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Maria Tallchief, of the Osage Indian Nation, died on this date in 2013. She had revolutionised ballet in America with her athleticism, commitment and skill. She was known for “dazzling audiences with her speed, energy and fire” and an “electrifying passion.” In Maria’s America, freedom, family and disciplined effort worked out fine. To see how beautiful she was in action click the link above or below in red ........

Mary Pickford was America’s Sweetheart in the silent movies of a distant departed world. Mary was famous as The Girl With The Curls ....... In 1912, Mary Pickford starred in a movie called “Just Like A Woman” again long before Bob Dylan wrote his strangely passionate, haunting 1966 song: "Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Ev’rybody knows That Baby’s got new clothes But lately I see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls ……" Perhaps, like Dylan in 1966, we still yearn for the type of woman that Mary Pickford, The Girl...

I've been working like crazy 'in the front line' of coronavirus transmission this week and forgetting to accurately chronicle the tyranny imposed on us using COVID-19 as an excuse. Today is Day 251 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19 as measured here in Pennsylvania. And here he is the man who would have been America's first President of Jewish heritage had he been elected in 1964. A man whose ancestors were Russian Jews demonized as a "hater" and an "anti-Semite" and an admirer of Hitler's Germany, a "racist" Barry Goldwater speaks of defending "liberty" and "justice". "extremism in the defense of...

Newsdump Holiday Weekend Report Federal prosecutors are looking at five women associated with the late Jeffrey Epstein suspected of being operatives in a sex trafficking network.... Sirhan, Sirhan, convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968, stabbed in prison... One person is dead and eight others wounded in a Saturday afternoon knife attack in France.... But the late word is that the attack in Idlib that killed 40 Al-Qaeda leaders was launched by the United States.... In Hong Kong protesters setting up barricades Saturday with police using water cannon and tear gas..... The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany...