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Today in Music – Oct 21st – Happy Birthday – Steve Cropper and Elvin Bishop!

Originally, posted October 21, 2012 Today we celebrate the birthday of guitarist and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Steve Cropper (1941). From Wikipedia: Steve Cropper (born Steven Lee Cropper, October 21, 1941, Dora, Missouri),[1] also known as Steve “The Colonel” Cropper, is an American guitarist,…

Yesterday’s Election of Evo Morales leads to an exploration of his country Bolivia!!

Yesterday Bolivians voice their support for President Evo Morales and elected him to his third term in office. Unlike many Americans,(wink, wink) I have not followed the affairs of Bolivia that closely over the last eight years so I don’t know that much about the man or what he has…

On this Day in History September 20th – Let’s Visit Georgia, Azerbaijan and Central African Republic!

One of the aspects of my job at Lippincott Jacobs the I really enjoyed was making maps to be included in various reports. Typically, they were environmental maps showing the soils, geology, or the drainage areas on an around the area of a proposed project. To develop these maps I…

This Day in Music – Birthdays for Bill Medley, and “Mama” Cass Elliot -two of the best voices ever!

Included in today’s birthdays are: Bill Medley (The Righteous Brothers) 1940 Cass Elliot 1941 (died July 29, 1974 – 32 years old) David Bromberg 1945 There are voices and then there are VOICES and for me Bill Medley is the later. From the early days with The Righteous Brothers…

On this Date in History – August 19, 1953 The US and British orchestrated Iranian coup d’état .

The Iranian coup d’etat which occurred on today’s date in 1953 had a profound impact on both the Iranian people and the United States. While the negative impacts of the coup were felt by the Iranian people from the beginning, the US really didn’t feel the impacts until the 1979 Iranian Islamic…

On this Date in History – August 11, 1942 – US Patent granted to Hedy Lamarr for “Secret Communication System”!

On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent 2,292,387 for the “Secret Communications System” was granted to George Anthiel and his neighbor Hedy Kiesler Markey who was better known as actress Hedy Lamarr. Lamarr was once called the “most beautiful woman in Europe,” and often referred to as the most gorgeous and exotic of Hollywood’s leading ladies! The patent…

Today in History – July 31, 1200 – Byzantine’s Game of “Broken”Thrones starring John “the Fat” Komnenos

On this day in the year 1201 or 1200? John Komnenos nicknamed “the Fat” attempted to usurp the imperial Byzantine throne from Alexios III Angelos – pizza (- sorry my mind just thinks pizza when it hears Angelos) Below is a map of the Byzantine Empire *circa 1204….. John’s coup was…

Say “Happy Birthday, Gracie” – “Happy Birthday, Gracie” – It’s Gracie Allen’s Birthday – July 26,1895!!

So on this date in 1895, yes, you read that right,1895, one of the great comic actors of all time was born, Gracie Allen. From the time she began performing with her husband George Burns in vaudeville in 1922, until they finished production on their TV show in 1958, Americans…

Book 5 of 2014 – Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin – Gerard Helferich

Ok so which of these men do you recognize?? I know that I would probably have a hard time identifying any of them. Each of these four men disrupted American politics between the years 1865 to 1912. Three were successful in their assassination…

Book 17 of 2013 – The Imperial Cruise – James Bradley

In 1905 Theodore Roosevelt sent the largest diplomatic mission in US across the Pacific to Asia. The mission was led by his Secretary of War William Howard Taft and the group included his daughter Alice. James Bradley’s book about this mission The Imperial Cruise is Book 17 of 2013. During the…