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On This Date in History: If I am not mistaken, Elizabeth Carter Symon was born on this date in 1898. My grandmother lived to see February 11, 1998. It always amazed me that she was born in the Oklahoma Territory. I’ve seen a photo of her and her best friend in a horse and buggy. [...]
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On This Date In History: It’s just an odd coincidence that former presidential press secretary Jody Powell died a year ago today some 33 years after a rather interesting footnote to history that revolves around his old boss. Remember during the 1976 Presidential election how Jimmy Carter used his stellar integrity as a campaign club? Remember the famous [...]
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On This Date in History: With the success of Survivor on US airwaves in 2000, the trend for the first decade of 21st century American television has been “reality” tv. We’ve seen everything from washed up celebrities sharing a house to Donald Trump firing people for ratings. While Survivor seems to have been derived from [...]
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On This Date in History: Harold Gray had been toying with an idea he had regarding a comic strip. He had sent several to Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who was the founder of the New York Daily News. Patterson liked one of the ideas in 1924 and called Gray into his office. The main character [...]
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Shaw Keeps His Eyes Forward On this date in 1715, the French ship Grifon survived a hurricane off the coast of Florida. “So what,” you ask?Well, first off when the Spanish came to the new world they were looking for booty and plunder. They wanted to exploit the region for its natural resources and send [...]
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On this Date in History: I would wager that if someone asked you which TV show was Elvis Presley’s first television appearance, you would answer the Ed Sullivan Show. That would be wrong. His first TV appearance was on January 28, 1956 on the little remembered, Stage Show, co-hosted by Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. He [...]
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On this Date in History: John Wayne got fired on April 5, 1931 by Fox studios. He mainly grew up in Lancaster, CA which later became known as Glendale. He had a dog named Duke and, for some reason, the local firefighters would see the kid and his dog and so they started calling the youngster “Duke.” He was [...]
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The Preakness: Last year I went to the Preakness and I was looking forward to witnessing the infamous infield party that I had heard so much about. I was told it was extremely wild. I had heard about port-o-can races in which people raced across the top of the portable bathrooms lined up in areas of [...]
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What’s In a Name? Donald Trump and his casino arm, Trump Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy for a third time in February 2009. This third bankruptcy filing is not too big of an indictment on Trump given that the economy has hurt the gaming industry nationwide. Trump tried to flip a deal in which he would [...]
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On This Date in History: At the outset of the American Civil War, many people thought it would be a brief skirmish. When hostilities initially broke out, President Lincoln asked the governors of the Northern states to provide their respective militias serve as part of just a 75,000 man army to put down the insurrection. [...]
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