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  • HOW KENNY ROGERS HELPED FORM THE EAGLES

    03/23/2020 12:29:48 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 62 replies
    UltimateClassicRock ^ | March 22, 2020 | Martin Kielty
    Don Henley is paying a debt of gratitude to country-pop star Kenny Rogers, who died on March 20 aged 81. Before he was a member of the Eagles, Henley was in a band named Shiloh. Rogers secured the group a record deal in 1969, and, while taking on the role of producer of their self-titled 1971 album, he brought them to Los Angeles, where Henley first interacted with his future Eagles colleagues. “In addition to his tremendous talent, Kenny was a generous and caring man, a wise mentor to so many of us,” Henley told Billboard in a statement. “He...
  • Tiny church finds original King James Bible

    03/28/2011 4:52:28 PM PDT · by afraidfortherepublic · 46 replies
    CNN ^ | 3-28-11 | Richard Allen Greene
    A little English village church has just made a remarkable discovery. The ornate old Bible that had been sitting in plain view on a table near the last row of pews for longer than anyone could remember is an original King James Bible - one of perhaps 200 surviving 400-year-old original editions of arguably the most important book ever printed in English. In fact, the Bible at St. Laurence Church in Hilmarton, England, was sitting right under a hand-lettered sign saying it was an original. The sign said it had been found in "the parish chest" in 1857, that the...