Hello Edgar darlin' - how are you keeping? How's Mrs Edgar now - have her aches and pains in her shoulder healed now?
My PaPa was taken poorly yesterday - very slow heart beat and ended up at the doctors having an ECG - he NEVER sees a doc so it was a little worrying - but they said that he's OK - just he's missing a few beats. He's been out helping my brother in the garden today - so that's a good sign
Here's another Robbie - I do so love his music
Take very good care Edgar. x
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Letty
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Sat 15 May, 2010 11:20 am
edgar, Love that theme from Lawrence of Arabia. The movie was great as well.
Izzie, Haven't heard those Robbie Williams songs but he is great, no? I guess my favorite by him is Have You Met Miss Jones.
Today is James Mason's birthday, and for the life of me I cannot locate the lyrics played behind this tribute. Someone commented that it was from Romanoff and Juliet and that Peter Ustinov and Anthony Hopkins had written it.
Loved that one by Ray and B.B., edgar. Yep, we know Ray got into the drug scene, and that may be what "Sinners Prayer" is all about.
Tried to find a decent tribute to Joseph Cotten, but everything involved a threesome. TCM is featuring all the oldies.
I think by now we know that Joseph did a hero's role in Gaslight, and I saw him in Portrait of Jennie. (didn't understand that movie at all) so here is one that includes Joseph again.
1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.
1614 - An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law.
1702 - The War of Spanish Succession began.
1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.
1795 - Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan.
1849 - Neapolitan troops entered Palermo, and were in possession of Sicily.
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," was born.
1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.
1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the U.S. Postal Service.
1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.
1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.
1930 - Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his historic major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games.
1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.
1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.
1951 - AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.
1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1958 - Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.
1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched.
1964 - The Smothers Brothers, Dick and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals.
1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.
1975 - The merchant ship U.S. Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.
1980 - The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the United States took place.
1983 - In Boston,MA, the Madison Hotel was destroyed by implosion.
1988 - Soviet forces began their withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.
1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.
1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.
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edgarblythe
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Sat 15 May, 2010 03:12 pm
Joseph was very good in a number of films I've watched.
Kiss must put on one heck of a show.
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Letty
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Sat 15 May, 2010 03:42 pm
Urs, Welcome back. Love that one by Kiss. "God Gave Rock and Roll to Ya". That's quite a song title, girl. Thanks.
edgar, inspired by your events in history, I decided to play this one. My word, folks, Patti Page is still with us.
edgar, I remember that one by Rosemary. I had no idea how troubled that lady was until I did some research on her.
Your having cited The Smothers Brothers and their concert at Carnegie Hall sent me on another search, Texas. Couldn't find that one, but found one that may be better.
Yep. The Smothers Brothers Hour was killed by controversy. I was very disappointed when it got cancelled.
Got here 20Th Century Drifter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STKsn5yJCk
That one was better. They sang and also joked more.
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Barry The Mod
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Sat 15 May, 2010 05:55 pm
Evening Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.Starting at the News Desk....
A family of Osprey are seen outside the NASA Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, May 13, 2010. The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge overlaps Kennedy and provides a habitat for 330 species of birds, including the osprey. A variety of other wildlife--117 kinds of fish, 65 types of amphibians and reptiles, 31 different mammals, and 1,045 species of plants--also inhabit the refuge.
