NEW YORK CITY (Circa 1000 B.C.E.)”Some of the first humans to New York City arrive in canoes in 1000 B.C.E. , paddling across the wide river from another island (and the region that is now Brooklyn), through thick reeds to ‘Mamhatta’ or ‘hilly island,’ and its vedant forests of oaks, and trees, spruces, cedars, andContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: NEW YORK CITY”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: BASEBALL
“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.” Alvin Dark THE BIGGEST BLOW-OUT IN MLB HISTORY The biggest blowout game in major-league history was on August 22, 2007, when the Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles, 30-3. That’s a 27-run differential. It eclipsed the 25 runs between theContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: BASEBALL”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISLAID LIFE: AMERICANA
In 1997 David Bowie raised $55 million by selling investors securities backed by the royalties of 25 of his albums. The so-called “Bowie Bonds” had a 7.9% return over 10 years, higher than the 6.37 percent of a 10-year U.S. Treasury note.ONE GOOD FACT website June 06, 2024**Benjamin Franklin Designed the First Penny”Long before AbrahamContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISLAID LIFE: AMERICANA”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA
**”We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.” Will Rogers**AN AMERICAN OLD WEST OUTLAWJohn Peters Ringo (May 3, 1850 – July 13, 1882) was an American Old West outlaw loosely associated with the Cochise County Cowboys in frontier boomtown Tombstone, Arizona Territory. He tookContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THIS & THAT
SCIENCE”Leave only three wasps alive in the whole of Europe and the air of Europe will still be more crowded with wasps than space is with stars.” James Jeans**HOW TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION OF A KEYSO YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPRESSION OF IT”Neat attention to detail: when The Jackal is making an impression of aContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THIS & THAT”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA #6
ADVERTISING IN LATE NINETEENTH & EARLY 20th CENTURY AMERICA”There was a certain amount of petty fraud often of a good-humored kind, in the advertising of the day. For instance,persons sending money for an advertised ‘Potato Bug Eradicator’ received two slivers of wood with the instructions ‘Place the potato bug between the two sticks of woodContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA #6”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #27
IT’S DIFFICULT FOR FILM STARS TO PROTECT THEIR PRIVACY ROBERT REDFORD “had become secretive. Not only did I know him, our wives knew each other, so did our kids. And he had asked me to come to Utah for the month to work with him — —–And he wouldn’t give me his phone number. Continue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #27”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM
ON A WOMAN CROSSING HER LEGS”When you make a woman cross her legs in the films, maybe you don’t need to see how high she can cross them, but how low she can cross them and still be interesting.”Will H. Hayes, Censorship “Czar of the Movies”See Current Biography 1943**HOLLYWOOD SIMILEOn February 14, 1967, Sheila Graham’sContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM”
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