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Sir Patrick Stewart describes his first experience of a Hamburger in America. (You’ll read this in his voice)
The Celtic custom of “handfasting” allowed couples to enter into a trial marriage lasting one year and a day.
If the relationship didn’t work out, the couple could separate without any further attachment.
Successful couples would marry.
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Meet Bessie Stringfield, the Black woman who rode a Harley solo across Jim Crow America 8 times in the 1930s and 40s. She slept on her bike when hotels turned her away, won a track race disguised as a man, carried Army dispatches in WWII and became the Motorcycle Queen of Miami.
She picked her routes by flipping a penny onto a map of America and riding wherever it landed. That’s how she ended up covering all 48 lower states, alone, through the Jim Crow South.
Full story about this badass here
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On this day in 2022, Jerry Lee Lewis died (aged 87). He was a pioneer of early rock ‘n’ roll, famous for marrying his 14yr-old cousin and I'm fairly sure he killed at least two of his seven wives.
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In 1964 The Rolling Stones did the jingle for a Rice Krispies TV ad. The song was written by Brian Jones in collaboration with J. Walter Thompson, it was never aired in the U.S
Classic clip from Australian news show, where the reporter confronts a man selling his home. But the ad ends with the words "NO ASIANS".
Liberace giving a guided tour of his Hollywood Hills home in 1972.
I would be thoroughly disappointed if Liberace’s house didn’t look like this.
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Tom Jones & Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Long Time Gone (This is Tom Jones TV Show,1969)
During the 1991 Gulf War, Sean Ono Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Lenny Kravitz assembled a collective of artists called The Peace Choir to record a new, anti-war version of John Lennon's 1969 anthem 'Give Peace a Chance'
Accompanying musicians included Amina, Adam Ant, Sebastian Bach, Bros, Felix Cavaliere, Terence Trent D'Arby, Flea, John Frusciante, Peter Gabriel, Kadeem Hardison, Ofra Haza, Joe Higgs, Bruce Hornsby, Lee Jaffe, Al Jarreau, Jazzie B, Davey Johnstone, Cyndi Lauper, Little Richard
Jimi Hendrix signed his first contract with Ed Chalpin of PPX October 15, 1965. Hendrix signed it while working as a sideman for Curtis Knight & The Squires in New York. The contract gave him a $1 signing bonus and 1% of all royalties.
This is Arthur Eggers giving evidence at various stages of his trial for the murder of his wife Dorothy. He had shot her twice, cut off her hands and head and dumped her body in Waterman Canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Her hands and head were never recovered.
Eggers was undone by the fact he sold her blood soaked car to a policeman, but it was also a medical procedure that enabled detectives to identify Dorothy.
He was executed on this day in 1948.
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