Paul Newman – Lesser Known Films
It is with sadness that many are writing about and remembering the life of actor Paul Newman, who died on September 26, 2008 at the age of 83. Newman was born on January 26, 1925 and during his more than 1/2 century film career he was in some great, highly popular and still remembered movies. [...]
Strange States Facts
The Pentagon located in Arlington County Virginia is the world’s largest office building. The official ground breaking for the building was on September 11, 1941. The first patent on the Ouija or talking board (No. 446,054) was granted to Elijah Bond on February 10th 1891 and the trademark on the word Ouija (No. 18,919) granted [...]
Traditional and Modern Anniversary Gifts
The First Anniversary The traditional gift are of paper, but the modern one is a clock. Paper seems like a natural. Create a memory book. Or place a picture of the bride and groom on the face of a clock. The Fifth Anniversary The traditional gift is a wood gift, but the modern one is [...]
The First 12 Proposed Amendments to the US Constitution
It didn’t take long for Congress to start debate on Amendments to the United States Constitution. Congress first convened on March 4, 1789 and on June 8th of the same year James Madison read his thoughts regarding a Bill of Rights. During the course of debates though the ratification process of the Constitution many states [...]
Song and Dance Man – Bob Fosse
Robert Louis Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago. He was the youngest of six children. Fosse moved to Hollywood with the ambition of being a dancer in movie musicals. In 1953 he found himself choreographing a sequence in Kiss Me Kate. Because of premature balding he was limited in the roles he [...]
Gerald R. Ford – The Not Elected President
Gerald R. Ford was the only President that was not elected by the people of the United States. When Richard Nixon’s Vice-President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign, Richard Nixon selected him to become the first appointed Vice-President as defined by the 25th Amendment of the Constitution. When Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 he [...]
Yankee Stadium – The End of An Era
At the beginning of the Baseball season I published a post about Yankee Stadium. Tonight the last game ever will be played at that old memorable ballpark so I thought I’d republished that post. (Updated as needed) ****** The first game was played in Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923. 2008 is the last season [...]
Rest in Peace – Norman Whitfield Motown’s Psychedelic Soul Producer
Norman Whitfield, a Motown producer and composer, died on September 16, 2008. He will always be remembered as one of the principal creators of psychedelic soul. Some of Whitfield’s hit songs were I Heard It through the Grapevine, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Cloud Nine, War, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Smiling Faces Sometimes and [...]
Allen Funt – Smile You’re on Candid Camera!
Allen Funt was born on September 16, 1914. Beginning in the 1940′s and until the 1980s as a regular show or in a series of specials, his famous show, Candid Camera was produced. Funt came up with his idea of recording ordinary people in unusual situations in the 1940s and began on radio as Candid [...]
Virginia Rappe
If it wasn’t for the people that were around her when she died on September 9, 1921 in San Francisco, the name and the person Virginia Rappe would just be a small fact in the course of history. However, Rappe died after attending a Labor Day party held by Hollywood Comic Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle. The [...]
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