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Good Stuff Hey Where's E!
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Henry
Mancini
Added: 7th February 2010
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Posted By: Marty6697 |
 
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The cover of the August 1978 issue of The Ring magazine featured female boxer Cathy (Cat) Davis. Readers' responses to female boxing in 1978 were overwhelmingly negative. To date she is the only female boxer ever to appear on The Ring's cover.
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Added: 7th February 2010
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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In 1978, Alex Haley, the renowned author of Roots, came under fire in a plagiarism lawsuit launched by fellow author Harold Coulander. Haley claimed he had spent a decade researching his heritage for his historical novel, which in 1977 was adapted as a wildly successful TV miniseries. That same year he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the Spingarn Medal for the book. A year later his reputation was forever marred. Courlander went to the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York to charge that Roots was substantially plagiarized from Courlander's own novel The African. Courlander's witnesses included Michael Wood an English professor at Columbia University and an expert on plagiarism. Wood opined in a report that the evidence of plagiarism in Roots was 'clear and irrefutable' and that the copying of passages was 'significant and extensive.' After a five-week trial in federal district court, Courlander and Haley settled the case, with Haley making a financial settlement of $650,000 and a statement that 'Alex Haley acknowledges and regrets that various materials from The African by Harold Courlander found their way into his book Roots.' Haley claimed the appropriation of Courlander's passages had been unintentional. Haley orginally maintained he had never heard of The African, much less read it. Shortly after the trial, however, Joseph Bruchac, an instructor of black literature at Skidmore College, came forward to swear in an affidavit that in 1970 or 1971--five or six years before the publication of Roots--he had discussed The African with Haley and had given his 'own personal copy of The African to Haley.' In a later interview with BBC Television, Judge Ward stated, 'Alex Haley perpetrated a hoax on the public.'
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Roots
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Added: 4th February 2010
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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I have been looking for a good video for this song for about a year. If you know where to find it, post it and I will delete this one, otherwise? Uh, '55 Chevy. Nuff said.
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Lee
Michaels
Added: 2nd February 2010
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In 1972, 27-year-old Jane Blalock was suspended by the LPGA for cheating. Blalock was accused of shenanigans when she marked her ball. Specifically, Blalock was thought to be replacing her ball slightly ahead of the marker. Blalock sued the LPGA. She did not clear her name, but her lawsuits were responsible for the LPGA being deemed in voilation of federal antitrust laws. Years later Blalock issued a vague apology, but she did not specifically admit any wrongdoing. Despite winning 27 career LPGA titles, Blalock has not been inducted into the LPGA's Hall of Fame.
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Jane
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cheating
Added: 1st February 2010
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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His birthdate is 1 December 1946 so he is age 63 as of this posting.
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Gilbert
O
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Claire
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1972
Added: 29th January 2010
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