The Lincoln - Douglas debates

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Seven debates in 1858 during the Illinois state electoral campaign on slavery and state rights.  Lincoln despaired that the issues at hand would be discussed long after "these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent."

Famous Art Heists

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Catherine Palace

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Legendary capers captured by the History Channel

Famous art heists included the lifting in 1911 and return in 1913 of the Mona Lisa - see a summarized tale of her burglary at the link.  The Last Judgement stolen by Polish Pirates in 1473 hangs today in a Polish museum.  In the holocaust 20 percent of Europe's riches were stolen and never recovered including especially from the oppulent Catherine Palace near St. Petersburg.  Two Renoirs and a Rembrandt were spirited away in 2000 in Stockholm, all were recovered by 2005.  In 1990 the largest heist in history of 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum and are still at large.

Its a lovely tour none-the-less.  Take a stroll through artistic beauty and intrigue.

Star Wars

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George Lucas uses Blu Ray to make changes to his classic science fiction extravaganzas.

In The Empire Strikes Back he corrects a 30 year old mistake of a monster's arm and its revealing  supporting pole.  Changes were made in Return of the Jedi as well.  And Episode I: The Phantom Menace has an updated Yoda.

Look out for Star Wars: The Complete Saga in September.

Deleted scene
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/movies/blogs/the-hitlist-blogpost.aspx?post=84c8978c-a9f2-44d8-a4d2-bb8c46fcef6c

A Philandering Jamaican Slave Owner

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The British version of  Who Do You Think You Are shocks Lord Coe with revelations of a philandering forefather who fathered six illegitimate children with his slaves seven generations ago - the salacious 18th century sugar baron, George Hyde Park.

Hyde Park's plantations were in the parish of Trelawny, home of Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt.

Coe's ancestor owned 297 slaves who were listed as inventory, all valued at 700,000 pounds in today's currency. 

He fathered a daughter with the slave, Sarah Lee.  His daughter, Elizabeth Lee Clarke was listed as a beneficiary in his will. 

Lord Coe is the descendant of an illegitimate offspring, Hyde John Clarke.

Lord Coe's family line is rich, it includes a marriage by his maternal grandmother Vera Swan to Sardari Lal of the Punjab which accounts for his Anglo-Indian roots. 

Another relative was the lieutenant governor of NY state in 1730 and 1740.

Famous Hyde Hall in upstate NY was his family's seat and is now a museum.  A town in Cheshire is named for his family. 

His grandmother had always told him of their long line of minor aristocrats, quite grand, he wishes he had listened to her then.

107 Year Old Automobile

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Britain's oldest car is a two seater Wolseley 6 of 1904 that runs like a dream and has never broken down!

Rolling at a top speed of 29 miles per hour on a one-cylinder motor, its original registration plate of CJ 164 still hangs on a machine in mint condition.  Its mileage is unknown having been built before the invention on mileometers.

Mr. E H Greenly of Titley Court, Herefordshire was its original owner in 1905.

Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn is an icon of the sylph-like body but she suffered through poor health and malnutrition during her young life.  New science in epigenetics proposes her body was fundamentally altered by starvation during her life in Nazi occupied Netherlands - it is the link between poor diet and genetic disruption.

November 1944 to May 1945 recalled in Dutch history as  "the hunger winter" when Germans occupied their country and blockaded her area causing mass malnutrician and the deaths of 18,000.

The daughter of a Dutch Baroness and an English Banker, she watched her brother be dragged away to labour camp and her uncle and cousin executed.   She ate tulips and grass.  And spent the final years of the war hiding from Nazis in a cellar.

Vermont

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Bartonsville Bridge built in 1870


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The residents of pituresque, landlocked Vermont were unexpectedly surprised by the flood rains of Hurricane Irene - the worst onslaught in 75 years.

Adding to their distress was the loss of lovingly preserved and treasured historic bridges like the Bartonsville Bridge that spanned the Williams River for 140 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/irene-washes-away-bridge_n_940312.html

Sad when nature takes the treasures.

I AM ~ the shift is about to hit the fan

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What's Wrong WIth OUr WOrld?
What Can We DO About It?

Science has uncovered elements that undermine everything we have been told about how the world works and how we work.

We are inter-connected to each other at a fundamental level.

The basis of creation is cooperation and democracy - its in our DNA.

A profound discovery in physics proves that what we do at an individual level does affect the global environment.

We are geared at the primoridal level to feel what the other person feels.

We are born to be our brothers keeper - its the way we were wired.

This is the emerging story - we are far grander than we have been told.

What's right with the world - the shift is about to hit the fan.

Tom Shadyac ... I AM

Famous Last Concerts

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See an array of famous last concerts performed by unforgettable acts in music history!

The 1900 Galveston Storm

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A memorable hurricane - in keeping with the current antics of Irene - was the Galveston Storm of 1900.  Shockingly 6000 people perished.  The storm's ferocity left its survivors stupified - this story could never be truly written ...

"a tempest so terrible that no words can adequately describe its intensity."

Gaddafi Daughter Resurrected

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Enshrined Hana Gaddafi believed dead and lovingly remembered by her adopted family as a peaceful symbol to the bullying tactics of Western aggression. 

She was reported killed in Reagan's 1986 bombing of Gaddafi's Tripoli compound in retaliation for Libya's bombing of a Berlin nightclub.

With the fall of Tripoli this 25 year tale of misery has been exposed as a rouse exploited by Gaddafi.  As it turns out, Hana did not die but is a doctor of considerable success and leverage in Libya's medical ministry.

So, unless he adopted another girl of exact age and named her after the sainted Hana - Hana lives!

Marple Mystery Found

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Miss Marple that down homey sleuth ~

Created in 1926 by Agatha Christie - Miss Marple's curiosity has enthralled us through 12 novels and 20 short stories.

And now an unknown story, lately found ...


          
The Case of the Caretaker's Wife
The abstract at the link is a thrilling unfurling as Miss Marple's keen eye settles on poor little rich girl Louise Laxton, the wealthy victim.

Wonderful and surprising!

1938 Hurricane

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As Hurricane Irene hurtles her aggressive course towards the American East Coast one New England resident recalls the great New England hurricane of 1938.

Stars Gone Too Soon

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my girl Aaliya...

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BET YOU DIDN'T REMEMBER AALIYA
                         ITS BEEN 10 YEARS!

Aaliyah
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20523037,00.html

MY FELLOW AMERICAN

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Imagine holding so much hate
inside
your
mind
that when it manifests
your hate causes so much heartbreak...
                       Anders Behring Breivik - that is unfortunately, you.


We celebrate our differences because it matters
We celebrate our differences because it heals
because it frees
from bigotry, nonsense, ignorance, pain
it frees us of hate

Matters not how far within we reach to wrought hate on another
in the face of hate we will love each other

Love will heal us and free us
of you

We send only love for our brave and peaceful
fellow beings in Norway
because they know the way of peace and they walk in love
and they show us that love heals hate

Our love heals your hate

to all those who see and know the struggles of the world and bravely seek change
and stand in the gap
for those they do not know
but love and defend them
everyday.

www.myfellowamerican.us

Amy

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Setting music charts afire
Amy does in death what she should be doing on earth
with us
accepting things as they are is divine
but I am awaiting my acceptance of Amy's flight to sink in ...
and be real
and only then
will I be able to listen and celebrate her voice again.

Best selling UK album of this century Back to Black

JFK Conspiracies

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Conspiracy theorists still debate who murdered Kennedy, the President that is, because no one bought the findings of the presidential commission convened a week later.  In 1964 Lee Harvey Oswald was declared the sole instigator and assassin.

Of mythical significance it is the grandest of all conspiracies emboldened by Oliver Stone's entertaining and dramatic blockbuster, JFK. 

Hudson River Oldest Floating Home

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The oldest is the coolest .... when a 1906 Ellis Island Ferry, one of the last of its fleet is retrofitted into a floating home.


In world war one the Yankee was outfitted with guns and canons and was one of the first vessels used to patrol the Boston Harbour.

In the 1920s it ferried immigrants from Ellis Island to Manhatten who had just landed in America - often their first sight of US soil having arrived below deck as was done on many transatlantic voyages.

Norm Willey dies

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In 1953-1955 Norm Willey was the Eagles quaterback and king of the quarterback sack which was not an official statistic until 1982 - his career pinnacles are unofficially hailed by fans of the game.

He became a Hall of Famer after his stellar performance in 1952 by tackling Giants quaterback Charlie Conerly 17 times in one memorable game.

RIP Willey

MLK Memorial

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The unveiling of a Memorial sculpture in granite of Martin Luther King Jr. inspired by his "I have a dream" speech is finally here!

Maya Angelou disapproves of an inscription

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44347106/ns/travel-news/t/maya-angelou-disputes-inscription-mlk-memorial/?gt1=43001

36 Years on the Lam

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William Walter Asher III, sentenced to 7 years in prison for a fatal bar robbery in San Francisco in 1967 has been on the lam since escaping Growlersberg Conservation prison camp in El Dorado County in Northern California in 1975.

Living under assumed name David Donald McFee his trail remained cold until his mother, on her death bed, asked family members to contact him with a secret number.  Two tracked calls led to Asher under another alias, Garry Donald Webb, he was arrested without incident.

1958 Title Ring

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Thirty years ago a 1958 NFL Championship ring was stolen from Baltimore Colts hall of famer Art Donovan on a 1977 trip to Japan.

The collector thought his was a legitimate deal with a sports memorabilia dealer - he agreed to return the ring.

Ashford and Simpson

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top of the game ... couple with George Benson and Stevie Wonder

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SOLID ... solid as a rock ... that's what this love is .... that's what we've got!

sounds of my childhood - one half of Ashford and Simpson has flown away but their sound will remain always.

Motown greats who co-wrote hits with Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and so many others were grafted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 for writing some of the most enduring contemporary hits of all time.

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing (Baby) ..... Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand .... they co-wrote Tears Dry On Their Own with my girl Amy Winehouse .... and Ain't No Mountain High Enough written in 1966 which rocketed to superstardom with Diana Ross in 1970 are a taste of the magnificence of the super duper duo that was Ashford and Simpson - lovers and musical soul mates may their love sustain her.

RIP

QuAKes

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In 1884 or 110 years ago New York state had its last quake and in February a seismologist predicted an earthquake would shake NY soon.

But today the Virginia area felt a 5.8 quake, the first since 1897 that was felt as far as NY and Washington DC.

First East Coast shake since 1944
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/east-coast-earthquake-the_n_934826.html?utm_campaign=082411&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-green&utm_content=FullStory

National Cathedral and Washington Monument damagedhttp://www.newser.com/story/126747/wash-monument-natl-cathedral-damaged-by-quake.html

Usual earthquake trivia - the farther away you are from a shake the closer you are to the next one! Every hundred years.

Oh joy....

Egypt in 1800s

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I'm sure we have gone this route before but love too much to mosey on by so I'm posting these Life.com gems because they make my heart leap so.

The early photos: Egypt in the 1800s

The Kiss and Jerry Leiber

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Five decades ago Elvis Presley, a fresh 21 year old, was caught smouldering with a mysterious young lady.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023919/Elvis-Presley-Barbara-Gray-revealed-sexy-blodne-in-iconic-Kiss-photo.html

She was Bobbi Owens then - now Barbara Gray and she has been revealed as the mystery girl captured in that summer shot taken in 1956.  Their photo became an iconic image dubbed "The Kiss."

Remembering Elvis songwriter Jerry Leiber
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2029166/Jerry-Leiber-dead-78-Elvis-Presley-Hound-Dog-Jailhouse-Rock-songwriter-dies.html

the man! ... on the right

He was a rock 'n' roll legend who wrote Jailhouse Rock and Hound Dog. Hound Dog, first released in 1953 and performed by blues legend Big Mama Thornton -saw Presley's version hit rock stardom 3 years later. 

He also penned Stand By Me, On Broadway, Spanish Harlem, Santa Claus is Back in Town, Love Potion Number Nine and more ....

Prolific genius who stood tall with the giants of rock 'n'roll. 

RIP Jerry! RIP.


Elvis Week that was

http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/09/7318015-get-all-shook-up-during-elvis-week

34 years ago Elvis left the building and we know an army of look-a-likes have roamed the earth since - Elvis Week celebrated all things Presley for his loyalist look-a-likes and all who loved Elvis Presley alike.


THe KIng

Gadhafi

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he was good looking once

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/02/22/f-gadhafi-family.html

Cocaine - a brief history

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Cocaine: A brief history of blow.

The Amish

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Oldest US Amish settlement is in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

The Amish are descended from Swiss-German Mennonites who fled persecution in 16th century Europe.

They are known for their traditional dress, strict beliefs and rejection of modern conveniences including electricity and cars, preferring a horse and buggy.

RFK in the land of Apartheid

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In 1966 Robert Kennedy visited the people of South Africa and spoke with students and anti-Apartheid leaders - historically lending a voice to the fight for freedom.

Must See TV premieres tonight on Monday 22 August on THIRTEEN.

Vintage Mexico

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"Land of the Shaking Earth."

A country marked by revolution and change became independent of Spain in 1810.

Nazis were social climbers

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led by the most insecure of all ...

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Nazis were not evil, they were 'social climbers.'

That extraordinary utterance of Gotz Aly an esteemed German historian and social commentator is explained as a peculiar German inferiority complex fused with a lust to just 'get on' that created a collective moral collapse.

Social climbing gone berserk and a distant knowledge of the extermination camps led to the plunder of Jews with little remorse of conscience. 

The central thesis of Why the Germans? Why the Jews? is that the Holocaust happened because 'people like you and me allowed it to happen' - and it can happen again.  Middle class fear of losing face after defeat in the first world war, hyper-inflation and jobless Weimar years blinded people and they wilfully ignored Nazi excesses as they promised the return of German greatness.  Hitler declared the culprits to pay the greatest price should be the Jews who had orchestrated the war.

Social climbimg in the jobless, moneyless Weimar Republic was quite impossible for people obsessed with uniforms and symbolism - the Nazis brought back those glory days that led to tragic plunder in the form of massive auctions for the lifespan of the Reich in cities where Jewish belongings were stolen.  Regularly large ships with furniture, silver, furs, tapestries, rugs, glassware and more, all stolen from their victims sailed into their ports from occupied countries.

The Social Democrats and Trade Unions wanted property too - the Jews were the bad ones and everyone felt absolved of guilt, blamed for taking all the jobs, the Nazis omitted that the Jews since 1900 had excelled in schools and universities graduating at a rate of eight Jews to one Christian.  Lucrative careers in law and medicine only fed German envy.

A further complication - the Germans' deep rooted fear of true freedom which had not existed under the Kaiser meant the democratic Weimar Republic weakened them completely.  The Nazis were the catchall for socially envious people suffering an inferiority complex.  National inferiority substantially self conditioned Germans for the murder of the Jews.

"The Holocaust can repeat itself.  One should not believe the anti-Semites of yesterday are completely different human beings to the ones today."

AGREED.

American Girl in Italy

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A statuesque brunette struts down a Florence street in Italy clutching a shawl while men watch longingly is an iconic 1951 image

Eighty-three year old Ninalee Craig was a carefree 23 year old who had ditched her NY city job for a third class ticket on a ship bound for Europe.  For six months she roamed France, Spain and Italy on her own - few ladies were so brave in the years following the second world war. 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/american-girl-italy-60-years-later-221005987.html

"My life has been wonderful, I'm ready for more."

Mass Grave, 70 Years Later

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Odyssey into ancestry.                         

"It will be good. One must always have faith."

To an old Jewish cemetary in the tsarist-era Pale of Settlement for the Jews of Kiev where there is a memorial for an ancester, a nineteenth century Maggid, Mordechai of Chernobyl.

Next to a 1000 year old Bessarabian fortress city near the Dniester River on the outskirts of Khotyn where a 30 foot concrete slab with the names of 45 men, women and children includes a paternal grandfather, who was a holy rabbi and his son Aaron, all etched in Hebrew - it is one of three mass graves of some 1900 Jews killed in the early years of the Holocaust.

The story born in 1941 survived five labour camps before arriving at Ellis Island with the author's father, who also became a rabbi.

The story begins with the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina which the Nazi-Soviet pact allowed Stalin to detach from Romania.  The Romanian army withdrew then re-invaded with German mobile SS killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, to rape, torture and murder the thriving Jewish population - 23,000 were deported from Khotyn to Transnistria, an occupied zone.

For three weeks from July to August in 1941, 50,000 were murdered - 280,000 to 380,000 died in Bessarabia and Bukovina in the war aided by an anti-Semitic Romanian government.  Collaborators included Romanians and Ukrainians - the Romanian and German armies gathered all the Jews singling out their leaders.  Testimony at a war crimes tribunal in Bucharest in 1945 recalled Jewish leaders including doctors, lawyers, teachers, scribes, pharmacists and butchers marched down the Dniester  to a point where hundreds of Jews were shot.  Twerskey's grandfather broke the line to spiritually cleanse in the water and was pulled back and beaten by soldiers.

The Jews dug their own graves. 

El Moleh Rachamim (God Full of Compassion) Yiddish prayer for the dead.

Mordechai I. Twerskey

John Wayne auction

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Rooster Cogburn's fancy dress costume of cowboy hat, shirt, waistcoat, jacket, trousers, boots, eye-patch and other priceless items from the The Duke's iconic film career.

John Wayne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne

Dietrich arrives

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The Mystery at Hanging Rock

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Valentine's Day 1900 spurned a tale of the mysterious disappearance of three girls, one later found, and their teacher who were apparent victims of a supernatural and mythical event.

Is this story true? 

The mystery of its veracity also lingers because there are no archived articles to explore in this enduring disappearance of innocence.

Plot ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock

The author was clever to give an impression of a non-fictional account but alas this yarn is a yarn.

Classic New Orleans

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Missing Da Vinci Legacy ... the man from Vinci

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Salvatore Mundi

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Wherefore art?

Dressed Appropriately

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Life.com

WHEN YOUNG LADIES DRESSED TO COVER AND NOT TO YIELD AND CLASSIC BEARING WAS THE HALLMARK OF SOCIAL UPRIGHTNESS.Fashion trends 40s and 50s
http://www.life.com/gallery/35032/fashion-trends-of-the-40s-and-50s#index/0

Fashion Runways the early days
http://www.life.com/gallery/32602/fashion-runways-the-early-days#index/0

Fashion photography
http://www.life.com/gallery/23612/lifes-best-fashion-photography#index/0

Twiggy
http://www.life.com/gallery/23872/twiggy-fashion-icon#index/0

Singapore, Dubai and UAE Then & Now

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the fascination that is the East

The inimtable Life.com has gifted us with pictures of Singapore then and now beginning with the Singapore Harbour in 1941. - Click topic for LINK.


And also ....

Dubai and the UAE
http://www.life.com/gallery/54791/dubai-and-the-uae-then-and-now#index/0

Crossing the Sahara
http://www.life.com/gallery/53501/life-crosses-the-sahara#index/0

beautiful burqas!
http://www.life.com/gallery/48711/beautiful-burqas#index/0

NY Curb Market

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Did you know that the New York Curb Market, located in a section of the old Stock Exchange building was establised in the mid-nineteenth century to trade stocks that fell below the standards of the New York Stock Exchange, it was a haven for shady characters who actually operated on the street, trading was a cacophony of yelling voices through windows onto the street and back.

In 1910 the informal Curb Association determined to weed out crooked players and move operations indoors.  In 1931 the building at 86 Trinity Place was rebuilt and in 1953 the operation was renamed the American Stock Exchange.

When Doris Day left Tinsel Town

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She was America's sweetheart 50 years ago.

Bet you didn't know Doris Day is still the number one female box office star of all time - for four years in a row. 

Cover girl of movie magazines in the 1950s and 60s. 

She made 39 films - her co-stars were A-list leading men only.

Then one day she stopped being Doris Day.

Doris Kappelhoff was her given name and after failed marriages and personal betrayal she retired to her reclusive animal rescue ranch and poured her love into some very deserving furry friends.  A girl after my heart, after my heart.

How beautiful was the voice!

Doris Day releases new materialhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2026496/Calamity-Jane-star-Doris-Day-make-musical-comeback-87.html

Top Five Movie Speeches

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TOP FIVE MOVIE SPEECHES!


"I just want to say that I'm a nerd,
and I'm here tonight to stand up for the rights of other nerds."
      Gilbert Howell
      Revenge of the Nerds 1984