March 2018
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Ever since I was a kid I have been a fan of Elvis-The King of Rock N Roll. Not only was he a great singer and performer he had also a great sense of humour. Elvis would often ad lib lyrics during live concerts, as he did during a Las Vegas gig in April 1969.
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There are 2 indisputable facts when it comes to the youngest members of society. A child is born with no state of mind, a baby does not know how to hate or how to love, he/she is taught how to do both and is conditioned to the environment he or she grows up in. He
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On March 6 1940 WWII had not yet gone global, a lot of countries had not been affected by the war. Although the anxiety of an impending war was prevalent it was still a matter of “business as usual” in a majority of nations. On that same day Detective Comics introduced Batman’s sidekick. Dick
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On this day 75 years ago the Gloster Meteor, the first British jet fighter and the Allies’ only jet aircraft to achieve combat operations during WWII, made it’s first flight. Neill Michael Daunt was the first pilot to fly the Gloster Meteor on March 5 1943. Despite Germany’s technological advantage, the Meteor was the first operational
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I am not going to say that every movie sequel is bad, because there are some good ones out there. However in general most sequels are really money making vehicles especially when they are following a very successful movie. I could easily fill this page with hundreds of bad sequels but I am limiting it
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Age 6, I should have the whole world open to me. Age 6, there is still so much for me to do and to see. Age 6, like all my friends, I want to go to school. Age 6, and sometimes I want to play the fool. Age 6, I have yet so many games
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I have to apologize upfront because after reading this blog you will never listen to the songs again in the same way. It is not one of my usual blogs, but I was listening to the radio this morning and 2 songs were played in succession which basically had very disturbing lyrics. Most people who
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For people who don’t know classical music the name Richard Strauss will mean very little, but for music and movie fans they know the music of the man. His composition “Also Sprach Zarathustra” was made famous by the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” In the early 1930s, Strauss did not join the Nazi
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On March 2 in 1944, a train halted in a tunnel near Salerno in Italy, more than 500 people on board suffocated and perished. Occurring during the final stage of World War II, the details of this incident were not revealed at the time and remain somewhat mysterious to date. At 7 PM on 2
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In this PC world these ads would cause outrage and for most rightfully so, but I have to admit that the’dinosaur’ in me finds some of these quite amusing. Ah the good old days. What can you say? Marlboro Cigarettes 1944 What woman doesn’t want a toaster. This is one is even weird for
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