Oddly enough, not much happened for a while, even though Einstein gave his endorsement. He attended Lemaître‘s presentation in Pasadena in1933and said it was“the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of the creation that I have ever heard”. Perhaps the hiatus was because Lemaître wa...
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and his mother was a dancer. Kurt began acting in television, and by the time he was 11, he got a small uncredited role in the Elvis movieIt Happened at the World’s Fair(1963). Walt Disney signed him to a 10-year contract and some of the movies...
When House of Blues first opened, the chain of rock clubs seemed destined to be one of those Planet Hollywood-style fads, frozen in the Nineties, with its Blues Brothers and porkpie-hat imagery and omnipresent merchandising. But a strange thing happened – HOBs in New Orleans, Vegas, L.A....
According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." His greatest fame was due to his rock-and-roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s.Turner was ...
What happened during the initial moments of the Big Bang? According to the Big Bang theory, the universe began as a singularity, a point of infinite density and temperature. In the first fractions of a second, the universe underwent a period of rapid inflation, expanding exponentially. As the...
Yes, I found out (sadly later) that parker changed the formula by 1927(?) into “permanite”. Apparently, that is not resistant to denatured alcohol. But the black section still is. I left it for 10 minutes in d-alc, and noting even really happened (sadly still some shellac on...
“normalization bias,” the human inability to see beyond ourselves, so that what we experience now or in our recent memory becomes our definition of what is possible. We think the common smaller events are all that we have to face, and that, because the biggest one isn’t in anyone’s...
This happened to me around 3pm. And much to my chagrin, they had closed and locked the doors way earlier. Noon people. Biggby closed at 12 noon and I need to know why. But wait, there's more. Across the street at Quality Dairy, same thing but different times. Still an inconvenience...
Harry Shoup, the commander on duty that night, made sure each child knew Santa was on his way, and a tradition was born. A wrong number led to the traction of tracking Santa each year with the formation of NORAD in 1958. Now every year Santa’s location on December 24th is reported ...