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1979 At 4:00 am an automatic valve mistakenly closed at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, culminating in radioactive leakage. Three Mile Island accident, accident in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station that was the most serious in the...

1915 American domestic Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was placed under a quarantine on North Brother Island, New York City, that lasted until her death in 1938; a typhoid carrier, she was allegedly responsible for multiple outbreaks of typhoid fever. Mary Mallon immigrated to the...

One of those you have to work hard at screwing up if you have an ounce of soul in you.

Knew a head who got to kmow another couple well enough that they would pay all her expenses while looking after their early teens? 2 week summer head vacation. She would sync her real world job vacation to it. Poured me a few drinks at the El Mo.

Mentioned before. My brother lived a few blocks north of then seedy bar district, now fru-fru in the 70s. Ray was a regular pllaying the clubs. Sat next to me at the bar once. Said he beeded to get out of the c&w world and more into rock. Don't know if it was aa good or bad move as he never...

Repeat but you can't get too much Respect.

Pretty good description. I could see how it could evolve intto an ear worm. Similar genee and same time. I had the 12 inch of this and drove my friends crazy playing it over and over. Enjoy! Good description. Similar to Taco. Same time same genre.

Like his humility and southern grace.

Nice Avatar.

Going go be a long hard slog turning congress and state houses purple let alone blue. 1812 In opposition to the redrawing of districts to favour incumbents in an upcoming election, the Boston Gazette published a satiric cartoon that graphically transformed the districts into a fabulous animal...

So, so many. One of my favs. The swaying music fits Bernie's lyrics so well.

Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, fatal conflagration that occurred on the evening of March 25, 1911, in a New York City sweatshop, touching off a national movement in the United States for safer working conditions. The fire—likely sparked by a discarded cigarette—started on the eighth floor of...

How soon we forget. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William...

I wouldn't think money will be a problem once word gets out.