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The Restaurant Near the Sanyou Cave
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Soren Bowie: The 4 Most Inspiring Tributes to Spectacular Human Failure (Cracked)
We like winners. We build monuments to them, name three-day weekends after their triumphs, and carve their faces into mountainsides. It's the successful that we bother to remember, passing their stories through generations, ensuring that winning is the closest anyone will ever get to immortality. But every once in a while, someone suffers such an unparalleled failure that we have no choice but to look up and take notice.
"Yankee Doodle" is a well-known Anglo-American song, the origin of which dates back to the Seven Years' War. It is often sung patriotically in the United States today and is the state anthem of Connecticut.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
The Seven Year's War
Charlie wrote:
The Seven Years' War, also known as the French and Indian War.
Adam answered:
It dates back to The Seven Years War.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Traditions place its origin in a pre-Revolutionary War song originally
sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized
colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War
Sally said:
"Yankee Doodle'" goes back to the "Seven Years War."
PS: I took the morning care kids outside this morning, turned the wrong way, and threw out my hip - again. I figure it is because I was talking smack about the Popester yesterday, and the Vatican cast a hex on me. Groan...
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on the continent, where it depended on the Prussians and German mercenaries to defend George II's Electorate of Hanover. Britain's war aims were to destroy the French navy and merchant fleet, seize its colonies, and eliminate France as a commercial rival. France found itself committed to fighting in Europe to defend Austria, which could do nothing to aid France overseas.
Marian responded:
Seven Years War
MAM wrote:
The Seven Years' War was a world war that took place between 1754 (in North America) and 1763.
BttbBob replied:
The 'French and Indian War' which was the name for the North American portion of the larger world-wide 'Seven Years War' fought from 1754-1763. Winston Churchill called the it "the first world war" in his tome, 'History of the English Speaking Peoples'... It's said the song was sung by the British 'regulars' to mock their American colonial 'irregular' militia allies for their unprofessional military appearance and behavior...
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Well, all I can say is that we 'Yankee Doodles' showed those redcoat 'Lobsters' where the bear shit in the buckwheat soon thereafter, eh? Admittedly, it took a while, but the Battle of Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781 put paid to their scorn and effrontery...
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... Meanwhile, 200 years later, I was in attendance during that battle's entire Bicentennial 3-day celebration. It was quite the spectacle, I'm tellin' ya. Thousands of reenactors, men and women, from both sides of the issue camped out, paraded and refought the battle for those 3 days; tens of thousands of spectators wandered the camps and observed the maneuvers; The Royal Navy sent two ships, as well did the French Navy and US Navy. The reason I was there was I was going to the Coast Guard Boatswain's Mate 'A' School at the CG Training Center in Yorktown. One must drive through the National Park to get to the base. We were surrounded! Yorktown Battlefield - Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial National Historical Park President Reagan met with President Mitterand of France aboard the French destroyer 'Comte de Grasse' (named for the French Admiral that commanded the French fleet that help bottle up the British army from seaward at Yorktown) which was moored at our base. As this event occurred not long after Hinckley shot Ol' Ronnie, security was super-uber-tight. I was a member of the school's 24 man marching 'Honor Guard' (mainly to get out of having to stand after hours and weekend duty) and I remember being at the main gate to render honors when Ronnie arrived in his limo. Ronnie's helo landed just outside the gate. The Secret Service was riding on the fenders, fore and aft, with Uzi's out exposed as it ran down to the pier and to the ship. We trained to march with old M-1 rifles to twirl and suchlike and the Secret Service demanded that we stand there in formation without them. Paranoia ran deep! And we were pissed off to no end!
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But, after we got over our umbrage we were granted liberty for the rest of the period and didn't have to stand any of the lame-ass 24/7 security watches that everyone else did. It was said that it was repayment for the insult. The only thing is that everyone had to be in dress uniform to leave the base. So, we ended up taking over the small bars and pubs in the small town of Yorktown and partied hard with the French and British sailors, who were also in uniform. We had a great time, I'm tellin' ya, and everyone got along fine! We were gracious to the 'loser' Brits and they, in turn, deigned not to pretend that 'Britannia rules the waves'. Both of us ignored that the French wore little red pom-poms on their hats. It was all good. The only trouble makers were some US Navy 'Squids' and they all had their liberty yanked after the first night. So, it was just us 'Coasties', 'Frogs' and 'Limeys' in the bars after that... along with those blessed women that like men in uniform, hoo ha!
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Between periods of debauchery, I did get to see quite a bit of the festivities on the battlefield and it was very impressive. I have a photo album somewhere packed away with many photos I took of the events. But, I really don't need it. I can remember it all (despite the debauch) as clear as can be...
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That's it for today, E! pals... Thanks for letting share my memories...
And, Joe S answered:
Yankee Doodle is a well-known Anglo-American song, the origin of which dates back to the Seven Years' War. It is often sung patriotically in the United States today and is the state anthem of Connecticut.
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The bartender working the private fundraiser where Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made his comments about "47 percent" of Americans says he didn't make the secret recording as a political partisan.
In his first public interview, Scott Prouty tells MSNBC's Ed Schultz that he lost sleep and struggled for weeks before deciding to release the recording to the magazine Mother Jones. But Prouty says he thought it was important that people heard Romney and knew what he was really thinking.
In the video, Romney tells donors paying $50,000 apiece that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government, see themselves as victims and believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.
Romney's critics used the video to argue that he was out of touch with average Americans.
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The New-York Historical Society is exhibiting its entire collection of 474 bird watercolors by John James Audubon for the first time.
They're being shown chronologically in three exhibitions over three years. The first group went on view Friday.
The collection includes 435 watercolors engraved for Audubon's monumental "The Birds of America." The intricately detailed, life-size renderings are the naturalist's greatest work.
An original edition of Audubon's book, known as the double elephant folio, is also being shown. Its plates will be turned weekly.
The 3 1/2-foot-tall volume features all the avian species known to Audubon in early 19th-century North America. He sold the engraved plates in a subscription series.
"Veronica Mars" fans eager for a movie based on the TV series have a chance to put their money where their hopes are.
Series creator Rob Thomas launched an online crowd-funding campaign Wednesday to make a big-screen version of the show. "Veronica Mars," which starred Kristen Bell as a young sleuth, ended its three-season run in 2007.
On the Kickstarter website, Thomas said the $2 million fundraiser represents "our one shot to see a 'Veronica Mars' movie happen." More than 16,000 backers had pledged more than $1.1 million within hours Wednesday.
Thomas said "Veronica Mars" owner Warner Bros. has given the project its blessing, and Bell and other cast members are ready to begin production this summer for a 2014 release.
Bud Cort attends Millennium Entertainment's Upside Down Los Angeles Premiere hosted by Quintessentially at Arclight Hollywood on March 12, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
Veteran actor Ed Asner was rushed to a hospital on Tuesday night while performing in a one-man show in Gary, Indiana and was being treated for exhaustion, his publicist said on Wednesday.
Asner, 83, "had to be taken off stage due to exhaustion and is resting comfortably at a Chicago-area hospital," Charles Sherman told Reuters.
Asner was performing a one-man show, "FDR," in which he plays President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Earlier in the evening he had conducted an acting class in Gary, but appeared disoriented when the performance began. Medical personnel were called.
Sherman said Asner, who has served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, had been slated to perform "F.D.R." in other cities later this week, and he did not know whether those performances would be canceled or rescheduled.
A judge has overturned an $8.5 million verdict awarded to a former "Price is Right" model in a pregnancy discrimination case and says a new trial is necessary.
City News Service reports Judge Kevin Brazile ruled Tuesday that he didn't properly instruct the jury that ultimately sided 9-3 in Brandi Cochran's favor last year.
Brazile determined he should have instructed the jury to determine whether pregnancy discrimination was a substantial factor in the producers' decision to keep her from rejoining the cast after her child was born. He cited the divided verdict as a factor warranting a new trial.
Attorneys for Cochran and "Price is Right" producers FremantleMedia did not return calls seeking comment Wednesday.
A&E and "Storage Wars" have taken the first round in its ongoing legal tangle with its former star Dave Hester, who claimed in a lawsuit that the reality show is staged.
In a ruling Tuesday, Judge Michael Johnson of Los Angeles Superior Court sided with the network on a couple of points, throwing out the Unfair Business Practices of Hester's complaint on First Amendment grounds.
Johnson also sided with A&E in ruling that an injunction against the series would violate the network's First Amendment rights.
Hester filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court in December, claiming that he had been fired for complaining that the show had been rigged. Specifically, Hester alleges, the show's producers plant valuable items in storage lockers, which competitors then bid on, supposedly without knowing what's inside them.
Former BBC radio presenter Dave Lee Travis, praised by Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi for entertaining her with his weekly show during her years in captivity, has been re-arrested over further allegations of sex offences, London police said on Wednesday.
Travis, 67, was first arrested last November by detectives working on Operation Yewtree, an inquiry centred on claims against the late BBC TV host Jimmy Savile. Travis has denied any impropriety.
Police said "Yewtree 4" - their arrest identification for Travis - was quizzed over new allegations when he answered bail on Monday. He was later released on bail until April.
Well-known in Britain for his years as a DJ on BBC Radio 1, Travis, nicknamed the "Hairy Cornflake" for his bushy beard, admitted he was astonished to learn that Suu Kyi had been a big fan of his show on the BBC World Service during her 15 years under house arrest between 1989 and 2010.
The painted ceiling of a reconstructed wooden synagogue that dates back centuries, photographed in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday March 12, 2013. The reconstructed ceiling and roof of the synagogue is a key attraction in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a major museum due to open next year in Warsaw.
Photo by Czarek Sokolowski
"Django Unchained" will premiere in the People's Republic of China on April 11, Sony Pictures said Wednesday. The antebellum revenge thriller will be the first Quentin Tarantino movie ever to debut in China.
That means the Chinese are in for a whole lot of Blaxploitation and Spaghetti Western references along with a healthy dollop of the old ultra-violence. The film has grossed $402 million worldwide so far, $80 million more than Tarantino's next highest grossing film, "Inglourious Basterds." It also earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for star Christoph Waltz.
Sony Pictures has handled the international rollout of the hit film, which is a co-production between The Weinstein Company and Sony Pictures.
President Vladimir Putin reached back to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's era for a plan to improve Russians' physical fitness on Wednesday, and appeared with film actor Steven Seagal at an event aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles among young people.
In a meeting at a martial arts school on Moscow's outskirts, Putin called for physical education rooted in a Soviet-era system.
He told the education and sports ministers to study the issue and said students' performance under the system should be taken into account when universities consider applications.
Seagal's action films are popular in Russia and he has met the president several times. In what seemed to be a choreographed incident, Seagal rushed into a crowd of children trying to pose with Putin and pulled him out, as if acting as his bodyguard.
Cunard's ocean liner Queen Elizabeth meets her docked sister ship Queen Mary for a Cunard Royal Rendezvous on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, in Long Beach, Calif. This is Queen Mary's first encounter with a Queen Elizabeth since 1967 when Queen Mary, during her final Transatlantic Crossing, passed by the original Queen Elizabeth.
Photo by John Shearer
The beginning of papal conclave to elect a new head of the Catholic Church has some people worrying the end is nigh.
These believers interpret two medieval-era prophecies to mean that the next pope elected will be the last before doomsday. One prophecy allegedly comes from a 12th-century archbishop, the other from no less famed a name than Nostradamus himself. Both could be charitably described as "open to interpretation."
The first set of prophecies, known as the Saint Malachy prophecies, are allegedly written by the saint himself, an archbishop in the 1100s. However, these prophecies weren't published until 1595, when a Benedictine monk claimed to have found them; the Catholic Church does not consider them to be from Saint Malachy's pen.
The Saint Malachy prophecies consist of 112 short phrases, each of which has been interpreted to represent a particular pope, in order. The phrases are quite accurate up to about 1590, but get rather vague after that point, lending credence to the suggestion that they are a 16th-century forgery. For example, Pope Adrian IV, who headed the Catholic Church from 1154-1159, is described as "from the white countryside, humbly born in the town of St. Albans," which accurately represents the pope's birthplace in England.
Compare that specificity to the post-1590 popes: Leo XI, who was briefly pope in 1605, matches the entry on the list that simply says "wavy man." Benedict XIV (1740-1758) gets the descriptor "country animal." Paul VI (1963-1978) is simply "flower of flowers."
A newly deciphered Egyptian text, dating back almost 1,200 years, tells part of the crucifixion story of Jesus with apocryphal plot twists, some of which have never been seen before.
Written in the Coptic language, the ancient text tells of Pontius Pilate, the judge who authorized Jesus' crucifixion, having dinner with Jesus before his crucifixion and offering to sacrifice his own son in the place of Jesus. It also explains why Judas used a kiss, specifically, to betray Jesus - because Jesus had the ability to change shape, according to the text - and it puts the day of the arrest of Jesus on Tuesday evening rather than Thursday evening, something that contravenes the Easter timeline.
The discovery of the text doesn't mean these events happened, but rather that some people living at the time appear to have believed in them, said Roelof van den Broek, of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who published the translation in the book "Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem on the Life and the Passion of Christ" (Brill, 2013).
Copies of the text are found in two manuscripts, one in the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City and the other at the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Most of the translation comes from the New York text, because the relevant text in the Pennsylvania manuscript is mostly illegible.
While apocryphal stories about Pilate are known from ancient times, van den Broek wrote in an email to LiveScience that he has never seen this one before, with Pilate offering to sacrifice his own son in the place of Jesus.
Former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr, who played on the British heavy metal band's landmark first three albums, has died at the age of 56, the group said on Wednesday.
Burr, who had been suffering from multiple sclerosis, died "peacefully in his sleep at home" in London on Tuesday and had been in poor health for several years, the band said in a statement posted on their website.
London-born Burr joined the band in 1979 and played on their self-titled 1980 debut album and its 1981 follow-up "Killers." His third and final album with the group was 1982's "The Number of the Beast," which topped the UK album chart.
Rolling Stone magazine called his drumming a "major ingredient" to the band's sound, which was noted for bringing the speed of punk rock to the heavy metal genre.
Burr left the band in 1982, a year before Iron Maiden began a string of big-selling albums in the United States that turned the group into an international act.
A buffalo joins elephants to eat fruits offered to them on Thailand's National Elephant Day at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, east of Bangkok March 13, 2013.
Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom
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