Saturday, October 23, 2010

News from the past back in the news

Orson Bean, the "Yankee" humorist who played the voice of Bilbo in the cartoon, is alive and well and writing for Beitbart.

He was always controversial in his politics, sort of a left wing libertarian back then, and still has opinions that would get him censored on NPR.

little known fact: Barbra Streisand's first TV appearance was when he was substituting on Jack Parr's program and arranged for her to sing.

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Cardinal VanThuan, who spent 19 years in a communist Vietnamese "reeducation camp" is now up for sainthood. LINK

His book was matter of fact, and what I learned from it was that even our "useless hands" when we can't work, can be of use to God.

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The Dawn of the written word, 3200BC

Writing probably started as tags for shipped goods, and evolved into lists.
Stories came a few hundred years later.


so if you are reading this, thank a Sumerian bureaucrat.
Headsup Archeoblog.

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Did Colgate new "Herbal" Toothpaste "steal" a 1000 year old recipe for tooth cleaning from India?

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Not only did nuclear launch codes go missing under Clinton, but Jimmy C once sent them to the dry cleaner.

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The Dog who prays...the story behind the video.

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and the big news of the day: The NYTimes has discovered Pumpkin Chunkin.
coming to your screen soon on discovery channel.

headsup Dave Barry

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