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Don Knotts
I once worked with a great bunch of people who studied the great issues facing humanity, such as this: Who was the greatest sitcom...
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Mario Andretti
He go fast. He go real fast. If it has a motor and a wheel, Mario Andretti make it go fast. When you look at his racing record, you see the...
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Neil Armstrong
“One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” Like most of the early astronauts, Neil Armstrong made his name as a test...
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“Twas The Night Before Christmas”
How does Santa Claus look? We can thank the Coca-Cola Company for giving Americans a visual that we all now accept as the jolly old man....
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Schooners, Bloomington Illinois
I recently had the pleasure of speaking about Great American Things with Scott Laughlin of WJBC Radio in Bloomington, Illinois. During the...
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Teen Idols
In his song “The Boy in the Bubble,” Paul Simon reminded us: “Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.”...
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“Unchained Melody”
Remember the great 1955 prison film Unchained? Well of course you don’t. But Alex North and Hy Zaret wrote a memorable theme song for...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The wonky title refers to a scale of alien contact developed by ufologist (wrote the bloggerologist) J. Allen Hynek. The book, published a...
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Jackson 5
The Jackson 5 (later just The Jacksons) recorded or performed together, with various family members in the group, for more than 25 years....
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Marching Bands
If you watch football on television these days, you’d conclude that marching bands are a relic of the past. Halftime shows for the...
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