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Check out the YouTube circa 1956. I want to know if life was like that: Congested dance halls, Rock n' roll, a post-War boom? Seems like another world... One you kind of hanker for. Can any Freepers recall the era depicted?

The hammer dulcimer is capable of a range of tones from a sort of music-box sound to powerful and percussive piano-like effects which can stand out in any band.

News coverage of the “protests” at our “elite” universities is focused mainly on downplaying, even justifying, rallies for terrorists and antisemitism, the DNA of such events. It would appear elitism now consists of academic and financial fraud as schools such as Columbia have canceled in-person classes for the remainder of the semester, relying instead on Zoom classes, the Covid “distance learning” alternative produces no learning, distance or otherwise. I suffered through that the final semester before I retired. I knew I was defrauding the public. Everyone knew it, but we had no choice. Our “elite” universities are choosing to defraud...

Did you know when he came to office and ordered his first drone strike Obama killed 18 civilians in Pakistan, 4 of them children... He went on to order 506 more drone strikes triple the amount of the proceeding Bush admin. and even incinerated an American citizen and minor (Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki). Even the NY Times says his embrace of drone strikes would be his 'lasting legacy' (soaked in blood). Obama’s Embrace of Drone Strikes Will Be a Lasting LegacyIn January 2009, when President Obama came into office, he inherited two controversial covert counterterrorism programs from George W. Bush: the...

I followed the advice of several of the responding electrical mavens and contacted Alen, who manufactures the air purifier I have which sporadically turns itself off, even at different outlets. Alen has a lifetime warranty, so they are shipping me a totally new one. Wow!

She makes "music" but she says she's not a "musician". She confused the word "musician" for "magician" Then she said "I don't think..." "That's why we have a wage gap" --Hodge Twins

A Big Apple anti-Israel group blasted out a how-to guide to seizing buildings as protests rocked universities in Manhattan.Days after cops arrested over 100 Columbia University students and cleared a large anti-Israel encampment at its upper Manhattan campus, The Peoples Park radicals posted “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide” on its Instagram account, which has 2,300 followers.

A woman who claims she suffered a traumatic brain injury after driving over a pothole in Southwest Portland filed a $3.66 million lawsuit against the city of Portland, Multnomah County and the state of Oregon – claiming they knew about or should have known about the hazardous road condition before it irreparably harmed her. Lawyers for Gillian Conroy, a Clark County resident, say she was driving on Southwest Capitol Highway between Southwest Alfred and Huber streets on April 22, 2022, when she ran over a pothole that couldn’t be seen from a distance. The suit says she was “abruptly and...

Several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters descended on a Washington hotel Saturday where President Biden was speaking at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The protesters chanted slogans such as “shame on you for breaking bread,” in opposition to Israel’s war on Hamas and President Biden’s support for Israel. They confronted guests who were dressed in formal attire arriving at the hotel and made their way into the hotel lobby at one point amid heavy security. Code PINK, a non-profit organization that has heavily scrutinized the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, announced a plan earlier this week to set up...

Count Vlad creates music for the mind and soul. About relaxation and a swimming in the cosmic dream of beauty. Swimming toward home. Wonderful mood music.

Here’s that Professor of Economics who was arrested at Emory university and everyone seems to think is some poor victim of police repression. Caroline Fohlin ADMITS she hit a police officer on the head. Even professors are not allowed to assault cops. Yes, even professors.

Sometimes you can feel like you can get more out of reading a single book then you have an entire semester of college. Some of these books might be surprisingly simple to read. Which three books made you feel much more educated and enriched after reading them?

@cb_doge Elon Musk didn't purchase Twitter to make money. Infact he risked his life to save the civilization by reinstating free speech for the public.

Malls are dying—but a dead mall gives a community the chance to rebuild something that might have been doomed to begin with. For countless Americans—especially those who came of age in the postwar years—malls were the new town square: a place to shop, eat, gather and meander. Envisioned as perfectly pristine, cast against the gritty danger of urban centers, the American mall became the image of suburban consumerism, the "pyramids to the boom years," as Joan Didion once wrote. But like the pyramids, the culture that the malls once honored—and survived off of—is starting to vanish. In 2014, traditional retailers...

The arrival of the US M1A1 Abrams tanks in Ukraine was hailed as a turning point in the war. Coming in at roughly $10 million a unit, the Nato stalwart was supposed to provide the armoured fist that would punch through the Russian lines. But tactics evolve quickly in warfare, and Russia’s use of surveillance and hunter-killer drones has led to heavy casualties for Ukraine’s tank fleets. This is alarming for NATO. If Russia has found critical vulnerabilities in our armour, our borders are beginning to look very vulnerable.

Veterans are reacting to a new cancer study done on contaminated drinking water at a military base in the east. “Was asking for this study to come out months long, but the Department of Justice said it wasn’t ready and hasn’t been peer-reviewed,” said Camp Lejeune advocate, Jason Johns. “Clearly it has as it is showing the right data and enforcing what many people have known for decades.” A new cancer study released Wednesday, says that military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a range of cancers compared to...

The establishment and its met police just had their noses blooded by England's son, Tommy Robinson, who has been cleared of wrongdoing after the met and CPs did their best to put him behind bars - and why? Because England is rising.

These are the most popular computer operating systems from 1985 to 2024, based on market share. The latest numbers from 2003 on are readily available from Wikipedia and Statcounter. The first half of the video required a bit more research, which entailed finding and converting sales figures into market share. These numbers may be different based on what OSes are included in the stats, this is why different videos have slightly different numbers.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas raised a question Thursday that goes to the heart of Special Counsel Jack Smith's charges against former President Donald Trump. The high court was considering Trump's argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president, but another issue is whether Smith and the Office of Special Counsel have the authority to bring charges at all. "Did you, in this litigation, challenge the appointment of special counsel?" Thomas asked Trump attorney John Sauer on Thursday during a nearly three-hour session at the Supreme Court. Sauer replied that Trump's attorneys had not raised...

Locals handing out poison cakes... There's nothing Ukrainians behind enemy lines won't do to defeat their Russian occupiers Under the cover of darkness, however, Ukrainians sabotage infrastructure including railways, communications and factories, and some will kill the enemy if the opportunity arises. The direct action of those doughty fighters, armed with a secretly amassed arsenal of guns, car bombs and other explosives, has seen hundreds of Russians soldiers and collaborators shot or blown up. I have learned that women are also playing a key role in the resistance, including acting as honeytraps to lure Russian soldiers to their deaths. READ...