Former indoor cricketer, and lover of sports played over 5-23 days Technical assistant to @musettedutour for her photographic efforts
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ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
🚨🇺🇸 NBC is forecasting a 75-seat Democratic majority in the House, bigger than the 2006 Iraq backlash or the 2010 Tea Party wave
In 2006 Democrats picked up 31 seats on the Iraq War; in 2010 Republicans took 63 on Obamacare.
Tonight's wave ran through Texas, Kansas and the Carolinas on an eight-month Iran war and $4 gas, and NBC's exit poll had 62 percent of voters disapproving of the president.
A 75-seat margin means Jeffries doesn't need the socialists or the moderates to pass anything, it means the Iran oversight hearings start with a supermajority on every committee, and it means the 2028 map Republicans assumed for a decade got redrawn in one night.
Source: NBC News / Writer: Daniel
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
David Bowie scored his second UK No. 1 album 53 years ago today, when Pin Ups went straight to the top of the chart on November 3, 1973. It stayed there for five weeks, matching Aladdin Sane's run earlier that year.
Released on October 19, only six months after Aladdin Sane, it was an album of covers of the bands David used to watch at London's Marquee between 1964 and 1967: the Pretty Things, Them, the Yardbirds, Pink Floyd, the Kinks, the Who and more.
Advance orders reached 150,000, and at one point six Bowie albums were on the UK chart at the same time.
⚡ Pin Ups gave David a No. 3 UK hit with "Sorrow." What's your favorite track? ⚡
ALT David Bowie's Pin Ups album cover: Bowie and Twiggy cheek to cheek against a blue background, with the title in red letters
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
Hollywood actress / singer Jayne Mansfield posing with a cricket bat. I have no idea why or when. Can anyone help? Despite her public image, Mansfield had an IQ over 150 and spoke five languages. She died in a car crash in 1967 aged 34.
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
The biggest waterfall on Earth has no spray, no roar and no viewing platform.
It runs along the sea floor between Greenland and Iceland, hundreds of metres beneath the waves, and moves more water than easily all of Earth’s rivers combined.
The Denmark Strait.
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ALT Bathymetric map of the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland: a red arrow shows cold, dense water flowing south over the sill into the deep Irminger Basin. Credit: self-made, Natural Earth (public domain), via naturalearthdata.com
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
UNDER PRESSURE RELEASED 45 YEARS AGO TODAY
“And love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves...”
A song that speaks for itself and is as relevant today as it was forty-five years ago.
Listen to David Bowie perform the song live with Gail Ann Dorsey at Glastonbury 2000: bit.ly/UnderPressureGlasto20…
Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie (Bowie, Mercury, May, Taylor, Deacon)
Original UK release date: 2nd November 1981
Highest chart position UK: #1 US: #29
Produced by: David Bowie, Queen
Video directed by: David Mallet
#BowieQueen #BowieUnderPressure
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
In Queensland, Australia, glider pilots literally surf a cloud. They fly at the Morning Glory, a roll cloud up to about 1,000 km (620 mi) long, switch off the engine and ride the rising air.
One pilot reckons fewer people have done it than have stood on Everest.
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ALT Parallel Morning Glory roll clouds seen from a light aircraft near Burketown, Queensland. Credit: Mick Petroff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MorningGloryCloudBurketownFromPlane.jpg
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
เป็นคลิปฮาโลวีนที่ใช้เวลาถ่ายทำถึง 13 ปี
คนเดิม กำแพงเดิม … น่ารักมากกกก 👻😘
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
Celebrity cricket ... when Ian Botham moved to Worcester he brought with him his celebrity following. Here Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Elton John on a balcony for a Worcester game. Given the wealth on show (as well as musical genius) what is surprising is that they appear to be drinking Blue Nun as can be seen by the open bottle at the bottom right (Graeme Morris)
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
Bea Arthur thought John Cleese was absolutely brilliant and so agreed to be in a 1983 American remake of Fawlty Towers called “Amanda’s By The Sea” as long as she could be as nasty as Basil Fawlty.
Sadly the network kept watering it down until she was playing Maude again.
13 episodes were produced, with 3 remaining unaired following the series' cancellation.
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
A fantastic photo given the technology of the time ... Herbert Strudwick b Jack Gregory, England v Australia, 2nd Test, Lord's, June 14th 1921. This was the penultimate wicket in Australia's eight-wicket win, their seventh Ashes victory in succession
ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 retweeted
40 years ago today 27.10.86 we released our second album No.10 Upping Street.Made in London and New York with co production by Joe Strummer
