• The first two editions of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense, consisting of nonsense poems and drawings for children, were printed without Mr. Lear identifying himself as the author. By the time he put his name on the third edition, in fact, some people felt that the author of the book was someone else. One day, he was in a railroad carriage headed toward London. Two boys were reading and laughing at a copy of A Book of Nonsense. One old gentleman who was present noticed what they were reading and told the two ladies accompanying the boys that the name “Edward Lear” was a pseudonym used to hide the real author of the book: Lord Derby. The old gentleman pointed out, “Edward is the Christian name of Lord Derby, and Lear is only Earl transposed.” (In fact, the book was dedicated to the descendants of the 13th Earl of Derby.) Hearing the old gentleman and the two ladies discussing the authorship of the book, Mr. Lear said to them, “I have reason to know that Edward Lear, the painter and author, both wrote and illustrated the whole book.” The old gentleman, sure of himself, replied, “And I have good reason, Sir, that you are wholly mistaken. There is no such person as Edward Lear.” Mr. Lear responded, “But there is, and I am he.” In a dramatic finish, Mr. Lear produced his printed calling cards, his monogrammed handkerchiefs, his name and address inside his hat label, and other evidence of his existence. The old gentleman was forced to admit that he had been mistaken.
• The title character in Bram Stoker’s Dracula was based in part on Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad the Impaler, who lived in 15th-century Transylvania. He murdered hundreds of people at a time by impaling them on stakes, then letting them die slowly. One day, one of his soldiers complained about the stink of rotting flesh after one such murderous campaign, so Vlad had him impaled — on a higher stake than the other victims so he would have fresh air to breathe until he died. On one occasion, some Turkish ambassadors wearing turbans visited him. When they declined to take off their turbans, explaining that in their country the custom was to wear them at all times, Vlad ordered that the turbans be nailed to their heads. Vlad’s own people referred to him as “Dracula,” a word that means “son of the Devil.” He died in battle, the victors decapitated him, and fittingly, they impaled his head on a stake.
• While writing her children’s book The 18th Emergency, Betsy Byars wanted a good, original name for the bully — she felt that she had used the name “Bubba” too often for the bullies in her books, although she had known a real bully named Bubba when she was a child. She thought hard and came up with the name “Marv Hammerman,” which she liked because of its hardness. Because she thought the name was original — after all, she had just thought it up — she wrote in the book, “There had been only one Hammerman, just as there had been only one Hitler.” One day, she received a telephone call, and the caller told her that he was Marv Hammerman. At first, she thought that the caller was joking, but he was really named that. What’s more, he was a teacher who had read her book to his class, and his young students were delighted to hear that there were two terrible Marv Hammermans.
• The protagonist of Paula Danziger’s book The Pistachio Prescription is named Cassie, whose problems include an addiction to pistachio nuts. Years after writing the book, Ms. Danziger met a woman who wanted her to autograph a copy of the book for the woman’s daughter, who was named Cassie. At first, Ms. Danziger thought the name was a coincidence, but the woman told her that she had named her daughter after the book’s protagonist. Ms. Danziger says, “It means a lot to me, especially since the book was so hard to write, that so many people love and identify with it.”
Born Barry Alan Pincus, he has sold more than 85 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists. By what name is he more famously known?
Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus, June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician, producer and actor, with a career that has spanned more than 50 years. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Can't Smile Without You" and "Copacabana (At the Copa)".
He recorded and released 51 Top 40 singles on the Adult Contemporary Chart, including 13 that hit number one, 28 appeared within the top ten, and 36 in the top twenty. Manilow has released 13 platinum and six multi-platinum albums. Although not a favorite artist of music critics, Manilow has been praised by entertainers including Frank Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s as saying, "He's next." In 1988, Bob Dylan stopped Manilow at a party, hugged him and said, "Don't stop what you're doing, man. We're all inspired by you."
As well as producing and arranging albums for himself and other artists, Manilow has written and performed songs for musicals, films, and commercials for corporations such as McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola, and Band-Aid, from the 1960s. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award (winning once) as a producer, arranger and performer a total of fifteen times (and in every decade) from 1973 to 2015. He has also produced Grammy-nominated albums for Bette Midler, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan. Manilow has sold more than 85 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists.
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Music: "A Caminho do Oeste" [“On the Way to the West”]
Album: O BOI SOLITÁRIO
Artist: O Boi Solitário [The Lonely Ox]
Artist Location: Vila Velha, Brazil
Info: Brett Vanderhoof, a fan, wrote, “I love this album. it's incredible, I'm so glad I stumbled upon it!”
Bjorn Isheden, a fan, wrote, “This is a fantastic album. It’s hard to say which song is my favorite. They are all good! Favorite track: ‘A Caminho do Oeste.’”
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $6 (USD) for 10-track album
Last month, Rotary gave dear old dad a plaque for his 72 years of service.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a FRESH'The FBI: Declassified'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Dolly Parton and Ty Dolla $ign.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 9/23/20) are Sharon Stone and Alicia Keys.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Transplant'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Natalie Portman, Billy Porter, and Lous and the Yakuza.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Adam Sandler, Jason Alexander, and Todd Sucherman.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/6/19) is Ashley Graham.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Bachelorette', followed by a RERUN'Supermarket Sweep'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Michael Keaton and Blackpink.
The CW offers a RERUN'Swamp Thing', followed by a RERUN'Tell Me A Story'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'What's Passing As The World Series'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween', followed by the movie 'Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers', then the movie 'Psycho'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE QUICKENING
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - TO THE DEATH
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - BODY PARTS
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - BROKEN LINK
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - APOCALYPSE RISING
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE SHIP
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - GENESIS
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - JOURNEY'S END
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - FIRSTBORN
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - BLOODLINES
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - EMERGENCE
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - PREEMPTIVE STRIKE
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - ALL GOOD THINGS
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - ALL GOOD THINGS ...
[8:00PM] THE FIFTH ELEMENT
[11:00PM] THE FIFTH ELEMENT
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - FIRSTBORN
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - BLOODLINES
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - EMERGENCE
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - PREEMPTIVE STRIKE (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', 3 old 'Don't Be Tardy ...', followed by a FRESH'Don't Be Tardy ...', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', an hour of old 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'Legion', followed by the movie 'Venom', then the movie 'Venom', again.
History has 'Americas Book Of Secrets: Special Edition', followed by a FRESH'Americas Book Of Secrets: Special Edition'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Dizzy Doctors
[6:30am] The Three Stooges - Scots Stooges
[6:45am] Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight
[8:45am] Tales From The Crypt Presents Bordello Of Blood
[10:45am] Body Snatchers
[12:45pm] Spawn
[2:45pm] Eight Legged Freaks
[5:00pm] Thirteen Ghosts
[7:00pm] Ghost Ship
[9:00pm] Rush Hour
[11:00pm] Get Hard
[1:15am] Eight Legged Freaks
[3:30am] Body Snatchers
[5:30am] Tales From The Crypt Presents Bordello Of Blood (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 9:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[10:00am - 12pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] contact
[4:00pm] fight club
[7:00pm] a bronx tale
[9:30pm] a bronx tale
[12:00am] columbo - Forgotten Lady
[2:15am] columbo - The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case
[4:00am] the andy griffith show
[4:30am] the andy griffith show
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Sinister', followed by the movie 'Insidious: The Last Key', the movie 'It Follows'.
Comedian John Oliver made a secret trip to Connecticut last week to help cut the ribbon on a sign naming a sewage treatment plant in his honor.
Danbury’s City Council voted earlier this month to rename the sewage plant “The John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant,” following a tongue-in-cheek battle that began with an expletive-filled rant against the city on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” in August.
Mayor Mark Boughton responded to the attack by posting a video of himself at the sewage plant saying the city was going to name it after Oliver “because it’s full of crap just like you, John.”
Oliver shared a video of the ribbon-cutting on his show Sunday. During the ceremony, he wore a homemade protective suit, which appeared to be made from a white plastic trash bag, with rubber gloves and and a see-through plastic helmet.
“This place takes the worst that humanity can produce, and transforms it into something that we can live with,” Oliver said. “And now more than ever, there’s something inspirational in that, because at the end of this awful, awful year, what could be more important than evidence that, if we want to, we can come together, overcome our differences and sort our s—- out.”
Mark Zuckerberg signed off on a Facebook algorithm change in 2017 that throttled traffic to progressive news sites, costing journalism outlet Mother Jones hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal and comments by Mother Jones senior staff published Friday.
The Wall Street Journal report cited sources that said Facebook was concerned about negatively affecting conservative news outlets when it planned on changing the algorithm that governs users' news feeds in 2017. In turn, Mark Zuckerberg signed off on an alternative that targeted "left-leaning sites like Mother Jones...more than previously planned," WSJ reported.
Following Friday's report, Mother Jones editor in chief Clara Jeffrey slammed the social media company, estimating that the move cost the publication $400,000 to $600,000. In addition, Jeffrey, and Mother Jones editorial director Ben Dreyfuss, wrote that Facebook representatives had lied to them in meetings about the change in 2017. Dreyfuss tweeted that, "they just swore up and down that wasn't what was happening," on Friday.
In 2019, Mother Jones published a report that claimed Facebook was "killing real news." It used its own traffic data to show how after Facebook-referred traffic surpassed 20 million page views in early 2017, traffic diminished to less than 5 million page views in late 2017 and 2018.
These dates align with the Wall Street Journal's report that Facebook made changes to the algorithm that de-emphasized Mother Jones' content in late 2017.
Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 album Rumours has returned to the top 10 and the band has TikTok to thank for the boost. More than four decades after its original release, the group's eleventh studio album is currently in the No. 7 spot on the Billboard 200 chart.
Rumours returned to the spotlight after a man in Idaho recorded himself singing along to the song "Dreams" while skateboarding on the highway and sipping Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice. Both Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks have made their own version of the viral video as a tribute to Nathan Apodaca (a.k.a. 420doggface208 on TikTok), whose original clip has garnered more than 9 million likes since its Sept. release on the video-sharing social network.
When Rumours was released 42 years ago, it landed in the top spot for 31 non-consecutive weeks, becoming Fleetwood Mac's second No. 1 album following their second eponymous album in 1975. While this is the first time since 1978 it returns to the Billboard chart, it's gotten close in recent history. In May 2011, it re-entered at No. 11 after several songs were featured in a Glee tribute episode.
Rumours remains one of the best-selling albums of all time in the United States with a 20x diamond certification from the RIAA.
"Dreams" also re-entered Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week in the No. 21 position. It's also the only single from Fleetwood Mac to ever lead the same chart.
Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer for The New Yorker and chief legal analyst for CNN, was suspended by the publication after an incident in which he allegedly exposed himself during a staff Zoom call.
“Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended while we investigate the matter,” said a spokesperson for the New Yorker.
CNN also said that Toobin requested time off from his TV role. “Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted,” the network said in statement.
According to Vice, Toobin was on a Zoom call with staffers from the New Yorker and WNYC radio. He said in a statement to Vice‘s Motherboard column, “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.”
Archaeologists have unearthed the rich burial of a sixth-century man thought to be an Anglo-Saxon warlord in southern England, after it was first discovered by metal detectorists.
The skeleton of the man, dubbed the "Marlow Warlord" after the Berkshire town near where the remains were found, was buried with several weapons, including a sword in a decorated scabbard. He would have stood at about 6 feet (1.8 meters) tall at a time when the average male height in Britain was about 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m). Archaeologist Gabor Thomas of the University of Reading in the U.K., who led the excavations at the site overlooking the central Thames Valley, said the burial shed new light on the politics of the region, which was thought until now to be a "borderland" between large Anglo-Saxon communities around London and Oxford, only decades after the collapse of Roman rule in Britain.
The new discovery suggests instead that the region was then more important than historians had suspected, with powerful Anglo-Saxon groups of its own that were ruled by high-status individuals, Thomas told Live Science.
Two amateur metal detectorists from the area, Sue and Mike Washington, discovered the ancient grave in 2018.
The American pika (Ochotona princeps) is traditionally thought of as a canary in the coal mine when it comes to America's rising temperatures.
Making their homes high up in the cooler mountain regions of western North America, these adorable critters can overheat in high temperatures – making them incredibly sensitive to climate change.
A new literature review by conservationist Andrew T. Smith says otherwise – that the pika is doing remarkably well considering the circumstances.
"These results show that pikas are able to tolerate a broader set of habitat conditions than previously understood," Smith explains.
American pikas are small, territorial, rabbit-like creatures, that spend their days eating grasses and thistles, storing food for winter, squeaking at predators, and singing songs to potential mates.
A giant aluminium globe-shaped bar, complete with five brass barstools, will be offered for sale by a Maryland auctioneer – as the bar from “Hitler’s yacht”.
What was once the centrepiece of the Aviso Grille spent seven decades hidden in a barn in the US state but will come up for auction this month, with an estimated value up to $250,000.
The bar is now billed by Alexander Historical Auctions as “simply a fantastic relic, symbolic of the false grandeur and excesses of Hitler’s ‘Hundred (sic) Year Reich’.”
Hitler’s boat was built in 1935. It lasted four years longer than he did, the bar being salvaged when the vessel was broken up at a boatyard on the Delaware river in 1951.
It was an ignominious end for a yacht Hitler once intended to sail up the Thames, had he managed to invade Britain. The metal was sold to the US military but according to the auction house the bar ended up in the hands of a friend of the boatyard owner, whose son kept it.
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed another trove of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, authorities said Monday.
The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a statement that archaeologists found the collection of colorful, sealed sarcophagi buried more than 2,500 years ago at the Saqqara necropolis.
Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said more than 80 coffins were found.
The Saqqara site is part of the necropolis at Egypt’s ancient capital of Memphis that includes the famed Giza Pyramids, as well as smaller pyramids at Abu Sir, Dahshur and Abu Ruwaysh. The ruins of Memphis were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1970s.
The plateau hosts at least 11 pyramids, including the Step Pyramid, along with hundreds of tombs of ancient officials and other sites that range from the 1st Dynasty (2920-2770 B.C.) to the Coptic period (395-642).
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