AS IT STANDS My name is Dave Stancliff. I'm a retired newspaper editor/publisher; husband/father, Vietnam vet, Laker fan for 63 years. All opinions are mine unless otherwise noted. I also share original short stories.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Listen to some famous radio broadcasts
(Example links below)
Listen to some of the most famous speeches and broadcasts of the yesteryear.
Japan Surrenders
Hiroshima News Bulletin
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hitler Opens The Olympics
Click here to hear the rest at Old Radio World
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Learn more about how the British live
This is Britain.
We live here. We are called the British people. Find out all about us and the way we live!
This is a guide to Britain written for Americans who may be planning a visit here. Use this guide to help you become familar with the many complex, sometimes strange customs of the British People.
Click here to find a guide to British language, culture and customs which will help to know the people better.
Someday I hope to visit England as that's where my roots are. The Stancliff's have lived in America for nine generations, going back to William Stanclift. Before that we were stonecutters in Yorkshire and other areas.
President Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Since President Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of "In the President's Secret Service."
Some threats to Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicized, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.
Click here to read the rest at The Telegraph
Monday, August 3, 2009
One in 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan conquered many countries during his reign (between 1162 and 1227) and in this campaign he captured many beautiful women and fathered many children on the way. According to on Persian historian, that within a century of Khan’s birth and his extravagant mating habits had resulted in more than 20,000 children. And now his descendants make about 8% of the men in Central Asia after a genetic study of these men.
Click here to read the rest at Digital Journal
Pollution free cars are coming soon
Last year I wrote a column about another pollution free car "Vehicles that run on air are ready" that got a great reader response. I can't help wondering what happened to "Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) who had plans to release a new car in America this year.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Blogs that picked up today's column: 'Hot dogs under fire: Study slams an American icon
Check out "Bump's Guide" and you'll find all hot dog related issues and news, and today's column.
See today's column at the American Cancer Society News Circle (look under Recent Hot Dog News)
Read today's column in the Op Ed section of the North Coast Blogthing
Thanks!
Hot dogs under fire: Study slams an American icon
A $4 billion industry and a piece of Americana are under fire from the American Institute for Cancer Research.
The group filed a lawsuit in a New Jersey Superior Court in Newark against three New Jersey firms on July 22, asserting that hot dogs are hazardous to your health and should carry warning labels on the packages.
Click here to read the rest in The Times-StandardSaturday, August 1, 2009
Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved? 'Investigation Junkies' to Launch New Expedition
By CHRISTINA CARON
It has been 72 years since famed aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while attempting to fly around the world. But the mystery remains unsolved: Nobody knows exactly what happened to Earhart or her plane.
Now researchers at the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or Tighar, say they are on the verge of recovering DNA evidence that would demonstrate Earhart had been stranded on Nikumaroro Island (formerly known as Gardner Island) before finally perishing there.
During May and June of next year, Tighar will launch a new $500,000 expedition, continuing the archaeological work it has been doing on the island since 2001.
"We think we will be able to come back with DNA," said Tighar's Executive Director Ric Gillespie, who is working with two DNA labs in Ontario, Canada, Genesis Genomics and Molecular World. "We were out there in 2007 under the impression that in order to extract DNA we would need to find a piece of a human, and we didn't find anything like that. But we did find what's best described as personal effects of the castaway that died there."
Photo and story via ABC News online
Pen pals: Giraffe and goat form unlikely friendship when kept in same enclosure
They'll always have a very different outlook on life.
But even though Gerald the giraffe is rather lofty and Eddie the goat is more down to earth, they are the perfect pairing.
They have formed an unlikely bond after Eddie was placed with 15ft Gerald as a short-term solution to keep the giraffe company at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203459/Pen-pals-Giraffe-goat-form-unlikely-friendship-kept-enclosure.html#ixzz0MxBM5QNGHe's Back! This Time in Drag
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