• Some people are more fanatical soccer fans than others. In 1982, Trevor George of Penarth, Wales, showed his love for the game by naming his infant daughter after 20 world-class soccer players. The baby’s full name was Jennifer Edson Arentes do Nascimento Jairzinho Rivelino Carolos-Alberto Paulo Cesar Bretner Cruyff Greaves Charlton Best Moore Ball Keegan Banks Gray Francis Brooking Curtis Toshack Law George. His wife responded by promptly leaving home and having their daughter’s name legally changed to Jennifer Anne George.
• Joseph Epstein’s father, Maurice, a successful businessman, donated money to charities, many of which gave him certificates and plaques and other forms of recognition. However, Joseph noticed on one plaque that his father’s name was misspelled as “Moreese.” This mistake did not bother his father, who replied, “For less than a $50,000 donation, you mustn’t expect them to spell your name right.”
• When Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller fame) and his wife, Emily, had their first child, they named her Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette. According to the proud father, “We chose her middle name because when she’s pulled over for speeding she can say, ‘But, officer, we’re on the same side. My middle name is CrimeFighter.’” Penn’s silent partner, Teller, had no official comment.
• Edna St. Vincent Millay was often called “Vincent.” The younger brother of her mother was a sailor who was seriously injured in a sea storm, then recovered his health in St. Vincent Hospital in New York City. To show her great gratitude, Edna’s mother gave her the middle name of “St. Vincent.”
• When comedian Fred Allen was introduced to his future wife, Portland, he told her, “That is a ridiculous name.” Unperturbed, she replied, “You should meet my sisters: Lebanon, Period, and Lastone.”
Politics
• Frances Hutt was the wife of Thomas Dewey, who ran for President against Harry S. Truman in 1948. The day of the election, it appeared that Mr. Dewey would win, so he asked his wife, “How do you like the idea of sleeping with the President of the United States?” She replied, “Of course it would be an honor, and one I can hardly wait to enjoy.” However, once the votes were counted, Mr. Truman had been elected, so Ms. Hutt asked her husband, “Well, darling, will Harry be coming here or do I have to go to Washington?”
• Feminist comedian Kate Clinton sometimes criticized President George W. Bush during her stand-up comedy. Of course, some people will get up and leave when she does that, so she likes to pretend that they have tiny bladders. As you would expect, she has been known to speak harshly of President Bush when she is among her friends. One day, as Ms. Clinton was talking about President Bush, her friend’s three-year-old daughter gently touched her arm and said, “Please use your inside voice.”
• Shortly after getting married — and losing an election for a school committee — Calvin Coolidge ran into a man who said that he had voted for his opponent because anyone on the school board should have children in the public schools. Mr. Coolidge replied, “Might give me time.”
Practical Jokes
• Sarah Winchester was a very rich woman, as she inherited money made from sales of the gun that won the West. However, she worried about all the people who had been killed by Winchester rifles; in fact, she thought that the spirits of these people were haunting her. What to do? She consulted a medium who recommended that she provide a home for the spirits. In 1884, in San Jose, California, she bought an eight-room house for the spirits — but the house soon grew much bigger than eight rooms. The house eventually towered seven stories and contained 160 rooms — servants needed maps to find their way through the house. Interestingly, the spirits themselves designed the house. Each midnight, the spirits were consulted, and their wishes were followed. Apparently, spirits like chimneys, and so 47 were built. Also, apparently, spirits like practical jokes, so one door opened onto a blank wall, and another — not on the ground floor — opened onto thin air. One closet was only one inch deep, and a skylight was installed in a floor. After Sarah died, her heirs did not continue her design sessions with the spirits, but they did turn several of the rooms into the Winchester Rifle Museum.
This traditional folk song that became a classic of British pop music spent three weeks at the top of the US pop singles chart in September, 1964. What is the title of this trans-Atlantic hit about a life gone wrong in New Orleans?
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band the Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and also in the US and France. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit".
"House of the Rising Sun" was a trans-Atlantic hit: after reaching the top of the UK pop singles chart in July 1964, it topped the US pop singles chart two months later, on September 5, 1964, where it stayed for three weeks, and became the first British Invasion number one unconnected with the Beatles It was the group's breakthrough hit in both countries and became their signature song. The song was also a hit in Ireland twice, peaking at No. 10 upon its initial release in 1964 and later reaching a brand new peak of No. 5 when reissued in 1982.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
The House of the Rising Sun.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
"The House of the Rising Sun"
Alan J answered:
The House of the Rising Sun.
Randall wrote:
House of the Rising Sun
Jon L replied:
I'll bet it all on House of the Rising Sun
Stephen F responded:
The House of the Rising Sun
mj wrote:
Never seemed to fit NOLA
Well, at least not until the NOLA of Anne Rice. The melody for House of
the Rising Sun was kinda spooky.
Cal in Vermont said:
Gotta be "House Of The Rising Sun". A fascinating cover of the song was done by "The Cambodian Space Project" in Khmer. Google it up!
Dave responded:
House of the Rising Sun. Performed by The Animals. First US #1 single of the British invasion that wasn’t performed by The Beatles. Recorded in one take (previously The Animals been playing it at live shows), with a running time of 4:29 the song was considered too long for US radio so an edited version of 2:58 was released as the single. Interestingly, the song didn’t make it on one of their albums until the 1966 The Best of The Animals. In 1966 the band reformed (with some different members), changed direction to psychedelia and became Eric Burden and The Animals, although the new version didn’t duplicate the success of the rhythm and blues based original lineup.
Mac Mac replied:
House of the Rising Sun
Roy, an old libtard, staying distant in Tyler, TX wrote:
That's gotta be House of the Rising Sun, by the Animals, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy!
zorch said:
House of the Rising Sun, by the Animals.
Leo in Boise answered:
The House of the Rising Sun
John I from Hawai`i says,
House of the Rising Sun
Daniel in The City replied:
House of the Rising Sun
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The House of the Rising Sun
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
I’m pretty sure it’s “House of the Rising Sun,” which I know is sung by Eric Burden and the Animals. Earworm time!
Dave in Tucson said:
The song is House of the Rising Sun as performed by Eric Burdon & The Animals.
Michelle in AZ answered:
House of the Rising Sun\
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is "The House of the Rising Sun," by the Animals.
George M. responded:
Marty, I had a sense in this regard, so I checked to verify, and the song is question is "House of the Rising Sun", as performed by Eric Burdon and the Animals - who, BTW, were from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) said:
"House of the Rising Sun." I'm really tired getting ready for bed.
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Info: “Samuel McClain (April 15, 1943 – June 15, 2015), billed as Mighty Sam McClain, was an American blues singer and songwriter.” — Wikipedia
“The title of this CD couldn't be more descriptive of its contents, for it illustrates that Mighty Sam McClain is indeed a master of sledgehammer soul and down-home electric blues.” — Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $10 (USD) for 12-track album
Quiet day at the laundromat of the darned - not like last week when one woman accused another of stealing her kid's clothes out of a dryer.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'The United States Of Al', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'B Positive', then a FRESH'Clarice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Hank Azaria and Cheap Trick.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Jeffrey Dean Morgan and London Grammar.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Manifest', followed by a FRESH'L&O: SVU', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Carey Mulligan, Caleb McLaughlin, and Kali Uchis.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 3/18/21) are Sarah Silverman and Nico Hiraga.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Padma Lakshmi.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Station 19', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Rebel'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Mark Wahlberg, Hunter Biden, and the Wallflowers.
The CW offers a FRESH'Walker', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'Last Man Standing', then a FRESH'The Moodys'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by an old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Nightwatch'.
AMC offers the movie 'True Lies', followed by the movie 'Youn Guns', then the movie 'Young Guns II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] THE FIFTH ELEMENT
[11:00PM] THE FIFTH ELEMENT
[2:00AM - 5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', followed by a FRESH'Top Chef', then a FRESH'Summer House', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout', followed by the movie 'The Equalizer 2'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', and another 'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 10:30am] Parks And Recreation
[11:00am - 2:30pm] Saved By The Bell
[3:00pm - 6:30pm] Three's Company
[7:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 2:00am] Three's Company
[2:30am] The Three Stooges - Squareheads Of The Round Table
[3:00am] Back
[3:32am] Back
[4:04am] Eddie Murphy Raw (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] sleepless in seattle
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am - 5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'GI Joe: Retaliation', followed by the movie 'Maleficient'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan is Baratunde Thurston.
His forthcoming Apple series, set to debut this fall, will be titled The Problem With Jon Stewart.
In success, the name is a nod to the rotation of issues, one per episode, that Stewart will dive into with his new current affairs series. Though the specifics are being tightly guarded, they're expected to range from issues currently part of the national conversation to ones that are part of Stewart’s advocacy work. In failure, the show's title sets up an easy headline — which, Stewart being Stewart, he'll have fun with as well.
The highly anticipated series, which is set to run multiple seasons, is the first project to hail from Stewart’s partnership with Apple TV+. It also marks his return to TV after signing off of his Emmy-drenched The Daily Show in 2015. And while it won’t have a nightly or even weekly cadence, Apple is hopeful the new series, not unlike Oprah Winfrey's The Oprah Conversation, will thrust its service into the national dialogue. Each season of The Problem will feature a companion podcast as well.
Dave Chappelle says celebrities were behind “dirty notes” left for Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) at the White House shortly before he arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Chappelle addressed the topic in a conversation with Naomi Campbell, in the latest episode of her YouTube podcast No Filter with Naomi.
Back in 2019, then-White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said that when she and the incoming Trump team came into the White House, “we had notes left behind that said ‘you will fail’ and ‘you aren’t going to make it.’”
The assertion was disputed at the time, and denounced as a lie by some officials – but Chappelle has now offered a different version of events.
Exclusive releases from Pearl Jam, Ariana Grande, Tom Petty, Rage Against the Machine and U2 are among this year’s Record Store Day Drops, set for June 12th and July 17th at independent record stores nationwide.
The Who, the Zombies, the Doors, Beastie Boys (their hardcore 1995 EP Aglio E Olio), Flaming Lips, Genesis and Joni Mitchell are also among the hundreds of artists that will either reissue albums or release previously unreleased material over the two Drop dates; like last year’s pandemic-impacted Record Store Day, this year’s event will take place over a series of Saturdays to lessen the throng of record collectors hitting up their local stores.
Some of the highlights out June 12th include a picture disc with AC/DC’s Power Up singles “Through the Mists of Time” and “Witch’s Spell,” the first-ever physical release (on 3LP and 2CD) of Ariana Grande’s 2019 live album K Bye for Now (SWT Live), a vinyl release of Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1 (1963-1967): Highlights and Tom Petty’s Angel Dream (Songs and Music from the Motion Picture She’s the One), vinyl reissues of the Kinks’ Percy and Rage Against the Machine’s Battle of Mexico City, a 50th anniversary edition of Rolling Stones’ Hot Rocks compilation, a 40th anniversary edition of U2’s 1981 single “Fire,” a 40th anniversary rerelease of Wipers’ Youth of America and much more.
July 17th brings a reissue of Pearl Jam’s “Alive” single on 7? and cassette, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s Deja vu Alternates, Aretha Franklin’s Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live in Philly 1972, a 12? featuring remixes of Bob Dylan’s Infidels songs “Jokerman” and “I and I,” a pair of John Prine releases, a 2-LP reissue of The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou soundtrack and more.
Other notable releases from both weekends include Flaming Lips’ The Soft Bulletin Companion, Genesis’ Live From Knebworth 1990, Haim’s “Gasoline” on 7? single, the Replacements’ The Pleasure’s All Yours: Pleased to Meet Me Outtakes & Alternates, the Monkees’ three-volume Missing Links and reissues of the Cure’s Faith and Wild Mood Swings. Check out the Record Store Day site for the complete list of Drops.
The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency responsible for preserving historically significant federal records, including tweets from senior government officials. For example, former Trump White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders turned over control of her official Twitter account to NARA when she left office. Leaving tweets on Twitter makes them easily accessible by the public.
But Politico reports that Twitter won't allow anything like this to happen with former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)'s now-banned @realDonaldTrump account.
"Given that we permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump, the content from the account will not appear on Twitter as it did previously or as archived administration accounts do currently, regardless of how NARA decides to display the data it has preserved," a Twitter spokesman told Politico. "Administration accounts that are archived on the service are accounts that were not in violation of the Twitter Rules."
It's not clear if NARA was seeking to have Twitter reinstate the @realDonaldTrump account under NARA control or create a copy of the account under another name. Perhaps NARA was proposing to post copies of Trump's tweets to a completely new Twitter account. At this point it doesn't matter because Twitter has ruled out having Trump's tweets on its platform in any form.
Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)'s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani (R-Serial Philanderer) asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out a voting machine company's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit relating to his false claims about the November 2020 presidential election being rigged.
Giuliani's lawyer said in a court filing that Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, and because the company has not adequately justified its request for money damages.
The filing said Giuliani denies defaming Dominion, adding that the former New York City mayor would present a more forceful defense on the merits if his jurisdictional arguments are rejected by the federal judge in the District of Columbia who is assigned to the case.
Trump and his allies spent two months denying his election defeat, and claiming without evidence that it was the result of widespread voter fraud, before the then-president's supporters launched a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Denver-based Dominion alleged in its Jan. 25 lawsuit that Giuliani "manufactured and disseminated the ‘Big Lie,’ which foreseeably went viral and deceived millions of people into believing that Dominion had stolen their votes and fixed the election.”
On the sloping side of a cemetery on the campus of Clemson University, dozens of small white flags with pink ribbons have replaced the beer cans that once littered a hill where football fans held tailgate parties outside Memorial Stadium.
The flags are a recent addition, marking the final resting places of the enslaved and convicted African American laborers who built the school, and before that, the plantation on which it sits. Hundreds more of the flags are dotted among existing gravestones, and until lately, most visitors stepped unknowingly over their remains.
“Cemetery Hill” has served as the final resting place for some of Clemson’s faculty and trustees for nearly a century. Now, researchers have identified more than 600 previously unmarked African American graves, some overbuilt by the marked graves of white people, dating back to the early 1800s.
The revelation has prompted Clemson to reconsider the Woodland Cemetery’s function on campus amid a national reckoning by universities to properly acknowledge their legacies of slavery and forced labor.
The Fort Hill plantation was established by John C. Calhoun in 1825, the same year he became the nation’s 7th vice president. Calhoun later became a U.S. senator, and zealously defended slavery before the Civil War. His family bequeathed the plantation to South Carolina in 1888, leading to the university’s creation. The state then built the campus using convicted laborers, many of them arrested on petty charges to force them to work without pay.
Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled.
Tiny particles called muons aren’t quite doing what is expected of them in two different long-running experiments in the United States and Europe. The confounding results — if proven right — reveal major problems with the rulebook physicists use to describe and understand how the universe works at the subatomic level.
The rulebook, called the Standard Model, was developed about 50 years ago. Experiments performed over decades affirmed over and again that its descriptions of the particles and the forces that make up and govern the universe were pretty much on the mark. Until now.
The United States Energy Department’s Fermilab announced results Wednesday of 8.2 billion races along a track outside Chicago that while ho-hum to most people have physicists astir: The muons’ magnetic fields don’t seem to be what the Standard Model says they should be. This follows new results published last month from the European Center for Nuclear Research’s Large Hadron Collider that found a surprising proportion of particles in the aftermath of high-speed collisions.
If confirmed, the U.S. results would be the biggest finding in the bizarre world of subatomic particles in nearly 10 years, since the discovery of the Higgs boson, often called the “God particle,” said Aida El-Khadra of the University of Illinois, who works on theoretical physics for the Fermilab experiment.
A genome sequenced from a modern human skull has been dated at approximately 45,000 years old, making it the oldest discovery of its kind. It’s a significant archaeological discovery, but the use of an unconventional dating method leaves the result in doubt. In a related study, scientists also show that intermixing between Neanderthals and humans happened more often than we thought.
Modern humans, otherwise known as Homo sapiens, emerged some 300,000 years ago in Africa. Skeletal remains of our distant ancestors exist, but the fossil record is poor. Poorer still is the genetic evidence, the oldest of which is the genome from a 45,000-year-old Ust’-Ishim person from western Siberia, described in 2014.
But as new research published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals, scientists may have stumbled upon an even older genome. A team co-led by Kay Prüfer from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany has uncovered what may very well be the most ancient reconstructed modern human genome in the fossil record. That is, if the dating method used can be considered reliable. The genome, pulled from a skull found in the Czech Republic, appears to be at least 45,000 years old and possibly even older.
The skull described in the Prüfer paper was pulled from Koneprusy cave back in 1950, and it was found alongside other skeletal remains. This cave is located in Zlatý kun, which means “golden horse” in Czech, and it’s a short 25-mile (40-km) drive from Prague.
Genetic analysis of the mostly intact skull, which belonged to a human female, shows that she carried between 2% and 3% Neanderthal ancestry, which basically matches the amounts found in non-African people living today. That said, no humans living today are directly descended from the Zlatý kun woman, as she belonged to a population that didn’t pass any DNA down to the subsequent European or Asian populations of early modern humans.
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