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dobielvr said:
I googled.....Waylon Jennings.
I wanted to know.
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You are forgiven. Waylon at that time was not a big star in the music industry. He was offered a seat on the small plane that Buddy Holley had rented, but he decided to stay behind and do his laundry. That meant that Waylon Jennings lived, while the 3 stars and the pilot died in a crash on a Iowa cornfield. He suffered from "survivor's guilt " for years, because of that choice. JIMB>
 
seadoug said:
Hey, I never said I was good at 50's music trivia because that was before my time. Mostly, 70's and 80's. You are clearly hands-down better than I am.
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Hey Man, don't feel bad....My era of interest is 1950 to 1975. By the way the musical connection between Jimmi Hendrix and Joe Pesci is this......They both played in a New Jersey based show band called "Joey D and The Starlighters " . That band's only big hit was called " The Peppermint Twist" which made number 5 on the top one hundred charts. Over the years, Joe Pesci has recorded a number of albums that sold pretty well. He played bass and has a nice singing voice. JIMB>
 
Have you heard of the Sarah Cannon Cancer centers? There are Sarah Cannon Cancer centers in over 70 cities nationwide, and the Research Institute (SCRI), partners with over 1,300 physicians at more than 200 locations to conduct clinical trials.

Do you know who Sarah Cannon actually was?
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Minnie Pearl, beloved alumni of country music, known as the Queen of Countey Comedy! Full name Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon.
 
jimintoronto said:
Hey Man, don't feel bad....My era of interest is 1950 to 1975. By the way the musical connection between Jimmi Hendrix and Joe Pesci is this......They both played in a New Jersey based show band called "Joey D and The Starlighters " . That band's only big hit was called " The Peppermint Twist" which made number 5 on the top one hundred charts. Over the years, Joe Pesci has recorded a number of albums that sold pretty well. He played bass and has a nice singing voice. JIMB>
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That is so interesting....and I do remember The Peppermint Twist!
Thanks.
 
horseless carriage said:
It's obvious when you think about it. No gravity in space. Who wants to watch their poop float by?
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A bit of trivia: There is almost as much gravity on the space station (ISS) as there is here on the surface. Earth's gravity is still pulling them down quite strongly (about 90% as strong as on the surface). They appear weightless because they are in free fall . The ISS is constantly falling toward Earth, but orbit works by keeping them moving sideways so fast that it keeps "missing" Earth. It's exactly like that plane that simulates no gravity by free falling and everybody floats up even though gravity hasn't changed.
 
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More trivia for you Buffs :D

- Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and crossroads. The Three Way Goddess, her name stems from the Latin word, trivialis, which means "three ways".

- A cough releases an explosive charge of air that travels at speeds up to 60 mph.

- Mexico City, is sinking at a rate of 6 - 10 inches a year because it is built on top of an underground reservoir. Wells are drawing out more and more water for the city's growing population of 23 million people.

- The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and the UK in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

- From the 1500s to the 1700s, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat headaches, toothache, arthritis and bad breath. To name a few ailments.
 
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The first Woodstock Festival took place in which decade?​


The first Woodstock Festival took place in the sixties because it was held in August 1969 in Bethel, New York.
The festival is considered a pivotal moment in music history, symbolizing the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
The event brought together hundreds of thousands of people for three days of peace, love, and music, featuring iconic performances by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who.
 
Bretrick said:
More trivia for you Buffs :D

- Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and crossroads. The Three Way Goddess, her name stems from the Latin word, trivialis, which means "three ways".

- A cough releases an explosive charge of air that travels at speeds up to 60 mph.

- Mexico City, is sinking at a rate of 6 - 10 inches a year because it is built on top of an underground reservoir. Wells are drawing out more and more water for the city's growing population of 23 million people.

- The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and the UK in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

- From the 1500s to the 1700s, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat headaches, toothache, arthritis and bad breath. To name a few ailments.
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Well ain't that something! Trivia about Trivia. :)
 
The syphilis spirochete and the germs in your mouth look very similar. How do I know this? I had to practice doing darkfield microscopy for the state's STD program. We had to take the special microscopes to doctors' offices to test patients who presented with sores that looked suspicious for syphilis. One of the ways we learned to use the scope was to scrape sample from our mouths then view them through the scope.
 
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jimintoronto said:
Hey Man, don't feel bad....My era of interest is 1950 to 1975. By the way the musical connection between Jimmi Hendrix and Joe Pesci is this......They both played in a New Jersey based show band called "Joey D and The Starlighters " . That band's only big hit was called " The Peppermint Twist" which made number 5 on the top one hundred charts. Over the years, Joe Pesci has recorded a number of albums that sold pretty well. He played bass and has a nice singing voice. JIMB>
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Interesting info.. I love Joe Pesci, but never knew he was a musician! I had that record years ago, too!
 
Who was only the fourth pitcher in Major League Baseball to hit a homerun during his first time at bat, played for 21 years and never hit another homerun after that?

Hint: He was a knuckleball pitcher.
 
oldman said:
Who was only the fourth pitcher in Major League Baseball to hit a homerun during his first time at bat, played for 21 years and never hit another homerun after that?

Hint: He was a knuckleball pitcher.
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Is it...
Hoyt Wilhelm, a Hall of Fame knuckleball pitcher, hit a home run in his first major league at-bat on May 23, 1952

Of couse I did search for that on Brave. ;)
 
Bretrick said:
Knuckleball Pitcher. :unsure:
Please explain to this Tasmanian/Australian.
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I have heard the terms knuckleball player before, I was not clear on what it really meant either.

Here is how it is described:
The knuckleball is a rare baseball pitch thrown with minimal spin, causing erratic, unpredictable movement that makes it difficult to hit but also hard to control. Because the pitch places very little stress on the arm, knuckleballers often enjoy exceptional longevity, frequently pitching well into their 40s.
 
- Britain's present royal family was originally named Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The name was changed in 1917, during World War l, because of its German connotations.

- When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

- "Long in the tooth" was originally used to describe horses. As horses age, their gums recede, giving them the impression that their teeth are growing. The longer the teeth look, the older the horse.

- Humans shed about 600,000 skin cells every hour.

- Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
 
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Coconut said:
Is it...
Hoyt Wilhelm, a Hall of Fame knuckleball pitcher, hit a home run in his first major league at-bat on May 23, 1952

Of couse I did search for that on Brave. ;)
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Yes, that is correct. He didn’t have the best knuckleball, but he did throw a good one that danced in the air on its way to the plate.
I thought Tim Wakefield and Phil Niekro had a better one, but that’s only my opinion. Back in that era, a knuckleball was a pitch that was difficult to throw because no one really knew the correct grip. Some pitchers dug their knuckles into the leather cover on the ball.

Pitchers sometimes developed their own pitch that will stymie hitters. For example; Gaylord Perry threw a “spitball.”
Fernando Valenzuela of the Dodgers threw the best “screwball” I ever saw. It acted like a reverse curveball that also sank.
Bruce Sutter threw a “split-fingered fastball” that was almost unhittable. The ball would rise and/or sink on the way to the plate.
 
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