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hey, edgar. We were wondering where you were. Great song, incidentally.

This may seem like a strange goodnight song, listeners, but it does say something to me:

Remembering
Do you remember the wind, Cassandra?
Do you remember the fierce, strident howling
Of the wind?
Do you remember the wind's deceit---
The destructive force
That tore our world apart?

Do you remember my face, Cassandra?
Do you remember my eyes
That looked at you with love?
Do you remember my hands---
Fingers touching your lips,
Begging for silence?

Do you remember the night, Cassandra?
Do you remember your clandestine trysts
With Truth?
Do you remember the shadows of the moon,
The frail September moon
That was our only barrier
To the winds of winter?

Do you remember my words, Cassandra?
Pleading for recognition---
Words of adoration---
Words of love---
Reaching for you in the agony of indifference---
Celebrating the beauty of your eyes,
The elegance of your grace,
The ravishing astonishment of your being
The words, the endless words
Searching for an entrance to your soul.
Do you remember?

Do you remember my songs

Goodnight from your letty

With love.

Thoughts on Exercising. . .

- I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out
what I'm doing.

- I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy
me.

- I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

- The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.

- If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small
country.

- Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old
to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.

- My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. Now
she's 97 years old and we don't know where on earth she is.

- The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could hear
heavy breathing again.

- I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't lost
a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

- And last but not least: I don't exercise because it makes the ice jump
right out of my glass.

- You could run this over to your friends but why not just e-mail it to
them!

Conway Twitty
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Conway Twitty, born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, (September 1, 1933 - June 5, 1993) was one of America's most successful hit makers of the 20th century, in that he had the most singles (55) reach Number 1 in US Country chart. Conway Twitty's totals in that chart were greater than that of Elvis, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles in the pop charts and Garth Brooks in either chart. Most notably known as a country music singer, Twitty also enjoyed success in early Rock and Roll, R&B, and Pop music (among others).

Twitty was born in the small town of Friars Point, Mississippi and named after a silent film star. His family moved to Helena, Arkansas when he was 10, and there he put together his first band, the "Phillips County Ramblers". Two years later, he had his own local radio show every Saturday morning. While in Arkansas, Twitty indulged his second passion, baseball. He received an offer to play with the Philadelphia Phillies after high school but he joined the United States Army instead.

After his discharge from the Army, Twitty again pursued a music career. After hearing Elvis Presley's "Mystery Train," he began writing original rock 'n' roll material. As a matter of course, he headed for the Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, and worked with the likes of Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and many others. He changed his name in 1957, looking at a map, he selected Conway, Arkansas and Twitty, Texas. The character of Conrad Birdie in the musical Bye Bye Birdie is said to be based loosely on a combination of Twitty and Presley.

Twitty's fortune changed when he joined MGM records. He had all but given up hope when news came from a DJ in Ohio that he was very popular. The single "I'll Try" had failed, but the DJ flipped the single over and began playing "It's Only Make Believe". The song was an instant hit and for a brief period, some believed that it was Elvis recording under a different name. Conway Twitty became an overnight success thanks to the B side of his single. The song didn't take long to record and never was thought to have been anything but a filler until that day in 1958. The song went on to sell over 8 million records and to No. 1 on the Billboard pop music charts in the U.S. as well as No. 1 in 21 different nations. Twitty would go on to enjoy rock-n-roll success with a hard rock song like, "Danny Boy" and "Lonely Blue Boy".

Conway Twitty always wanted to record country music and in 1965 he did just that. His first few country albums were met with country DJs refusing to play them by the count that he was well-known as a rock-n-roll singer. He finally broke free with his first number one country song, "Next In Line" in 1968. In 1970, Conway would record and release his second signature song, "Hello Darlin'". He twice accomplished something that few singers ever do even once - score a signature song (and in two genres, yet). Up through the time of his death, Conway opened his concerts with one and closed with the other, and that first signature song - "It's Only Make Believe" - would become accepted as a country standard, even though it never made the Billboard country charts.

In 1971, he released his first hit duet with Loretta Lynn, "After the Fire Is Gone," followed by "Lead Me On" (1971), "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973), "As Soon As I Hang Up the Phone" (1974) and "Feelins'" (1975). Together, they won four consecutive Country Music Association awards for vocal duo (1972 - 1975).

In 1973, Conway released "You've Never Been This Far Before," which was No. 1 for three weeks that September. Some disc jockeys refused to play the song because of its suggestive lyrics.

Twitty lived for many years in Hendersonville, Tennessee, just north of Nashville, where he built a country music entertainment complex called Twitty City. Its lavish displays of Christmas lights were a famous local sight. It has since been sold to the Trinity Broadcasting Network and converted to a Christian music venue.

Twitty never won a solo CMA award. Yet, by the end of his tenure at MCA in 1981, he had accumulated 32 No. 1 hits, while another 15 had reached the Top 5. He moved to Warner Brothers records in 1982, where he had another 11 No. 1 hits. By 1987, Conway was back at MCA, where he continued to score top 10 hits until 1991.

Twitty became ill while performing in Branson, Missouri, and he died from an abdominal aneurysm. Shortly before he died, he had recorded a new album, suitably called Final Touches. Twitty was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

Conway Twitty married three times. And after his death the widow, Dee Henry Jenkins, and his four grown children from the previous wives, Michael, Joni, Kathy and Jimmy Jenkins, fell into a very public dispute over the estate. His will had not been updated to account for the third marriage, but Tennessee law reserves one third of any estate to the widow. A public auction of much property and memorabilia had to be held due to the inability of the heirs to agree on a division of the assets.

While Conway has been known to cover songs - most notably "Slow Hand," which was a major pop hit for the Pointer Sisters - his songs have not been covered that often. However, two notable covers include George Jones' rendition of "Hello Darlin'" and Blake Shelton's "Goodbye Time."

Conway is often noted for being "The Best Friend a Song Ever Had," and to his millions of fans, such a statement rings true, 12 years after his passing.

Twitty's last chart appearance on the country charts was a duet with Anita Cochrane, "I Want to Hear a Cheating Song," in 2004. Twitty's voice was electronically created based on some of his hits from the 1980s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Twitty



Conway Twitty
Slow Hand Lyrics

Album: Silver Anniversary Collection


As the midnight moon was drifting through
The lazy sway of the trees
I saw the look in your eyes looking into the night
Not seeing what you wanted to see.

Darling, don't say a word I've already heard
What your body is saying to mine
You're tired of fast moves
You got a slow groove on your mind.

You want a man with a slow hand
You want a lover with an easy touch
You want somebody who will spend some time
Not come and go in a heated rush
Baby, believe me I understand
When it comes to love you want a slow hand.

--- Instrumental ---

Moon shadowed ground with no one around
And a blanket of stars in our eyes
Hey, we're drifting free like two losties
On the crazy wind of the night.

Darling don't say a word I've already heard
What your body is saying to mine
If you want all night you know it's alright
I've got time.

You've got a man with a slow hand
You've got a lover with an easy touch
You've got somebody who will spend some time
Not come and go in a heated rush
Baby, believe me I understand
When it comes to love you want a slow hand.

You want a lover with an easy touch
You've got somebody
Who will spend some time with you baby
Not come and go in a heated rush
Baby believe me I understand
When it comes to love you want a slow hand...

barry gibb

born Barry Alan Crompton Gibb on 1 September 1946 in Douglas, Isle of Man

As a member of the Bee Gees, Barry Gibb sang and played the guitar along with his twin brothers




Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb. Among the group's well-known hits are "How Deep Is Your Love," "Night Fever" and "Run to Me." For more than two decades the band has produced hits. Their records have sold more than 100 million copies; they have produced more than 25 albums and have had at least 19 hits on the American music charts.

Barry Gibb was born in England and emigrated with his family to Australia where the career of the Bee Gees began. The Bee Gees name came from the Brothers Gibb. Their debut performance was on Australian television in 1963 when they sang their first single, "The Battle of the Blue & Grey." "Spicks and Specks," another hit, went over big in Australia. Despite the band's success "down under" they were envious of groups like the Beatles who had become internationally known by this time. In 1967 the trio went back to Britain to achieve national fame.

After signing a record contract the Bee Gees produced their first hit in the UK, "New York Mining Disaster 1941," which also scored on the American musical charts. Following this the group had a string of hits that landed on both the UK and American charts. The songs included "Massachusetts," "Words," "I've Got a Message to You," "I Started a Joke" and "First of May."

With success looming in their path, Robin Gibb decided to leave the group in 1969 to pursue a solo career. Barry Gibb and his brother decided to keep the Bee Gees alive and produced the hit single "Tomorrow, Tomorrow." The two performed on the television show Cucumber Castle singing "Don't Forget to Remember." Barry Gibb's songwriting talents not only benefited the Bee Gees but also several other 70s and 80s singers such as Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers and most recently Celine Dion and Michael Bolton.

By 1970 Robin Gibb had rejoined the group and a new decade was upon the Bee Gees. The early 70s were hard on the group as the transition was happening between pop and folk rock to heavier rock. Main Course, released in 1975, produced the band's next hit, "Jive Talkin." Their manager, Robert Stigwood, used these songs to enhance the trio's popularity during the disco phenomenon. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack brought about enormous popularity for the Bee Gees. Hits from the soundtrack include "Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "Stayin' Alive" and "You Should Be Dancin." By the end of the '70s the group was once again on the charts.

Despite the '70s success, the Bee Gees were less successful in the 80s, producing few hits. The group released You Win Again in 1987. Unfortunately, Andy Gibb, the group's musically talented younger brother, died in 1988 of a cocaine overdose. The '90s proved a bit more successful with the 1993 album Size Isn't Everything with the singles "Paying the Price of Love" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The Bee Gees were awarded the lifetime achievement award at the Brit Awards in 1996 and at the American Music Awards in 1997. Also in 1997 they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

After three decades, Barry Gibb continues singing and writing. He and his wife Linda have five children, Stephen, Ashley, Travis, Michael and Alexandria. ~ Kim Summers, All Music Guide

http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/gibb_barry/bio.jhtml

Grease lyrics:
Bee Gees

I saw my problems and i'll see the light
We got a lovin' thing, we gotta feed it right
There ain't no danger we can go too far
We start believin' now that we can be who we are - grease is the word

They think our love is just a growin' pain
Why don't they understand? it's just a cryin' shame
Their lips are lyin', only real is real
We stop the fight right now, we got to be what we feel - grease is the word

Chorus:
(grease is the word, is the word that you heard)
It's got a groove, it's got a meaning
Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion
Grease is the way we are feeling

We take the pressure, and we throw away conventionality, belongs to yesterday
There is a chance that we can make it so far
We start believin' now that we can be who we are - grease is the word

Chorus

This is a life of illusion, a life of control
Mixed with confusion - what're we doin' here?

We take the pressure, and we throw away conventionality, belongs to yesterday
There is a chance that we can make it so far
We start believin' now that we can be who we are - grease is the word

Chorus repeats 2x

(grease is the word, is the word, is the word...)

Lily Tomlin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Lily Tomlin (born Mary Jean Tomlin on September 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan), is an American actress and comedian. She first became well-known for her character skits on television's Laugh-In, in which she created several indelible characters that have stayed with her and become associated with her throughout her career, including the gum-chewing, wisecracking, snorting telephone operator Ernestine (famous for her lines "One ringy dingy, two ringy dingy" and "A gracious good morning to you ... Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?") and the bratty five-year-old Edith Ann, rocking in her oversized rocking chair and making rude noises (famous for her line "And that's the truth!").

Tomlin was the daughter of a factory worker and a housewife who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Tomlin attended Wayne State University, where her interest in the theater and performing arts began. After college, Tomlin began doing stand-up comedy in nightclubs in Detroit and then New York City. Her first television appearance was on The Merv Griffin Show in 1965. Tomlin joined the Laugh-In cast in 1969. AT&T offered Tomlin $500,000 to film a commercial using her character Ernestine, but Tomlin turned the offer down because she thought the commercial would compromise her artistic integrity. In 2003 she did film two commercials as Ernestine for the company WebEx.

Tomlin is noted for her wide range. For example, in Nashville, she played Linnea Reese, a strait-laced mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a country singer played by Keith Carradine; secretary Violet Newstead in Nine to Five,she also starred in the 1981 comedy film The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and a sickly heiress in the Steve Martin comedy All of Me. Tomlin also voiced the Ms. Frizzle character on the animated television series The Magic School Bus from 1994 to 1998. Also in the 1990s, due entirely to financial reverses, Tomlin appeared on the popular sitcom Murphy Brown. Tomlin currently plays presidential assistant "Deborah Fiderer" on the TV show The West Wing.

Tomlin starred in the 1985 hit one-woman Broadway show The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written by her long-time life partner, Jane Wagner. The show won Tomlin a Tony Award. It was made into a feature film in 1991. Tomlin revived the show for a brief run in 2000.

Though Tomlin is now open about being lesbian, the media doesn't focus on this aspect of her personal life. In fact, many of her fans are unaware of her sexual orientation. Tomlin came out in 2000 on the New York City cable-access TV program Gay USA. Actually, Tomlin frequently referred to Wagner, but avoided saying point-blank that she herself was, in fact, gay.

Tomlin was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2003 she won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Good morning WA2K listeners and contributors.

Hey, Bob. You hawk; me Letty. My word, Boston. I have never seen such a wealth of information and music. As most of you know, I loved D.H. Lawerence's short story, "The Rocking horse Winner." To me the man was and is fantastic. Such a pity that good writers are hounded by those who can't see their individualism, no?

Thanks, hawkman, and as soon as I have had my coffee, I will trot across the street and give your exercise regime to my neighbors. <smile>

No, it's not possible that today is September 1, 2005.

How about a song that gives a weather report in my area and reflects the month and unrequited love in one lovely melody.This version by The Beatles:

The leaves of brown
came tumbling down,
remember in september in the rain.
The sun went out
just like a light,
remember in september in the rain.

To every word
of love I heard you whisper
the raindrops seems
to play a sweet refrain.
Thought it's spring,
to me it's still september,
oh that september in the rain.

To every word
of love I heard you whisper
the raindrops seems
to play a sweet refrain.
Thought it's spring,
to me it's still september,
oh that september in the rain.
I said I said it's september in the rain.
Ah september in the rain.

Folks, I am going to leave the lyrics untouched, but they are NOT the good ones. <place eye roll here>

Back later with the original version.

Seems to me this song may have been posted recently but I'll do it again since it seems so apropos. I think I've got Alzheimers but I forget.


Neil Diamond Lyrics

September Morn Lyrics

Stay for just a while
Stay and let me look at you
It's been so long, I hardly knew you
Standing in the door

Stay with me a while
I only wanna talk to you
We've traveled halfway 'round the world
To find ourselves again

September morn
We danced until the night
Became a brand new day
Two lovers playing scenes
From some romantic play
September morning
Still can make me feel that way

Look at what you've done
Why, you've become a grown-up girl
I still can hear you crying
In a corner of your room
And look how far we've come
So far from where we used to be
But not so far that we've forgotten
How it was before

September morn
Do you remember
How we danced that night away
Two lovers playing scenes
From some romantic play
September morning
Still can make me feel that way

September morn
We danced until the night
Became a brand new day
Two lovers playing scenes
From some romantic play
September morning
Still can make me feel that way

September morn
We danced until the night
Became a brand new day
Two lovers playing scenes
From some romantic play
September morning
Still can make me feel that way
September morning
Still can make me feel that way

Hi Letty.

I'm going up to Wigan now.

Bet no-one knows any songs about Wigan (but there is one, a famous one, written in Wigan...at a railway station. Now there's a clue.)

Thanks, Bob. I do believe that September morn has been played here on our station, but it is lovely. Isn't there a painting called September Morn? My goodness. What odd things emerge from our memories, listeners.

There's our McTag with a question about Wigan. I knew where Walter was going, but I'm afraid that I will have to cheat on your question, Manchester.<smile>

The sky has cleared,
The sun is up,
Even disaster
Does not interrupt
The nature of things.

Now who wrote that, McTag?

My goodness, Bob. That's a neat little Wigan ditty.

I found this and was stunned:

Wigan Songs and Chants

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE



"You are my Sunshine, my only Sunshine,

You make me happy, when skies are grey (when skies are grey);

You'll never know dear, how much I love you,

So please don't take my Sunshine away"

Well, it seems that the Brits stole something from us, then. <smile>

What Do The Wigan Fans Sing?

We come from Wigan and we live in mud huts,
Ooh, aah, ooh ooh aah,
Ooh to be a Wiganah! (normally sung at away games).

E-I, E-I. E-I-O, up the football league we go,
when we win promotion this is what we'll sing,
we are Wigan, we are Wigan, Wigan football team.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,
You make me happy when skies are grey,
You'll never know, dear, how much I love you,
So please don't take my Wigan away, altogether now.....

Lets hang to what we've got,
Don't let go girl we got a lot,
Got a lot of love between us,
Hang on, hang on, hang on,
To what we've got, oooh, hooo....

To the tune of 'No Nay Never';
And its Wigan Latics,
Wigan Latics FC,
We're by far the greatest team,
The world has ever seen!

I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps
Cool and slow with plenty of precision
With a back beat narrow and hard to master

Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance
Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping
This is the land where the Pharaoh died

The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
They are saying, "Forget the night.
Live with us in forests of azure.
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned - immaculate."

Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the lose of God
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
The meager food for souls forgot
I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul

I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn

I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Soft drivin', slow and mad, like some new language

Now, listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the Texas
I'll tell you 'bout the Texas Radio
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
Wandering the Western dream
Tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul

Wishing all a pleasant September 1, a day that came much too quickly to suit me.
I enjoyed those bios, Bob, particularly the D. H. Lawrence.

Today's birthdays:

1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
1877 - Francis William Aston, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1885 - D H Lawrence, English writer (d. 1930)
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
1888 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and World Health Organization diplomat (d. 1958)
1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1907 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1920 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician
1933 - Conway Twitty, American country music singer (d. 1993)
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
1939 - Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedienne
1944 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
1946 - Barry Gibb, Manx-Australian singer
1947 - Al Green, American politician
1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1951 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician
1952 - Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1955 - Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
1962 - Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
1966 - Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer
1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
1985 - Ciara-Camile Roque Velasco, American singer

And love that Tarzan:




and the one and only:

Well, upon my word, folks. McTag has run off with the chamber maid and pot. <smile> I do suspect that he knows that we know something of Wigan. Sheeeeze. Sports?

Good morning, dys. Wow! That is one eerie song, poem? Virginia's will- o- the wisp, I suppose.

Raggedy, I can't get past your fabulous pictures of all the Tarzanites. Thanks, PA. I suspect Hollywood took a few liberties with Burrough's original, but who doesn't love that yodel!

And then, of course, there's the cartoon character:

George of the jungle land,
The dumb but lovable jungle man.

WEIRD AL YANKOVIC LYRICS

"George Of The Jungle"

George, George, George of the jungle
Strong as he can be
Ahhh
Watch out for that tree

George, George, George of the jungle
Lives a life that's free
Ahhh
Watch out for that tree

When he gets in scrapes
When he makes his escapes
With the help of his friend
An ape named Ape

Then away he'll schlep
On his elephant Shep
While Fella and Ursula
Stay in step with

George, George, George of the jungle
Friend to you and me
Ahhh
Watch out for that tree
Watch out for that (Ahhh) (Oooh) tree
George, George, George of the Jungle
Friend to you and me

Funny, Bob. Whatever happened to Weird Al?

I think I recall his having a parody on Michael Jackson's, "I'm Bad."

Well, listeners. Time for a little bit of history:

On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

On this date:

In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.

In 1878, Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the United States, for the Telephone Despatch Co. of Boston.

In 1905, 100 years ago, Alberta and Saskatchewan entered Confederation as the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.

In 1923, the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake that claimed some 150,000 lives.

In 1932, New York City Mayor James J. ``Gentleman Jimmy'' Walker resigned following charges of graft and corruption in his administration.

In 1945, Americans received word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. (Because of the time difference, it was September 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)

In 1951, the United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.

In 1961, the Soviet Union ended a moratorium on atomic testing with an above-ground nuclear explosion in central Asia.

In 1972, American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

In 1983, 269 people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace.

Ten years ago: A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

Five years ago: President Clinton deferred a decision on whether to develop a missile defense system to his successor.

One year ago: More than 1,000 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330, mostly children, were eventually killed in three-day ordeal. Militants in Iraq freed seven employees of a Kuwaiti trucking firm after their employer paid $500,000 in ransom. The criminal case against Kobe Bryant case collapsed as prosecutors in Colorado dropped a sexual assault charge against the NBA star.