• Occasionally, people use their wills to express disappointment with a loved one — or with someone who ought to be a loved one. For example, in her will the late Sara Clarke, from Bournemouth, England, wrote this: “To my daughter, I leave £1 — for the kindness and love she has never shown me.” That is a recent example, but this kind of thing has been going on for a long time. The Earl of Stafford, in the late 1600s, wrote this in his will: “To the worst of women, Claude Charlotte de Grammont, unfortunately my wife, guilty as she is of all crimes, I leave five-and-forty brass halfpence, which will buy a pullet [a young hen] for her supper. A better gift than her father can make her; for I have known when having not the money, neither had he the credit for such a purchase; he being the worst of men, and his wife the worst of women in all debaucheries. Had I known their characters I had never married their daughter, and made myself unhappy.” Here is one more example, again from England: “To the perfetic [pathetic] woman what was once my wife I leave the sum of 1p [pence] which she can shove up her arse.”
• Rich Moore, a member of the Crimson River Quartet in Mission Viejo, California, says that this story is true: A southern gospel group was asked by a widow to sing her husband’s three favorite songs at his funeral; the songs were “In the Garden,” “Amazing Grace,” and “Jingle Bells.” The members of the group were understandably leery of singing “Jingle Bells” at a funeral, but they did sing it — at a much slower tempo than usual. After they had sung the song, the widow said that she now remembered her husband’s favorite song. It wasn’t “Jingle Bells” — it was “When They Ring Those Golden Bells.”
• In the old days, before modern medicine developed, people had lots of children because they expected some of the children to die. They were knowledgeable about death, having seen it so often, and so they accepted it. Artist Grandma Moses had 10 children, but five died at birth or soon after. One daughter, Anna, collapsed during a Christmas party at age 37, and died a few days afterward. Before dying, she promised her daughter a birthday party. Grandma Moses first gave a funeral for her daughter, then gave a birthday party for her granddaughter.
• John Weir was once inaccurately referred to as “the late John Weir” in the New York Native. Shortly afterward, he ran into a friend on the street, who was shocked to see that he was still alive. The friend asked him, “What are you doing on the planet? I thought you were dead.” Mr. Weir assured him that he was still alive, and the friend, who was burdened with too many things to do and not enough time to do them, complained without thinking, “Now I’ll have to put you back in my Rolodex.”
• In New England, a tourist saw an elderly man tending a ceremony. She asked him, “Do people often die in this town?” The elderly man gruffly replied, “No, they die only once.” Trying again, the tourist asked him, “Do a lot of people die in this town?” The elderly man gruffly replied, “Yes, all of them do.”
• Johnny Carson’s final show, “Funny Moments and a Final Farewell,” was shown on May 22, 1992. The final image shown as he walked off the set at the end of the show was a photograph of a sunset. It was taken by Rick Carson, his son, who had died in an automobile accident in 1991.
Uther Pendragon (Welsh: Uthyr Pendragon, Uthyr Bendragon), also known as King Uther, is a legendary king of sub-Roman Britain and the father of King Arthur. A few minor references to Uther appear in Old Welsh poems, but his biography was first written down by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), and Geoffrey's account of the character was used in most later versions. He is a fairly ambiguous individual throughout the literature, but is described as a strong king and a defender of his people.
According to Arthurian legend, Merlin magically disguises Uther to look like his enemy Gorlois, enabling Uther to sleep with Gorlois' wife Lady Igraine. Thus Arthur, "the once and future king", is an illegitimate child (though later legend, as found in Malory, emphasises that the conception occurred after Gorlois's death and that he was legitimated by Uther's subsequent marriage to Igraine). This act of conception occurs the very night that Uther's troops dispatch Gorlois. The theme of illegitimate conception is repeated in Arthur's siring of Mordred by his own half-sister Morgause in the 13th century French prose cycles, which was invented by them; it is Mordred who mortally wounds King Arthur in the Battle of Camlann.
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Arthur, King of the Britons. Most historians cite the lack of credible evidence that any King Arthur ever existed is evidence that he was as fictional as the familiar, if ridiculous, tall tales he is associated with.
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“On a hot summer evening, four Frenchies decide to form a band and share their passion for 60's garage and soul music. Zaza Sharps (Lead vocals, Bass), Little Big Ian (Lead vocals, Guitar), Ricky Bilbao (Backing vocals, Organ, Bass) and Lester Mizzi (Backing vocals, Drums) have now been playing together for three years, but they are hungry for more.
Gordon Frisbie, a fan, wrote, “Love it. That simple. You just don’t go back there unless you’re a go-go fanatic. That simple. Favorite track: ‘Whiplash.’”
“Go Away” is another excellent song from the album, as is “Got to Have Your Lovin’.”
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Leaves are popping out on most of the local trees.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS fills the night with LIVE'March Madness', then pads the left coast with local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Robert Downey Jr., Walter Isaacson, and Sebastián Yatra & Guyanaa.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are David Tennant abd Joy Downer.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Debris'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Tracee Ellis Ross, Andy Cohen, and Aaron Frazer.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Ken Jeong, Eddie Izzard, Griff, and Ash Soan.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Melinda Gates.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'The Good Doctor'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/18/21) are Lionel Richie, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chesca featuring De La Ghetto and Offset.
The CW offers a FRESH'Bulletproof', followed by a RERUN'Black Lightning'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a FRESH'America's Most Wanted'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Hoarders', followed by a FRESH'Hoarders', then a FRESH'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Caddyshack', followed by the movie 'Police Academy', then the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00PM - 11:00PM] LAW & ORDER
[12:00AM] FARGO
[2:01AM] FARGO
[4:02AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:01AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', another 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', another 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Daddy's Home 2', followed by the movie 'Guardians Of The Galaxy', then a FRESH'Breeders', followed by another FRESH'Breeders'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 10:30am] Parks And Recreation
[11:00am - 12:00pm] Saved By The Bell: The College Years
[12:30pm - 2:00pm] Saved By The Bell: Hawaiian Style
[2:30pm] Saved By The Bell
[3:00pm - 6:30pm] Three's Company
[7:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 2:30am] Three's Company
[3:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - Back Of The Line Old Man
[3:30am - 5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 1:30pm] hogan's heroes
[2:00pm] halloween 4: the return of michael myers
[4:00pm] halloween
[6:00pm] halloween ii
[8:00pm] ghostbusters
[10:30pm] ghostbusters ii
[1:00am] ghostbusters
[3:30am] ghostbusters ii (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'I, Robot', followed by the movie 'GI Joe: Retaliation', then the movie 'Dracula Untold'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 1/25/21) is Nicole Byer.
The WGA Awards handed its top film honors tonight to Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman in the Original Screenplay category and the Adapted Screenplay award to Sacha Baron Cohen and team for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, boosting to Oscar frontrunner status.
Last year, the guild lined up with Oscar’s screenwriting prizes, awarding Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won’s Parasite in original screenplay and Taika Waititi’s JoJo Rabbit in adapted. Both won on Oscar night. That’s a feat that doesn’t always occur as the WGA only recognizes those nominees who are guild members, i.e. last year the guild overlooked Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in the original screenplay category as the filmmaker isn’t a WGA member. AMPAS, however, did give Tarantino’s screenplay a nod.
On the TV side, Netflix’s The Crown scribes took the drama series award, beating out Better Call Saul, which led all shows five nominations, along with Ozark, The Mandalorian and The Boys; and Ted Lasso landed two in the comedy categories, for comedy series, besting fellow nominees The Great, Curb Your Enthusiasm and PEN15.
Desus & Mero took the award for Comedy/Variety Talk Series, beating last year’s winner Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, as well as Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
At Home with Amy Sedaris took the nod for Comedy/Variety Sketch Series and Stephen Colbert’s Election Night 2020: Democracy’s Last Stand took the award for Comedy/Variety Special.
Disney's animated adventure "Raya and the Last Dragon" led the domestic box office in its third weekend, illustrating the appeal of family films as Hollywood attempts to mount a moviegoing revival.
"Raya and the Last Dragon" collected $5.2 million from 2,261 theaters through Sunday, representing a scant 5% decline. Disney can thank the reopening of Los Angeles movie theaters for the stellar hold in ticket sales. Cinemas in the City of Angels were given permission to resume operations on March 12, but most film exhibitors weren't able to get up and running until now.
"Raya and the Last Dragon" amassed another $8 million overseas from 29 countries. The film, which is available to Disney Plus subscribers for an additional $30, has generated $71 million globally to date.
Without much in the way of competition, "Raya and the Last Dragon" was able to easily repeat No. 1 in North America. Two new movies -- "The Courier" and "City of Lies" -- opened theatrically while several awards season hopefuls got a post-Oscar nomination boost.
"The Courier," a Cold War drama led by Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan, landed in third place with $2 million from 1,433 locations. Directed by Dominic Cooke, the movie premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival (with the title "Ironbark") to mostly positive reviews. Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate, the film's backers, reported strong turnout in Salt Lake City, Orlando and Dallas.
The Three's Company star and breast cancer survivor spoke candidly about her and husband Alan Hamel's thriving sex life in an appearance on the Heather Dubrow's World podcast, sharing that the couple has sex "three times before noon."
The author of A New Way to Age shared that because she's 74 and her husband is 84, most people would assume they're slowing down. But that couldn't be further from the truth.
"At this stage of life, most people think that's over the hill. What time is it, noon? I had sex with him three times so far today," Somers told Dubrow. "What is this thing about 4:30 in the morning that's suddenly like, 'Oh there he is.' I'm like, 'Could you just wait 'til the sun comes up?'"
The couple, who have been married since 1977, still have a thriving relationship both sexually and emotionally.
Antiquities are everywhere in the Italian capital. But incredibly, one of the most important collections was hidden away for decades.
"It's like having 600-plus works of art drop out of the sky," enthused archeologist Darius Arya, who met correspondent Seth Doane at Rome's Capitoline Museum. "This figure right here is just out of the textbooks. I mean, the sort of thing that we've all studied but we've never seen."
It's the first time in about 70 years these pieces are on public display.
It belongs to one of Rome's most powerful aristocratic families, the Torlonias, who over generations spent their banking fortune accruing art.
The 94 ancient Greek and Roman marbles on exhibition are just a fraction of the 620 owned by the noble family.
A trade bottleneck born of the COVID-19 outbreak has U.S. businesses anxiously awaiting goods from Asia — while off the coast of California, dozens of container ships sit anchored, unable to unload their cargo.
The pandemic has wreaked havoc with the supply chain since early 2020, when it forced the closure of factories throughout China. The seeds of the current problems were sown last March, when Americans stayed home and dramatically changed their buying habits — instead of clothes, they bought electronics, fitness equipment and home improvement products. U.S. companies responded by flooding reopened Asian factories with orders, leading to a chain reaction of congestion and snags at ports and freight hubs across the country as the goods began arriving.
Main Street businesses are now forced to wait months instead of the usual weeks for a delivery from China, and no one knows when the situation will be resolved. Owners do a lot of explaining to customers, order more inventory than usual and lower their expectations for when their shipments will arrive.
The cluster of ships offshore are perhaps the most dramatic symptom of an overwhelmed supply chain. As production surged in Asia, more ships began arriving in the fall at ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach and other West Coast cities than the gateways could handle. Ships holding as many as 14,000 containers have sat offshore, some of them for over a week. At times there have been as many as 40 ships waiting; normally, there’s no more than a handful, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California, a service that monitors port traffic and operations.
There are choke points on land as well. It can take 8,000 trucks to haul the cargo away from a ship, says Kip Louttit, executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California. But when all those trucks hit the road, there aren’t enough available when dockworkers are trying to unload the next ships in port. Freight rail traffic has also been affected.
A hangover from Trump-era tariff disputes could become even more painful for American whiskey distillers unless their entanglement in a trans-Atlantic trade fight is resolved soon.
Bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey were left out of recent breakthroughs to start rebuilding U.S. trade relations with the European Union and the United Kingdom in the wake of Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s presidency. Tariffs were suspended on some spirits, but the 25% tariffs slapped on American whiskey by the EU and UK remain in place. And the EU’s tariff rate is set to double to 50% in June in the key export market for U.S. whiskey makers.
A leading spirits advocate is imploring top U.S. trade envoy Katherine Tai to not leave whiskey producers behind. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States urged her to press for an immediate suspension of the European tariffs and to secure agreements removing them.
American whiskey makers have been caught up in the trans-Atlantic trade dispute since mid-2018, when the EU imposed tariffs on American whiskey and other U.S. products in response to Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on European steel and aluminum.
Since then, American whiskey exports to the EU are down by 37%, costing whiskey distillers hundreds of millions in revenue between 2018 and 2020, the council said. American whiskey exports to the UK, the industry’s fourth-largest market, have fallen by 53% since 2018, it said.
For Kentucky bourbon producers, tariffs slashed their exports by 35% in 2020, with shipments to the EU plummeting by nearly 50%, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association said.
As the enormous weight of Alaska's glaciers rapidly melts away, the land underneath is rising upwards once again, like a feathery pillow after pressure is removed.
According to a new model, that rebounding motion could be causing local tectonic plates to strain at their seams, making it easier for earthquakes to occur.
Comparing ice loss, shear stress, and seismic records in southwest Alaska from 1920 onwards, researchers found most large earthquakes were linked to long-term earth rebound.
Across the region, adjustments in glacial mass from ice melt increased stress along the underlying fault line, promoting at least 23 of 30 earthquakes with magnitudes over 5.0.
The relationship is subtle yet unmistakable and is especially clear in 1958 when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a historical landslide and a massive tsunami in Lituya Bay.
Since 1770, the Glacier Bay Icefield near Lituya Bay has lost over 3,000 square kilometers of ice (nearly 1,200 square miles), thinning the icefield by up to 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles).
Skin – the largest organ in the human body – envelops us from head to toe, letting us touch, feel, and interact with the outside world. But there's one part of that organ even more attuned to touch than any other.
A new study has revealed just how receptive the sensory neurons in our fingers are: As it turns out, we can detect touch on the minuscule scale of a single fingerprint ridge.
"You would expect that a single papillary ridge would play a role, but it hasn't been shown [before]," Ewa Jarocka, co-author of the study from Umeå University in Sweden told The Guardian.
Sensory neurons attached to receptors are dotted just underneath the skin's surface, allowing us to detect touch, vibration, pressure, pain, and lots more. Our hands alone contain tens of thousands of these neurons, each one with receptors on a small surface area of the skin, called a receptive field.
To map these fields, the researchers strapped down the arms of 12 healthy people and glued their fingernails to plastic holders to really make sure they couldn't move. A machine then wheeled tiny, 0.4 millimeter-wide cones around 7 mm apart across their skin and the team recorded each neuron's response using an electrode in the participants' arms.
A former priest and two women are facing charges for having sex on the altar of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Pearl River, La.
The Times-Picayune — New Orleans Advocate reports a passerby spotted lights on inside the church. Looking into the church's windows and glass doors, the passerby saw Travis John Clark, 37, the pastor there, engaging in sexual activities with two "corset-clad women."
The incident happened between Sept. 29-30. On Thursday, the St. Tammany District Attorney's Office charged Mindy Lynn Dixon, 41, of Kent, Wash., and Melissa Kamon Cheng, 28, of Alpharetta, Ga., and Clark with institutional vandalism for "knowingly vandalizing, defacing, or otherwise damaging property and causing damage valued at over $500 and under $50,000."
More serious obscenity charges were dropped after attorney Bradley Phillips, who represents the women — called "professional dominatrices" by the Times-Picayune — argued the act was private and legal as it did not occur in public.
The paper reported court documents say the women — in corsets and high heels — "performed sex acts on a half-naked Clark as they recorded it with a phone and tripod-mounted camera."
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