At the height of the British Invasion, for the week of May 8, 1965, “Count Me In”, by (Jerry Lewis’ son) Gary Lewis and the Playboys, was the only song in the US Billboard Top 10 that was not by a British Commonwealth performer. It was #2 behind Herman’s Hermits’ “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”, and was followed by The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride”, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders’ “Game of Love”, The Seekers’ “I’ll Never Find Another You”, Petula Clark’s “I Know a Place”, Herman’s Hermits again with “Silhouettes”, Freddie and the Dreamers’ “I’m Telling You Now”, The Rolling Stones’ “The Last Time”, and Sounds Orchestral’s “Cast Your Fate to the Winds”.
In the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa. is a letter from Mick Jagger to Warhol, expressing his satisfaction that Warhol had agreed to design an album cover for the Stones. Jagger closes, “You will shortly receive a letter from our solicitor, explaining everything you can and can’t do. Pay him no mind.”
The song, Satisfaction, also known as (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, was first released in June 1965. It was the first #1 hit in the USA for the Stones. In the December 2004 issue of Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, it was the #2 song. Only Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone was higher, at #1 on the list.
The existence of kidney stones was first recorded thousands of years ago, and lithotomy for the removal of stones is one of the earliest known surgical procedures. In 1901, a stone discovered in the pelvis of an ancient Egyptian mummy was dated to 4,800 BC. Medical texts from ancient Mesopotamia, India, China, Persia, Greece, and Rome all mentioned calculous disease. Part of the Hippocratic Oath suggests there were practicing surgeons in ancient Greece to whom physicians were to defer for lithotomies. The Roman medical treatise De Medicina by Aulus Cornelius Celsus contained a description of lithotomy, and this work served as the basis for this procedure until the 18th century.
Every year in the USA there are over 200,000 cases of kidney stones. Kidney stones are made of mineral and acid salts. The National Kidney Foundation reports six ways to avoid kidney stones.
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Hydrate with H2O. Drink plenty of water, leading you to urinate a lot.
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Eat and drink foods high in calcium and oxalate together, to lessen the chances of producing calcium oxalate stones.
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Cut back on the sodium in your diet.
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About 15% of kidney stone patients don’t take prescribed medications and 41% don’t follow the nutritional advice that would keep stones from recurring. Be sure you do or you may have another.
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Chronic kidney stones are often treated with potassium citrate, but studies have shown that limeade, lemonade and other fruits and juices high in natural citrate offers the same stone-preventing benefits. But don’t have too much sugar, though, because it can increase kidney stone risk.
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To avoid formation of uric acid based stones, limit consumption of red meat, organ meats, and shellfish which have high concentrations of purines.
Details here: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/kidneystones_prevent
Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” has been described by critics as revolutionary in its combination of different musical elements, the youthful, cynical sound of Dylan’s voice, and the directness of the question “How does it feel?” “Like a Rolling Stone” transformed Dylan’s image from folk singer to rock star, and is considered one of the most influential compositions in postwar popular music. Rolling Stone magazine listed the song at number one in their “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list.
Bob Dylan, from Duluth MN, is alive and (presumably) well at 75 years old and living in Malibu CA. Since 1994 he has published six books of his drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a musician, Dylan has sold more than 100 million records, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.
While it’s agreed that Bob Dylan is “the jester” in Don McLean’s “American Pie” the only person mentioned by their full name in that song comes right after the first “jester” line:
When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean.
The red windbreaker Dylan wore on the cover of his LP The Free Wheeling Bob Dylan is similar to one worn by James Dean, whose name McLean obviously needed for the rhyme.
Don McLean, in a 2010 phone interview, explained the genesis of the song “Vincent”:
“In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. I was sitting on the veranda one morning, reading a biography of Van Gogh, and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn’t crazy. He had an illness and so did his brother Theo. This makes it different, in my mind, to the garden variety of 'crazy’ – because he was rejected by a woman [as was commonly thought]. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag.”
Pete Seeger used to go to school playgrounds after school let out and play music to the students . Years later, Don McLean would tell Seeger that he first got interested in folk music when he heard him on his school playground.
McLean, Virginia, is a census-designated place in Virginia, which has no municipal identity. With a population of 50,000, it has the highest per capita income of any zip code in the DC metro. It is named after the former publisher of the Washington Post.
The DC Metro is the rapid transit system serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in the United States. Opened in 1976, the network now includes six lines, 91 stations, and 117 miles of route. There were 215.3 million trips, or 712,843 trips per weekday, on Metro in fiscal year 2015, second only to the New York subway system in the United States.
For obvious reasons, George Washington is the only President to ever appoint the entire Federal judiciary, including every member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the first presidential election (1792), less than 1% of the people in the USA voted for the winner, George Washington. 26,000 votes out of 3.9-million people.
George Washington is the only President elected unanimously by the Electoral College. The Confederate States of America wanted the same for their first President and some believe that Howell Cobb would have won the presidency except that rumors circulated that not every state would vote for him thus Jefferson Davis was elected - unanimously.
Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky, 100 miles and 8 months apart. Davis was born at Fairview, the family homestead which is located on the boundary of Christian and Todd Counties. Todd county is named for Colonel John Todd, a brother of Levi Todd who was Mary Todd Lincoln’s grandfather.
NM, ninja’d.
In the Kentucky Derby, the longest running sport event in the United States (since 1875), the names of all horses ever to run begin with 25 of the 26 letters of the alphabet. No horse has ever run with a name beginning with X.
The 1918 winner, Exterminator, should get credit for that one. His stable bought him only to help pace their prized colt, Sun Briar, in workouts, but Exterminator showed himself to be faster. When Sun Briar had to be scratched from the Derby, Exterminator, who had not raced at all since he was a two year old (and then not impressively), was a late entry - and won at 30-1.
The Exterminator is a steel roller coaster located at Kennywood Park, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. It is considered as a “Wild Mouse roller coaster”, which is characterized by small cars (4 people/car for Exterminator) and sharp turns.