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| Leonard Bernstein 1918, Born on this day, composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist |
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Leonard
Ducati Sport Classic
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| Revival Cycles' Ducati Sport Classic project has entered phase 2......and it's getting really damn serious! Follow them! |
Saturday, August 24, 2013
'Big Boy' Crudup
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| 1905, Born on this day, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup. Wrote Elvis' first hit 'That's All Right (Mama)' as well as two other songs covered by the King, “My Baby Left Me,” and “So Glad You're Mine.” Crudup earned the nickname “The Father of Rock 'n' Roll.” |
Friday, August 23, 2013
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
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| Singer-songwriter Aly Spaltro aka Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Link to website Link to song "The Nothing Part II" with article 1/article 2/article 3 , and cover song from Bob Dylan "All I really want" |
Urban neighbors
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| "Cities are just one more setting for evolution, a new set of selection pressures. Those adaptable early immigrants, and other species that once avoided cities but are slowly moving in, are changing fast." Link to article |
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Remembering Ray Bradbury
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| Remembering the legendary writer Ray Bradbury who would have been 93 today. He wrote the dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451", published in 1953. Link to article |
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
SS Leviathan
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| SS Leviathan (former "Vaterland") in Boston The former German ship "Vaterland" was seized by the U.S. Navy during WWI and renamed "Leviathan". The original builders of this ship, Blohm and Voss, refused to send any blueprints or anything at all over pertaining to this ship as the Navy kept it for war reparations for WWI. The Americans had a hell of a time translating all the prints and systems to English. |
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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Friday, August 16, 2013
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