Happy New Year
As 2009 comes to a close I wanted to take this chance to wish everyone a Happy New Year.
What are you calling it?
I have heard both Two Thousand Ten and Twenty Ten. I imagine that this will be the year that many begin to move away from Two Thousand and … , towards Twenty [...]
Rockers Who Died in 2009
Along with Gordon Waller of Peter and Gordon and Michael Jackson these six Rockers left us in 2009.
Billy Powell
Billy Powell had been working as a roadie for the band Lynyrd Skynrd when he was invited to join the band as the group’s keyboardist in 1972. When he died on January 28, 2009 of a [...]
Gordon Waller
Gordon Waller may not be a well known name. That is unless you are a fan on music of the 1960s and the British invasion into the United States. Gordon Waller was the Gordon of the duo Peter and Gordon. Gordon Waller died in 2009 on July 17th.
Peter Asher and Gordon Waller came [...]
Philp Jose Farmer
Unless you were a Science Fiction fan in the 1960s and 70s, you may not know the name Philip Jose Farmer. But during this period he was one of the genre’s best. Farmer passed away on February 25th, a month after his 91st birthday.
Phillip Jose Farmer was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on [...]
Mickey Carroll
2009 was the 70th anniversary of the film The Wizard of Oz. Very few involved with the film are still alive and on May 7, 2009 we lost one the Munkins. Mickey Carroll played the part of the Town Crier, marched as a Munchkin Soldier and was the candy-striped Fiddler who escorted Dorothy Gale [...]
George Michael
The name George Michael became famous in the 1980s. There is the singer, George Michael. For those living in the Washington DC area in the 1980s, 90s and into the new century the name George Michael meant sports. It is with sadness that I have leaned of his death on Christmas Eve, after [...]
Merry Christmas
We will be taking the next few days off to enjoy the holiday with friends and family, but before we do we are:
Wishing Everyone a
Farrah Fawcett
On June 25, 2009 Farrah Fawcett lost her long battle with cancer. If it wasn’t for the death of Michael Jackson, a few hours later, her death would have been the big news for the day. But timing has caused her death in 2009 to be hardly remembered.
Ferrah Leni Fawcett was born in [...]
As the Days Get Longer ….
As the days get longer and we come to the close of another year and another decade, it is time to reflect upon the past. Over the past 10 years, one thing I can say is that things have changed. The internet was on the verge of growing bigger than most could imagine. [...]
Winter Solstice
The Winter Solstice occurs at the instant that the sun is the greatest distance away from the observer and their hemisphere.
The word solstice derives from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still).
During the Northern Hemisphere’s Winter, the earth is actually closer to the sun than in June/July. It is because the Northern Hemisphere [...]
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