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Did you know that turtles have been on the earth for over 200-million years – longer than mammals, birds, snakes and lizards.
-Something to be said for ‘slow and steady’ wins the race…
They come in all sizes.
Several species of turtles can live over 100 years.
-In fact, when a turtle dies…its life ‘saunters’ before its eyes.
History 101: 1430: Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English.
just a little Joan of Arc humor.
Music History 101: 1970 New Musical Express reports that the Beatles’ “Let It Be” album set a new record for initial sales in the U.S., with 3.7 million advance orders.
101 number one song of the day, recorded by one Ernest Kador, Jr was certainly enjoyed by a lot of people but decidedly unpopular with one segment of American society.
The song earned a place in rock history by the spreading the gospel piano of the New Orleans sound as championed by Allen Toussaint the song’s writer and producer. The singer was having marital problems and he felt that one person was mostly to blame and that’s why he was anxious to record the song that was number one on May 23, 1961 for the now renamed Ernie K. Doe – and the person he felt was the root of his domestic troubles – his “Mother in Law”
Other Stuff:
A retired Florida construction worker says his lifetime of hard work gave him the strength needed to pull his dog out of an alligator’s jaws. Gary Murphy, 72, says he isn’t a hero. “I just wanted my dog back.” Murphy was working on a boat Thursday when he saw his 11-year-old West Highland White Terrier in the jaws of an alligator. He immediately jumped on the gator’s back and hit it on the head until it released the dog. When the alligator released the dog, Murphy scooped it up and ran inside his home. He took the dog to an animal hospital the next day, where it was treated for a compressed lung and cuts and puncture wounds to its back and stomach. Murphy said his wife, who was out of town when the incident happened, asked him a single question: “Are you nuts?”
(The above is a reenactment – no animals were harmed during the filming.)
Princess Beatrice’s controversial royal wedding hat has sold for over $130,000 on eBay. Beatrice wore the Philip Treacy creation for the wedding of her cousin Prince William to Kate Middleton last month. She later decided to auction off the accessory to raise money for both UNICEF and Children in Crisis. The eccentric headpiece had been described as being similar to both a pretzel and a pair of deer antlers.
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