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84Elizabeth Taylor, Marriages and Movies
A Hollywood legend, Elizabeth Taylor is also one of the world's most famous women--remembered for her eight marriages, her acting skills and beauty, vast jewelry, multiple illnesses and flamboyant lifestyle....
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70Cornudas Cave Men Revisited
Guadalupe Mountain caver, Robert Nymeyer, found more than just caves in the little-known Cornudas Mountain range of Southeastern New Mexico. It's been nearly sixty years since Robert Nymeyer's article "Cave...
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71My Crazy---Check Off List---To Do!!!
Okay, we all have a list of things that we would like to do in our life time. No? I don't mean the things that we need to do, that you will do. I mean those silly, crazy things that when you told someone...
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70In Memory of Blues Guitarist Mike Bloomfield
Let’s start at the end. On February 15, 1981, Mike Bloomfield was found dead in a car on a side street in San Francisco. He was 37. Somebody, perhaps a dealer, had dumped him there, not wanting to get...
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66Grandma, Your Busted!
For those of you that followed the first Hub (It's Free---Take it!) and asked for more of my mothers everyday antics. Thanks--- I will continue. As you can tell our house never lacked for that thing called...
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69Some Call Me the Gangster of Love
The Steve Miller Band was formed in 1968. With sixteen albums, and three number one singles, the Steve Miller Band became an important influence in the history of rock and roll. The Steve Miller Band...
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74Leland Stanford, Junior, Museum/Cantor Arts Center
Last weekend I visited the Stanford Museum/Cantor Arts Center to see Richard Avedon's "In the American West" photographs. The exhibit was well worth the hour drive from Berkeley. Moreover, in addition to the...
53The Origin of Taps
Taps to me is one of the most haunting beautiful few notes composed ever. Where did it come from? The true story is that in July 1862, after the Seven Days battles at Harrison's Landing (near Richmond),...
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