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I am a National Geographic nut from way back.  I really don’t remember the first time I saw a National Geographic magazine, but I do remember a stack of them on our living room shelf that I would immerse myself in. Is this where I got my love of travel and geography?  I really don’t [...]

British vocal group The Stargazers attained their first UK Number One the week ending 10 April, 1953, staying there for one week. The song that took them to the top on this occasion was Broken Wings , originally recorded by American duo Art and Dotty Todd. This version also broke into the UK Top 20, as did [...]

Quoting allthatiscute: Diary of a rabbit owner. Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent, because frankly I don’t care. —My bunny hates me, and you can too…
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Well, I never could find time to do this blog justice, and out of the ten or so posts, I found only two that are really relevant today. Kept those and will use them elsewhere. So, now this is one less blog. Thank you for stopping by.

SQUID PRESS INTERNATIONAL Deep Seas, July 23, 2010 Human television is reporting the first filming of the Humbolt Squid. This squid, named for the human scientist who “discovered” it, is believed by humans to be carnivorous, even cannibalistic. A team of humans obtained the film by “hooking” one Humbolt squid, attaching a camera to it, and feeding [...]

Al Cernik, better known as American pre-rock vocalist Guy Mitchell , achieved his first UK Number One song in the week ending 13 March, 1953 and remained at that position for four weeks. Not quite as successful in his homeland, She Wears Red Feathers nevertheless scraped into the bottom reaches of the US Top 20. Mitchell was one [...]

I manage a blog called Caray, Caray! (English translations of Spanish telenovelas) – it started as just me, translating one of these spectacular Mexican soap operas by myself five days a week for several months and now I have 45 co-authors. The site has had more than 1,200,000 visitors and gets more than 1200 hits a day, [...]

Since I don’t drink, and don’t want to sit around eating oreos all day, I needed a more productive distraction while my son was struggling to finish college and my daughter was getting married. I settled on – quilting! I found two traditional designs and made two quilts, and my Make your own quilt lens shows what [...]

My son graduated from college AND my daughter got married in June, and I went to my college reunion AND got sued by my crazy neighbor. That was enough to put me off my internet habit, I hardly logged on for weeks at a time. Now that excitement has ebbed and I have a few new [...]

A brief discussion over at SquidU got me interested in what my top 10 lenses are when looking at different criteria. Thankfully, Squidoo makes it very easy to do just that. So, my top 10 by rank: Ben 10: Colouring Pages – ranked 275/ 21 in Family category (29 thumbs up) Ben 10: Alien Swarm 829/37 in Movies (13 [...]

This string of exciting Number One songs during this part of the 1950s continued with the equally exciting Perry Como . On February 6, 1953 his recording of Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes began a five week run at the top of the British charts, repeating the success of the record in the USA. He [...]

Eddie Fisher, famously married to not only Elizabeth Taylor, but also Debbie Reynolds and Connie Stevens, celebrated the first of his two UK Number One hits during the week ending 30 January, 1953. His recording of Outside of Heaven was his first British hit and remained at the top for just one week. Always more successful [...]

Jo Stafford managed one week at Number One and her song was followed by another female solo singer, Kay Starr . Starr, primarily an American jazz singer, brought Comes A-Long A-Love to Number One in the UK on 23 January, 1953 having already reached the Top 10 in the US in September 1952. The song stayed at the top [...]

The first Number One song of 1953 was also the first Number One by a solo female artist. Originally recorded by American country singer Sue Thompson , You Belong to Me became the UK’s second Number One disc on January 16, 1953. This was the most successful version of the song, and was taken to the top by [...]