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The song details the travails of a couple geographically separated by the Mississippi river. They emphatically pledge that their love is too great to let the wide distance of the river keep them separated. Overcoming alligators and bouts of distraction (the man is often sidetracked by spending time fishing) the man pledges to somehow cross the river while the woman claims she'll go so far as to swim the distance (1 mile the song claims). This is an especially bold proclamation on her part as in 1973, arsenic, E. coli and fecal coliform bacteria levels in the Mississippi river far exceeded modern WHO recommendations by over 2000% (similar to current levels in the Ganges river).

this has now been edited out of the article

In July 2018, De Backer and his partner Maud birthed a daughter, Léonie.

Catgut from kitgut or kitstring—the word kit, meaning fiddle, having at some point been confused with the word kit for a young cat; The word kit, being derived from fiddle in Welsh, a language whose native speakers are very musical.

Dubious traditions, tracing the fraternity's origins even back to Roman Emperors Nero in A.D. 55, and its name to Titus in A.D. 79 because of their odd signs and ceremonies, are at best considered peculiarities.

For the outside shots of Slash while he is playing the first solo, Rose had originally envisioned it taking place in a "cool field" of sorts. However, since the video was shot in winter, there were no good-looking fields around, and eventually the band decided to use a church in New Mexico. Coincidentally, this was the same church used in the movie Silverado.

In 2018 Reese Witherspoon added the book to her reading list.[6] Witherspoon stated it was "a mystery, a romance, a family drama....and yes it's 🔥 🔥 🔥!"[7]

Farrow married teacher Albert Morrill Bruns in December 1969[21]. They have three children and four grandchildren.[2] In 1981, she was nearing the end of a three-year affair with New York real estate heir Robert Durst when his wife went missing.[22][23]

[Margot Fonteyn] died from ovarian cancer exactly 29 years after her premiere with Nureyev in Giselle.

He became a supporter of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. in 2017.[102]

also, fuck, the 1977 Saturn Awards For Best Actor, admittedly I am drunk but I am absolutely LMFAO

In the article on Sarah Kyolaba, former wife of Idi Amin:

From 1997 until at least 1998, Kyolaba ran Krishna's Restaurant in Upton Road, West Ham, London, which served dishes such as stewed goat, muchomo (barbecued meat with salad) and ekigere (cow hoof in gravy).[2] However, it was closed down for a time in November 1997 after environmental health inspectors found cockroaches and mice in the kitchen. Kyolaba avoided jail by pleading guilty.[1][2][3]

In early 2005, the Czech Television (ČT) started a contest to choose The Greatest Czech (inspired by the British show 100 Greatest Britons). By 15 January it seemed that most of the votes (by SMS, the Internet or mail) had gone to Jára Cimrman.[5] However, ČT decided to disqualify Cimrman, saying that only real people were eligible for the contest,[5] a decision that was strongly criticized by the public.

Could've been worse - portuguese version of that show ended up electing fascist dictator Salazar.

The first edition Monster Manual notably included topless portrayals of some of its female monsters, including the succubus, Type V demons, lamia, and sylph.

Maceration of byproducts from food processing plants sometimes involves the use of a chopper pump to create a "blended" slurry [weasel words]

In 1819, Runge was invited to show Goethe how belladonna caused dilation of the pupil, which Runge did, using a cat as an experimental subject. Goethe was so impressed with the demonstration that

"Nachdem Goethe mir seine größte Zufriedenheit sowol über die Erzählung des durch scheinbaren schwarzen Staar Geretteten, wie auch über das andere ausgesprochen, übergab er mir noch eine Schachtel mit Kaffeebohnen, die ein Grieche ihm als etwas Vorzügliches gesandt. "Auch diese können sie zu Ihren Untersuchungen brauchen," sagte Goethe. Er hatte recht; denn bald darauf entdeckte ich darin das, wegen seines großen Stickstoffgehaltes so berühmt gewordene Coffein."
"After Goethe had expressed to me his greatest satisfaction regarding the account of the man whom I'd rescued [from serving in Napoleon's army] by apparent "black star" [i.e., amaurosis, blindness] as well as the other, he handed me a carton of coffee beans, which a Greek had sent him as a delicacy. "You can also use these in your investigations," said Goethe. He was right; for soon thereafter I discovered therein caffeine, which became so famous on account of its high nitrogen content."[1][2]

so am i reading this wrong, or was runge fucking around with belladonna in order to help people avoid the draft?

The song inspired a 1981 television movie of the same name, directed by Dick Lowry, who also directed all but the last of The Gambler television movie saga pentalogy.

While he ultimately embraced fascism, Williamson flirted with communism during the 1920s, and his early work contains a Left-wing ruralism which would not have been out of place in a late 1960s/early 1970s John Peel show;[citation needed] it is not without coincidence that, in his old age, he genuinely responded to the music of the Incredible String Band when it was played to him by a teenage acquaintance.[18][better source needed]

Bryce stared at rapper Joe Budden in a night club for close to 4 hours. The encounter continued outside the club when Bryce followed Joe and his girlfriend at the time. The girlfriend later confirmed she was previously in a sexual relationship with Bryce. So Bryce stared at rapper Joe Budden in a night club for close to 4 hours thinking, "Yeah".

Hartz led a normal life until a sudden unexplained emotional disturbance changed his entire personality in 1971. He refused all medical help. He divorced in 1972, rejected all his friends, and feuded intensely with students, faculty and administrators. In 1974 he resigned from Harvard, but his scholarly skills and interests remained strong.

Also known as
Alan Jesus George Jones Sprockets Mr. Spanky, Al Jaworski, The Duft

Bort is the son of Bert and Ernie on the Muppets, he was adopted after the slavery epidemic.

In 1839, she was selling leeches to the Bristol Infirmary Hospital. She died from a fall on 24 December 1864 and was buried in the Hebron Road cemetery in Bristol.[3] Her daughter carried on with her business, lived alone in Bedminster in a house full of cats until her death in a fire in February 1900.[9][10]

The Warty Comb Jelly aka the Sea Walnut, people!

It has a transient anus, which means that its anus appears only when it needs to defecate and disappears after the act. There is no permanent connection between the gut and the rear of the body. Instead, as waste accumulates, part of the gut starts to balloon out until it touches the outer layer, or epidermis. The gut then fuses with the epidermis, forming an anal opening. Once excretion is complete, the process is reversed and the anus vanishes. The animals defecate at regular intervals: once an hour in the 5-centimetre-long adults, and once every 10 minutes or so in the larvae.

(I didn't actually learn this on Wikipedia, but am pleased this crucial fact made its way there so fast.)

Sea Walnut, Transient Anus (2019)

Esperanto speakers are generally disappointed by the pronunciation of the language by the cast of Incubus.[2]

His early work as a director included The Stepmother in 1972, a film that starred Alejandro Rey.[3] In 1974, he directed and produced The Teacher, shot in 12 days all around Los Angeles, on a budget of $65,000 using the investor producers home, her boat and clever use of the industrial abandoned (used mostly for location shooting ) industrial manufacturing section in east L.A., a film that starred Angel Tompkins, Jay North and Anthony James.[4][5] in 1975, he produced and directed The Fifth Floor, a film about a young lady who gets sent to the psych ward called "The Filth Floor". It starred Dianne Hull and Bo Hopkins.[6] Other films he has produced or directed include Mortuary, Separate Ways and They're Playing with Fire.[7] Crown International released the film and The Teacher has remained a popular cult film studied by film students all over the world to this day. I know because I am Angel Tompkins and I get the emails, the phonecalls, and the mail on facebook from the generation when the Teacher was released, the stories of young men keeping photos of me in their lockers, and taking them to college to keep in their dorms, and to this day, at collector shows the one sheets, posters and copied photos made from theatre press materials come from all over the world to me asking me to autograph them and their telling me, how watching the Teacher, "Got them through school and college" So in those 12 days of shooting limited budget, Marlene Schmidt and Howard Avedis did their best.and made Crown, tons of money. God bless with love Angel Tompkins In 2007, his film The Teacher s paired with The Pick Up and released on a DVD titled "Welcome to the Grindhouse: Two Sinful Shockers".[8] In May 2012, his 1983 horror film Mortuary was transferred to DVD, with special features included, in HD mastered from the original Inter-Negative. It was released by Scorpio Releasing in conjunction with Camelot Entertainment

omg

On January 22, 1989, a review of the album was published in the daily issue of the Junction City, Kansas newspaper Daily Union. The review mentioned the song, saying, "'The Promise', a hit in the United Kingdom, is typical. Starting with a piano that picks out the melody, the song throbs along electronically with clear harmonies of Mann and Farrington piercing through the catchy melody."

"Rollin'" video received the award for Best Rock Video at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. On September 10, 2001 (one day before the Twin Towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack), Limp Bizkit received a letter from the World Trade Center, thanking them for featuring the towers in the video.

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"'Let's Push Things Forward' grew on me…" remarked Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. "It's forward-looking and anarchic. It has its own anti-big-company ethos, which I like. And it has strange little quirks of timing that I find very hard to use. Perhaps it will influence me in the future. I don't know. But it's nice to hear something that works which is outside your usual frame of reference."

Just in case you've never read it before, the Wikipedia entry for 'Regulate' by Warren G & Nate Dogg is possibly the greatest ever.

The evidence...https://t.co/dDi18qOIAo

— Lee Thompson (@leethommo) March 16, 2019

The way that has been wiped from the article now (because certain editors hate anything funny) is one of the worst things about wikipedia.

He is not to be confused with a British actor of the same name who is known to Star Wars' trivia buffs as "Fake Wedge" and who died in December 2012.

As a party trick aged two, he would name the whiskered military men in his father's history books of the Great War, but he never felt the love or pride from them that he did get from his grandparents, who provided a home from home.[2]

Andy Leek (born 1958) is a singer/songwriter, poet and musician, known for his work with Sir George Martin. He is an original member of Dexys Midnight Runners and played on the number one single "Geno". He has also written the single "Twist in the Dark" for Anni-Frid Lyngstad of Abba. His solo single "Say Something" reached the number 1 position in Lebanon during the civil war.

Although there are existing controversies that have taken on an international character about the origin and right of the traditional dish, these controversies have not triggered any significant consequences.

one for the english football nerds i suppose

He has, however, remained an outspoken critic of the game, and like all the Leeds United players of the Revie era, has remained fiercely protective of the reputation of both the manager and the club. He has suffered from arthritic knees in recent years.

Arnold received neither screen credit nor lines in this strange appearance, but he did have a chance to display his massive pecs.

The book was the necessary reading for the University Interscholastic League's Social Studies Competition in 2018.[7]

Reception of Idaho Transfer has been mixed. Time described it as a "very deliberate and closely controlled film graced with a slow, severe beauty that makes its quiet edge of panic all the more chilling", whereas Jay Robert Nash in The Motion Picture Guide declares it a "useless piece of drivel about an obnoxious group of teens".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel,_McCurtain_County,_Oklahoma

This building is not a very active senior citizen's center but they have been known to meet to make quilts and eat. The building is used as a polling place for residents of Bethel and the surrounding area. There are two front doors to the building that open to separate rooms. In the 1980s and prior, people voted on the east side and the votes were manually counted by people on the west side. Currently, the east side is the senior citizen's side as well as the polling place and the west side houses a workout center. The building is about a half of a mile west from the Bethel Post Office.

...which was the style at the time.

Where a Government has lost the confidence of the House of Commons, in other words has lost the ability to secure the basic requirement of the authority of the House of Commons to tax and to spend Government money, the Prime Minister is obliged either to resign, or seek the dissolution of Parliament and a new general election. Otherwise the machinery of government grinds to a halt within days. The third choice - to mount a coup d'état or an anti-democratic revolution - is hardly to be contemplated in the present age.

monocle firmly wedged in place there, tsk tsk

hardly to be contemplated, darragh

quite right quite right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Man

More recently, Wooten has developed a new electronic instrument called the RoyEl, which resembles a piano but plays notes not found in the traditional western music scales. This instrument is based on the periodic table of elements and the golden ratio.

In 2005, Wooten pleaded guilty to income tax evasion, after having been indicted on charges in 2001 that he had not filed or paid taxes between 1995 and 1998.[4] He earlier had been judged incapable of assisting in his own defense after filing incomprehensible sovereign citizen paperwork with the court.

the Just Intonation ---- Sovereign Citizen axis