“As you boys know your pop was a not a day at the beach. ‘C’ lived a life where he did what he wanted to do and he let the chips, human and otherwise, fall where they may. Like a lot of us your pop was capable of great magic and also of making quite an amazing mess.
Basketball star Dirk Nowitzky at a rally
No, probably not.Noting that Robert was in the habit of administering Elizabeth’s medicines himself, his accusers claim that towards the end of her life he increased the daily dosage of laudanum to a fatal level… And it is true that towards the end of her life, her English doctor did prescribe stronger medication to alleviate Elizabeth’s symptoms of suffocation, irregular heart action and severe coughing fits.
Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died on this day 150 years ago.
Monegasques rejoice! Prince Albert of Monaco will marry Charlene Wittstock in a royal wedding this weekend, July 1st and 2nd. Let’s look at a few photos as we answer your burning questions. What and where is Monaco?
Former Illinois governor Rod “Blago” Blagojevich was found guilty of 17 out of 20 counts on charges that basically boil down to him trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008.
Michelle Bachmann announced today that she’s running for the 2012 Republican nomination for president.
“I think this is the most important thing I can work on. More than cancer. Over the long run, I think this will make more difference to more people.”Danny Hillis is building a giant mechanical clock inside a mountain in West Texas, with cash from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. “Over the lifetime of this clock, the United States won’t exist,” Bezos tells me. “Whole civilizations will rise and fall. New systems of government will be invented.
The amazing Babe Didrikson Zaharias was born 100 years ago today in Port Arthur, Texas.
“Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”Mark Twain on Jane Austen, from The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults in History.