Lady Day, you just have Too Much good taste.
Match on the first 2; liked those enough to buy the full CDs.
Add "Soundtracks with a Twist" on Rhino.
Not so much now, but was on a Huge lounge music trip 3 or 4 years ago. Even a couple LPs- Henry Mancini "Peter Gunn" (good call Rafter) & a...
In high school, I got to where I was hitting the main Raleigh flea market about bi-weekly for records. One other collector would always turn up showing me ultra rare stuff he'd found in the same boxes earlier that day. Every time.
Finally he told me his secret: he was coming out once at...
Thanks Wolf, those are great.
That checked suit Bacall wears in To Have And Have Not always gives me momentary total amnesia.
... Yes, so we were talking about tennis...
- C H
A source in San Luis Obispo, CA- "The Tribune"- carried this story too, with a photo, and this caption:
"Stanislawa Sapinska holds the original journal of Rutka Laskier during a ceremony marking its publication at Yad Vashem Holocaust museum Monday, June 4, 2007."
Wikipedia: "To...
Look out! You can heckle lots of stuff in good fun, but watch out for a man's religion and a man's heroes, or depending on the person, you might get a :kick: ... Just sayin'. ;)
account from another source
Susannah Morris was called in to examine the hoard after the death of the secretive collector and was astonished to be led not into a library or a safe room but to the basement.
In the laundry room, wedged between a washing machine and a tumble dryer, was a...
How cool would it have been the one to make *this* discovery:
By REUTERS
Published: June 4, 2007
Filed at 11:59 a.m. ET
LONDON (Reuters) - One of the word's greatest collections of historical letters, including a note written by Napoleon to his lover Josephine, has been found in a...
Didn't know the name; looked her up on Wikipedia, admirable choice, will have to read more.
--> And her article led to this absorbing discovery: Some more unassuming than others, but plenty of good reading for later!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarians
Was talking about this with some friends tonight over dinner:
What well-known persons, from any time in history, do you RESPECT the most as Good People?
Any people who you read about them and, despite any flaws, said "What an incredibly decent human being", & wanted to find out more.
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