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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2011 4:55:12 GMT
I used to be caught off guard sometimes when my mother was still in the United States. Mother's Day isn't until the end of the month in France.
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Post by bjd on May 9, 2011 6:37:57 GMT
Same happened to me yesterday -- it was only talking with my sister last night that I learned that it was Mother's Day. Fortunately, my mother doesn't care much about it because I hadn't called her.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2011 18:27:31 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 19, 2011 8:40:48 GMT
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Post by bjd on May 19, 2011 9:35:17 GMT
Who is that on May 13?
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Post by onlymark on May 19, 2011 11:00:08 GMT
Harvey Keitel.
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Post by onlymark on May 19, 2011 11:05:40 GMT
1588, The Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon, bound for England. Little did they know what fate awaited them.
1935, One of my heroes, T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 19, 2011 11:21:04 GMT
1588, The Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon, bound for England. Little did they know what fate awaited them. 1935, One of my heroes, T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash. Do you know, I have connections with both of these? True, honest... When the Armada were trying to escape doen the West coast of Ireland they were wrecked by a storm and blown ashore at a place called Spanish Point in Co. Clare. My mother in law came from there and we visited 3 years ago and had dinner in a hotel ovelooking Spanish Point with waves abolutely crashing onto the shore. As spectacular and beautiful as anywhere that I have been. For the Lawrence family, they lived in Ireland at Killua Castle, Co. Westmeath, and I arrange insurance for the current owner.
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Post by onlymark on May 19, 2011 13:27:58 GMT
You name dropper you.
I didn't know the Armada ended up at Spanish Point though. Bit of a coincidence that was then. (joke)
The question would be, what was it called before Spanish Point? "That bit of rock that sticks out into the ocean"?
Anyway, can you have a look back in your Insurance records for vehicles and let us know if he was insured on his motorbike when he died? I suppose it was only TPFT though, not fully comp.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 19, 2011 13:42:51 GMT
Was that when his long white silk scarf got caught in the wheels?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 22, 2011 8:14:34 GMT
Yesterday we celebrated our youngest son's birthday. Soooo 30 years ago yesterday I was chewing the pillow in agony for 24 hours whilst OH looked on (bemused...'but why are you making a fuss? it's a perfectly natural process' etc etc). Our Son was beautiful tho....
Russ just wanted us to chill together yesterday...watching Dr Who on TV and eating Chinese food. I am just grateful that he's still alive to celebrate anything after his long years of drug abuse. (He's been clean now for16 months ;D )
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Post by mich64 on May 22, 2011 14:53:52 GMT
Wonderful memory and wonderful present news Cheery! I am so happy for your son and how you all can reflect and enjoy some time together. Cheers, Mich
P.S. our nepew is doing so well. He called yesterday to tell us of some sales at the shops in town, I laughed and felt happy, he is well and we may have even taught him some things when he was with us. I miss him so much though, but it is more important he tries it on his own.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 22, 2011 15:25:00 GMT
Wonderful news from both of you ~~ happy endings new beginnings!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2011 16:45:24 GMT
<-- click picThe Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic on this day in 1883. Also, birthday of ~~ Victoria 5/24/1819 - 1/22/1901 English queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901) Daniel Fahrenheit 5/24/1686 - 9/16/1736 German physicist and developer of the temperature scale Bob Dylan turned 70 today.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2011 20:42:25 GMT
They mentioned Bob Dylan on the news. He still has not won me over.
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Post by hwinpp on May 25, 2011 9:01:13 GMT
I missed his birthday party last night at my regular bar I was introduced to it in casette form on a little portable, battery operated cassette recorder by three American Vietnam vets in Western Afghanistan in 1973 I think. They were hitch hiking and we took them along a bit of the way. How times change
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Post by bixaorellana on May 25, 2011 17:35:40 GMT
That's an amazing story, HW! I think my first exposure to Dylan was the printed word -- an article in (probably) Seventeen magazine with this photo or something similar. I thought he was dreeeeeeeamy.
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Post by bjd on May 25, 2011 19:15:56 GMT
I first heard about Bob Dylan because a friend's older brother walked out of a concert Dylan gave in Toronto and used an electric guitar in the second half. Lots of booing and yelling from the audience. I had never heard of him and didn't understand what the fuss was about.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2011 17:48:17 GMT
"negatives ... loaded with ammunition"Dorothea Nutzhorn Lange, May 26, 1895 -- October 11, 1965 short biography hereChild living in Oklahoma City shacktown. August 1936. Farm Security Administration photograph by Dorothea Lange. Source Photo of Dorothea Lange by her second husband Paul S. Taylor, 1934.Click this photo for some excellent history, links, & more photos.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 29, 2011 7:41:04 GMT
May 29th is Royal Oak Day here in the United Kingdom.... www.royaloakday.org.uk/I consider myself to be Patriotic but I do think that jingoism can be carried too far .... I do love Oak trees tho... ;D
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Post by onlymark on May 29, 2011 8:53:51 GMT
Charles II hid in an oak tree.
So did Robin Hood. I think we ought to have a Robin Hood day as well when we go round robbing all the rich gits.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2011 15:29:46 GMT
6/1/1926 - 8/5/1962
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 3, 2011 15:24:36 GMT
June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 3, 2011 15:28:43 GMT
Josephine Baker - great talent and stunning looking woman.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2011 18:00:22 GMT
She really did have an incredible life and remains an icon in France. Since she was unable to have children, she raised a group of children from all over the world, even though she was in a state of financial ruin in later years.
It was Princess Grace of Monaco who provided a place for her to live. Her career was relaunched in a gala performance on April 12, 1975 and she died the very same night.
She is buried in Monaco.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 4, 2011 0:37:05 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2011 15:51:11 GMT
Click the names for biographies.Pancho Villa 6/5/1878 - 6/20/1923, Mexican revolutionary guerrilla leader John Maynard Keynes 6/5/1883 - 4/21/1946, English economist, journalist and financier. Federico Garcia Lorca 6/5/1898 - 8/19/1936, Spanish poet and dramatist singer: Estrella Morente
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2011 7:29:41 GMT
Perhaps not a cause for celebration but on 9 June 1885, France and China signed a peace treaty after 4 years of war, and France was given Vietnam in the process. The Chinese abandoned their sovereignty over the provinces of Tonkin and Annam, which, along with Cochinchina, comprised the Empire of Vietnam. Then France merged all of this with Cambodia to create French Indochina.
It all went bust in 1954 with the war of independence.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2011 15:11:17 GMT
I enjoy the things I learn from this thread, and certainly did not know the history you posted above.
However, you're right that the word "celebrating" doesn't always work for the items we post. I'm changing the name of the thread to "Highlighting today". S'alright?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2011 15:18:36 GMT
June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964 When I looked up the song on youtube, I discovered that it and others of that era are having a resurgence because they're played on an imaginary radio station in the game Fallout 3. Click the picture for a short biography, links, & comments.
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