Pink is a Mommy
On June 2, 2011 Willow Sage Hart came into the world. Another baby being born is not cause to write a blog post. OK, if it’s your baby or a family member’s baby, it could be a reason for a blog post. But not a baby that you will probably never meet. But then again [...]
2011 Grammys – The Winners are:
Last night the annual Grammys Awards were given. While I’m sure it’s an honor to even be nominated, winning is always good. Here is the complete list of the winners. With all of the awards that were given it’s possible that everyone’s favorite may have been a winner. Album Of The Year The Suburbs – [...]
J.R.R. Tolkien – Life and Works
In Bloemfontein, South Africa, on January 3, 1892, John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien was born. His father, Arthur Reuel Tolkien was an English banker and had moved to Bloemfontein with his wife Mabel as part of his job. By the time Tolkien was 13 both of his parents had died, first his father in 1896 [...]
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout was born on December 1, 1886, the sixth of nine children of John and Lucetta Stout. He was raised in Kansas and as a youth was considered a child prodigy in arithmetic. In 1916 he invented a school banking system, a system for keeping track of the money school children saved in [...]
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a style of entertainment popular in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries that took the form of a series of separate, unrelated acts. The performance could include all or some of the following; musicians, dancers, comedians, animal acts, magicians, impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, or [...]
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