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• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Apr 14 2014 7:23 AM

  Thanks Kat!

  April 14

  1865 - On an evening at Ford's Theater in Washington DC, as famed actress Laura Keene ( a little long in the tooth and fond of drink), and others performed the comedy "Our American Cousin". Present was President Abraham Lincoln. At 8:15pm, actor John Wilkes Booth quietly entered the private box, aimed a derringer at Lincoln's head and fired a ball into Lincoln, just below and behind his left ear with the ball lodging behind his right eye-socket. Our beloved President was dead by 7:15am.

  1912 - The British liner RMS Titanic found an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm ship's time and began sinking. 2 hours and 40 minutes later it was done. 1,514 souls were likewise all done.

  1578 - Philip III, King of Spain & Portugal

  1629 - Christian Huygens, Astronomer, discovered Saturn's Rings

  1866 - Anne Sullivan, educated Helen Keller

  1889 - Arnold Toynbee, England historian (Study of History)

  1897 - Claire Windsor, American Actress

  ~May your week be blessed~

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Mon, Apr 14 2014 9:03 AM

  14 April,

  Tribute:  To the coal miner's daughter who turns 82 today ... happy birthday Loretta Lynn!

  Notables:

  • MLB player Pete Rose is 73 today.
  • Director Peter Capaldi is 56

  Actors/Actresses:

  • Sara Michelle Gellar is 37
  • Abigail Breslin is 18
  • Adrien Brody is 41
  • Robert Carlyle is 53
  • Brad Garrett is 54
  • Anthony Hall is 46
  • Julie Christie is 73
  • Rod Steiger (1925 - 2002)
  • Catherine Dent is 49

  Today's tribute video ...

  One of Kris Kristopherson's finest, performed by Loretta Lynn ...

   

  One final congratulations to The Masters' winner, Bubba Watson!  You'll have to pay me next year to bet the field for you (or anyone else that wants that extra edge of Kat's Hex!)  

  Have a wonderful week, everyone!

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Apr 15 2014 7:19 AM

  April 15

  1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italy ~ painter, sculptor, scientist, visionary

  1646 - King Christian V of Denmark

  1684 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia

  1741 - Charles Willson Peale, Painter

  1829 - Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American Woman Surgeon

  1841 - Joseph Seagram, Canadian Distillery Founder

  1875 - Jim Jeffries, Heavyweight Boxer

  1883 - Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia

  1892 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch writer ~ Holocaust Survivor

  1894 - "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (I wonder if Kat can find a clip)

  1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, 1st Secretary of the Communist Party of USSR

  Tax anyone? fo' getta bout it...I am not one to 'give' my money away easily to be pissed off by incompetent, corrupt strangers ~ nada 

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Apr 16 2014 7:59 AM

  April 16

   778 - King Louis the Pious

  1319 - King John II of France

  1652 - Clement XII, Pope

  1693 - Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway

  1738 - Henry Clinton, British General

  1755 - Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun, French Painter

  1867 - Wilbur Wright of airplane fame

  1889 - Charlie Chaplin

  1900 - Polly Adler, Whorehouse Owner

  ...Your Great Day is Here...see ya

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Wed, Apr 16 2014 8:29 AM

  I oops yesterday (15 April), so here are some belated birthday wishes ...

  • Emma Watson is 24
  • Seth Rogen is 32
  • Roy Clark (banjo player/singer) is 81
  • Elizabeth Montgomery (1933 - 1995)

  16 April

  Tribute:

  Singer Selena Quintanilla (1971 - 1995) ... she was killed by her band's manager when the family discovered the manager was stealing funds from the band.  Very tragic ending to an extremely talented singer.

  Notables:

  • NBA center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 67 ... will anyone ever match or beat his points total?
  • NFL head coach Bill Belichick is 62
  • Singer Dusty Springfield (1939 - 1999)
  • Composer Henry Mancini (1924 - 1994)
  • Pope Benedect XVI is 87

  Actors:

  • Martin Lawrence is 49
  • John Cryer is 49

  Today's tribute:

  Selena was a Spanish singer, but also performed a few English songs.  Here's one of her biggest hits in English ...

   

  Have a wonderful day everyone!

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Wed, Apr 16 2014 9:37 AM

  Catchin' up today on what all I missed on the Birthdays the last 5 days or so. (busy wrappin' up the taxes and watching the Masters plus a few other threads here and there...)

  Great piece on Thomas Jefferson SP! Very few people write personal letters anymore in this communications age.  We have a few friends who write their annual Christmas letter with the year's events and greetings.  But that's about it. It's a lost art and I'd wager only a few bright and clever people on these forums,  like Sweetiepie and Lizzie, still send a letter or two these days.

  Hey!  Anyone spot me on tenor sax in the Al Green video??

  

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Apr 16 2014 12:41 PM

  Good 0ne Kat!...Dusty Springfield & Selena....sigh     ~SP~  

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Wed, Apr 16 2014 1:12 PM

  andyson:

  Hey!  Anyone spot me on tenor sax in the Al Green video??

  I did!  I asked myself ... "Self, is that the professor sporting a 'fro?"

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Apr 16 2014 3:06 PM

  DaddysKat:

  andyson:

  Hey!  Anyone spot me on tenor sax in the Al Green video??

  I did!  I asked myself ... "Self, is that the professor sporting a 'fro?"

  Whew! I am a stupid. I always believed "Bro' Andy" was an Alto man. Love the hair...kinda sexy...can I say sexy or do they put it in the ****Room?

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Apr 17 2014 8:56 AM

  andyson:

  Great piece on Thomas Jefferson SP! Very few people write personal letters anymore in this communications age.  We have a few friends who write their annual Christmas letter with the year's events and greetings.  But that's about it. It's a lost art and I'd wager only a few bright and clever people on these forums,  like Sweetiepie and Lizzie, still send a letter or two these days.

  It is the way of it. I love them. You can hold them, re-read them, admire the paper used, the type of pen and ink and the style of the writing. Then, you can save them and do it all over again ~SP ~

  April 17

  1278 - Michael IX Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor

  1578 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria

  1598 - Giovanni Riccioli, Italian Astronomer

  1620 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, Founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame

  1676 - Frederik I, King of Sweden

  1741 - Samuel Chase, Judge and signer of the Declaration of Independence

  1837 - J.P. Morgan, American banker ~ CEO of US Steel ~ when asked the price of his extravagant Yacht he answered "If you must ask the of the price, you can't afford one". I wish you could see his famous "dagger" photograph...

  1885 - Karen Blixen-Finecke, Writer ~ "Out of Africa"

  May the Sun Shine upon You ~ bye