Good morning, WA2K radio audience. Well, edgar the sandman didn't bring me no bad dreams at least.
Something a little different to begin the day, folks. Today is Robert the Bruce's birthday, and since we once had an eight piece orchestra named after him, let's listen to the celebration.
Well, edgar, you must share the celebrations with us.
What this has to do with Ponce de Leon, is not known to me, folks. See if you can figure it out. (still have not discovered the haunting melody to Marcel Proust's In search of lost time.)
I remember this as the theme of a movie made in the forties, but I'm going crazy trying to remember which one.
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Fri 11 Jul, 2008 06:16 am
Would you look at this, folks? Our puppy is a better explorer than Ponce. You are right, and I'll be willing to wager that the music was a theme to some WWII movie. That is so lovely, PA. Thank you for easing my mind a bit.
Well, perhaps more cognitive insight will produce a new discovery just as in Camille Saint Saens' Samson and Delilah.
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Fri 11 Jul, 2008 06:42 am
Your discovery of Samson and Delilah gave me a good night's sleep, Letty.
But as for Brahms Symphony #3, I can't get Bette Davis or Gregory Peck out of my mind. I've already checked out "Spellbound", "Magnificent Obsession (Jane Wyman) and "Now Voyager". About 50 more to go.
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Fri 11 Jul, 2008 06:55 am
Well, puppy, I guess we all need to be more like Derek Redmond.
E.B. White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York - October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was an American writer. Although named Elwyn Brooks White by his parents,[1] White used his initials in professional writings all his life.
White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. He picked up the nickname "Andy" at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White. While at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times. White was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society and Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI). He wrote for The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer and worked as an ad man before returning to New York City in 1924.
He published his first article in The New Yorker magazine in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for six decades. Best recognized for his essays and unsigned "Notes and Comment" pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine. He also served as a columnist for Harper's Magazine from 1938 to 1943.
In the late 1930s, White turned his hand to children's fiction on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White. His first children's book, Stuart Little, was published in 1945, and Charlotte's Web appeared in 1952. Both were highly acclaimed and in 1970, jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in the field of children's literature. In the same year, he published his third children's novel, The Trumpet of the Swan. In 1973, that book received the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas, both of which were awarded by students voting for their favorite book of the year.
In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style. This handbook of grammatical and stylistic dos and don'ts for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell. White's rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999; an illustrated edition followed in 2005. That same year, a New York composer named Nico Muhly premiered a short opera based on the book. The volume is a standard tool for students and writers and remains required reading in many composition classes.
In 1978, White won a special Pulitzer Prize for his work as a whole. Other awards he received included a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States.
White married Katharine Sergeant Angell in 1929, also an editor at The New Yorker, and author (as Katharine White) of Onward and Upward in the Garden. They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boatbuilder, who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, Maine. Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for The New Yorker and is well-known as the magazine's baseball writer. White was related to James White who was a Methodist preacher in Missouri.
White died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine, after a long fight with Alzheimer's Disease. He was cremated, and his ashes were buried beside his wife at the Brooklin Cemetery.[2]
Went down and got rehired at the apts. Part time. This song weighs heavily on my mind this week.
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Fri 11 Jul, 2008 07:25 am
Yul Brynner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Yuliy Borisovich Brynner
July 11, 1920(1920-07-11)
Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic
Died October 10, 1985 (aged 65)
New York City, New York, USA
Years active 1944-1980
Spouse(s) Virginia Gilmore (1944-1960)
Doris Kleiner (1960-1967)
Jacqueline de Croisset (1971-1981)
Kathy Lee (1983-1985)
Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Actor
1956 The King and I
Tony Awards
Best Featured Actor in a Musical
1952 King and I
Special Tony Award
1985 Lifetime Achievement
Other Awards
NBR Award for Best Actor
1956 The King and I
1956 Anastasia
1956 The Ten Commandments
Hollywood Walk of Fame
6162 Hollywood Boulevard
Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 - October 10, 1985)[1] was a Russian-born actor of stage and screen, perhaps best known for his portrayal of the Siamese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The King and I on the stage and on the screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments and as Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven.
He was noted for his deep, rich voice and for his shaved head, which he kept as a personal trademark since adopting it in his role in The King and I.
Biography
Early life
He was born Yuliy Borisovich Brynner (Russian: Юлий Бори́сович Бри́нер) in Vladivostok, Russia. His mother, Marusya Blagovidova (Russian: Маруся Благовидова), was the daughter of a Russian Jewish doctor[2] and his father, Boris Brynner (Russian: Борис Бринер), was an alcoholic inventor and engineer born to a religious Jewish family, who spent his life denying his Judaism, claiming to be of Swiss and Mongolian ancestry.[3]
Brynner's early life was exotic, but he made it out to be even more exotic than it actually was, claiming that he was born Taidje Khan of part-Mongol parentage, on the Russian island of Sakhalin, in 1915. A biography published by his son Rock Brynner in 1989, and the diaries of the poet Todja Tartschoff Newman, with whom he went to cheder[4], clarified these issues.
After Boris Brynner abandoned his family, his mother took Yul and his sister, Vera Bryner (Russian: Вера Бринер), to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA, and in 1934 she took them to Paris.
During WWII (1941-D-Day) Brynner worked as a French speaking radio announcer and commentator for the US Office of War Information, broadcasting propaganda to occupied France.
Career
He began acting and modeling in his twenties.
Brynner's best-known role was that of King Mongkut of Siam in the Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I which he played 4,626 times onstage over the span of his career. He appeared in the original production and subsequent touring productions, as well as a 1977 Broadway revival, and another Broadway revival in 1985. He also appeared in the film version for which he won an Academy Award as Best Actor, and in a short-lived TV version (Anna and the King) on CBS in 1972. Brynner is one of only nine people who have won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the same role.
He made an immediate impact upon launching his film career in 1956, appearing not only in The King and I that year, but also in major roles in The Ten Commandments opposite Charlton Heston and Anastasia opposite Ingrid Bergman. Brynner, at 5'10", was reportedly concerned about being overshadowed by Charlton Heston's physical presence in the film The Ten Commandments, and prepared with an intensive weight-lifting program.
He later starred in such films as the Biblical epic Solomon and Sheba (1959), as Solomon, The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Westworld (1973). He co-starred with Marlon Brando in Morituri; Katharine Hepburn in The Madwoman of Chaillot and William Shatner in a film version of The Brothers Karamazov. He starred with Barbara Bouchet in Death Rage, 1976. His final feature film appearance was in the sequel to Westworld, titled Futureworld with Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner, in 1976.
Brynner also appeared in drag in an unbilled role in the Peter Sellers comedy The Magic Christian (1969).
Towards the end of his life he contracted trichinosis and subsequently sued Trader Vic's restaurant in the Plaza Hotel in New York City for serving him undercooked pork, from which, allegedly, he caught the disease.
Photographer, author, and musician
In addition to his work as a performer, Brynner was an active photographer, and wrote two books. His daughter Victoria put together a book of his photographs of family, friends, and fellow actors, as well as those he took while serving as a UN special consultant on refugees. The book is titled Yul Brynner: Photographer (ISBN 0-8109-3144-3). Brynner also published Bring Forth the Children: A Journey to the Forgotten People of Europe and the Middle East in 1960 and The Yul Brynner Cookbook: Food Fit for the King and You (ISBN 0-8128-2882-8) in 1983.
A student of music from childhood, Brynner was an accomplished guitarist and singer. In his early period in Europe he often played and sang gypsy songs in Parisian nightclubs with Aliosha Dimitrievitch. He sang some of those same songs in the film The Brothers Karamazov. In 1967, he and Dimitrievitch released a record album, The Gypsy and I: Yul Brynner Sings Gypsy Songs (Vanguard VSD 79265).
Personal life
Yul Brynner was married four times, the first three ending in divorce. He had three children and adopted two others.
His first wife, Virginia Gilmore (1944 - 1960), was an actress. They had one child, Yul Brynner II (born December 23, 1946), nicknamed when he was six "Rock" by his father in honor of boxer Rocky Graziano, who won the middleweight title in 1947. Rock is a historian, novelist and university history lecturer at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT.[5] In 2006, Rock wrote a book about his father and his family history titled "Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond."
Lark Brynner (born 1958) was born out of wedlock and raised by her mother.
His second wife, Doris Kleiner (1960 - 1967), was a Chilean model, whom he married on the set during shooting of The Magnificent Seven in 1960.[6] They had one child, Victoria Brynner (born November 1962), whose godmother was Audrey Hepburn.
His third wife, Jacqueline de Croisset (1971 - 1981), was a French socialite. She was the widow of Philippe de Croisset, a publishing executive. Yul and Jacqueline adopted two Vietnamese children: Mia (1974), and Melody (1975).
His fourth wife, Kathy Lee, born in Malaysia, was a dancer in The King and I shows.[7] They married in 1983.
Brynner also had an affair with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1950s and, allegedly, another with Judy Garland in the mid-1950s.[citation needed]
Death
Brynner died of lung cancer on October 10, 1985 (the same day as Orson Welles, his co star in The Battle of Neretva) in New York City.
Throughout his life, Brynner was often seen with a cigarette in his hand. In January 1985, nine months before his death, he gave an interview on Good Morning America, expressing his desire to make an anti-smoking commercial.[8] A clip from that interview was made into just such a public service announcement by the American Cancer Society, and released after his death; it includes the warning "Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke." This advertisement is now featured in the Body Worlds exhibition.
Yul Brynner is interred in the cemetery at the Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry monastery not far from Luzé, between Tours and Poitiers, Vienne, France.
Honors and awards
Brynner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6162 Hollywood Blvd, and his childhood home, in Vladivostok, is now a museum. He made "Top 10 stars of the year", in both 1957 and 1958.
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Fri 11 Jul, 2008 07:28 am
Tab Hunter
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Born Arthur Andrew Kelm
July 11, 1931 (1931-07-11) (age 77)
New York City, New York, USA
Tab Hunter (born July 11, 1931) is an American actor and singer who appeared in more than 40 major feature films.
Hunter was born Arthur Andrew Kelm in New York City to German immigrants. His father, Charles Kelm, was Jewish and his mother, Gertrude Gelien, a Roman Catholic who later converted to Judaism. Hunter was raised as a Roman Catholic. His father was an abusive man, and within a few years of his birth, his parents divorced and his mother moved with her two sons to California. She reassumed her maiden surname, Gelien, and changed her sons' name to that as well. As a teenager, Hunter was a figure skater, competing in both singles and pairs, and an ardent horseback rider.
In later years, Hunter's mother was institutionalized and underwent shock treatments, and he supported her financially until her death. His older brother Walter, whom he idolized, became a medic and was killed in Vietnam.
Career
Arthur Gelien was signed to a contract at Warner Bros. and christened "Tab Hunter" by his first agent, Henry Willson [1]. His good looks got him pegged as a screen idol. He landed a role in the film Island of Desire opposite Linda Darnell. However, it was his co-starring role as young Marine Danny in 1955's World War II drama Battle Cry, in which he has an affair with an older woman but ends up marrying the girl next door, that cemented his position as one of Hollywood's top young romantic leads. He went on to star in over 40 major Holywood films
In September 1955, the tabloid magazine Confidential reported Hunter's 1950 arrest for disorderly conduct. The innuendo-laced article, and a second one focusing on Rory Calhoun's prison record, were the result of a deal Henry Willson had brokered with the scandal rag in exchange for not revealing his more prominent client Rock Hudson's sexual orientation to the public. Not only was there no negative impact on Hunter's career, but a few months later he was named Most Promising New Personality in a nationwide poll sponsored by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations [2].
Hunter had a 1957 hit record with a cover of the song "Young Love", which was #1 on the charts for five weeks. His success prompted Jack Warner to enforce the actor's contract with the studio by banning Dot Records, the label for which Hunter had recorded the single, from releasing a follow-up album he had recorded for them. He established Warner Bros. Records specifically for Hunter, although his singing career foundered after a few more recordings.
Hunter's best role during this period was in the 1958 musical movie Damn Yankees, in which he played Joe Hardy of Washington D.C's American League baseball club. The movie had originally been a Broadway show, and Hunter was the only one in the film version who hadn't appeared in the original cast. The show was based on the 1954 best-selling book The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop.
Hunter's failure to win the role of Tony in the film adaptation of West Side Story prompted him to agree to star in a weekly television sitcom. On July 9, 1960, prior to the program's debut, he was arrested by Glendale, California police for allegedly regularly and relentlessly beating his dog Fritz. His trial started in mid-October, one month after The Tab Hunter Show debuted on NBC, and lasted eleven days. It was proven the neighbor who initiated the charges had done so for spite when Hunter declined her repeated invitations to dinner, and he was acquitted by the jury [3]. The series suffered from low ratings and was cancelled after one season.
For a short time in the late 1960s, Hunter settled in the south of France, where he acted in spaghetti westerns. His career was revived in the 1980s, when he starred opposite transvestite actor Divine in John Waters' Polyester (1981) and Paul Bartel's Lust in the Dust (1985). He is particularly remembered by later audiences as Mr. Stewart, the substitute teacher in Grease 2, who sang "Reproduction." He also wrote and starred in Dark Horse (1992).
Personal life
In Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, he acknowledged his homosexuality, confirming rumors that had circulated since the height of his fame. According to William L. Hamilton of the New York Times, detailed reports about his alleged romances with very close friends Debbie Reynolds and Natalie Wood were strictly the fodder of studio publicity departments. As Wood and Hunter embarked on a well-publicized and groundless romance, promoting his apparent heterosexuality while promoting their movies, insiders developed their own headline for the item: 'Natalie Wood and Tab Wouldn't.' "[4] Hunter did become close enough with Etchika Choureau, his co-star in Lafayette Escadrille, and Joan Cohn, widow of Harry Cohn, to contemplate marriage, but thought he never could maintain a marriage and remained merely platonic friends with both women.
During Hollywood's studio era, Hunter says, life "was difficult for me, because I was living two lives at that time. A private life of my own, which I never discussed, never talked about to anyone. And then my Hollywood life, which was just trying to learn my craft and succeed ..." The star emphasizes that the word 'gay' "wasn't even around in those days, and if anyone ever confronted me with it, I'd just kinda freak out. I was in total denial. I was just not comfortable in that Hollywood scene, other than the work process."[5] "There was a lot written about my sexuality, and the press was pretty darn cruel," the actor says, but what "moviegoers wanted to hold in their hearts were the boy-next-door marines, cowboys and swoon-bait sweethearts he portrayed."[6]
Hunter had long-term relationships with actor Anthony Perkins and champion figure skater Ronnie Robertson before setting down with his partner of 25 years, Allan Glaser. The two live in Montecito, California.
Hunter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6320 Hollywood Blvd.
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Fri 11 Jul, 2008 07:36 am
Jeff Corwin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeffrey Samuel Corwin (born July 11, 1967 in Norwell, Massachusetts) is best known as the host and executive producer of The Jeff Corwin Experience and Corwin's Quest, two American television shows following his adventures discovering and exploring various kinds of animal life and climates (including locales from all over the world), airing on the Animal Planet cable channel.
Early life and career
Jeff Corwin attended Norwell High School. Jeff spent his freshman year of college at Eastern Nazarene College, which is located in Quincy, Massachusetts. Later he attended Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Jeff has bachelor of science degrees in biology and anthropology. He conducted his graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, obtaining a master of science in wildlife and fisheries conservation and doing work on bats and snakes. In 1999, Bridgewater awarded Corwin an honorary doctorate in public education. He lives with his wife, Natasha, and daughter Maya Rose in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Corwin first experienced the tropical rain forests in 1984 in Belize. As an undergraduate, he became active in conservation of rain forest in Central and South America and helped establish the Emerald Canopy Rainforest Foundation. He also participated in the youth action committee for the United Nations Environmental Program. He lectures on wildlife, ecology and conservation to audiences throughout the United States. In 1993, Jeff addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations regarding the need to conserve neotropical rain forests.
Corwin's big break into television came about thanks to famed oceanographer Bob Ballard, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, in the 1994 documentary Ballard produced for National Geographic called The Jason Project. Then, after several lean years, Corwin migrated over to the Disney Channel with Going Wild with Jeff Corwin. Eventually, he caught the eye of producers at Animal Planet, and since 2000 he's gone on to explore six of the seven continents- all except Antarctica, so far.
Corwin was also certified as an Advanced Field Medical Specialist by the U.S. Army Academy of Health Sciences, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
In the spring of 2007 Corwin began a new TV show on the Travel Channel titled "Into Alaska with Jeff Corwin." The show highlights wildlife in Alaska while also having a travel perspective. It was originally aired in letterbox format and it would most likely be in high definition when the Travel Channel HD launches in 2008 if it airs again.
Despite the fact that Jeff frequently handles animals that could be considered dangerous, he has admitted on The Jeff Corwin Experience that he has a minor fear of monkeys.
Early inspiration
Corwin's first encounter with snakes taken from an interview with Heartland Magazine:
"When I was, while exploring my grandparent's backyard in Middleboro, Massachusetts, I turned over a log and had an encounter that forever changed my life. I saw this garter snake, and was immediately transfixed by it. I remember catching it and bringing it into the house with me and seeing the terror it unleashed in people, but not understanding why they were so afraid of it. As I've often said, if I'd rolled back that log and found a golf club, I would have been Tiger Woods. I tracked that snake for two years and would visit it every time I went to my grandparents. One day, the neighbor next door snuck up behind me and cut off its head with a spade, thinking it was attacking me. I was so shocked by that behavior, by that expression of ignorance, it focused me on what I was going to do with my life. The day I found that snake was the day I became a naturalist. The day I saw it get killed out of a misunderstanding was the day I became a conservationist" [1]
Close Encounters
In filming a segment of CNN's Planet in Peril with Anderson Cooper near Phnom Penh, Cambodia on March 22nd of 2007, Corwin was the victim of a playful elephant. This rough-play consisted of the elephant putting Corwin's elbow in its mouth and wrapping its trunk around his arm, swinging him around. He yelled as the elephant shook its head, releasing and throwing Corwin into the shallow water in which they were standing. Corwin noted that the pain was so overwhelming that he nearly blacked out, and that his arm still does not work correctly. Corwin later posted the following summary of injuries that resulted:
"To this day my arm doesn't work right. We tend to look at elephants as these very kind very gentle giants, like Dumbo and Jumbo from the cartoons. But the truth is, elephants are complex mammals with a huge array of emotions, from happiness to anger to jealousy, and when I turned away, this was his way of telling me he didn't want to be ignored. The trunk of an elephant can lift a 700-pound tree limb. You do not want to be that close to one when he's having a bad moment."
"Truth is that elephant is easily 15,000 times stronger than my meager self, and if she had wanted to, she could have done far worse than crushing a bit of ligament and muscle. Lucky for me, no bone fracture, hopefully no connective tissue torn (we'll have to wait till I get home to find out about that)." [2]
During a segment entitled I Am Brave, which is a behind the scenes look at different outtakes and Jeff's playful personality while filming The Jeff Corwin Experience, he admitted to have handled several snakes while traveling the globe but having only experienced a bite from a single poisonous snake; A Coral Snake. This same creature is found as a tattoo on Jeff's left shoulder and is more specifically what looks to be an Arizona Coral Snake.
His Life Today
Jeff Corwin now lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts, with his wife Natasha and his daughter, Maya Rose. He still actively works on his show The Jeff Corwin Experience which airs on Animal Planet.
Jeff Corwin Unleashed
Aired on the Discovery Kids channel in 2003, this series was one of Jeff's earliest projects, featuring fun trivia, information and animal discoveries for children. The show earned him high acclaim, including a Daytime Emmy in 2004.
Giant Monsters
"Giant Monsters" redirects here. For the legendary creatures, see Monster.
Giant Monsters was a television documentary special on Animal Planet hosted by Corwin. It dealt with the world's largest creatures of all time, including Tyrannosaurus rex, the saber-toothed cat Smilodon, the gigantic ground sloth Megatherium, the 40-foot crocodile Sarcosuchus, the Komodo dragon-like Megalania, the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus, the huge spider Megarachne, to the giant squid Architeuthis dux.[3]
Going Wild With Jeff Corwin
A show Corwin formerly hosted a TV series from 1997-1999, Going Wild With Jeff Corwin was an educational program on the Disney Channel.
CSI: Miami
In 2003, Corwin appeared as himself in the second season episode of CSI: Miami, Death Grip, helping the detectives retrieve a human foot from inside a live crocodile. However, his background was given to be the college roommate of Detective Eric Delko whose CSI: Miami canon places him at the University of Miami.
King of the Jungle
Airing from 2003-2004, King of the Jungle was a series in which twelve individuals competed in rigorous challenges to win a chance to host a television program for Animal Planet. Corwin served as their guide throughout the tasks. [4]
Corwin's Quest
Corwin's Quest was a series hosted and produced by Jeff Corwin, that premiered on Animal Planet in 2005. The show's premise was based on giving Jeff a special mission to accomplish per episode, which often resulted in exploring challenging environments and seeking out rare creatures.
Planet in Peril
In 2007, he was sponsored by CNN to be an environment correspondent for an Anderson Cooper 360 special called "Planet in Peril," along with co-host Sanjay Gupta.
The Jeff Corwin Experience
The Jeff Corwin Experience is Corwin's longest-running show, currently airing on Animal Planet since 2001. In typical Corwin fashion, the show features an array of animals, educational information and tours through locales, villages, and events across the world.
Into America's West
In April of 2008, Jeff Corwin debuted a documentary series for the Travel Channel, Into America's West. In the program, Jeff journeys across the landscape of Western America, searching for and discovering many forms of unique desert wildlife. [5]
Into Alaska
Also created for the Travel Channel, this is a documentary series exploring the vast landscapes and array of wildlife in Alaska. [6]
Awards
In 2002, Corwin was named one of People Magazine´s 50 Most Beautiful People. [7]
In 2004, Corwin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for Jeff Corwin Unleashed. In 2005, he was nominated for the same award.
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Fri 11 Jul, 2008 07:37 am
Interesting Human Body Facts
- The largest cell in the human body is the female egg, and the
smallest is the male sperm.
- A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
- It takes food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your
stomach.
- The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
- The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long
when he died.
- Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the
liver than men with hair.
- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one
square inch.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils
dilate...they
do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!
- Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you
aren't.
- Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing
still.
- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
- The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
*** You looked at your thumb..... Didn't you?
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Fri 11 Jul, 2008 07:43 am
Well, bobsmythhawk, if this body fact is true
Quote:
Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you
aren't
Can't risk getting those ears clogged up, 'cause then we can't hear the music. So, this is my philosophy for today--don't be afraid, don't worry about a thing.
