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September 25, 2011

★~Today’s Sunrise: This magnificent sunrise was taken by Merrilymarylee’s BroJoe.

★~ Today’s Quote: I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. ~ Shel Silverstein

★~ National One Hit Wonder Day:

Honors the one-hit wonders of rock ’n’ roll. Anyone who ever had a hit single deserves eternal remembrance.

★~ National Comic Book Day:

Without comic books we wouldn’t have super heroes. And without superheroes what would people be for Halloween? Scary thought isn’t it? Comic Book Day is all about enjoying a good comic.

★~  Food Of The Day: Crab Meat Newburg :

Crab Meat Newburg is a rich, creamy seafood dish made with lump crab meat, butter, Today is the perfect  day to indulge in this delicious seafood dish  Pick up some fresh crab meat on your way home and try out a new recipe! Or just make reservations! Bon appétit!

★~ Today in History:

♥~ 1962 – John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Steinbeck won the prize “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.”

♥~ 1975: Billy Petty sold his prize turkey at a Pasadena, Texas, rodeo for $1,600, the highest price ever paid for a turkey.

♥~ 11981 – Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to sit on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was sworn in as the 102nd Justice.

♥~ 1984: Deepak Lele arrived in New York City to become the first person to cross the United States on a unicycle. He pedaled 3,963 miles from Los Angeles in three months and 19 days.

♥~1986 – An 1884-S Barber Head dime – one of only a dozen in existence – brought $83,000 in a California coin auction.

★~Born Today:

♥~ 1897 – William (Cuthbert) Faulkner Nobel Prize-winning writer [1949]; The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absolom!, Sanctuary, The Bear, Soldiers’ Pay, The Reivers; movie scripts: The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not;  died July 6, 1962

♥~ 1929 – Barbara (Ann) Walters has chronicled the life world leaders from all walks of life .They include the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife the Empress Farah Pahlavi; Russia’s Boris Yeltsin; China’s Jiang Zemin; the UK’s Margaret Thatcher; Cuba’s Fidel Castro, as well as India’s Indira Gandhi,Václav Havel, Muammar al-Gaddafi, King Hussein of Jordan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez among many others. Other interviews with influential people include pop icon Michael Jackson, Katharine Hepburn, Anna Wintour, and in 1980 Lord Olivier. Walters considered Dr. Robert Smithdas, a deaf-blind man who spent his life improving the life of other individuals who are deaf-blind, as her most inspirational interview.

On March 3, 1999, her interview of Monica Lewinsky was seen by a record 74 million viewers, the highest rating ever for a journalist’s interview. Walters asked Lewinsky, “What will you tell your children about this matter?” and Lewinsky replied, “I guess Mommy made some mistakes,” at which point Walters brought the program to a dramatic conclusion, turning to the viewers, saying, “And that is the understatement of the century.”

♥~ 1930 – Shel Silverstein poet, cartoonist, songwriter: The Cover of the Rolling Stone, Freakin’ at the Freakers’ Ball, Sylvia’s Mother; author: Where the Sidewalk Ends: A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree; died May 10, 1999

♥~ 1943 – Robert Walden actor: Lou Grant, All the King’s Men

♥~ 1930 – Shel Silverstein poet, cartoonist, songwriter: The Cover of the Rolling Stone, Freakin’ at the Freakers’ Ball, Sylvia’s Mother; author: Where the Sidewalk Ends: A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree; died May 10, 1999

♥~ 1944 – Michael Douglas Academy Award-winning actor: Wall Street [1987]; Disclosure, The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, A Chorus Line, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, The Game, The Streets of San Francisco; son of actor Kirk Douglas; married since 2000 to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones

♥~ 1952 – Christopher Reeve actor: Superman series, Blood Horse, Black Fox, Somewhere in Time, Village of the Damned, The Remains of the Day; champion of people with paralytic injuries; died Oct 10, 2004

♥~ 1961 – Heather Locklear actress: Melrose Place, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker

♥~ 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones actress: The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Entrapment; ; married since 2000 to actor, movie mogul Michael Douglas

★~ Did You Know:

♥~ Some one-hit wonders are the result of novelty songs during fads. Examples include Rick Dees’ “Disco Duck”, related to the disco craze of the 1970s; C. W. McCall’s “Convoy”, related to the CB radio craze of the 1970s (though McCall has had at least one other top-40 hit); and Buckner & Garcia’s “Pac-Man Fever”, related to the 1980s-era arcade game Pac-Man.

♥~ In the U.S., a “pure” one-hit wonder is an artist that manages only one song on the Billboard Hot 100, regardless of the song’s peak position. However, most American music industry insiders consider a song in the top forty positions of the Billboard Hot 100 to be a hit.

♥~ In the U.S., a “pure” one-hit wonder is an artist that manages only one song on the Billboard Hot 100, regardless of the song’s peak position. However, most American music industry insiders consider a song in the top forty positions of the Billboard Hot 100 to be a hit.

♥~These are the most successful artists that, “technically, are one-hit wonders”:
Jimi Hendrix (“All Along the Watchtower”, #20 in 1968)
The White Stripes
Garth Brooks
Weezer
Blink 182
Norah Jones
Rush
Janis Joplin
Iggy Pop
Grateful Dead

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A little Sunday Fun…Can you name these one-hit-wonders?

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Kb