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https://i.ibb.co/JCKsJkD/1957-New-York-Car-Show-01.pngKing Rose ArchivesFins were in as the car companies turned out to show their their new cars to a vibrant America that had a hankering for all things shiny, large and powerful.Buicks, Cadillacs, Plymouths and the Ford Skyliner stole the show with no competition from the imports.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4DnyPtZBmM

Southeast Gassers AssociationWelcome back to the SEGA 2021 tour. Shadyside [Dragway] never fails to produce the best racing the SEGA has to offer. With New cameras and their ability to zoom in on the action with extreme clarity the 2021 season certainly continues this tradition, with all 4 classes requiring 5 rounds of eliminations due to the enormous car count. Join in for round 1 of eliminations and be sure to check out the next video showcasing 2nd round thru the finals.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIOJLHw87mc

The ex-wife of assassin James Earl Ray, who killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is facing animal abuse charges in Tennessee, where dozens of neglected dogs were found living in her filthy home, authorities said. Police in Jackson raided the ramshackle property owned by Anna Sandhu Ray, 74, on Monday and uncovered a house of horrors where 44 dogs were found living atop piles of trash or caged while soaked in their own waste, according to national nonprofit Animal Rescue Corps. At least three dead dogs were found in the house and the stench from “dangerously high levels” of ammonia...

Note: This video is from 2011. The car was sold years ago._________________________Description from the dealer...“Don’t be fooled by the large-by-huge chrome wheels it’s wearing today, this particular ‘57 Golden Rocket 88 is an authentic J2 car, and is extensively and thoroughly restored to original condition from top to bottom. Our documents suggest that this is one of only four Golden Rocket 88 2-door sedans in existence with the J2 engine.The two-tone bodywork on this car is spectacularly done and looks especially striking in black and white with a red stripe in the chrome trim that separates the two halves. Bodywork...

The song begins at precisely the 1-minute mark in the video.Many of you will or should recognize lots of familiar faces in the group, including BJ Thomas, who just recently passed, Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare, Roy Clark, George "Goober" Lindsey (from Andy Griffith), others._____________________________"Here's Glen performing a beautiful version of the John Hartford classic "Gentle On My Mind" live on "Ryman Country Homecoming" filmed in 1999 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Ray Stevens was honored to be on stage for this special event along with country pioneers Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Lorrie Morgan, Willie Nelson, Roy Clark, Lynn...

Lorrie Morgan sang lead vocals on the Beach Boys' 1996 Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 album and was their only venture into the genre of country music to date. This version peaked at number 73 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Worry_Baby#Variations

YouTube uploader: FordHeritage“This is an extract from a promotional film detailing the full range of Ford cars in the USA for 1965. These large American estate cars introduce a new feature - twin facing rear seats for up to four children, accessed through the tailgate!” The Full Line 1965 - Station Wagons [1965 promotional film from Ford] (~3 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JblVoi-7f4g

Italian archaeologists have uncovered the fossilized remains of nine Neanderthals in a cave near Rome, shedding new light on how the Italian peninsula was populated and under what environmental conditions. The Italian Culture Ministry announced the discovery Saturday, saying it confirmed that the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo was "one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthals." A Neanderthal skull was discovered in the cave in 1939.The fossilized bones include skulls, skull fragments, two teeth and other bone fragments. The oldest remains date from between 100,000 and 90,000 years ago, while the other...

A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had some people wondering if a fleet of UFOs was coming, but it had others— mostly amateur stargazers and professional astronomers— lamenting the industrialization of space. The train of lights was actually a series of relatively low-flying satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX as part of its Starlink internet service earlier this week. Callers swamped TV stations from Texas to Wisconsin reporting the lights and musing about UFOs.An email to a spokesman for SpaceX was not returned Saturday, but astronomy...

T. rex’s incredible biting force came from its stiff lower jawA small bone in the mandible helped brace an otherwise flexible jointThe fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex could generate tremendous bone-crushing bite forces thanks to a stiff lower jaw. That stiffness stemmed from a boomerang-shaped bit of bone that braced what would have been an otherwise flexible jawbone, a new analysis suggests.Unlike mammals, reptiles and their close kin have a joint dubbed the intramandibular joint within their lower jawbone, or mandible. New computer simulations show that with a bone spanning the IMJ, T. Rex could have generated bite forces of more than...

“Nick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist. The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesn’t roll over on them. Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind.”https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039536/ Nick Bianco (Victor Mature), Nettie Cavallo (Coleen Gray) Attorney Earl Howser (Taylor Holmes) Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark) Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo (Brian Donlevy)Sgt. William Cullen (Karl Malden)_____________________________________KISS OF DEATH (1947), starring Victor Mature, Richard Widmark and Coleen Grayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv_OltmAEqg

FRIDAY, MAY 7Greet Mercury and Venus low in the west-northwest in the fading afterglow of sunset. You may first spot Venus, bright at magnitude –3.9, very low exactly west-northwest. As the sky darkens further, Mercury will come into view some 9° above Venus as shown below. Mercury fades from magnitude 0.0 to +0.5 this week.Much higher to their upper left, in the west as night falls, is little [currently very distant] Mars. [Mars is currently on the other side of the Sun, many millions of miles more distant than where it is on the same side as Earth] New Moon...

The Petersens"The Petersens are a family band performing full-time in Branson, MO. The band consists of Katie Petersen on fiddle, Ellen Petersen on banjo, Matt Petersen on guitar, Julianne Petersen on mandolin, Karen Petersen on bass, and Emmett Franz on dobro."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQx4KDivPY

Emmylou Harris - C’est la Vie (The Old Grey Whistle Test Show - Dec 4, 1977)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6UEVC_-gXc Below, more from that '77 concert...“Emmylou Harris & The Hot Band - At The Television Theatre in London in 1977, recorded for «The Old Grey WHISTLE TEST» With Bob Harris at BBC.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNMrugveLE

As humans, we know we are conscious because we experience and feel things. Yet scientists and great thinkers are unable to explain what consciousness is and they are equally baffled about where it comes from."Consciousness — or better, conscious experience — is obviously a part of reality," said Johannes Kleiner, a mathematician and theoretical physicist at the Munich Center For Mathematical Philosophy, Germany. "We're all having it but without understanding how it relates to the known physics, our understanding of the universe is incomplete."With that in mind, Kleiner is hoping math will enable him to precisely define consciousness. Working with...

Scientists have spotted one of the largest stellar flares ever recorded in our galaxy. The jets of plasma shot outward from the sun's nearest neighbor, the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. The flare, which was around 100 times more powerful than any experienced in our solar system, could change the way scientists think about solar radiation and alien life.Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf — the smallest, dimmest and most common type of main sequence stars in the galaxy — located approximately 4.25 light-years from Earth. Its mass is only one-eighth of the sun's, and it is orbited by two...

Only problem is the dopey crowd who talk and make noise throughout much of it. However, they quiet down somewhat as it moves on.A Random Girl Steps Up To A Karaoke Machine and Floors Everyone19,573,169 views | Aug 12, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=023CWTfHiWs

Glacial melting due to global warming is likely the cause of a shift in the movement of the poles that occurred in the 1990s. The locations of the North and South poles aren't static, unchanging spots on our planet. The axis Earth spins around—or more specifically the surface that invisible line emerges from—is always moving due to processes scientists don't completely understand. The way water is distributed on Earth's surface is one factor that drives the drift.Melting glaciers redistributed enough water to cause the direction of polar wander to turn and accelerate eastward during the mid-1990s, according to a new...

One researcher thinks mollusks called chitons are more complex than they seemDo chitons have brains? What is a brain, anyway? With eight separate, flexible plates of shell held together by a skirt of muscle called a girdle, chitons look a bit like armored pebbles, ready for battle. The marine mollusks aren’t actually suited for action. They spend most of their time stuck in place, suctioned to rocks in the intertidal zone. While they’re clinging, their radula, a sort of tongue barbed with scores of sharp “teeth,” scrapes algae and other food from the surface. For chitons, that’s about as...

Southeast Gassers AssociationWelcome back to the SEGA 2021 tour!Winter wasn’t finished with Florida at the time of our season opener. Cold temps and frigid winds may have been uncomfortable for the crew and drivers, but it was perfect for making horsepower. The racers and their winter efforts were on full display with class records being shattered and massive wheel stands along with catastrophic parts failures were on center stage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5WJ9mqBsb0