He found the lost chord.
They had given her an honorary doctorate. While she herself didn’t attend college she did have a high school diploma (far rarer for a black woman of her era than a college degree would be today, especially since many places didn’t even have a high school for black students), and was a believer in education. She paid to educate several of her nephews and nieces (she married several times but had no children of her own) and donated to several scholarship funds for black students.
She owned a very pretty house. While it’s true she died broke there’s an asterisk beside that: she did so intentionally as she divested herself of her assets when she learned she was dying in order to avoid her heirs paying inheritance tax and in order to qualify for a screen actors nursing home during her last days when she needed round the clock care.
I think you may be mistaken. Carter wasn’t President during the Bicentennial; Ford was. Carter didn’t take office until Jan. 20, 1977. And see this:
I thought it was a myth to start with…
I think I’m not alone in that thought.
18 minutes of tape.
Regards,
Shodan
This may well win the thread. Duchamp’s piece (I hesitate to call found art “work”) has topped some expert surveys as the most influential art of the twentieth century.
Update on this: Dr. Ernst van de Wetering, probably the leading Rembrandt scholar in the world, gave a fine program last night. I asked him to make a Macolm Gladwell-style guess about the painting, and he replied that his first impression was that the painting was “silly”, but that extensive research and preservation was warranted.
So that’s what I got.
See Posting Number 90
:smack: My bad.
Regards,
Shodan
And by some accounts 18 pages from John Wilkes Booth’s diary, though by others as many as 43 pages.
Glenn Miller
Atlantis
Roberto Clemente’s body. I wonder if it were located, would the Pirates win the World Series? After all, the there IS a precedence. 
I didn’t know many people knew about her Baba Lou Delatour persona (my great aunt was a hanger-on with the Wingnuts flyers, and met “Babaloo”. She said that one good stare at her and you could see the young aviatrix winking back at you). But she did ask my aunt’s friends and all her bar patrons to keep her secret, and I think even now we should keep the sensationalizing down.
But where did the “Okinaway Beach, Iowa” reference come from? Was that just humorous? Google only brings up this thread.
Apparently not.
Oh, indeed. Ha, ha. Ha. I like a good joke… just as soon as I know about it.
– “The Royal Box”, Dudley Moore to Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe
It shouldn’t be hard to fake a foreskin. They had plenty of bodies, alive and dead, to choose from, and there wasn’t any genetic testing to ascertain if it truly belonged to the Son of Man.
One would think the Son of Man’s foreskin would have everyone’s DNA in it.
Around 7 pages from the diaries of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
That link just takes me to the bottom of the Wiki article on Carroll, but I see that, farther up the page, there’s a section called “The missing diaries.”
There is still believed to be a substantial amount of missing original footage of Bruce Lee’s incomplete movie Game of Death.