Grammy Awards – Did You Know?
Elvis Presley was nominated for 14 Grammy’s. He won three times, all for gospel recordings. The Albums How Great Thou Art (1967), and He Touched Me (1972) and his live Memphis concert recording of the song How Great Thou Art (1974). In 1971 at the age of 36 he was also given the Lifetime Achievement [...]
Facts Relating to Coffee
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the United States with an average American adult estimated to consumes 26.7 gallons of coffee per year. Even with this it is only 20% of the world’s consumption. After petroleum, coffee is the second largest commodity in the world. With the exception of Hawaii, no coffee [...]
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 [...]
Attempting One Thing; Developing Another
Sometimes while trying to do one thing, another completely different item will turn up. Here are a few accidental discoveries that many of us would not want to do without. One day in the 1940’s while George de Mestral, a Swiss inventor, was walking his dog he noticed that his pants got covered with cockleburs. [...]
December
The month of December is the last month of the year. Even though decem means “ten” and it was the 10th month of the old Roman Calendar, even then it was the last month of the year. The winter period between the end of December and the 1st of March was considered monthless. December has [...]
Earl Grey
Charles Grey was born on November 23, 1789. In 1806 he was named the first Earl Grey. His son also named Charles became the 2nd Earl Grey in 1807 upon his father’s death. The tea Earl Grey was named after the 2nd Lord Grey. Earl Grey tea is a black tea that has added to [...]
Did You Know? – Historical Oddities
September 17, 1862 saw the most men killed, wounded or missing in action (over 20,000) during the American Civil War. In Great Britain as well as the British Colonies 1752 only had 354 days. It was in this year that 11 days were dropped to bring the Calendar into balance. It may have be known [...]
This happened on May 25th
Originally published on May 25, 2007: On May 25, 1977 the movie Star Wars was released. In 1961, as part of the State of the Union address, President John F. Kennedy announces plans to send men to the moon. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is [...]
Did You Know?
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, the educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States, was born on May 16, 1804, in Billerica, Massachusetts. On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted 35 to 19, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict President Andrew Johnson of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” in his [...]
Did You Know? – Muscian’s Real Names
David Bowie – David Robert Jones. The only reason he did not use his real name because of the Monkee Davy Jones. Alice Cooper – Vincent Damon Furnier. Originally the Band was named Alice Cooper then he adopted the name. Ice T – Tracy Morrow Joni Mitchell – Roberta Joan Anderson. She married Chuck Mitchell, [...]
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