Flat Beat is an instrumental by French musician Mr. Oizo. It was released on March 22, 1999 through F Communications and was included as a bonus track on his debut studio album, Analog Worms Attack. The music video features Flat Eric, a puppet, head banging to the track.
Widely publicized by Flat Eric’s appearance in many commercials for Levi’s and the popularity of the music video, Flat Beat became a surprise European hit. Flat Beat peaked at #5 in France and topped the charts in Austria, Finland, Flanders, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins’ 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club, a Harlem jazz club in the 1930s. The film stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane and Lonette McKee with Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Gwen Verdon, Fred Gwynne and Laurence Fishbourne in supporting roles.
The film was noted for going over-budget on its production costs and taking a total of five years to complete. Despite being a disappointment at the box office, the film received generally positive reviews and was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and Oscars for Best Art Direction (Richard Sylbert and George Gaines) and best Film Editing.
Heart Like a Wheel is the fifth solo studio album by Linda Ronstadt, released in November 1974. It was Ronstadt’s last album to be released by Capitol Records. At the time of its recording, Ronstadt had already moved to Asylum Records and released her first album there; due to contractual obligations, though, Heart Like a Wheel was released by Capitol.
Heart Like a Wheel reached the top of the Billboard 200, becoming her first number one album in the United States. The lead single a cover of Dee Dee Warwick’s You’re No Good peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. At the 18th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Album of the Year, while her version of I Can’t Help It If I’m Still In Love With You won the award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.
Widely considered Ronstadt’s breakthrough album, it was selected by the Library of Congress to be inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2013.
You’re No Good is a song written by Clint Ballard Jr. in 1963 with production by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love with You) is a song written and originally recorded by Hank Williams.
When Will I Be Loved was written by Phil Everly. Ronstadt’s version in 1975 peaked at #2.
It Doesn’t Matter Anymore was written by Paul Anka and recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958. Ronstadt’s version was the B-side to When Will I Be Loved and peaked at #20 on the Adult Contemporary chart, #47 on the Pop chart and #54 on the country chart in 1975.
Ty Warner is a person just like any of us. Hailing to Chicago, he had a very simple dream. He wanted to create plush toy animals that the world would love. He crafted the original Beanie Babies in his condo during the middle of the 1990s, and a cultural phenomenon was spawned soon after.
Peanut the Elephant was the Beanie Baby that was retired very early. In all likelihood, this was a premeditated move by Warner designed to drive the toy’s value upward. Once the collector’s craze started to take place, the toys began to move like hotcakes, and Peanut beanie baby’s value also started to skyrocket.
By keeping the supplies limited, Warner drove the value of his Beanie Babies even higher. 1998 rolled around, and by then, his company (Ty, Inc.) had sold over $1.4 billion of plush toys.
Peanut was first released to the general public on June 3, 1995. During the first year of Ty, Inc., Peanut was one of nine sold Beanie Babies. The elephant is royal blue, with white ears.
Peanut also came with a tush tag in the same black and white coloration as all of the other Beanie Babies. Legend has it that Peanut’s royal blue coloration was actually the product of a factory mistake. Others believe that this was Ty’s original choice and that he simply was not happy with the sales figures of the original Peanut.
His business partner and former girlfriend, Patricia Roche, gave him the perfect idea. She told him that he should change the color of Peanut to a baby blue. The original royal blue color was retired in the fall of 1995, and that’s when baby blue Peanuts became the dominant color scheme.
The distinct coloration and the rapid removal from store shelves made Peanut the Elephant the most valuable Beanie Baby. Collectors sought to make major profits from reselling the Beanie Baby, and he was even given a high-profile re-release in 1998.
Because of the distinct coloration and the rapid removal from store shelves made Peanut the Elephant the most valuable Beanie Baby. Collectors sought to make major profits from reselling the Beanie Baby, and he was even given a high-profile re-release in 1998.
Star Trek is an American television and film enterprise first created in 1966 by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series in the franchise debuted in 1966 and is now known as The Original Series. It followed the adventures of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise under the leadership of Captain James T. Kirk.
The Enterprise is a 23rd-century spaceship of the United Federation of Planets, a federation of more than 150 governments from different planets. The Federation as it is popularly known was created in 2161.
The Vulcans are a humanoid race from the planet Vulcan, which is about 16 light years from Earth. Vulcans are considered to be masters of logic who have found ways to suppress their violent emotions. Commander Spock is one of the most well-known Vulcans in the Star Trek universe.
How to Celebrate?
Have a Star Trek themed party for all your family and friends. Have your guests come dressed as their favorite characters.
Make cheese pierogis, one of the dishes made by characters celebrating the day on the show.
Attend a Star Trek fan meet and meet other like-minded people.
Hold a Star Trek viewing marathon.
Greet everyone you meet on this day with the Vulcan salute. To do this, raise your hands with your palm facing outwards, and your thumb away from your hand. Part your middle and ring finger such that the index and middle finger are together and your ring and little finger are close to each other.
Never Forget You is a song by Swedish singer Zara Larsson and British singer MNEK. It was released on July 22, 2015 in the UK by TEN Music Group, Virgin EMI and Epic as the second single from Larsson’s second studio album So Good (2017).
The song peaked at #1 in Larsson’s home country as well as the top ten in eight additional countries, and became both Larsson and MNEK’s first U.S. entry on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #13 in May 2016 and becoming the best rank on the chart for both artists. The single is certified Platinum or higher in sixteen countries. An orchestral version of the song was later released on May 21, 2021 as a track off the Summer edition of Larsson’s third studio album Poster Girl.
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (January 21, 1869 – December 30, 1916) was a Russian mystic and holy man. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire.
Rasputin was born to a family of peasants in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, located within Tyumensky Uyezd in Tobolsk Governorate (present-day Yarkovsky District in Tyumen Oblast). He had a religious conversion experience after embarking on a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897 and has been described as a monk or as a strannik (wanderer or pilgrim), though he held no official position in the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1903 or in the winter of 1904–1905, he travelled to Saint Petersburg and captivated a number of religious and social leaders, eventually becoming a prominent figure in Russian society. In November 1905, Rasputin met Nicholas II and his empress consort, Alexandra Feodorovna.
In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas’ and Alexandra’s only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan. The extent of Rasputin’s power reached an all-time high in 1915, when Nicholas left Saint Petersburg to oversee the Imperial Russian Army as it was engaged in the First World War. In his absence, Rasputin and Alexandra consolidated their influence across the Russian Empire. However, as Russian military defeats mounted on the Eastern Front, both figures became increasingly unpopular, and in the early morning of December 30, 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.
Rasputin was murdered at the home of Prince Yusupov. He died of three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead. Little is certain about his death beyond this, and the circumstances of his death have been the subject of considerable speculation. According to Smith, “what really happened at the Yusupov home will never be known.” The story that Yusupov recounted in his memoirs, however, has become the most frequently told version of events.
According to Yusupov’s account, Rasputin was invited to his palace shortly after midnight and ushered into the basement. Yusupov offered tea and cakes which had been laced with cyanide. After initially refusing the cakes, Rasputin began to eat them and, to Yusupov’s surprise, appeared unaffected by the poison. Rasputin then asked for some Madeira wine (which had also been poisoned) and drank three glasses, but still showed no sign of distress. At around 2:30 am, Yusupov excused himself to go upstairs, where his fellow conspirators were waiting. He took a revolver from Pavlovich, then returned to the basement and told Rasputin that he’d “better look at the crucifix and say a prayer,” referring to a crucifix in the room, then shot him once in the chest. The conspirators then drove to Rasputin’s apartment, with Sukhotin wearing Rasputin’s coat and hat in an attempt to make it look as though Rasputin had returned home that night. Upon returning to his palace, Yusupov went back to the basement to ensure that Rasputin was dead. Suddenly, Rasputin leaped up and attacked Yusupov, who freed himself with some effort and fled upstairs. Rasputin followed Yusupov into the palace’s courtyard, where he was shot by Purishkevich. He collapsed into a snowbank. The conspirators then wrapped his body in cloth, drove it to the Petrovsky Bridge and dropped it into the Little Nevka river.
Historians often suggest that Rasputin’s scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the Tsarist government, thus precipitating the overthrow of the House of Romanov shortly after his assassination. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on hearsay and rumor; he remains a mysterious and captivating figure in popular culture.[
How can you find and identify the right woman to date, love or marry when the United States includes such an increasingly wide and confusing diversity of them?
Joe Bovino’s Field Guide to Chicks of the United States combines the accuracy and precision of a bird guide with beautiful illustrations of American and hyphenated-American women, outlandish observational humor, and keen cultural insights on every page. It’s the ultimate girl watching (or “chickspotting”) companion for dating in the United States.
With its user-friendly trait charts, promiscuity ratings, range maps, and detailed descriptions of distinctive physical characteristics, behavioral tendencies, chick magnets, mating habits, and more, this well-researched guide is all you need to successfully locate, identify, and date women from 90 American subcultures (or “species”).
If you’re easily offended, this book isn’t for you. But if you like to laugh, this “funny because it’s true” guide will give you hours of entertainment and serve as a handy reference tool.
A crispy, rice-batter crepe encases a spicy mix of mashed potato, which is then dipped in coconut chutney, pickles, tomato-and-lentil-based sauces and other condiments. It’s a fantastic breakfast food that’ll keep you going till lunch, when you’ll probably come back for another.
Anything that comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim do together is usually appealing to very specific people. You either love their work, or you absolutely hate it. Translation: you’re either completely and utterly insane or you’re a well-rounded member of society (if perhaps a bit on the boring side).
Their sketch comedy series Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! (February 11, 2007 to May 2, 2010) is an Adult Swim late-night masterpiece of weirdness that mixes satirical anti-humor and cringe comedy with surreal public-access television goodness. The supporting cast’s combination of famous celebrities (such as Jeff Goldblum, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen, and Ben Stiller) and random Los Angeles Craigslist actors is a delightful thing to witness. The show also featured a bizarre mix of celebrity impersonators, adult film actors, and impressionists. The show also birthed Steve Brule, and we have Tim and Eric to thank for it.
Their sketch comedy series Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! (February 11, 2007 to May 2, 2010) is an Adult Swim late-night masterpiece of weirdness that mixes satirical anti-humor and cringe comedy with surreal public-access television goodness. The supporting cast’s combination of famous celebrities (such as Jeff Goldblum, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen, and Ben Stiller) and random Los Angeles Craigslist actors is a delightful thing to witness. The show also featured a bizarre mix of celebrity impersonators, adult film actors, and impressionists. The show also birthed Steve Brule, and we have Tim and Eric to thank for it.