Mike Nesmith, who regarded himself a musician first and an actor second, pushed especially hard to make his fake band real, and the producers eventually relented. By the band’s third album the musicians were actually playing and singing much of their own music (with the frequent aid of session musicians).…
The main cash crops in the middle colonies were grains such as wheat, rye, and oats. Because the middle colonies grew large amounts of grains, they were called “the bread colonies.” one example. After the farmers harvested the wheat, they took it to a miller. The middle colonies combined characteristics…
The Stamp Act Congress met on this day in New York in 1765, a meeting that led nine Colonies to declare the English Crown had no right to tax Americans who lacked representation in British Parliament. Colonial assemblies denounced the law, claiming the tax was illegal on the grounds that…
Henry VII falls among the minority of British monarchs that never had any known mistresses, and for the times, it is very unusual that he did not remarry: his son Henry was the only male heir left after the death of his wife, thus the death of Arthur created a…
Harry eventually comes to possess all three Hallows – the cloak being inherited from his father James Potter, later understood to be a descendant of one of the Peverell brothers, the Resurrection Stone in the Golden Snitch bequeathed to him by Dumbledore, and the allegiance and mastery of the Elder…
One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre but was the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style (Delta blues) with a limited audience to a new level of popularity.…
Flailing his arms about, and playing air guitar, became a standard trademark in early Cocker performances. Many assumed he must have been either stoned, or crazy. Actually, it was just his way of feeling the music. Joe Cocker — 575 – Living with Lewy Body Dementia. “I never played organ…
Paul and Babe are reported to have created the land of 1,000 lakes by walking in the snow and leaving behind footprints, that later turned into lakes. Paul also created the Grand Teton Mountains while playing around with Babe. He supposedly built Mount Hood by piling rocks on top of…
The Trump administration often used economic pressure to advance its foreign policy goals. Trump’s import tariffs agitated trade partners and triggered a trade war with China. He also signed the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), a continental trade agreement which replaced NAFTA. The Executive Branch conducts diplomacy with other nations and…
Some authorities argue that early Cro-Magnon farmers were nomadic and domesticated the horse for use as a pack animal. Others make the case that domestication took place 6,000 years ago by native tribes living on the steppes adjacent to the Black Sea. Among Cro-Magnons, at burial sites people and these…