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If you’re old enough to remember the 1970s you probably remember hearing Karen Carpenter’s voice most every time you turned on your radio.
Performing with her brother Richard as “The Carpenters”, Karen rose to the top of the Billboard charts over a dozen times, three of them to #1.
Many wonderful female singers have gained fame and fortune over the years, in various musical genres, but few won the hearts of their dedicated fans as quickly, or as fully as Karen Carpenter. [Read more…]
“I Saw The Light” is one of the most popular gospel songs ever written, but relatively few among us know who wrote it.
Turns out it was none other than Country Music legend Hank Williams, Sr.
Yes, that Hank Williams.
As a youngster, I really loved the game of baseball.
I could rattle off all manner of obscure stats about the leading Major League players, and I could name all the players on my favorite teams, right down to the rarely-seen bench warmers.
In fact, I could even name even quite a few of the hopefuls that were working their way up through the Minors.
Of course like all baseball fans I had my favorite players, and one of my favorites of all time was Yankee great Yogi Berra. [Read more…]
Regular readers of this blog will remember watching in amazement as Scottish daredevil Danny MacAskill rode the famous rooftops of Gran Canaria and then went Ever Higher.
Danny’s combination of incredible skill and rock-solid nerves are on full display in every video he makes.
Question from Jane: Last night on the news they reported that two small planes had crashed into each other as they were approaching our local airport.
One of the planes managed to land safely but the pilot of the other plane was violently ejected from his plane by the force of the crash.
He fell about 2,000 feet without his parachute ever opening. Sadly, he didn’t survive.
That got my husband to wondering if anyone has ever survived a fall from such great heights without using a parachute, and now I’m wondering the same thing.
Do you know if such a thing has ever happened? [Read more…]