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For Sale: The Tough-Talkin’, Finger-Lickin’ Legacy of Colonel Sanders In the town where Kentucky Fried Chicken grew up, they’ll auction off the home, restaurant and maybe even the secret spice mix of a cantankerous innovator. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/d...
The Legacy of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders Is Up For Sale (Gift Article)
In the town where Kentucky Fried Chicken grew up, they’ll auction off the home, restaurant and maybe even the secret spice mix of a cantankerous innovator.
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I’m looking for fellow fans of meditation who can recommend some guided meditations with a guide who uses a normal voice not the dreaded meditation voice. It’s not quite as bad as poetry voice buts it’s close.
Margo Price and Joan Baez sing Woody Guthrie’s Deportee www.youtube.com/watch?v=89vL...
Margo Price - Deportee ft. Joan Baez & Memphis Mariachi (Official Lyric Video)
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Ann Lowe designed one of the most famous dresses in American history. Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding dress. For years, many people admired her work without ever knowing her name. History remembered the dress. It’s time we remembered the designer. #SheShed
The great Millie Jackson sings, “It’s Hard to Believe She’s a Child of God.” youtu.be/tJFyFYisGYc?...
★ Millie Jackson ★ A Child Of God (It's Hard To Believe) ★ [1972] ★ "Millie Jackson" ★
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If you need some weird dark hilarity with heartbreak , madness, and wonderfulness in your life watch Steve and Alice. It’s outstanding. “Alice and Steve is a British comedy television series…t features Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement in starring roles.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_a...
Alice and Steve - Wikipedia
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Me, too Billy. Me, too. But Washington, more than Oregon. youtu.be/FjKv4RJx-Q8?...
Billy Murray - Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon [1916].
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These women are the best thing I've seen today and probably best of the week. Watch ‘em humiliate diminutive billionaire Canadian goons who pretend they gaf about Utah….with straight facts, a massive dose of humor and smartassery. Suck it, Kevin O'Leary these Utah ladies own you. Watch n’ share!
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Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the second film studio after The Black Maria, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896).” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaumont First Animation : youtu.be/o1d28X0lkJ4
Fantasmagorie Émile Cohl, 1908
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Thanks to my friend Josh for teaching me about the legend of Tiger Whitehead and his wife.
Tiger Whitehead
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From the comments: "Without Doc Lewis, the Depression would have been a way bleaker and darker time than it was. Later, they called him "corny," but that corn lifted up very many who needed it. For my money, it is one of the best of such renditions. Lots-o-fun!)" More: archive.org/details/TedL...
TED LEWIS, with Jack Teagarden, Red Nichols, "Happiness Remedy", Paramount 1931
YouTube video by vitajazz
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Lisa Hanigan sings Moon River backed by Richard Hawley. I'll listen to Moon River any time. Hank Mancini arranged the music, and his pal Johnny Mercer the lyrics.
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If you're really, really lucky you get to witness something like this once in your life. This was Richard Hawley night in the Church of Saint James and his guets for the evening were his old pal Jarvi...
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“…Mrs. Lawrence’s assertion that the office-world is a method of giving the largest possible number of people the largest possible amount of nervous discomfort, to the end of producing the largest possible quantity of totally useless articles...” Excerpt From The Job -Sinclair Lewis
“This illustration is one of sixteen Wilde commissioned Beardsley to create for the publication of the play. The series is considered to be Beardsley's most celebrated work, created at the age of 21.”
The Climax (illustration) - Wikipedia
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If you want to watch something you can multi-task to and ignore but when you do watch is beautiful and peaceful with no talking then here you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country... youtube.com/@country_lif... I never imagined wanting to move to Azerbaijan.
Country Life Vlog - Wikipedia
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If you’re a jazz fan or would like to be, check out the David W Niven archives at archive.org/details/davi... “Description: 650 tapes · 1,000 hours · 637 GB · 691 scans of cassette cards. Compiled and Narrated by David W. Niven, 1930-1993. All of it is free to listen to or download.
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His album Just Divorced is an all time fave country album if mine. youtube.com/playlist?lis... savingcountrymusic.com/outlaw-count...
I'm loving this movie. Makes me want to go to Venice but no doubt it's nothing like this, if it ever was. Or is it?
Summertime 1955, Film in English, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano BrazziIsa Miranda
YouTube video by Yuppi Music
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Read this on my phone this week thanks to Project Gutenberg, though I had to enbiggen the font til the book became 1400 pages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merton_...
Merton of the Movies (novel) - Wikipedia
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“The great silent film star Alla Nazimova stars as "Salome" in this adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic. The art direction, of course, is by Natacha Rambova, Nazimova's lover and the future Mrs. Rudolph Valentino.” youtu.be/44OmwMoGWfs 🎬🍿
NAZAMOVA DANCES IN "SALOME"
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Why do the words ducky and jake mean fine or satisfactory?
Even the Merriam-Webster dictionary acknowledges both ducky and jake as acceptable terms meaning fine or satisfactory and it dates the word ducky back to 1897 and jake to 1914. Does anyone know how
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Sonny Berman -Nocturne Sonny died at 21, on the cusp of being mentioned in the same breath as trumpeters like Clifford Brown. Shot heroin and had a heart attack. Such a loss. youtu.be/Ip_BgYZOM_A?...
Sonny Berman - Nocturne (Moonburns)
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981 public domain movies, free to watch and/or liberate. archive.org/details/publ...
Public Domain Movies : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
this is a lot of public domain movies
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So Welsh Rarebit is basically an early grilled cheese open-faced? #Food!
Why is it called Welsh Rabbit (Rarebit)?
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Great album by the late Yvonne Fair. She sang with James Brown's band (and had a kid with James) and with Chuck Jackson. She opened for The O'Jays, The Temptations, The Jacksons, Stevie, and Marvin. It's a shame this is her only album. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_...
Yvonne Fair - Wikipedia
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