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red dog 1
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His father, James Francis Haggard, and his mother, Flossie Mae, moved to California from their home in Checotah, Oklahoma, during the Great Depression, after their barn burned in 1934.
They settled in an apartment in Bakersfield, CA., where James Haggard started working for the Santa Fe Railroad.
A woman who owned a boxcar in Oildale, a nearby town, asked Haggard's father about the possibility of converting the boxcar into a house.
James remodeled the boxcar, and soon after moved in, also purchasing the lot, where Merle Ronald Haggard was born on April 6, 1937.
The property was eventually expanded by building a bathroom, a second bedroom, a kitchen, and a breakfast nook in the adjacent lot.
WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)of the US...pennies,nickles, dimes, quarters, dollars, etc. He also laid out the city street system in NYC and designed the canal system in New York.
He graduated from Kings College at the age of 17, worked with the Continental Congress in Philadelphia and was given the task of taking all the parts of the Constitution and turning it into a whole. He alone penned the Preamble.
He loathed slavery and fought against the 3/5 rule that Jefferson wanted. Because he was the same height and build as Washington, he was the stand in for Washington's official portrait until it came to the face.
TlalocW
(15,388 posts)You'd better recognize Jamie Lee Curtis if she's buying groceries from you, or she'll have a shit-fit (Latin-American friend of mine who moved to LA in the 80s got a job at a grocery store in Beverly Hills, checked out Curtis, and when Curtis told her to put the bill on her tab, my friend asked her her name. The shit-fit she threw involved the manager calming her down.
Albert Einstein was fooled by simple magic tricks, much to his annoyance.
Late in his life, Groucho Marx became good friends with Ozzy Osbourne, who would come over late at night to watch movies with Groucho. He also took some of his friends to see Ozzy's act with George Burns commenting that what Ozzy was doing was essentially Vaudeville and reminiscing on a magician he knew back in the day that also cut his head off with a guillotine like Ozzy did during his performances, except doves came out of the basket Burns' friend's head landed in. Oh, and the person playing the executioner that cut off Ozzy's head was famous magician/escape artist/skeptic, James "The Amazing" Randi, who designed the magical effects for Ozzy's show at the time.
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red dog 1
(27,844 posts)I never knew that Groucho Marx became friends with Ozzy Osbourne, or that Osbourne "would come over late at night to watch movies with Groucho."
red dog 1
(27,844 posts)On television, I watched him levitate off the ground, several times, in front of eyewitnesses, who were totally blown out of their minds.
I wonder how he does that?
Also, I've seen him do card tricks in front of a restaurant, where he asks someone to pick out a card, then put it back, then he threw the entire pack of cards against the restaurant window, where one of the cards stuck to the window, ON THE INSIDE, much to the chagrin of the woman who was eating inside the restaurant at that window.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)the public goes in knowing they are illusionists. They are trying to figure out how it is done. But, they are fully aware the magician doesn't really move things with their minds or really make things disappear. He states that in his videos. It's the people who claim to have special powers or claim to talk with the dead and make a lot of money off that that he goes after.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)for 3 years. They got along great.
TlalocW
(15,388 posts)Osbourne is a conservative republican.
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TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)My experience with addicts in my family is that they're narcissists, even after they get sober.
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)She should have stayed with the music.
Glorfindel
(9,732 posts)shared a common ancestor: "Still, if bloodlines mean anything, theirs was good stock. It was enhanced in the New World; Sarah Barney Belcher of Taunton, Massachusetts, the boy colonels great-grandmother, became a common ancestor of Douglas MacArthur, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt ― Douglas was an eighth cousin of Churchill and a sixth cousin, once removed, of FDR ― and three of WWIIs great leaders were thus linked by American intermarriages. ― American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, William Manchester, Page16.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,481 posts)...Gretchen Johnson (born 22 September 1955), when she was a contestant on Family Feud in May 1981; they married in 1991
red dog 1
(27,844 posts)personal and professional life.
However, the network did not like Reiner in the lead role for unknown reasons.
In 1961, it was recast and retitled "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and became an iconic series, making stars of his lead actors, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.
Carl Reiner wrote many of the show's episodes.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)played professional baseball with the Yankees, Dodgers, and Cubs.
He played pro basketball with the Celtics and is the first player credited with shattering a backboard.
He was drafted by the Chicago Bears but never played.
red dog 1
(27,844 posts)Professional baseball, basketball and football?
I never would have dreamed that!
(Thanks for sharing that)
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Thx
(81 posts)from 1957.
He plays a dangerously irresponsible "pill-popper."
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Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)malthaussen
(17,215 posts)... only the Dodgers and Cubs, and only one pitch-hit appearance with Brooklyn. He played in the Yankee minor league organization (among others). He was an unimpressive first baseman.
-- Mal
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Thx
(81 posts)was once married to Elliot Gould.
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red dog 1
(27,844 posts)Thx
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TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)He used to act and sing a little but hasn't done much in several years. He sure looks like his parents.
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(81 posts)was based on the real-life rock-n-roll family group, The Cowsills.
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TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)Barry, who is seated in that clip, drowned during Hurricane Katrina. Susan escaped NOLA with her husband but the lost most of ther belongings. She sometimes sings with Vicki Peterson, formerly in The Bangles. Vicki is married to John Cowsill, who plays drums and sings in the Beach Boys touring band.
Thx
(81 posts)Lost his right thumb and forefinger in an accidental explosion while posing for a publicity shot in 1919, yet he went on later to make his best films and doing many of his own stunts wearing a prosthetic glove.
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yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)red dog 1
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(81 posts)Was tried and acquitted of attempted murder charges at age 9 against a trolley man who ran over his dog.
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Thx
(81 posts)lived in the back of his pickup truck after Star Trek was cancelled.
"A pickup truck, actually.
It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit summer stock but couldnt afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell."
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red dog 1
(27,844 posts)I always liked Shatner.
I bought two copies of a book he wrote at "Dollar Tree". (a buck each) as gifts.
I glanced through it briefly, and he's got a pretty good sense of humor.
Botany
(70,558 posts)..... called or got in touch w/his dad Sen. Robertson and was then taken off the troop ship
in Japan in order to avoid combat.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)His real name is "Marion". His older brother would pat his chubby cheeks and say "pat, pat, pat". He adopted Pat as his name when he was older because he thought "Marion" was effeminate.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)My uncle was one of those.
Marion used irregular methods of warfare and is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare and maneuver warfare, and is credited in the lineage of the United States Army Rangers and the other American military Special Forces such as the "Green Berets". He was known as The Swamp Fox.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion
Disney had a mini-series based on The Swamp Fox which premiered in the 1950s - the series is on YouTube. The Patriot was loosely based on him, but they changed so much the character is unrecognizable.
dameatball
(7,399 posts)red dog 1
(27,844 posts)"boosted" a tweet of a "doctored" photo of Emma Gonzalez allegedly tearing apart the Constitution.
Baldwin sent the re-tweet out to a quarter million followers with the hashtag #Vorwrts!, the German word for "forward" in an apparent reference to the Hitler Youth marching song.
(The real photo from Teen Vogue shows Emma tearing up a gun range target)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142023646#top
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)In fact, Col. Klink, Sgt. Schultz, and General Burkhalter were all European Jews who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe. Klemperer (Klink), Banner (Schultz), and Askin (Burkhlater) also served in the US Army during WWII.
red dog 1
(27,844 posts)in his first book "Close Encounter"
He was a consultant for Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and he made a non-speaking cameo appearance at the end of the film.
red dog 1
(27,844 posts)On April 5, 1968, Nugent, along with a group of musicians paid tribute to Martin Luther King by having a folk, rock & blues jam session.
Joni Mitchell played first, followed by Buddy Guy, Cactus, and Jimi Hendrix.
B.B. King & Al Kooper also participated.
red dog 1
(27,844 posts)and the family name was Americanized from O'Caigne.
jmowreader
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Was the father of Keenan Wynn.
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red dog 1
(27,844 posts)There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say"
[She dedicated the book to her three adopted kids and to Moe, Larry & Curly]
red dog 1
(27,844 posts)Donald Sinclair, who ran the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, England.
The Pythons stayed there while filming on location.
John Cleese was fascinated with the behavior of Sinclair, later describing him as:
"The rudest man I've ever come across in my life."
Sinclair once threw a timetable at a guest who asked when the next bus to town would arrive.
He also placed Eric Idle's suitcase, which had been set down for a few minutes, behind a wall in the back garden on the suspicion that it might contain a bomb.
red dog 1
(27,844 posts)At 19 months old, she contracted an unknown illness, which may have been Scarlet Fever or Meningitis...The illness left her both deaf and blind.
Despite her disabilities, she was able to enjoy music by feeling the beat, and she was able to have a strong connection with animals through touch.
After attending several schools for the deaf, she gained admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, Harvard.
Her admirer, Mark Twain, introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.
In 1924, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, anti-militarism and other similar causes.
She died June 1, 1968, only 26 days short of her 88th birthday.