Russian Czar’s (Tsar)
Originally and during most of its history, the title tsar which is derived from Caesar, meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term. In other words, a ruler who has the same rank as a Roman or Byzantine emperor.
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
Ivan was the first to assume the title of Tsar. [...]
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 [...]
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
Edwin Booth – An American Hamlet
If it wasn’t for the fact that John Wilkes Booth assassined Abraham Lincoln the most famous Booth would perhaps be his brother Edwin, an American Actor, who was born on November 13, 1833 near Bel Air, Maryland. Booth was the son of another actor, Junius Brutus Booth, who was also a famous actor of [...]
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 [...]
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 of [...]
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 Israeli [...]
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 [...]
Author James Jones – He Wrote About WWII and More
James Ramon Jones was born in Robinson, Illinois on November 6, 1921. He was the second son, his older brother was George W, of Ramon and Ada Jones. He also had a younger sister, Mary Ann.
On November 10, 1939, three days after his eighteenth birthday he enlisted in the United States Army. [...]
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 [...]
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