The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason’s and Dixon’s line, was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America. It is still a demarcation line between four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (part of Virginia until 1863). Later it became known informally as the border between the free (Northern) states and the slave (Southern) states.
The Rolling Stones were among the first British rock groups to record modern electric blues songs. In 1964, they recorded Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster” with original member Brian Jones, a key player in the recording. Their rendition, which remains closer to the original arrangement than Sam Cooke’s cover of the song, became a number one record in the UK and continues to be the only blues song to reach the top of the British chart. The Stones frequently performed it on television and in concert and released several live recordings of the song. “Little Red Rooster” continues to be performed and recorded, making it one of Willie Dixon’s best-known compositions.
The Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company was founded in the 19th century. In 1999 they ceased US production of the Ticonderoga Pencil. They were the favorite pencils of the author Roald Dahl. Dahl began using them, along with yellow lined legal pads, whilst living in the U.S, and upon returning home to the U.K had them specially shipped over for use in his writing shed at his home in Buckinghamshire.
The modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, a scientist serving in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. His process for manufacturing pencils involved roasting a mixture of water, clay and graphite in a kiln before placing the resulting soft solid into a wood casing.
Nicholas Lloyd Webber is an English composer and music producer. He is known for scoring the BBC 1 drama Love, Lies and Records, co-writing (with James D. Reid) the symphonic piece The Little Prince based on the book by Antoine de St. Exupery and also his 2017 musical, Fat Friends: The Musical which premiered at the Grand Theatre in Leeds and subsequently toured the UK in 2018. He has also written music for numerous television ad campaigns.
Leeds, North Dakota was founded in 1887 and named after Leeds, England. It is 165 miles northeast of Bismarck, and 65 miles south of the Canadian border. Its Soldier’s Memorial lists the names of all who served in WWI from Leeds, including Red Cross nurses.
gMap, Soldier’s Memorial, 220 1st Ave SW, Leeds ND > Google Maps
Live at Leeds is the first live album by English rock band The Who. It was recorded at the University of Leeds Refectory on 14 February 1970, and is their only live album that was released while the group were still actively recording and performing with their best known line-up of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon.
From any given point on the earth, a total eclipse of the moon occurs on average approximately once every 2.3 years.
From any given point on the earth, a total eclipse of the sun occurs on average approximately once every 375 years.
Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, known for her distinctive, husky singing voice. In the 1980s, Tyler collaborated with composer/producer Jim Steinman (who was best known for his work with Meat Loaf on the album Bat Out of Hell) – their collaboration led to two of Tyler’s biggest hit songs in the U.S.: “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out For a Hero” (which appeared on the soundtrack for the film Footloose).
The last total solar eclipse observable in the United States was August 21, 2017. The ‘path of totality’ of the eclipse started in Oregon and traveled in a southeasterly direction before exiting the country in South Carolina.
The next total solar eclipse observable in the US will be April 8, 2024. The path of this eclipse will start in Mexico and move in a northeasterly direction, entering the US in Texas and exiting in Maine before moving across northeast Canada.
Bonnie Tyler sang Here She Comes in Giorgio Moroder’s version of Metropolis. Moroder wrote the music, and the other contributing artists, including Freddy Mercury and Adam Ant, wrote the lyrics for their songs.
Playing off of Railer — except that it’s southeast Canada, not northeast
Makanda, Illinois, 10 miles south of Carbondale and Southern Illinois University, will be in the path of totality in the upcoming solar eclipse of April 2024. Makanda was also in the path of totality in the solar eclipse of August 2017.
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I visited mrkodi.com. I checked this new member’s posts - 5 posts as of now, I checked them all. Not sure what to make of it…
Reported.
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“tegwar” is an acronym for the exciting game without any rules. It’s from the movie, Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia, and Danny Aiello.
While searching for music to accompany a planned Peanuts television documentary, Lee Mendelson (the producer of the special) heard a single version of “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” by Guaraldi’s trio on the radio while traveling in a taxicab. Mendelson contacted Ralph J. Gleason, jazz columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and was put in touch with composer Vince Guaraldi. He proposed that Guaraldi score the upcoming Peanuts Christmas special, and Guaraldi enthusiastically took the job, performing a version of what became “Linus and Lucy” over the phone two weeks later. The soundtrack was recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, with drummer Jerry Granelli and bassist Fred Marshall. Guaraldi went on to compose scores for seventeen Peanuts television specials, as well as the 1969 feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown and the unaired television program of the same name.
Linus Pauling was one of four people who won multiple Nobel Prizes – he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.
In addition to the whole Vitamin C controversy, Linus Pauling supported a limited form of eugenics by suggesting that human carriers of defective genes be given a compulsory visible mark - such as a forehead tattoo - to discourage potential mates with the same defect, in order to reduce the number of babies with diseases such as sickle cell anemia.
Yep, southeast Canada, not northeast. I’m ashamed, as a farm boy should always know his directions.
In play: A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a curved blade that is typically used for reaping grain crops or cutting forage for feeding livestock. Various forms of the sickle can be found in many different ancient cultures.
The first grains domesticated and cultivated by ancient peoples were einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, and barley. The word barn originally meant “barley-house”.
Octagonal, polygonal, or circular barns are considered ‘round barns’. The 16-sided barn on George Washington’s Dogue Run farm was one of the most innovative structures at Mount Vernon. In California, the Fountaingrove Round Barn was in Santa Rosa but it burned down in the Sonoma County fires of 2017. In Diamond, Oregon, the Pete French Round Barn is about 600 miles northeast of San Francisco (gMap). And in Lakeview, Oregon, the Lake County Round Sale Barn is about 415 miles northeast of San Francisco (gMap) and is hexagonal in shape. In Castle Rock, Washington, the Laughlin Round Barn is about 100 miles northwest of White Salmon (gMap).