Diana Krall – A Jazzy Voice
Diana Krall was born on November 16, 1964 to Jim and Adella Krall. At the age of 4 she began learning the piano. By high school she was playing in a jazz group. At 15 she started playing regularly in several Nanaimo restaurants. At age 17 she won a scholarship from the Vancouver International Jazz [...]
Did You Know – Their Real Names
Barry Manilow – Barry Alan Pinkus David Copperfield – David Kotkin Neil Diamond – Noah Kaminsky Alice Cooper – Vincent Damon Furnier Boris Karloff – William Henry Pratt Doris Day – Doris von Kappelhoff
Charles Manson – An Incarcerated Life
Charles Manson was born on November 12, 1934. His mother Kathleen Maddox was a 16-year-old unmarried mother. When he was born he was first known as ‘no name Maddox’. Then he was called Charles Miles Maddox and finally Charles Miles Manson. Kathleen Maddox was married for a time after his birth to William Manson. Manson’s [...]
Armistice Day is also Veterans Day
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I ended with the signing of the Armistice. November 11th since that day has been referred to as Armistice Day. President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 was the first President to proclaim this day. “To us in America, the reflections [...]
Hitler’s Henchmen
Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962) He was the Jewish expert and headed the Gestapo Department IV B4 for Jewish Affairs. He traveled throughout German rule lands coordinating the “Final Solution” that oversaw the extermination process. Escaped from an American internment camp taking refuse in Argentina until he was abducted by the [...]
The Edmund Fitzgerald – A Superior Mystery
On November 9, 1975 under Captain Ernest M. McSorley the SS Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior Wisconsin en route to the steel mill on Zug Island, near Detroit, Michigan. The ship was loaded with a cargo of 26,116 tons of taconite pellets. They were crossing Lake Superior at about 13 knots with the freighter Arthur M. [...]
Election Day
Election day is the day that citizens vote for the selection of a person or persons who will represent them in their government. At times there may be special issues on the ballot that the voters will be able to decide the outcome. The National Election day in the United States is the 1st Tuesday [...]
Daylight Saving Time
For those who don’t know the rhyme we spring ahead an hour in the spring and fall backward one hour, in the fall. Some people mistakenly call it Daylight Savings Time, but it is Daylight Saving Time. Starting in 2007, with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that President George Bush signed into law in [...]
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