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How many can remember when 3 dudes from Louisiana were suddenly the next "big thing"? Well now, that would've been way back when things were changing drastically with hairstyles and clothes. They, like all, were "one" grouped together as those that could be heard from 1 mile away, that is, when played correctly. Sure, many more elicited similar reactions, but at that particular moment, everything was right for them. But like most or some who vaguely sounded similar to them, it only lasted for a decade or less, this was when things changed for the worse for those alike them. But instead of packing it in, Zebra continued on. Not surprisingly, most of the guys were heavily inspired by a London-based group you may of heard before: Robert, two John's and Jimmy's blues-inspired sounds. They were the four who could take credit for it and so many more. So with the 3 Americans, it just wasn't another composition with its entirety worded about a lady or ladies. Or was it? Now that I think about it, this certainly applied with their own take on how they saw things. Also, it does certainly capture that unique time perfectly. Thankfully, they still manage to carry on with much more than their counterparts from that time. A matter-of-fact, they actually found their beginnings way before, away in '75. This was when things started to turn, as they got their own identity to work on. *E*
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You may know that the athlete was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in the second year of the 1940s, but it was in the year of 1960, in the state of Florida, way down in the city of Miami, where he'd strike many with a lot of talk over all else then. He was a long way from his Kentucky life when his fighting shape seemed to become something that had amounted to a lot of hard work. Those who witnessed what he surrounded himself with found out that he was born for a single reason quickly. To become a worldwide rarity of a man. For the expressive athlete, it was really a great feeling of enjoyed accomplishment. Still, even to this day. Who could compare, as he had just arrived in Miami after receiving the Olympic gold medal as the light-heavyweight boxer in the world-class event that had taken place in Rome. And all the while after, he continued to win and win with excitement that never seemed to stop. From those unexpected days, he clearly went on embarking on even more entertaining matches in the state of Florida, as many saw this for a way for the man to complete himself more appropriately in the Miami Beach community area. With this exciting time, he found strong abilities involved in heavy training and winning tremendous bouts, staying at the very top of the game with the attention of the world on him. As well, we had come to know him as a free-spirit, especially when he opened his mouth in the public. His personality was perfect for the direction he was going. He was the only one doing it his way. From then on, for those of you folk who know, a lot of luck came from that state, especially at a gym known as Fifth Street, where his trainer Angelo Dundee got the best out from him. These were good days in the '60s for all involved. The fighter was clearly seen to define himself for the generations ahead with a famous bout with Sonny Liston, and therefore changed his name to what we know of him today. He was on the fast-track then with his mounting fans. Now about Johnny, born in the United Kingdom, creator of 12 long-form discs, as of this date. To get the most out of this subject, remember Carl Douglas? Well, the guy behind him, he got a hold of Johnny with a few important individuals behind him in the business, and set the Englishman in '75 for a nice career with the support one would need. For you folk that know, it became big in Australia and Britain, and went up in America to the high twenties, actually numbered in at Twenty-One. The famous Louisville fighter, he wasn't really that thrilled with it and opted to ignore it completely. Once done, he had stepped up to achieve a total of fifty-six wins outta the number of sixty-one. There is so much history there with just that. We all know that. Right?
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Added: 17th April 2012
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Remember a bold, but disturbing title from a large, kinda soap opera-like of a story with a very serious approach, concerning a dysfunctional ego turning himself into a powerful dictator in the process? Well? Do you recall Mister Floyd seeking individuals for a reason? That was the backbone to it. What's your take on it? Recall now, how he (the character of Mister Floyd) instructed a large number of youth into anti-social, indecent human beings, adding extremes with raiding streets full of dwellings of vulnerable people. Scary. Especially those who had immigrated to the area that he (Roger W.) had been raised in years before. If I can add an opinion, this reference to it had completely lost me - not until I saw it in the cinema a few years later. Really surprised me at the time, as I had no idea that this was where it was coming from then. Extremely dark and moody. Did you know it was originally set to be a strange picture in the 1st place. Photographs & stylish animation. And a picture that would make Roger W. the star. But after a few demonstrations to select crowds, most would agree, the idea did show that it wasn't connecting with those who were expecting a more capable, recognized person who could play the character. A known performer who was expected to hold his own in the moody story. After many changes, it turned out to be more of a darker, experimental and stranger film than what was first thought of for release. On the surface of its grim setting, a hunt brought on by the sad incorruptibility of one strange but very alternated young man with thoughts of his own. So, with growing up in that kind of environment we know as Britain, Roger W. and David G. got it to become one of their destined (best of 'em). It sure did reveal much at the time of what shaped the two prominent names with the artistic side of interesting cuts they wanted to tell with Rogers frustration at the core of everything that was put to last. It was well-timed for then. I remember it being heard in the following year, all through the summer months. It was invaluable for many then. That summer, of all places, I was at a yearly fair, and I had heard it again and again among the crowds. With looking back at it, with being specific, Roger had said the entire inspiring project was based around his own troubled life as already told through it. True, it was a fictional account of his upbringing. I should mention, it was during the years they (the group), that there were ugly, mean riffs between a few, which apparently has stopped in recent years ('05). Years back, they always moved forward with being downright experimental, since the year Nineteen-Sixty-Five.
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Added: 11th May 2012
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At 9.15 am on Friday, October 21, 1966 a enormous mountain of excavated coal mining debris (known to coal miners as a waste tip) slid down a mountainside into the mining village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. The waste tips, which had been building up for 50 years, had become heavy and saturated due to a week of rainy weather. The debris slide first destroyed a farm cottage in its path, killing all the occupants. At Pantglas Junior School, just below, the children had just returned to their classes after singing All Things Bright and Beautiful at their assembly. The tipping gang up the mountain had seen the slide start, but could not raise the alarm because their telephone cable had been repeatedly stolen. (The Tribunal of Inquiry later established that the disaster happened so quickly that a telephone warning would not have saved any lives regardless.) Down in the village, nobody saw anything, but everybody heard the noise as about 40,000 cubic metres of debris crashed into the school at a depth of 39 feet. Gaynor Minett, an eight-year-old student, remembered four years later, "It was a tremendous rumbling sound and all the school went dead. You could hear a pin drop. Everyone just froze in their seats. I just managed to get up and I reached the end of my desk when the sound got louder and nearer, until I could see the black out of the window. I can't remember any more but I woke up to find that a horrible nightmare had just begun in front of my eyes."
The slide engulfed the school and about 20 houses in the village before coming to rest. Then there was total silence. George Williams, who was trapped in the wreckage, remembered that "In that silence you couldn't hear a bird or a child." All able-bodied persons in the village rushed to the scene with whatever implements they could find to begin digging through the mess to search for survivors. None were found after 11 a.m., but it took nearly a week to recover all the bodies.
The death toll in the Aberfan disaster was 144--of which 116 were school children. That accounted for about half the school's enrolment. Five teachers were killed too. An inquiry later blamed the National Coal Board (NCB) for ignoring warnings from years earlier about the potential hazards of the growing waste tips. Families of the victims were eventually compensated 500 British pounds by the NCB for each loved one who had perished.
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At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, a water polo match between Hungary and the USSR turned into a blood bath--literally. The match, on December 6, was set against the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and saw Hungary defeat the USSR 4–0. The lasting image of the match was Hungarian star Ervin Zádor emerging from the pool with a large, bloody gash under his eye. He had been punched by Soviet player Valentin Prokopov.
Tensions were already high between the Hungarian and Soviet water polo teams, as the Soviets had taken advantage of their political control of Hungary to study and copy the training methods and tactics of the 1952 Olympic champion Hungarians.
On October 23, 1956, a demonstration by university students escalated into an uprising against the Soviet puppet government in Budapest. For a few days it appeared Hungary might free itself from the USSR's grasp. On November 1, however, Soviet tanks began rolling into Hungary. From November 4 to November 10 forces began suppressing the uprising with air strikes, artillery bombardments, and tank/infantry actions.
The Hungarian water polo team was in a mountain training camp above Budapest. They were able to hear the gunfire and see smoke rising. With the Summer Olympics in Melbourne a month away, they were moved to Czechoslovakia to avoid being caught in the revolution. The players only learned the full extent of the uprising and the subsequent crackdown after arriving in Australia.
By the start of the Olympics, the uprising had been suppressed. Many players saw the Olympics as a way to salvage national pride. "We felt we were playing not just for ourselves but for our whole country" said Zádor after the match. The "Blood In The Water" match was played in front of a partisan crowd bolstered with expatriate Hungarians as well as Australians and Americans who detested their Cold War Soviet rivals. Prior to the match, the Hungarians had evolved a strategy to taunt the Russians, whose language they had been forced to study in school. In the words of Zádor: "We had decided to try and make the Russians angry to distract them."
From the opening whistle, kicks and punches were freely exchanged. At one point the Hungarian captain, Dezső Gyarmati, punched a Russian; it was caught on film. Meanwhile, Zádor scored two goals for the Hungarians, much to the delight of the crowd.
With Hungary leading 4–0 in the final minutes, Zádor was marking Valentin Prokopov with whom he'd had verbal exchanges. Prokopov struck him, causing a gash to open. The blood comining with the water in the pool made it look like Zádor was bleeding to death. As he left the pool, his bleeding incited the crowd into a frenzy. Angry spectators jumped onto the concourse beside the water, shook their fists, shouted abuse, and spat at the Soviets. To avoid a riot, police entered the arena with one minute to go, declared the game over, and shepherded the crowd away.
Pictures of Zádor's injuries were published around the world, leading to the "Blood in the Water" name, although reports that the water actually turned red were an exaggeration. Zádor said his only thought was whether he would be able to play the next match.
Hungary went on to beat Yugoslavia 2–1 in the final to win their fourth Olympic gold medal. Zádor missed the match. After the event was completed, he and some of his teammates sought asylum in the West, rather than live in Hungary under a puppet pro-Soviet regime.
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On September 22, 1975, 33-year-old Oliver Sipple (the man with the sideburns in the left of the photo) was walking past the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco where President Gerald Ford was scheduled to speak. As Sipple moved forward to better hear Ford's speech, he noticed a woman standing next to him (later identified as Sara Jane Moore) reach into her raincoat and pull out a revolver. Sipple yelled, "Gun!" and instinctively grabbed for her arm and deflected it as she pulled the trigger. The bullet, intended for the president who was just 40 feet away, ricocheted off a wall and slightly wounded another bystander. Sipple, a decorated Vietnam vet, tackled Moore, prevented her from shooting again, and handed her over to the Secret Service.
Oliver Sipple now became a reluctant celebrity. He was immediately hailed in the national press and received thousands of letters praising his heroics. However, President Ford only sent him a short note and avoided a personal meeting. News organizations wondered why the White House was avoiding Sipple. Although he was openly gay, Sipple’s sexual orientation was a secret from his family and employers. Accordingly, he asked the press to keep his sexuality off the record. However, news organizations refused to comply. The gay community saw the situation as a great opportunity. While discussing whether or not Sipple’s sexuality ought to be disclosed, prominent gay San Francisco's councilman Harvey Milk noted: “For once we can show that gays do heroic things, not just all that caca about molesting children and hanging out in bathrooms.” Milk further suggested that Sipple’s sexual orientation was the reason he received only a note from Ford rather than a formal invitation to the White House.
Herb Caen, a columnist at The San Francisco Chronicle, outed Sipple as gay. The Chicago Sun-Times called him a ‘Homosexual Hero’; The Denver Post used the more pithy term ‘Gay Vet’. In Detroit, Sipple’s staunch Baptist family became the subject of ridicule and abuse by friends and neighbors. His mother refused to talk to him. When she died in 1979, his father told him not to attend the funeral. Sipple filed a $15-million invasion of privacy suit against seven newspapers and various publishers, but after a long and bitter process, the courts held that Sipple himself had become news, and that his sexual orientation was part of the story. Oliver Sipple sank into a downward spiral of depression, alcoholism, obesity and drug abuse. By the time he was found dead with an empty bottle of bourbon in 1989, Oliver Sipple was already a forgotten footnote to ethics and freedom of press. His apartment was littered with press clippings about that fateful day in 1975 when he saved a man’s life and subsequently ruined his own.
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Sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from July 1992 – December 1997. A period of five and a half years that saw the release of sixty-two books of a series that would go down in history as not only a pop cultural phenomenon of the nineties, but also create a franchise that still lives in other forms to this day. R L Stine’s popularity has rarely been matched in the twenty years following the release of the first book and now, with nearly fifteen years separating today from the release of the last book..Whats to come next or who? Since the release of its first novel, Welcome to Dead House in July 1992, the books have gained immense popularity and commercial success worldwide. As of 2008, the series has sold over 350 million books worldwide in thirty-five languages and has been listed in many bestseller lists, including the New York Times Best Seller list for children. The series has spawned a television series and numerous merchandise. 162 books so far as of Fall 2012. Original series: July 1992 – December 1997 Spin-off series: October 1994 – present
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Hello Folks! I got stellar news for you! I got another game for you to say you know.
Who can make a guess on the gaming standard about film shots.
All you have to do is do your homework on something you may have seen a few decades back.
I know, trivia makes you feel old, but it gives you a chance to use your brain power to remember. You can't lose. As long as you have an interest in it, you'll be likely able to remember where you saw it.
Update:Solved!
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Perhaps the most controversial fight in boxing history: Ali-Liston II in Lewiston, ME on May 25, 1965. Ali (then Cassius Clay) had upset Liston on February 25, 1964 in Miami to win the world heavyweight title. The rematch, scheduled for Boston, was delayed by a few months because Ali needed emergency hernia surgery. By the time Ali had healed, he was tremendously unpopular because of his ties with the Black Muslims. Liston had connections in organized crime. Boston wanted no part of the fight, so it was moved to a high school hockey arena in Lewiston. Rumors that something odd would happen circulated before the fight. Watch Ali's famous "phantom punch" knock out Liston, a man who had never been floored before. Some people think it is a perfect punch. Others think Liston took a dive. Also watch ex-champ Jersey Joe Walcott botch the refereeing. Ali never goes to a neutral corner, yet Liston is somehow counted out. Ali wasn't exactly a one-punch knockout artist. He only had two first-round knockouts in his pro career. Renowned sports writer Red Smith, one of many respected journalists who maintained the fight was fixed, said, "I saw the punch; it wouldn't have crushed a grape."
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Added: 26th October 2012
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