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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 13:57:20 GMT
Thanks Bixa. I just spent about 45 minutes looking and listening to Etta James on Youtube! Positively thrilled to read this!!!! Love,love Etta!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2011 11:30:58 GMT
I heard on the radio just now that President Nicolas Sarkozy is celebrating his 55th birthday today. I did not realize he was that young somehow. (to me anyway...).
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Post by bjd on Jan 27, 2011 15:17:46 GMT
I hadn't realized it either, but then, compared to most of the old codgers who have been presidents of France, anybody under 60 would be young.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2011 19:38:44 GMT
Well, it's late in the day of January 27, but here are some birthdays:
1756 -- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1832 -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England. This animation is stupid & creepy, but the voice is really Carroll.
1930 -- Bobby "Blue" Bland, blues and soul singer, was born in Rosemark, Tennessee
1948 -- Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, was born in Riga (now independent Latvia).
(very hard to find a decent-quality video of Baryshnikov on youtube!)
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Post by bjd on Jan 27, 2011 20:14:26 GMT
I always like this too
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 3, 2011 15:56:52 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2011 4:28:21 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 4, 2011 7:45:34 GMT
Happy Birthday Any Port...
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Post by tod2 on Feb 4, 2011 10:18:35 GMT
Congratulations and salutations Any Port!! May you celebrate many many more happy years
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2011 14:23:48 GMT
I wouldn't call it a celebration, but as of today, the United States has been fighting in Afghanistan as long as the Soviet Union stayed before pulling out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2011 14:25:23 GMT
As one of the Anyport helpers, I would like to thank you for being here, Cheery and Tod. You have both contributed immensely. (And of course, thanks to so many others as well!)
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Post by mich64 on Feb 4, 2011 16:18:53 GMT
Happy Birthday to the creators and helpers of Any Port ;D
Personally, I am proud to be a member of such a wonderful group of people who provide so much enjoyment, education and the challenge to participate.
Congratulations on 2 years of wonderful input and advice. Cheers! Mich
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 4, 2011 16:53:08 GMT
I am just a new boy but....
Happy birthday!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2011 17:13:15 GMT
Beautifully put, as always from you, Mich. Isn't it great?! And lovely thoughts and wishes from Cheery, Tod, Kerouac, and Mick as well -- lovely people who keep this forum interesting and fun. Any Port is blessed with a really varied group of lively minds and talents. Thanks to all of you. There's no such thing as "just" a new boy, Mick. Every new person adds to and enhances this forum, as you have well proved. So please, everyone -- if you have the opportunity and are so inclined, publicize the Port!
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 4, 2011 17:30:42 GMT
OK then.
I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told....
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2011 17:53:45 GMT
Yow! One of my favorite songs, and a persistent earworm. I hope you're happy!
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Post by fumobici on Feb 4, 2011 20:50:32 GMT
Terrible twos here we come ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2011 6:47:38 GMT
Hee hee, Fumobici! Any Port has launched a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Any-Port-in-a-Storm/336199987477#If you're a Facebook user, we hope you'll visit the page and hit that Like button. It's an easy way to let others know about this forum and for them to receive updates. You can easily share content from Any Port with a variety of social networks by clicking on the Share button in the top left corner of every thread.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2011 14:19:23 GMT
February 12 ~~ 1809, Naturalist Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. 1870, Women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote. 1909, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in New York. 1912, Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty. and 2011, Egypt starts a new way of life ~~
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 15, 2011 15:37:15 GMT
Birthdays of February 15 are Gallileo Galilei and ~~ Matt Groening short biolonger one <-- tells where he got the names for his characters
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Post by hwinpp on Feb 16, 2011 9:45:53 GMT
Two years already?
Good job and congrats to all!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2011 16:44:46 GMT
Thanks, HW. A forum is only what its members make it, and this forum has fabulous members. Today is Irma Thomas's 70th birthday ~
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2011 17:06:50 GMT
Happy Birthday Irma!!! (I have to recount the story of how after Hurricane Katrina,one of our more illustrious city council members,(now up for 13 counts of bribery and malfeasance)....she went to introduce Irma Thomas at a benefit concert,and introduced her as "the one,the only,the incomprehensible,Irma Thomas!". I am still snorking at the recall of it...... ,the look on Irma's face was priceless,trying so hard to be as graceful and poised as she always is,that was a tough one!!!!).
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 20, 2011 15:13:12 GMT
At least she didn't cast Irma as an "escape goat". ;D
Celebrating a few birthdays today ~~
February 20, 1792 -- President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
Mary Garden, February 20, 1874 -- 3 January 1967
Jimmy Yancey, February 20, 1898 -- September 17, 1951
Ansel Adams, February 20, 1902 –- April 22, 1984
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 6, 2011 16:23:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 15:10:57 GMT
Gabriel G. Marquez 84??? Wow!! One of my favorite authors as well.
LUNDI GRAS here in NOLA!!!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 7, 2011 18:47:24 GMT
Have a happy fat Monday & be sure to celebrate enough for the rest of us, too! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ On this photo-rich forum, it's appropriate to acknowledge the 81st birthday of Anthony Armstrong-Jones.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2011 7:32:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2011 11:32:25 GMT
Thanks Bixa,yes...
Happy MARDI GRAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/size] [/color]
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 8, 2011 13:48:09 GMT
And as well as it being "Pancake Day" ... Happy international Women's day today!
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