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At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906 The San Francisco Bay area erupted as the earth unleashed her fury. The violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasting nearly 60 seconds. The quake was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada. The ground had ripped open for more than 270 miles along a great fault - the San Andreas rift. The quake lasted only a minute but caused the one of the worst natural disaster in the nation's history. The damages were estimated at $400,000,000 in 1906 dollars, That would translate to nearly 10 billion dollars today.
Photos
The Library of Congress
J. B. Macelwane archives, Saint Louis University
Richard Cawood
http://www.richardcawood.com/
Film Footage
1906 earthquake sequence from "San Francisco"
MGM
directed by W.S. Van Dyke
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Films
courtesy of ROMANO-ARCHIVES
http://romanoarchives.altervista.org
Music
San Francisco
music lyrics by Gus Kahn, Bronislau Kaper, Walter Jurman
performed by
Jeanette MacDonald and the Fans at Candlestick Park 1989 world series during an emotional pre-game ceremony in the aftermath of the 1989 earthquake tragedy.
Rocket Boys
October Sky
Anne Frank
(Featuring Mini Ben-Ari)
Mark Isham
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Added: 25th September 2008
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In 1969, a small group of college students announced their intentions to overthrow the U.S. government in opposition to the Vietnam War. This documentary explores the rise and fall of this radical movement as former
members speak candidly about the passion that drove them at the time. The film also explores the group in the context of other social movements of the time, featuring interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panther Party. The documentary also examines the U.S. government's suppression of dissent during this turbulent era. Using archival footage from the 1960s and 1970s, the film also intersperses recent interviews with high profile ex-Weathermen like Bernardine Dohrn, David Gilbert, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and Brian Flanagan, who talk about their involvement in the organization, their experiences, and the trajectory that led them to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
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Added: 8th October 2008
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On this day in 1969,
The Beatles scored their 13th US No.1 album with 'Abbey Road'.
The cover supposedly contained clues adding to the ‘Paul Is Dead’ phenomenon:
Paul is barefoot and the car number plate ‘LMW 281F’ supposedly referred to the fact that McCartney would be 28 years old if he was still alive.
‘LMW’ was said to stand for ‘Linda McCartney Weeps.
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And the four Beatles, represent; the priest (John, dressed in white), the Undertaker (Ringo in a black suit), the Corpse (Paul, in a suit but barefoot), and the Gravedigger (George, in jeans and a denim work shirt).
for those of you too young to remember,rumors of Paul McCartney's death began to circulate in 1969, a time when the strained relationships among the Beatles were becoming public knowledge.
Written versions of this story first appeared in college newspapers in the fall of 1969, but the precise origin of the rumor is unknown. The story caught fire with the public when it was broadcast by a radio station in Detroit. Russell Gibb, a disc jockey for WKNR-FM, received a strange phone call from someone who identified himself only as Tom.
The caller told Gibb that Paul McCartney had died in 1966 and was then replaced by a lookalike.
The Beatles had subsequently left clues on their albums about this deception. .
Other Beatles album covers also contained clues, the caller claimed, and a few Beatles songs contained clues about Paul's death—including some that could only be deciphered when the records were played backwards!
Gibb related the rumor of Paul's death on the air, which brought a strong reaction from listeners and the story spread rapidly after that.
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My name is Wayne. I was born in 1952 in a town about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, California. For the last 57 years, I have lived within shouting distance of Route 66. I have always been a big fan of trivia, especially history. A brief dabbling in genealogy revealed that I'm a direct descendant of Edward III, but my friend Dolores Cullen, a scholar of Geoffry Chaucer, was more impressed that the bard's first patron, John of Gaunt is something like my 19th great-grandfather.
I was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose for quite some time, where my wife, Linda and I both served as officers. When she passed away I consoled myself with the internet, where I discovered YRT, and I'm also an habitue of Yahoo Answers, where I endure bad spelling and nonexistent punctuation in order to offer guidance to young people.
My profile picture [avatar] is of me, taken in about 1963, judging from the roller skates and my godparents' 1962 Chevy that was originally in the background.
Just to make myself a little more interesting, I am currently homeless, living in one motel room or another, or occasionally staying with a friend. I'm so old, I can remember when Knott's Berry Farm, Southern California's oldest theme park, had free admission, and you bought individual tickets for each attraction.
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Brought out in the year stated, all thanks to a toy-line that was much sought for in those years. Originally, they could be seen (the characters) in shops in '82. That actually took a few long years to get going with development. It was really, keeping the idea as simple as possible. After all, it was geared towards young children. When the idea in cartoon form was brought to home screens, the violence was toned-down.
With all of it, it may sound simple. But troubles came along with it. Isn't that always the case!
If you can remember, the earlier drawn version, they wrestled instead of punching, as I mentioned with its mild violence. Why all the concern? Mom and Dad.
Now, with the live-action, it seemed to to doing fine, but the company who has the characters got greedy, and a planned second chapter to the flick was let-go completely.
It could be said nowadays, things are changing with that.
In the involving adventure in 08 of '87, Lundgren took the strong character, playin' him as a young deep-space beefcake, going against, hiding in ghastly makeup, the known Frank Langella as the very villiany and very bizarre space half man/ half skeleton with future-like materials.
All of this was thanks primarily to another space film that had begun a craze that continues today. It should be noted, there will be more in the years to come. True. Believe it.
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"Can You Feel It" was put on the charts from The Jacksons,way back in September 1980.
It was the opening song on their album Triumph.
The stunning effects were created by Robert Abel and Associates. Back then, the group were a pioneering production company that dealt with adding computer graphics into TV commercials.
Later, they were hired to add the effects for the 1982 movie TRON.
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Added: 19th February 2009
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