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Jim Marshall Contracted a Form of Tuberculosis That Affected His Bones When He was Young. He Had to Wear Plastic Casts from His Ankles to His Armpits Until He was a Teenager.

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James Charles Marshall, also known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud, pioneered guitar amplification. Marshall Amplification, his company, has created equipment used by some of the biggest names in rock music, producing iconic amplifiers. But did you know Mashall had to live in a full-body cast growing up? Jim Marshall, the […]

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Bill Griffith’s Character, Zippy the Pinhead, was Inspired by William Henry Johnson. Johnson was Born with an Unusual Tapering Cranium and Worked for PT Barnum as Zip the Pinhead.

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Bill Griffith is the creator of the iconic ‘Zippy the Pinhead’ and an American underground comix movement member. Born William Henry Jackson Griffith, he attempted to become the “next big thing” in New York’s art world, but in 1967 he realized the “art thing” wasn’t going to work out. So, in 1969, he began drawing

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The Band Redbone was the First Successful Rock Group Formed by Native Americans.

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While our European counterparts may argue otherwise, rock and roll is a uniquely American invention. Many of the genre’s most successful artists were born and raised in the United States. But have you heard of Redbone? The first successful Native American rock band was Redbone, who performed the 1970s hit “Come and Get Your Love,”

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Paul McCartney Agreed to Join the Board of Organizers of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival on the Condition That The Jimi Hendrix Experience be Invited to Perform.

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The Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward on a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the start of the Summer of Love, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding made career-defining appearances at Monterey. Still, they were just a few performers

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An Episode of “The Twilight Zone” Addressed the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle of Time Travel.

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Time travel is the concept of traveling between different points in time in the same way that we travel between other points in space. Time travel could involve traveling backward to a moment before the starting point or forward in time to the point’s future without the traveler having to experience the intervening period. But

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Golden Ticket

In the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a Photograph of Martin Bormann, Head of the Nazi Chancellery, was Used as the Image of Albert Minoletta, the Golden Ticket Counterfeiter.

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In the classic 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a Paraguayan newscaster announced that multi-millionaire Alberto Minoletta had discovered the fifth and final Golden ticket. Still, it was later revealed to be a forgery, allowing Charlie to find the golden ticket and fulfill his destiny. But do you know whose photo was used

In the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a Photograph of Martin Bormann, Head of the Nazi Chancellery, was Used as the Image of Albert Minoletta, the Golden Ticket Counterfeiter. Read More »

Little Richard Sang the Theme Song for Magic School Bus

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As Ms. Frizzle once said, The whole world is a field trip, and all the kids in our class are merely guinea pigs. But do you know who sang the theme song for Magic School Bus? Little Richard sang the Magic School Bus theme song. Magical Song for A Magical Show One of the most

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Link Wray

The 1958 Song “Rumble” by Link Wray was Banned on Several Radio Stations in the United States for Glorifying Juvenile Delinquency.

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Many controversial songs have obvious reasons for being shunned or banned, from NWA’s profanity-laced F*ck Tha Police to The Prodigy’s Smack My B*tch Up, but the reason for”Rumble, the only instrumental banned from radio, does not hold up today.  But did you know that song was banned in the US? Despite having no lyrics, Link

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Walter White Bryan Cranston

After Watching Breaking Bad, Anthony Hopkins Wrote Bryan Cranston a Fan Letter Saying That His Performance as Walter White was the Best Acting He Has Seen Ever.

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Bryan Lee Cranston is a well-known American actor best known for his roles as Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000-2006) and Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). He has six Primetime Emmy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award,

After Watching Breaking Bad, Anthony Hopkins Wrote Bryan Cranston a Fan Letter Saying That His Performance as Walter White was the Best Acting He Has Seen Ever. Read More »

The Warriors

The Book “The Warriors,” is Based on the Ancient Greek Text Anabasis, Which Xenophon Wrote. The Tex Told of Greek Mercenaries Stranded 1,000 Miles Behind Persian Lines.

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Walter Hill directed The Warriors, a 1979 American action crime thriller film. In the United States, it was released in February 1979. After being framed for the murder of a respected gang leader, a fictitious New York City street gang must travel 30 miles from the north end of the Bronx to their home turf

The Book “The Warriors,” is Based on the Ancient Greek Text Anabasis, Which Xenophon Wrote. The Tex Told of Greek Mercenaries Stranded 1,000 Miles Behind Persian Lines. Read More »

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