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Now that there’s a feeling of springtime in the air, and those 'February Blahs' are well over, I just thought about being geographically challenged at the moment. Remember the fashionable eighties? How about a lyrical genius? For most of you, you may recall something that honors the dream of livin' in America solidly. Been there, seen that, but getting there is not as easy as it looks. How many of you have been to the city? Like Randy, who has an affection for the city, most of you have an affection too. Or is this a slight exaggeration? The melodic flawless pictures may change your mind. Randy has an enormous amount of solid piano accomplishments, since starting out a decade earlier. Did you see him recently as he was presented with another award? Since 1969, that was numero TEN he added to his tally. Kudos for the big guy. For the record, he has been quite a comfortable feature for toddlers who have fared well with parents alike. You could say, he is their children's caricatured imagination companion, especially with everything he has added to their experience in front of a picture you may of lined-up for. Good-bye to winter weather worries.
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Los
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Added: 5th March 2011
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OK, I got "1" more for the week. Let me say, I am impressed with the lot of you. Real good. I like those that get involved in this way, if you know what I mean? Opportunities are here to show that you are not being 'cold' with not responding. I like it. Oh yeah, it may get a lot more difficult.
UPDATE: Eric has given the correct submission.
He is an expert. How about you?
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Seven
Added: 7th March 2011
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Actor Ron Palillo is best known for his role as the timid, dorkish Arnold Horshack on the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. Palillo was born on April 2, 1949, in Cheshire, CT. He became interested in acting at an early age. By age 14, Palillo had started a profitable summer theater enterprise in his hometown. After high school, Palillo attended the University of Connecticut where he majored in drama. After graduation, Palillo took a job with a touring Shakepeare company. Palillo later moved to New York City and acquired a role in the successful off-Broadway play Hot-L Baltimore with which he stayed for over a year. Palillo's stage success led to his role as Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter in 1975. Although he was playing the part of a high school student, Palillo was 26 years old when the show debuted. In contrast, teacher Gabe Kotter (played by Gabe Kaplan) was only 30. The Horshack character is fondly remembered for his odd, nasal, hyena-like laugh and his childish way of yelling 'Oh! Oh! Oh!' whenever he raised his hand to answer a question. When the sitcom was axed in 1979, Palillo found it difficult to obtain new acting roles. To distance himself form the Horshack character, he had a nose job and a chin job. Palillo did make onetime appearances in a few TV shows such as Love Boat, Cagney and Lacey, and The A-Team, but he has definitely faded from the limelight. One website, Washed Up Celebrities, claims Palillo will talk to anyone for a $20 fee.
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Added: 8th March 2011
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Ireland, the home of ruckuses, also the link of the secret colored soft marbits that may of resonated with a few of you. Right?
It was then, back years ago, a launching of a fabulous cereal occured.It entered into popular consciousness with like-minded kids at the breakfast table with ease. We recall the sweet taste that really took shape quickly. It may NOT of been necessarily true when it came to parents though. Cereal, it is a matter of taste,right? Lucky, you do know him. How can you not? The small leprechaun has become a long-standing character that has been embraced over years amid the changing times.
Remember unfolding the box top, pouring in the cereal into the bowl on a weekend? Actually, the box was first seen in Nineteen-Hundred-Sixty Four(got that?) with the fictional Irish character on the cardboard cover - front and back. How many homes have since kept boxes in their cupboard each year? Interested kids kept the character in mind each time their parents went to the grocers. There's no doubt that you remember the earlier boxes had included marshmallow shapes. Remember orange stars, green clovers, yellow moons and pink hearts? Despite the many somewhat similar imitators that followed, the cereal introduced in the mid-'70's tiny blue diamonds to keep up with the proliferation that never seemed to end of other funny characters on the shelves. Later, horseshoes of the purple variety followed in Nineteen-Eighty Four, and from there,amid all the additional flavors; red balloons went in, followed by a bunch of rainbows in the early nineteen-nineties. Those years also saw pots of gold and leprechaun hats, and shooting stars! This was a bit unique for a cereal to keep changing its ingredients, but that was how it was. I don't think I have overlooked anything? So, at this time, this is what you would call evolution for the cereal brand in the demanding cereal market.
Now on Saint Paddies Day, you have a reason to start up a conversation, maybe even finding out that you have a fondness for the tiny green guy with someone else?
Question for you. How many Irish do you know that have integrated around you? *E*
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Sheen
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Charms
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Added: 9th March 2011
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Taken place in 1887, a story written depicting a man in his own world of dark recesses, a place where you could say that he was living in strange arrangements. You know what I am talkin' of. A brooding man who in previous centuries, could be found to be a ruler of the landscape he inhabited, always ready for rigorously fighting in what he lived for. His life. You see, he had a faith that made many worry. He was against what you know as life. It's theme continued with existing on dreary surroundings. There have been different variations on the topic of living off the human body already in pictures, but this was was more "epic-like". In continence, the only way he could live was finding another. I mean that quite literally.
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Eurythmics
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Added: 10th March 2011
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The photo below is an aerial view of what Niagara Falls usually looks like. But for a period of about 40 hours on March 29-31, 1848 Niagara Falls stopped. No water flowed over the great cataract for the first time in recorded history. Not surprisngly people went a little nuts.
Niagara Falls was already a big tourist attraction by 1848. Villages sprouted on both the U.S. and Canadian sides of the river to accommodate the sightseeing throngs. Residents also built waterwheels to harness the Niagara River’s power to run mills and drive machinery in factories.
An American farmer out for a stroll shortly before midnight on March 29 was the first to notice something. Actually, he noticed the absence of something--the thundering roar of the falls. When he went to the river’s edge, he saw hardly any water.
Came the dawn of March 30, people awoke to an unaccustomed silence. The mighty Niagara was a mere trickle. Mills and factories shut down because the waterwheels had stopped.
The bed of the river was exposed. Fish died and turtles floundered about. Brave—or foolish— people walked on the river bottom, picking up exposed guns, bayonets and tomahawks as souvenirs.
Was it the end of the world? Perhaps it was divine retribution for what some folks thought was a U.S. war of aggression against Mexico? In an age of religious revivals, theological explanations abounded. Fearing the end of the world, thousands of people filled special church services praying for the falls to start flowing and the world to continue, or for salvation and forgiveness of their sins as the Last Judgment approached.
Because communications were haphazard in 1848, no one knew why the falls had stopped.
But from Buffalo, NY word eventually arrived that explained the bare falls and dry riverbed. Strong southwest gale winds had pushed huge chunks of ice to the extreme northeastern tip of Lake Erie, blocking the lake’s outlet into the head of the Niagara River. The ice jam had become an ice dam.
And just as news traveled inward, news also traveled outward. Thousands came from nearby cities and towns to look at the spectacle of Niagara Falls without water. People crossed the riverbed on foot, on horseback and in horse-drawn buggies. Mounted U.S. Army cavalry soldiers paraded up and down the empty Niagara River. It was a potentially hazardous act for there was no telling when the rushing waters might return. One entrepreneur used the hiatus to do some safety work. The Maid of the Mist sightseeing boat had been taking tourists on river rides below the falls since 1846, and there were some dangerous rocks it always had to avoid. Since the river had ceased running and the rocks were in plain sight, the boat’s owner sent workers out to blast the rocks away with explosives.
March 30 was not the only dry day. No water flowed over the falls throughout the daylight hours of March 31.
But that night a distant rumble came from upriver. The low-pitched noise drew nearer and louder. Suddenly a wall of water came roaring down the upper Niagara River and over the falls with a giant thunder.
The ice jam had cleared. To the relief of the locals, the river was running again.
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Added: 21st March 2011
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Arizona State University (ASU) senior wrestler Anthony Robles capped off his college career accomplishing the most difficult task in the sport: winning the NCAA Championship. He earned the 2011 125-pound title with an impressive 7-1 decision over Iowa sophomore and defending national champion Matt McDonough on March 19. The championship victory didn’t come easy, but the 21-year-old Mesa, Arizona native is no stranger to overcoming odds.
Robles was born with just one leg, but that never stopped him from doing anything any two-legged person can do. Since he was a toddler, Robles refused any special assistance typically allotted for someone missing a limb. According to reports, he tossed aside his prosthetic leg when he was only 3, choosing instead to hop on one leg or use his arms to walk. When he reached the sixth grade, he broke a record at his school for the most pushups performed.
But the record-setting performances didn’t stop there. Robles first started wrestling in the eighth grade, joining in after watching one of his cousins during a practice. He stuck with it and by the time he reached age 17, he had won two Arizona state wrestling championships, earning a 46-0 record during his junior and senior years at Mesa High School. He remained successful at ASU, earning All-American honors, along with a couple Pac-10 Conference titles. But Robles said the National Title was by far his greatest athletic accomplishment so far.
“I had a lot of butterflies going out there. I’ve dreamt about stepping on that stage a dozen times, and this whole year I’ve just been preparing for that moment,” Robles told the Daily Iowan. “I was scared. I was scared out there, but as soon as I hit that first takedown, I sort of relaxed.”
Most may immediately think of the disadvantages a one-legged fighter may have, but there are a few advantages to wrestling with just one leg, too. Because he doesn’t carry the weight of an additional leg, Robles can weigh in at 125 pounds with a lot more muscle weight in his upper body than his opponents. He has also developed a unique style of wrestling with just one leg, which opponents have difficulties preparing for.
“First time wrestling a tough opponent like that, it’s quite obvious there’s a difference in style of someone that has one leg and a large upper body as opposed to anyone else in the country,” said McDonough, who will return as the nation’s top wrestler next year. “It’s definitely not an experience to take lightly…”
Robles, who will graduate from ASU in May, told ESPN reporters that his wrestling days are now over, but he plans on pursuing a career in public speaking. He always told the media that he wrestles for the love of the sport, and he’ll apply that same passion towards uplifting and motivating those in need.
"It inspires me when I get kids, even adults, who write me on Facebook and send me letters in the mail saying that I've inspired them," Robles told USA Today. “I want to keep it up.”
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Added: 22nd March 2011
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Everything is going up but our paychecks. It seems like a money drain. What has been your biggest financial challenge lately? What money saving ideas have you found? Please share it with us.
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Challenges,
Money,
Money
Saving
Added: 25th March 2011
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From 1950 to 1991, the woman went through more than most. In time, she left most to wonder what she'd be doing next? Often increasing criticisms were mentioned to her for being the way she was, yet as a person in life, she had eventually raised enough for charitie that would make her criticizers blush for weeks.
In the early nineties, she teamed up with another highly-successful woman, who you could say gave her some happiness by being a persuading face for a unique scent that smelt like a bunch of flowers.
She went throught it all with a brave smile as the harsh marital life she lived though was nothing but disappointing. Through it all, she collected enough mementos to make a woman like herself even more famous than those who never got a chance.
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1991
Richard
Burton
Added: 25th March 2011
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