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Reading: Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
Music: Mick Moloney
TV/Movie: Annie Hall
Link o' the Day: short history of the Irish banjo
Sorry I've missed the past week of Rumor Tuesdays and Friday Mailbags. The cold had me set on slow for longer than I like and certain things had to get cut out. Now I'm back, tall in the saddle, so tall I'm at risk for a nosebleed. And now we're returning to our regularly scheduled truths, half-truths, white lies, and total fabrications. This week, we're going underground.
Rumor has it... The sewers of Paris contain many of the long-lost treasures of the Templar Knights including King Solomon's crown, a piece of the True Cross, and the actual Shroud of Turin (as opposed to the more famous fake residing at the Vatican).
Rumor has it... At one point in the 14th century, there were more people living beneath Cairo than above it.
Rumor has it... The band The Velvet Underground got its name after Andy Warhol did an exploratory photoshoot in the sewers beneath Greenwich Village and commented that all the moss growing on the sewer walls made it look like "a velvet underground."
Rumor has it... The story of full-grown alligators being found in the sewers of New York originated from the discovery of dinosaur bones--specifically a Velociraptor mongoliensis which were stolen from The New York Museum of Natural History and stashed there by thieves.
Rumor has it... An underground chamber maintained by the US National Security Agency is so large that a small twin-engine plane can take off on one end, cruise for ten minutes, and land at the opposite end.
Rumor has it... Speaking of sewers, Edgar Allen Poe was a big fan of the Providence's and once found a route leading from his rooming house to the Athaneum that was nearly all underground. Author H.P. Lovecraft was aware of this route and claimed it as part of the inspiration for his story "The Shunned House."
Rumor has it... More people are lost and killed in Carlsbad Caverns than are kidnapped and killed by serial killers nationwide.
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Today's link goes to a short history of the Irish banjo by famed player Mick Moloney. Did you know Irish warriors in the 5th century preferred the Irish tenor banjo as a club? It's not true, but would't that be something?
Music: Mick Moloney
TV/Movie: Annie Hall
Link o' the Day: short history of the Irish banjo
Sorry I've missed the past week of Rumor Tuesdays and Friday Mailbags. The cold had me set on slow for longer than I like and certain things had to get cut out. Now I'm back, tall in the saddle, so tall I'm at risk for a nosebleed. And now we're returning to our regularly scheduled truths, half-truths, white lies, and total fabrications. This week, we're going underground.
Rumor has it... The sewers of Paris contain many of the long-lost treasures of the Templar Knights including King Solomon's crown, a piece of the True Cross, and the actual Shroud of Turin (as opposed to the more famous fake residing at the Vatican).
Rumor has it... At one point in the 14th century, there were more people living beneath Cairo than above it.
Rumor has it... The band The Velvet Underground got its name after Andy Warhol did an exploratory photoshoot in the sewers beneath Greenwich Village and commented that all the moss growing on the sewer walls made it look like "a velvet underground."
Rumor has it... The story of full-grown alligators being found in the sewers of New York originated from the discovery of dinosaur bones--specifically a Velociraptor mongoliensis which were stolen from The New York Museum of Natural History and stashed there by thieves.
Rumor has it... An underground chamber maintained by the US National Security Agency is so large that a small twin-engine plane can take off on one end, cruise for ten minutes, and land at the opposite end.
Rumor has it... Speaking of sewers, Edgar Allen Poe was a big fan of the Providence's and once found a route leading from his rooming house to the Athaneum that was nearly all underground. Author H.P. Lovecraft was aware of this route and claimed it as part of the inspiration for his story "The Shunned House."
Rumor has it... More people are lost and killed in Carlsbad Caverns than are kidnapped and killed by serial killers nationwide.
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Today's link goes to a short history of the Irish banjo by famed player Mick Moloney. Did you know Irish warriors in the 5th century preferred the Irish tenor banjo as a club? It's not true, but would't that be something?
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