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Five great cover songs performed by Jimi Hendrix

25 May 2021 2 minute read 3 comments RocketEnthusiast

Despite a mainstream career of only four years, Jimi Hendrix dazzled fans and fellow musicians alike: from his signature right-handed strats re-strung and played upside down to the iconic "wah wah" pedal sound effect he made famous, some of Hendrix's...

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24 May 2021 1 minute read 3 comments b_eleven

"Charlie bit me!" ( youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM) Those of us who are old enough to remember when the internet was born, likely also remember when a video went viral (about 15 years ago) of a small boy putting his finger...

Week 2: THE JACKSON 5 (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

23 May 2021 6 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards

If you dig Motown era soul music, The Jackson 5, despite being comprised of children and teenagers, is easily one of the best groups to check out. I grew up hearing their music from what my family would play, it always impressed me, still does, and i...

Week 1: JOHNNY CASH (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

21 May 2021 5 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

I realized last week that I only had the very significant number of 420 days left until I turn 30. So, in leading up to that over the next 420 days, I decided I’m going to post 420 songs from 60 different artists (one per week) in order to therapeuti...

What did the Europeans know about the new world before Columbus?

20 May 2021 7 minute read 0 comments B0900223

It is often taught in schools that Columbus was the first European to make contact with the new world. However, this is untrue as the Vikings made it to the new world roughly 500 years earlier. With that being said, what exactly did the Europeans kno...

Episode 401 – The Markets Are Rigged

18 May 2021 34 minute read 6 comments TheCorbettReport

  Episode 401 – The Markets Are Rigged by James Corbett - corbettreport.com At base, the markets are a con game where the rich and powerful employ a raft of confidence men to lure suckers into the latest mania. In this game, the suckers are the gener...

A Peek into history: Rufus Putnam

16 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments LyonCoDad

Here is an American Revolutionary War Hero many of you will not have heard of, Rufus Putnam. Rufus was born in Sutton Massachusetts on April 9,1738. His father died when he was young and as was customary then he spent a few years in his Grandfathers...

Book Review: Strange Rebels by Christian Caryl

15 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments b_eleven

I got the opportunity to re-read Strange Rebels by Christian Caryl recently. It poses a simple yet interesting hypothesis: that 1979 was a watershed year that set the stage for all of the 21st century. How does he lay this argument out? He indicate...

Accidental discovery

14 May 2021 2 minute read 1 comment B0900223

Who was the first European to discover America? Was it Columbus? What about Leif Erikson? The actual answer is that both of these guys were beaten by a guy named Bjarni Herjólfsson. He was a Norse Icelandic trader looking for Greenland, however, cert...

The Aztec armor that could stop a bullet

14 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments B0900223

It is widely accepted that the Spanish conquered the Mesoamericans with technological superiority. They were able to go into modern-day Mexico with their steel breastplates and guns and just take out the Aztecs and other surrounding tribes. Or is the...