September 2 This Day in Humor with Mike Durrett nbsp Email to a friend nbsp This Day in Humor 149 Calendar Pick a Day in Humor History nbsp This Day in nbsp Humor nbsp Related Resources 149 Funny People 149 Arts and Entertainment Humor nbsp Humor Today 149 nbsp This Day in Humor 149 nbsp Entertainment News 149 nbsp Breaking News Satire 149 Jokes 149 nbsp Late-Night Comedy 149 nbsp Sounds 149 nbsp TV 149 Movies 149 nbsp Video DVD 149 nbsp Comic Strips 149 nbsp Funny Site of the Day nbsp Latest Laughs C Humor zhighlights htm 149 Recent Articles 149 Humor Most Wanted 149 The Obligatory Email Joke Born 1917 Cleveland Amory critic historian curmudgeon Died 1998 Born 1951 Mark Harmon actor quot Prince of Bel Air quot quot Summer School quot quot Worth Winning quot quot Freaky Friday quot 2003 Born 1962 Keanu Reeves actor quot The Prince of Pennsylvania quot quot Bill amp Ted s Excellent Adventure quot quot Parenthood quot quot I Love You to Death quot quot Tune in Tomorrow quot quot Bill amp Ted s Bogus Journey quot quot Much Ado About Nothing quot 1993 quot Something s Gotta Give quot 2003 Opening in U S movie theatres Harold Lloyd s quot Why Worry quot 1923 Porky Pig in quot Porky s Hotel quot 1939 Clifton Webb as quot Mr Scoutmaster quot 1953 Copyright 2003 Mike Durrett All rights reserved Explore Humor - Humour Explore Humor New posts to the Humor forums Doggy DreamsRaw Giggles Idea SalesmanThe Daily Diss - Weekly Wrap

During the Middle Ages men ruled — except when women did Here are a few of the women who were queens or royal consorts or otherwise ruled in the British isles sometimes through their husbands sons brothers and grandsons Elizabeth I of England Clipart com modifications Jone Johnson Lewis September 9 1533 - March 24 1603 England Known as Queen Bess or the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I ruled at a key time in England s history and is one of the most-remembered British rulers male or female Elizabeth of YorkTouriste at wikipedia org released into the public domain February 11 1466 - February 11 1503 England Elizabeth of York was the only woman to have been a daughter sister niece wife and mother to English kings Her marriage to Henry VII signaled the end of the wars of the roses and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty Elizabeth Woodville about 1437 - June 7 or 8 1492 England Elizabeth Woodville Queen of England wielded considerable influence and power But some of the stories told about her may be pure propaganda Isabella of France 1292 - August 23 1358 France England Wife of Edward II of England she helped arrange his removal and murder then ruled with her lover as regent for her son before being banished to a nunnery Lady Jane Grey October 1537 - February 12 1554 England The reluctant eight-day queen of England Lady Jane Grey was supported by the Protestant party to follow Edward VI and to try to prevent the Roman Catholic Mary from taking the throne Margaret of Anjou March 23 1429 - August 25 1482 England Margaret of Anjou Queen of England took an active part in her husband s administration and led the Lancastrians in the early years of the War of the Roses Saint Margaret of Scotland about 1045 - 1093 Queen Consort of Scotland married to Malcolm III she was patroness of Scotland and worked to reform the Church of Scotland Margaret Tudor Clipart com modifications Jone Johnson Lewis November 29 1489 - October 18 1541 England Scotland Margaret Tudor was sister of England s Henry VIII queen consort of James IV of Scotland grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots and also grandmother of Mary s husband Lord Darnley Mary I Clipart com February 18 1516 - November 17 1558 England Daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon Mary s reign in England attempted to restore Roman Catholicism The execution of Protestants as heretics earned her the sobriquet Bloody Mary Mary Queen of Scots Clipart com December 8 1542 - February 8 1587 France Scotland A potential claimant to the British throne and briefly Queen of France Mary became Queen of Scotland when her father died and she was only a week old Her reign was brief and controversial Mary of Guise Mary of Lorraine November 22 1515 - June 11 1560 France Scotland Mary of Guise was part of the powerful Guise family of France As wife of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary Queen of Scots she worked to suppress Protestantism in Scotland and triggered a civil war Empress Matilda Matilda or Maud Lady of the English Widow of the Holy Roman Emperor she was named by her father Henry I of England as his successor She fought a long war of succession with her cousin Stephen who seized the throne before Matilda could be crowned

Whilst my Top 10 Starters laid out alternative music 8217 s basics to just stick to the classics isn 8217 t really keeping with the independent spirit And the musical underground is littered with off-the-beaten track albums every bit as amazing as their more-acclaimed peers In that spirit here 8217 s a Top 10 8216 Obscure 8217 Starter Albums countdown a slate of unique unusual underground albums whose individuality and creativity has been over time like a lightning-rod for inspiration So get inspired 1 The Monks Black Monk Time 1965 PolydorIn post-war West Germany a group of American GIs start a rockband Taken under the charge of two conceptually-minded German advertising gurus they brand their band the Monks shave tonsures on their heads then hit the road with a religious devotion Their simple rhythmic confrontational take on rock-n-roll earns them few admirers at the time but with four decade s worth of hindsight the still-thrilling stands as possibly the first punk record and is the obvious birthplace of kraut-rock 2 Os Mutantes Os Mutantes 1968 PolydorThese barmy Brazilians riotous debut album was a freakadelic fusion of Beatles-esque studio experimentation and traditional Afro-Portuguese rhythms with exuberant vocals and squalling guitar-leads on show Still sounding fresh 40 years on it s a lynchpin of any alternative-minded record collection cool obscure and utterly idiosyncratic 3 Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day 1970 Spinney RecordsEvoking a romanticised notion of the English idyll this whispery gentle fragile folk record was lost in oblivion for nearly three decades Written by Bunyan as she journeyed from London to the Outer Hebrides via a horse-and-cart the songs summon a sweetly pastoral spirit with the delicate orchestral arrangements daubed around Bunyan s hushed voice like spiderwebs Since being excavated from the mists of time Bunyan s magical debut has been granted an almost holy status amongst smitten listeners 4 Television Marquee Moon 1977 ElektraBuilt around its almighty 10-minute title-track is a shrine to the very idea of the guitar as expressive instrument The six-string pyrotechnics laid out by Television frontman Tom Verlaine and his duelling foil Richard Lloyd are the defining quality of an album the refuses to be defined At once fiercely punk and shaggily psychedelic Television 8217 s magnum opus transcends the time-and-place in which it was made 5 The Raincoats The Raincoats 1979 Rough TradeThough not the most famous or most acclaimed of London s late- 70s post-punk milieu The Raincoats may be said scene s best band Best known for diffusing the punk s heaving machismo the ramshackle girl-group summon up a peculiar musical magic Slapping together seeming instrumental incongruousness 8212 tinny drum-machines screechy violin shambolic drumming shouted vocals 8212 with nary a hint of precision their debut album should be a mess Instead it s an out-of-this realm masterwork acclaimed by Kurt Cobain as one of the greatest records ever pressed 6 Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth 1980 Rough TradeRecorded in three days in a studio in North Wales the one-and-only album for Young Marble Giants achieved a perfect kind of simplicity Reducing the pop-song to its essentials 8212 drum machine as rhythm single-note guitar as melody half-spoken voice as harmony 8212 the Welsh trio found something starkly profound amidst the musically rudimentary Call it Zen and the Art of Drum Machine Maintenance 7 Palace Music Viva Last Blues 1995 Drag City RecordsWhen he was just 17 Will Oldham played a teenaged preacher in John Sayles 8217 a motion-picture steeped in the lore of proto-unionist miners 8217 protests When Oldham later turned to songwriting there was still something of the preacher in the Kentuckian his achingly beautiful cavernously lonely country ballads unafraid of biblical imagery and God 8217 s apparent savagery His third 8216 Palace 8217 album 8212 made long before he 8217 d become Bonnie 8216 Prince 8217 Billy 8212 marks Oldham 8217 s masterwork at turns urgent and volatile reluctant and solemn lovestruck and heartachin 8217 8 Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 1998 Merge RecordsNeutral Milk Hotel main-man Jeff Mangum still hasn t been able to bring himself to attempt a successor to this slice of longplaying perfection one cited by folk like Beirut and Arcade Fire as being a massive influence Parading a kind of fuzzed-out psychedelic-pop is dressed in ye olde whimsy but its songs trawl deep into the subconsciousness Haunted by disturbing dreams the specter of death and the ghost of Anne Frank Mangum fashioned an interior monologue that reads like the great American novel 9 Animal Collective Sung Tongs 2004 Fat Cat RecordsThough it s mere years old Animal Collective s most widely-praised record already has inspired a host of likeminded outfits The fifth album by the shapeshifting Brooklyn-by-Baltimore quartet spearheaded a sweeping movement of new primitivism Their tribalist percussion communal zone-outs and vocal harmonies tapped into the freak-folk spirit bubbling up from America s underground and harnessed it into something charmed and joyous Perhaps unexpectedly so has become one of this decade s most influential discs 10 Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender 2004 Drag City RecordsArriving fully-formed and with no precedent virtuosic harpist-songwriter Joanna Newsom unexpectedly pirouetted into the pop-cultural canon with her transcendent longplaying debut Carolling her whooping trilling caw the songbird 8217 s intricately-composed radically-poetic song-stories not only sounded like nothing that 8217 d ever come before but were blessed with something unquantifiably 8216 more 8217 With fingers dancing across her concert-harp 8217 s many many strings the frocked-up folkie pin-up sprinkled a magical form of musical fairy-dust laced with spells so powerful even the most hardened listener found their heart melting

WASHINGTON AP — A former chief executive of construction firm KBR Inc pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal bribery and kickback charges in connection with the company s work in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004 The Justice Department said Albert quot Jack quot Stanley entered a guilty plea in federal court in Houston to conspiring in a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials in return for engineering and construction contracts Under his plea agreement Stanley 65 faces a sentence of seven years and payment of 10 8 million in restitution The seven-year term is among the longest sentences to be meted out in cases involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which makes it unlawful to bribe foreign government officials or company executives to obtain or retain business A number of U S companies have been charged with violating the law in recent years Stanley acknowledged in his plea that a four-company joint venture including KBR KBR Fortune 500 paid about 182 million to consulting companies that then paid bribes to several Nigerian government officials In a separate settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission Stanley agreed to an injunction against future violations of the securities laws and to cooperate in the SEC s ongoing investigation He neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing in that settlement The Justice Department and the SEC have been investigating for some time the alleged bribery scheme in Nigeria involving Kellogg Brown amp Root now called KBR and three other companies — from France Italy and Japan The investigation centered on a contract for a 4 billion Nigerian liquefied natural gas plant that was awarded in 1995 to a consortium of the four companies nbsp First Published September 3 2008 5 08 PM EDT

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publication date December 4 2008 by J K Rowling was first mentioned in the final book in the series is the volume of five wizarding fairy tales left to Hermione Granger by Albus Dumbledore in The tales contained clues that turned out to be crucial to Harry Potter 146 s final mission to destroy Lord Voldemort 146 s Horcruxes Only one of the tales 147 The Tale of Three Brothers 148 appears in In J K Rowling recounts the four remaining stories for the first time According to Rowling 147 The new edition will include the Tales themselves translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger and with illustrations by me but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters 146 Archive quot According to Scholastic the U S publisher of 147 The five tales in are 145 The Fountain of Fair Fortune 146 145 The Warlock 146 s Hairy Heart 146 145 The Tale of the Three Brothers 146 145 The Wizard and the Hopping Pot 146 and 145 Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump 146 148 So there you have it the connection between the series and

is a novel by George Orwell This Great English Novel discusses the devastating effects of an authoritarian society where thoughtcrime is illegal–with alienation and loneliness mixed in Dreams are never realized hopes are dashed and passion is meaningless never destined to last twisted and subverted in the end Article Summary Quotes Terms Vocabulary Questions for Study amp Discussion Book Club Discussion Quiz Must Reads

Black cherry is the most important native cherry found throughout the eastern United States PrevNextGallery IndexImage 6 of 54Charles Sprague Sargent Black Cherry Prunus serotina Black Cherry is also known as wild black cherry rum cherry and mountain black cherry Large high-quality trees suited for furniture wood or veneer are found in large numbers in a more restricted commercial range on the Allegheny Plateau of Pennsylvania New York and West Virginia 36 44 Smaller quantities of high-quality trees grow in scattered locations along the southern Appalachian Mountains and the upland areas of the Gulf Coastal Plain Elsewhere black cherry is often a small poorly formed tree of relatively low commercial value but important to wildlife for its fruit More on Black Cherry Prunus Serotina Links Black Cherry Images Common Tree QuizPrevNext

Here is a list of the dates and locations of the Republican National Conventions that have occurred since 1856 The main purpose of the convention is to nominate a presidential and vice presidential candidate Further the Republican Party adopts a party platform listing the principles and beliefs to which the party adheres These individual beliefs are called planks Most Republican National Conventions have occurred in Chicago Further the majority of conventions over time have happened in the month of June The Republican convention has met one time every presidential election cycle since 1856 unlike the Democrats who met twice in 1860 since they were deadlocked after the first convention Republican National Conventions WhenWhereWho1856PhiladelphiaJohn C Fremont1860ChicagoAbraham Lincoln1864BaltimoreAbraham Lincoln1868ChicagoUlysses Grant1872PhiladelphiaUlysses Grant1876CincinnatiRutherford B Hayes1880ChicagoJames Garfield1884ChicagoJames G Blaine1888ChicagoBenjamin Harrison 1892MinneapolisBenjamin Harrison 1896St LouisWilliam McKinley 1900PhiladelphiaWilliam McKinley 1904ChicagoTheodore Roosevelt 1908ChicagoWilliam Howard Taft 1912ChicagoWilliam Howard Taft 1916ChicagoCharles Evan Hughes 1920ChicagoWarren G Harding 1924ClevelandCalvin Coolidge 1928Kansas CityHerbert Hoover 1932ChicagoHerbert Hoover 1936ClevelandAlfred Landon 1940PhiladelphiaWendell Willkie 1944ChicagoThomas Dewey 1948PhiladelphiaThomas Dewey 1952ChicagoDwight Eisenhower 1956San FranciscoDwight Eisenhower 1960ChicagoRichard Nixon 1964San FranciscoBarry Goldwater 1968Miami BeachRichard Nixon 1972Miami BeachRichard Nixon 1976Kansas CityGerald Ford 1980DetroitRonald Reagan 1984DallasRonald Reagan 1988New OrleansGeorge H W Bush 1992HoustonGeorge H W Bush 1996San DiegoBob Dole 2000PhiladelphiaGeorge W Bush 2004New YorkGeorge W Bush 2008St PaulJohn McCain

His longtime booking agent Carrie Moore-Reed no relation to the star said Reed died early Monday He s one of the greatest entertainers in the world That s the way I feel about him Moore-Reed said Sony BMG Nashville Chairman Joe Galante called Reed a larger-than-life personality Everything about Jerry was distinctive his guitar playing writing voice and especially his sense of humor Galante said I was honored to have worked with him Reed s catalog of country chart hits from 1967 through 1983 were released under the label group s RCA imprint As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s Reed had a string of hits that included Amos Moses When You re Hot You re Hot East Bound and Down She Got the Goldmine I Got the Shaft and The Bird In the mid-1970s he began acting in movies such as Smokey and the Bandit with Burt Reynolds usually as a good ol boy But he was an ornery heavy in Gator directed by Reynolds and a hateful coach in 1998 s The Waterboy starring Adam Sandler Reynolds gave him a shiny black 1980 Trans Am like the one they used in Smokey and the Bandit Reed and Kris Kristofferson paved the way for Nashville music personalities to make inroads into films Dolly Parton Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers TV movies followed their lead I went around the corner to motion pictures he said in a 1992 AP interview Reed had quadruple bypass surgery in June 1999 Born in Atlanta Reed learned to play guitar at age 8 when his mother bought him a 2 guitar and showed him how to play a G-chord He dropped out of high school to tour with Ernest Tubb and Faron Young At 17 he signed his first recording contract with Capitol Records He moved to Nashville in the mid-1960s where he caught the eye of Chet Atkins He first established himself as a songwriter Elvis Presley recorded two of his songs U S Male and Guitar Man both in 1968 He also wrote the hit A Thing Called Love which was recorded in 1972 by Johnny Cash He also wrote songs for Brenda Lee Tom Jones Dean Martin Nat King Cole and the Oak Ridge Boys Reed was voted instrumentalist of the year in 1970 by the Country Music Association He won a Grammy Award for When You re Hot You re Hot in 1971 A year earlier he shared a Grammy with Chet Atkins for their collaboration Me and Jerry In 1992 Atkins and Reed won a Grammy for Sneakin Around Singer-guitarist Brad Paisley said Reed was one of country music s most influential players Anyone who picks a country guitar knows of his mastery of the instrument 151 one of the most inspirational stylists in the history of country music a complete master Paisley said I m in debt to him for paving the way for myself and the other guitarists of today Reed continued performing on the road into the late 1990s doing about 80 shows a year I m proud of the songs I m proud of things that I did with Chet Atkins I m proud that I played guitar and was accepted by musicians and guitar players he told the AP in 1992 In a 1998 interview with The Tennessean he admitted that his acting ability was questionable I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think I could never do that When people ask me what my motivation is I have a simple answer money