> and the <b>Tower</b> had failed. <br />
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He was the last person to be beheaded in the <b>Tower of London</b>. It was reported to have taken <b>three</b> strokes by the executioner to complete the beheading. <br />
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Let this be a lesson to all you playas - <b><i>never try to steal you girlfriends' country</i></b>. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1836</b> - <br />
<b>Samuel Colt</b> was granted his first patent for a multi-chamber gun on this date. <br />
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Please celebrate responsibly. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1870</b> - <br />
<b>Hiram Rhodes Revels</b>, a representative from <b>Mississippi</b>, became the first African-American congressman when he was sworn in to finish out Jefferson Davis' term. <br />
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The seat had been left vacant when Davis left to become the president of the Confederacy. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1879</b> - <br />
<b>Charles Frederick Peace</b>, infamous Victorian cat burglar and <b><i>The Murderous Musician</i></b> was executed by hanging on this date. <br />
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Peace's notoriety was such that he appeared as a character in short stories by both <b>Arthur Conan Doyle </b>and<b> Mark Twain</b>. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1888</b> - <br />
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<b>John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State </b>to President <b>Eisenhower</b>, was born on this date.<br />
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Haven't we all made a fool of ourselves over <b>John Foster Dulles</b>.<br />
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<b>February 25, 1899 </b>- <br />
The first test drive fatality occurs in <b>Grove Hill Harrow, England</b> on this date. The accident occurs while the car, a <b>Daimler Wagonette</b>, was being demonstrated for Major <b>James Richer</b>, Department Head of the <b>Army & Navy Stores</b>. The car apparently lost a wheel and both Mr<b> E.R. Sewell</b>, the driver, and Richer were thrown from the car onto the road. <br />
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Sewell was killed on the spot; he was fired by <b>Daimler Motors </b>five days later. The unfortunate Major Richer, died<b> four days </b>later, without regaining consciousness. The accident became a dubious double-first – the first death of a driver in <b>Britain</b>, followed by the first death of a passenger in a car <br />
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<b>February 25, 1908</b> - <br />
President <b>Theodore Roosevelt</b>, after a vigorous round of calisthenics, flipped a switch on his desk and signaled the start of service through the<b> Hudson and Manhattan</b> railway tunnels, (also known as The <b>McAdoo Tunnel</b>,) carrying passengers between <b>Manhattan </b>and <b>Hoboken, New Jersey</b>. If allowed, Roosevelt would have driven the first train though the tunnel himself. <br />
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The tunnel, completed on <b>March 8, 1904</b>, was the first railroad tunnel under a major river in the U.S. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1922 </b>- <br />
<b>Henri Landru</b>, the notorious French serial killer known as "<b><i>Bluebeard</i></b>", was guillotined for murdering <b>ten </b>women, and <b>one </b>boy on this date. His motive was purely financial; by placing classified ads Landru lured selected women into his clutches, married them, and disposed of their bodies without a trace. <br />
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While denying guilt to the end, a drawing given to his attorney had written on the reverse, <i><b>"I did it. I burned their bodies in my kitchen oven</b></i>". <br />
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<b>Charles Chaplin</b> based his movie, <b><i>Monsieur Verdoux</i></b> on this case. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1932 </b>- <br />
The German state government of <b>Brunswick</b>, in which the Nazi Party participated, appointed Adolph Hitler of <b>Austria</b> to a minor administrative post this month and on this day gave him German citizenship. <br />
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Hitler was thus able to stand against Hindenburg in the forthcoming Presidential election. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1964</b> - <br />
<b>Muhammad Ali</b>, then known as <b>Cassius Clay</b>, became the heavyweight champion of the world for the first time on this day when he beat <b>Sonny Liston</b>. <br />
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<b>Ali </b>went on to become the first person to win the heavyweight champion title three times. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1969</b> - <br />
In <b>Vietnam</b>, a <b>25 year</b> old Navy Lt., <b>Bob Kerrey</b>, took part in a <b>SEAL </b>raid in the <b>Mekong Delta</b> where over a dozen women, children and old men were killed in the village of <b>Thanh Phong</b>, on this date. Kerrey received a Bronze Star for the raid and later strongly regretted his actions. <br />
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Soon after the raid, Lt. Kerrey lost a leg at <b>Hon Tam Island </b>and was later awarded a Congressional <b>Medal of Honor</b>. In <b>2001</b>, the former Governor and Senator from <b>Nebraska</b>, publicly discussed his participation in the raid of <b>Thanh Phong</b>, at length for the first time. "<i><b>We fired because we were fired upon,</b></i>" Kerrey said at a news conference, "<i><b>We did not go out on a mission to kill innocent people. I feel guilty about what happened</b></i>." Governor Kerrey described the event in his <b>2002 </b>memoir. <br />
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<b>Bui Thi Luom, 12</b> at the time of the incident, the only survivor from her hut of <b>16</b>, disputed Kerrey claim. saying, "<i><b>Only civilians, women and children</b></i>" were killed. <br />
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<b>February 25, 1983</b> - <br />
Playwright <b>Tennessee Williams</b> was found dead on this date, in his <b>New York</b> hotel room after he choked on a bottle cap during the night. <br />
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Once again, another victim of not reading the pill bottle label correctly. <br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-18923108086425116362024-02-24T08:30:00.001-05:002024-02-24T08:30:00.159-05:00Hope you enjoyed our celebrationsToday is the <b>Yuan Xiao </b>festival, also called <b>Lantern Festival</b>. The <b>Lantern Festival</b> is the first full moon night of the new Lunar year calendar. <br />
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This is the <b>15th day</b> of the <b>Lunar Festival</b>; it marks the end of the <b>New Year</b> celebrations, marking the return of spring and symbolizing the reunion of family. <br />
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There is a story about the <b>Lantern Festival</b>. A beautiful heavenly bird flew down a village and was killed. The <b>God of Heaven</b> was very angry and wanted to burn down the entire village on the <b>15th</b> lunar day. One wise villager advised every family hang candle lanterns around the house, carry lanterns on the street, and light fireworks outside on the <b>15th </b>lunar night. The soldiers of the <b>God of Heaven</b> saw the village was on fire from the heaven, and returned back to the heaven. The village survived and people keep the lantern activity on this day every year. <br />
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Lantern owners write riddles on paper notes and pasted them upon the colorful lanterns. People crowd round to guess the riddles. If someone thinks they have the right answer, they can pull the riddle off and go to the lantern owner to check their answer. If the answer is right, there is usually a small gift as a prize. To close out the holiday, please enjoy this lantern riddle from <b>ACME</b>: <b><i> When is your mind like a rumpled bed?</i></b>. <br />
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Raise your <b>Frozen Margaritas</b> tonight (but don't double dip,) <br />
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today is <b>National Tortilla Chip</b> day. Contrary to popular belief, Tortilla Chips are not from <b>Mexico</b>.<br />
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They were invented in<b> Los Angeles</b> in the late <b>1940s </b>by <b>Rebecca Webb Carranza.</b><br />
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<b>February 24, 1969</b> -<br />
<b>Twentieth Century-Fox</b> adaptation of the novel and play, <b><i>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</i></b>, directed by <b>Ronald Neame</b> and starring <b>Maggie Smith </b>and <b>Pamela Franklin</b>, premiered in <b>London </b>on this date.<br />
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According to <b>Pamela Franklin</b>, even though they were <b>eighteen</b>, she and the other young girls were asked not to eat their lunch in the <b>Pinewood </b>cafeteria in their school uniform costumes for appearance's sake, as beer and wine was served there. <br />
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<b>February 24, 1973</b> -<br />
The song, <b><i>Killing Me Softly with His Song</i></b> by <b>Roberta Flack</b> topped the charts on this date.<br />
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<b>Robert Flack</b> heard <b>Lori Lieberman</b> original version of the song on an in-flight tape recorder while flying from <b>Los Angeles </b>to <b>New York</b>. She loved the title and lyrics and decided to record it herself.<br />
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The song was written by the songwriting team of <b>Charles Fox </b>and <b>Norman Gimbel,</b> and recorded by <b>Lori Lieberman </b>in <b>1972</b>. The story goes that the song was inspired by<b> Don McLean</b>, a singer/songwriter famous for his hit <i><b>American Pie</b></i>. After being mesmerized by one of his concerts at the <b>Troubadour </b>theater in<b> Los Angeles</b> - and in particular McLean's song<i><b> Empty Chairs</b></i> - Lieberman described what she saw of McLean's performance to <b>Norman Gimbel </b>and <b>Charles Fox,</b> who were writing songs for her new album, and they wrote the song for her.<br />
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<b>The Fugees</b> did a hip-hop version featuring the vocals of <b>Lauryn Hill</b>. It was a hit for <b>the Fugees</b> in the <b>US </b>and went to #<b>1 </b>in the <b>UK </b>in <b>1996</b>.<b> The Fugees</b> wanted to change the lyrics and make it a song about poverty and drug abuse in the inner city with the title <i><b>Killing Him Softly</b></i>, but Gimbel and Fox refused.<br />
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<b>February 24, 1975 </b>–<br />
<b>Led Zeppelin</b> release their sixth album <i><b>Physical Graffiti</b></i> on this date. It’s a double album featuring eight new songs, and songs left over from their previous albums <i><b>Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV</b></i> and <i><b>Houses Of The Holy.</b></i> <br />
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Featuring an intricate die-cut cover of a<b> New York City</b> brownstone, the album goes on to sell over <b>eight million </b>copies in the <b>U.S</b>.<br />
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<b>February 24, 2002 </b>-<br />
<b>CBS-TV</b> aired the bio-pix<i><b> Ride to Freedom: The Rosa Parks Story</b></i> starring <b>Angela Bassett,</b> on this date.<br />
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<b>Angela Bassett </b>won the <b>NAACP Image Award</b> for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for her performance.<br />
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Don't forget to tune in to our celebration of the Lunar New Year on <b><i><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/02/acme-eagle-hand-soap-radio-hour-today_24.html" target="_blank">The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour</a></i></b> today.<br />
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<b>Today in History</b>:<br />
On <b>February 24, 1582</b>, Pope <b>Gregory XIII</b> issued a proclamation that made everyone change their calendars from the <b>Julian </b>calendar to his own new and improved <b>Gregorian </b>calendar. (Obviously he was in cahoots with the calendar printing people, or he would have done it in <b>November </b>or <b>December</b>.)<br />
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It was this shameless act of self-promotion that led to subsequent <b>Vatican </b>proclamations being called <b>Papal Bull.</b><br />
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<b>February 24, 1807 </b>-<br />
It was not a good day for a hanging - In a crush to witness the hanging of<b> John Holloway, Owen Heggerty </b>and <b>Elizabeth Godfrey </b>in <b>England </b>on this date, <b>17 </b>people died and <b>15 </b>were injured.<br />
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People, please, remember that you can see the executions perfectly well, if you stand back.<br />
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<b>February 24, 1838</b> -<br />
<b>Thomas Benton Smith</b>, brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, was born in <b>Mechanicsville, Tennessee</b>, on this date. He was wounded at <b>Stone’s River/Murfreesboro</b> and again at <b>Chickamauga</b>. He was captured at the <b>Battle of Nashville</b> (<b>December 16, 1864</b>) where he was beaten over the head with a sword by Col.<b> William Linn McMillen </b>of the <b>95th Ohio Infantry</b>. His brain was exposed and it was believed he would die.<br />
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He recovered partially, ran for a seat in the <b>U. S. Congress </b>in <b>1870</b>, but lost and spent the last <b>47 years </b>of his life in the<b> State Asylum </b>in <b>Nashville, Tennessee</b>, where he died on <b>May 21, 1923.<br />
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<b>February 24, 1868</b> -<br />
President <b>Andrew Johnson</b> was impeached for <b>High Crimes and Misdemeanors</b> on this date, which is fancy talk for his attempt to remove Secretary of War<b> Edwin M. Stanton</b> from his job.<br />
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The <b>Senate </b>later acquitted Johnson. This remains an honor not bestowed again until the blowjob years of the Clinton Administration and the two non-witness trials of Cheeto.<br />
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On <b>February 24, 1920</b>, the spokesman of a radical political group in <b>Germany </b>announced that it would change its name to the <b>National Socialist German Workers' Party</b>. The group had previously been called the<b> East Munich Crips</b>. Rejected names had included <b>The Genocidal Maniacs Party</b>,<b> The World Conquest Party </b>and <b>The Party of Smiley People Who'll Make Life a Happy Little Picnic for Everyone</b> (but in German.)<br />
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This name change made all the difference in the world, and eventually led to Evil Nazi Bastards, who later teamed up with the Evil Fascist Bastards of Italy and became a Significant Problem. They did not kill quite as many people as the Evil Communist Bastards of the<b> Soviet Union</b>, however, and were therefore unable to scare posterity into producing apologists.<br />
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(The party spokesman who had announced the change was of course, Adolf Hitler, who did not change his own name and is therefore known to history as... you guessed it... Adolf Hitler.)<br />
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<b>February 24, 1927</b> -<br />
The <b>Ouija</b> board was developed by spiritualist businessman <b>William Fuld</b> in the late <b>1890s</b>, and was named for the French and German words for yes - <i><b>oui </b></i>and <i><b>ja</b></i>. <br />
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<b>William Fuld</b> built a factory according to what the board told him. <br />
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On this date in <b>1927</b>, Fuld climbed to the roof of his three-story factory to supervise the installation of a flagpole. When the rail against which he was leaning gave way, Fuld fell to the ground below and died.<br />
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<b>February 24, 1942</b> -<br />
Just over <b>three months</b> after the Japanese bombed <b>Pearl Harbor</b>, <b>Unidentified Flying Objects</b> were sighted over<b> Los Angeles</b> this evening. The Plane / Blimp / Weather Balloon / UFO was fired on with a massive anti-aircraft artillery barrage but is not hit. Air raid sirens were sounded throughout <b>Los Angeles County</b> at<b> 2:25 a.m</b>. and a total blackout was ordered. The events became known as <i><b>the Battle of Los Angeles</b></i> by the contemporary press.<br />
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While the military eventually attributed the incident to "<i><b>war nerves</b></i>" and the sighting of an errant weather balloon, many skeptics have speculated for years that our guns were actually firing at extraterrestrial spaceships—a theory that provided inspiration for the <b>2011 </b>film <i><b>Battle: Los Angeles </b></i><b>(Steven Spielberg's</b> film <b>1941 </b>was also loosely based on the event).<br />
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<b>February 24, 1990</b> -<br />
Businessman <b>Malcolm Forbes</b> died of a heart attack, at his home in Far Hills, New Jersey on this date.<br />
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As the years pass, there are even fewer and fewer aging <b>Chelsea </b>leather boys are still around who remember and mourn his passing.<br />
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Before you go - the answer to today's riddle: <b><i>When it is not made up.</i></b>.<br />
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<br />Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01845059738483356263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55024733535794127.post-17163799328455002592024-02-23T09:27:00.001-05:002024-02-23T09:27:44.522-05:00You can do it - one more day to goTomorrow is <b>Lantern’s Day</b> and it marks the end of the <b>Lunar New Year</b> holiday. <br />
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The day before the <b>Lantern Festival</b>, the Lantern Display stages are built in the open square in the front of temples.<br />
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People bring their decorated lanterns to the display stage for the competition. Some lanterns might take more than a month to completely decorate.<br />
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People will also make offerings to the Goddess of <b>Linshui</b>, who is believed to protect women from dying in childbirth.<br />
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Fireworks still play an important part of<b> Lantern Festival </b>celebrations. <br />
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Once again please remember, <b>ACME</b> is the leading distributor of '<b><i>off brand</i></b>' fireworks in the world. <br />
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Today is<b> Curling Is Cool Day</b>. I'm not sure how many millions of dollars will be lost with the number of people are taking the day off from work. <br />
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Do not make a rookie mistake; just encourage all those involved - <b><i>Celebrate Responsibly</i></b>. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1950 </b>- <br />
A nearly forgotten <b>Alfred Hitchcock</b> film, <b><i>Stage Fright</i></b> starring <b>Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd,</b> and <b>Michael Wilding,</b> premiered in <b>New York City</b> on this date. <br />
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In an extraordinary move for the normally controlling director, <b> Alfred Hitchcock</b> provided <b>Marlene Dietrich</b> an exceptional amount of creative control for this movie, particularly in how she chose to light her scenes. Hitchcock knew that Dietrich had learned a great deal of the art of cinematography from <b>Josef von Sternberg </b>and <b>Günther Rittau</b>, and allowed her to work with Cinematographer <b>Wilkie Cooper</b> to light and set her scenes the way that she wished. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1964 </b>- <br />
<b>The Beatles</b> appear for the third consecutive appearance on <b>The Ed Sullivan Show</b> on this date. They performed <b><i>Twist and Shout</i></b> and <b><i>Please Please Me</i></b> and closed the show once again with <b><i>I Want to Hold Your Hand</i></b>. <br />
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The third broadcast, <b>February 23</b>, showed a performance taped earlier in the day of the original <b>February 9th</b> appearance. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1967 </b>- <br />
The <b><i>Star Trek</i></b> episode <b><i>A Taste of Armageddon </i></b>first airs on <b>NBC</b>, on this date. In it, the Enterprise visits a planet fighting a war with its neighboring planet via computers. <br />
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In his memoir, <b><i>Beam Me Up, Scotty,</i></b> J<b>ames Doohan </b>described <b>Gene Lyons</b> (Ambassador <b>Robert Fox</b>) as being "<b><i>out of his element</i></b>" and "<b><i>completely discombobulated</i></b>" during filming. He added that it took Lyons many takes to get his lines right and that they finally "<b><i>went to having him speak off-screen</i></b>." Doohan speculates that Lyons, who was an experienced actor, may have been thrown off by the science fiction element as such shows were relatively rare at the time. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1980</b> – <br />
The <b>Queen's</b> song <b><i>Crazy Little Thing Called Love</i></b> hit the No. #1 spot on the <b><i>Billboard</i></b> <b>Charts</b> on this date. <br />
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<b>Freddie Mercury</b> acknowledged that perhaps his limited talent on the guitar helped shape the song: "<i><b>'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' took me five or ten minutes. I did that on the guitar, which I can't play for nuts, and in one way it was quite a good thing because I was restricted, knowing only a few chords. It's a good discipline because I simply had to write within a small framework. I couldn't work through too many chords and because of that restriction I wrote a good song, I think.</b></i>"<br />
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<b>February 23, 1985</b> - <br />
<b>The Smiths</b> scored their first <b>UK</b> No.<b>1</b> album with <b><i>Meat Is Murder</i></b> on this date. The album's sleeve uses a <b>1967</b> photograph of Marine Cpl. <b>Michael Wynn</b> in the <b>Vietnam War</b>, though with the wording on his helmet changed from "<i><b>Make War Not Love</b></i>" to "<i><b>Meat Is Murder</b></i>". <br />
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<b>The Smiths</b> produced <b><i>Meat Is Murder</i></b> themselves, assisted only by engineer <b>Stephen Street</b>, whom they had first met on the session for Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1991</b> - <br />
<b>Oliver Stone's</b> bio-pix about <b>Jim Morrison </b>and his group, <i><b>The Doors</b></i>, starring <b>Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon,</b> and <b>Kathleen Quinlan</b> premiered in<b> Los Angeles </b>on this date. <br />
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The cave scene, in which <b>Jim Morrison </b>wanders out in the <b>New Mexico </b>desert, was shot at the <b>Mitchell Caverns</b> in the <b>East Mojave Preserve </b>in <b>California</b>. According to the tour guide there, <b>Oliver Stone</b> and the art dept. painted Indian petroglyphs at the site that wouldn't wash off. The state fined Stone and banned future film shoots at the caves. <br />
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Another <b><a href="https://dcaligari2.blogspot.com/2024/02/mrs-sammy-fong-had-stray-thought.html" target="_blank">unimportant moment</a></b> in history <br />
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<b>Today in History</b>: <br />
<b>February 23, 303</b> - <br />
Roman Emperor <b>Diocletian</b> issues an edict to suppress Christianity, "<b><i>to tear down the churches to the foundations and to destroy the Sacred Scriptures by fire</i></b>". Further edicts require that church officials engage in animal sacrifice to appease traditional Roman gods. <br />
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One can only weep that they did not have the lubricant concessions given the kind of orgies that when on that night. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1821</b> - <br />
English poet <b>John Keats</b> died in <b>Rome</b> on this date. Mr. Keats was Romantic and therefore wrote an <i><b>Ode to a Nightingale</b></i>, an <i><b>Ode to Psyche</b></i>, and even an<i><b> Ode to a Grecian Urn</b></i>. <br />
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None of them would have him, so the poor man died alone. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1861</b> - <br />
President-elect <b>Abraham Lincoln</b> arrived secretly in <b>Washington D.C.</b> to take office after an assassination plot was foiled in <b>Baltimore </b>on this date. <b>Allan Pinkerton</b>, founder of the <b>Pinkerton Detective Agency</b>, may have saved Lincoln’s life by uncovering the plot to assassinate the president-elect in<b> Baltimore, Md. </b><br />
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At the detective’s suggestion, Lincoln avoided the threat by secretly slipping through the city at night. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1836</b> - <br />
The <b>Siege of the Alamo </b>began on this date. It was quite an adventure. For years afterward people would sigh,<i><b> Remember the Alamo? </b></i> <br />
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And they'd kind of nod and smile, but eventually they forgot.<br />
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<b>February 23, 1885</b> -<br />
The British hangman at <b>Exeter Gaol </b>tried <b>three </b>times on this date, to hang<b> John Lee </b>of <b>Devonshire</b>, for the murder of <b>Emma Keyse.</b> The trap refused to open.<br />
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His sentence was commuted to life, and he was eventually released. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1896</b> - <br />
<b>The Tootsie Roll</b> was introduced by <b>Leo Hirshfield</b> an Austrian immigrant, in his small candy shop located in <b>New York City </b>on this date. <br />
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He was <b>America's</b> first candy maker to individually wrap penny candy. Current production is over <b>49 million</b> pieces a day. For many, this day should be a Federal holiday.<br />
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<b>February 23, 1903 </b>-<br />
<b>Tomás Estrada Palma</b>, the first president of <b>Cuba</b>, leased <b>Guantanamo Bay</b> to the <b>US </b>in perpetuity on this date.<b> Guantanamo Bay </b>was the only <b>US </b>military base in a country with which the <b>US </b>did not have diplomatic relations, until a few years ago.<br />
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Guantanamo Bay is also home to<b> Cuba's</b> first and only <b>McDonald's </b>restaurant. I'm guessing it's <b>McDonald's</b> fault that we're still in <b>Gitmo</b>. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1915</b> - <br />
<b>Nevada</b> enacts a law reducing the quickie divorce residency requirements down to<b> six months, </b><br />
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a figure further reduced in <b>1931 </b>to <b>six weeks.</b><br />
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<b>February 23, 1945</b> -<br />
<b>U. S. Marines</b> raised the flag on <b>Mt. Suribachi</b> (<b>Battle of Iwo Jima</b>) on this date.<br />
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The photograph of the event was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the <b>Pulitzer Prize</b> for Photography in the same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time. <br />
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<b>February 23, 1954</b> - <br />
The students of <b>Arsenal Elementary School</b> in <b>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</b> participated in the first mass vaccination of children against polio with the vaccine (using the dead virus to induce immunization) developed by <b>Jonas Salk</b>, on this date. <br />
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Poliomyelitis</b> is a viral attack of the central nervous system and can cause paralysis and death by asphyxiation (I have nothing else to say.)<br />
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<b>February 23, 1996</b> -<br />
The Freeway Killer <b>William G Bonin</b> was executed at <b>San Quentin</b> on this date. He was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the history of <b>California</b>.<br />
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For his last meal, Bonin requested two large pepperoni and sausage pizzas, three pints of coffee ice cream and three six-packs of regular <b>Coca Cola. <br />
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That kind of diet will kill you. <br />
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(I'm back, I'll be posting again shortly) <br />
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And so it goes. <br />
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