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Movie Fan's Guide to the Classic 'Thin Man' Films
For witty dialog and stylish fun, the six "Thin Man" movies from the 1930s and 40s starring William Powell and Myrna Loy are hard to beat.
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Best Actor Oscar Nominations for Actors Playing Priests
Eight actors have been nominated for Academy Awards® for their performances as Roman Catholic priests. Three won the Oscar®: Spencer Tracy for San Francisco, and Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way. Each...
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1948 Academy Award for Best Actor: The Nominees and Their Movies
The 1948 Oscar nominations for Best Actor recognized excellent performances by Ronald Colman, John Garfield, Gregory Peck, William Powell, and Michael Redgrave.
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1944 Academy Award for Best Actor: The Nominees and Their Movies
In 1944, the Academy Award nominations for Best Actor went to Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Walter Pidgeon, and Mickey Rooney. These five stars played memorable characters in great movies.
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Famous Works of Art on U.S. Stamps: 1974 Universal Postal Union Commemoratives
In 1974, the United States Postal Service issued a beautiful set of commemorative stamps in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Universal Postal Union. Each of the eight stamps in the set...
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Movie Fan's Guide to the Irving Thalberg Award Winners
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is a prestigious honorary award that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has presented to 36 individuals to date. The honorees, selected by the Academy's Board of...
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1937 Five Cent Navy Stamp: United States Naval Academy at Annapolis
Stamp collecting is wonderful way to learn history. From 1936 to 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a series of ten commemorative postage stamps featuring military heroes from the Revolutionary War through the...
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1937 Four-Cent Navy Stamp: William Sampson, George Dewey, and Winfield Scott Schley
Collecting commemorative stamps can provide a great introduction to history. In 1936 and 1937, the United States Post Office issued a series of ten Army and Navy commemorative stamps honoring heroes from the...
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1937 Three-Cent Navy Stamp: David Farragut and David Porter
Collecting stamps provides a wonderful and fun way to learn history. In 1936 and 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a series of ten Army and Navy commemorative stamps honoring heroes from the Revolutionary War through...
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1937 Two-Cent Navy Stamp: Stephen Decatur and Thomas Macdonough
Collecting stamps is a great way to learn history. In 1936 and 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a series of ten commemorative stamps to honor heroes from the Revolutionary War through the Spanish-American War. The...
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1936 One-Cent Navy Stamp: John Paul Jones and John Barry
Learn history through stamp collecting. In 1936 and 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a series of ten commemorative postage stamps honoring military heroes from the Revolutionary War through the Spanish-American War....
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1937 Five-Cent Army Stamp: United States Military Academy at West Point
Learn history by collecting stamps. From 1936 to 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a series of ten commemorative postage stamps featuring military heroes from the Revolutionary War through the Spanish-American War. The...
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1937 Four-Cent Army Stamp: Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and Stratford Hall
Learn history by collecting stamps. From 1936 to 1937, the United States Post Office issued a series of ten commemorative postage stamps featuring Army and Navy heroes from American wars in the 18th and 19th centuries....
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1937 Three-Cent Army Stamp: William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, and Philip Sheridan
Learn history through stamp collecting. From 1936 to 1937, the United States Post Office issued a series of commemorative postage stamps that featured Army and Navy heroes from American wars prior to 1900. The...
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1937 Two-Cent Army Stamp: Andrew Jackson, Winfield Scott, and the Hermitage
Learn history through collecting stamps. In 1936 and 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a series of ten commemorative postage stamps honoring Army and Navy heroes from American wars. The two-cent Army stamp honors...
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1936 One-Cent Army Stamp: George Washington, Nathanael Greene, and Mount Vernon
Learn history by collecting stamps. In 1936 and 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a series of ten commemorative postage stamps honoring military heroes from the Revolutionary War through the Spanish-American War. The...
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Waterfall Jumper Sam Patch: Early American Daredevil
Sam Patch, a mill worker from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, captivated the American public in the 1820s with his spectacular, death-defying leaps off waterfalls and other high, dangerous places. Patch became known as the...
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Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park: Natural Beauty and Urban History in New Jersey
The Great Falls of the Passaic River in northern New Jersey, with the surrounding historic mill area in the City of Paterson, has been designated as America’s 45th National Historical Park, the 397th unit of the...
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History of MLB Expansion and Franchise Moves
The modern era of Major League Baseball began with 8 teams in the National League in 1900 and 8 in the American League in 1901. For 60 years, the Major Leagues were comprised of those 16 original teams, with only a...
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1962 New York Mets: The Lovable Losers
In 1962, their first season, the New York Mets managed to lose more baseball games than any other team in the 20th century. But fans flocked to the "amazin'" team, even though nobody could play the game.
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History of MLB Pitching Triple Crown Winners - American League
Only 11 pitchers have won the AL pitching Triple Crown, leading the league in wins, ERA, and strikeouts. Among the winners are some of the greatest pitchers in MLB history, including 8 Hall of Famers.
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History of MLB Pitching Triple Crown Winners - National League
Only 16 pitchers have ever won the NL pitching Triple Crown, leading the league in wins, ERA, and strikeouts. The winners include some of the best pitchers in MLB history, including 10 Hall of Famers.
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Edwin Booth: 19th Century Tragic Actor
Edwin Booth, the great Shakespearean actor, achieved his fame through tragedy. Ironically, the tragic assassination of President Lincoln by his younger brother nearly undermined his success.
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The Only Movies That Have Won the Big 5 Oscars
In the long history of the Academy Awards, it has been very rare for a movie to sweep the so-called "Big Five" Oscars. It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs...
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History of MLB Batting Triple Crown Winners
Only 14 players have ever won baseball's batting Triple Crown, leading the league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in. All 11 20th century winners are in the Hall of Fame. In 2012, Miguel Cabrera joined...
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How to Convert Vinyl Records to MP3 or AAC: A Step-by-Step Guide
Don't waste money buying music that you already own. Preserve your record collection using this proven workflow for converting vinyl LPs to MP3 or M4A (AAC) digital format for use in iTunes.
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Brian Lokker is a web designer, developer, and publisher. He writes and publishes articles about all things coffee-related on his website Coffee Crossroads. He also enjoys writing about movies, books, history, language, baseball, travel, and stamp collecting. Brian has a graduate degree in English and a law degree. In addition to practicing law for over 20 years, he has been a university instructor and worked in book publishing as an editor and designer.