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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Reach for a Different Sun (Kindle Edition)
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The Prince [Illustrated] (Kindle Edition)
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A Manifesto for the 99% - Proposed Solutions and Priorities for a Complicated World (Kindle Edition)
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Tenets for the Tea Party - Proposed Solutions and Priorities for a Complicated World (Paperback)
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
A Platform for Independent Thinkers Proposed Solutions and Priorities for a Complicated World (Paperback)
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The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion (Paperback)
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Jacqueline Kennedy (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
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The Next Century (Leather Bound)
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Chomsky on Anarchism (Paperback)
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The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs (Paperback)
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Waggoner Carr, Not Guilty (Hardcover)
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A Manifesto for the 99%: Proposed Solutions and Priorities for a Complicated World (Paperback)
By Othello Mandelaous Pi
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Great for anyone who wants a quick overview of some of our most serious problems with concrete solutions. More specifically, "Manifesto for the 99% - Proposed Solutions and Priorities for a Complicated World" sets forth 20 proposed solutions to current problems faced by Americans, with these 20 solutions divided into 8 parts. These 20 solutions are suggested thinking points, starting places, and hopefully the community discussion that ensues around each solution will generate new ideas and answers expressed in a constructive manner. This book does not purport to speak for the 99 percent movement (or for any percent) - rather it is the intention of this book to be of service to the 99% and to all Americans, to help crystallize our thoughts and express our goals in the vocabulary of a complex world. Read more
Totally Useless Vol. 2 - More fun but useless information and trivia that you didn't know you wanted to know (Kindle Edition)
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You'll find even answers to questions no one is asking, but still want to know.
Here's just a few:
According to Beatles producer George Martin, Neal Hefti's catchy composition of the 1960's "Batman" Emmy-winning theme song inspired George Harrison to write the hit song "Taxman."
At the tender age of 7, the multi-award-winning composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch ("The Way We Were," "The Sting") was one of the youngest students ever admitted to the renowned Julliard School of Music in New York City.
To pass U.S. Army basic training young female recruits must do 17 pushups in two minutes. Males must do 40 pushups in two minutes.
In the band KISS, Gene Simmons was "The Demon", Paul Stanley was "Star Child", Ace Frehley was "Space Man", and Peter Criss was "The Cat.
The song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life.
The famous Russian composer Aleksandr Borodin was also a respected chemistry professor in St. Petersburg.
In 1992, Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, better known to country music fans as singer/comedienne Minnie Pearl, was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President George Bush. In 1994, Minnie became the first woman to be inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame. She was too frail and sick to attend the ceremony, and so good friend and comedian George Lindsey ("Goober") accepted the award for her. She died in 1996 at age 83.
Bill Haley and the Comets, one of rock and roll's pioneer groups actually began their careers as Bill Haley's Saddle Pals - a country music act.
The voice of Tony the Tiger is Thurl Ravenscroft, who also sang the "Rotten Mr. Grinch" song in the movie, "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas". He was also narrator for Disney's "A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion" album. He performed for many Disney attractions including: voice of Fritz the parrot in "The Enchanted Tiki Room, " lead singer in "Grim Grinning Ghosts" in the Haunted Mansion, narrator on Monorail. He was the voice for the Disneyland LP based on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride.
The flip side of this LP contained a number of sea shanties he sang.
In 1939 Irving Berlin composed a Christmas song but thought so little of it that he never showed it to anybody. He just tossed it into a trunk and didn't see fit to retrieve it until he needed it for a Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire movie, HOLIDAY INN 10 years later.
Bing Crosby was a staunch Catholic and at first refused to sing the song because he felt it tended to commercialize Christmas. He finally agreed, took eighteen minutes to make the recording, and then the "throw-away" song become an all-time hit.
Crosby's version has sold over 40 million copies. All together, this song has appeared in 750 versions, selling 6 million copies of sheet music and 90,000,000 recordings, just in the United States and Canada.
You might not recognize the song from the movie HOLIDAY INN...or from the composer's name of Irving Berlin. But you're bound to know it because it's on everyone's list of Christmas favorites: WHITE CHRISTMAS.
Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.
Brian Setzer, of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, started out in a garage band called Merengue.
"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
The horse's name in the song Jingle Bells is Bobtail.
The Beatles featured two left handed members, Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his 'original' drumming style.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
In 1870, British boxing champ Jim Mace and American boxer Joe Coburn fought for three hours and 48 minutes without landing one punch.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates
The hardness of ice is similar to that of concretYou'll find even answers to questions no one is asking, but still want to know.
Here's just a few:
According to Beatles producer George Martin, Neal Hefti's catchy composition of the 1960's "Batman" Emmy-winning theme song inspired George Harrison to write the hit song "Taxman."
At the tender age of 7, the multi-award-winning composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch ("The Way We Were," "The Sting") was one of the youngest students ever admitted to the renowned Julliard School of Music in New York City.
To pass U.S. Army basic training young female recruits must do 17 pushups in two minutes. Males must do 40 pushups in two minutes.
In the band KISS, Gene Simmons was "The Demon", Paul Stanley was "Star Child", Ace Frehley was "Space Man", and Peter Criss was "The Cat.
The song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life.
The famous Russian composer Aleksandr Borodin was also a respected chemistry professor in St. Petersburg.
In 1992, Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, better known to country music fans as singer/comedienne Minnie Pearl, was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President George Bush. In 1994, Minnie became the first woman to be inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame. She was too frail and sick to attend the ceremony, and so good friend and comedian George Lindsey ("Goober") accepted the award for her. She died in 1996 at age 83.
Bill Haley and the Comets, one of rock and roll's pioneer groups actually began their careers as Bill Haley's Saddle Pals - a country music act.
The voice of Tony the Tiger is Thurl Ravenscroft, who also sang the "Rotten Mr. Grinch" song in the movie, "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas". He was also narrator for Disney's "A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion" album. He performed for many Disney attractions including: voice of Fritz the parrot in "The Enchanted Tiki Room, " lead singer in "Grim Grinning Ghosts" in the Haunted Mansion, narrator on Monorail. He was the voice for the Disneyland LP based on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride.
The flip side of this LP contained a number of sea shanties he sang.
In 1939 Irving Berlin composed a Christmas song but thought so little of it that he never showed it to anybody. He just tossed it into a trunk and didn't see fit to retrieve it until he needed it for a Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire movie, HOLIDAY INN 10 years later.
Bing Crosby was a staunch Catholic and at first refused to sing the song because he felt it tended to commercialize Christmas. He finally agreed, took eighteen minutes to make the recording, and then the "throw-away" song become an all-time hit.
Crosby's version has sold over 40 million copies. All together, this song has appeared in 750 versions, selling 6 million copies of sheet music and 90,000,000 recordings, just in the United States and Canada.
You might not recognize the song from the movie HOLIDAY INN...or from the composer's name of Irving Berlin. But you're bound to know it because it's on everyone's list of Christmas favorites: WHITE CHRISTMAS.
Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.
Brian Setzer, of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, started out in a garage band called Merengue.
"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
The horse's name in the song Jingle Bells is Bobtail.
The Beatles featured two left handed members, Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his 'original' drumming style.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
In 1870, British boxing champ Jim Mace and American boxer Joe Coburn fought for three hours and 48 minutes without landing one punch.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates
The hardness of ice is similar to that of concret Read more
PPM - Our Worst Nightmare (Kindle Edition)
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
A Conscientious Life (Sailing Against The Wind) (Paperback)
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Bulworth (DVD)
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Totally Useless - Vol. 3 - Even more fun but useless information and trivia that you didn't know you wanted to know (Kindle Edition)
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The Sleeping President (Paperback)
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Friday, November 25, 2011
The Case Against the Fed (Paperback)
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Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All- —and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire (Paperback)
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News Narratives and News Framing: Constructing Political Reality (Communication, Media, and Politics) (Paperback)
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Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness (Paperback)
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Rick Perry Quotes - A Texan's Take on Abortion, Secession, Vaccination, and Everything in Between (Kindle Edition)
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The West Wing: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD)
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Globalization and Its Discontents (Paperback)
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Hemp for Health: The Medicinal and Nutritional Uses of Cannabis Sativa (Paperback)
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) (Hardcover)
By Christopher Hitchens
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The Hemp Manifesto: 101 Ways That Hemp Can Save Our World (Paperback)
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