James’s brother Livingston Taylor’s lyrics to Carolina Day
Oh, it’s a Carolina day
On a plane out of Logan, up pops a slogan
Talkin’ only of easy times
Working at a bottle of ripple wine
Breathing that clean fine southern air
And we all start to laugh
And the people start to stare thinking
Them kids are in a funny way
But we’re all in need
Lookin’ to see the Carolina day
James Taylor’s lyrics for Carolina On My MInd:
*In my mind I’m goin’ to Carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine
Can’t you just feel the moonshine
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
Yes I’m goin’ to Carolina in my mind
Karen she’s a silver sun
You best walk her way and watch it shinin’
Watch her watch the mornin’ come
A silver tear appearing now I’m cryin’
Ain’t I goin’ to Carolina in my mind
There ain’t no doubt it no ones mind
That loves the finest thing around
Whisper something soft and kind
And hey babe the sky’s on fire, I’m Dyin’
Ain’t I goin’ to Carolina in my mind
In my mind I’m goin’ to Carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine
Can’t you just feel the moonshine
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
Yes I’m goin’ to Carolina in my mind
Dark and silent late last night
I think I might have heard the highway calling
Geese in flight and dogs that bite
Signs that might be omens say I’m going, going
I’m goin’ to Carolina in my mind
With a holy host of others standing 'round me
Still I’m on the dark side of the moon
And it seems like it goes on like this forever
You must forgive me
If I’m up and gone to Carolina in my mind
In my mind I’m goin’ to Carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine
Can’t you just feel the moonshine
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
Yes I’m goin’ to Carolina in my mind.*
I heard him sing those lyrics in Kenan Stadium Jubilee 1970, just before he got really famous, and maybe before he met Carly (“You’re So Vain”) Simon.
The first verse of Paul Simon’s Graceland
The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar
I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the Civil War
I’m going to Graceland, Graceland, in Memphis Tennessee, I’m going to Graceland
Poorboys and pilgrims with families and we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old, the child of my first marriage
But I’ve reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland
The Canterbury Tales, featuring a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, was one of the earliest major literary works composed in English rather than in Latin or French since the Norman Conquest.
Author Geoffrey Chaucer was fined in his youth (in the mid-1300s) for beating up a Franciscan monk in the Strand, London.
According to the OED Chaucer is the first known author of an amazing 2004 words. Many are no longer in common use, if they were ever, and Chaucer is unlikely to have invented all of them. But it is reasonable to believe he invented many of them, perhaps hundreds, or even more than 1000.
Here are some frequently occurring examples of possible Chaucer coinages:
Accident
Blunder
Chant
Desk
Elixir
Finally
Galaxy
Horizon
Immortal
Liberty
Miscarry
Notify
Outrageous
Perpendicular
Rumour
Superstitious
Theatre
Universe
Vacation
Wrongfully
The Pinal County (Arizona) Sheriff’s Office reports that the body of 25-year-old BASE jumper Brian Head of Phoenix AZ was found yesterday morning (Sat 27 Feb 2016) by search-and-rescue teams in the Superstition Mountains about 40 miles east of Phoenix. Head was reported missing Friday by his mother, who grew concerned when she didn’t hear back from him after he told her he was going BASE jumping Thursday in the Superstition Mountains, the Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
BASE is an acronym for building, antenna, structure and earth, the four types of structures BASE jumpers leap from.
**Comment: **I think this is the FB page of the reported deceased: Redirecting...
The FB link likely won’t work for others but he can be found by searching Brian Head and selecting:
Brian Head, South Grand Grand Prairie High School, Tarrant County.
Grand Prairie is the fifteenth most populous city in the state of Texas. Grand Prairie has a population of approximately 176,000.
Singer and actor Selena Gomez, and former Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood both hail from Grand Prairie TX. Wood also pitched for the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees during his career.
The last time the title “Duke of York” was passed from father to son by inheritance was from Richard, Duke of York to his eldest son Edward, who became Edward IV.
Every time since then, the title has either merged with the Crown or gone extinct for lack of male heirs.
A woman who holds in her own right the title to a duchy or dukedom, or is the wife of a duke, is normally called a duchess. Queen Elizabeth II, however, is known by tradition as Duke of Normandy in the Channel Islands and Duke of Lancaster in Lancashire.
Two 15" Battleship guns are mounted in front of the Imperial War Museum in London, England. The 15-inch gun was the newest, largest and most powerful of the big guns used in Royal Navy battleships in the WW I era. The gun was developed in 1912 for the new Queen Elizabeth class battleships.
The gun on the left was mounted in HMS Ramillies in 1916. The gun on the right was mounted in HMS Resolution between 1915 and 1938 and also saw service on another ship during D-Day in 1944.
The largest caliber of naval guns ever fitted to a warship were the nine 18.1" main guns fitted to the two Japanese WWII battleships, Yamato and her sister ship, Musashi. The guns had a range of 26 miles. Neither ship survived the war. Musashi was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 24 October 1944, and Yamato in Operation Ten-Go, the last major naval operation of the Japanese navy in the Pacific theater, on 07 April 1945.
In contrast to those guns, the US Navy’s Iowa-class battleships were fitted with 16" main guns which had a range of 23 miles. These guns were fired in combat fairly recently, in the first Gulf War in 1991 when Missouri and Wisconsin fired at Iraqi targets.
The first modern battleship is generally thought to be HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1906, and which gave her name to the entire genre. Dreadnought was the first battleship of her era to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a few large guns complemented by a heavy secondary battery of smaller guns. She was also the first capital ship to be powered by steam turbines, making her the fastest battleship in the world at the time of her completion. Her launch helped spark a naval arms race as navies around the world, particularly the German Imperial Navy, rushed to match her in the build-up to World War I. In 1915 *Dreadnought *became the only battleship to sink a submarine when she rammed the SM U-29 when it unexpectedly broke the surface after firing a torpedo at another dreadnought.
The name “Dreadnought” has been borne by several ships in the English / British Royal Navy. The name is a contraction of the phrase “dread nought, but God”.
Cool trivia. Dread nought, but God. Fear nothing but God.
The 1906 HMS Dreadnought was one of the Royal Navy’s most famous vessels; battleships built after her were referred to as ‘dreadnoughts’, and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts. This ship served until 1921.
HMS Dreadnought (S101), launched in 1960 and decommissioned in 1980 was the UK’s first nuclear powered submarine.
NS Savannah was the world’s first nuclear powered commercial vessel, but was an economic failure. She was named for SS Savannah, the first steam-powered ship to cross the Atlantic.
The end point for General William T. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” was the port of Savannah, Georgia. The city surrended on 20 December, 1864 after the Confederate defenders escaped capture. Sherman then sent a telegraph to President Lincoln, saying “I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.”
Hard Hearted Hannah is the vamp of Savanna, GA. Leather is tough but Hannah’s heart is tougher. She’s a gal who loves to see men suffer.