“You don't know how easy this game is until you get into that broadcasting booth.”--Mickey Mantle
Only one quarterback who has 2 Super Bowl rings is not in the Hall of Fame: Jim Plunket
Harold Macmillan, read classics at Oxford and received a first-class degree; in 1980, the holder of that office was Margaret Thatcher, who often said that she was less proud of being the first female prime minister than of being the first with a science degree. Harold Wilson was the most academically gifted of 20th-century British politicians, read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford and then became a lecturer in economic history there at the age of twenty-one. Quite different from our esteemed leaders in the last few years.
TESLA market cap is $40B, FORD market cap is $60B. Astonishing.
The Panic of 1893 was one of the greatest economic calamities in American History. It was initiated by a crop failure in Argentina where American investment was heavy, and then a domestic bubble from railroad overbuilding resulting in bank failures and commodity declines which hurt farmers. 500 banks were closed, 15,000 businesses failed, and countless farms ceased operation. More than 1,800 firms disappeared into consolidations. The unemployment rate in Pennsylvania hit 25%, in New York 35%, and in Michigan 43%. Soup kitchens were opened. Facing starvation, people chopped wood, broke rocks, and sewed in exchange for food. It is said in some cases, women resorted to prostitution to feed their families.
Who is....Lois Lerner?
Princeton researcher Salvatore Torquato helped author a study published in Physical Review E (the broad scope of the journal includes quantum chaos, soft matter physics, classical chaos, biological physics and granular materials) and released this statement: "We’ve… discovered that such physical systems are endowed with exotic physical properties and therefore have novel capabilities. The more we learn about these special disordered systems, the more we find that they really should be considered a new distinguishable state of matter." "A new distinguishable state of matter!" The "system" he is talking about is in chicken eyes.
Rube-publicans lost the unmarried women vote in 2012 by 36 points.
Except for the brief first marriage, Borges lived with his mother until he was in his seventies; even after his mother's death, the housekeeper says, Borges maintained his habit of pausing each evening at her bedroom door to tell about his day.
Golden Oldie:
Narcissistic: adj. excessive self-admiration; narcissism: n. self-love. In Greek mythology, expanded by Ovid, Narcissus was the very handsome man who was loved by Echo, a mountain nymph who always answered his "Who's there?" with "Who's there?" He spurned her. She was heartbroken and wasted away in lonely glens until nothing but an echo sound remained of her. Nemesis, the goddess of revenge, learned of this and lured Narcissus to a pool where he saw and fell in love with his own reflection. When he realised that his love could not be fulfilled, he died.
Dry ground with high nitrate concentration causes natural mummification by dehydration and anti-bacterial action.
Nixon was not impeached, he resigned. Clinton was impeached but was not convicted. Some of the Right are furious at Obama and would love to impeach him over his selective enforcement of laws and the IRS targeting but an impeachment is hard to generate.
The first was Vice President Andrew Johnson, a Southern Democrat, who was sworn in as president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. As a Democrat and a Southerner he was unloved by the Republican majority in Congress. In 1867, Congress passed a law of doubtful constitutionality barring Johnson from removing a Cabinet officer without Congress' permission. Johnson felt duty-bound to resist that encroachment and tried to remove his secretary of war. Congress responded with impeachment. In the Senate, the vote fell one short of the two-thirds majority needed to remove Johnson from office.
What does Riley Cooper's signing for $25 million mean? Does it mean anything?
Testosterone replacement in older men can maintain their youthful testosterone levels. Testosterone addition in young men replaces their own production and essentially creates infertility.
Saw the roadshow Porgy and Bess revival. It has received some praise, especially Audra McDonald’s Bess on Broadway. At 2 1/2 hours it is quite different from the original--the original was over 4 hours long. The story is goofy, the music terrific and the cast sang their brains out--everyone was really good--but it was disappointing. I have never heard a production of the music, only the songs sung individually by throaty blues and jazz singers, and the production was like Leontyne Price singing "Love is a Battlefield." This music walks both sides of the street and loses some heart when it become refined. The audience seemed to love it, though. They gasped at times, applauded at pivotal moments and seemed genuinely involved. It was fun but the music is better.
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