"Ray" is an excellent movie. Jamie Foxx did a great job in the film and earned the Oscar for Best Actor--and he was excellent in the title role. The film also showed many of the warts in Ray Charles' life--such as affairs and drug abuse. However, as a history teacher, I should...
Ray Charles Robinson was a music legend with many contradictions. Witnessing helplessly as his brother drowned at the age of five and becoming blind at the age of seven, he went on to become a pop culture figure, earning a fanbase across the world for his unique music gel that infused vari...
In May 2020, the sculptor Charles Ray was driving north from his home in Los Angeles to Anacortes, in Washington state, to see a man about a boat. Locked up in the early months of the pandemic, the restless Ray got what he calls ‘Covid fever’ and, despite the entreaties of his w...
American inventor Charles Kettering said“Keep on going, and chances are you will stumble onto something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”On a Saturday in May 2016, I got off my tail, visited a neighboring Rotary Di...
Charles Bukowski –“The Hell of It Is to Throw Away Rejected Poems That Seem to Say Something Anyhow Even If Perhaps Not Too Well—” E.K.Albrecht –“Monday Morning Coffee Break” E.K.Albrecht –“Haiku” (“Bright sky watches as…”) ...
There is wonderful history to this place which was given to Alstead by philanthropist Charles Nathaniel Vilas. In my recent history article, “Did You Know That…” in THE WALPOLE CLARION, I shared some history of the park, encouraging my readers to visit. Below, with some great (I think)...
Brynner managed to avoid being upstaged on screen despite the presence of such up-and-coming major stars as Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. After that film, Brynner would not enjoy a notable hit until his appearance as a seemingly indestructible and deadly robot...
Review: Charles Burnett, Numerals and Arithmetic in the Middle Ages, Ashgate Variorum; December 2010; ISBN: 978-1-4094-0368-5;... and Ray-mond of Marseilles and JohannesHispalensis, among others, com-posed several works on the astro-labe in Latin.The reviewer would like to stress... R...
This was back in the Wally West days, not Barry Allen like the new show currently airing. Barry had died way back in the Crisis on Infinite Earths event in the 80s, long replaced by his now grown sidekick. Wally was more of an everyman hero, without a secret identity, but still very...
Brynner managed to avoid being upstaged on screen despite the presence of such up-and-coming major stars as Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. After that film, Brynner would not enjoy a notable hit until his appearance as a seemingly indestructible and deadly robot...