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Rock n Roll turns 60
by designs inat a little independent recording studio in memphis tennessee music and history got turned on its ear.
sun records, sam phillips baby, recording a memphis truck driver who captured what sam heard in his head- rock a billy and r&b with an edge, the birth of rock n roll.
the truck driver was elvis presley.
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"Big Eyes" the story of artist Margaret Keane
by designs inthe tim burton film is ready for release.. www.thewrap.com/big-eyes-premiere-finds-audience-howling-at-christoph-waltz-and-amy-adams-dueling-artists/.
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John Lennon, 34 years, long time gone
by designs inimagine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgyahhkpfs.
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Schooling The World, Documentary Film
by designs inschooling the world.
the film looks at colonialism and its effects on indigenous peoples and also looks at the colonizers and their progeny.. http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/schooling_the_world_2010/.
do you know the people whose land you live on.. the payomkawichun people lived in the valleys i call home.
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NFL bans Player for using a 'switch' on his son
by designs innfl commissioner roger goodell placed minnesota viking's player adrian peterson on indefinite suspension for using extreme measures in disciplining his son using a tree branch switch.. sports illustrated covered details about how the process works with the players union, the player, and the nfl.. www.si.com/nfl/2014/11/17/minnesota-vikings-adrian-peterson-suspended.
i remember vivid scenes in kingdom halls and in the homes of jws who used extreme measures to discipline their children.
a father and assistant p.o.
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Muslim refuses to stand for the National Anthem
by designs incleveland cavaliers basketball player dion waiters stayed in the locker-room during the national anthem at a recent game.
asked why he responded 'i am rededicating myself to my muslim faith'.
another basketball player recently refused to stand for the anthem while on the court and was fined by the nba, dion chose to remain in the locker-room.. have you heard of followers of islam refusing to stand for the national anthem or to say the pledge of allegiance on religious grounds.. .
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Prince on Saturday Night Live
by designs indid you catch it.. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-princes-electric-prformance-from-tonights-saturd-1653735759.
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The High Cost Of War
by designs inbritain is refinancing some soverign war bonds dating from the crimean war, napoleonic war and wwi, 2 $billion worth.
2 century old debt.. our president has been reluctant to begin another war when the debt of the previous two wars hangs heavy.
those of the prowar persuasion have insisted on 'boots on the ground' a move that would require 100,000s of personnel in the middle east and allocating billions in debt to cover the cost.. "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" president eisenhower.
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Lucy Turns 40....+ 3.5 Million
by designs in1974, paleoanthropologist donald johnson and team discovered "lucy" in central ethiopia.
it was not only the find of a lifetime it profoundly changed scientific views on when and where humans began to look human.. www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-lucy-qa-20141101-story.html.
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Meet The Mormons, in Theaters now
by designs inthe lds church has a slick new documentary out now- meet the mormons.
http://meethtemormons.com huffington post etc... huffington post described it as slick, light on doctrine, and presenting a public face that you wouldn't find if you walked into a typical lds church.. i wonder how far behind the new jw.org think tank guys are on developing their own film for theater release.. .
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