” England’s godfathers of hard rock and heavy metal. Master guitarist Ritchie Blackmore plays probably the most famous guitar riff in history on “Smoke on the Water” and lightning-quick solos on “Highway Star” and “Burn.” Ian Gillan (later David Coverdale) has...
(Benjamin Read, Illustrated History of New Mexico, 1912) As a major expression of Manifest Destiny, the American Army occupied Santa Fe in mid-August 1846. Steven Watts Kearny invited Padre Martinez and his brothers to swear allegiance to the United States and they did. Martinez took his ...
“The audience just wouldn’t let us offstage.” Over 168 shows that year, as they unveiled new songs like “Whole Lotta Love,” Zep’s live fury and future promise came into view. “This group could become one of the biggest bands in history,” Jones said. “I hope we don’t ...
Many years ago, I wrote: “Never in the history of humanity had so many freedoms been won for the individual in so many countries. Yet, liberty without responsibility poses the greatest threat to democracy” (Wong, 2001). Freedom is never free. Countless people have...
are how leaders universally reach up to clean skies. Why would you live in a universal cloud, of flour and more far too foul? the best of universal shortcuts, can help keep you from throwing in the towel, that YOUR bottom line goes up concomitantly with your use of universal shortcuts ...
“Moses said to the Lord, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.’ The Lord said to him, ‘Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives...
which is not founded in a single historic event or prophet, but which itself precedes recorded history. Hinduism has been called the “cradle of spirituality,” and the “mother of all religions,” partially because it has influenced virtually every major religion and partly because it can absorb...
Thanks to multiple insiders, we now know that leaders who surrendered their gold and treasure, and/or had it forcibly stolen from their countries, were given bronze boxes filled with Federal Reserve bonds in exchange for their assets. The value of these bonds is much, much greater than the ...
for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant. ...
Fu-Manchu) <1913> - Fu Manchu became active in England, sending his subjects to murder people with the "Zayat kiss," a giant poisonous centipede. Sir Denis Nayland Smith enlisted his friend Dr. Petrie to aid him. Together, they found an ally in Fu's own servant girl Kâramanéh, ...