For some reason this story headline just cracked me up. I guess if Frank Sinatra’s piping-hot memories aren’t available, Frank Sinatra Jr.’s lukewarm memories are the next best thing. Turns out that “Frank Sinatra Jr.’s Vegas Memories” are mostly of the shrugging-the-shoulders variety.
Note to Cincinnati criminals: don’t mess with the grannies. Mike Bedinghaus already tried it:
It’s impossible to keep a secret… especially one as wonderful as this. We want to be the first to share with everyone this great news that we are expecting a new addition to our family.That’s the news from John Travolta’s official site. Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, are expecting a baby in November. He’s 56, she’s 47, just in case you’re counting along at home.
Bicycle champion Lance Armstrong “participated in doping” while winning some of his seven Tour de France victories, according to former teammate Floyd Landis.
The First Dog is valued at $1600 — as revealed in President Obama’s financial forms. He’s listed as a gift to the Obamas from the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
We’re pretty sure she isn’t, but pageant officials are skirting the issue.This AP story is typical of the pageant’s take on the background of Rima Fakih, who was named Miss USA 2010 on Sunday night:
Below is the audio recording of Vice President Alben William Barkley speaking his last words, on 30 April 1956. Barkley had a heart attack in the middle of a speech at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He was 78 years old at the time, serving as a U.S. senator from Kentucky.
It happened in Antarctica in 1961. The doctor — and patient — was one Leonid Rogozov.”The operation started at about 22:00 on 30 April with the help of a
driver and meteorologist, who were providing instruments and holding a
mirror to observe areas not directly visible, while Rogozov was in a
semi-reclining position… Rogozov made a 10-12 cm incision and
proceeded to expose the appendix.”
Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA 2010 last night as Donald Trump proudly looked on. (He owns the pageant, after all.)
Former United States Vice President Levi P. Morton was born on this day in 1824, in Shoreham, Vermont.
Levi P. Morton also died on this day — on his 96th birthday! — in 1920.