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Do You Remember When? A Pin-Up Became a Princess…
In the 1940s and 1950s, there was no one “hotter” that Rita Hayworth. With a reserved striptease in the film Gilda, Hayworth became every man’s fantasy. Who could believe in today’s age of near nudity...
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Do You Remember? The Fertile Ground of “Heartache” and An Artificial Heart...
Dr. Christiaan Barnard In 1969, 47-year-old Haskell Karp received an artificial heart after Dr. Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston determined Karp’s damaged heart could no longer...
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Do You Remember? The First of the Late Night TV Talk Shows
With all the changes in the late night TV talk show hosts in U. S. of late, I thought it might be fun to take a look at the original late night host: Stephen Valentine Allen (“Steverino”). Born to...
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Do You Remember When? America Entered the Space Race…
There was a time when we Americans clung to our TV sets to watch our first astronauts accomplish what we thought no man could. I recall standing in my yard and staring up into the October (1957) sky to...
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Do You Remember: the Last Old-Fashioned Presidential Campaign
What do you know of the Presidential race between Harry S. Truman and Thomas E. Dewey, one one where Truman came from behind to beat the anointed “next President,” Dewey? Do you realize it was really a...
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Do You Remember? When Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti Committed Bigamy
In February 1965, an Italian court in Rome declared the 1957 nuptials of Sophia Loren and her producer husband, Carlo Ponti, invalid, saying his Mexican divorce from his first wife, Giuliana Fiastri...
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Do You Remember: “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”?
On 6 August 1945 at 8:15 A.M., the Enola Gay released a uranium-charged bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy” over Hiroshima, an act which killed over 100,000 people. Three days later, another plane dropped a...
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Do You Remember? The Three Stooges as Political Satirists
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Do You Remember the Yankee’s Farewell to the “Iron Horse”?
For the last few weeks in August, those of us in the States have been bombarded with images of common folks and celebrities pouring buckets of ice water over their heads in the name of fundraiser for...
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Do You Remember America’s First True TV Hero: Hopalong Cassidy?
On 24 June 1949, “Hopalong Cassidy” premiered upon television. It would be another three months before “The Lone Ranger” followed suit. Soon, more people were watching “Hopalong” than TV stalwarts...
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The Amazing Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson
Portrait of Thomas JeffersonRembrandt Peale 1800 I found this most agreeable as Jefferson’s holds a place of reference on my family tree. Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826)...
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Are You Smarter Than a Sixty Year Old? A Fun Quiz…
I was listening recently to Emmy Rossum from Showtimes’s “Shameless.” She was talking about being older than the other members of the cast. Rossum is 28 and the next oldest “sibling” in the show’s...
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The Day the Music Died: 3 February 1959
This post is designed to have a look back at events that marked our world in popular culture and in literature. This one is on “ The Day the Music Died.” Do you recall the event that killed Buddy...
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More Than Slapstick Comedy: Political Satire from “The Three Stooges”
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Richard Stockton, A Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Who Was...
Richard Stockton was born near Princeton, New Jersey to John Stockton on October 1, 1730. John Stockton was the founder of the College of New Jersey. Richard attended the West Nottingham Academy under...
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