Traditionally attributed, although disputed, to American sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill is the most recognized song in the English language. What is the title of their song?
"Happy Birthday to You", also known as "Happy Birthday", is a song traditionally sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person's birth. According to the 1998 Guinness World Records, it is the most recognized song in the English language, followed by "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". The song's base lyrics have been translated into at least 18 languages. The melody of "Happy Birthday to You" comes from the song "Good Morning to All", which has traditionally been attributed to American sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill in 1893, although the claim that the sisters composed the tune is disputed.
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an adult version of the Slinky song
Mark. was first, and correct, with:
"Happy Birthday to You."
Randall wrote:
Happy Birthday
Cal in Vermont said:
Happy Birthday. Or In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. One of 'em...
Alan J answered:
Happy Birthday.
Dave responded:
Happy Birthday to You. Because of the TRUMPOVID-19 pandemic we weren't able to sing that in person to 2 of our granddaughters that had March birthdays. This morning we are impatiently waiting to hear of the birth of our 5th grandchild (4 girls). Son's fiancé has been in induced labor since Wednesday morning, although the labor didn't start until Thursday, and its 6:43 am Friday as I send this.
Doug in Albuquerque replied:
"Happy Birthday To You" is song attributed to Patty and Mildred Hill.
mj said:
Just count to 20 when you wash your hands
It's just as easy as singing Happy Birthday.
Roy, hunkered down in Tyler, TX wrote:
The most recognized song you asked about it "Wash Your Hands For 20 Seconds," AKA "Happy Birthday to You."
zorch answered:
Happy Birthday, which I think is still under copyright.
Mac Mac responded:
Happy birthday to you
Micki replied:
I'll guess "Happy Birthday."
Deborah wrote:
I don't know who those ladies are, and I'm between Zoom business meetings, so I'm going for a WAG: The "Happy Birthday" song. That may end up more "WTF" than "WAG," but it's all I have at the moment.
When every day feels like a weekend, how do you demarcate the weekend for the weekdays? Strange times, indeed.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Happy Birthday to You
Daniel in The City replied:
Happy Birthday (to You)
David of Moon Valley said:
had a feeling...
…but i double-checked to be chure…'Happy Birthday to You' is what i came up with…maybe? maybe not….meh, it's Friday and the sun is shining warmly on another Sonoma County Spring Day…
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
"Happy Birthday To You" was my guess and a quick search confirmed it.
Dave in Tucson answered:
Ummmm, Happy Birthday?
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is "Happy Birthday."
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• Opera/lieder singer Kathleen Ferrier occasionally made mental lapses, forgetting a phrase as she sang. She once forgot some of the words to Handel's "Where'er You Walk." So instead of singing, "All things flourish, where'er you turn your eyes," she sang the only thing she could think of, which was, "All things flourish, where'er they eat the grass." This normally wouldn't be too bad, but the phrase which she couldn't remember appeared three times in the song, and by the time she had finished singing it, her face was bright red.
• Coloratura soprano Lily Pons was a perfectionist. Before singing in an auditorium, she noticed that red velvet curtains hung at the back of the stage. Concerned that the curtains would absorb too much of the sound of her voice, she insisted that they be taken down. They were taken down, but unfortunately this revealed a large sign that was clearly visible as Ms. Pons sang during her concert: "RESTROOMS - THIS WAY."
• Meredith Willson (the writer of The Music Man) and his wife were just leaving the Brown Derby in Hollywood when they ran into a producer whom they knew. The producer greeted Mr. Willson enthusiastically and complimented him on his fine head of hair. Reciprocating, Mr. Willson complimented the producer on his hair and grabbed a handful of it - only to pull off the producer's toupee.
• Tenor Franco Corelli takes music seriously. At home, Mr. Corelli became so frustrated while trying unsuccessfully to play a certain phrase that he jumped up from the piano then smashed his fist through a closet door. He and his wife were unsuccessful at freeing his arm, so they were forced to call a carpenter for help.
• During a performance of High Spirits, the musical version of his Blithe Spirit, Noël Coward was bothered by an usher who kept switching on and off a flashlight in an attempt to get another usher's attention. "Good God," he moaned, "will somebody please go up there and kill Tinker Bell!" (In performances of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell is portrayed by a light.)
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• Oscar Levant was performing on stage in a concert when a telephone began ringing - and ringing - off stage. When he came to a quiet place in the piano piece he was playing, he told the audience, "If that's for me, tell them I'm busy."
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On Thursday's Late Night, Seth Meyers turned his trademark Closer Look to the dire shortage of ventilators and the negligent federal response, advised by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to address the problem. "We have a situation where states are begging for life-saving ventilators and the Trump team is in disarray," Meyers explained.
"Governors are literally outbidding each other on the open market, and dealing with shady middlemen and price gouging to buy ventilators wherever they can get them," Meyers said. New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, compared the experience to eBay; Connecticut's governor, Ned Lamont, said it was like Uber surge pricing, except "at the last moment, the car drives away because somebody has outbid you".
"That's right, governors are comparing buying life-saving ventilators for a pandemic to surge pricing," Meyers said. "This is capitalism at its absolute worst. While Trump waits for the market to decide, people are literally going to die, and states are getting ripped off like they're trying to call an Uber in the rain in midtown after a Broadway show.
"And you'll never guess who's in charge of this shitshow," Meyers continued. "The guy Slenderman has nightmares about: Jared Kushner." Kushner reportedly pushed back on Cuomo's request for 30,000 ventilators; he called Cuomo an alarmist and said in a White House meeting: "I have all this data about ICU capacity. I'm doing my own projections, and I've gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn't need all the ventilators."
"Oh, you're doing your own projections? Did your parents just buy you a TI-84 [graphing calculator]?" Meyers retorted. "You're not qualified to do anything, let alone tell New York how many ventilators they need. You're a nepotism case, and you only got the White House job because you married into the family, and because the security guards believed your fake ID.
Richard Simmons, of "Sweatin' to the Oldies" fame, is restoring his YouTube channel during the coronavirus pandemic with nostalgic workouts for people under home quarantine.
"We have had an overwhelming request for Richard to return in some way as a comfort to all dealing with the pandemic," a spokesperson for the 71-year-old told Fox News. "We thought we would start by re-releasing some workouts and other inspirational content on his YT channel. Richard is very touched by the outreach." Representatives for Simmons did not immediately respond to Yahoo Entertainment's request for comment.
A few weeks ago, Simmons began posting classic content including "10 Minute Sweat with Richard Simmons," "Five Minute Retro Sweat Workout" and a "Motivational Monday" segment in which he reads viewer mail and touts the health benefits of non-fat frozen yogurt. "But don't fall into the trap of adding all those toppings," he says. Before then, his last YouTube videos were posted six years ago,
Two Mexican brewers, including the producers of Corona beer, have said they are reducing production because of the health emergency in the country over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grupo Modelo -- whose brands include Pacifico and Modelo as well as Corona -- said the measure was in line with the Mexican government's order to suspend all non-essential activities until April 30 to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Dutch-Mexican brewer Heineken Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma -- which makes the Tecate and Dos Equis brands -- likewise said Friday it was "executing a plan to reduce our operations... safeguarding care for the environment and with the sole objective of avoiding irreversible effects that could make it impossible to reactivate our economic activity."
A scarlet fan spread across the skies over Japan 1,400 years ago, and it's been puzzling astronomers ever since.
According to historical records, on Dec. 30, 620, a "red sign" shaped like "a pheasant tail" appeared in the sky. At the time, the sign was considered a bad omen. Modern scientists looking back at the report have wondered whether the spectacle may have been caused by an aurora or a comet, but neither of those explanations quite made sense.
Ryuho Kataoka, who studies space weather at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan, and his colleagues decided they wanted to investigate what could have caused the scarlet phenomenon, according to a statement.
The team tracked down more recent observations of auroras that were visible over Japan in a fan shape with a red background. That matches the "pheasant tail" description of the 620 event. The researchers also mapped what Earth's changing magnetic field would have looked like at the time, suggesting that Japan would have been around 33 degrees of magnetic latitude in 620, as opposed to 25 degrees today, according to the statement.
US Navy Captain Brett Crozier was cheered by hundreds of sailors as he left the USS Roosevelt docked in Guam after his controversial firing by the Pentagon, videos showed Friday.
The respected head of the aircraft carrier, hit by the fast-moving coronavirus pandemic, was removed from his command by Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly Thursday after a letter Crozier wrote pleading with the Pentagon for support for the crew was leaked into the public.
Crozier "demonstrated extremely poor judgment in the middle of a crisis" in his handling of the letter, Modly said.
But the crew of the Roosevelt openly signaled their support in videos taken from the ship as he strode alone solemnly down the gangway, saluting briefly to the crew before getting into a waiting car on the pier.
In 1974, the world was stunned by the discovery of "Lucy," the partial skeleton of a human ancestor that walked upright-and still spent time in the trees-3.2 million years ago. Later discoveries revealed her species, scattered throughout eastern Africa, had brains bigger than chimpanzees. But a new study of an ancient toddler finds that the brains of Lucy's kind were organized less like those of humans and more like those of chimps. That suggests the brains of our ancestors expanded before they reorganized in the ways that let us engage in more complex mental behaviors such as making tools and developing language. The remains also suggest Lucy's species had a relatively long childhood-similar to modern humans-and that they would have needed parenting longer than their chimp relatives.
Anthropologists have made much of the fact that adult members of Lucy's species-Australopithecus afarensis-had skulls 20% larger than a chimpanzee's. Researchers have long debated what this meant for their brain power. Had the brains of these early hominins, or members of the human family, already reorganized by the time their kind was walking upright in Africa and-perhaps-hafting sharp stone tools 2.9 million to 3.9 million years ago? "There's been a big debate about when the reorganization of the brain took place in the hominin lineage," says University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged.
To test this idea, an international team of paleoanthropologists used a synchrotron in Grenoble, France, to take super-high-resolution images of the deformed skull and teeth of an A. afarensis toddler, known as the Dikika child, which Alemseged discovered in Ethiopia in 2000.
About 90 million years ago, West Antarctica was home to a thriving temperate rainforest, according to fossil roots, pollen and spores recently discovered there, a new study finds.
The world was a different place back then. During the middle of the Cretaceous period (145 million to 65 million years ago), dinosaurs roamed Earth and sea levels were 558 feet (170 meters) higher than they are today. Sea-surface temperatures in the tropics were as hot as 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius).
This scorching climate allowed a rainforest - similar to those seen in New Zealand today - to take root in Antarctica, the researchers said.
The rainforest's remains were discovered under the ice in a sediment core that a team of international researchers collected from a seabed near Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica in 2017.
Scientists at Caltech and Occidental College have discovered a methane-fueled symbiosis between worms and bacteria at the bottom of the sea, shedding new light on the ecology of deep-sea environments.
They found that bacteria belonging to the Methylococcaceae family have been hitching a ride on the feathery plumes that act as the respiratory organs of Laminatubus and Bispira worms. Methylococcaceae are methanotrophs, meaning that they harvest carbon and energy from methane, a molecule composed of carbon and hydrogen.
The worms, which are a few inches long, have been found in great numbers near deep-sea methane seeps, vents in the ocean floor where hydrocarbon-rich fluids ooze out into the ocean, although it was unclear why the worms favored the vents. As it turns out, the worms slowly digest the hitchhiking bacteria and thus absorb the carbon and energy that the bacteria harvest from the methane.
That is to say, with a little help and some extra steps, the worms have become methanotrophs themselves.
The more we learn about our evolutionary history, the more it seems like early humans and Neanderthals just couldn't keep their hands off one another.
A new study has once again found evidence that a long, long time ago, our ancestors made a habit of intermingling with Neanderthals - not once, not twice, but time and time again, in several different locations.
As our ancestors made their way out of Africa and through Europe and Asia, it seems they unknowingly weaved traces of other human species into our modern genome.
Analysing the DNA of hundreds of people with Eurasian ancestry, researchers have found genetic material linked to Neanderthals in the Altai mountains of modern Siberia - an entirely different lineage from the Croatian population of Neanderthals identified in past genomic research.
It's only recently that we've come to realise just how much of our evolutionary history is filled with interspecies sex.
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