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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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Did you know who's birthday is today, Nov 5?
1971 Jonny Greenwood - guitarist (Radiohead)
1963 Tatum O'Neal - actress (Oscar® winner, 1973)
1962 Brian Wheat - bassist (Tesla)
1959 Bryan Adams - singer, guitarist
1957 Mike Score - singer, keyboardist (Flock Of Seagulls)
1952 Bill Walton - basketball player, sportscaster
1947 Peter Noone - singer, guitarist (Herman's Hermits)
1946 Gram Parsons - singer (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers)
1943 Sam Shepard - actor
1942 Elke Sommer - actress
1941 Art Garfunkel - singer (Simon and Garfunkel)
1931 Ike Turner - singer, pianist (Ike and Tina Turner)
1924 Ivan Rezak - composer
1913 Vivien Leigh - actress (Gone with the Wind)
1913 John McGiver - actor
1912 Natalie Schafer - actress (Gilligan's Island)
1912 Roy Rogers - cowboy singer, actor
1905 Joel McCrea - actor
1891 Earle Neale - football coach
1885 Will Durant - author
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Did you know who's birthday is today, Nov 4?
1971 Shawn Rivera - R&B singer (Az Yet)
1969 Sean 'Puffy' Combs (aka Puff Daddy, P. Diddy) - rapper, producer
1969 Matthew McConaughey - actor
1966 Kool Rock - rapper (Fat Boys)
1963 Andrea McArdle - actress, singer
1962 Ralph Macchio - actor
1950 Markie Post - actress
1946 Robert Mapplethorpe - photographer
1938 Delbert McClinton - singer
1937 Loretta Swit - actress (M*A*S*H)
1930 Doris Roberts - actress
1919 Martin Balsam - actor (Oscar® winner, 1965)
1918 Cameron Mitchell - actor
1918 Art Carney - actor (Oscar® winner, 1974)
1917 Gig Young - actor (Oscar® winner, 1969)
1917 Virginia Field - actress
1916 Walter Cronkite - CBS TV news anchor
1913 Gig Young - actor
1879 Will Rogers - author, humorist
1862 Eden Phillpotts - author
Monday, November 3, 2008
Did you know what the hardest know substance know to man is?
According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes. |
The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889. |
The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier. |
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour. |
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. |
Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world. |
Most gemstones contain several elements. The exception? The diamond. It's all carbon. |
Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man. |
Which of the 50 states has never had an earthquake? North Dakota. |
When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.
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Did you know who's birthday is today, Nov 3?
1960 James Prime - keyboardist (Deacon Blue)
1959 Dolph Lundgren - actor
1956 Phil Simms - NFL quarterback, sportscaster
1954 Adam Ant - singer
1953 Dennis Miller - comedian, actor
1953 Kate Capshaw - actress
1953 Roseanne Barr - actress, comedienne
1949 Larry Holmes - WBC heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85)
1949 Mike Evans - actor
1948 Lulu - singer
1934 John Barry - film score composer
1933 Michael Dukakis - Massachusetts Governor
1933 Ken Berry - actor
1921 Charles Bronson - actor
1918 Bob Feller - baseball pitcher
1908 Bronko Nagurski - football running back
1845 Edward White - US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1894-1921)
1794 William Cullen Bryant - poet
1793 Stephen Austin - Texas patriot; state capital is named for him
1718 John Montague (Earl of Sandwich) - sandwich inventor
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Did you know these Presidential campaign facts?
Did you know these Campaign facts for 2008 Presidental Race?
Did you know that for the first time ever in U.S. history, the candidates for president have raised more than $1 billion campaign dollars?
Did you know that Obama raised $10 million dollars to pay down Hillary Clintons Clinton's campaign debt?
Did you know that Barack Obama's campaign spent nearly $3 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April?
Did you know that the biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential online ad dollars was Google?
Did you know that Obama mastered new technology, turning the Internet into an incredible political networking tool and attracting record numbers of donors giving less than $200?
Did you know as much as $3 billion could be spent by political campaigns leading up to the November election?
Did you know that Sen. Barack Obama has raised $7.8 million for his campaign in one day?
Did you know that the candidates have traveled more miles, employed more workers and advertised more than ever in this presidential campaign?
Did you know that Obama has raised $641 million dollars and had over3.2 million donors?
Did you know that neither Obama nor McCain participated in public financing during the primaries?
Did you know because Obama abandoned the public financing system, and because he did has rewritten the rules for financing campaigns?
Obama outspent Republican nominee John McCain in all of the most competitive states, save for Iowa and Minnesota, where he has a comfortable lead in recent polls.
Did you know that Obama has used his financial edge to turn once-reliable GOP states into hard-fought battlegrounds? In that same week, according to an independent study, Obama outspent McCain by more than 8 to 1 in North Carolina and 3 to 1 in Indiana. Did you know that no Democrat has won either state in more than three decades?
Did you know that Obama was the first candidate to forgo public funding since the federal system was adopted in 1976 after the Watergate scandal? McCain accepted $84.1 million from Washington, and that is all he can spend. Sen. McCain is making very tough decisions where to spend his money."
Did you know that Obama had more than $77 million in the bank on Aug. 31, 2008?
Did you know that Obama is on pace to raise at least $100 million more by Election Day. That would mean a cash advantage over McCain of better than 2 to 1.
Did you know that Obama half-hour prime-time broadcast on CBS and NBC on Oct. 29 was the first time in years that a presidential candidate has made such a substantial investment in national TV?
Did you know that Ross Perot, a billionaire who bankrolled much of his own campaign, drew an audience of 26 million to his 1992 simulcast on ABC and CBS?
Did you know that Senator Barack Obama’s infomercial drew 33.5 million U.S. viewers Wednesday night, according to Nielsen?
Did you know that 2008 boosted Obama into the position of the most successful presidential fundraiser ever?