As I wrote Tuesday:Egypt’s president Mubarak is a yes-man to the U.S., and the fall of the Tunisian and now Egyptian leaders are really the ouster of U.S. puppet regimes in the Middle East.Indeed, Egypt was for many years the second-biggest recipi…
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Jan. 5, 1972: Nixon OKs ‘Low-Cost’ Space Shuttle
January 5th, 2011 |
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1972: President Richard M. Nixon announces that NASA will develop a space shuttle system, touting its reliability, reusability and low cost.
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Most Driven Into Debt by Medical Bills HAVE Health Insurance
December 14th, 2010 |
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Most driven into debt and bankruptcy by medical bills have health insurance. For example, Reader’s Digest notes:Between 2000 and 2003, seven in ten adults who were driven into debt by medical expenses had insurance at the time.Similarly, as of 2009:Mo…
James Franco, Anne Hathaway to host 2011 Oscars
November 30th, 2010 |
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James Franco and Anne Hathaway will be co-hosting the 83rd Academy Awards, according to the organisers. As per producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer, the “fresh, exciting and multi-talented” pair “personify the next generation of Hollywood icons”, reports the BBC. Hathaway was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for ‘Rachel Getting Married’, while Franco is [...]
Nov. 29, 1972: Pong, a Game Any Drunk Can Play
November 29th, 2010 |
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1972: Pong, the first popular videogame, is released in its original arcade-game form.
If it seems crude by today’s standards, well, it was crude then, too. And it was meant to be. Pong was the brainchild of Nolan Bushnell, a founder of Atari, who was inspired to develop it after playing an electronic table-tennis game at [...]
Queen: 40th Anniversary Remastered Catalogue
November 10th, 2010 |
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ALL 15 STUDIO ALBUMS TO BE REMASTERED & REPACKAGED
WITH ADDITIONAL CONTENT;
DOCUMENTARY & FEATURE FILM PLANNED
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Queen and Universal Music
Group have signed an exclusive, long-term agreement on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the group’s formation,
in 1971.
The new agreement with Universal Music covers the world outside North America, and the music of Queen will
appear through Island Records from January 1, 2011.
During the course of the anniversary year, Island will remaster and repackage, with additional content, each of
Queen’s 15 studio albums. The first five will be made available in March: Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A
Night At The Opera, and A Day At The Races.
Guitarist Brian May said, “We are very excited, after all this time, to be embarking on a new phase of our
career – with a new record company – with new ideas, and new dreams.”
The 40th anniversary celebrations begin with a major Queen exhibition in London, “Stormtroopers in Stilettos,”
opening in late February. This will be followed by a BBC-TV documentary and the production of a major Hollywood
film about the band, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Freddie Mercury. Acclaimed script writer
Peter Morgan (“The Queen,” “Frost/Nixon”) is working on the project, which is being produced by GK Films,
Robert
de Niro‘s Tribeca Productions and Queen Films.
We’re In a Global Currency War … But What Does It Mean?
October 3rd, 2010 |
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There is a currency war raging world-wide.Japan, Brazil, Peru and countries all over the world are trying to beggar thy neighbor (just as happened during the 1930s) and gain a leg up for their exports by cheapening their currencies.As the Wall Street J…
YouTube Changing the Platform of Political Debate
September 27th, 2010 |
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You probably remember learning about the famous television debate between then-Senator John F. Kennedy and then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon back in 1960. Perhaps you even saw it on television for yourself. Whatever your experience of this historical broadcast, chances are you know that the debate was a pivotal moment in politics and paved the [...]
Aug. 20, 1960: Back From Space, With Tails Wagging
August 20th, 2010 |
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1960: Belka and Strelka, a couple of stray mutts impressed into the Soviet space program, become the first living creatures to return alive from an orbital flight.
The Soviets had been using dogs for experimental high-altitude flights long before Belka (Russian for “squirrel”) and Strelka (“Little Arrow”) lifted off from Baikonur on what would be a [...]
July 12, 1960: Etch a Sketch? Let Us Draw You a Picture
July 12th, 2010 |
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1960: The Etch a Sketch goes on sale.
The technology behind this children’s toy is both simple and complex. Simple, in that an internal stylus is used, manipulated by turning horizontal and vertical knobs to “etch a sketch” onto a glass window coated with aluminum powder.
Complex, because the Etch a Sketch employs a fairly sophisticated pulley [...]
Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf to star in â€Riptideâ€?
July 6th, 2010 |
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The producers of ”Riptide” are hoping to cast Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf in the murder mystery. According to Pajiba, production company Summit Entertainment has put out offers to both actors to co-star in the film. The story follows the mystery of what happens to a group of people aboard a ship when a man [...]
Cynthia Nixon Will not Be a Drama Queen
May 30th, 2010 |
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Probably the wedding with Christine Marinoni is not so prominent, but still Cynthia Nixon can promise that she will not be a drama queen ahead of time.
Actually, Marinoni and Nixon did not set a date, for that reason there are hopes that the ceremony will take place in New York. But one should note that [...]
May 28, 1959: Inventing a New Language for Business
May 28th, 2010 |
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1959: A meeting at the Pentagon lays the foundations for the computer language that will later be known as COBOL, which goes on to become a mainstay of business computing for the next four decades.
COBOL, short for Common Business-Oriented Language, was one of the earliest computer languages. It was also, along with Fortran, one of [...]
Cynthia Nixon desperate to wed lesbian lover in New York
May 26th, 2010 |
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Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has said that she cannot wait to get married to her lesbian lover in New York.
Nixon, 44, wants to tie the knot with lover Christine Marinoni in her hometown so much that she has urged lawmakers in New York to prioritise the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
The actress has [...]
Cynthia Nixon Slams Homophobic Newsweek Article
May 20th, 2010 |
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Cynthia Nixon — Sex And The City’s resident gay — has a bone to pick with Newsweek over a controversial article that question homosexuals’ ability to play straight characters. Openly gay columnist Ramin Setoodeh has been under fire from the acting community after he singled out Glee star Jonathan Groff and Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes [...]
Carey and Shia Hook up Publically
May 18th, 2010 |
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They are one of Hollywood’s hottest pairs, but they’ve never been those ones to show off their relationship before the TV cameras.
And then it was on Fri as Carey Mulligan together with Shia LaBeouf eventually came out beside one another publically at the Cannes Movie Festival to advertize the film that brought them united.
It was [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio to play FBI chief in new film?
April 1st, 2010 |
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Leonardo DiCaprio is all set to play the director of America’’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a new film, according to reports.
Following in the footsteps of stars like Billy Crudup and Bob Hoskins, the ‘Titanic’ star is in talks to play the powerful role in a new biopic about J. Edgar Hoover, reports the [...]
Beyonce Knowles Has a Half-Brother
March 25th, 2010 |
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It turned out that a well-known singer such as Beyonce Knowles has a new half-brother.
According to TMZ reports, it was confirmed by a paternity test that Mathew Knowles is the father of Alexsandra Wright’s new baby boy whose name is Nixon. The baby has two half-sisters Beyoncé who is 29 and 24 year old Solange.
Such [...]