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The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing. Dizzy Dean after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.
From Salon.com, For Bush, fund raiser is a gamble. "I've got a strong anti-gambling record in my state of Texas," Bush proclaimed to a conservative Republican audience during the Jan. 7 South Carolina debate...Bush doesn't accept contributions from gaming industry PACs, a Bush spokesman says...Thursday, the Texas governor is scheduled to pop into the Lake Tahoe area for a $1,000-a-plate luncheon hosted by gambling and gaming folks that should net his campaign $250,000.
Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders. Click on the top link and take the tour. It's really great.
The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Radio drama from the 1930's, founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. Many of the dramas are available for downloading or streaming. Very cool, very modern.
Smash Comics #32, Midnight by Jack Cole, 1942.
If your travels ever take you to Virginia you really must go to Colonial Williamsburg. This page has a list of all the historic buildings and here is a colonial dateline.
If the major epochs of the modern world are the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and Postmodern, what comes next? Are we Postmodern from now on? Is this the Digital Epoch?
During the Modern Epoch we saw the rise of Futurism, "an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909...The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities..."
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